UPDATED WITH STORY: 2026 Shrimp & Petroleum Festival poster unveiled

BERWICK — Genevieve Breckoff-Bullock lives in Baton Rouge, but her mother is from Patterson, so she has a family history with the Louisiana Shrimp & Petroleum Festival.
“It was always something we grew up with,” she said in 2024.
Now Breckoff-Bullock has secured her place in festival history. She submitted the winning entry in the 2026 festival poster contest, the third time her artwork has been chosen to be the official festival poster.
The 90th festival king and queen, Cecil Hernandez and Charlie Ann Fuhrer, unveiled the poster artwork Tuesday at an Atchafalaya Intracoastal Coalition shrimp boil at the St. Mary Golf & Country Club.
The 91st festival will be Sept. 3-7.
All poster contest artists work within constraints imposed by the event. How they manage those constraints determines how successful their artwork will be.
Breckoff-Bullock’s design for 2026 is tightly focused on one of two shrimp boats near a rocky coastline, with two barrels, one spilling shrimp, in the foreground. An oil platform is in the background.
The dominant colors are bold yellow, blue and orange.
“Working in a variety of mediums, her ever-evolving style reflects an interest in exploring light, color, and natural beauty,” according to the festival press release. “Whimsical and dynamic, each piece invites viewers to form their own connection with the work.”
Breckoff-Bullock’s previous winning entries were in 2021, when a COVID surge forced the cancellation of the festival, and 2024.
Elements of her previous winning posters turn up in the 2026 edition.
“I kind of enjoyed the challenge of the visual elements and rearranging them,” Breckoff-Bullock said Tuesday. “This is sort of a return to form. I wanted it to be dynamic, with the boat coming toward you.”
Her original work was in acrylic.
Breckoff-Bullock stays connected with art through “lots of wedding pictures, digital prints and pet portraits,” she said.
Her day job seems a world away from the whimsy attributed to her art. An LSU graduate with a psychology degree, Breckoff-Bullock works in clinical research for the Tulane School of Medicine. She’s currently working on a blood pressure study.
Breckoff-Bullock has added a hyphen to her name since her last festival poster win. She married Peyton Bullock in April 2025. He is also involved in research.
She has converted him into a Shrimp & Petroleum festival fan. But he’s an Ole Miss grad, and after the run-up to football coach Lane Kiffin’s move to LSU, her husband’s conversion to Tiger Nation hasn’t been as smooth.
Although he has embraced LSU tail-gaiting, Breckoff-Bullock said, he still takes verbal shots at the Tigers.
“He’s totally faking it,” she said.