Staff of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Art
Leslie Staub
New Orleans painter Leslie Staub is best known for her series of Louisiana cultural and political figures rendered in a style reminiscent of Orthodox Church icons.
Little Voices, Big Ideas
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Art
Lloyd Hawthorne
Artist Lloyd Hawthorne is best known for his signature painting "Captain Henry Miller Shreve Clearing the Great Raft from the Red River."
Art
Lory Lockwood
Painter Lory Lockwood's photo realist oil paintings of sports cars, motorcycles, trucks, and engines gleam with hyper-realism and saturated colors.
Art
Luis Graner y Arrufi
Spanish painter Luis Graner y Arrufi lived and worked in New Orleans between 1914 and 1922. The simple, dignified landscapes he created in Louisiana are considered to be some of his best work.
Folklife
Marc Savoy
Marc Savoy is a Cajun folklorist, musician, and master accordion maker in Eunice.
Art
Margaret Frances Robinson
In addition to her lavish set designs, artist Margaret Frances Robinson brought to post-World War II New Orleans remarkable training and talent in painting street views of her French Quarter neighborhood.
Art
Marshall Joseph Smith Jr.
Marshall Joseph Smith, Jr., a landscape and genre painter, is also credited as the founder the carnival organization Proteus, for which he designed parades and tableaux.
Art
Mary Sheerer
Designer Mary Sheerer was a major influence on Newcomb Pottery, an art form she once described as "made of Southern clays, by Southern artists, decorated with Southern subjects."
Art
Meyer Strauss
Artist Meyer Straus, a leading theater scenery painter, also produced masterful landscapes during his time in Louisiana.
Art
Mitchell Gaudet
Mitchell Gaudet is an internationally recognized glass artist and founder of the New Orleans School of Glassworks.