In this new speaker series presented by Newcomb Art Museum in partnership with A Studio in the Woods, The ByWater Institute at Tulane University, and Nola Gulf South, unlikely pairings of Tulane and Gulf South experts use an aspect of Newcomb's latest exhibition as the catalyst for interdisciplinary dialogue. In this edition, current resident Tia-Simon Gardner and English Chair Mike […]
Join current Adaptations Resident Tia-Simone Gardner for 'A Thing that Floats: Collaborative Design Charrette'. Participants in the charrette will collectively work on drawing designs and generate ideas for prototypes for small floating structures that can house cameras to capture images on the water. The goal is to think about the process of making images on a powerful moving body […]
Recent Adaptations Resident Aubrey Edwards will be co-hosting the next iteration of Bring Your Own, a live storytelling pop-up series that takes place in living rooms, backyards, after-hours storefronts and other intimate spaces within the New Orleans community. The theme is "A Queen Within", featuring stories that reimagine gender, conformity, royalty, & power. Friday March 23, 6pm, at The […]
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 […]
