June Artwalk / Mom Mom's: The Sacred Ordinary In-Progress Gallery Opening

NEXT WEEK | Join us for the in-progress opening of Mom Mom's: The Sacred Ordinary, a ProjectSpace Residency project by Bob Borel. This exhibition is an installation that blends living history and communal art, a reconstruction of Bob’s Cajun grandmother’s 1980s living room and kitchen; a space that was decorated in the 1950s and never changed.
This immersive environment will function as artwork, social reenactment, and a third space, evoking a time when homes served as communal hubs for gathering with: coffee, conversation, food, and the occasional game of cards. As a living history interpreter, Bob has created historical displays at Vermilionville to interpret local culture. This project brings that experience, along with his background in varied art installations and curation, into more personal and cultural territory. Rather than reenacting distant or dramatic events from the past, this piece honors recent Cajun history that’s quietly slipping away.
Basin Arts’ ProjectSpace Residency is a dynamic and evolving interdisciplinary artist residency program in partnership with the Hilliard Art Museum. The residency provides professional artists from the Acadiana region with the structure, space, and support for research and development of new artistic work while deeply engaging the community in the creative process.
Mom Mom's: The Sacred Ordinary In-Progress Gallery Opening
June 13th | 5:00-8:00pm
Basin Arts | 126 S Buchanan St.
FREE Admission
NEW THIS ARTWALK | In addition, a small solo show by BARE Walls artist Gary Pilcher will be on view in our Studio Gallery. Gary is a 2013 graduate of Savannah College of Art and Design, graduating with a BFA in photography, earning the distinction of summa cum laude. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions displaying his landscape photographs and was featured in Oxford American Magazine as an emerging Southern photographer in 2012. His most recent group exhibition, Our Point in Space, was held at the Acadiana Center for the Arts in Lafayette, LA. He has worked in the photographic field since college, as a digital tech and retoucher for national brands. He currently works freelance in those roles, both for commercial advertising and editorial clients. He lives in Lafayette, LA with his wife Catherine, an art professor, and their daughter Poppy.