Collection:LPB

Genre: Awards

Place Covered: Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana

Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority

Date Issued: 2022-04-28

Duration: 00:10:00

Subjects: Northwestern State University of Louisiana | HUNTER, CLEMENTINE

Contributors:

• Denison, John Host
• Merrick, Robyn Host
• Shiver, Art Interviewee
• Sterling, Todd Interviewee
• Deaton, Randolph J., IV Interviewee
• Gitter, Alice Yelen Interviewee
• Whitehead, Thomas Speaker

This segment from the 2022 Louisiana Legends Gala features a profile and speech by Thomas Whitehead accepting his recognition as a Louisiana Legend. Whitehead is a professor emeritus of journalism at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, an expert and preservationist for the Clementine Hunter Collection, and a Clementine Hunter biographer. His profile includes interviews with: Art Shiver, Clementine Hunter biographer; Todd Sterling, the owner of Alpha Media and Public Relations; Randolph J. Deaton, IV, the art crime program manager with the FBI; and Alice Yelen Gitter, the senior curator emerita at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Hosts: John Denison and Robyn Merrick