IBERIA PARISH — The Acadiana Center for the Arts (AcA) is celebrating its 50th year by expanding its arts-in-education program into all 23 public schools in Iberia Parish.

The initiative connects students with professional teaching artists in visual arts, theater, dance, music, and creative writing. Lessons are designed to align with subjects students are already learning, such as a movement-based lesson reinforcing the second-grade science curriculum on plant life cycles.

While AcA has offered programming across the region since the late 1970s, this marks the first year Iberia Parish schools are included. For program director Bree Sargent, an Iberia Parish native, the expansion carries personal meaning.

“It means the world to me that we’re able to give students the experiences that I d

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