Arts Interchange Resource Page
On this page you will find quick info on the other artists, recorded videos from the weekly Zoom huddles, links to important things, and contact information.
Important Links
Zoom Link (Mondays at 6pm CDT): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82639570295?pwd=1IHbPtbL4AkzKC8pnKKwp3iS0wAHaW.1
Weekly Collaborative Assignments
Google Drive Folder for Exercises
Previously Sent Emails
2021 North Louisiana Virtual Residency Exhibition Link
2026 Program Schedule
Gilbert Center Gallery Floor Plan
Recordings of Past Zoom Huddles
Start Week: https://youtu.be/Mh-ORK0Xpgc
Week 1: https://youtu.be/4KBOixJrUp0
Participants
Lemon Burnside
(she/they)
Instagram: Soft_Lemon_Pie
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I find myself trying to collect and recollect all the times in childhood that I need to remember to feel valid in extinction. Recollection turns into a tool for a path of self reflection. My ceramic pieces and sculptures help me build a scrapbook of memories to investigate my childhood experience. “Artifacts” like objects, toys, and photos help contextualize, though incomplete. The mold recreation can provide an authentic beginning. They then are processed with imperfections of time and recall. Being a rural kid, the woods speak to my surroundings growing up. Fragments of rocks, dirt, pine straw, leaves, etc are embedded with my sculptures like toys forever lost in the forest. Objects I cast to last forever come not only from my own collection, but found second hand. I see myself reflected in these objects, and perhaps carry fragments of others’ memories. With each piece on the shelf, I grow a collection of history so little to be forgotten but important to growth, character, and life.
Lo Patt
(she/they)
Instagram: the.esoteric.artistt
https://www.arkansasartscene.com/home/interview-with-artist-lo-patt
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Lo Patt is a Little Rock–based mixed media artist working in collage, assemblage, photography, painting, and installation. She received her B.A. in Studio Art from California State University, Long Beach (2021), where she worked as an analog and digital photography lab technician and developed a materially driven practice rooted in personal narrative.
Patt has presented five solo exhibitions, most recently Revival (The Window on Sixth, 2026), and has exhibited nationally, including the Arkansas Arts Council’s Small Works on Paper annually touring exhibition (2025) and the Lawrence Arts Center’s annual 8x8 exhibition, where she won Best in Show (2024). Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Windgate Center of Art + Design at UA Little Rock, the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Southern Arkansas University, Harding University, the Lawrence Arts Center, and Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum’s virtual gallery.
In addition to her studio practice, Patt is actively engaged in arts education and community-based work. She is a Windgate Art School Instructor at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts and has facilitated youth art camps, retreats, and public mural projects throughout Arkansas. She is an alum of the 2024 Artist INC Little Rock cohort through Mid-America Arts Alliance. Her work and community projects have been featured in the Arkansas Times, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the Arkansas Department of Heritage, and THV11.
Her materially driven practice interrogates memory, domestic rupture, queer identity in the American South, and the politics of attachment, using found objects and photographic fragments to destabilize nostalgia and reconfigure personal narrative as a site of resistance and reconstruction.
Artist Statement
My work emerges from intimate relationships — the ones that shape us, rupture us, and refuse to fully release us. Through personal snapshots, found object assemblage, fabric, cut paper, and expressive mark making, I construct layered compositions that feel both tender and unresolved. Attached to materials that carry their own histories, I use them to reposition memory as something fragile and nonlinear.
Rooted in lived experience, my practice explores love and loss, nostalgia, grief, and the ever unfolding process of coming home to oneself. I am interested in the undercurrents of dysfunctional domestic spaces, venomous attachments to a person or substance, and inherited systems of oppression that take root in private shadows, contributing to an interior emotional residue. As a queer femme in the American South, I approach these themes as both witness and participant, navigating what is held back and what is revealed.
Shadows, silhouettes, exalted ordinary objects, de-personified figures, transparency barriers and poetic text appear throughout my work as gestures toward what is just out of view. The works become reconfigurations of myself, negotiations between concealment and exposure, vulnerability and protection to one’s inner world.
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As a Black Queer Person, I find myself always asking questions about my identity. I explore themes like childhood, spirituality and/or the “inner self”, duality, and gender euphoria. I use vibrant color palettes, various textures, symbolism, and dramatic lighting as tools to explore different themes in my portraits. I'm enjoying exploring new mediums and new ways of thinking. My art is still evolving and I'm always learning new things that inspire me. I embrace the change knowing that my ideas of self acceptance and appreciation for life will find its way to show itself no matter what.
Logan Stevens
Instagram: slogan.me
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My name is Logan Stevens, a graphic designer and artist based out of Ruston, LA. My work primarily focuses on using sign / print materials to create works that display my emotions and experiences. My color pallet focus on using bright colors to not only convey certain emotions, but make them easy to digest for any viewer. I love making art that pushes the boundaries of space and creating interactions with any viewer. They are invited to look closely and physically interact with pieces.
