A Studio in the Woods

FORESTival: A Celebration of Art and Nature
2018-11-10 11:00 - 17:00 UTC | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
Join us at A Studio in the Woods for the 8th annual FORESTival: a celebration of art and nature!
Suggested $10 Donation*, KIDS FREE!
Music and Performances:
12:00pm * Les Cenelles
1:00pm * Punica Granatum’s Bittersweet Orbit
2:00pm * The Original Pinettes Brass Bandjohnjohn
3:00pm * Jonathan Mayers’ Pirogue Poetry
3:30pm * GIVERS
Walks in the Woods:
11:30am * TREES with ASITW Environmental Curator and botanist David Baker
12:30pm * BUGS with ecologist Dorothy Cheruiyot
3:00pm * TREES with ASITW Environmental Curator and botanist David Baker
Musical performances by GIVERS, The Original Pinettes Brass Band, and Les Cenelles
Resident and guest artists John Kleinschmidt, Jonathan “rat de bois farouche” Mayers, Brandon Ballengée Studio presenting Crude Life, Delta Collaborative‘s TIMESHIP #39, Punica Granatum Collective performing Bittersweet Orbit, Antenna‘s Draw-a-Thon, Paper Monuments and more!
Food by Crêpes à la Cart- New Orleans, Pirogues, Faubourg Farms and Quintin’s Natural Ice Cream & Sorbet. No outside food or beverage.
Art activities in the Kids in the Woods Studio and walks in the woods with scientists.
FORESTival is the only time during the year that A Studio in the Woods is open to the public at large and this signature celebration of art and nature is fun for the whole family. A Studio in the Woods is located in Lower Algiers at 13401 Patterson Rd. New Orleans LA, 70131, about a 25 minute drive from downtown New Orleans.
*About our suggested donation: $10 helps keep our programming going and cover the costs of producing the festival. You might consider paying less if you are un- or under- employed, have significant debt, lack access to familial/other assets and/or are supporting dependents. You might consider paying more if you have full time employment that enables you to meet your basic needs and have expendable income, you have no dependents and little debt, and/or you have access to multiple assets or familial wealth. We seek to welcome all people to our space and encourage you to pay what is comfortable for you.

Artist Salon with Manon Bellet
2018-11-19 06:30 - 21:00 UTC | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
Meet A Studio in the Woods’ newest resident artist, Manon Bellet, who has been awarded one of six Adaptations Residencies at A Studio in the Woods this season. Manon will present on her work to the group and then we will all share a meal.
This is a potluck, we will provide the main dish but ask that everyone pitch in a little something – drinks, salad, appetizer, dessert…
Manon Bellet is a French visual and olfactory artist who has lived and worked in New Orleans since 2016. Manon will extract scents from strategically chosen historic places in New Orleans and its surrounding regions which are destined to disappear soon due to ecological issues. This work aims to highlight the notions of being rooted and uprooted, especially in Louisiana. The project intends to show the risks for people who remain attached to their land, their territory, their place. Through the experience of these scents the artist hopes to broaden awareness of environmentally vulnerable areas.

