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FRANCIS X. PAVY

IMAGE AND WORDS BY LEAH GRAEFF for THE CURRENT Magazine   Downtown Lafayette was under a flash flood warning, the morning of my shoot with Francis Pavy. We kept our… 

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Demond Melancon Featured on CBS News

In Michelle Miller’s final look this week at pillars of New Orleans’ style, the correspondent delves into the centuries-old Carnival tradition of Black Masking. Acclaimed contemporary artist Demond Melancon’s work… 

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Face to Face: April 2025

Each day in Lesley Dill’s Brooklyn Heights studio begins and ends with poetry. Her team selects lines from Emily Dickinson’s work to inspire their collaboration on This Private Hallucinatory Moment—a large-scale installation of “electric ladies” crafted from organza-backed copper. Rooted in Dill’s 2023–2024 Smithsonian fellowship, the piece draws from outsider art and 19th-century science, incorporating hand-applied chemical patinas and themes of discovery. The final 13-by-26-foot work will debut at Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans in December 2025.

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LEVI’S® X DENIM TEARS SEASON 4

Featuring Demond Melancon Big Chief Demond Melancon is a New Orleans native needle and thread artist. Big Chief is well known for creating massive Suits as a Black Masker. His… 

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“Pavicons”

Over the course of forty years, Francis Pavy mediates a visual language for Acadiana BY JORDAN LAHAYE FONTENOT | JANUARY 22, 2025 | for COUNTRY ROADS MAGAZINE   When Francis… 

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The Origins Of The Arthur Roger Gallery

With his influential art gallery on Julia Street, Arthur Roger has established himself as New Orleans’ foremost contemporary art dealer. Roger has been promoting local artists in his native city… 

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