Join AcA Visual Arts Director, Jaik Faulk in conversation with exhibiting artists Steve Breaux and Kathy Reed.
Kathy Reed has been an artist and educator for 40+ years in the Lafayette, Louisiana area. She retired as a visual art teacher, having taught the visual art program for the Lafayette Parish High School Arts Academy, and high school classes in the Lafayette Parish School System Talent Program, teaching many teenagers who later pursued arts careers. In addition to her work in the public school system, Kathy has taught numerous workshops, both for young people and adults, in museum and gallery settings.
She has strong ties to the local arts community, and was gallery manager for the late Artists’ Alliance, where she also served as president of the board of directors, and on the Programming committee. She and her husband, Steven Breaux were directors of Galerie Lafayette, which was a contemporary art gallery in downtown Lafayette. She is a practicing artist, who shows her artwork locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. Kathy has been the recipient of grants and awards for her artwork, and written many grants for the Artists’ Alliance, as well as for her teaching programs. In addition to her individual artwork, she maintains a collaborative art practice with her husband, Steven Breaux, creating artworks that reference a sense of place, history, and cultural issues.
Steve Breaux, MFA, Florida State University, is retired (2020) Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where he taught Art and the Computer, Conceptual and Formal Development, Advanced Drawing, and 2d. Design. For the last 30 years he has worked both as a solo artist and in collaboration with his wife and partner, Kathy Reed, in a variety of media including process art, printmaking, painting on silk, computer animation/video, photography, and painting - often in combination. He has researched the nature of the art process as it relates to differences between painting and digital (algorithmic) artwork for over 30 years. In 2011, his research led to the ideas and concepts in quantum physics, David Bohm in particular, which helped to shift his private research into a more public arena that included lectures and presentations. In 2015 Steve was invited to present his abstract Waking Space: The Emerging Art Object, Quantum Theory, and Algorithmic Art at the “Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference” in Helsinki, Finland. In 2022 he presented his Waking Space ideas to the Pari Center, Pari, Italy, that focus on the preservation of quantum physicist David Bohm’s work. Steve’s work has been accepted regionally, nationally, and internationally for inclusion in galleries, museums, catalogues, and exhibitions. His solo and collaborative work is included in many private and public collections.
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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