Empire Closing Party
2018-12-08 16:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, United States
Newcomb Art Museum’s tricentennial installation EMPIRE by Fallen Fruit closes on December 22. But before that happens, let’s celebrate the run of this incredible show in style! Join us on December 8 for a day full of festivities and friends as we mark the close with three unique experiences.
At 12pm, bring out the whole family for a behind-the-scenes tour of the exhibition with Justin Mann, the Collections Manager of The Royal D. Suttkus Fish Collection at the Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute (Tulane’s infamous “Fish Library). Learn all about why Tulane has the largest fish library in the world, how it got started, and all about those jars of fish in EMPIRE.
Beginning at 4pm, enjoy an improvisational jazz concert featuring composer Courtney Bryan from the Tulane Newcomb Department of Music as she (along with special guests Denise Frazier, Free feral, and Tarrah Reynolds) interpret the objects on view using an interdisciplinary framework.
From 5 to 7 pm, the party continues with light refreshments, wine, and, best of all, a chance to meet David Allen Burns and Austin Young (the amazing artists that make up Fallen Fruit) and the team behind #EMPIRE.
This event is FREE and open to all! So join us on Saturday, December 8 and let’s celebrate in style!
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About the exhibition:
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 Woods, and Pelican Bomb. Through the assembly of over 400 objects culled from Tulane-affiliated archives, the artists have transformed the entire museum into one immersive artwork that explores the history of people and place in terms of cultural legacy, historical narrative, and social constructs.
EMPIRE at Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University is part of “Fallen Fruit of New Orleans” a suite of site-specific projects taking place throughout New Orleans from June 2017 through June 2018, commissioned and presented by Newcomb Art Museum, A Studio in the Woods, and Pelican Bomb. “Fallen Fruit of New Orleans” was initiated by Pelican Bomb in 2015.

Artist Salon with Ash Arder
2018-12-19 18:30 - 21:30 (America/Chicago) | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
adaThe event is free, but RSVP is required.
Meet A Studio in the Woods’ newest resident artist, Ash Arder, who has been awarded one of six Adaptations Residencies at A Studio in the Woods this season. Ash will present on her work to the group and then we will all share a meal.
This is a potluck, we will provide the main dish but ask that everyone pitch in a little something – drinks, salad, appetizer, dessert…
Please RSVP via the ticket link by December 17, 2018 and let us know what you plan to bring. Please note that parking is limited, save on gas and carpool with a friend!
About the work: Ash Arder will continue developing a multi-sensory body of work that examines human-plant relations through the lens of agricultural experiments in 19th century Louisiana. Archival reports from these experiments and found field recordings will be used as source material for new works that question historic human-plant relations and speculate about the future of that exchange.
About the artist: Ash Arder is a transdisciplinary artist who creates idea and object-based systems for interpreting and re-imagining interspecies relations (i.e. relations between humans and plants). This highly flexible, research-based approach examines these relationships primarily through pop culture and historic lenses. Arder’s systems and “exercises” take on forms including installation, sound, drawing, electronics, video and performance. Each ponders the role of agency, both active and passive, in co-creating an event or phenomenon. Arder is interested in complicating viewers’ own understanding of their proximity to and participation in the systems and cycles reflected in her work and subsequently at larger societal and ecological scales. These complications or moments of tension between living things, objects and space serve as a catalyst for interrogating the very conditions responsible for the glitch. Arder’s work and research probe historical events and pop culture (future history) for insight into what she understands to be “relational glitches,” or ruptures in empathy.

Walk in the Woods with David Baker
2019-01-11 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
50 years ago, Joe and Lucianne Carmichael purchased the land at 13401 River Road where A Studio in the Woods now lives. Since then, we have hosted more than 130 artists and scholars on the banks of the Mississippi River and worked hard to protect our precious bottomland hardwood forest.
The event is free, but please RSVP via this ticket link
Help us kick off our golden jubilee by getting into the Woods with Environmental Curator David Baker! This year one of the many celebratory programs we have planned are quarterly walks in the woods. Chat with David over lunch and then head out into the woods to learn about his work as Environmental Curator and the land first-hand.
Walks will take place on January 11, March 29, September 13, and at our 9th annual FORESTival on November 16. BYO picnic lunch at noon, walk will begin at 1pm.

