I am a Louisiana/NYC-based dancer and artist from Lafayette, LA with a chemical engineering degree that’s never been used. I currently dance for three professional companies: NYC’s Dance Heginbotham, NYC’s MeenMoves and Lafayette’s own Basin Dance Collective. As a freelance dancer, you can catch me performing in anything from a Marc Jacobs Runway show to...
Charles Claudel Garrett I, is an artist based out of Lafayette, La. He is widely published and has performed in Texas, Louisiana, and Alabama. He is finishing his 3 debut works. A collection of poetry, a novel, and a screenplay. He is the recipient of the New Orleans Take Notice Fund and is playing Christian...
Roz Lecompte has had a ravenous thirst to create since she was a little girl in South Louisiana. As a self taught artist , she favors a figurative abstract style, mostly using the moment as her muse. She has explored many mediums including up-cycling broken drum cymbals, creating Secondline Jewels since 2012 and has publicly displayed her...
Triston Antoine is an emerging artist and designer based in Lafayette. Often working across multiple disciplines, his work is rooted in the synthesis and communication of new and innovative ideas involving the nature of humanity and the many ways that the ever-changing world is taking our species to exciting new directions. Triston holds a BFA...
Whitney Willis Hebert has studied, performed, and created dance for the better part of 30 years. She is involved in the Lafayette dance community as Assistant Director for Morgan Street Dance Company and as a company member of Basin Arts. Recent credits include: directing and choreographing THIRST as a part of Acadiana Center for the Arts- Residency @ The...
As a creative, Gina Hanchey has experience in the world of dance, acting, film, and theater. She has been choreographing and teaching classical and contemporary ballet for thirty years and has created over a dozen dance performances from show concept, choreography and rehearsal to production. An actor experienced in stage, film and television, Gina is...
Jazmyn Jones is a creative, choreographer and dance educator from Lafayette. Growing up, she trained all over the country and performed with Debbie Allen and Houston’s Urban Souls Dance Company. She went on to attend Howard University on full academic scholarship. She returned home to serve her community and is now a dance instructor at...
Hannah Gumbo is a Acadiana based muralist & illustrator making work that embraces color, positivity, & JOY. Who makes up your art circle? My husband who also works remotely in our home, our cats & puppy who are terrible studio assistants that mainly sleep on the job, my clients that partner with me on cool...
Bethany LeJeune is an artist whose work consists of mixed media sculptures, installations, and video. She received her BFA at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and is currently an MFA candidate at the Vermont College of Fine Arts low residency program. Her work revolves around self-reflection and often takes on themes of femininity, familial...
John Alex McBride is originally from Lafayette, Louisiana. He received his BFA from The University of Arizona in Tucson and is currently an MFA candidate at Hollins University. Alex has danced and trained with San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, River North Dance Chicago, 10 Hairy Legs (NYC), The Limón Dance Company (NYC), and Basin Dance...
