Exhibits

The Ameen Art Gallery (Thibodaux)

8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, in Talbot Hall, room 200, on the campus of Nicholls State University. For more info: www.nicholls.edu. Art Exhibition. Featuring works by Nicholls faculty and invited artists.

Bayou Lafourche Folklife and Heritage Museum (Lockport)

110 Main St., Tuesday and Thursday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission is $2 for adults, $1 for children under 12. For more info: (985) 532-5909.

“Bayou Excursion: 1910,” the museum’s permanent exhibit.

Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum (Houma)

7910 West Park Ave., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and noon-4 p.m. Saturday. Admission is $3 for adults; $2 children ages 12 and under. Group rates are available. For more info: (985) 580-7200.

“The Water Wars,” Jan. 1-24. An opening reception with the artist will be held on Sunday, Jan. 12, from 3-5 p.m. The event is open to the public.

Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans)

900 Camp St., Thursday through Sunday from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission is $5. For more info: (504) 210-0224 or www.cacno.org.

“Street Level: Mark Bradford, William Cordova and Robin Rhode,” through Jan. 6. Recent works by three urban-focused artists who explore the ways that cultural territories are defined and space is transformed in urban environments.

“Celebrating Freedom: The Art of Willie Birch,” through Jan. 6. Paintings, works on paper, sculpture, photography, video, performance, installation and other mixed media by this New Orleans artist.

D-Day Museum (New Orleans)

945 Magazine St. Admission is $14 for adults; $8 for seniors. For more info: (504) 527-6012.

“Joseph Blackburn and Wartime Art.” Pfc. Blackburn was a draftsman and artist in civilian life and a sign and camouflage painter in the military. His drawings on the outside of letters to home gained national attention. They depict his pride in the Corps and homesickness, plus fondness for receiving mail, being “on leave” and pretty women.

Downtown Art Gallery (Houma)

630 Belanger St., Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. For more info: (985) 851-2198.

“Artist of the Month,” is Addie Joy Kearns. She works in oils, watercolor and pastels, and paints local landscapes, florals and Cajun scenes.

“Different Strokes” is sponsoring an oil workshop Jan. 10-11. The Fee is $125. Students should bring their own setup and paint. Elayne Kuehler will teach the class.

Free children’s art classes on Jan. 12, 19 and 26.

Everett Street Gallery (Morgan City)

201 Everett St., 11 a.m-4 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free. For more info: (985) 385-9945.

The Frame Shop (Morgan City)

708 Front St., Monday-Friday, from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. or by appointment. For more info: (985) 385-0730.

The Historic New Orleans Collection/ Williams Gallery (New Orleans)

533 Royal St., Tuesday through Saturday (excluding holidays) from 9:30 a.m-4:30 p.m. For more info: (504) 523-4662 or www.hnoc.org.

“Birds of a Feather: Wildfowl Carving in Southeast Louisiana.” Admission is $6 for adults, free for students and children. This two-part exhibition traces the longstanding Louisiana tradition of wildfowl carving and features some of the most prominent carvers and their craft. Works include local carvers Mark McCool Whipple of Lake Long and Laurent Sr. and Laurent Verdin Jr., both of Bayou Blue.

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery (New Orleans)

400 A Julia St., 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Saturday. For more info: (504) 522-5471.

Les Artistes du Bayou Inc. (Larose)

Larose Civic Center, Jan. 19 and 20, from 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Featuring art education in rural South Lafourche. Larry Casso will head the workshop.

Louisiana Art & Science Museum (Baton Rouge)

100 South River Rd., 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. For more info: (225) 344-5272 or www.lasm.org.

“The Art of Devotion,” through Jan. 6. Two exhibitions of devotional art – one traditional, one 20th century; one depicting Old Testament stories and the other New Testament images.

Louisiana State Museum (Patterson)

118 Cotton Rd. For more info: (985) 399-1268. The museum features a new traveling exhibit each month.

Louisiana State University Museum of Art (Baton Rouge)

Memorial Tower. For more info: (225) 578-4003.

“Gold. Treasure. Beauty. Power.” through Jan. 2, 2008. The exhibit features hundreds of pieces – enormous gold nuggets, cultural artifacts, jewelry and recovered sunken treasure.

Loyola’s Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery (New Orleans)

6363 St. Charles Ave., Monday-Saturday, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., and Sunday from noon-4 p.m. For more info: (504) 861-5456.

“Second Nature: David Borgerding, Ellen Burgin and Bradley Sabin,” through Jan. 22. Includes sculptures and paintings.

New Orleans Museum of Art (New Orleans)

1 Collins Diboll Circle. 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Wednesdays-Sundays. For more info: (504) 658-4100.

“Blue Winds Dancing: The Whitecloud Collection of Native American Art,” through Feb. 17. Includes over 400 objects, collected over the last 30 years by Dr. Thomas and Mercedes Whitecloud, which capture the stories and legacies connecting generations of Native peoples.

“Living Color: Photographs by Judy Cooper,” a retrospective of 50 works taken by the photographer. Includes four sections: “Women in Red,” “Local Color,” “Twins” and “New Orleans Sunday.”

Nicholls State University Art Studio (Chauvin)

5337 Bayouside Dr., Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 1-4 p.m., or by appointment. Admission is free. For more info: (985) 594-2546 or (985) 448-4597. Online visit www.nicholls.edu/folkartcenter.

Permanent collections include paintings, photographs, sculpture and pottery created by local artists.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans)

925 Camp St., Thursday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more info: (504) 539-9600 or online at www.ogdenmuseum.org.

“Jean Seidenberg,” paintings, drawings and sculpture from the 1950s to the present, concentrating on his recent series of realistic portraits and figure studies.

“Jerry Uelsmann and Maggie Taylor,” featuring silver gelatin photos by master photographer Uelsmann and digital prints by Taylor and a new body of large-scale prints.

“Jose Torres Tama.” A series of expressionistic drawings of historically important free people of color who lived in the Treme and Faubourg-Marigny neighborhoods of New Orleans in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

“Robert Polidori” works including six large-scale prints of New Orleans from his book “After the Flood.”

Shaw Center for the Arts (Baton Rouge)

100 Lafayette St., from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. For more info: (225) 346-5001.

“Coined in New Orleans,” features a collection of silver coined between 1830-1861.

“An Artistic Legacy: Knute Heldner,” featuring the paintings of the Swedish-born artist.

“Spotlight on the 20th Century: Highlights from the Permanent Collection,” features modern and contemporary paintings and sculptures.

Southdown Plantation House/The Terrebonne Museum (Houma)

1208 Museum Dr., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Admission for the special exhibit room only is $2. Admission for full museum tour is $6, $3 for children. For more info: (985) 851-0154.

“New Expressions” featuring the watercolor paintings of Betty Brown, through Feb. 8.

Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center (Thibodaux)

314 St. Mary St., open 9 a.m.-8 p.m. on Monday; until 6 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday; and until 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday. For more info: (985) 448-1375 or visit www.nps.gov/jela.

“In A Word: Images of Louisiana” by Brian Naquin. The exhibit features images of Louisiana accompanied by a word. The idea is to stimulate the viewer first with the image and then a word that causes deeper reflection as to what it all may symbolize