Oyster paintings can cost over $2,000. You can find oyster art in just about every home decor store. “I’ve put oyster shells around mirrors and napkin rings. It’s just something that really, really ...

A photographer from Tyne Valley, P.E.I. is turning oysters into art, taking photos of very small sections of the shell and making them into large prints.

Lafayette anesthesiologist Dr. Julie Broussard estimates she has about 500 oysters piled up in buckets, waiting to be painted in her craft room.

Each shell has been individually drilled to create a major installation on the forecourt, in a tribute to its Indigenous past. The 85,000 oyster shells that tell the Opera House’s real history ...