50 Years of

Fostering Art and Culture in Acadiana

Founded as the Acadiana Arts Council in 1975, Acadiana Center for the Arts (“AcA”) is a nonprofit organization members and donors that has been a cornerstone of arts and culture for five decades.

As the community leader in arts and culture, AcA serves to bring elevating arts experiences to the people of Acadiana through many approaches including holding public concerts, presenting art exhibitions, providing grants to artists and cultural organizations, and bringing artists into schools across the region.

AcA brings equitable access to the arts through year-round education and outreach activities and aims to build a more sustainable cultural ecosystem for future generations in Acadiana across an eight-parish region that includes Acadia, Evangeline, Iberia, Lafayette, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary, and Vermilion Parishes.

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50 Years of

Fostering Art and Culture in Acadiana

Founded as the Acadiana Arts Council in 1975, Acadiana Center for the Arts (“AcA”) is a nonprofit organization members and donors that has been a cornerstone of arts and culture for five decades.

As the community leader in arts and culture, AcA serves to bring elevating arts experiences to the people of Acadiana through many approaches including holding public concerts, presenting art exhibitions, providing grants to artists and cultural organizations, and bringing artists into schools across the region.

AcA brings equitable access to the arts through year-round education and outreach activities and aims to build a more sustainable cultural ecosystem for future generations in Acadiana across an eight-parish region that includes Acadia, Evangeline, Iberia, Lafayette, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary, and Vermilion Parishes.

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50 Years of

Fostering Art and Culture in Acadiana

Founded as the Acadiana Arts Council in 1975, Acadiana Center for the Arts (“AcA”) is a nonprofit organization members and donors that has been a cornerstone of arts and culture for five decades.

As the community leader in arts and culture, AcA serves to bring elevating arts experiences to the people of Acadiana through many approaches including holding public concerts, presenting art exhibitions, providing grants to artists and cultural organizations, and bringing artists into schools across the region.

AcA brings equitable access to the arts through year-round education and outreach activities and aims to build a more sustainable cultural ecosystem for future generations in Acadiana across an eight-parish region that includes Acadia, Evangeline, Iberia, Lafayette, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary, and Vermilion Parishes.

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50 Years of

Fostering Art and Culture in Acadiana

Founded as the Acadiana Arts Council in 1975, Acadiana Center for the Arts (“AcA”) is a nonprofit organization members and donors that has been a cornerstone of arts and culture for five decades.

As the community leader in arts and culture, AcA serves to bring elevating arts experiences to the people of Acadiana through many approaches including holding public concerts, presenting art exhibitions, providing grants to artists and cultural organizations, and bringing artists into schools across the region.

AcA brings equitable access to the arts through year-round education and outreach activities and aims to build a more sustainable cultural ecosystem for future generations in Acadiana across an eight-parish region that includes Acadia, Evangeline, Iberia, Lafayette, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary, and Vermilion Parishes.

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50 Years of

Fostering Art and Culture in Acadiana

Founded as the Acadiana Arts Council in 1975, Acadiana Center for the Arts (“AcA”) is a nonprofit organization members and donors that has been a cornerstone of arts and culture for five decades.

As the community leader in arts and culture, AcA serves to bring elevating arts experiences to the people of Acadiana through many approaches including holding public concerts, presenting art exhibitions, providing grants to artists and cultural organizations, and bringing artists into schools across the region.

AcA brings equitable access to the arts through year-round education and outreach activities and aims to build a more sustainable cultural ecosystem for future generations in Acadiana across an eight-parish region that includes Acadia, Evangeline, Iberia, Lafayette, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary, and Vermilion Parishes.

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We are the central, organizing and convening hub of arts and culture in Acadiana. AcA’s professional staff serve to support artists, musicians, creatives, and cultural organizations across the region.
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Zack Godshall – Hogwash

Zack Godshall – Hogwash

    LAFAYETTE, LA - From February 1st through March 11th, Acadiana Center for the Arts (AcA), in Lafayette, Louisiana, will show Hogwash, a new 6½-hour film by Zack Godshall. Hogwash is set in the sleepy bayou town of Oubliette, Louisiana, where a bizarre...

Repérages: Quebec-Louisiane

Repérages: Quebec-Louisiane

Acadiana Center for the Arts Hosts International Exhibition Showcasing Louisiana and Quebecois Photographers in Conversation LAFAYETTE, LA - November 14, 2022 Acadiana Center for the Arts (AcA) hosts “Repérages: Quebec-Louisiane” in its AcA Café beginning November...

La Danse de Mardi Gras

La Danse de Mardi Gras

Acadiana Center for the Arts celebrates Creole Mardi Gras traditions with La Danse de Mardi Gras fundraising event LAFAYETTE, LA - Acadiana Center for the Arts presents La Danse de Mardi Gras, a country dance celebrating the rural traditions of Mardi Gras in the big...

André Courville – Bastille Day

André Courville – Bastille Day

Internationally acclaimed bass-baritone opera singer, André Courville, returns home to perform an all-French concert celebrating Bastille Day, la Fête Nationale Française LAFAYETTE, LA - André Courville was born in Cecilia, Louisiana on the banks of the Bayou...

Leroy Evans: Painting Rent

Leroy Evans: Painting Rent

“Relentless painter” from Lafayette celebrated in major exhibition at AcA   LAFAYETTE, LA - AcA launches a retrospective exhibition of Olin John “Leroy” Evans (b.1951). An artist in the Lafayette community who rarely pursued attention for his works but...

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