Artist Salon with Geraldine Laurendeau
2019-01-24 18:30 - 21:00 UTC | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
Artist Salon with Geraldine Laurendeau
Join us Thursday, January 24, 2019, 6:30pm at A Studio in the Woods to meet our newest Adaptations resident, Geraldine Laurendeau.
This is a potluck, we will provide the main dish but ask that everyone pitch in a little something – drinks, salad, appetizer, dessert…
Geraldine Laurendeau is a multidisciplinary artist from Montreal. A trained ethnologist, she collaborates with First Nations, museums and research institutions as an independent curator, designer and consultant on projects related to environment, land planning, heritage, culture and biodiversity conservation, food security and health. During her residency, Geraldine will look at how Louisiana’s diverse cultural groups have developed strategies to adapt and deal with the abundance of water in the region. Geraldine will use drawing and photography to document the biogeography of the area, studying topography, water movements, landscape forms and vernacular architecture. Through this work Geraldine will explore solutions while creating a water resilient site-specific earthwork that will evolve over time.

Byron Asher's Skrontch Music
2019-02-12 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | Marigny Opera House, 725 St. Ferdinand St., New Orleans, LA, 70117, United States
Skrontch Music is an ongoing composition project led by multi-instrumentalist Byron Asher that investigates the history and lineage of New Orleans music in its social and political context through contemporary jazz composition and collective improvisation. The initial Skrontch Music suite was premiered in 2017 and explores the intertwined histories of New Orleans jazz and anti-Jim Crow activism in the early twentieth century. Asher worked on the piece during a 2017 Flint and Steel Residency at A Studio in the Woods. At the Marigny Opera House, the Skrontch ensemble will perform the original hour-long composition as well as a second set of brand new music.
Featuring Shaye Cohn, Emily Frederickson, Steve Glenn, Tomas Majcherski, Aurora Nealand, Ricardo Pascal, James Singleton, and Paul Thibodeaux.
Doors at 7PM | Suggested Donation: $15 General Admission / $10 Student & Senior

Territoires d'Impermanence
2019-02-22 12:30 - 14:00 UTC | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
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 – 2pm for lunch and an artist tour of Geraldine’s installations. The event is free but please RSVP here.

Bulbancha to Tamarán
2019-03-09 - 2019-03-10 | Los Isleños Heritage and Cultural Society, 1357 Bayou Rd., St. Bernard, LA, 70085, United States
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 the Embassy of Spain, SPAIN-USA Foundation and A Studio in the Woods partnered to offer a Spanish Exchange residency between the Mississippi River Delta and the Canary Islands. Saint Bernard Parish interdisciplinary storyteller and director of the Land Memory Bank, Monique Verdin, was the local artist awarded the opportunity to participate in the exchange on the island of Tamarán (Gran Canaria). Discoveries documented during Monique’s time on the island of Tamarán will be exhibited at the Fiesta, near the Land Memory Bank’s medicine wheel garden.
You can find the Land Memory Bank where the bottomland hardwood forest begins where they will be distributing indigenous pollinator seeds and offering opportunities for children and adults to weave with palmetto materials from the bottomland hardwoods of Saint Bernard Parish.
Another Gulf is Possible will partner to offer at sunset a CineSolar screening of video from Bulbancha (New Orleans) to Tamarán (Gran Canaria).

Artist Salon with Hannah Pepper-Cunningham
2019-03-12 18:30 - 21:00 UTC | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
Tuesday, March 12, 2019, 6:30pm at A Studio in the Woods, join us for a potluck and to learn more about our final Adaptations Resident of the 2018-19 season, Hannah Pepper-Cunningham!
Hannah Pepper-Cunningham has been creating performance work in New Orleans since 2009. A member of Mondo Bizarro from 2009-2018, Hannah served as co-artistic director of training programs and collaboratively developed and performed in “Cry You One” and “The Way at Midnight.” A member of Southerners on New Ground and Alternate ROOTS, Hannah organizes in multi-racial, multi-issue coalitions for racial and economic justice and LGBTQ liberation. In collaboration with New Orleans-based artists and organizers Hannah will create “Unfamiliar” (working title), a touring performance and workshop that will engage people to shift their relationships of care and responsibility in the era of climate change. Drawing on Hannah’s work in live performance, actor training and traditional music; the performance and accompanying workshop will be built to support organizing in multiracial movements for climate justice in the Southeast.
The event is free, but please RSVP here.

