Louisiana Museums honor George Rodrigue with career-spanning exhibitions in
Baton Rouge, New Iberia, Lafayette, Monroe and Alexandria.
Exhibitions continue throughout 2024 and 2025.
Unless otherwise noted(*) these exhibitions are organized by the Life & Legacy Foundation, a non-profit arts and education organization established by Wendy Rodrigue in honor of her late husband, George Rodrigue (1944-2013). Learn more- http://www.legacyarttour.org
2024
February 15 – April 20
Bayou Teche Museum, New Iberia, Hometown of George Rodrigue
“George Rodrigue: Painting for Myself”
School tours, lectures, and events with Wendy Rodrigue, March 11-16, including a gala celebration on George Rodrigue’s 80th birthday, March 13th.
Sponsored by the Life & Legacy Foundation with Wendy Rodrigue
January 27 – July 13
Hilliard Art Museum, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
“Sitting with George Rodrigue”
*Organized by the Hilliard Museum
See related video narratives by Wendy Rodrigue
May 23 – October 20
Masur Museum, Monroe
“The River is the Road: Paintings by George Rodrigue”
School tours, lectures, and events with Wendy Rodrigue, April 25 – May 1
Additional Louisiana Outreach
March 4 – 5
Franklin, Louisiana
Education outreach and community event in partnership with the Teche Theatre for the Performing Arts.
- March 4: Community Event at the Teche Theatre for the Performing Arts, 6pm. Free and open to the public.
March 6-7
Alexandria, Louisiana
Education outreach at the J.B. Lafargue Special Education Center.
March 8
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Education outreach at The Dufrocq School.
November 17
New Iberia, Louisiana
The Fortnightly Club hosts Wendy Rodrigue for a George Rodrigue Life & Legacy lecture in celebration of the literary club’s 100th anniversary.
2025
March 4, 2025 – June 21, 2025
Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria
“The River is the Road: Paintings by George Rodrigue”
School tours, lectures, and events with Wendy Rodrigue, March 4-10
Past
June 17 – October 29, 2023
West Baton Rouge Museum, Port Allen
“The River is the Road: Paintings by George Rodrigue”
Sponsored by Telich Custom Homes, Morgan Stanley, and the Louisiana Lottery
See photographs, feedback, and press from this exhibition, including related events and school tours HERE.
History
Louisiana last saw a statewide Rodrigue museum tour in 2009-11 when the New Orleans Museum of Art, following their blockbuster 2008 Rodrigue retrospective, organized exhibitions in partnerships with museums in Baton Rouge, Patterson, Alexandria, Shreveport, Lake Charles, Monroe, and Lafayette.
George Rodrigue and his wife Wendy attended openings, conducted events for area school children, and shared “painting demos” — when George painted for the crowds while Wendy shared his story.
The crowd was so large that the demo had to be moved last minute from the Rodrigue exhibition to another part of the museum!
Today, now ten years after Rodrigue’s death, Louisiana museums again honor the artist with career-spanning exhibitions.
See the full 2024-5 Life & Legacy Rodrigue exhibition schedule, including museums in Louisiana, Alabama and Tennessee here.
In addition to museums, the 2024 Life & Legacy Tour with Wendy Rodrigue includes schools in Alabama, Louisiana, Florida and New Mexico. See the schedule.