Musician, poet and folklorist Joshua Clegg Caffery of Franklin reinvents the lyrical folk heritage of southern Louisiana with his new book of poetry, “In the Creole Twilight: Poemsand Songs from Louisiana Folklore,” published by LSU Press. Caffery, author of “Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana” and currently a visiting professor in folklore at Indiana University in Bloomington, uses rhythmic structure, styles and narratives of Louisiana oral and song traditions with stories that range from the freaky folklore of the loup garou to the heartfelt story of a father playing imaginary dinosaurs with his daughter, based on benedictions used at rural French weddings. Poems include an Irish Bend resident in love with a Native American girl whom he abandons after the birth of their child. The child dies and becomes the fearful feufollet, or swamp gases, until the youngest in town attempts to “finish this thing.” There’s a sing-song poem relating old superstitions and something humorous about two mischievous godparents named Gabriel and Madeline with roaming eyes, among so many other wonderful tales. Caffery offers insights into his poetric subjects with explanations and folklore history. The feufollet, for instance, comes from the old story of swamp gases being unbaptized children but Caffery uses family genealogy to round out the story. A founding member of the Red Stick Ramblers and a longtime member of the band Feufollet, Caffery has been nominated for a Grammy for his work on the Feufollet album “En Couleurs.” He has also served as the 2013–14 Alan Lomax Fellow in Folklife Studies at the Library of Congress. ULL lectures University of Louisiana at Lafayette Writer-in-Residence Dr. John McNally will present the 20th Annual Gloria Fiero Lecture at 11 a.m. Thursday in the Ducrest Guilfry Auditorium at Angelle Hall on the UL campus. He will speak on “The Art of Failure,” addressing the necessity and benefits of failure as a crucial part of the creative process. The lecture is free and open to the public. McNally is author or editor of 14 books, including three novels, “After the Workshop,” “The Book of Ralph” and “America’s Report Card.” His short story collection “Troublemakers” was the winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award and the Nebraska Book Award and “Ghosts of Chicago” was named a Chicagoland Indie Bestseller and voted one of the top 20 fiction books of 2008 by readers of The Believer. His nonfiction books include “The Creative Writer’s Survival Guide: Advice from an Unrepentant Novelist” and “Vivid and Continuous: Essays on the Craft of Fiction,” both published the University of Iowa Press. The Chicago native is also the author of four books which will be published over the next three years: a young adult novel out next month, “Lord of the Ralphs” historical novel, a book about failure and its benefits and a collection of personal essays. William Pittman Andrews, executive director of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, will give the annual Flora Levy Lecture, hosted by the Department of English, at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Angelle Hall. Andrews will speak on “George Rodrigue: Painting to the Frame,” a phrase coined by Rodrigue referring to his use of frames reclaimed from various sources. An exhibit of Rodrigue’s paintings of former Flora Levy speakers is on loan from the UL Foundation and the Rodrigue Foundation in New Orleans to the Paul and Lulu Hilliard Art Museum on the UL-Lafayette campus until Jan. 2, 2016. For more information, call (337) 482-2278. At the library The Friends of the Ouachita Public Library Book Sale will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the West Ouachita Library on 188 Hwy. 546 (Exit 108 from I-20) in West Monroe. Big Easy Read “Readings ‘Round the Big Easy: A Celebration of National Reading Group Month” will feature a host of authors beginning at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at the New Orleans Museum of Art in City Park of New Orleans. Nancy Dixon, author of “New Orleans Lit: 200 Years of New Orleans Literature,” will be the keynote speaker. Authors include John Ed Bradley (“Call Me by My Name”), C.S. Harris (“Who Buries the Dead: A Sebastien St. Cyr Mystery”), Sybil Morial (“Witness to Change: From Jim Crow to Political Empowerment”), Tiffany Quay Tyson (“Three Rivers”), Kent Wascom (“Secessia”), Karen White (“The Sound of Glass”) and Richard Wall, husband of the late Carol Wall, author of “Mister Owita’s Guide to Gardening: How I