Post Coastal Film Retrospective at Tulane Climate Action Week
2019-03-20 06:00 - 20:00 UTC | Tulane University Jones Hall Room 102, 6801 Freret Street, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
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 on Louisiana’s current crisis of land loss. A panel discussion and Q+A are to follow. Wednesday, March 20th, 6pm. Tulane University Jones Hall Room 102, free and open to the public.
Click here to learn more about Tulane Climate Action Week.

Aurora Levins Morales: Gulf South Poetry and Ecology
2019-03-21 18:00 - 19:30 UTC | Rogers Memorial Chapel, Tulane University, 1229 Broadway St., New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
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 course toward our dreaming. She will be reading from and discussing Silt, a prose poetry collection exploring the natural and social histories of the Mississippi River through Caribbean Jewish eyes, through the stories of her own body and through her vision of ecological justice, a global culture of reciprocity, generosity and inclusion.
“This is the ceremony of our cells, each one a sip of water, a tiny ocean. So let the water in you call to the water in me. Let the water in our veins call to the water in the world, one rainstorm gathering over the dry paararllaces, ready to pour down quenching relief, for we are all of us thirsty. As we gather ourselves in prayerful determination on the edges of endangered streams, look out over the peril and grief of dead zones that should teem with life, let the water in me call to the water in you, and from the deepest waters of our beings all of us feel the pull of a single moon bright with reflected light, and all move together, ebb tide and flow, knowing that the rivers are ancient, but this moment is new.”
Visit her website: http://www.auroralevinsmorales.com/.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Regina Cairns at rcairns@tulane.edu or 504-314-2854.

Earthing/Unearthing: Exploring Our Kinship with this Land
2019-03-23 10:00 - 12:30 UTC | Newcomb Hall 119, Tulane University, 1229 Broadway St., New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
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: Exploring Our Kinship with this Land. Levins Morales will use a collective process to probe stories about how we’re connected to the land and waters of the Gulf Coast. Participants will work together to name questions, examine contradictions, and craft new versions of kinship.
Apply here: https://goo.gl/forms/sSkvfOTeEqUZVlBK2.
15 participants will be selected for the workshop. Deadline to apply is Friday, March 15.

Walk in the Woods with David Baker
2019-03-29 12:00 - 14:00 UTC | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
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 and the land first-hand. Bring a lunch to eat at noon, walk will begin at 1pm on Friday, March 29. The event is free but please RSVP here.

Adaptations Residencies Info Session
2019-04-11 13:00 - 14:00 UTC | Arts Council New Orleans, 1307 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd, New Orleans, LA, 70113, United States
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 Haley Boulevard, Suite 100.
(Entry is at the back of the building, look for signage on our door next to the Dryades Market). Free parking available in the lot. Light refreshments provided.
A Studio in the Woods will be offering six-week residencies which include a stipend and supply budget between September 2019 – May 2020. Adaptations Residencies invite artists to examine how adaclimate driven adaptations – large and small, historic and contemporary, cultural and scientific – shape our future. The call is open to artists of all disciplines who have demonstrated an established dialogue with environmental and culturally related issues and a commitment to seeking and plumbing new depths. Applications due April 22, 2019. Click here for more information and to apply.

Earth Day Walk in the Woods with David Baker
2019-04-22 12:00 - 14:00 UTC | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
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 about his work and the land first-hand. Bring a lunch to eat at noon, walk will begin at 1pm on Monday, April 22. The event is free but please RSVP here.

