Pavy Studio

Pavy Studio, originally built as a residence and converted into a retail shop in the late 1940s, is a strong example of a neighborhood retail store in Freetown for its design, workmanship, and materials, retaining its original wood storefront windows, full-width porch, metal awning, and double-door entry. The property is also historically significant for its association with local artist Francis X. Pavy, who studied art as a child under Elmore Morgan Jr., later studied music, ceramics, animation, painting, print-making, and sculpture in college, graduated in 1976 with a Fine Arts degree in Sculpture, began working in a glass shop in 1977 making leaded and beveled glass windows, opened his own glass studio in 1982, and adopted painting as his primary medium in 1985, drawing primary inspiration from his glass work. His work has been well received regionally, nationally, and internationally, with one-man exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Aspen, New Orleans, France, and Switzerland.

Lafayette, Louisiana · United States