Artwork going down the drain in Lafayette

Dirk Guidry, a 2012 graduate of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Lafayette, Louisiana, painted this EcoArt installation in front of the campus’ Edith Garland Dupré Library. The artwork is part of Lafayette Consolidated Government's efforts to educate about water runoff and the Vermilion River that runs through the city.

Guidry hails from "down the bayou" in Galliano, Louisiana. He received a bachelor of Fine Arts from ULL with a concentration in painting. He currently lives in Lafayette and paints portraits, landscapes and murals throughout Lafayette and Louisiana.

Want to see him create a mural in Lafayette? Click here.

And here he is creating "Acadiana Crawdad" during the city's May 2015 ArtWalk.

Weird, Wacky and Wild South is written by food and travel writer Chere Dastugue Coen. She is also the author of several non-fiction books, and novels under the pen name of Cherie Claire.