It takes the fresh eye of an outsider to find beauty in what we look at as eyesores. That’s the impact of Puits d’Huile, the new show opening at Galerie Lafayette in Jefferson Street Market, tomorrow night for ArtWalk. Canadian painter Harlan Johnson was visiting Cajun country, mainly focused on the music, when he got a glimpse of our offshore oil platforms. Intrigued, he began exploring how his Acadian roots in Nova Scotia and the modernization the oil industry brought to his culture provide a connection to his Cajun cousins. The result is a series of paintings depicting offshore oil rigs and platforms like you have never imagined them, with fauve skies and Munch-like reflections and plumes of sacred fire. Johnson will be at the opening, 6-8 p.m. Saturday, October 11, and welcomes a discussion of his vision.
While you’re at Galerie Lafayette, don’t miss the show in the small gallery. Works by some of Acadiana’s top artists are up for a silent auction to benefit UL’s BeauSoleil Louisiana Solar Home. The work, by artists Ayres, Breaux & Reed, Daspit, Frese, Geldersma, Gould, Kepler, Pavy, Poinboeuf, and Lafaye was selected by TEAM BeauSoleil to accompany the BeauSoleil Home to Washington D.C. for the 2009 Solar Decathlon. The exhibit and silent auction will conclude on the Saturday, November 8th ARTWALK at 8pm.
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
It takes the fresh eye of an outsider to find beauty in what we look at as eyesores. That’s the impact of Puits d’Huile, the new show opening at Galerie Lafayette in Jefferson Street Market, tomorrow night for ArtWalk. Canadian painter Harlan Johnson was visiting Cajun country, mainly focused on the music, when he got a glimpse of our offshore oil platforms. Intrigued, he began exploring how his Acadian roots in Nova Scotia and the modernization the oil industry brought to his culture provide a connection to his Cajun cousins. The result is a series of paintings depicting offshore oil rigs and platforms like you have never imagined them, with fauve skies and Munch-like reflections and plumes of sacred fire. Johnson will be at the opening, 6-8 p.m. Saturday, October 11, and welcomes a discussion of his vision. 
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