Homesickness? The plummeting sensation of realizing that home could have been a place that nurtured us with dedicated infrastructure and access to the arts, education, and public rights to waterfronts and nature. What a strange feeling. As someone who was reared in the countryside, my anxiety and apprehension about high density urbanism quickly turned into […]
Homesickness: A Reflection After My Visit to Chicago Read Post »
Photo gallery courtesy of the Acadiana Center for the Arts
AcA 2025 Summer President’s Circle | Our Point in Space Read Post »
Our Point in Space – Group Exhibition at Acadiana Center for the Arts Main Gallery | June 14 – August 16, 2025 Acadiana Center for the Arts presents its annual summer group exhibition in the Main Gallery, showcasing a juried selection of works by artists from across Louisiana. This year’s theme, Our Point in Space,
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ARCHIVES TEAM ANNOUNCEMENT We are thrilled to introduce our incredible artist and support team members for the inaugural exhibition, “ARCHIVES: Systems.” This project has been a labor of love, collaboration, and creativity, and we couldn’t be more excited to share it with you. A heartfelt thank you goes out to our sponsors and fiscal agent,
Lex R. Thomas Joins ARCHIVES as a Project Coordinator Read Post »
Stagnant Solitude A piece about complacency and moving forward. Stagnant Solitude. 2022. Acrylic on Canvas. 11×14 inches. The Human Condition series. Available for sale. Inquire Here Description A pale skinned nude figure looks off beyond the right side of the composition as they pull on their long dark hair. The figures body faces forward in
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Lex R Thomas’s original painting The Space In-Between was selected to be displayed in the juried group exhibition Cur Non at the Acadiana Center for the Arts from until August 12th. About Cur Non In celebration of the Lafayette Parish Bicentennial, Acadiana Center for the Arts presents a group exhibition of Louisiana artists juried by French-Algerian artist &
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A wonderful opportunity ~ thank you VieMed for selecting my work to be on display at your medical office from June through September! I’m excited to give this piece a home to reside in for a little while. About Bare Walls BARE Walls is an art subscription service, operated through Basin Arts, which turns “BARE”
Lotus Pond selected for Bare Walls Summer 2023 Rotation Read Post »
I was announced as one of ten ArtSpark winners for the 2023 cycle! After attending several workshops, and many sleepless nights thinking about what I’d propose for this grant, I finally came up with the project Wildflowers. On April 4th of this month, I received fantastic news that I was accepted as a winner for
Wildflowers | Cajun LGBT ArtSpark Project Read Post »
The Acadiana Advocate feature Get to know the 10 ArtSpark grant recipients and their art projects in Acadiana By JOANNA BROWN | Contributing writer When Lex R Thomas looks at members of the LGBT community in Louisiana, they see wildflowers. Thomas is a visual artist based in Lafayette, and a 2023 ArtSpark grant recipient
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Ten Years of Making: The Practice of Becoming an Artist Every finished painting represents hundreds of hours that no one ever sees. The final image is often what people encounter first. The exhibition, the finished canvas, the photograph shared online. What remains invisible are the years of experimentation, uncertainty, failed attempts, changing directions, and quiet
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