Art Rocks: Peg Usner
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In addition to traditional plein air paintings, Mandeville artist, Peg Usner creates what she calls an incredible feat, using two or more canvases to present one scene. Many of her paintings reveal the beauty of New Orleans and the surrounding areas. We meet stone carver Susan Zalkind, who travels the American Southwest to find the perfect pieces of alabaster to create magnificent pieces of art. Ohio artist, Toni Lipsey shows us how she uses beautiful yarns to create inspired creations. And Bob Pettit and Shaquille O’Neal are still drawing crowds at LSU. We take a close-up look at their images in bronze, this week’s Louisiana Treasure.
Hosted by James Fox-Smith, Publisher of Country Roads Magazine, Art Rocks! airs Friday, September 15 at 8:30 om and Saturday, September 16 at 5:30 pm and is LPB’s weekly series that spotlights artists, performance, culture, literature, history and the impact of art in our world. It features Louisiana stories, as well as segments from across the country. Current and past episodes are here: www.lpb.org/artrocks. Major production funding for Art Rocks! The Series is provided by Georgia-Pacific Port Hudson Operations and Lamar Advertising Company.
…And announcing an exciting new collaboration with Country Roads Magazine, The Art of Food! Join us for a four-course meal prepared by award-winning Chef Phillip Lopez of New Orleans’ restaurant Root and inspired by contemporary visual artist Jacqueline Bishop. Tickets are available at lpb.org/boxoffice. (space is very limited!) The dinner is Sunday, October 22 in the LPB TV Studios. Don’t miss this extraordinary event!
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