Baton Rouge Gallery

In 2016, Baton Rouge Gallery - center for contemporary art ("BRG") celebrated fifty years of art exhibitions and programming, all aimed at bringing together artists and audiences in the Greater Baton Rouge area. The nonprofit gallery actually had its beginnings in a private, for-profit, artist cooperative gallery called Unit 8 Gallery. A year after Unit 8's opening, the eight artists who founded the gallery welcomed four additional local artists to their ranks, incorporated as a nonprofit organization and Baton Rouge Gallery was born. BRG offers new contemporary art exhibitions on a monthly basis featuring professional local and (occasionally) national artists with opening receptions on the first Wednesday of each month. BRG also offers a wealth of cultural programming that bring visitors face-to-face with contemporary art across disciplines, including film, poetry, dance, music and more. Art exhibitions at BRG typically feature current works of its artist members (except during the months of January and April, when it hosts special juried exhibitions). In any given exhibition, you might see the work of photographers, painters, sculptors, stained-glass artists, printmakers, ceramicists, multi-media and/or installation artists.