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  • Yellow Leaf logo
    Yellow Leaf Festival

    Ninth Annual Yellow Leaf Arts Festival

    St. Francisville, Louisiana
    Held in Parker Park on Commerce St.
    October 29 & 30, 2011
    10:00am until 5:00pm

    The Yellow Leaf festival will host over 55 artists and vendors with great handmade furniture, pottery, scarves, wooden bowls, baby clothes, jewelry, photography, paintings, and live music both days, and plenty of fun activities for children.

  • LPB Auction
    Louisiana Traditions

    LPB Art & Travel Auction

    Auction held live on TV on October 27
    Artwork displayed at the Louisiana State Museum from September 30 to October 15

    The Art & Travel Auction is a fundraiser for Friends of Louisiana Public Broadcasting. The funds raised are used to purchase programming for LPB, enabling LPB to continue to provide educational and entertaining television to all the people of Louisiana.

    The art piece I donated is a 30x30 piece titled Louisiana Traditions. Two Louisiana symbols, a highly textured Fleur de Lis and the eye of the tiger, all created in recognizable Purple and Gold.

  • Govenor's Mansion
    Supriya Jindal

    Fleur de Lis at the Louisiana Govenor's Mansion

    Article in The Advocate newspaper
    August 14, 2011

    Comments are by the first lady Supriya Jindal, who chooses all the artwork in the Govenor's Mansion.

    ... "We like to show work by well-known artists in Louisiana, but we also like to show work by artists who aren't as well-known," Jindal said. "We also like to show work by local artists to give them recognition." Two such pieces can be found in the drawing room and foyer. They're by New Roads artist Josephine Busse. The fleur de lis dominates Busse's canvases, which are filled with vivid blues and purples resembling south Louisiana marshland landscapes. The fleur de lis symbols are painted in a different texture, making them appear in another dimension on the canvas. "I just love these," Jindal said. "I especially love her use of the fleur de lis." ...

  • Serving Children
    Serving Children

    Serving the Children, Artists Unite

    Wooden serving tray displayed in Tsunami restaurant. Auction held at the Governor's Mansion, benefiting OLOL Children's Hospital.
    Baton Rouge, Louisiana
    May 12, 2011

    "Being invited to participate as one of 30 artists in the 2011 'service' tray benefit for the OLOL Children's Hospital, was quite an honor. We were first given round trays that warped, but the creative process within my mind had already begun. Adapting the circle to the new square format, was imperative. Thus my legend of this image...
    The Fleur de Lis..... the God in us, that this symbol so aptly represents, However all different, as each template is.
    The Circle.....the circle of life and our connection to all humanity, unending.
    Colors.....The Crayola spectrum of primary colors , so loved by children. So imagine, coming from the darkness of an illness{ brown}, through the loving care of the Children's Hospital, combined with God's light {orange} into the heart of the universe,{white}, where we are all connected.
    Complete this Spirit filled creation with the words of the song ...
    '... Everything is beautiful, in it's own way, ... Jesus loves the little children of the world.'"

  • Art Amid the Oaks
    The Myrtles Plantation

    Art Amid the Oaks

    St. Francisville, Louisiana
    The Myrtles Plantation
    March 27, 2011

    A fantastic art show featuring 32 artists from around the state displaying their art under the oaks, on the galleries and on the courtyard. A portion of the proceeds benefit Easter Seals.

  • Broadmoor Arts and Crafts Festival

    Broadmoor Arts and Crafts Festival

    Baton Rouge, Louisiana
    Broadmoor High School
    November 20, 2010

    In its 37th year, the Broadmoor Arts and Crafts Festival features over 200 artists from 6 states. Thousands of people attend this holiday tradition every year to see the various types of original artwork, photography, wood, clothing, hand crafted jewelry, etc.

  • Chistmas in the Country
    Chistmas in the Country Parade

    Christmas in the Country

    St. Francisville, Louisiana
    December 5 & 6, 2009

  • Art Antiques Authors

    Art, Antiques and Authors

    Donaldsonville, Louisiana
    April 4 & 5, 2009

  • Awesome Art in Autumn Gardens
    Houmas House Plantation

    Awesome Art in Autumn Gardens

    Darrow, Louisiana
    Houmas House Plantation
    October 11, 2008

    Awesome Art in Autumn Gardens Arts and Cultural Festival is the largest art event in Ascension Parish. The event features over 175 fine art, folk art, and performing artists and over 300 art entries in the Awesome Art Competition representing a plethora of South Louisiana art.