Douglas Bourgeois (b. 1951) is a native of Gonzales, Louisiana, and a longtime resident of nearby St. Amant. The five Bourgeois prints in the Zanatta donation exemplify the artist’s detailed imagery. Two of the prints, Tweet and Messenger, present a man and a woman, respectively, exploring what appear to be the ruins of civilization in a watery, recognizably south Louisianan landscape. Both figures gaze at birds, perhaps seeing them as guides or harbingers of a future where the natural world is ascendant. Birds, insects, and lush plant life also make appearances in the other three prints, framing their human subjects. 

Born in California, Jacqueline Bishop (b. 1955) is a New Orleans–based artist known for her work depicting vulnerable environments such as Latin American rainforests and Louisiana wetlands. A resident of New Orleans since 1975, Bishop earned a master of fine arts degree from Tulane University and has taught art both there and at Loyola University New Orleans. One of the Bishop prints speaks to her concerns about the natural world and human impacts on it: Out of the Blue presents profile views of 26 extinct or endangered birds, including an ivory-billed woodpecker and a passenger pigeon. In the other print, Wind, a distant flock of birds wheels above an impressionistic flat landscape. Whether it’s a scene of desolation or one of vibrant life is up to the viewer.