Contents
N OV E M B E R 2 0 2 1
Events
11 6 8
ART EVERYWHERE Discover the arts beyond museums: in festivals, studios, and beyond.
REFLECTIONS Picture of a Place in Time by James Fox-Smith
NEWS & NOTEWORTHIES
VO LU M E 3 8 // I SS U E 1 1
Features
30 36 38
Publisher
YESTERDAY WE SAID TOMORROW A guide to all things Prospect.5 by Alexandra Kennon
James Fox-Smith
Associate Publisher
Ashley Fox-Smith
A MAXIMALIST’S DREAM Mid City Artisans is the home Baton Rouge creatives have been longing for. by Kristen Foster
Managing Editor
Jordan LaHaye Fontenot
Arts & Entertainment Editor
Alexandra Kennon
NATCHEZ, ILLUMINATED Allumer brings light-inspired art to Dunleith. by Swathi Reddy
Creative Director
Kourtney Zimmerman
Contributors:
Catherine Schoeffler Comeaux, Ed Cullen, Beth D’Addono, Kristen Foster, Jason Hutter, Kimberly Meadowlark, Lucie Monk Carter, Swathi Reddy
On the Cover
“EXTINCT IN THE WILD” Cover image by Courtney Egan
At Natchez’s inaugural Allumer event, to be staged at Dunleith November 19–21, Courtney Egan’s botanical projections will bloom across the greenhouse walls. Using light and technology, and inspired by the distinct flora of her home city New Orleans—Egan will display her interpretation of the festival’s thrust: rebirth and renewal. In this 2021 Visual Arts issue, art illuminates our cities—quite literally in Natchez’s showcase of light-based art installations (page 38), contemplatively across New Orleans as artists from across the globe set up for the triennial exhibition, Prospect.5 (30), and hyper-locally at Baton Rouge’s newest artist’s haven, Mid City Artisans (36). Against the turbulent backdrop of our world’s current, complicated state—it is certainly a gift to live in a region offering so many opportunities to explore issues like climate change, race, identity, and more through the lenses of our region’s creative masterminds and their work. Coming back to our cover—Egan’s “Extinct in the Wild” presents the Angel’s Trumpet—an ornamental that, today, only propagates through human cultivation. So it is with art, and with change. Neither occurs without us. Neither can.
Cuisine
40 44
46 4
VIRTUOUS VENISON 5 chefs on all things deer and dear by Jordan LaHaye Fontenot
STRAIGHT FROM THE VINE All about Copper Vine’s new wine experiences by Jordan LaHaye Fontenot
SEE YOU AT THE MYRTLES! The St. Francisville Food & Wine Festival returns.
Culture
48
50 51 53
CHINE’S NETS A 70-year-old bastion of Louisiana’s fishing industry by Beth D’Addono
ROCKWELLIAN MOMENTS A glimpse of human goodness before the holidays by Ed Cullen
ARTEGG Where all the cool artists congregate by Jason Hutter
POCKET PARK The vibrancy of Franklin’s vacant spaces
by Catherine Schoeffler Comeaux
N O V 2 1 // C O U N T R Y R O A D S M A G . C O M
Escapes
54 62
MEET ME IN MARBLE FALLS Three days in the Hill Country
by Jordan LaHaye Fontenot
PERSPECTIVES Jay N. Davis comes full circle. by James Fox-Smith
Cover Artist
Courtney Egan
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