Join us and artist Brandon Ballengée in Plaquemines Parish, on March 25, for a community celebration of art, adaptation, and fishes! Fishes are by far the most successful group of vertebrates (animals with backbones) to ever occupy Earth. Fish are marvels of adaptation and resilience, occupying almost all bodies of water on our planet, and scientists have described […]
Be part of the Fishy Fun! Volunteer for FishSTOCK! March 25 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm Do you want to be part of FishSTOCK Festival? Sign up to volunteer on March 25 for a community celebration of art, adaptation, and fishes in Plaquemines Parish. <a href="https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/jdOr8TRNkxzwZ2aUPPyYgg">Register Here</a><br/>
Applications for Rising: Climate in Crisis Residencies are due by 11:59 pm pacific time on April 10, 2023. View full application details here.
Listen to Dr. Maupin's interview about Inspiring Health Justice on Spotify or MixCloud. This year's Inspiring Health Justice Residencies in collaboration with the Dillard Minority Health and Health Equity Research Center will culminate on April 13, 2023 at 5pm with an art opening and performance at Dillard University. Restoring Humanity: The Fight for Reproductive Justice in a Post-Roe World will showcase the work […]
Join us at the Small Center 1725 Baronne St) next Monday, May 8th from 5-7pm, for a Pop-Up Video Installation by current Rising: Climate in Crisis residents Artists-in-Residence Nailah Jefferson and Laurie Sumiye’s. This immersive, work-in-progress video installation delves into memory and tides of “urban renewal” in communities of color in New Orleans and Honolulu. In the displacement of lives impacted […]
Learn with former resident Shay Nichols how singing in nature can deepen our connection with the natural world and each other. Discover the process of rewilding your voice, allowing natural music to emerge. Listening deeply to the forest, Shay invites participants to play with the building blocks of music found in nature, using tones, textures, and rhythmic […]
Join us to meet and learn more about current Rising Residents Quintron & Miss Pussycat. They will give a short presentation on their work followed by a light dinner and refreshments. Registration is required below. During their residency, Quintron and Miss Pussycat will create a live puppet show about extreme weather events, utilizing a “Wildlife […]
Join us for a work-in-progress sharing of Rachel Lin Weaver’s MOSQUITO DANCE, a new multi-part experimental film and video/projection mapping installation series on Tuesday, May 23rd, from 6:30-9:00pm. Join us for Quintron & Miss Pussycat's Artist Salon and stay for Rachel's sharing. At this event, Weaver will showcase their first installment of projection and live/performed sound, which documents the microbial life […]
Join us for a Walk in the Woods on Friday, June 2nd (previously May 26th) at 9 am with Studio Botanist David Baker to learn first-hand about his work and the land. This walk will focus on the forest’s response to hurricanes and how increasing storm frequency changes the forest. If you donated to us […]
Joe M. Carmichael was an extraordinarily kind man who had an incredible ability to pay attention, a deep well of humor, a steady hand, a twinkling eye, and a creative mind full of inventive solutions to wide-ranging problems. His life touched innumerable friends, students, artists, scholars, and New Orleanians of all stripes, and he will […]
