When former Shreveport Regional Arts Council Executive Director Pam Atchison was alerted that she had been named the 2026 Champion of Culture, she was shocked.
It meant that the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser wanted to write her name next to those of such luminaries as Shreveport artist, author and filmmaker William Joyce and William D. Adams, the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Her first words upon being told? “Oh, my gosh.”…