42nd River Road Show
A National Juried Exhibition
December 5, 2011 - January 27, 2012
Louisiana State Archives Gallery
Reception - January 6, 2012, 5pm-8pm
153 artists entered 479 works of art in the 42nd Annual River Road Show.
The juror, Pam Ingalls, selected 80 paintings produced by 51 artists from 15 states, to be exhibited in the show.
- 1st Place: Victoria Castillo, The Cocktail Hour
- 2nd Place: Maureen Killaby, My Dreams
- 3rd Place: Janice Cipriani-Willis, Rose
- Merit Awards:
- David Savellano, In Full Swing
- Kurt Weiser, Property Line
- Daniel Cassity, Explosives
- Patsy Lindamood, Seaside Romp
- Bill Eshelman, Oranges
- Ernie Fournet, Pelican Over Barataria
- Laurel Lake McGuire, Crazy Hair
- Mareth Curtis-Warren, Sixty Years of Sundays
- Honorable Mentions:
- Suzanne Stewart, Offering
- Carol Creel, Red Silk
- Jovann Armstrong, Lemons with Blue and White
- Joann Mobley, Home to Roost
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First Place
Victoria Castillo, The Cocktail Hour -
Second Place
Maureen Killaby, My Dreams -
Third Place
Janice Cipriani-Willis, Rose
View more winners and all entries in the River Road Show Gallery
Featured Class
Steve Shamburger - Basic Drawing Skills
2nd Monday through the last Monday of each month, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Classes held at the Studio in the Park, 2490 Silverest Ave.
Fee: $60.00 members / $75.00 nonmembers / per month
To register contact Steve Shamburger at or 225-751-1049
Students will learn the basic drawing skills essential to accurately interpreting any subject in line and tone from direct observation.
Current Exhibit
Fabulous Firsts
January 12 - March 15
Reception on February 19
Independence Park Theater
Featured Artist
Jules Haigler - interviewed by Caroline Derbes
Jules Haigler is a 20-year old on a mission. His painting The Pounding Wind recently placed 2nd in a LAAG show. While being interviewed at a LAAG Wednesday Open-Studio, he was working on a painting of Romeo and Juliet as a gift for his cousin. In addition to his painting, Jules has written and illustrated a self-published book, The Color of Red, and is working on his second of the series, The Color of a Rose. He is also a playwright and is working on a Shakespearian style play.
Jules is an LSU anthropology major who worked as a volunteer in the LSU Archaeology Lab at a "dig" this summer in Galvez, LA. They found metal and ceramic fragments, glass beads, and the structure of a house from a Spanish Colonial town, Galveztown.
Jules' art lessons began at age 10 in a local class called Kids Can Draw, taught by Barbara Crosely. When Jules was a student in the EBRP Gifted & Talented program, he was influenced to write by his 8th grade teacher, Jane McBryde.
His mature art has been influenced by Caravaggio and La Tour. Creating his paintings from memory, Jules refers to photographs only occasionally, as when adding an item like a rose. He then takes black-and-white photos of his paintings to ascertain whether they have enough value contrast and are not too grey.
For fun, Jules includes symbolic items and also hides things in his works to "mess with people's heads".
See more of Jules' artwork in his Gallery on this website.