Artist Talk: Steve Breaux & Kathy Reed

Join AcA Visual Arts Director, Jaik Faulk in conversation with exhibiting artists Steve Breaux and Kathy Reed. Kathy Reed has been an artist and educator for 40+ years in the Lafayette, Louisiana area. She retired as a visual art teacher, having taught the visual art program for the Lafayette Parish High School Arts Academy, and high school classes in the Lafayette Parish School System Talent Program, teaching many teenagers who later pursued arts careers. In addition to her work in the public school system, Kathy has taught numerous workshops, both for young people and adults, in museum and gallery settings. She has strong ties to the local arts community, and was gallery manager for the late Artists’ Alliance, where she also served as president of the board of directors, and on the Programming committee. She and her husband, Steven Breaux were directors of Galerie Lafayette, which was a contemporary art gallery in downtown Lafayette. She is a practicing artist, who shows her artwork locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. Kathy has been the recipient of grants and awards for her artwork, and written many grants for the Artists’ Alliance, as well as for her teaching programs. In addition to her individual artwork, she maintains a collaborative art practice with her husband, Steven Breaux, creating artworks that reference a sense of place, history, and cultural issues. Steve Breaux, MFA, Florida State University, is retired (2020) Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where he taught Art and the Computer, Conceptual and Formal Development, Advanced Drawing, and 2d. Design. For the last 30 years he has worked both as a solo artist and in collaboration with his wife and partner, Kathy Reed, in a variety of media including process art, printmaking, painting on silk, computer animation/video, photography, and painting - often in combination. He has researched the nature of the art process as it relates to differences…