Honey Gold
Honey Gold, the immersive audio/visual collaboration created by Louisiana artists Sariah Sizemore and Taylor Matherne, will perform in Baton Rouge at 7 p.m. June 25 inside the House Chamber Room at Louisiana’s Old State Capitol, 100 North Blvd., Baton Rouge. Tickets are $44.52 on Eventbrite.com.
The live immersive experience blends original music, voice, sound design, projection-mapped visuals and meditative storytelling.
Honey Gold was co-created by Sizemore and Matherne as a shared artistic vision, shaped by their experiences as artists born and raised in Louisiana who used music and art to process the complexities, intensity and emotional realities of growing up in the South. Together, they developed Honey Gold as an experience designed to move audiences through tension, release, reflection, awe and emotional connection, using layered music, immersive visuals, sound-healing elements and a spatial atmosphere.
Honey Gold debuted in July 2025 at the Virginia and John Noland Black Box Studio inside the Cary Saurage Community Arts Center in Baton Rouge. A second Baton Rouge performance followed at the City Club of Baton Rouge in January 2026.
For more information, visit eventbrite.com/e/the-honey-gold-experience-at-louisianas-old-state-capitol-june-25th-tickets-1988509809369.
Companion Animal Alliance pauses dog adoptions due to canine distemper cases
Companion Animal Alliance is extending its temporary closure of dog adoptions through June 29 as the organization continues testing and monitoring related to cases of canine distemper.
CAA is working closely with shelter medicine experts and is awaiting results from laboratory testing. Because distemper testing cannot be performed in-house, samples must be sent to an external laboratory for analysis. Community members wishing to support these efforts are encouraged to donate to Companion Animal Alliance’s Sick & Injured Fund, which helps cover the diagnostic costs.
‘We the People Exhibition’ is at Capitol Park Museum
The Louisiana State Museum is hosting “We the People: America in the 21st Century” at Capitol Park Museum, 660 N. Fourth St., Baton Rouge, until Jan. 27. Featuring an immersive amphitheater of photographs by Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer Steven G. Smith, the exhibition presents a portrait of American identity through everyday people, places, landscapes and shared experiences.
LSU Vet Med announces artist-in-residence
The LSU School of Veterinary Medicine announces its fifth artist-in-residence, Emily Ward Bivens, a visual artist and educator whose work is inspired by the intersection of art and science.
Bivens, distinguished professor of humanities and director of graduate studies in the School of Art at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, will be in residence July 13 through Aug. 7.
Bivens will meet with members of the LSU Vet Med community and create sketches, drawings and paintings that she will develop into larger pieces. She will donate one piece of art from her residency to LSU Vet Med’s growing permanent collection generated by its artists in residence.
Her residency will culminate with a public art exhibition and presentation. More information about the exhibition to take place in the LSU Vet Med Library will be announced soon.
Bivens works in a wide array of materials and techniques, including but not limited to film/video, sound, animation, printmaking, ceramics, installation and performance. Bivens studied biology at the University of Oregon, an experience that influenced her artistic practice. She holds a BFA from Colorado State University and an MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is a certified Tennessee naturalist. Her writing has been published in Feminist Art Practices and Research and Feminist Formations.
To explore Bivens’ work, visit www.emilywardbivens.com.
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