Introducing Monique Morton  Derouselle
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Introducing Monique Morton Derouselle

Monique Morton Derouselle is a filmmaker, actress, and educator originally from Shreveport, Louisiana. She is a graduate of Southern University Baton Rouge and California State University Los Angeles where she received her MFA in writing for TV, Film, and Theatre. She also studied improvisation at The Second City Hollywood Training Center. You may have seen her...

Introducing Chase Julien
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Introducing Chase Julien

Chase Julien is a fine artist focused on figurative painting based in Lafayette, La. Raised in the small rural village of Loreauville, he enrolled in the talent art program from early elementary through high school. Otherwise, he is a self-taught artist, inspired and influenced by the scenery of his rural hometown, his peers, and early...

Introducing Trinity Wallace
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Introducing Trinity Wallace

Trinity Wallace is a visual artist based in Acadiana. Her current artistic focus includes: portraits and  abstraction of emotion and people. From a young age, art was nurtured and encouraged. After receiving her Bachelors in Art Education from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, she taught in public and private schools as an art educator...

Introducing Aileen Bennett
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Introducing Aileen Bennett

Aileen Bennett spends her days illustrating, designing, painting, writing, giving presentations, and creating stuff. She lives in that gap that often exists between business and the arts, finding inspiration in both areas. She writes the BE YOU column for The Advocate (and has done for 10 years), a place where she gets to feature people...

Introducing Paige Barnett
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Introducing Paige Barnett

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...

Introducing Charles Claudel Garrett I
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Introducing Charles Claudel Garrett I

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...

Introducing Roz Lecompte
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Introducing Roz Lecompte

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...

Introducing Triston Antoine
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Introducing Triston Antoine

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...

Introducing Whitney Willis Hebert
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Introducing Whitney Willis Hebert

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...

Introducing Gina Hanchey
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Introducing Gina Hanchey

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...