Artist Talk: Rush Jagoe

Join AcA Visual Arts Director Jaik Faulk in conversation with exhibiting artist Rush Jagoe.

Rush Jagoe has spent nearly 20 years living and making art in South Louisiana. He picked up a camera as a pre-teen, inspired by the remnants of strip mining operations where I’d spend whole days running around on the four-wheeler. After a quick stint in photojournalism school a friend from St Landry Parish convinced him that that was the spot for him, and man was she correct. After living in New Orleans, down-the-bayou and now in St Landry Parish with a recovery barge/art studio/camp in Livingston Parish, everything below the Kisatchee feels like home. He travels away from home to make his living doing editorial and commercial photo and video shoots for clients around the world. However, the art that centers him happens when he gets home and dives into his obsessive interests ranging from traditional wood boat design and construction to herbalism, botany, bookbinding, painting, welding and more. He uses these interests to respond to his feelings about understanding his place in the biosphere. Curiosity about ethnology and ecology drives a lot of the work in his practice.