Current Adaptations Resident Geraldine Laurendeau has been collaborating with Environmental Curator David Baker to investigate and respond to our site. Drawing on David's fifteen years of experience restoring and managing our forest, Geraldine has installed several site-specific earthworks titled "Territoires d'Impermanence", that remember, reveal, observe, experiment and mitigate features of this land. Join us on Friday, February 22, 12:30 […]

The Land Memory Bank and Seed Exchange will be activating for the 44th Annual Los Islenos Fiesta, March 9th and 10th, on the banks of St. Bernard Parish’s Bayou Terre aux Boeufs. In the fall of 2018, in celebration of the 300 year colonial establishment of the city of New Orleans, the Cultural Office of […]

New Orleans Video Access Center and A Studio in the Woods present a picture of life on the coast and a historical retrospective in three short films from the Post Coastal series. Refuge, Locked, and Ends of the Earth (a film from the 70s by local artists about Plaquemines Parish) provide a unique spectrum of perspectives […]

New Orleans Center for the Gulf South welcomes you to Tulane's Climate Action Week with a Thursday poetry reading from poet-scholar Aurora Levins Morales. Levins Morales calls us to face the urgency and danger of the present with imagination and hope, making the time and space to dream together, dream big, and set a real […]

Calling all writers: aspiring, experienced, and/or interested! FREE WRITERS WORKSHOP, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 10am-12:30pm, NEWCOMB HALL #119, TULANE UNIVERSITY New Orleans Center for the Gulf South welcomes you to apply for a workshop with former A Studio in the Woods Adaptations Resident and renowned Puerto Rican-Jewish poet and scholar Aurora Levins Morales. The workshop is called Earthing/Unearthing: […]

Get into the Woods with Environmental Curator David Baker! This year, some of the many celebratory programs we have planned to mark the 50th anniversary of the Carmichaels' purchase of our land are quarterly walks in the woods. Chat with David over lunch and then head out into the woods to learn about his work […]

Are you a local artist thinking of applying for an Adaptations Residency? Our friends at Arts Council New Orleans have kindly agreed to host us at their offices to present information on applying for Adaptations Residencies for 2019-20. Please join us to learn more: Thursday, April 11th, 1-2pm Arts Council New Orleans 1307 Oretha Castle […]

Get into the Woods with Environmental Curator David Baker this Earth Day! This year, some of the many celebratory programs we have planned to mark the 50th anniversary of the Carmichaels' purchase of our land are quarterly walks in the woods. Chat with David over lunch and then head out into the woods to learn […]

Support artists by making a donation to A Studio in the Woods this GiveNOLA Day! All funds raised will go directly towards supporting our artist-centered programming, specifically Adaptations Residencies for the 2019-20 season. Adaptations Residencies invite artists to examine how climate driven adaptations – large and small, historic and contemporary, cultural and scientific – are […]