Edward X was born and raised in New Orleans, La. His passion for music began in 2005 when he wrote his first rap. Since then he would go on to move to start Armed Rhymery with Kween Mo in Lafayette. Together, they’ve played hundreds of shows, traveled to different cities and states performing, been featured on Pharrell’s iamOTHER compilation, and even recently going viral on social media with their new series, narrative raps. If you would like to know more, you can always follow Edward on instagram @just_edx or @armedrhymery. Armed Rhymery’s music is available at all streaming platforms.  Who...

An immigrant Artist in filmmaking and visual arts. Founder of Bia Creates Production.  Born in Oman, Ba is the youngest of five siblings. He came to the US in 2011 and since then earned his B.S. in Petroleum Engineering and M.S. in Communication. An advocate for equality and diversity. A current board member  at casa of sola. currently working on a documentary that will help showcase an underrepresented community in the United States. His previous documentary focused on expatriates and their decisions to stay in the United States. The documentary creates understanding and breaks stereotypes tied to immigration.  Who makes up your art...

Morgane Prejean also known by her stage name, Kween Mo, is a Hip-Hop artist and creative based in Lafayette, LA. At her creative core, she is a lyricist and singer with a very unique sound that carries an overall positive vibe and message but her craft also extends to instrumental production, graphic design, film, visual art, audio engineering and more. Mo has been sharing her gifts and actively pursuing her career as an artist for about 15 years and has a multi-media arts company, Southpeak Arts, where she offers services that allow her another outlet to put her unique skills...

Morgane Prejean also known by her stage name, Kween Mo, is a Hip-Hop artist and creative based in Lafayette, LA. At her creative core, she is a lyricist and singer with a very unique sound that carries an overall positive vibe and message but her craft also extends to instrumental production, graphic design, film, visual art, audio engineering and more. Mo has been sharing her gifts and actively pursuing her career as an artist for about 15 years and has a multi-media arts company, Southpeak Arts, where she offers services that allow her another outlet to put her unique skills...

Denise Gallagher is a fine artist, graphic designer, and published author and illustrator of children’s picture books. Her work has been included in museums and galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Portland, Indianapolis and across Louisiana. She has written and illustrated two picture books, “Moonsong” and “A Tip Tap Tale,” and has also illustrated folk tales from Louisiana and Canada. Denise is proud to be the Illustrator Coordinator for the Louisiana/Mississippi Region of the Society of Children’s Writers and Illustrators and serves on the Editorial Board of the University of Louisiana Press.  Denise is devoted to promoting a love of...

Mare Martin holds a BFA in painting and printmaking from the University ofLouisiana. She also studied at the Haystack School of Crafts in Maine on ascholarship and at the Cardiff College of Art in Wales on a graduate fellowship.Her professional awards include grants from the National Endowment of the Artsand the Louisiana Division of the Arts for a mid-career retrospective and anARTSpark grant for a thirty-five year retrospective at the Acadiana Center for theArts. Martin created the site-specific public artwork “Earth, Water, Fire, Air” forthe glass wall at the former site of the Lafayette Regional Airport. She is inspired by...

Steve Breaux, BFA, MFA, Florida State University, is retired (2020) Professor of Visual Arts atthe University of Louisiana at Lafayette where he taught Art and the Computer, Conceptual andFormal Development, Advanced Drawing, and 2d. Design. For 25 years he has worked both as a solo artist and in collaboration with his wife and partner, Kathy Reed, in a variety of mediaincluding process art, printmaking, painting on silk, computer animation/video, photography, and painting often in combination. He has researched the nature of the art process as it relates to differences between painting and digital (algorithmic) artwork for over 25 years. In...

Kathy has been an artist and educator for 40+ years in the Lafayette, Louisiana area.She was raised in a military family, moving every two years until settling inLouisiana. Kathy grew up in mainly urban environments, and didn’t have manyopportunities to discover her innate attraction to the plant world until graduatingfrom University of LA with a BFA in Fine Arts. What started as a small garden grewinto the source for her artistic ideas, and led to a love of Nature that fueledexplorations into the philosophical ideas that she continues to pursue. She retired as a visual art teacher, having taught the...

My work focuses on the ephemeral, fragility, and power within nature. I am intrigued by the duality of opposition – active and static, continuity and abeyance, transitory and eternal. Formal elements emphasize layered contours of organic forms, fluidity of pigment, and gestural mark-making. These pieces become suspended fragments of time, leaving traces of nature’s vitality.  I’ve always been greatly influenced by cyanotypes, but I also greatly enjoy light, shadow, and movement. Within my artistic processes, I work in layers and constantly rotate or move the canvas. This allows me to have a new perspective each time I revisit the painting,...

Danny Devillier received a Masterʼs degree in music theory and compositionfrom the University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1998 in his hometown ofLafayette where he continues to work as a professional performing musician,composer/arranger, and educator. He has toured and recorded with some ofthe regionʼs most well-known musicians including Bonsoir Catin (with whohe received a Grammy nomination for best regional roots record in 2014),Terrance Simien, Beausoleil avec Michael Doucet, David Egan, MemShannon, Theresa Andersson, GIVERS, Anders Osbourne, The Pine LeafBoys, Cedric Watson, Feufollet, Ann Savoy, and Roddie Romero. Hecontinually works as a composer and arranger on a wide variety of projectsranging from...