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.
Painter, photographer, surveyor, lithographer, and inventor Marie Adrien Persac was the most important delineator of plantatino scenes in nineteenth-century Louisiana.
Marie Seebold knew as a child that she wanted to be an artist and began her formal art studies at the age of eleven.
Marie Tranchepain was the first Mother Superior of New Orleans’s Ursulines and an early female diarist.
New Orleans surgeon Marion Sims Souchon was also a respected self-taught artist who produced more than 500 paintings.
Photographer Mark Sindler spent several years documenting Vietnamese and Laotian communities along the Gulf Coast in his "Vietnamese Documentary Project"
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.
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."
For three decades, photographer Matt Anderson has focused his camera on New Orleans's musicians, cultural events, and the performing arts.
Matthew Harris Jouett was recognized during his lifetime as the first notable American artist to emerge from the American frontier.
Lafayette painter Melissa Bonin paints landscapes, she says, "that permit me to sit on the edge of abstraction and reality." The painter's interest in abstraction began with her studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Artist Meyer Straus, a leading theater scenery painter, also produced masterful landscapes during his time in Louisiana.
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