Learned the Unexpected Joy of a Green Thumb and an Open Heart.” The event includes a noon book club meet and greet, 1 p.m. keynote speech, 2 p.m. author panel with Susan Larson, 3 p.m. booksigning in the museum gift shop and 3:30 p.m. afternoon tea with authors in Café NOMA. All events are free except for the tea, which is $38 per person, registration required by Sept. 18. For information or to register for the tea, mail a check to Sheila Cook, Librarian, New Orleans Museum of Art, P.O. Box 19123, New Orleans, LA 70179. Book events Christina Vella signs “George Washington Carver: A Life” at 6 p.m. Monday at Octavia Books in New Orleans. Stuart Stevens discusses and signs his book, “The Last Season: A Father, A Son and a Lifetime of College Football” at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Garden District Book Shop of New Orleans. Military historian, author and authority on German U-boats C.J. Christ will discuss “World War II in the Gulf of Mexico: Documenting a War Close to Our Shores” at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Jeanerette Museum, 500 E. Main St. in Jeanerette. Christ has published hundreds of articles and regularly lectures on military issues. He will discuss his years of research as he searched for the German submarine U-166 in the Gulf of Mexico. This free program is more suitable for an adult audience. A book signing will follow the event. For more information, call (337) 276-4408 or email [email protected]. Festival of Words literary organization hosts a multilingual open mic from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Chicory’s Coffee and Café, 219 E. Martin Luther King Drive in Grand Coteau. The free event features poems, songs and stories performed in different languages. All ages welcome. Elise Blackwell signs “The Lower Quarter” at 6 p.m. Thursday at Octavia Books of New Orleans. Blackwell is the author of “The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish” and “Hunger.” George Sanchez reads and signs his latest Jeff Chaussier New Orleans mystery “Explorations End” at 6 p.m. Thursday at Garden District Book Shop in New Orleans. New York Times best-selling author Lea Michele signs her new book, “You First: Journal Your Way to Your Best Life” at 4 p.m. Saturday at Garden District Book Shop. To receive a wrist-band for this limited event, participants must purchase the book from Garden District Book Shop after it goes on sale Tuesday. Dixie Poché of Lafayette celebrates Acadiana’s mom and pop groceries and restaurants in “Classic Eateries of Cajun Country” and she will discuss the tradition of Cajun boucheries in a book launch and food demonstration from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Southern Food and Beverage Museum in New Orleans. During the food demo, guests may sample pork dishes such as boudin, hogs head cheese and ponce prepared by Luke Deville of Teet’s Food Store from Ville Platte and French bread from Lejeune’s French Bread of Jeanerette. Poché is a corporate and travel writer and graduate of ULL in journalism. Cheré Dastugue Coen is the author of “Forest Hill, Louisiana: A Bloom Town History,” “Haunted Lafayette, Louisiana” and “Exploring Cajun Country: A Historic Guide to Acadiana” and co-author of “Magic’s in the Bag: Creating Spellbinding Gris Gris Bags and Sachets.” She also writes Louisiana romances under the pen name of Cherie Claire, “A Cajun Dream” and “The Letter.” Write her at [email protected].
[ATTACH] Lone Star The 1st Texas Infantry of Hood's Texas Brigade charges into Miller's Cornfield at Antietam, mad as hell, having been interrupted...
A snowy, sleety winter night here in the ArkLaTex. I haven’t quite finished with the cat painting, but will try to post the work-in-progress with the finished painting tomorrow. Meanwhile, here are some new Limited Edition prints which are available here, on my website and in my eBay store: Evensong II Limited Edition Fine Art Print on heavy archival Ultrasmooth fine art paper Signed & Numbered Limited to 25 in each of three sizes 12 x 9 inches • $45 16 x 12 inches • $70 20 x 15 inches • $100
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's exhibition turns its focus on the self-portrait as a genre throughout the 20th and 21st century, as shown in 150 works by a wide variety of international artists.
Exposition Universelles et Internationale de St. Louis (Etats Unis) du 30 Avril au 30 Novembre. Chromolithograph by Alphonse Mucha, 1903. Missouri History Museum Photographs and Prints collection. Louisiana Purchase Exposition. n16814.
