Music
Fats Domino
New Orleans pianist and singer Antoine "Fats" Domino is revered as a founding father of rock & roll, along with Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
Contemporary Period
Contemporary Period Index
Business & Industry
Festival International de Louisiane
The festival celebrates southwest Louisiana’s connections to the francophone world.
Foodways
Filé
Filé, also known as filé powder or gumbo filé, is a seasoning and thickening agent made from dried and finely ground sassafras leaves.
Peoples of Louisiana
Filipinos
Louisiana is home to the earliest Filipino American community in the United States.
Business & Industry
First Louisiana Oil Well
Exploitable petroleum deposits were found in Louisiana in 1901, changing the state's economy and landscape forever.
Art
Florestine Perrault Collins
Florestine Perrault Collins, who began her career at age fourteen, was one of the first professional African American female photographers in the country.
Geography
Fontainebleau State Park
The Fontainebleau State Park bears the name of Bernard de Marigny's sugar plantation, which formerly occupied this site and was itself named after the estate of the French king Francois I.
Art
Francis Pavy
Lafayette artist Francis X. Pavy arranges archetypal images of South Louisiana into iconic patters within his paintings, block prints, and sculptures.
Art
Frank Relle
Frank Relle's nightscape photographs achieved national and international attention after 2005, particularly his images he shot in New Orleans capturing the destruction from the levee failures following Hurricane Katrina.
Art
Franklin Adams
Franklin Adams was a prolific artist and teacher active in New Orleans for more than fifty years. His cross-media works spanned painting, sculpture, illustration, design, and architecture.
Art
Frederich Trenchard
Frederich Trenchard's colorful narrative paintings in watercolor and oil, dubbed "magist" by critics at the time, garnered him enthusiastic recognition in New Orleans art circles in the 1970s.
Art
Gaither Troutman Pope
Painter Gaither Troutman Pope is best known for his landscapes of Louisiana's prairies and dark swamps influenced by nineteenth-century Luminist painters.
