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100 Words and a Picture


There are many untold stories behind the art that hangs in our gallery.

I would say, equally as interesting as the art itself.


How about telling your story, its easy and people want to hear it.

100 WORDS AND A PICTURE – share something about yourself on LAA’s Blog
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  • Member Statement/Profile: A little something about yourself and what inspires you to do art
  • ArtWork Story: Your process, the experience, or the deeper meaning behind a select piece of your art
  • Literary Art: Write prose or poetry that interprets or reflects a piece of your artwork

Don't wait to be asked: Send your submission by email to: [email protected]

Member Profile: Phyllis Giordano

11/26/2023

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Member Profile: Barry Bohn

11/26/2023

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Member Profile: Sherry Melancon

11/26/2023

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Member Profile: Gail Trim

11/26/2023

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Member Profile: Julien Kain

11/26/2023

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Member Profile: Gloria Darcey

11/26/2023

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Member Profile: Susan Leger

11/26/2023

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ArtStory 2023 Reception & Live Reading

11/13/2023

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Fall Show 2023

11/13/2023

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Eye of the Beholder 2023

10/1/2023

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2023 Member Art Exhibit

6/14/2023

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UL Student Scholarship Winner

6/9/2023

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Kids are Artist Too - 2023

5/15/2023

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May 2023 Arts Market

5/15/2023

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LAA Workshops

12/8/2022

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Literary Arts

11/4/2022

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This is Me - Reception

10/6/2022

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LAA's Five-Step Approach

8/20/2022

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President's Blurb: August 2020

8/11/2022

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LAA at its Best

6/1/2022

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Member Profile: Carol Stubbs

5/17/2022

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"Art illuminates our stories, and words illuminate our art."
​My friend and co-author Nancy Rust and I have written and published five books, including three picture books. We enjoy writing books about history and interesting people and animals.

​We are both members of SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators), and through that, the Acadiana Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. 
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​I am also a potter and longtime member of LAA. I love the flexibility and unpredictable nature of clay art. I like hand building and creating fanciful figures and shapes. I learned to work in clay from the late Betty Jean Tompkins, who introduced me to LAA. Through her I am a founding member of the Cracked Pot Friends, a group of potters who continue to inspire and encourage me.
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Kudos to LAA for encouraging creative talent in art and writing. Recently, my writing group collaborated with LAA to promote reading during Children’s Book Week. It was a wonderful way to showcase the link between art and writing, particularly in picture books, which are often where children first experience art. 

​Carol Stubbs
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Member Profile: Camilla Drobish

5/10/2022

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"I love outsider art, as well as the expressionist"

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I was obsessed with drawing and art from a young age. I drew pictures for years before starting to paint.
I’ve taken many workshops with numerous artist for many years but never had any formal training. What you see in my exhibits is the culmination of hours upon hours of trial and error.
 
My painting  “career” started with landscapes. I produced many bayous and swamp scenes with oak trees being my favorite subject with lots of Cajun cabins, ducks, and chickens.
 
After moving away from Houma, LA back to my childhood town of Lafayette, I branched out to floral abstracts and to figurative art.
 
I love outsider art, as well as the expressionists. Many of my paintings reflect these ideas.

Camilla Drobish


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Time of Day: Jason Hardy

5/5/2022

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​"Time of Day"

See that woman sitting over there?
Ghost white skin, jet black hair.
She always arrives after dark.
Just sits by herself in the park.
Yes, that one, under the oak.
Head tilted back. Having a smoke.
I once sat down next to her.
How long ago? I'm not quite sure.
I was much younger at that time.
When saying hello wasn't a crime.
I just inquired the usual way:
She looked pale. Was she okay?
She assured me she felt fine.
I declined a cigarette. I had mine.
I was a little startled when she smiled.
Her teeth were long. They looked filed.
Nonetheless, she was good company.
We talked for hours under that tree.
I won't tell you all the woman said.
You'll learn in time when you're dead.
Just this: "I get hungry this time of day."
I mumbled some excuse. I didn't stay.
She let me go. I was never sure why.
For whatever reason. I never pry.
I keep my distance. I prefer to wave.
I'm not quite ready for an early grave.
She waves back. She returns my smile.
But I know they weren't made by file.
Still, I'm drawn here. Are you not?
Tomorrow I'll take you to her plot.
I followed her home years ago.
It's in a cemetery you may know.
Unless you prefer meeting. It's up to you.
She's met so many. I've warned a few.
I'll rake my leaves while you decide.
If she's worth knowing. If I lied.
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Member Profile: Jason Hardy

5/4/2022

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“The Dreamer”
 
I draw dreams
One by one.
They linger
When done.
Most sit
Gathering dust.
It matters not.
Draw I must.
While I can
I will create.
Dreams come first.
Fame can wait.


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I suppose if I pinned myself down (which would be a lot to wrestle with) I would call myself an illustrator. Drawing has always been my favorite form of art. In the womb I kneaded an eraser. That’s a mild artist joke. I have lived most of my life in south Louisiana so I do enjoy creating images of wildlife, but I tend more toward fantasy images inspired by books I read or films I watch. I grew up in the 70’s/80’s which were the heyday of paperback cover art and movie poster art, so I’m sure I picked up on much of that as I got older. I do traditional media artwork rather than digital. I’m a lead-head.

My biggest influences were mainly the fantasy artists I admired and tried to emulate as I continued to illustrate: Frank Frazetta, Michael Whelan, Jeffrey Catherine Jones, N. C. Wyeth, Robert McGinnis, John Harris and many others. Illustrators all, who transformed words into images. I also enjoy pin up artists like Gil Elvgren. For obvious reasons, but also for the innocent nostalgia it invokes.
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I make art to tell tales. Which makes sense since I also enjoy writing poetry and an occasional story. I try to interpret what I read or watch in illustration form. It is frequently humorous or in caricature style. I tend toward YA or children’s art in many ways, but not exclusively.

Art means a lot to me. I have been viewing it or doing it all my life in one form or another. It helps ground me while at the same time allowing a much needed escape into fantasy that is often lacking in everyday life. Which, in essence, is what most artists strive for.
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An illustrator. That’s me.

​Jason Hardy
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That stare from a blank canvas

3/31/2022

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“I tell you, if one wants to be active, one mustn’t be afraid to do something wrong sometimes, not afraid to lapse into some mistakes. To be good — many people think that they’ll achieve it by doing no harm — and that’s a lie, and you said yourself in the past that it was a lie. That leads to stagnation, to mediocrity…

You don’t know how paralyzing it is, that stare from a blank canvas that says to the painter, “You can’t do anything.” The canvas has an idiotic stare, and mesmerizes some painters so that they turn into idiots themselves. Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares — and who has once broken the spell of “You can’t.”

Life itself likewise always turns towards one an infinitely meaningless, discouraging, dispiriting blank side on which there is nothing, any more than on a blank canvas. But however meaningless and vain, however dead life appears, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, and who knows something, doesn’t let himself be fobbed off like that. He steps in and does something…”
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Vincent van Gogh

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