Art Events in Baton Rouge

Reception Jacob Mills: AEX26, Arts & Entertainment Expo and Nicholas Roberts' Within These Walls. Jacob Mills’ project, AEX26, the Arts & Electronics Expo 2026, is an experimental convention hosted in a gallery setting that presents a curated selection of companies and their products through the visual and organizational language of trade shows. Featuring games, toys, adult novelties, and self-help technologies, the exhibition invites audiences to encounter a collection of niche commercial offerings developed in response to rare, specific, or overlooked use cases. Concurrently, Within These Walls reflects on the Nicholas Roberts' evolving sense of home. Through printmaking, drawing, and sculpture, Roberts considers how everyday objects and personal spaces hold memory, invite reflection, and mark moments of transition. The work explores what it means to outgrow one’s understanding of home and begin to redefine it. These two exhibitions will be on view May 2–16 with a reception scheduled for Saturday, May 9, from 6–8 p.m. Nicholas Roberts will lead a mezzotint demonstration during Free First Sunday, May 3 from 1–2 p.m.