Support Artists on GiveNOLA Day!
2019-05-07 00:00 - 23:59 UTC | LA
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 shaping our future. These residencies provide artists with time, space, scholarship and staff support to foster critical thinking and the creation of new works.
The works fostered during these residencies challenge us to consider how we interact with our environment and each other admist our current climate crisis in new and inventive ways. Your gift will help bring these works, and the change they foster, into being.
Thank you for supporting artists this GiveNOLA day!
DONATE HERE

Bottomland Jubilee
2019-05-19 16:00 - 19:00 UTC | Audubon Species Survival Center, 14001 Patterson Rd., New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
Join A Studio in the Woods in celebrating 50 years on the Mississippi River!
Bottomland Jubilee: A Benefit for A Studio in the Woods, Celebrating 50 Years of Land and Legacy
Sunday, May 19, 2019
4 – 7pm
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE
The McDermott Lodge at the Freeport McMoRan Audubon Species Survival Center
14001 Patterson Road
New Orleans, LA 70131
Fine fare by Mosquito Supper Club Chef Melissa Martin and Peche Seafood Grill Chef Ryan Prewitt.
Music from Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots with special appearance by Dr. Michael White
Artistic offerings by former residents and guest artists including Brandon Ballengée, Manon Bellet, Pippin Frisbie-Calder, Jonathan Mayers, and Hannah Pepper-Cunningham.

Deserts by Shake Sugary.
Signature cocktail by Cure Co.
Silent auction
Special thanks to Movers and Shakers for bartending services.
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE

Special thanks to our Bottomland Jubilee Sponsors: Lambent Foundation, Lynne Burkart, Mark and Susan Davis, Jones Walker, Power Systems Specialists, Lyn Tomlinson, Rodney and Mary Yanker, Mary and Larry Antonini, Jered Bocage, Shirley Trusty Corey, Mary Len and Lou Costa, Hancock Whitney, Scott Hutcheson and David Hoover, Ellen Johnson and Ronnie Swartz, Doug Meffert and Lee Ledbetter, Kristin Gisleson Palmer, Libra LaGrone Pealer and Casius Pealer, Brinkley Serkedakis and Alicia Franck, Jackie Sullivan, John Kleinschmidt, Benjamin Morris, Maxwell Yanker, Audubon Institute, and Orleans Image Consulting LLC.

Deadline to Apply - Tulane Scholarly Retreats
2019-05-20 | LA
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- to two-week residencies during Academic Year F2019-S2020. These residencies will provide a retreat for faculty and trainees across disciplines to work on a discrete project or scholarly pursuit that can be new or complementary to ongoing work. Applications can be made independently, though collaborative cross-discipline team applications are encouraged. This opportunity may be considered similar to an artist residency, writing fellowship or grant-in-aid. Past honorees have used the retreat to analyze data, write an article, prepare for a conference or begin a new project.
APPLY HERE

Ash Arder: Work in Progress
2019-05-23 16:00 - 19:00 UTC | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
Current Adapatations Resident Ash Arder welcomes members of the community to experience a work-in-progress series of interactive sound sculptures reflecting on the shared histories and tactile experiences of farmers and farm machines. The works are inspired by historic and contemporary technical documentation of agricultural processes and innovation. The works further Ash’s curiosity around what can happen when the experiences of plants and machines are taken into consideration when reflecting on the relationship between the agricultural industry and western culture at large.
Ash Arder (b. 1988, Flint, Michigan) is a transdisciplinary artist whose research-based approach works to expose, deconstruct or reconfigure physical and conceptual systems – especially those relating to ecology. Arder’s highly flexible practice examines interspecies relations and natural phenomena primarily through historical and popular culture lenses.
Statement: At the very core, my creative practice is concerned with the idea of relation. Relation is, for me, a basic tenet for understanding how collaboration between ideas and entities might occur. It also acts as a guide for interpreting and making tangible my own patterns of thought and logic. I use the idea of speculative collaboration as a framework to expose, deconstruct or reconfigure physical and conceptual systems – especially those relating to ecology.
These systems and “exercises” take on forms including installation, sculpture, sound, drawing, electronics, video and performance. Each ponders the role of agency, both active and passive, in co-creating an event or phenomenon. I am interested in complicating viewers’ own understanding of their proximity to and participation in the systems and cycles reflected in my work and subsequently at larger societal and ecological scales. These complications or moments of tension between living things, objects and space serve as a catalyst for interrogating the very conditions responsible for the glitch. My work and research probe historical events and pop culture (future history) for insight into what I think of as “relational glitches,” or ruptures in empathy.

