Readers & Writers

The last event of the season is upon us! Tomorrow, April 10th, 4 pm at the Baton Rouge Gallery with Joe Doss and Deborah Luster. See you there!

Only five more days until our upcoming Readers and Writers event--FREE and open to the community! This weekend, Sunday April 10th, 4pm at the Baton Rouge Gallery, the event will feature playwright Joe Doss and photographer Deborah Luster and a discussion on how art mediates suffering. We look forward to seeing you there!

Just a little over two weeks until our April 10th event! Check out this piece by the Advocate about Deborah Luster:

http://theadvocate.com/news/neworleans/4873925-148/ghost-town

Ghost Town: Photographer Deborah Luster Murder. Victim. Scene. Spirit. Photograph. The unrelenting specter of violence is turned into ethereal art via a distinctive vision by photographer Deborah Luster. Her exhibit, “Tooth for an Eye: A

Upcoming Readers & Writers guest Deborah Luster was featured on NPR, discussing her work with prison photography. Check it out here: http://www.npr.org/2010/06/30/128212442/after-mothers-murder-artist-photographs-prisoners. Then join us on April 10th (4 p.m. at the Baton Rouge Gallery) to hear more about how art can mediate suffering.

After Mother's Murder, Artist Photographs Prisoners On April 1, 1988, Deborah Luster's mother was murdered in her bed by a contract killer who came in through her kitchen window, walked down her hall and shot her five times in the head. Luster, who was 37 at the time of the murder, says she was able to "dig out" of the "mess" she found herself in by…

Happy Mardi Gras! For a taste of our upcoming event (Apr. 10th, 4 p.m. ), take a look at photographer Deborah Luster's homepage: http://deborahluster.com/

deborahluster.com

The countdown is on! Four days until our discussion with poet Jericho Brown, co-hosted by the New Delta Review at the Baton Rouge Gallery, 4.pm, on Sunday Nov. 8. Admission is free and open to the public!