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Carley Dupré

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About

Carley Dupré is an interdisciplinary artist and art educator based in Lafayette, Louisiana. Her work reflects on memory, home, and the relationships that surround her. She loves expressing herself through ceramics, metalwork, painting, and textiles and is always finding new ways to combine the media together. She graduated in Fall 2025 with a BFA in ceramics from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where she has been honored as the Outstanding Graduate for the College of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited at the Acadiana Center for the Arts as well as other galleries in the region, and she has received several scholarships and grants for her artistic achievements. Passionate about both making and teaching, Carley is committed to fostering creative communities in the studio and beyond.

Artist Statement

Home is more than a place. It's something pieced together over time, stitched from memories, relationships, and experiences. Throughout life, this sense of home changes. Memory becomes a bridge, allowing us to revisit moments with new understanding or to redefine what they mean entirely. Through this act of return, “home” is continuously reimagined and retold. I explore storytelling as both a personal and collective act, preserving fragments of the past while leaving space for reinterpretation, and revealing the comfort and impermanence within the idea of home. Through the incorporation of slip-cast textiles, this work uses soothing textures and imagery to echo the warmth and kinship of home. Cast metal from organic materials also appears throughout my practice, both methods turning what was once malleable and strong into something permanent, yet fragile. These materials embody the contradictions of memory itself: strong yet delicate, truthful yet incomplete, and speak to the ongoing act of reconstructing what embodies “home.”