The Hilliard University Art Museum will waive admission costs on Saturday, Sept. 26, for visitors participating in Smithsonian magazine’s Museum Day Live! event.
For the annual Museum Day Live!, many museums across the country emulate Smithsonian museums in Washington, D.C., which offer free admission daily.
On Saturday, two visitors per household can visit University Art Museum by downloading passes at Smithsonian.com/museumdaylive.
University Art Museum will collaborate with the Vermilionville Living History Museum to celebrate Native American culture. It will host members of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, who will demonstrate basket weaving and beading techniques from 1-4 p.m. Art activities for children also are planned.
Visitors to the University Art Museum also can view five exhibitions.
- “Imprinting the West: Manifest Destiny, Real and Imagined” features 48 hand-colored engravings and lithographs that explore artists’ depictions of westward expansion in the 19th century and how it influenced notions of the West and the Native American experience.
- “Art Under the Big Sky” offers selections from the Yellowstone Art Museum’s permanent collection of contemporary and historic works of art from the Northern Plains and Rocky Mountain regions. From 19th-century photographs to contemporary works by artists such as Peter Voulkos and Deborah Butterfield, it captures the isolation, fruitfulness, spirit, and passage of time as it is associated with the western landscape.
- “Selections from the UL Lafayette College of the Arts Faculty” showcases faculty in visual arts, performing arts, architecture and design. The college is the center for all the arts, including performing, visual arts, and design, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary work.
- “Portraits from the Flora Levy Lecture Series: Works by George Rodrigue” will highlight paintings of some of the guests who have presented at UL Lafayette’s annual Flora Levy Lecture.
- “Festivals Acadiens et Créoles/Works by Robert Dafford,” in the A. Hays Town building adjacent to the University Art Museum, showcases a selection of paintings by one of the most prolific and successful American muralists working today. The exhibition brings a series of works together for the first time, providing an artistic and informed look into the Acadian/Cajun experience.
Learn more at museum.louisiana.edu or Smithsonian.com/museumdaylive.