Bonnie Camos is a visual artist, curator, arts educator, and native of Lafayette, LA. For over 30 years, Bonnie has been professionally exhibiting her art and actively participating in the cultural communities where she resides, having served on the boards of the Acadiana Arts Council and the Louisiana Crafts Guild. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and was an artist-in-residence at Louisiana Artworks in New Orleans in March 2007. She is currently a vice-president of the Lafayette Art Association . Bonnie was chosen as an official artist for Festival Internationale de Louisiane in collaborations with Craig “Whoojoo” McCullen to create the official art piece and poster for the year 2010. She also created the “Games of Acadiana” poster in 2012 for the Miles Perret Cancer Services Center and the official poster for Grand Coteau’s “Sweet Dough Pie Fesitval”. Bonnie teaches children’s classes in addition to conducting summer arts programs for the Lafayette Art Association, The Acadiana Suzuki Strings Institute, Children’s Museum of Acadiana and Camp Bon Couer for children with heart defects.
Artist Statement: Art is my therapy. Making art, to me, is releasing the noise of the world, choosing Marks, colors, shapes and lines to convey an expression of what I am experiencing At the moment. Sometimes the images are respresentational, sometimes they are imaginative and Abstract. Either way, creating is an act of reaching out to the viewer to perhaps help Them find a message or meaning in the work.
