In New Orleans, we know that times of transition are best met with community and celebration. Our society’s impending transition from the fossil fuel era is no different. Timed to precede the Jazz & Heritage Festival Presented by Shell, Fossil Free Festival (FFF) will unite community for a week of art, food, music, film screenings, […]
Join us for the opening reception for Fallen Fruit's EMPIRE, a new art installation on view at the Newcomb Art Museum. Friday, April 13. 5:30pm - 9pm Celebrating the New Orleans Tricentennial, EMPIRE is an art installation by Los Angeles-based artists Fallen Fruit, David Allen Burns and Austin Young, commissioned and presented by Newcomb Art Museum, A Studio in the […]
In partnership with A Studio in the Woods, Pelican Bomb, Fallen Fruit, and the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South (Nola Gulf South's) Rosenthal Blumenfeld Gulf South Foodways Program, Newcomb Art Museum will host a free activity day for all-ages featuring zine-making, bandana tie-dye, fruit portraits, roving archivist tours, a fruit-themed DJ, food trucks, cotton candy, lemonade stands, and […]
An evening benefiting A Studio in the Woods Hosted by Patricia Strachan at her beautiful Greek revival home, built in 1848 in the historic Garden District Thursday, April 19 6:30–9:00 in the evening Oysters, seafood and more by Pêche Chef Ryan Prewitt Music by Linnzi Zaorski Cocktails to wet your whistle Literary and artistic offerings from Jason Berry, John […]
Join us at Audubon Zoo where we will celebrate The Bee Palace, a sculpture by Providence, RI artist Esther Solondz. During Esther's 2017 fellowship at A Studio in the Woods she created The Bee Palace as a nesting site for wild solitary bees. Installed in the Pollinator Garden at Audubon Zoo, it has successfully been […]
Join current Adaptations Resident Jean-Sebastien Duvilaire for two Afro-Haitian dance workshops, Thursday May 24 and Thursday May 31, 6:30-8pm at Tekrema Center for Art and Culture, 1616 Caffin Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70117. Classes are open to all by donation. Jean-Sebastien Duvilaire (BabaSeb) is a young Hougan and Haitian Artist who strongly believes in the use of the […]
Cultivated by Dasha Chapman, Jean-Sebastien Duvilaire, Ann Mazzocca, and Phil Rodriguez, in collaboration with New Orleans-based artists Tè glise, tè tremble. Sliding land, sinking land. This collaborative community-based performance project puts into conversation the artists' Haitian and broader African diaspora performance knowledges with New Orleans ecologies, with the intention of excavating the cultural survivals integral […]
Newcomb Art Museum presents Uncommon Exchanges, a unique dialogue between unlikely pairings of Tulane and Gulf South experts, in partnership with A Studio in the Woods, The ByWater Institute at Tulane University, and New Orleans Center for the Gulf South . For this special program marking Juneteenth, artist Brandan "Bmike" Odums will be in dialogue with Dr. Rosanne Adderley, Associate Professor of […]
Join A Studio in the Woods, Fallen Fruit, Pelican Bomb, and Newcomb Art Museum for a celebration of the recently planted fruit park at the Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle in the Lower Ninth Ward. In these divided times, there’s one thing we can all agree on: fruit is delicious! Internationally acclaimed artists Fallen Fruit (David […]
Current Adaptations Resident Aurora Levins Morales will present a reading of work in progress on Saturday, November 3, 10:30am at Ashe Power House Theater, 1731 Baronne St. New Orleans. Free […]
