Theatre + Art

Roar of the Crowd on Bayou Lafourche

Curtain time is not always an easy moment when you operate a theater on the edge of a bayou. At the Bayou Playhouse in Lockport, about a half hour away from Thibodaux, guests wait for the theater doors to open…

Profile: Artist Hank Holland

When Hank Holland of Lockport talks about his paintings, he uses words such as “love,” “faith,” “joy” and “heart” to describe all of the emotions that guide his hand and brushes across canvas. His intensely bright images are imaginary scenes…

Spencer Gray Jr.

This Ferriday artist draws cartoons with pots and pans. By John R. Kemp

A Guide To Events Around Louisiana

    NORTH LOUISIANA • July 13-21. Ruston Community Theatre “The King & I.” 212 N. Vienna, Ruston. (318) 255-1450. • July 13-14. Shop Til You Drop Arts, Craft & Gift Show. Bossier Civic Center, Bossier City. (318) 470-6714. •…

An Artist’s Awakening

“Behind him the hills are open, the sun blazes down upon fields so large as to give an unenclosed character to the landscape, the lanes are white, the hedges low and plashed, the atmosphere colourless.” In this simple line published…

River Spirits

Donaldsonville’s Steven Schneider finds his inspiration along the levees.

Tales Told

The works of Baton Rouge sculptor Jonathan Pellitteri are more than just beautiful; they’re “silent conversations.”

Annie Strack

This Lacombe-based artist has her eye on the future.

Jenny Ellerbe: Images from the delta parishes

Here is Home”: Those three words say almost everything about Jenny Ellerbe and her remarkable photographs of Northeast Louisiana. Here is Home is about a Monroe artist who has found her visual poetry in the dark bayous and shadows…