The Writer's Cabin was a long-held dream of our founder, Lucianne Carmichael, that we've worked on over the last decade to make a reality. This winter it was finally completed […]

Garden District Book Shop, A Studio in the Woods, and the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University present a virtual event, Life of a Klansman: A […]

A Studio in the Woods is seeking a part-time Development Manager to spearhead the organization’s fundraising efforts. A successful candidate will possess the ability to build and execute a comprehensive fundraising plan […]

For last minute questions please contact us at 504-407-4410. This year our annual celebration of art and nature will bring the magic of the bottomland hardwood forest into the city […]

Our 10th annual FORESTival will be held on Saturday, November 14, 2020.  Stay tuned for details on art, music and more!

Announcing the open call for the next Gulf South Writer in the Woods, a program of A Studio in the Woods and the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, for BILAPOC Speculative Fiction writers working in fiction, poetry and stage/screenwriting.

Join Gulf South Writer in the Woods Ladee Hubbard and culinary historian Jessica Harris for a discussion of Hubbard’s new novel, The Rib King (HarperCollins 1/19/21) moderated by Denise Frasier, Assistant Director, New Orleans Center for the Gulf South. Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at 6pm CT, register here. Hubbard works to deconstruct painful African American […]

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT Floating Adaptations In Search of Invisible Rivers is an installation conceived by Jeff Becker, Nick Slie and Monique Verdin that features visual art, live performance and food. In this one time event, the artists are physically modeling ideas about how we can learn to live with fluctuation, to live with […]

REGISTER HERE The New Orleans Center for the Gulf South and A Studio in the Woods present a virtual discussion with National Book Award winner and 2016-18 Gulf South Writer in the Woods Edward Ball and Tulane historian Dr. Laura Rosanne Adderley about Ball’s book, Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy, […]

REGISTER HERE Starting in January 2021 and for the entire Spring 2021 semester, Dr. Sacoby Wilson, (Associate Professor, Applied Environmental Health and the UMD Prevention Research Center at the University of Maryland, College Park) has been working remotely with Dillard faculty members John Barnes (Associate Professor of Visual Arts) and Keith Morris (Associate Professor of […]