Jesse Foster
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Jesse Foster, is a Louisiana Born, Raised and Educated Artist who currently resides in Alexandria Louisiana. Mr. Foster is 87 years old and began painting after retiring as an educator, an engineer and a farmer. He is also an avid coin collector and has collected over 6000 rare and unusual coins. Mr. Foster has only been painting for a little over 2 years. His chosen media is uniquely folk art depicting a variety of subject matter. He has incorporated his selection of his coins into the artwork using his personal developed process. He now presents his art for those who have an interest in folk art and rare coins.
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My work explores the tension between memory and place—how landscapes hold emotional residue long after the people and events that shaped them have moved on. Working in large-scale charcoal drawings, soft pastels, acrylic, and archival pigment photography, I examine how personal and collective histories are embedded in domestic interiors, abandoned structures, and Southern environments shaped by migration, industry, and the endurance rural impoverished communities practice. I grew up in Hayti, Missouri, where the Mississippi River isn't scenic—it's a fact of life. It floods. It destroys things and gives life to things. That corridor between small towns and cities along the river gave me my first education in contrast: survival-driven spaces versus aspirational ones, what's kept in memory and what needs to be healed. That duality still lives in my work. I’ve spent twenty years in New Orleans, a city that understands rupture and return better than almost anywhere.
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I don't think that craft or technique are intrinsic factors in "good art". I care much more about what the art means to the maker and the viewer, and the conversations that that can lead to. If my art leads to nothing else, I hope it will lead to a few conversations that make you go "wow, I never knew I was that person inside" afterwards. As for my mediums, they are whatever is most loyal to the piece I am trying to make, which always starts out as an idea: a sanctuary, a question, a feeling of tension. I use art to ruminate on the things I didn't know about myself, uncomfortable feelings I contact every day without realizing, and I use it to process long-past memories, the pain of which I'm still dealing with. I don't think there is anything that makes me especially unique or inspiring, except for the fact that every choice I've ever made has made me what I am and no one else.
Paul Wolfe
Instagram: paul_c_wolfe
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My work comes from a constant questioning of value and worthiness. I ask the same question constantly, am I valuable, am I worthy, how does one know if they are those things? This line of questioning comes from living in a world that measures people through productivity, appearance, success, and approval. I am interested in how these systems shape the way we see ourselves, and how quickly worth can feel conditional or fragile. When people see my work they often see a person that casts a wide net and can't seem to pick a medium or subject matter, but I have come to realize with all my experimentation every piece I make is a question. Does this make me valuable now? By exposing my own questioning, I hope to create space for viewers to reflect on how they define value in themselves and others, and whether worth is something that must be proven or something that exists without permission.
Arts Interchange Auditors
Lindsey Pearce
Instagram: lpearce_studio
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My name is Lindsey Pearce. I grew up in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, graduated from LSU with a degree in art education and have been a high school art teacher for 27 years. I currently live and work in Burleson, Texas, just a few miles south of Fort Worth. The “ArkLaTex” has definitely shaped my life in many ways! I have taught AP Art & Design for over 20 years and have been a College Board Reader for Art & Design since 2020. Through my guidance, hundreds of students have gone on to become artists, professionals, and most importantly, good citizens. My own personal art style varies quite a bit because I have always been influenced by the different styles, materials, techniques and artists my students are currently working with. My drawings, paintings, collages and mixed media works are iterative, experimental, creative problems that utilize bold color, textures and patterns. I like to give myself a “problem to solve”, in that I may not know what the outcome of the piece will be.
Amye Wake
Instagram: amyewake
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I use found objects, but they're really found subjects. I add collage, assemblage, sewing and painting techniques to form upholstered wall pieces. The creative ideas and physical materials are processed simultaneously, while I am assembling and attaching pieces. Memories feel like paging through an old scrapbook instead of making one. Most of my work resembles a canvas stretcher, being painted, but with all the wrong tools and supplies. I thoroughly enjoyed learning to create my own canvases, so now I just substitute in and out the things that make an object and not just a picture.
About the Program Coordinator
Ryan ‘Stirling’ Botts
Associate Director of Programming
(he/him)
programs@rosslynnfoundation.org
I have a formal education in Industrial Engineering but have worked as a programs person with RLCF for five years. Having been a hobby photographer since I was a young teenager I have found myself drawn in recent years to exploring a variety of other mediums and forms to include painting and printmaking. I am inspired by art’s ability to solve functional problems and communicate humanity. I am also the co-owner of Creative Exchange in Ruston, Louisiana.
About RLCF’s namesake, Ross Lynn
Aplinist, Photographer, Contemplative, Craftsman, Musician, and Farmer
Ross was born and raised on a family farm along the Red River, north of Shreveport in Gilliam. Attending Montana State University for photography, he was introduced to mountain climbing and subsequently fell in love with traveling the world to climb technically difficult mountains in various regions, most notably in the Khumbu region of the Himalayas. During his adventures, Ross carried his camera and documented the wonders and challenges he experienced. After 2010, Ross began planning to move back to North Louisiana to work as a full time artist. Unfortunately, he passed away during a farming accident in 2013 on the family farm in Gilliam. The Ross Lynn Charitable Foundation was formed to honor his life and continue his legacy of championing the arts, outdoor adventure, and healthy living practices.