Donna Davis currently resides in New Iberia. She attended the University of Louisiana and continued her education in Pocono Lake, Pennsylvania. She began drawing at a young age and experimented with pencil, charcoal, pen and ink, and pastels, finding her love for watercolor later in her career. “Watercolor is my center and heart. I love what a simple drop of water does to the page and how water, such an essential part of Louisiana culture, adds to the images of wildlife and nature we are rich in. My work continues to evolve with mixed media traditions, and is central to...

Rebecca (Becky) Allen is a multidisciplinary artist based in her hometown of New Orleans.  As a dancer, choreographer, and ceramic artist, her work explores the body in relation to materials, landscape and the natural environment.  She approaches performance as a practice of presence, deep listening, and embodied connection.    She has premiered choreographic works in collaboration with institutions such as New Dialect (a founding member), Intersection New Music Ensemble, the Marigny Opera Ballet, Tulane University Dance Department, the Louisiana School of Math Science and Art, and Northwestern State University of Louisiana. Her solo performance Siddhartha (2023) was presented at the International Dance Festival of...

Cristina Molina is a visual artist who hails from the subtropics of Miami and currently lives and works in New Orleans—two environmentally precarious cities that have influenced her research on identity, loss, and disappearing landscapes. Spanning video installation, photography, and performance, Molina’s artwork is set amidst vulnerable terrains both real and imagined. Using the language of magical realism, her works centralize little-known narratives to upend dominant histories. Molina’s projects are typically collaborative and often include the participation of The Crystal Efemmes—a myth-building collective that produces immersive installations and performances with feminist agendas. Parallel to her individual practice Molina has a...

A native of Bogotà, Colombia, Daniel is a New York-based dancer, choreographer, educator, and producer. Daniel has been a soloist member of the Limon Dance Company for ten years (2006-2016) dancing lead roles in Jose Limon’s master pieces and has appeared as guest artist in Pina Bausch’s Rite of Spring and Tannhäuser. Daniel is a master teacher of the Limon technique and reconstructor of Limon’s repertory, faculty member of the Limón Institute and founder member of Limon4Kids program. He is the founder and artistic director of two dance companies: Pajarillo Pinta’o, a dance company that preserves and promotes the Colombian...

Blakeley White-McGuire (MFAIA) born and raised in South Louisiana, U.S.A., is a New York-based dancer/choreographer/writer/educator and interdisciplinary artist critically acclaimed as a former Principal dancer and present official Regisseur of repertory with the Martha Graham Dance Company. Her current creative process creates contemporary dance theater and site-specific performative works through movement research including with Movement Migration and C.A.V.E.S. Project Entre El Cuerpo y La Naturaleza, an international collaborative interrogating the relationship between art, nature, and the human body. Her productions have been commissioned by several transformative presenters including the Dancing Human Rights Festival, Oxford, UK; The Museum of Arts and Design,...

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 flame was smothered by deadlines. Having to work within the confines of branding and marketing strategies dampened their creative inspiration. In an effort to rekindle their creative flame, they put the laptop aside and dove into the art of analog collage. After some time, they...

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 the SouthWestern Review, a University of Louisiana contemporary periodical, on the cover and as a featured artist. Recent instillations include LOUDHOUSE X ARCHIVES and (un)Common with Basin Arts. With work examining identity, imagination, and language in the context of socio-political, scientific, and religious ideology, Budd...

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 @marthacutsandglues, on Facebook as Martha Garner, Collage Artist, & on Culturalyst as tiny2022. Who makes up your art circle? Kathy Reed, Milton Arceneaux, Denise Gallagher, many online and Instagram friends, authors I know through my work with Festival of Words How do you expand your...

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, and ceramics, creating artworks that carry personalsignificance. Each piece embodies a moment of personal growth, a reflection of herexperiences, or a view into her current emotional state. Carley has exhibited her work at theAcadiana Center for the Arts and has been recognized with numerous scholarships...

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 exposed to art from ayoung age has proved to be the conduit for her everlasting desire to create. Kelly earned herdegree from the University of Southwestern Louisiana. Kelly’s art depicts her perspective of culture mostly rooted in southern Louisiana and Texas. Assuch, her creations are...