Deadline to Apply - FATHOM: Volume I, Lead Residency
2019-06-15 | LA
A Studio in the Woods envisions an open call to select a local artist to work with Tulane biologists to raise awareness about lead contamination in New Orleans with themes related to both public health and the wellbeing of all living creatures. As in many older cities around the world, lead contamination represents an important health risk to both human and animal inhabitants of New Orleans. Ongoing work by Dr. Jordan Karubian and colleagues suggests that high levels of lead in some New Orleans neighborhoods may impact the behavior and reproductive success of urban songbirds. In this way, these songbirds may serve as “canaries in the coal mine” for the risks associated with lead contamination, with the potential to raise awareness about this important but sometimes under-appreciated issue.
The artist will collaborate closely with scientists from Karubian Lab and staff at A Studio in the Woods to understand the effects of lead and develop provocative community engagement using the shared platform of Mardi Gras as a vehicle to reach a broad swath of local residents. The program period will be September 2019-April 2020, and the artist should plan to be in residence at A Studio in the Woods for three weeks during this time. FATHOM: Volume I, Lead is a pilot effort between A Studio in the Woods, Karubian Lab, and ByWater Institute to support and examine the real-world impact of art/science collaborations. If successful, this project has the potential to extend an additional year. ByWater Institute researchers will study the collaborative process between the artist and scientists through interviews and observations, and will evaluate the project’s impact on participants through surveys.
APPLY HERE

Culture Collision
2019-08-28 17:30 - 20:00 UTC | Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., New Orleans, LA
Come visit with A Studio in the Woods staff at Culture Collision! Learn more about our upcoming year of residencies and the work we do to preserve the bottomland hardwood forest.

Artist Salon with Regina Agu
2019-09-10 18:30 - 21:30 UTC | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
You are cordially invited to meet A Studio in the Woods’ newest resident artist, Regina Agu. In residence through a collaboration with New Orleans Museum of Art, Agu will create an installation for NOMA’s Great Hall to be displayed in conjunction with their upcoming exhibition, Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana. Agu is working closely with Studio botanist David Baker as she explores and investigates the Louisiana landscape. She will give a public talk at NOMA on Friday, Nov. 22 at 7:30 pm to celebrate the opening of the installation.
This is a potluck, we will provide the main dish but ask that everyone pitch in a little something – drinks, salad, appetizer, dessert…
Please RSVP here and let us know what you plan to bring. Click here for map and directions. Please note that parking is limited, save on gas and carpool with a friend!
Regina Agu’s recent work investigates the complex relationships between the landscape and communities of color, with a special focus on the U.S. Gulf Coast region. Her work is conceptually oriented towards language, history, and representation. Agu’s practice employs a variety of tactics and theories drawn from black geographies, critical geography, conceptual writing, and poetry. Her research often involves site exploration and working with and through archives. Agu produces texts, photographs, and drawings, in addition to installations, performances, and collaborative public projectsps.
Her work has been included in exhibitions, public readings, and performances nationally. In 2018, Agu was a Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts + Project Row Houses fellow at the University of Houston, a Lawndale Artist Studio Program resident, and was awarded a residency at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans through a partnership with For Freedoms. Agu received a 2017 Artadia Houston award and was a 2016-2017 Open Sessions participant at The Drawing Center. Agu was the co-director of Alabama Song, a collaboratively-run art space in Third Ward, Houston, which received a 2016 SEED grant from The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Agu is the founder of the Houston-based WOC Reading Group, and her other collaborative projects include Friends of Angela Davis Park and the Houston-based independent small press paratext.
This project by Regina Agu is being created in partnership with New Orleans Museum of Art, through an artist residency with A Studio in the Woods.
Image: Regina Agu, Sea Change, 2016, vinyl print, 6 ft x 70 ft (approx.) installation view at Project Row Houses, Houston, TX. Photo credit: Alex Barber. © Regina Agu 2019

