Peter Klubek is a Louisiana based artist currently serving as an art research librarianat the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Early in his career he completed an artistresidency at the Hospitalfield House Arts Center and Historic house in ArbroathScotland. Peter was also a featured artist in the Southern Illinois Open Competition andExhibition, and at the...
Riley McCallum is a queer, interdisciplinary performance artist originally from rural Texas. He has a broad background of movement experiences, ranging from martial arts, musical theatre, and color guard to concert and street dance forms. In the final year of earning his BFA in Performing Arts from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, he was...
Alyson Hetzel is a filmmaker, photographer, and dancer originally from Crowley, La. They obtained a BFA in Digital Filmmaking at Loyola University in New Orleans, where they also danced with Ellevate Dance Company, The Radical Buffoons, and in several local artists’ music videos. While at Loyola, they directed several short narratives and documentaries, specifically Mudbugs,...
Sam Wróbel specializes in the Polish papercutting folk art of wycinanki. Born and raised near Chicago, Illinois, Sam learned to make wycinanki as a child from folk artist Doris Sikorsky. As an adult, Sam worked as an in-store sign artist for Trader Joes, and eventually left Chicago to travel. Sam encountered Lafayette and fell in...
Lily is from Tallahassee, Florida, where she quickly fell in love with dance at a young age. She’s trained in multiple forms of dance, such as ballet, contemporary, modern, jazz, musical theatre, hip hop, and tap. Lily moved to Lafayette in 2017 to major in Dance and Performing Arts at the University of Louisiana, at...
Lian Cheramie is an army brat originally from Lafayette, Louisiana. Lian received her BFA in Performing Arts at ULL, and she has been involved with Acting Up (in Acadiana) since it began in 2003. As a theatre artist, she enjoys Shakespeare, creating original works, and movement based work. She draws her ideas for her personal...
Sasha Massey was born and raised in Lafayette, Louisiana She’s also a ULL School of Musicgrad in vocal performance. Her earliest influences were jazz, motown soul, classical andmusical theater. Sasha is a lyric soprano with amazing improvisation and coloratura capabilitywith dramatic flare. As a child she could pick up accents, speaking and singing styles like...
Growing up in Lafayette Louisiana, I was fortunate to be in an area defined by the AtchafalayaBasin, the prairies, the coastal marsh, the Gulf of Mexico, and other small gems scattered about the region. This environment was the stimulus of my beginning to understand how to see. My architect grandfather, Fred Nehrbass, provided me with...
Alex Vidos is from and currently resides in Lafayette, Louisiana where she has been creating art for the last 10 years. Her paintings are inspired by the people, places, and music around her. She builds abstracted landscapes of different cultures where she’s lived from the marshes of Louisiana, the deserts of Mexico, and the tropical islands of the Philippines....
Ajah Cox is a 24 year old dance instructor, choreographer, and artist from Abbeville,Louisiana. Ajah quickly fell in love with dance at six years old and it has been part ofher ever since. Ajah began her serious training at The Ballet Studio where she trainedballet and modern. As Ajah grew more and more passionate about...
