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If you’re looking for a fun and creative way to stay in shape but a full on modern dance class is not your thing…check out some of Basin Arts’s Fitness Focused classes this summer! With Vinyasa Yoga and Pilates Mat classes you can increase flexibility and strength and these classes are great for all ages and...

Never tapped but always wanted to? Tapped in the past and wanna brush up and learn more? Join Emma Young for TAP BASICS! The class will focus on fun, rhythmic footwork, basic technique, and have a great time dancing to LIVE MUSIC from Linzay Young.   About Emma Young Emma Young was born into a...

Basin Arts is excited to have Guest Teacher, Alex McBride, on the summer class schedule! Alex is originally from Lafayette and brings home professional training and performance experience with companies like the Limon Dance Company, 10 Hairy Legs, and River North to name a few. He is committed to sharing his skills and recent professional successes...

What if you could dance a recipe? What if you could taste a dance? Does what or how we eat shape our human experience? 5 Choreographers + 5 Chefs + 5 concepts In August 2017, Basin Arts and Runaway Dish are teaming up for a unique dance and food performance event, STIR, at the Acadiana Center...

Collaboration can often be daunting – dealing with multiple moving parts, personalities, different disciplines. Often times, creative makers are conditioned to work in solitude and isolation, it’s habitual. Group work makes us squirm. With so much in our own control, we decide which color to use, which movement to form, which sentence will use poetic...

Jacob Broussard received his BFA in Painting from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2014 and attended Virginia Commonwealth University Summer Studio Program in 2015. His work expands across painting, sculpture, craft, and sound. He has exhibited his work nationally at various public spaces and galleries and has spoken in regards to his practice...

Dirk Guidry was raised in the small bayou town of Galliano, Louisiana and attended the University of Louisiana at Lafayette receiving his bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in Painting. He is known for his large scale abstract works and also paints portraits, landscapes, live events, and murals. His works are on display...

Basin Arts is proud to present Wake / Awaken : Paintings by Dee Dee Lantzy February 11th / 2nd Saturday Artwalk From 6pm-9pm, come by Basin Arts to have a drink, see the work, and chat with the artist! “This body of work is the celebration of a series of events that have unfolded to...

ART:21 MEXICO CITY FILM SCREENING & TALKBACK Wednesday, Feb. 1st  •  6:30pm – 7:30pm Following the screening, there will be a brief talkback discussing the importance and vitality of cultural exchanges, immigration and tolerance in the arts/of artists in communities, the presence of multicultural art in the United States, and how it operates as a...

Brittney Pelloquin is an accomplished world body painter and fine artist. She was a tv contestant on Skin Wars Season 3 and was ranked 10th in the World Professional Brush and Sponge Category at the 2016 World Bodypainting Festival in Austria. In December 2016, Brittney became an artist-in-residence at Basin Arts where she has her visual artist studio. We recently...