About
Who We Are
Sariah Sizemore & Taylor Matherne
Honey Gold is produced and creatively led by Sariah Sizemore and Taylor Matherne. Both born and raised in Louisiana, they met through Baton Rouge's live music scene. Honey Gold grew from their shared experience as Louisiana artists, where music and art became ways of processing the complexity and emotional intensity of growing up in the South.
Sariah and Taylor lead the creative vision together, composing the original music and creating and directing the visual content that shapes the tone, pacing, and emotional arc of the experience. Their work blends live vocals, instrumental performance, and carefully chosen imagery into an immersive theatrical environment that feels cohesive, warm, and contemplative, from sound and silence to light, movement, and atmosphere.
“Coming back home to Baton Rouge and meeting Taylor through the local live music scene brought my worlds together in a way I never expected.”
Sariah Sizemore
Sariah returned to Baton Rouge after more than twenty years in California, bringing roots in San Francisco's experimental audiovisual art scene, a career in music technology with companies including Avid and Native Instruments, and her Ritual Breathwork practice. Taylor brings deep musicianship across strings, guitar, and bass, and the two perform every show live.
For each live show, Sariah and Taylor partner with projectionists and live visual artists whose work complements their own, building the right team for every venue. At the Marigny Opera House, that team includes New Orleans artist Monica Rose Kelly, whose live light painting and projection mapping will bring the opera house architecture to life. For the full-dome film, now in pre-production, Taylor Stoma of Fat Iguana Creative joins Honey Gold as Creative Director.
Since debuting in Baton Rouge in July 2025, Honey Gold has earned rave reviews and strong audience response, with guests often surprised by the experience and by how they feel afterward. The project continues to grow, with new creative and technical partners joining as the work evolves.
Presented by Big in Baton Rouge Productions, with fiscal sponsorship from the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge.
Our Mission
Immersive experiences that help people feel good.
Honey Gold is an immersive art project born from the belief that shared experiences can shift how we feel, relate, and move through the world. Through music, imagery, and live performance, we create environments that invite people to slow down, let go, open up, and remember how to love themselves and each other on a universal level.
Our work is designed to be accessible and welcoming to people from diverse backgrounds and beliefs. By presenting this experience in theaters, historic venues, and planetariums, we reach people who are well versed in meditative journeys alongside those who rarely find a safe place to let go, open up, and feel deeply. In the Honey Gold experience, what begins as a novel, artsy night out often becomes something more personal and lasting.
A central part of our mission is to gather the community and resources needed to produce this work at a high level and to share it widely. Our full-dome film is now in pre-production, and we are raising funds to complete it for release in 2027. The film will travel to planetariums and dome theaters around the world, making the experience affordable and accessible. We want Honey Gold to reach diverse audiences across political, economic, and cultural lines, and to bridge division through artistic experiences that bring people together and help them remember how to accept and love each other and all of humanity.
Patrons & Friends
With thanks to our supporters
Honey Gold has grown through the belief, generosity, and encouragement of a community that understands the value of art as a shared experience. From the very beginning, this project has been shaped by people and organizations who saw potential in the work and offered support at key moments along the way.
We have been welcomed into some of the most prestigious nonprofit venues in Baton Rouge: the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge's Virginia and John Noland Black Box Studio for our debut, the City Club of Baton Rouge, Louisiana's Old State Capitol, and now the Irene W. Pennington Planetarium at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum.
We are deeply grateful for the support of the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, whose belief in this project has helped create opportunities for Honey Gold to develop and be shared locally.
Their commitment to supporting meaningful, community-centered art aligns closely with the spirit of this work, and we are proud to have them as our fiscal sponsor as the project continues to evolve.
Visit artsbr.org →Honey Gold got its early footing through the support of The Red Shoes, who saw something in us at an early stage and offered encouragement, space, and trust when it mattered most. Their willingness to believe in the project helped give it momentum and direction, and we remain grateful for their organization.
Visit theredshoes.org →We are equally honored by the support of the Louisiana Art & Science Museum, who invited Honey Gold to bring its live performance to the dome of the Irene W. Pennington Planetarium on October 3, 2026. This invitation represents an important milestone for the project and affirms the potential for this work to live within cultural and educational spaces that serve a wide and diverse audience. From here, we will bring this dome adaptation of our live show on tour to other dome theaters and planetariums.
Visit lasm.org →As Honey Gold continues to grow, support from patrons and friends plays a meaningful role in bringing this work to life and helping it reach more people. We are currently raising funds for the full-dome film, a complete Honey Gold film for planetariums and dome theaters, now in pre-production for release in 2027.
Honey Gold is fiscally sponsored by the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, so every donation to Honey Gold is tax-deductible. Each gift supports both Honey Gold and the Arts Council, which receives a portion of every donation for the services it provides to us. Please note “For Honey Gold” with your gift.
Thank you for being part of this unfolding story and for supporting work rooted in creativity, care, and connection.
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