Parish Spotlight
Introducing the Visual Arts Issue
Featuring the art of Randell Henry
Articles
Time Capsules on Canvas
The fight to preserve Louisiana artist legacies
Abdalla’s: A Store for All Seasons
The Lebanese-owned department store that became a Southwest Louisiana staple
Parish Spotlight
Artists of Public Memory
Public art commissions from Prospect
Poetry
Poetry by Kelly Harris-DeBerry
Selected by Louisiana Poet Laureate Alison Pelegrin
Building with Bagasse
A Marrero company found sweet success with sugarcane fiber until the walls tumbled down
“Poison Portraits”
A toxic silhouette album provides an intimate look at early Louisianans
Parish Spotlight
Looking Down and Back
The history and preservation of New Orleans’s ceramic street tiles
Parish Spotlight
Salt of the Earth
In Winn Parish, an ancient salt dome has sustained life for centuries
Dreams of Zines
Underground publications offer a window into Louisiana communities
José Francisco Xavier de Salazar Y Mendoza
The portrait artist who immortalized the faces of Spanish colonial Louisiana
Honoring Culture Bearers
Each October, Folklife Month recognizes Louisianans keeping the culture
Foodways
A Different Kind of Buffalo
One person’s trash fish is another’s delicacy
Lost Lit
“A Game with Death”
The murder mystery novel that gripped Depression-era New Orleans
Listen Up
A Major Milestone for the Music of French Louisiana
Fifty years of Festivals Acadiens et Créoles
Placemaking
All Aboard
In Houma, LUMCON hopes to train up a sea-savvy citizenry
Geographer's Space
Louisiana’s Place in the Below-Sea-Level World
Notes on a topographic peculiarity
The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home
Prospect’s sixth edition of the citywide triennial
LSU Press
The Witching Hour
An excerpt from Nocturnal New Orleans
Shreveport Regional Arts Council
Boom or Bust in Shreveport
Artists and fabricators push boundaries of creativity along Boom or Bust Byway
Twenty Years of the Louisiana Book Festival
Louisiana’s flagship literary festival starts a new chapter
