1 August2018August 24, 2018

Fall Visual Arts Classes

Check out all the awesome art classes available this fall!  Acrylic Portrait Painting Class Monday’s 6:00-8:00pm with Jaik Faulk 4 week session: Sept. 17th-Oct. 8th $180 SIGN UP HERE An acrylic painting class suggested for painters who have some previous experience in acrylics. If you’ve always wanted to paint a certain someone, or anyone in particular this is the class for you. We will work from a live model as well as from photo references in these four sessions. Students will be guided through the process of composing and rendering the figure in portrait form on canvas in acrylic paint....

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Fall Dance Class Schedule!
1 August2018August 24, 2018

Fall Dance Class Schedule!

Goodbye Summer… Hello Autumn! Check out the new fall dance class schedule at Basin Arts! We offer a wide variety of weekly dance classes taught by some of the areas most qualified dance and movement artists. Our classes are drop-in style, open to adults and teens ages 16+. There are no performance commitments, just dancing! You are sure to leave class feeling joyful, motivated, and inspired. Our students are all ages, all levels and come from all corners of the world. Whether you’re looking to stay in shape, try something new or deepen your professional dance training, Basin Arts, is...

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1 August2018August 8, 2018

AMBUSH!! General Mouton Statue

AMBUSH!! General Mouton Statue Basin Arts AMBUSH! We’ve been flowing out into the streets of Downtown Lafayette all summer long and popping up when you least expect it and in the most surprising ways. For our third AMBUSH!! we popped up at the General Mouton Statue Ambush #3 happened on Saturday July 14th during Artwalk on the lawn underneath the General Mouton Statue. The land that the General Mouton statue sits on was property owned by the Mouton family, that was later donated to the city. In 1922, during the Jim Crowe era and the push back against Reconstruction, the statue was...

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Basin Arts Book Nook
14 July2018July 17, 2018

Basin Arts Book Nook

Over the last several months we began receiving donations of art books across both visual and performing arts sectors. These donated books along with our existing collection were shaping up to be a nice little collection of resource books for artists across disciplines, and we had the idea to build an tiny arts library in the building. The United Way of Acadiana put out a community call for projects, and we knew this would be the perfect project for Basin Arts to complete with help from community volunteers! On Saturday June 23rd, we sorted, organized and inventoried our book collection; we assembled shelving...

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9 July2018July 10, 2018

AMBUSH!! Holiday in Spain

On Friday, June 29th, three dancers, one painter, and a singer united to create a great spectacle reminiscent of a Holiday in Spain! Beginning at Pamplona and making their way to the atrium at the Gordon Hotel, audience members followed the performers for this interactive running of the bulls. The dancers, Gina Aswell, Nicole Curtis and Paige Barnett, began in the alleyway of Pamplona, embodying bulls about to take off on their epic journey. Painter, Jaik Faulk worked feverishly to capture their forms with paint before each bull advanced, breaking through each quick-fire paintings. COMICAL YET TRAGIC, ANXIOUS, FRENETIC, FOCUSED. The...

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9 July2018July 9, 2018

Paint Your Date Night

PAINT YOUR DATE NIGHT was a huge success. Wine was poured , shirts were discarded, paint was laid down and lots of laughs shared between a mix of personalities and newly made friends. Big thank you to Basin Arts for allowing such wonderful art happenings to breath in Lafayette, La!  “It was a new avenue for vulnerability that I don’t think many consider, both in the intimacy between the couple and with a group of strangers. People lean toward comfort and convenience, but the concept here (in my opinion) was an attractive risk that I found more comfortable than I assumed. I didn’t...

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18 June2018July 9, 2018

AMBUSH!! Central Pizza & Bar

AMBUSH!! Central Pizza & Bar Introducing Basin Arts AMBUSH! We’re flowing out into the streets of Downtown Lafayette all summer long and popping up when you least expect it and in the most surprising ways. Our first ever AMBUSH!! Took place right outside of CENTRAL Pizza & Bar… some painting… a little Tap dancing… and a pizza crust sword fight??  Whitney Hebert, Tori Vincent, and Dirk Guidry did an amazing job bringing together tap dancing, visual art, and comedy. They set the scene just right.. think European, wine, mimes, painters, and pizza?  A beautiful day outside of a bistro; one...

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Summer Class Schedule!
15 May2018May 15, 2018

Summer Class Schedule!

Summer is a great time to jump into dance classes at Basin Arts! We offer a wide variety of weekly dance classes taught by some of the areas most qualified dance and movement artists. Our classes are drop-in style, open to adults and teens ages 16+. There are no performance commitments, just dancing! You are sure to leave class feeling joyful, motivated, and inspired. Our students are all ages, all levels and come from all corners of the world. Whether you’re looking to stay in shape, try something new or deepen your professional dance training, Basin Arts, is everyone’s dance...

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Acadiana Dance Month Recap!
7 May2018May 7, 2018

Acadiana Dance Month Recap!

Acadiana Dance Month Recap! AAANNNDDDD THAT’S A WRAP! The first ever Acadiana Dance Month was a huge success! March, 2018 was aimed at creating awareness and advocacy for the art of dance in our Acadiana Region. With nearly 100 local dance schools, cultural groups, professional companies, student organizations, a university program and dance service providers, what ISN’T there to celebrate!? Here’s a break-down of all the fun that happened… Acadiana Dance Month began with its official proclamation at the beginning of March by the Lafayette Consolidated Government. Seriously, we have pictures to prove it! We still don’t know how they...

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Field Trips to Basin Arts
28 March2018March 28, 2018

Field Trips to Basin Arts

Over the past few weeks Basin Arts has had the pleasure of hosting a few field trips, and they starting to become something of a high demand among the elementary grade schools! Ben Koch, one of our artists in residence, shares his experience of the first ever Basin Arts field trip and gives a brief description of what took place throughout the event. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- The Truman Field Trip to Basin Arts was an incredible opportunity that I will never forget. It was my first time teaching Pre-K, and they have by far been the most fun group of children! The...

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