FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Chamain O’Mahony
Tuesday, January 30, 2001
(504) 733-9853
The Creole Cat Travels the Globe—Now Arriving in
Shreveport
New
Orleans, LA.—Artist, Chamain O’Mahony, is pleased to announce that her
Creole Cat is taking a second home in North Louisiana. Since making her first
official debut at the opening of the New Orleans Jazzland Theme Park in May
2000, the distinctive black and white minou
has shown up in homes, offices and eleven galleries in South Louisiana.
Eight months later, the cat will take up residence at 206 Milam Street
under the care of Shreveporters W. Conway Link and Cindy Lasseigne.
The
circa 1877 two-story building at 206 Milam was most recently home to the Globe
Map company, a fixture in Shreveport for many years. Link, Assistant Professor
of Mathematics at LSU-S, and Lasseigne, US Postal Service Data Collection
Technician and freelance commercial writer, purchased the building in February
2000 in an attempt to preserve one of the earlier downtown Shreveport buildings.
The location currently houses the office of Mischa Farrell Architect, who will
be jointed by new tenants Professional Writing Services, Globe Archives, and
now, the Creole Cat.
In
its new home, North Louisianans will find the Creole Cat in limited edition
signed and numbered lithograph and silkscreen prints, ranging from $30 to $110,
and a collection of note cards.
Entrepreneur
Magazine (Feb. 2001)
reports, “O’Mahony, 38, has turned her whimsical musings about her
cat—“minou” in Creole—into humorous note cards and prints that sell
faster than jambalaya in New Orleans and beyond.”
With her very own kitty as her
sometimes-reluctant
model, the artist expresses her love for animals and her home state of Louisiana
in a series of paintings depicting Creole Cat at various local haunts.
Through
the eyes of minou, Louisiana natives and tourists enjoy such exciting
adventures as visits to Cat O’Brien’s or Cat du Monde. And who
wouldn’t enjoy Mardi Gras favorite, Cat Tuesday? According to
O’Mahony, her art is about having fun, “ I like watching people smile as
they recall their own experiences in those same places. ” In short, Creole Cat
exudes the ‘joie de vivre’ that is characteristic of the people of
Louisiana, north or south.
O’Mahony
is also a full time employee of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as Director of
information Resources.
North
Louisianans can visit Creole Cat’s website at www.thecreolecat.com or see
Creole Cat in person, by appointment, at 206 Milam Street, 318-424-5531.