Past Artist Residencies

2006

Restoration Residencies

Valentine Pierce, writer (June)

Monique Moss, choreographer, dancer (May)

Jenny Kahn, painter (April)

Yvette Sirker, playwright, director, actor (March)

Johnson Jackson Chaffin, installation artist, musician (February)

2005

Literary Arts

Aurora Levins Morales,
River Resident, writer, historian, Berkely, CA

Sheryl St. Germain, writer, Ames, IA

Reggie Young, writer, Lafayette, LA

2004

Visual Arts
Pat Warner, River Resident, sculptor, Los Angeles, CA
Deedra Ludwig, painter, Port Townsend, WA
Alexis Wreden, sculptor and landscape architect, Ruston, LA

Literary Arts
Krista Franklin, poet, Chicago, IL

Performing Arts
Stephen Dankner, composer, New Orleans, LA

2003

Visual Arts
Jane Marshall, painter and printmaker, Birmingham, AL

Literary Arts
Wendy Taylor Carlisle, poet, Texarkana, TX

Performing Arts
Dr. Michael White, composer, clarinetist, music historian New Orleans, LA

Original Jazz Out of the Woods is funded by the Jazz and Heritage Foundation, Senator Francis Heitmeier's LA. Stadium and Exposition District Funds, and a grant by the La. Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the La. State Arts Council as administered by the Arts Council of New Orleans

Architecture
Daniel Winkert, architect, New Orleans, LA

Supported in part by a grant by the La. Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism

2002 pilot residencies

Visual Arts
Yuki Fukushima, potter, Japan
M. Jude , artisan, India

Literary Arts
Francine Prevost, poet, France

River Residencies

Humans have always depended on rivers for fresh water as a necessity of life as well as for the sustenance of plants and animals that are vital to human existence. Rivers also have provided transportation, folklore, recreation and culture for humans from earliest times to the present. The Mississippi River holds a special place in the culture of people and history. Like the Nile, the Mississippi harbors the stories of many people from diverse countries, yet continues to be the literal lifeblood of a nation. The River is a pulsating entity whose rhythm, power and stories inform a region. This magnificent body of water has inspired authors, musicians, artists, historians, and playwrights for over a century. Today, however, the Mississippi River, like many others, is in need, challenged by pollution and containment. We honor this endangered treasure and its inhabitants through the establishment of a program of River Residencies. River Residencies provide sustained quality work time in contact with the Mississippi; time in which one can experience and study the river using it as a catalyst to create art that contributes to our awareness of the river, its needs and its gifts to all life. Funded by the Louisiana Division of the Arts and the Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research with a grant from the Aron Foundation Charitable Trust.