April received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from Louisiana State University.  She is a member of Baton Rouge Gallery, Silvermine Art
Guild, New Canaan, CT and an Art File Member of the Painting Center, NYC. Her works have been exhibited internationally, nationally & throughout her home state of Louisiana. April is represented by Sorelle Gallery Fine Art in Westport, CT.

A strong advocate for the Visual and Performing Arts in Education, April has taught at Louisiana State University, University of Louisiana at Lafayette and Southeastern Louisiana University. She is an Instructor for The Gifted and Talented Program for exceptionally advanced visual arts students. She lives Baton Rouge, Louisiana with her husband. Her primary choices of media are acrylic and oil
painting. Additional works include drawings, watercolors, mixed media and digital prints.

“Years ago, I began as a realist landscape painter.  Dabbled with figure painting too.  Over the years, I became increasingly abstract,
improvising from imagery. Now, I work directly from my imagination, sometimes with no idea how I will begin. Nonobjective work challenges me, it’s like writing a story, putting the setting and plot together as I go along, arbitrarily exploring how it will end; like swimming in the ocean at night not quite knowing where it will lead me.”  “Brushing with the sweet sublime.”

Nathaniel A. Landry is an Illustrator, Painter, Hip Hop emcee, and art teacher residing in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Southern University in Fine Arts as well as a Master’s Degree in Sequential Art from The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD).

His first solo exhibition: “It’s Goin’ Down”, opened November 20^th, 2009 at Insomkneeacks in Baton Rouge. Throughout the years, he has participated in numerous art shows and has shown with his father, Nathaniel “Pops” Landry in various father/son art shows.

Nathaniel has also instructed art for thirteen years in the East Baton Rouge Parish School System and was an adjunct art professor for two years in the Fine Arts Department at Southern University.

Currently, Nathaniel is working with Ellemnop Art, an art collaborate that curates his work through virtual and in-person exhibitions, art pop-ups and online marketing. Together, they have created a line of limited-edition art prints, and skateboards featuring Nathaniel’s Afrofuturistic artwork and designs.

Patrick LeBas is a native multi-media artist from Baton Rouge. His work features soft, bright colors and loose airy forms contrasted by dark consuming singularities. Compositions are based in reflections of freedom and consumption within interpersonal relationships. He received his BFA in Studio Art from Louisiana State University in 2015. After teaching private studio classes for 7 years, he began teaching at Baton Rouge Magnet High School in 2022.

The human experience of growing up should never stop people from buying a silly toy or splashing in puddles, and he works to encourage the childlike senses of wonder, exploration, and joy within his students.

Mr.Russell Roper is a Baton Rouge native and has been teaching art in the parish for 44 years. His love of art began at an early age,
and created the desire to share his passion for art with young people through a career in art education.  He earned his Bachelor’s degree from Louisiana Tech University, and his Master’s degree from Louisiana State University. Mr. Roper began his teaching career in 1979, working at the high school level in the East Baton Rouge Parish School system and continued for twenty years before retiring and moving to Episcopal School of Baton Rouge in 1999 to teach art at the middle school and high school levels.  Mr. Roper returned to the parish school system in 2019 and he is currently teaching middle school and high school art classes in the Talented Visual Art programs at Woodlawn Middle School and Woodlawn High School. Mr. Roper is a past-president of the Louisiana Art Education Association, and he shows annually with the Baton Rouge Art League. He enjoys working in a variety of media, but he loves creating three dimensional pieces as well as hand building and wheel throwing with clay.

Shawn Quincy is an artist in South Louisiana. He is a Talented Visual Art Teacher at Baton Rouge Magnet HighSchool. He has an MFA in painting and Drawing from Louisiana State University.  “My interest is in the place of creation where chaos happens and the solidity of perception meet“