Lyba Leona is a California-born, award-winning artist based in Madisonville, Louisiana. A Fine Arts painting major at SELU in Hammond, she is gaining recognition across the Louisiana art scene. In 2025, five works were selected for the university’s juried student...

Jen Morgan (BFA) is an award-winning fiber and mixed-media artist whose vibrant 2D felted fine artworks celebrate the soul of Louisiana through texture, color, and whimsy. Using wet, Nuno, and needle-felting techniques, she layers fibers and hand-embellishes each...

Steve Gill, affectionately called “Cool Pop” by his five grandchildren, is a semi-retired optometrist and lifelong artist in Mandeville. After years serving veterans as a low vision specialist, he now devotes his time to creating art inspired by South Louisiana’s...

Kristie Gagliano’s artistic aptitude is Transcendent! A large format artist at heart, she creates captivating , soulful , compositions that begin with the inspiration of a single image. It is exciting for Kristie to paint in a way that her whole body moves through a...