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LAFAYETTE ART UNDERGROUND HUSTLE
  • Home
  • Apply
  • Email Updates
  • About
    • About
    • Mission
  • Gallery
  • FALL 2022 TOUR
    • FALL 2022 ARTISTS
    • FALL 2022 TOUR MAP
  • Sponsors

What we're all about

Mission

LAUGH stands for Lafayette Art UnderGround Hustle. 

Say what? Yup.

 LAUGH  is fun people making funky art and creatively schlepping their goods to  make a little money for their efforts. The mission of LAUGH is to  promote and support fellow creatives in a manner that is itself  creative. LAUGH is for the starving artist, the side-hustler, the  bashful, the successful, the funky, the bold, the mainstream, and the  new to the scene. LAUGH endeavors to maintain a program with modest  financial commitments from their artists but in turn uses the craftiness  of the members to help market and spread event propaganda.

What else?

LAUGH is a labor of love endeavor. It's working on a shoestring budget and collects only the smallest most necessary fee from the artist  participants. It is cultivating creativity within the community for the  community. LAUGH is here to motivate artists and encourage everyone to  discover the unique underground artistic movement evolving in their  neighborhood. It's proving that it is not the work alone that makes  art, it is also the process and the person. There is no room for hate in a LAUGH event because art takes all forms, all colors, all sizes, and  has no gender.

A bit of (recent) history

Origin story

LAUGH is Brian  Wood (Dogs & Stars) and Marleen Endicott  (Misfits Work) — two friends, neighbors and fellow creatives. 


LAUGH spurred from a collaboration they did in June 2022. Marleen was on the Lafayette Garden Tour and also launched her ceramic art side hustle during the event. Brian had an open studio the same day and they let people wander in and out of their respective studio/yards to see what they had been creating. Marleen & Brian live across an alley from  each other!


The response was super postitive and Marleen thought it'd be amazing to get more support and exposure for all the unknown,  smaller artists in our town — like them!


For every one person in this town  who is aware of an artist's work, there are 5000 who probably have no idea who  the heck us artists are up to and what our process looks like! 


So Marleen thought: wouldn't an art tour in town be awesome to showcase some of Lafayette's local talent and hidden studios?


And here we are!

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