Help us ring in the New Year with a new exhibit in the RAF Gallery featuring art from local and international artists. Get a new view of the natural world through the eyes of an abstract artist.

Admission is free w/ a suggested $10 donation to benefit RAF.
Light refreshments will be provided.

Featured artists include:
Dennis Cady, Steve Culp, Susan Duke, Robert Fogel, Katy Merriman, Anthony Reans, Ellen Soffer, Jeremiah Teipen, Lauri Wallace, Laura Watts, Grace Ge Yao, Chuandai Hsieh Yu, Heather Evans, Jason Phipps, Antonio Pizarro, and more...
 

You're Invited!

Help us celebrate local glass artist, Minor L. Vinck's 99th birthday, individual and group artist photos, and ribbon cutting with Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce.

When: Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, 3:30-6:30 pm
Where: 710 Travis Street, Shreveport, LA 71101
Admission: FREE w/ suggested $10 donation to benefit RAF's Young Artist Gallery.

Ribbon Cutting

Be here at 4:00 pm sharp for the ribbon cutting ceremony with the Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce. Following the ribbon cutting there will be cake served in honor of Vinck's birthday. Cake provided by his daughter, Donna Hands.

Artist Photos
Artists showing in the "Beauty and Spirit of Nature" show currently up in the RAF gallery are invited to come by at 6:00 pm so we can take individual pictures of them with their work, followed by a group photo of all artists in the show.

Minor Vinck
Vinck is a well-known glass artist whose works include copper wheel engravings, glass sculptures, and carved glass murals influenced by his love of nature and flight. Vinck harnessed skills including beveling, wheel cutting, sand carving, leaded glass, and copper wheel engraving at a home studio throughout his life.He was born on Jan. 22, 1916 in Texarkana, TX where he grew up. Vinck’s family was employed by the local glass factory leading him to take interest in glass at age 16. His family encouraged his interest by presenting him with a set of stone engraving wheels, beginning his lifelong endeavor in the arts.

How did we transform a building in 10 years of decline in only 10 months?

Together, we did it for LOVE. Love of NATURE. FAMILY. ART. SHREVEPORT.

Celebrate Shreveport's First Contemporary Art Museum

Rainforest Art Foundation and Marlene Yu Museum

PREVIEW PARTY
Thursday, December 18

GRAND OPENING
Sunday, December 21

PREVIEW PARTY
Thu Dec 18, 5:30-8:30PM
Dinner graciously donated by Petroleum Club of Shreveport and Farmer’s Seafood, cocktails, live entertainment, ribbon-cutting with Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Jay Dardenne and Executive Director Cathy Hernandez of Louisiana Division of the Arts
RSVP by Dec 12, by credit card for online tickets or by check, $125 per person ($75 tax-deductible)
http://www.rainforestartfoundation.org/tickets/

GRAND OPENING
Sun Dec 21, 1-4PM
Food, wine, live entertainment, ribbon-cutting with Downtown Development Director Liz Swaine and officials
FREE w/suggested $10 donation per family to benefit RAF's Young Artist Gallery and Biology & Art Exploration Program

Featuring local and international, professional and emerging artists inspired by the “Beauty and Spirit of Nature” in the Main Exhibition Halls and Gift Shop—Completion of Construction Phase I.

Culinary artists: Bistro Byronz, Bistro to Go, Blue Southern Comfort Foods, Chef Eddie Mars of Petroleum Club, Chef von Noppen of cafe@artspace, Drake Catering, Farmer's Seafood Co., Fleur de Crème, Glenwood Village Tea Room, Indigo Indian Bistro, Lagniappe Foods, Lucky Palace, Rhino Coffee, Ristorante Giuseppe, Sumo Supreme Buffet, The Noble Savage, Twisted Root Burger Co., Windrush Grill,…

Performing artists: Chamber Orchestra and Dr. K’s Dance Department of Caddo Magnet High, Louisiana Dance Collective, Tchai, recordings by Twang Darkly,…

Visual artists: Shirlene Alexander, Christina Arnold, Joe Bluhm, Julie Burgin, Susan Duke, Don Edwards, Debbie Engle, Meg Fournier, Ellen Frautschi, Taffie Garsee, Curt Harville, Camille Hirsch and Louis Sicard, Bob Horne, Judy Horne, Jim Hudelson, Eva Hurskin, Dave Ivey, Lana Johnson, Casey Jones, Lynn Laird, Caitlin Lindsay, Rosalyn Liu, Katy Merriman, Jason Phipps, Henry Price, Jeanne Reed, Rachel Sangsura, Christopher Seaman, Robert Streeter, Robert Trudeau, Minor Vinck, Adam Volker, Marlene Yu,…

...And more to come. Check the Facebook event page for updates! https://www.facebook.com/events/718439134910354/

Meet the Founder
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR0Iv2Wf2yI

Why Shreveport?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H_qdXmuaD0

Marlene Yu Museum and Rainforest Art Foundation
710 Travis Street, Shreveport, LA 71101, (318) 717-9111
www.MarleneYuMuseum.org

Director Stephanie Yu Lusk
marleneyumuseum@gmail.com
rainforestartfoundation@gmail.com

Dinner graciously donated by Petroleum Club of Shreveport and Farmer’s Seafood, cocktails, live entertainment, ribbon-cutting with Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Jay Dardenne and Executive Director Cathy Hernandez of Louisiana Division of the Arts
RSVP by Dec 15.

General Tickets to the Preview Party of the Grand Opening of the Rainforest Art Foundation and Marlene Yu Museum are now available online, $125 per person.  One ticket gives you access to both of the main exhibition halls. 

Checks can be mailed to 710 Travis St., Shreveport, LA 71101. Checks payable to Rain Forest Art Foundation. Please send a note indicating the names of ticket holders to be put on the list.