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Artist Talk: Drake LeBlanc

  • August 9, 2025 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

  • AcA Galleries

    101 W. Vermilion St.
    Lafayette, Louisiana 70501
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Description

Join AcA Visual Arts Director Jaik Faulk in conversation with exhibiting artist Drake LeBlanc. 

 

Drake LeBlanc is a filmmaker and media artist from Lafayette, Louisiana. Drake is the Founder and Creative Director of Above the Beyond Studios, a multi-media production com­pany responsible for creating disruptive, thought provoking film and digital content. Drake also co-founded Tele-Louisiane, a multi-lingual media platform that aims to breathe new life into Louisiana's languages, cultures and people.

 

An artist and creative director based in Southwest Louisiana, Drake LeBlanc's practice is centered around documenting his cultural heritage through photography and filmmaking. His most recent project, Footwork, documents Black and Creole cowboy culture, subverting the Hollywood archetype as White while asserting Creoles, African Americans and Native Americans as those who originally set the tone for what would go on to define the American cowboy.

 

Highlighting 'trail rides', LeBlanc's photographs create a personal relationship between the subject and the audience. Moments of joy and camaraderie between riders draw you in while close up images capture personal details that make us as viewers feel as if we're getting to know these cowboys and cowgirls in their element. One photograph in particular, a closeup image of a rider's belt with a towel tucked into it proudly displaying "Cowgirls at Heart" not only catches the eye compositionally but places the image of the trail rider in an artistic context while asserting the cultural and historical importance of this tradition-sparkly belt buckle and all.

Date & Time

Sat, Aug 9, 2025 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Venue Details

AcA Galleries

101 W. Vermilion St.
Lafayette, Louisiana 70501 AcA Galleries
Acadiana Center for the Arts

Our mission is fostering art and culture in Acadiana.

Founded in 1975, Acadiana Center for the Arts (“AcA”) is a community-supported nonprofit organization that fosters art and culture in Acadiana. Since its founding, AcA has developed as a major force, shaping the future of public education and community development in South Louisiana.

AcA supports the creation of new works of art, exhibits, festivals, performances, and public art across an eight-parish region that includes Acadia, Evangeline, Iberia, Lafayette, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary, and Vermilion Parishes.  

AcA aims to bring equitable access to the arts and supports fair compensation of artists. On average, AcA serves over 300,000 people annually and provides fair compensation to 2,700 artists.  

In 2013, the AcA merged with the Performing Arts Society of Acadiana (“PASA”), whose mission was to educate, inspire, entertain, and culturally enrich the people of south Louisiana by providing local access to a diverse range of the performing arts. This merger supported the vision of both organizations and provided much-needed support to PASA’s programs. Founded in 1989, PASA served as a leading voice in the performing arts in South Louisiana for close to three decades.


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