At the West Baton Rouge Museum, exhibits form a web of connections

At the West Baton Rouge Museum, exhibits form a web of connections

In a modest gallery at the West Baton Rouge Museum in Port Allen, a wall of mounted metalwork sculptures captures the joy of music. Fashioned from bent and twisted wire, the pieces portray musicians playing a variety of roots music instruments. There’s a washboard, numerous horns, a bongo, a fiddle and a piano. Other figurines show subjects dancing. One eye-catching set features a couple mid-dip, the female partner’s back arched dramatically as …