Artist Salon with kai barrow
2019-09-26 18:30 - 21:30 UTC | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
Thursday, September 26, 2019, 6:30pm at A Studio in the Woods, join us for a potluck and to learn more about our first Adaptations Resident of the 2019-20 season, kai barrow!
While in residence, kai barrow will continue work on “A CHORUS OF OUTLAWS,” a multimedia assemblage of ‘singing’ sculptures. The work features the recorded voices, ecologies, and sounds of historic and contemporary refugees, fugitives, abolitionists, and nomads—people who demonstrate radical imagination to both escape environmental and carceral harms and to create sustainable communities elsewhere. barrow is a visual and performance artist who lives and works in New Orleans and is concerned with notions of radical imagination.
This is a potluck, we will provide the main dish but ask that everyone pitch in a little something – drinks, salad, appetizer, dessert…
The event is free, but please RSVP here.

New Orleans Town Gardeners Walk in the Woods with David Baker
2019-10-04 13:00 - 14:00 UTC | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
Get into the Woods with Environmental Curator David Baker! Chat with David over lunch and then head out into the woods to learn about his work and the land first-hand. Bring a lunch to eat at noon, walk will begin at 1pm on Friday, October 4. The event is free but please RSVP. This program is sponsored by the New Orleans Town Gardeners.

Artist Salon with Margaret Pearce
2019-10-10 18:30 - 21:30 (America/Chicago) | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
Thursday, October 10, 2019, 6:30pm at A Studio in the Woods, join us for a potluck and to learn more about our newest Adaptations Resident, Margaret Pearce.
While in residence, Margaret Pearce (Citizen Band Potawatomi), will continue research for “Mississippi Dialogues,” a three-year project to map public opinion about flooding into an Indigenized map of the Mississippi River. She will use her residency to be in proximity to Indigenous communities of the Delta while researching their place-worlds with their permission, and for sustained focus on translating those worlds into the design and layout of the panels. Margaret Pearce is a cartographer and writer based in Rockland, Maine. She sees cartographic language as a powerful mode of graphic expression complementary to writing and speech, where narratives and dialogues across cultures and between viewpoints can be explored and new possibilities given room to emerge and flower, in particular for the expression of Indigenous geographies.
This is a potluck, we will provide the main dish but ask that everyone pitch in a little something – drinks, salad, appetizer, dessert…
The event is free, but please RSVP here.

Uncommon Exchanges: Pippin Frisbie-Calder and Jordan Karubian
2019-10-15 18:30 - 20:00 UTC | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, United States
In partnership with A Studio in the Woods, The ByWater Institute at Tulane University, and The New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, Newcomb Art Museum‘s interdisciplinary conversation series “Uncommon Exchanges” invites the New Orleans community to interact with diverse experts from Tulane and the Gulf South region. Using the current exhibitions “Flint is Family” and “The American Dream Denied” as a catalyst, Pippin Frisbie-Calder, FATHOM Resident Artist at A Studio in the Woods and Jordan Karubian, Phd, Associate Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Tulane will engage in a unique conversation bridging their different disciplines and expertise to workshop new kinds of questions and establish commonalities.

