Amy Wales

@amylaurawales

Amy Laura Wales is a multi-discipline Artist from Raceland, Louisiana, who has been active since childhood: painting, drawing, acting, designing and making clothes, card making, set pieces, singing, writing, instruments, whatever she puts her mind to at the time. Most recently she has been acting in roles at the Thibodaux Playhouse and Le Petit Theatre de Terrebonne, where she has played her favorite roles of Mrs. Hubbard in Murder On The Orient Express, and Edith Frank in The Diary Of Anne Frank. She also designed and painted the mountain backdrop as well as an Art Deco stage frame for the set of Orient Express, which is her largest scale work to date. She moved to NYC in the 90s to follow her passion for fashion design and ended up working in the film industry and fronting an all female rock band, The Friggs. Before returning to Louisiana in 2019, she spent ten years in Los Angeles, honing her acting skills and set decorating. She has made a number of independent short films she has written and directed in addition to self producing a pop opera. Amy is drawn towards themes of outer space, nature and animal portraiture. She has an adventurous heart and will dive into new mediums and subjects, quite often with success. She also takes delight in teaching children art and helping them to elevate their creative ideas. She has been an art teacher at summer camps and on a private basis.

Bayou Regional Arts Council

@bayouregionalartscouncil

The Bayou Regional Arts Council is a 501(c)(3) non-profit agency in existence since August of 2015. We serve Terrebonne, Lafourche, Assumption, St. James, St. John and St. Charles Parishes. We highly value collaboration, sustainability, and the vital role the arts play in creating healthy, thriving communities. We believe opportunities to participate in the Arts should be readily available to the individuals in our communities regardless of socioeconomic status, race, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability. Our vision is a community that works together in support of the Arts, where opportunities to participate in the arts are readily available to all and individual artists are valued. Our mission is to improve the accessibility and quality of the arts in our region.

Center of Thought

@centerofthought

Center of Thought is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization providing Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) educational services. MISSION: Center of Thought's mission is to educate and empower future scientists, technologists, engineers, artists, and mathematicians by providing tools, resources, and opportunities that help to build skills that prepare them for their careers at an early age. VISION: We strive to enrich the community by giving children and young adults advanced exposure to STEAM careers. We cultivate emerging scientists, technologists, engineers, artists, and mathematicians to build a pipeline for creatives through an interdisciplinary approach. SERVICES: Our programs will include: - Curriculum Development - Tutoring (1:1 and Group) - Workshops and Training - Teacher Professional Development - Mentorship and Coaching - Student Programming

Kat & The Crow

@katandthecrow

Kat & The Crow LLC is not just a "brand." It is an expression of life through art. Founded by love birds Heath Cooper and Kat Ellis it is meant as a platform where two people come together, in life and in love, to share stories and perspectives built through their own unique experiences. By day Heath is a black belt jiu-jitsu instructor and helicopter pilot while Kat specializes in avionics installation as well as holding the rank of purple belt in jiu-jitsu, both under Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu. Based out of Houma, Louisiana Kat & The Crow is working to create an environment; a place to share stories, explore moods, build confidence, and be true to themselves. This all in the hope of connecting with others, inspiring creativity, and creating things that resonate with people and how they feel. We hope that you join us on our journey and enjoy the experience of Kat & The Crow!

Duyen Nguyen

@duyennguyenart

DUYEN NGUYEN is an ambitious visionary artist and clothing designer raised on a commune in Vung Tau Province, Vietnam. Duyen spent her childhood drawing and hand sewing at night. Nguyen’s work is worn and featured in several private collections throughout the United States. She has created over 900 artworks, clothing designs and collaborative paintings with her husband since she moved to the United States in 2016.

William Guion

@oak_whisperer

Every old oak has a story to tell. “In South Louisiana, live oaks are history, heritage, and heirlooms rolled into one. They were shade and shelter for early settlers’ homes. They marked where the old property lines met and where back roads crossed. They lined the entry roads to the most lavish plantation homes and shaded the first highways. Each one has a story to tell of the people and events they have witnessed in their long lives.” I have photographed the Louisiana landscape for more than 30 years. Through my camera’s lens, I explore the quiet presence, or “spirit of place” revealed in the changing moods of light on the land. This is seen most clearly in my ongoing series of images and writings of and about Southern live oak trees (Quercus virginiana). My detailed, black-and-white, and hand-colored photographs of live oaks, sensitively capture the trees’ character and essence. I describe my images as "tree portraits." They portray the oaks elegantly, revealing the mystical as well as the majestic qualities of these elder trees of the Louisiana landscape. My work is represented in five books: Heartwood, Meditations on Southern Oaks, published by Bulfinch / Little Brown Press in 1998; Heartwood, Further Meditations on Oaks, published in 2008 by the 100 Oaks Press, and Across Golden Hills – Meditations on California Oaks in 2013, also by 100 Oaks Press; Laura Plantation – Images and Impressions, commissioned in 2019 by The Zoe Company; Quercus Louisiana – The Splendid Live Oaks of Louisiana, published in 2019 by 100 Oaks Press; and Oak Alley Plantation – A Portrait of a Southern Icon, commissioned by Mayhew Enterprises, Inc. also in 2019. My oak tree images have been used as illustrations on book jacket designs for publishers Scribner/Simon & Schuster, Crown Books, Random House, Harper Collins, and Bulfinch/Little, Brown & Co. One of my live oak prints played a significant role in the 1999 Alfre Woodard film “The Wishing Tree.” My photographs are contained in a variety of private and corporate collections across the country as well as the public collections of the Louisiana Folklife Museum, the Louisiana State Museum, and the New Orleans Museum of Art. In 2016, I received a major grant from the Louisiana Department of Tourism to document and create a self-guided tour of the live oaks along Bayou Lafourche.