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...
Category: Basin Arts
Introducing Rebecca Allen
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...
Introducing Cristina Molina
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...
Introducing Daniel Fetecua Soto
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...
Introducing Blakeley White McGuire
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...
Introducing Macie Menard
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...
Introducing Jack Budd
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...
Introducing Martha Garner
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...
Introducing Carly Dupré
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,...
Introducing Kelly Nelson
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...