Lydia Young-Green, MFA, is a distinguished dancer, educator, and choreographer hailing from Acadiana. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Performing Arts with a concentration in dance from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and a Master of Fine Arts in Choreography from Wilson College. During her time at UL, she performed in numerous...
Lafayette photographer Anne-Marie Auer’s background in dance, fashion, and travel enlighten her work as a film and digital photographer. Anne-Marie was awarded an artist residency at Chateau Orquevaux, located in France, for two weeks in August of 2024 – decorated with an Emerging Artist scholarship and the Denis Diderot grant. Her collection “Golden Veil” will...
Kali Picard is a self-taught artist and educator drawing inspiration from her Cajun roots and infusing it in art history. Her work is playful, irreverent, and colorful with the purpose of telling a story. Whether it be Lady Agnew building her societal status in Cajun Country by choosing her portrait by an old oak with...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
