Third Thursday After Hours at CPM

Light refreshments and presentation by the photographer of The Yellow Book: Old South Baton Rouge exhibition.

After Hours at Capitol Park Museum is an opportunity to get closer to our history as it comes alive during these evening conversations of transportation, architecture, film & music, culture, and history. Our commitment to education & civic engagement is made possible by support from our Sponsors & Friends of Capitol Park Museum.

Third Thursday After Hours is from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. with The Yellow Book: Old South Baton Rouge exhibition is available for viewing. Tickets can be found on Eventbrite and purchased at the door. 

This exhibition explores the legacy of interstate construction in the Old South Baton Rouge neighborhood. It is part of photographer Johanna Warwick’s larger project The Yellow Book, named after a 1955 government publication showing proposed interstate routes. Ultimately, she will document all 104 cities designated in that book. In this exhibition, Warwick examines how Interstates 10 and 110, built in the early 1960s, divided Old South Baton Rouge in two, displacing people and businesses and rupturing its sense of community. Using the elevated interstate as the framework for this series, Warwick captures the shadows they cast over this African American neighborhood. “We now have a greater understanding of how the highways we built decades ago affected people’s lives,” says Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser. “This exhibition reveals how that unfolded in Baton Rouge.”