Bryant Benoit, a Lafayette visual artist known for work that explores the African diaspora and Louisiana experience, has died.
Benoit, who reports indicate was in his mid-50s, worked primarily in collage and documented the area’s Creole and Black culture, highlighting layers of emotion and authentic experience in his finely detailed pieces.
His death was announced on Monday, Jan. 21 by Creole Culture, an organization that he partnered with last year to create the first artwork for Creole Culture Day. According to Creole Culture Day co-founder Milton Arceneaux, Benoit was “a friend, a culture bearer, and one of the few people the community relied on to represent Creole culture authentically and unapologetically.”…