
Art Rocks! The Series - 517
Season 5 Episode 17 | 28m 25sVideo has Closed Captions
Laura Gates, National Park Service, Civil Rights Movement, Louisiana’s Old State Capitol
Meet landscape painter Laura Gates of Alexandria, Louisiana, who is inspired by her four decades as a park ranger with the National Park Service. She paints both plein air and in her studio, and through her brushstrokes strives to express a connection to the land and to place. We look at the transformative power that photographs had in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
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Art Rocks! The Series - 517
Season 5 Episode 17 | 28m 25sVideo has Closed Captions
Meet landscape painter Laura Gates of Alexandria, Louisiana, who is inspired by her four decades as a park ranger with the National Park Service. She paints both plein air and in her studio, and through her brushstrokes strives to express a connection to the land and to place. We look at the transformative power that photographs had in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
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