Artist Salon with kei slaughter and ChE
2019-10-23 18:30 - 21:30 UTC | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
Wednesday, October 23, 2019, 6:30pm at A Studio in the Woods, join us for a potluck and to learn more about our newest Adaptations Residents kei slaughter and ChE.
While in residence, kei slaughter and ChE will work on “The People Can Fly,” a land-responsive performance ritual rooted in Queer Afro-Indigenous cultural strategies to address issues of climate gentrification, environmental racism, and land displacement for communities most impacted by climate adaptations. kei slaughter is an interdisciplinary performing artist, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and music therapist. Born and raised in New Orleans, they believe in the power of music to carry ancestral medicine, conjure freedom, and activate sustainable joy. ChE is a proudly Queer, Gender-expansive Afro-Indigenous artist-healer, educator, and movement organizer. They weave ancestral ritual, liberatory facilitation, and socially-engaged artmaking to transform systems of oppression and conjure expansive worlds of Freedom!
ChE and kei invite guests to bring an altar item for their ancestral altar. They will be able to take it home with them at the end of the evening.
This is a potluck, we will provide the main dish but ask that everyone pitch in a little something – drinks, salad, appetizer, dessert… The event is free, but please RSVP here.

FORESTival: A Celebration of Art and Nature
2019-11-16 10:00 - 17:00 UTC | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
Our 9th annual FORESTival will be held on Saturday November 16, 2019, 10am – 5pm at A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Road (Westbank, New Orleans).
Overflow parking and shuttle at 9201 Patterson Rd.
Tickets $15*, kids free. Early bird hour 10am – 11am with $10 admission and a bird tour at 10:30am.

2019 marks the 50th anniversary of our Founders’ purchase of the land A Studio in the Woods sits upon, and we are celebrating in style with music from the Grammy award winning Lost Bayou Ramblers, Panorama Brass Band, Blake Amos, and harpist Nancy Burtchaell.
Resident and guest artists including Monica Haller and Sebastian Muellauer, Geraldine Laurendeau and Jonathan “rat de bois farouche” Mayers, Margaret Pearce, Antenna’s Draw-a-thon, and more!
Anthropocene River Campus and New Orleans Center for the Gulf South basecamp, with offerings by Ryan Clarke, Mareli Sanchez Julia and Kristina Kay Robinson.
Swiss Touch with Green Light New Orleans and panel discussion featuring artists Anne Blenker, Hannah Chalew, Miro Hoffmann, and Michel Varisco.
Food by Faubourg Farms, Pirogues, Silk Road and Quintin’s Natural Ice Cream.
Art activities in the Kids in the Woods Studio, silent auction, and walks in the woods with scientists.
No outside food and beverage allowed.
* No one turned away due to lack of funds
Special thanks to our sponsors Valero, NOH3 Inc. Red Dress Run, Power Systems Specialists, Tom and Ellen Prewitt, Rodney and Mary Yanker, Susan and Ralph Brennan, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Canizaro Arbors Estates of Orleans, Werling Builders, Bayou Tree, Hancock Whitney, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, WWNO, Propaganda Group, Regions Bank, New Orleans Town Gardeners, River Queen Greens, Consulate General of Switzerland in Atlanta, Consulate of Switzerland in New Orleans, Presence Switzerland, The Jazz Foundation of America, New Belgium Brewing, and Plaquemines Parish Seafood Festival.

Opening Night and Gallery Talk: "Passage" by Regina Agu
2019-11-22 17:00 - 21:00 UTC | New Orleans Museum of Art, One Collins C. Diboll Circle, City Park, New Orleans, LA, United States
Join us at New Orleans Museum of Art to celebrate the public opening of Regina Agu’s installation “Passsage.” At 7:30 PM, the artist will give a Gallery Talk in the Great Hall.
ABOUT PASSAGE
“Passage” is an immersive, site-specific installation created for the New Orleans Museum of Art by contemporary artist Regina Agu and marks her first solo museum show. Inspired by the historical form of the panorama, Agu’s 100-foot-long installation weaves together imagery of waterways from across Louisiana to consider how the landscapes, people, and histories of the region are connected by and through water. Agu’s project mines histories of landscape painting to explore the unique social and political geographies of the Gulf Coast. This installation was created in partnership with A Studio in the Woods, through an artist residency.
