Arts: Best bets

Found fabrics and antique linens are the canvases for Kelli Scott Kelley’s strange fairy tales about half-human alligator monsters, circus animals that disappear into the swamps and other fanciful characters. These creatures made appearances in her book Accalia and the Swamp Monster, which LSU Press published earlier this year. Kelley, an associate professor at LSU’s School of Art, was inspired by Italian Renaissance paintings to weave an illustrated tale based loosely on personal experiences. Now, the 50 tapestries featured in the book are on display at the LSU Museum of Art all this month until next January. lsumoa.org

SEPT. 7: Elevator Projects’ ARTcade fundraiser offers up interactive and creative games—many of them larger than life—all themed around superheroes. The event will take over a warehouse at 761 Choctaw Drive. elevatorprojects.com

SEPT. 11-14: New Venture Theatre’s production of the musical In the Heights comes to the Manship Theatre. newventuretheatre.com
ENDING SEPT. 24: Two exhibitions—Herman Mhire and Emilio Garcia’s “The Art and Science of Shells” and the collection “American Brilliant Cut Glass: A Silver Lining”—finish their runs at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum. lasm.org
ENDING SEPT. 25: The detailed and colorful paintings of Charles Barbier, porcelain vessels of Leanne McClurg Cambric, meticulous collages of Paul Dean, and the modern culture-referencing paintings of Scott Finch are on view at the Baton Rouge Gallery for most of this month. batonrougegallery.org
EARLY NEXT MONTH: Of Moving Colors’ popular Zombie Bash and 5K returns to downtown Oct. 3 to start off the Halloween season early (ofmovingcolors.org). Also ushering in the spooky season, Swine Palace adapts Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein for the stage Oct. 1-12 (swinepalace.org).