Basin Arts

TUNE IN to our latest KRVS Art Circle interview with dancer and choreographer Drake Hardy and painter Herb Roe! 📻💥 On the last Monday of each month, a new Art Circle interview airs featuring local visual & performing artists. Our partnership with KRVS enables local artists to share their creative inspirations, artistic processes, community connections, and more.

Samantha is a Lafayette-based multi-disciplinary artist and fashion student working at the intersection of self-portraiture, modest fashion, and conceptual storytelling. Through her “Art-ivist” practice—a framework that merges visual storytelling with personal and cultural expression—she explores the lived experience of a Muslim hijabi woman in the American South, centering identity, visibility, and the layered realities of motherhood. Her work transforms the domestic into something...

Sara Crochet is a Cuban Cajun American multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and photographer from southern Louisiana. She is a full-force creative with a vintage heart, a filmmaker's eye, and a storyteller's soul. An analog romantic with a digital mind, and a firm believer that everyone deserves to create, to play, and to be seen. Her practice moves fluidly between photography, film, creative direction, fabrication, costume design, and digital art, as layered as the mediums she works in. For...