Curtain call or comeback? Funding challenges and closures test Baton Rouge’s cultural sector

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Lundyn Herring, director of visual arts for the Arts Council of Baton Rouge, hangs a work of art at the Cary Saurage Community Arts Center on Ferdinand Street. The longtime arts patron established the Cary Saurage Fund at the Baton Rouge Area Foundation in 1994. Photography by Collin Richie

On May 1, Latin percussionist Sammy Figueroa took to the Manship Theatre stage to play before an audience of jazz aficionados, part of the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge’s regular River City Ja…


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