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Evensong II • 40 x 30 inches • oil on 2" deep cradled Museum Series GessobordTM WORK-IN-PROGRESS My goal for this large painting: To evoke in the viewer just one mega-zillionth of the the awe I felt when standing out in the pasture surrounded by this: I’m not sure, but I may be attempting the impossible here. But I sure am having a ball giving it a go! I sketched out the composition in pencil right on the Gessobord then blocked in the trees with acrylic: Mars black mixed with burnt umber. Side question: how come we have burnt umber and raw umber, but no cooked-to-perfection umber? Just wondering. Anyway, back to our progress photos. Imagining the finished painting having a kind of “peachy” cast to it, I decide to keep the acrylic underpainting on the very cool side, to keep the finished picture from feeling too orange-y, while at the same time emphasizing the peachiness by using a complementary tone beneath. I don’t know if that makes sense or not, but it did in my head at the time. We’ll see if it works. Here’s the finished underpainting, using only Prussian blue, phthalo blue and quinacrodone magenta glazes over the black/umber trees. I know I’ve said this before, but I love the watercolor-y feel of this stage. After the underpainting is dry, I squeeze my oils onto my palette and jump right into that luscious sky. The palette I’ve chosen for this painting: Old Holland neutral tint (I use this like Payne’s gray, but it’s not quite as bluish) Bright violet Dioxazine mauve (similar to diox purple) French ultramarine Cerulean blue Phthalo blue Turquoise light Note: more blues and purples than I usually use in one painting, but I wanted all the subtle choices for this large composition. Hooker’s green lake deep extra Sheveningen yellow light (similar to cadmium yellow light but nontoxic) Naples yellow Shev yellow deep (again, similar to cadmium yellow deep) Vermilion extra Rose dore madder lake antique extra (officially the longest name of any color in my box -- oh, and by the way: LOVE this rosy red!) Alizarin crimson lake extra Persian (Indian) red Burnt sienna Yellow ochre Burnt umber Raw umber Cooked-to-perfection umber Titanium white Cooked-to-perfection umber? Ha! I just wanted to see if you were paying attention. I love watching the trees take shape as I paint in the negative spaces between the branches. Good night, painting, I’ll see you in the morning!
Which inner voice do you listen to most often? We sometimes may miss a tremendous opportunity by listening to the wrong voice. Think of all of the modern conveniences we may not have if the invent…
In April 1904, St. Louis opened its doors to the world, welcoming millions to see the fascinating buildings and exhibits of art, technology, and history on display at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
Old abandoned church in Chackbay, Louisiana. taken in 1983
Great Valentine by Sarah White Southern Pest Prints Louisiana USA #geeky greeting card
Women and girls protesting around the world | Louisiana 2016 | England 2017 | Czech Republic 2017 | Chile 2016 |
Name: Louisiana Print This illustration is perfect for anybody who loves to celebrate their Louisiana State pride! Print of my original illustration. Signed in pencil on the back. Printed on a luxurious and sturdy 260gsm professional 100% cotton fiber paper. Sizes available: 8x10" 11x14" Orientation: Portrait (taller than wide) Landscape (wider than tall) Packaging: your print will be carefully packaged in a glassine sleeve, and protected between two cardboard sheets. Mailed USPS first class in a sturdy mailer, to ensure it arrives on your doorstep in perfect condition! Thank you for looking!
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Madame Gautreau (Madame X), c.1883. John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925). Drawing, watercolor and graphite on white wove paper. Courtesy of the Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum. Virginie Avegno...
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The 1811 German Coast Uprising was a revolt of Black enslaved people in Louisiana on Jan. 8-10. It is known as the largest slave revolt in history. Blacks
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The top brass at the Office of State Fire Marshal (OSFM) are doing what bureaucrats always do when they come under criticism from the media—especially when they think subordinates might be feeding …
Christian bullies: Public school officials in a rural western Louisiana school promote Christianity and harass non-Christian students, violating at once
I’m continually impressed by Yutsi’s evolution of the art style for Norco: Faraway Lights. As they explain in the latest update, they pretty much started doing pixel art for this game and since I...
Women have had hundreds upon hundreds of reasons to carry protest posters since the dawn of time, whether it was for voting rights, reproductive rights, or most recently, against sexual predators holding powerful positions. What started with the first well-organized, not so peaceful protest for suffrage in as early as 1913, is now often supported by men also, who understand that feminism and related social issues are not some evil entity, but rather thinking of women as equals. Sadly enough, ladies still have to prove their worthiness to some.
Incatneato Born in the southern state of Louisiana, Jeff Haynie is an American contemporary artist and illustrator known for his creative fantasy artwork
When my sister and I were little, my mother used to read us poems from Shel Silvertein's "Where The Sidewalk Ends" and "A Light In The Attic." We had so many favorites, and we would ask her to read them to us over and over, and over again. This one was one of them: I've been thinking about this poem all day given the tremendous heat we're experiencing here in Philadelphia. It's Hot! To escape the sweltering temps, I spent the entire day shopping at the Philadelphia Marketplace. I stopped in at Lee Jofa to see the new Lilly Pulitzer collection, I swooned over the Oscar de la Renta furniture line at Century, and seriously contemplated buying this Regency style cabinet at Robert Allen's floor sample sale. Unfortunately, I don't have $6,000 to burn. So I had to pass. But the air conditioning was lovely. Today reached 97 degrees and tomorrow it's going to be 102 degrees... with a "RealFeel" of 113!!! I wish I could sit around in my bones. It's hot! ...
The Institute on Blindness at Louisiana Tech University is looking for participants for a research study on leisure reading in blind and visually impaired children.
