Ann Faillace

I was born in Natchez, Mississippi and raised in the country in Louisiana. As a child I was in spired by my Great Aunt Bonnie McLeary, who was a Sculptor in New York and Texas, Each summer my Aunt would come to visit and tell stories and show examples and pictures of her large sculptures. This was the beginning of my interest in Art. I have lived in Louisiana Mississippi and Florida all my life .I began developing and exploring through my paintings the landscape, seascape and people around me. For ten years I taught Art in Florida and Mississippi schools and exhibited and sold work in galleries in the southeastern United States. Today I reside in have a studio in New Iberia LA

I went to college at LSU in Baton Rouge in 1963, and choose art as my major. During my college years I included a year of study of sculpture and painting at Tulane in New Orleans. I focused on Oil painting , Sculpture, print making, and jewelry design in college. I received my BA from LSU

I have exhibited in several museums and Art exhibitions in Louisiana, including Lafayette Art Association shows and exhibits, Lafayette, LA, Morgan City art exhibit, Morgan City, LA, And Masur Museum in Monroe, LA and received a collectors award, Pause Exhibit 2020 at Alexandria Museum of Art in Alexandria, LA and at The Tom Peyton Exhibit in Alexandria, Louisiana. I have exhibited in Gallery's in Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida.