Guitars, horns, accordions, and fiddles along with crabs, snakes and coffee cups are fashioned into silk patchworks of Louisiana culture. Music and the men and women who play it, along with the Louisiana landscape, provide rich material to draw from. Megan Barra’s Silk Compositions are hand-sewn, sometimes imprinted with original text and images, and finished on a 1901 Singer treadle sewing machine. Barra’s work is defined as much by its daring and passion as it is by its beauty and restraint. As an artist and designer, she powerfully arranges and re-arranges imagery to vividly express intangible emotions, observations and responses. Barra’s work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in South Louisiana, Quebec, and France.