Basin Arts

Suellen Coelho, a feminist scholar and artist, is an Assistant Professor of Costume Design at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She holds an M.F.A. from L.S.U., where she researched identity and the African diaspora. Originally from Brazil, she worked as a costume designer in fashion, music, and media. Previously, she was the resident costume designer and an assistant professor at Hollins University, earning the 2022 Best Non-Tenure-Track Professor award. Her teaching and design work...

Kelly Russo is a multi-disciplinary creative and maker. Her typical week is filled with a career in architecture and design, teaching in the ULL college of the arts, co-operating the Hidden Gator Art Space run by her and fellow artist James Van Way III, and creating art in her home studio. For her, creating is the ritual for being still, which is a private and intentional act. Regardless of medium, her overarching work utilizes imagery from nature as a representation of transcendent and...

Basin Arts and KRVS come together to co-produce Art Circle, a monthly conversation between Dean Daryl Moore of UL Lafayette's College of Arts and two guests, a visual and a performing artist. These run on the final Monday of each month during the 3 p.m. Après-Midi program. This week, Dean Moore's guests are mixed media portrait artist, Jade DesHotel, and music media student and producer, Caleb Dixon.