Nurturing the Arts in North Central Louisiana

UPCOMING EVENTS

Give for Good 2024

The North Central Louisiana Arts Council is happy to participate in National Give for Good day 2024.

What is Give for Good? A 24-hour online giving challenge that raises thousands of unrestricted dollars for North Louisiana organizations and brings community members together to celebrate nonprofits and the important work that they are doing.

Donors are able to search for their favorite organizations through the Give for Good website. All donations are processed through the site, which is hosted by the Community Foundation. The more money that is donated to NCLAC, the more we are eligible to receive as a bonus though the Community Foundation.

What is NCLAC? The North Central Louisiana Arts Council seeks to nurture the arts, by promoting participation in and awareness of the arts and humanities in north central Louisiana, with Lincoln Parish serving as the hub.

We achieve this by hosting and participating in events like the Peach Art Exhibit, ARToberfest, Summer Art Camps, Holiday Arts Tour and so much more.

To learn more or donate, visit https://www.giveforgoodnla.org/organization/NCLAC.

Recent Events

GEEKTogether Art Exhibit

The North Central Louisiana Arts Council hosted our first ever GEEKTogether Art Exhibit! As a collaboration with the Lincoln Parish Library’s first annual GEEKTogether, this exhibit featured works that reflect subjects relevant to the GEEKTogether theme: fandoms, comics, anime/manga, video games, pop culture, etc.

The exhibit was displayed at the Lincoln Parish Library in the Chautauqua Gallery from March 2nd-31st and available for viewing during normal library hours.

The closing reception was on Tuesday, April 2 in the George Byrnside Community Room from 5:30-7pm with awards occurring at 6pm.

We want to thank all of our participating artists. A very special congratulations to all of our winners this year:
Adult 1st Place: Meredith Anderson, Adult 2nd Place: Bonnie Ferguson, Adult 3rd Place: Lindsey Vincent, Teen 1st Place: Arabella Douglas, Teen 2nd Place: Gabriel Seaman, Teen 3rd Place: Evan Sloan, Youth 1st Place: Leytin Thomas, Youth 2nd Place: Korbin Vincent, and Youth 3rd Place: Trinity Williams!

A very special thank you to our 1st place sponsors: A&H Games, Game Exchange, as well as one other donor who wished to remain anonymous.

Written Artistry: A Collaborative Exhibit

Markus Wobisch (Artist) and Kenneth Robbins (Writer)

Written Artistry is a collaborative exhibit that brings together the written works of regional writers with the visual creativity of regional two dimensional artists. Eleven local writers were given two weeks to compose a new, original piece no longer than five hundred words in length. Those works were then turned over to their partner who was challenged to create a visual, two-dimensional rendering, no larger than 20x20 inches, in the same amount of time. The result is a show that beautifully blends the written word with visual representation in a multitude of colors, shapes, textures and styles.

Participating writers for Written Artistry include Christiane Drieling, April Doughty, Tom Faber, Devin Jennings, Khalilah Kersey, Mary Ann Van Osdell, Jesica Ray, Kenneth Robbins, Christopher Seaman, Athena Scott, and Emma Stone. Participating two-dimensional visual artists are Meredith Anderson, James Cobb, Gaelin Craighead, Bonnie Ferguson, Inique Harris, Mary-Evelyn King, Morgan McCullin, Ayah Tamimi, Callan Thornton, Keagan Vaughan, and Markus Wobisch. We want to thank each and every one of these amazing creators for lending their talents and imagination to this project. All of them together made this dream a reality.

Written Artistry is a collaboration between the North Central Louisiana Arts Council and the Ross Lynn Charitable Foundation.

2023 Summer Art Workshops

Creating Art With Local Youth

This year’s Summer Art Camps were hosted for four week long sessions at the Lincoln Parish Library with 83 participating students. Our students this year were able to work with various mediums while exploring color and texture. The teachers for this year’s classes were Bonnie Ferguson and Anna Alexander.
We want to thank Weyerhaeuser for being our sole financial sponsor for this project! We also want to thank our partners the Boys & Girls Club of Ruston and the Lincoln Parish Library! Without community partnerships and sponsors such as these, projects like our Summer Arts Camps would not be possible.

2023 Peach Art Exhibit Awards Reception

The Peach Art Exhibit art drop off was a major success this year. The North Central Louisiana Arts Council took in 185 pieces which is an increase of 29 submissions from last year’s show. The exhibit is to the public from June 1 through 25 during regular library hours in the Chautauqua Gallery of the Lincoln Parish Library. The Juror for this year’s exhibit is Stefan Nodarse. He is the Curator of Collections and Exhibitions for the Masur Museum of Art in Monroe. The opening reception took place in the Library Events Center on June 1 from 5 to 7 pm. Thank you to all of the artists who entered this year’s exhibit and a very special thanks to this year’s sponsors: Century Next Bank, The Children’s Shoppe, Durrett Law and Title, Fine Line Supply Co., Garden Baby, Origin Bank, The Peach 99.3, and Ruston Animal Clinic.