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Gumbo Weather

By Mary Beth Broussard

Illustrated by Paul Schexnayder

Adaleigh, a young Cajun girl, has the envie for her grandmother’s chicken and sausage gumbo. But there is a problem. It’s summer, and Mamere does not cook her gumbo until the weather has just the right chill in the air. Adaleigh tries various get-gumbo techniques, including learning to ask for it in French, but she will have to wait. This picture book for young readers is peppered with Cajun words, celebrates the Cajun culture and the importance of generational bonds.Young readers will learn that all the best things are worth waiting for as they are served a taste of South Louisiana culinary traditions with a side of Cajun French.

Mary Beth Broussard and Paul Schexnayder will be in the store autographing this new book on Saturday, October 14, 2023, Gumbo Cookoff weekend, from 1:00 until 3:00 pm

Hardback $ 19.95

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Piecey

Medium: Mixed media.

Available at: The Collective

Candace Greer is a mixed media artist based in south Louisiana. She has been painting professionally for the past 15 years. Using layering principles in her work, Candace’s favorite mediums are high flow acrylics, watercolor, thinned oils and line work with charcoal and oil pastels. Her work is very calm, soothing and peaceful and is inspired by the water and nature.

Dancing Along the Light of Day, #2

Medium: Painting on canvas

Available at: facebook.com/KathyMereArt

Kathy Mere is a Lafayette based artist painting in soft realism, impressionism & abstract. This piece is part of her Travels of the Soul Series. As Mere explains, it represents an explosion of joy at the waking up of the sun on the world. Mere currently has work on display at NuNu Arts Collective.

Plant Code 2010

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Available at: stevebreaux-kathyreed.com/artwork

Steve Breaux, BFA, 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 25 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.