FORESTival 2020

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 and your home. Choose your own adventure from an array of offerings and socially-distanced experiences that capture the essence of FORESTival while supporting the vital […]

FORESTival: A Celebration of Art and Nature

A Studio in the Woods 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, United States

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

Open Call for Next Gulf South Writer in the Woods

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.

Gulf South Writer in the Woods Ladee Hubbard In Conversation with Dr. Jessica B. Harris

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 […]

Floating Adaptations In Search of Invisible Rivers 

Super Secret Location TBA

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 […]

Reckoning with the History of Whiteness in New Orleans: A conversation with author Edward Ball and historian Dr. Laura Rosanne Adderley

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, […]

Virtual Opening of “Syndemic: COVID-19 and Health Disparities” Exhibition

Zoom

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 […]

Syndemic: Racism, Environment, and COVID-19

Zoom

REGISTER HERE Please join us for a conversation about health disparities and COVID-19 between Dr. Sacoby Wilson, Associate Professor with the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Maryland-College Park, and Dr. Thomas LaVeist, Dean of the Tulane University School of Public Health and […]

Deadline for Tulane Scholarly Retreat Applications

The ByWater Institute and A Studio in the Woods seek to enhance and support the scholarship, creativity and cross-disciplinary activity of Tulane faculty and trainees by awarding one-week residencies during Academic Year F2021-S2022. These residencies will provide a retreat for faculty and trainees across disciplines to work on a discrete project or scholarly pursuit that […]

Uncommon Exchanges: Indigo

Zoom

REGISTER HERE Newcomb Art Museum in partnership with A Studio in the Woods, The ByWater Institute at Tulane University, and New Orleans Center for the Gulf South presents Uncommon Exchanges: Indigo, a unique dialogue between unlikely pairings of Tulane and Gulf South experts. Rising Resident LaChaun Moore and anthropologist Dr. Sabia McCoy-Torres will use the […]