Olivia Luz Perillo, a Lafayette native who now resides in nearby Grand Coteau, is a documentary photographer, filmmaker, musician, artist and social justice activist whose spirit, imagination and art move easily between the natural watery landscape of South Louisiana and…
“Art for the Masses.” What better way to create meaningful and affordable art for the greatest number of people than to produce posters and prints celebrating Southwest Louisiana’s symbolic and ubiquitous “fleur-de-lis” and Mardi Gras revelry. And that’s been Lake…
Lafayette artist Dirk Guidry is driven by what he describes as the “dynamic circulation of energy.” You can see it in his mesmorizing free-flowing bright colors and bold brushstrokes. His portraits and paintings of performing Cajun musicians and the instruments…
Over the last seven years photographer LeeAnn Hepler of Patterson has traveled the remote back roads and levees of St. Mary Parish at those golden moments after sunrise or before…
The famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera once said a mural “is like a poem in colors.” Artist Connie Harris of St. Gabriel in Iberville Parish has gained a large following, painting her own poems “in colors” on the walls of…
Historians love to write about the Acadian diaspora, and Longfellow tells us of their “wonder and sadness.” Now, Lafayette artist Cecilia O’Keefe Neustrom shows us the faces of their “Cajun” descendants who live across the prairies and along…
LAFAYETTE, La (press release) – Broadway in Lafayette is back with SIX amazing shows for the 2022 – 2023 Season live at the Heymann Performing Arts Center. Broadway in Lafayette will bring the best of touring broadway direct from New…
For several years, the Illinois-born singer-songwriter Andrew Bird has been travelling into natural and urban landscapes — the Coyote Gulch canyon of Utah, say, or under the Glendale-Hyperion Bridge in Los Angeles — to compose music that he bases…
LAFAYETTE, La (press release) – Performing Arts Serving Acadiana (PASA) launches its first season, staging a comeback as one of the first to reopen the Heymann Performing Arts Center this September with nationally and internationally acclaimed performing arts entertainment.…
NEW IBERIA, La (press release) – The Iberia Film Festival, sponsored by the Iberia Performing Arts League (IPAL), will be held Nov. 14, 2020 at the Essanee Theater (126 Iberia St.) in downtown New Iberia. Covid-19 precautions will be in…
Color has returned to Louisiana after a memorable cold winter, and residents across the state are welcoming spring with open arms and open windows. As life returns to the teeming bayous and flowering gardens, life also returns to communities…
The environment is the driving force behind Thibodaux woodworker David Bergeron’s work
Photographing the shifting and fragile Louisiana landscape
Providing a permanent place for culture in Baton Rouge
The awe-inspiring diversity of Louisiana is easily taken for granted. A quick survey of the state’s spring festivals — Louisiana is home to more annual festivals than there are days in the year — is an apt reminder that there’s…
Meet eight people who are changing lives, making a difference in their profession, contributing to the state culture in big ways and making Louisiana proud
New Orleans’ Mardi Gras Indian queen’s legacy continues with her children and grandchildren
Load up the car and hit the road to enjoy one of these four eclectic festivals throughout the state
The woodland waterways of northeast Louisiana offer a world of adventure seemingly little changed since the days of De Soto, Mark Twain and Audubon. Here gators glide, pelicans preen, frogs hop, turtles bask on stumps and part-sunken logs while impossibly…
A Guide to the Newest Neighborhood
A CRAWFISH TALE
Despite her lengthy, celebrated career deemed worthy of a reflective lecture series, Lafayette artist and professor Chryl Savoy isn’t done creating just yet.
A new generation of Lafayette musicians incorporates old-school grooves.
A story of redemption, told through opera, comes to New Orleans.