Artist Talk: Prairie Stories

  • April 12, 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 artists Jeffery U Darensbourg and Maaliyah Papillion. 

 

Jeffery U. Darensbourg, Ph.D. is a writer, public speaker, researcher, zinemaker, and provacateur. He is a member of the Atakapa-Ishak Nation of Southwest Louisiana and Southeast Texas. He is the founder and Editor-Who's-not-a-Chief of Bulbancha Is Still a Place: Indigenous Culture from New Orleans. Recently a writer and residence at Tulane University's A Studio in the Woods and a Monroe Fellow of New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane, Jeffery is working on a book length study of the Atakapa-Ishak of Southwest Louisiana.

 

Maaliyah Papillion is a Creole and Indigenous actress, singer, model, third-generation healer from a long line of Indigenous leaders, and an enthusiastic enrolled member of the Atakapa-Ishak Nation of Southwest Louisiana.

 

She infuses her unique experience into her art expression with a goal of unifying others who can relate to her life. She has a book of poetry coming out in 2024 written in her native language, Ishakkoy, in which she focuses on retelling her ancestors’ stories in modern ways. She looks forward to being on the land her ancestors once occupied, as she formulates in her book, songs, and art in peace.

Date & Time

Sat, Apr 12, 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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