Professional Development

Everyone has a UFO story — what’s yours? Join us at the Acadiana Center for the Arts for a special storytelling session inspired by Lynda Frese: Far Out, now on view in the Side Gallery. Lynda’s exhibition explores life forms beyond human existence, drawing from her own experiences. She’ll kick things off by sharing her story — and invites you to step into this open, welcoming space to share your own encounters and curiosities about the unknown. ...

Join AcA’s Visual Arts Director, Jaik Faulk, in conversation with exhibiting artist, Lynda Frese. Lynda Frese’s artwork has been exhibited across the United States, and in Europe and South America. Her pieces are represented in private and public collections including the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Manetti Shrem Museum in Davis, and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and the Center for Louisiana Studies. Lynda Frese is 2016 professor emeritus at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where she served on the visual arts faculty. She received BFA (1978) and MFA (1986) degrees from the University of California at Davis, and fellowships from Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine; the Bogliasco Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, Italy, Vashon Artist Residency, WA; ArtLab at the Mountain Lake Biological Station, University of Virginia; and Willapa Bay AiR, Willapa, Wa. ...