Workshops

As your Regional Arts Council for Acadiana, AcA will host an information session about the state-funded Louisiana Project Grant to discuss the program goals, eligibility and other guidelines for the 2026 cycle. New this year, Culinary Arts has been added as a recognized discipline. Come and learn about how to incorporate that into a project grant. More information about the award can be found here: https://acadianacenterforthearts.org/opportunities-for-organizations/louisiana-project-grants/ This will be a hybrid session, if you can’t make it in person, please join us on zoom (information will be available once you register for the session). This session will also be recorded and posted on our website for those that are unable to attend at that time. ...

POSTPONED! Stay tuned for a new date.   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. ...

Artist Round Up is an opportunity for creatives of all disciplines to come together in a space to meet like-minded creatives who they could collaborate with, talk to, find inspiration from and just generally hang out with. For our May meetup, artist Lynda Frese will be leading us in our quarterly zine making workshop. This months theme: UFOs! AcA is committed to making our programming as accessible as possible. If you require your accessibility needs addressed, please contact community@acadianacenterforthearts.org ahead of the session to discuss.  ...