Students to exhibit at A&E

Published 12:24 pm Monday, August 1, 2016

Darnelle Delcambre, 72, got creative in 2002 after retiring from her job as a telecommunications manager for a long distance phone company. She’s a member of the garden club, is an multi-award winning Cajun Creole Cook-off participant, enjoys photography and is an award winning watercolor artist and instructor.

Delcambre has been painting for 15 years and teaches monthly step-by-step watercolor classes at A&E Art Gallery where she moved after realizing her dining room table had become too small for the number of students taking classes.

Following completion of their classes, Delcambre provides the opportunity for her students to show their work by arranging an art exhibit. “Serendipity” Art Exhibit will be held from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Aug. 21 at A&E Gallery, 335 West St. Peter in New Iberia.

“To my knowledge this is the only watercolor exhibit held in town,” Delcambre said. “I’m not sure anyone else has done one exclusively with watercolor.”

Gallery owner, Paul Schexnayder, an artist and teacher in his own right, provides the space for Delcambre’s students to take classes and then wall space for the exhibition.

Eight students are participating this year and the show will hang for three weeks, through Sept. 10.

The exhibit will feature two or three watercolor paintings by Lou Arton, Sarah Bingham, Gladys Chapman, Liz Fiore, Nan Landry, Margaret Melancon, Ann Sutton and CeCe Viator. Several of Delcambre’s students have won awards at the Sugar Cane Festival Art Show and at the Shadows-on-the Teche Plein-Air Art Competition.

For more information, call 367-7668.