Fiero shows in Arnaudville this weekend

Turtle Cove Studio host opening today (from Daily World news LA https://www.dailyworld.com/ April 20, 2007)

By Jacqueline Cochran

For 27 years Gloria Fiero helped to shape the eye of area artists, photographers and sculptors.

Now, her own paintings of work created only since retiring, will be shown for a first time at the Turtle Cove Studio on Bayou Fuselier in Arnaudville.

Fiero, born and raised in New York City, began drawing at the age of 8. Her earliest training was through children’s art classes conducted at the Museum of Modern Art. As a teenager she attended the Phoenix School of Design’s academic art program and in college, she majored in art history, going on to earn a master’s of art history and a Ph.D in the interdisciplinary humanities.

Her humanities textbooks, The Humanistic Tradition, published in 2006 and now in its fifth edition, along with, Landmarks in Humanities, written in 2005, are widely used in the United States and Canada.

Fiero taught history, art history, and humanities at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette. Among her most notable students are the New Orleans sculptor Bernard Maddox and Texas art educator, Karen Price.

Since retirement, Fiero divides the year between West New York and New Orleans.

Her series on the Mardi Gras, opening today at the Turtle Cove Studio, is a product of her fascination with the culture of New Orleans.

Fiero’s opening is timed to coincide with the April Potluck rural art walk celebration. The public is welcome to visit Turtle Cove beginning at 5 p.m.

The studio will close at 7 p.m. so visitors can move on to the Town Market where a documentary on ironing by ULL Folk lore major Conni Castille will be shown.

Turtle Cove is located adjacent to Russell’s Food Store at Main and Fuselier streets in Arnaudville in the old Malorin entrance to town where new work by Mare Martin of Opelousas will be shown. From there head into town and visit Tom Pierce of Cajun Fiddles and Lori Henderson at their studios on Bayou Fuselier, cater-cornered to Russell’s grocery store at Main and Fuselier streets. Then, walk next door to the Turtle Cove Studio and take in a lil’ southern hospitality with Toni Daigre and Sue Billet and see new work by retired ULL professor, Gloria Fiero.