Diana Abouchacra

Diana Abouchacra is the recipient of the The Helis Foundation Art Prize for Best in Show for her artwork Material as Rediscovered Memory I in the Ogden’s “Louisiana Contemporary 2021”.

She is a Lebanese American mixed-media artist. She received her B.F.A. from the University of Connecticut and her M.F.A. from Louisiana State University. Diana’s work has been exhibited internationally, in museums, galleries and various collections in the U.S., Italy and Lebanon. Diana works in a variety of mediums including video, printmaking, installation and sound art. Themes that her artwork touches on include grief, vulnerability, ephemerality, multiplicity and transformation. Diana views her art-making as a safe space to delve into the depths of her wounds – to witness, understand, reflect, and perhaps find resolve.

This body of work consists of one hundred and fifteen 5” x 7” ink drawings on handmade paper. These journal entries act in the same way any journal or diary would but instead of writing, a visual is created in response to the emotional state felt at the time.

Jeremiah Johnson

Jeremiah Johnson is a visionary artist raised on a fruit and flower farm in the mountains of North Central Pennsylvania. He received his BFA from Tyler School of Art of Temple University and his MFA in print, paper and book arts from Syracuse University. Johnson’s work is included in several collections both nationally and internationally including the State Museum of Pennsylvania, the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke Virginia and the Servais Collection in Brussels Belgium. Johnson is the Director of a maker space at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana and works with his wife in their studio making art about culture, folklore, and survival.

Johnson’s body of work featured in the Museum Store consists of framed prints, each signed by him.

Christy Lorio

Christy Lorio is an artist with a practice in photography and writing. Her photographs address the concepts of loss, self-identity, illness and feeing at home within the body through self-portraits, medical scans, family photos and landscapes made in Jean Lafitte Barataria Preserve, close to where she grew up. In July 2021, her photography was included in Loosen Art’s Contrasts show at Millepani Gallery in Rome, Italy. Christy’s writing has appeared in publications such as Pelican Bomb, Oxford American, Very Local New Orleans, The Times-Picayune, Entropy Magazine and other places. Her photography has been featured in Color Tag Magazine, Bad Pony and Oyster River Pages. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Orleans and works as a teaching assistant while she completes her MFA in Studio Art from UNO.

Prints of Lorio’s photography are available for purchase in the Museum Store.

Angel Perdomo

Angel Perdomo was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras in 1989 but later moved to New Orleans, Louisiana in 1996. He received his Bachelor of Arts in painting and print making from the University of New Orleans in May 2013. Angel currently lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana. Perdomo’s working mediums vary but with a focus on acrylic and airbrush on canvas. His body of work is a representation of his experiences, thoughts and interests as an immigrant in the United States. This ranges from his love of the surreal and low brow things like toys, cartoons and comics that tap into his childlike perspective. He is also influenced by pop culture and the customs of his surroundings as well as his experience growing up in a Hispanic home within a predominantly English community. All of this combined helps to tell the story of his experience as an outsider in the very society he lives.

Screen print shirts by Perdomo are available for purchase in the Museum Store.

Kenneth Scott Jr.

Kenneth Scott Jr., a Neo-Pop artist, was born and raised in the Ninth ward of New Orleans, Louisiana. In the fall of 1998, Scott began his collegiate career at Louisiana State University‚ College of Art and Design. After receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and drawing in 2002, he made the choice of becoming a full-time artist. Participating and placing in juried shows on a professional level has brought much success to Scott. He has been featured in numerous galleries, museums and publications. Scott has also received many accolades from his artistic endeavors. Most recently, he has received a 2013 NOLA FOR LIFE Champion Award. Scott was featured as the official artist of the 2012 Old Algiers RiverFest Poster and the 2011 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Congo Square Poster. Currently, Scott is an Artist-in-Residence at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans.

Prints of Scott’s paintings are available for purchase in the Museum Store.

Maddie Stratton

Maddie Stratton is a New Orleans based artist with strong ties to the Gulf Coast. She is a NOCCA graduate with a BFA from Pratt Institute. Stratton’s work illustrates how humans situate themselves within a world full of creatures. Her paintings touch on the constant push and pull of boundaries between humans and animals or plants by blurring the visual hierarchy, accentuating colors and contrast to make a dreamy landscape of (somewhat peaceful) coexistence.

Framed paintings by Stratton are available for purchase in the Museum Store.

Trenity Thomas

Trenity Thomas is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of genres including fashion, lifestyle, editorial, conceptual, sports, portraiture and nightlife photography. As a photographer, Trenity uses his camera to capture the life around him. His photographs have a warmth to them that pulls the viewer into the scene as if they were present – a feature that has become characteristic of his photographic style. Trenity has been in various juried exhibitions, which includes Jonathan Ferrarah Gallery’s 24th Annual No Dead Artists International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art. His photographs have also received international attention when they were chosen for exhibition in Photovogue, a prestigious collection of photographs curated by the Photo Editors of Vogue Italia.

Framed prints of Thomas’s photographs are available for purchase in the Museum Store.

Bianca Walker

Bianca Walker is a 23-year-old, non-binary, painter from the Bay Area, California. They were raised surrounded by vibrant street art until gentrification began to ravage the place they once called home, leaving colored walls bare. At 17, Walker migrated to Louisiana and began their studies at Grambling State University, a rural HBCU, where they were first exposed to the world of fine art. During undergrad they developed their skills as a painter and represented the university in numerous academic summits  and community art events such as mural painting and art therapy. As their education continued, they quickly grew tired of traditional art methods and began to use a drip painting technique that reflects their street art roots. Now developing an MFA thesis at the University of New Orleans Walker uses these drips as an integral part of their visual language while incorporating archival imagery of the African Diaspora activating a history they can see being erased.

Walker creates Ink Tapestries that are available for purchase in the Museum Store.