Born and raised in the countryside near Opelousas, La, Ted always had an interest in drawing and amateur photography. After graduating from college in 1977 Ted worked in different fields, including social work, sales, construction and he completed a 20 year career in education, teaching Middle School Science and High School Art, retiring in 2012....
Ms. Allison Barron Brandon is the Founder of Wonderland Performing Arts & serves as the company’s President. Allison grew up in Lafayette, LA as a dance enthusiast. She studied ballet, tap, & jazz during her childhood and went on to enjoy and study the genres of modern dance, show choir, and musical theatre as a...
A two time United States Artists nominee in dance and Creative Capital award winner, as a teenager, Millicent Johnnie hosted a local social justice TV show met by protests from the KKK; she traces her professional determination and commitment to social issues in Black culture to this early opposition. Former choreographer for Walt Disney Creative...
Syd Horn is a multidisciplinary artist from Lafayette, Louisiana. She produces independent films, abstract paintings, and original music for Honest Art, a production agency she shares with documentary photographer, Olivia Perillo. Their films have been received internationally. Her creative work draws upon cultural and political analyses, self-investigation, grief, love, anddeath. Who makes up your art...
Greta Gerstner started off her photography career in college at Nicholls State University where she got her degree in Fine Arts with a focus in Photography. She has been working as a freelance photographer since 2012, focusing primarily on creative photography and collaboration with other artists. Greta also became an event coordinator in 2016 after helping...
My name is Benjamin Adam Koch. I’m 32 years old. I’m a gay male Cajun living in Lafayette, Louisiana. I’m a multi- disciplined visual artist and art educator for Lafayette Public School System. I was born and raised in Crowley, Louisiana. I grew up in a private, Catholic school environment. When I was 12, I...
A native of Eunice, Louisiana artist Vivian Broussard holds a degree in Art Education from USL (UL-Laf). Currently working in acrylics, her work is inspired by a love of nature and symbolism. The mind’s eye is the genesis of imagery. Vivian intuitively layers color and constructs forms inspired from observations of the world around her....
Stuart Welch is a compulsive hobbyist and tinkerer from Lafayette. He spends his weekdays doing law and his nights and weekends doing anything else. For the past few years that “anything else” has included making a lot of music and visual art, usually in weeks-long bursts of activity and often at a breakneck pace. Most...
Lex R. Thomas (b. 1996) is a queer, non-binary artist with a focus on figurativework, and who currently works and lives in Lafayette, Louisiana. Raised in the ruraloutskirts of small-town Kaplan, Louisiana, Lex grew up surrounded by the natural world and all its creative energy.Lex moved to Lafayette at age 19 (2015) to reinvent their...
I don’t have any formal training to “be an artist”, but I didn’t need any to spend my childhood creating collages, paintings, drawings, collecting cool rocks and making things in my room. As a child growing up I was basically a boy scout, I took a lot of inspiration from hiking and camping and the...
