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Whenever I’m traveling, I try to seek out the smaller, intriguing offerings of a city, and one that caught my eye was the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette in Louisiana.  This small museum, with a collection of over 800 works of art, was founded in 1909, with the title the Lafayette Art Association, and it’s main goal is to encourage the community’s interest in art, to provide annual exhibitions, and to maintain permanent collections.  For over a hundred years now, the art museum has worked with the community and provides to the public lectures, classes and exhibitions.  On top of all that, it’s free (donations are welcomed, though).

In 2010, there’s a number of upcoming exhibits that showcase new artists.  Here’s a sampling of some of some of them: In May and July, there will be a juried show to display the best work by area high schoolers in over eleven different medium.  The works are submitted by art teachers and a professional art juror will make the final selections.  Each spring, this particular exhibit draws in two thousand five hundred visitors.  From June 4 to October 1st, an exhibit will feature art from local women who hope to gain attention as professional artists.  This year, there will also be an exhibit called Summer and Fall Scenes from the Permanent Collection.  This particular exhibit, in the Weil Gallery, will display paintings of summer and autumn landscapes.  Also promising is an exhibit in August and October titled, A Salute to Saturday Evening Post: America’s Oldest News Magazine.   Thirty art works from the 1950s and early 1960s which made the covers of the famed weekly magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, will make up this display.  It’ll feature artists such as Norman Rockwell, Steven Dohanos, John Falter, John Clymer, as well as Amos Swell and George Hughes.

Once you’ve checked into the hotel of your choice in Lafayette, stop by the museum gallery and shop at any time from Tuesday to Saturday at 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m..  It is closed on the major holidays; and, something that’s particularly special to anyone from the bigger cities, such as Los Angeles, there’s free parking.