Artists in Residence
Meet Our Artists in Residence
Jennifer Blanchard
A Louisiana native, Jennifer is now living and working as a professional artist in Baton Rouge, LA. A mixed media artist, primarily working in ceramics and pottery. The inspiration for her work is evolutionary and draws from life experience. As a scientist and a self-trained artist Jennifer sees each piece as a new experiment leading to discovery in style, technique, and function. If you would like to know more about Jennifer please follow her on Instagram @JenniferBlanchardFineArt or @NolaPotter, You can also find her on Facebook at Nola Potter, LLC.
Julio Naudin
Julio Naudin is a full-time artist who lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Originally from Mexico, Naudin spent the first half of his life on the border in the West Texas town of El Paso. He painted and drew his way through college at the University of Texas El Paso, in addition to being a advertising artist for the El Paso Times and The El Paso Herald Post. Upon graduation, he joined corporate America and worked as a marketing executive in the publishing industry for 34 years.
Naudin draws on a variety of sources for his art, including his Mexican heritage, his career in news/publishing, his childhood, as well as other places he's lived and worked, including Northern Nevada, Washington, D.C. and South Louisiana. He creates portraits, landscapes, collages and mixed-media pieces. He has gained a following for a series of portraits done on newspapers mounted on boards and his ongoing series of impressionistic chicken portraits and figurative paintings. His art is in both private and public collections. He accepts occasional commissions.
Mike Weary
Mike Weary is a life long, self taught artist from New Orleans, LA. He is a current resident artist at the Arts Council of Baton Rouge. At the age of six he began sketching portraits of his mother's coworkers during their lunch breaks. His primary education in art came from his mother, a former student of The NOCCA Institute. He attended Brother Martin High School in New Orleans. During this time he honed his drawing skills by creating many paintings, carvings and sketches. Afterwards, Mike studied fashion merchandising, fashion design, marketing, and art philosophy at The University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His signature is that he paints his works completely upside down from start to finish. He is also on the forefront of incorporating oil paintings with rust and patina. His work can be found in galleries, exhibitions, businesses and homes nationwide, predominantly across the Gulf Coast of the United States. Follow Mike on Instagram @mikewearyart and Facebook at Mike Weary Art
The Winnifred and Kevin Reilly Artist Studio at the Cary Saurage Community Arts Center is a for-rent space that artists can use for their creative projects. After a simple application process, artists can rent a designated, personal position in the studio. Artists will have 24/7 access to the building including common areas on all three floors, lockers for extra storage, utilities, free Wi-Fi, and use of our kiln upon request. Reservation inquiries are subject to available space, please contact Chris Adams to be added to the waitlist at 225-344-8558 ext. 233 or at cadams@artsbr.org.