Basin Arts is excited to have Guest Teacher, Alex McBride, on the summer class schedule! Alex is originally from Lafayette and brings home professional training and performance experience with companies like the Limon Dance Company, 10 Hairy Legs, and River North to name a few. He is committed to sharing his skills and recent professional successes with the Acadiana community by teaching classes while home for the summer. This is a unique opportunity for dancers throughout the area and we encourage dancers (ages 16+) to come out for his weekly open classes to deepen their training and build our community of...

What if you could dance a recipe? What if you could taste a dance? Does what or how we eat shape our human experience? 5 Choreographers + 5 Chefs + 5 concepts In August 2017, Basin Arts and Runaway Dish are teaming up for a unique dance and food performance event, STIR, at the Acadiana Center for the Arts. STIR mixes the senses together for a performance event like no other taking inspiration from some of life’s basic necessities, food and movement. Five choreographers present five new dance works in collaboration with chefs, featuring the work of: Choreographers Frances Barker Clare Cook Gina...

Collaboration can often be daunting – dealing with multiple moving parts, personalities, different disciplines. Often times, creative makers are conditioned to work in solitude and isolation, it’s habitual. Group work makes us squirm. With so much in our own control, we decide which color to use, which movement to form, which sentence will use poetic devices. We are the sole producer, director, and performer – all creative decisions fall on our own shoulders. As exciting and liberating creative control may have, it also brings a whole lot of anxiety and pressure to the individualize maker. If this doesn’t work, I...

Jacob Broussard received his BFA in Painting from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2014 and attended Virginia Commonwealth University Summer Studio Program in 2015. His work expands across painting, sculpture, craft, and sound. He has exhibited his work nationally at various public spaces and galleries and has spoken in regards to his practice at the inaugural TEDxVermilionStreet. He has been an Artist In Residence at the The Vermont Studio Center, River Oaks Square Center for the Arts, The Art Students League of New York at Vyt Residency, Chalk Hill Residency, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. He...

Dirk Guidry was raised in the small bayou town of Galliano, Louisiana and attended the University of Louisiana at Lafayette receiving his bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in Painting. He is known for his large scale abstract works and also paints portraits, landscapes, live events, and murals. His works are on display in various locations throughout Lafayette and Louisiana. Dirk is also a resident artist at Basin Arts where he spends his days in the studio painting. Get to know more about his work and his creative practice…   Who are you? What do you do? Born...

Basin Arts is proud to present Wake / Awaken : Paintings by Dee Dee Lantzy February 11th / 2nd Saturday Artwalk From 6pm-9pm, come by Basin Arts to have a drink, see the work, and chat with the artist! “This body of work is the celebration of a series of events that have unfolded to an inner awakening. I trust my own intuition. I listen for what colors to use, what movements to make, and most importantly, when to stop and leave space for the work to breathe” -Dee Dee Lantzy RSVP via FACEBOOK  

ART:21 MEXICO CITY FILM SCREENING & TALKBACK Wednesday, Feb. 1st  •  6:30pm – 7:30pm Following the screening, there will be a brief talkback discussing the importance and vitality of cultural exchanges, immigration and tolerance in the arts/of artists in communities, the presence of multicultural art in the United States, and how it operates as a vital importance during difficult times. Bring a friend, a date, a family member for an engaging evening of exchange! This is a FREE event open to the public – chips and snacks will be provided, BYOB! RSVP via facebook

Brittney Pelloquin is an accomplished world body painter and fine artist. She was a tv contestant on Skin Wars Season 3 and was ranked 10th in the World Professional Brush and Sponge Category at the 2016 World Bodypainting Festival in Austria. In December 2016, Brittney became an artist-in-residence at Basin Arts where she has her visual artist studio. We recently chatted with Brittney to learn more about her creative process and to share some of her magic with you! 1. Who are you? What do you do? I was born and raised in Louisiana and I am a visual artist who paints on any surface...

by Chas Womelsdorf A funny thing happened on my way to being. When we hear the word “performance” in an artistic setting, we often think of stage and film, but some of the greatest performances happen elsewhere. I remember going to a Renaissance Festival as a kid and my interactions with people inhabiting characters away from their periodic “staged” performances with every bit as much integrity and detail as any actor. I’ve also watched musician friends transform into their rockstar stage personalities as they got off the barstool. As much as Johnny Depp following Hunter S. Thompson or Keith Richards...