Southeastern NEWS

                                                       Southeastern Louisiana University
                                           Public Information Office
                                           SLU 880, Hammond, LA 70402
                                           504/549-2341/fax 504-549-2061
    Date: 4/3/97
      Contact:                           Carol Dotson   5

CAJUN MUSIC, LOUISIANA INDIANS AND LOUISIANA ARTISTS ON VIEW AT
SLU

     HAMMOND -- The Southeastern Louisiana University art galleries currently have three
exhibits on view on the Hammond campus.
       The exhibits are: The Louisiana Artists Annual, "Louisiana Indians Through The Ages"
and "Cajun Music and Zydeco: photographs by Philip Gould."
     The Louisiana Artists Annual, now at Clark Hall Gallery through April 11, consists of
ceramics, graphic design, and printmaking by faculty and their students from Louisiana
universities.  "The exhibition offers the viewer the opportunity to see the work that is being
produced by our younger artists and the influence of their teachers," said SLU Gallery Director
Don Marshall.  "This was also an attempt to bring the university art departments across the state
closer together."  Next year the annual will feature photography and sculpture.
     "Louisiana Indians Through The Ages," now in D. Vickers Hall, presents prehistoric
artifacts from Poverty Point and other archaeological sites in Louisiana.  Examples of stone
working, bone artifacts fashioned into a host of implements, pottery, prehistoric and historic
Indian houses, and early historical maps are on display through April 25.  The exhibition is
organized by the Museum of Natural History at LSU.
     "Cajun Music and Zydeco" will be on view at Sims Memorial Library through May 9. 
Louisiana photographer Philip Gould has gained an international reputation for his work on the
Cajun culture. The photographs portray the music which resulted from the blending of Acadian,
French, German, Spanish, African, Anglo-American, and Native American cultures.
     For more information on the exhibits, contact Don Marshall, Cultural Resource
Management at 549-2193.


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