Our Team
Brandon Ballengée
For over 20 years, artist and biologist Brandon Ballengée has been creating multi-media artworks inspired from his ecological field and laboratory research. Brandon’s art has been exhibited internationally in over 20 countries and in the summer of 2013 the first career survey of his work debuted at the Château de Chamarande (Essonne, France), which travelled to the Museum Het Domein (Sittard, Netherlands) in 2014. In the fall of 2016, the first US mid-career retrospective of his work opened at the University of Wyoming Art Museum (Laramie, Wyoming). He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (2021/22), a Creative Capital Award (2019), a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2017), and Awards from the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (2016 & 2017). He holds a Ph.D. in Transdisciplinary Art and Biology from the University of Plymouth (England). Currently, he is an Adjunct Faculty of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Tulane University studying the impact of the 2010 oil spill on Gulf of Mexico fish species. Brandon is the Co-Founder and President of Atelier de la Nature.
Aurore Ballengée
Aurore Ballengée, a French native, took a major shift in 2012 when she left a career as a project manager in investment banking to become a culinary educator focused on sustainable food and food justice. She also manages the studio of Brandon and has gained several art world experiences, overseeing exhibition organization, public art projects, grant writing, producing publications and much more. Brandon and Aurore have run numerous K-12 art & science educational programs and summer camps nationally and internationally, as far as Australia! Aurore serves on the boards of the Acadiana Food Alliance and Creole Soul CARES, and is the President of the Cecilia French Immersion Association. Aurore is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Atelier de la Nature.