Announcement    Deanna Larmeu (b.1980 Metairie, LA) was raised while often fishing or crabbing on Bayou Bienvenu. She is an M.F.A. candidate in Painting at Savannah College of Art and Design expected to graduate in 2023. She also has a B.F.A and B.S. from Louisiana State University. Before this, she was schooled in New Orleans. She has exhibited in group exhibitions in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Her work has been selected as the Corpus Delecti Podcast Design, and she has been appointed as the sole Portrait painter for the Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus.
Her work is mixed media created with traditional and digital methods. Pieces range from medium to large scale and display filtering of the beauty and horrors of life experiences through her perspective. In 2021 she worked to spread joy in the Greater New Orleans community despite the cancellation of Mardi Gras by creating pieces for the Krewe of House Floats. Currently, she is educating youth in the arts and has been since 2004.