Shaw Center for the Arts, Art museum and performing arts center in downtown Baton Rouge, United States.
The Shaw Center for the Arts is a 125,000-square-foot performing arts venue, fine arts museum, and education center at 100 Lafayette Street in downtown Baton Rouge, opened in 2005. Its exterior is clad in translucent channel glass made by Glasfabrik Lamberts in Germany. Inside are the LSU Museum of Art, the Glassell Gallery, and the 325-seat Manship Theatre.
The Shaw Center for the Arts opened in 2005 at 100 Lafayette Street, built with public and private funding. The Shaw Group received naming rights, while the Manship and Pennington families and Lamar Advertising were major donors. Its design by Schwartz/Silver Architects and Eskew+Dumez+Ripple won a 2005 AIA Gulf States Honor Award and a 2008 AIA National Honor Award.
The center serves as a gathering place where locals and visitors experience theater, live music, and visual art in a single location. This combination of different art forms creates a space where different audiences meet and discover new creative works.
The center sits downtown where visitors can walk through different areas and take advantage of dining and shopping on-site. Plan enough time to explore galleries and catch at least one performance, as the variety of spaces makes for a full day of activities.
Inside the complex sits the LSU Museum of Art, which preserves traditional artworks while also displaying contemporary installations in rotating exhibitions. This arrangement lets visitors see both classical and modern artistic expressions without leaving the building.
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