Next Images of Iberville Parish: Place Embodied in Art
Sponsored by the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge and the Iberville Parish Chamber of Commerce.


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Table of Contents

Icon The Old St. Gabriel Church

David Broussard discusses the historic building within this church in St. Gabriel.
Icon A Family Tradition of Art

Adrain "Jet" Callais and his grandfather have painted Louisiana through the decades.
Icon Bead Flowers

Zoe Spedale crafts flowers in an old tradition from the monasteries.
Icon Drawing and Painting Significant Places

Stan Routh depicts the places that draw him.
Icon The Silhouettes of Augustus Edouard

Wally Obier discusses a work of art depicting her family.
Icon Life in Old Turnerville

Brenda Blanchard brings to life the time of her grandmother in this district of Plaquemine.
Icon On Riverboats

Father Eugene Engels recalls the days of the riverboat and joe-boat.
Icon The Stained Glass in St. John the Evangelist Church

Father Engels explains the stained glass of a German immigrant.
Icon The Plaquemine Mardis Gras Balls

Mark A. "Tony" Gulotta declaims on the foil that made Plaquemine famous.
Icon Taxidermy and Painting Wildlife

Randy LaPrairie practices his craft as he learned it by hand.
Icon On Plantations

Johnnie Canova illustrates the subjects of his historic imagination.
Icon Bayou Pigeon and the Atchafalaya Basin

Gregory Dupre pulls wood and stories from the bayou.
Icon The Wheel of Life

Randy Walsh discusses the famous work of art made by his grandfather.
Icon Midway Grocery

Genevieve Glazer's store in Grosse Tete was there before the road.
Icon Mud Painting

Henry Neubig derives all his pigments from the mud of Louisiana.
Icon The Dumps Along the Mississippi River

Johnny Rosso finds the soft shards of the past along the river, and sings a few bird calls.
Icon Miss Gant and the Old Dorseyville School

Harriet Tillman vividly describes an early school founded by courage.
Icon A Reading from Longfellow's Evangeline

Roland Daigre intones the poem of Evangeline and Gabriel and the Bayou Plaquemine.


Acknowledgements

We would like to warmly thank all the people and organizations involved in this project. In addition to the participants, the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge and the Iberville Parish Chamber of Commerce, we thank the artists Mary Shaffer, Jim Kinchen, Carol Adcock, Anne B. Lafosse, Norma Roy, Joe Lackie, and Marsha Barkmeyer. We also thank Suzy Burns for Plaquemine Mardis Gras photographs, O.J. Dupuy for photographic assistance, and Rod Cobi for conceptual work.

A. Tuley, C.Kitchin



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