Burden art exhibition entries sought

BATON ROUGE — The LSU AgCenter Botanic Gardens at Burden has announced the call for entries for its annual Brush with Burden art exhibition.
A juried multimedia exhibition, features all types of art inspired by Louisiana’s natural beauty.
The theme for the 2017 competition is Southern Sights, and entries will include paintings, 3-D work and photographs.
This show is open to all U.S. residents 17 years of age and older, and to all art media except video and film. Works must be original, must have been produced in the past three years and must not have been entered in previous Brush with Burden competitions.
All artwork must be priced and available for sale.
Entry deadline is Jan. 20, 2017. A full description of rules for entry is available online at www.lsuagcenter.com/brushwithburden.
Submissions will be on exhibit March 12-19, 2017, in the Ione Burden Conference Center and Steele Burden Memorial Orangerie in the Botanic Gardens. All winning works also will be displayed during April 2017 at the Shaw Center for the Arts in downtown Baton Rouge.
For more information, contact the Botanic Gardens at Burden at 225-763-3990 or BotanicGardens@agcenter.lsu.edu.