{"id":239889,"date":"2025-09-19T21:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T21:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/239889\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T21:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T21:46:13","slug":"louisiana-chief-justice-john-weimer-to-display-his-paintings-local-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/239889\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana Chief Justice John Weimer to display his paintings | Local Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Weimer<\/a>, chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court<\/a>, is quick to use humor to downplay his abilities with a paintbrush.<\/p>\n

An upcoming exhibit to display his work at the George Rodrigue Gallery in the French Quarter will feature the \u201camateur\u201d hand of someone who is \u201cobviously a self-taught painter,\u201d Weimer said.<\/p>\n

But he allowed that anyone viewing his art might just give it a good review.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou be the judge,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The public opening for the show will take place on Nov. 14 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., and his more than 100 paintings will remain on display for at least the following month.<\/p>\n

Weimer said he became interested in painting as an undergraduate of Nicholls State decades ago. It was there that he took his only art class.<\/p>\n

His more experienced classmates, he said, \u201cwere kind enough to give me a few pointers. That was the extent of my training, if you will.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the years, Weimer has mostly painted rustic scenes in his home area \u2013 in and around Thibodaux and Lafourche Parish.<\/p>\n

During a recent dinner, he took a break from the conversation to quickly sketch a live oak tree on a scratch piece of paper.<\/p>\n

Weimer said he paints in fits and starts, depending on his work schedule and mood. He has been so busy after becoming chief justice in 2021 \u2013 a position he holds because he is the longest serving justice on the seven-member court \u2013 that he has completed only two paintings since then, he said.<\/p>\n

None of the paintings at the upcoming exhibit are for sale because Weimer doesn\u2019t want to sell his work to anyone who might appear before his court one day. He eventually plans to donate most of the paintings to charity.<\/p>\n

Asked why he paints, Weimer offered another self-deprecating remark.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve really gotten a great deal of satisfaction from doing the paintings, using the rudimentary skills I\u2019ve been blessed with,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m a painter and let everyone else be the judge if this really qualifies as art or not. I\u2019m not going to flatter myself by calling it art.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Weimer, chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, is quick to use humor to downplay his abilities…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":239890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,1033,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-239889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115233160447465639","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}