Sue Zimmermann's Watercolor Surprises
An American psychologist once wrote that “a musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.” For years Lake Charles artist…
Theatre + Art
Southern Screen Festival Nov. 21-24 in Lafayette
LAFAYETTE, La (press release) – The 14th annual Southern Screen Festival will be presented in Downtown Lafayette Nov. 21-24. Session highlights include: Voice Acting + Directing with Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants) and Securing Life and Music Rights for Music Docs…
Otto Frank, a One Man Show, Pops Up at Baranco Nov. 14
LAFAYETTE, La (press release) – Award-winning actor, director and writer Roger Guenveur Smith stars as Otto Frank, the father of diarist Anne Frank, in this moving one-man show at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 14 in the Theater at Baranco, located…
A Look at Art, Music and Performance Spaces Around Acadiana
Acadians are bursting with creativity, whether it’s coming from our indigenous culture or from visiting visual and performing artists. Literally every corner of our region offers special cultural experiences. Whatever your passion desires when it comes to the arts, Acadiana…
Dawn Koetting’s Art Captures Light and Shadows
The curvature of a horse’s neck, warm light raking across rusted tire rims, a surgically pruned bonsai tree and the evening glow in a South Louisiana landscape. To most people, these…
Hilliard Art Museum Celebrates 20th Anniversary with Iconic Sculptures
LAFAYETTE, La (press release) –The Hilliard Art Museum announced the opening of the exhibition RODIN: TOWARD MODERNITY in celebration of the museum’s 20th Anniversary. The exhibition will debut on Friday, Oct. 25. RODIN: TOWARD MODERNITY will include 40 bronze sculptures…
PASA Heads to Three Venues with Six Sizzling Shows for 2024/2025 Season
LAFAYETTE, La (press release) – Heart-throbbing experiences are what Performing Arts Serving Acadiana (PASA) has lined up for the 2024-25 season, which rolls out six distinct performances of music, drama, dance and the spoken word in three different venues, beginning…
How Louisiana Inspires Artist Kathy Dumesnil’s Landscapes
The South Louisiana landscape with its flowering bayous, marshes, warm humid light, painterly sunsets and seemingly evergreen prairies has never failed to inspire artists. One can clearly see that inspiration in…
Performing Arts Serving Acadiana Chooses Renaissance Publishing as Publisher for its Annual Program
LAFAYETTE, La – Performing Arts Serving Acadiana (PASA) has announced its selection of Renaissance Publishing to publish its annual program. “We are excited to partner with Renaissance Publishing for the program for our upcoming performances," said Jacqueline Lyle, PASA’s executive…
Opelousas Museum Accepted into National Museum Assessment Program
OPELOUSAS, La (press release) – The American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the only organization representing the entire scope of the museum community, recently selected a new cohort of museums to participate in its 2024 Museum Assessment Program, including The Opelousas…
Lafayette Artist Olivia Luz Perillo's Tranquil Landscapes
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…
Mardi Gras Art for All
“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…
Painting Rhythms
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…
Focusing On Flora and Fauna
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…
Bringing Paintings To Life
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…
Lost and Found
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…
Broadway in Lafayette Announces How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Legally Blonde & More with the 2022-23 Season
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…
Music Makers
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…
PASA Performances Begin September 20
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.…
Iberia Film Festival Returns
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…
Traveling Louisiana: Spring Adventures
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…
Beyond the Surface
The environment is the driving force behind Thibodaux woodworker David Bergeron’s work
Michel Varisco
Photographing the shifting and fragile Louisiana landscape
Ebb & Flow Festival
Providing a permanent place for culture in Baton Rouge