Laura Stella Sitges

Breaux Bridge (pg.3 of 5): Remnants of a 19th century Cajun homestead on Bayou Teche

Breaux Bridge (pg.3 of 5): Discovering my grandmother’s Cajun ancestors and their 19th cent. sugarcane farm on Bayou Teche

Breaux Bridge (pg.2 of 5): My grandmother’s Cajun ancestors

by Laura Stella Sitges

Breaux Bridge series (pg.2 of 5): Discovering my grandmother’s Cajun ancestors and their 19th cent. sugarcane farm on Bayou Teche

Breaux Bridge (pg.1 of 5): A 19th cent. Cajun sugarcane farm

by Laura Stella Sitges

Breaux Bridge (pg.1 of 5): Discovering my grandmother’s Cajun ancestors on a 19th cent. sugarcane farm on Bayou Teche

Ten Years Gone

by Laura Stella Sitges

. . Ten years ago today, my grandmother died. . . . . . … Read more

Broken Violin at Sea

by Laura Stella Sitges

Creating a wall sculpture assemblage from my grandfather’s broken violin, his chess pieces and Mardi Gras krewe favors & his 1890s Art Nouveau brush

“Tisolay’s Favorite Things” – my last drawing for my grandmother

by Laura Stella Sitges

In 1998, I began the last drawing I would ever do for Tisolay. I knew … Read more

Papa Sitges’ Meerschaum Pipe

by Laura Stella Sitges

Single piece showcase/Research in progress – I have always thought of this as my … Read more

My Dad’s Ghein bell: from 1580s Belgium to 1940s Haiti

by Laura Stella Sitges

My dad found it in a cave when he was a kid looking for voodoo stuff in Port-au-Prince, Haiti . . . one of only two things he begged me to break into his condo and take home with me before the looters got to them; the rest he didn’t give a shit about . . .