Macie Menard is a mixed media artist born and raised in Lafayette, LA. Their creative journey has taught them the importance of flowing in creativity as opposed to forcing creation. They find inspiration in nature, travel, movement, life experience, and (most importantly) their intuition. In their time as a graphic designer, they felt their creative...
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Introducing Jack Budd
Jack Budd, American multi disciplinary artist, was born and raised in Lafayette, Louisiana and graduated from the University of Louisiana’s Visual Arts program with a concentration in Painting and Printmaking. Budd’s achievements include pieces and instillations in the University of Louisiana’s Marais Press Collection and Bottle Art Loft Apartments. Budd has also been published by...
Introducing Martha Garner
Martha Garner is a certified Master Naturalist and collage artist who lives in Lafayette. Her collages represent her love for nature. She has recently created Art Spark project meant to bring about awareness of the fragility of our state’s ecology. It is on display at Cite des Arts. You can find her work on Instagram...
Introducing Carly Dupré
Carley Dupré is a ceramic artist and aspiring educator whose work serves as a testament to the multifaceted world of artistic exploration. Based in Lafayette, Louisiana, Carley is earning adegree in Visual Arts with a concentration in ceramics from the University of Louisiana atLafayette. She experiments with self-reflection across various media, including drawing,painting, printmaking, metalwork,...
Introducing Kelly Nelson
Kelly Nelson, a Louisiana native, is an artist who has a passion for all things related to the arts.She recently relocated back to Louisiana after living and working in Houston, Texas for the lasttwo decades. She grew up on the northside of Lafayette, Louisiana, where her parent’sencouraged creativity, dance, painting, and drawing. She believes being...
Introducing Elana Jacobs
Elana Jacobs is a Choreographer and Pilates Instructor living in New Orleans. Since 2011, she has served as the Artistic Director of performance company CabinFever. In addition to performances in traditional venues, CabinFever creates and produces site-specific works performed inside people’s homes and historical spaces inspired by memory and architecture. With CabinFever, Elana has also...
Introducing Kennedy Walker
Kennedy Walker is a movement artist from Baton Rouge, LA. She received her BA in Dance as well as a BS in Neuroscience in 2022 from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. Following graduation where she was heavily involved with Tulane’s Dance Department as well as local dance communities in New Orleans, Kennedy moved to...
Introducing Alex McBride
Alex McBride is originally from Lafayette, Louisiana. He received his BFA in Dance from The University of Arizona in Tucson and his MFA in Dance from Hollins University. Alex has danced and trained with San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, 10 Hairy Legs (NYC), The Limón Dance Company (NYC), and Basin Dance Collective (Lafayette). Alex is...
Introducing Megan Constantin
Meet Megan Brown Constantin, a regional roots singer/musician and cultural activist living in Lafayette, LA, originally from Tepetate, a small community between Eunice and Basile. Megan grew up to the sound of Cajun music at her grandparent’s Cajun restaurant. Singing all her life, she took to Cajun music and with it the French language at the...
Introducing Johanna Divine
Based in Lafayette, musician-songwriter Johanna Divine has written three original albums and co-wrote the celebrated musical Dream of the Marionettes, selected for the 2010 NYC International Fringe Festival. She has shared the stage with Louisiana greats David Egan, Sonny Landreth and Tommy McClain and had the privilege of working with international stars Joan Baez, Luther...