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.

Artist Salon with Ladee Hubbard
2019-12-09 18:30 - 21:30 UTC | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
Monday, December 9, 2019, 6:30pm at A Studio in the Woods, join us for a potluck and to learn more about author Ladee Hubbard.
Ladee Hubbard is the second Gulf South Writer in the Woods, an appointment spanning 18 months in 2019 and 2020 which includes a total of six weeks in residence at A Studio in the Woods, public engagement programming, and research support. During the residency, Hubbard will be revising her novel, The Rib King. Spanning a ten-year period between 1917 and 1927, The Rib King shares its name with a fictitious brand of barbecue sauce that August Sitwell, an African-American groundskeeper, creates with the help of a cook, Mamie Clark. The sauce receives national distribution and is sold with a caricature of August on the label. The Rib King draws upon the author’s interest in the popularity of minstrelsy and the devastating impact it had on African-Americans’ efforts to assert their rights as citizens during the first decades of the 20th century. In chronicling the path through which August Sitwell’s distorted image becomes an emblem of quality, reliability, and modern convenience the novel explores the nostalgia for slavery that was so vividly dramatized through the use of African-Americans to sell consumer items, particularly culinary products, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Ladee Hubbard is the author of the novel The Talented Ribkins which received the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction. She received a BA from Princeton University, a MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her short fiction has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Callaloo and Guernica, among other venues. Her film and book reviews appear in The Times Literary Supplement. She is a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and has received additional fellowships and grants from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, MacDowell Colony and Sewanee Writers Conference among others. She lives in New Orleans.
Gulf South Writer in the Woods, a program of A Studio in the Woods and the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, is designed to support the creative work, scholarship and community engagement of writers examining the Gulf South region.
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

Hannah Pepper-Cunningham presents "Carbon, Capture"
2019-12-14 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | Catapult, 609 St. Ferdinand St, New Orleans, LA, 70117
Adaptations Resident Hannah Pepper-Cunningham and local artist Ron Ragin have been investigating material for their first solo performances and will share their findings at ONESIE — a duet of solos on December 14 at 7:30pm or December 15 at 2:00pm at Catapult, 609 St. Ferdinand, presented by Mondo Bizarro, and supported through a grant from the New Orleans Theater Association.
Carbon, Capture by Hannah Pepper-Cunnigham. Not every solution to climate change is a good one. This performance was made possible by an Adaptations residency at A Studio in the Woods.
[ ] by Ron Ragin. As my father was dying, he asked me to hold his hand for the first time. Oh? Oh … What did my family teach me about how to touch other Black men? I am digging with my fingers to remember. This performance was made possible with an Artist Studio residency at Double Edge Theatre.
Please RSVP using this form
Seating is very limited. Tickets are $10-$20 sliding scale (but no one turned away for lack of funds), and you can pay for them the night of the show. Cash is preferred.
Catapult is not climate controlled, so will be as cold or colder than outside temps. We will have some blankets on hand, but please dress accordingly and bring what you need to feel comfortable!

"Regina Agu: Passage" Gallery Talk with Tia-Simone Gardner
2019-12-18 18:00 - 19:00 UTC | New Orleans Museum of Art, One Collins C. Diboll Circle, City Park, New Orleans, LA, United States
Special Collaborations Resident Regina Agu will be joined by Adaptations Resident Tia-Simone Gardner in a discussion at New Orleans Museum of Art about Agu’s panoramic installation Passage, on view in the Great Hall through February 10, 2020. Passage was created in partnership with A Studio in the Woods, through an artist residency.
December 18, 2019, 6pm at New Orleans Museum of Art.

Mardi Gras from a Bird's Eye View Costume Building
2020-01-20 13:00 - 17:00 UTC | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
We are looking for volunteers to participate in a Mardi Gras recycling program to promote citizen science! Volunteers will need to commit to attending one costume building session on either January 20 or a second date TBD and one bead collection day (4 hours) that will take place on the Uptown New Orleans parade route on the 15th and the 23rd of February, times TBA.
SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER HERE
More information on the project here

Regina Agu Closing Gallery Talk
2020-01-26 13:00 - 14:00 UTC | New Orleans Museum of Art, One Collins C. Diboll Circle, City Park, New Orleans, LA, United States
On the final day to view Regina Agu’s panoramic installation in the the New Orleans Museum of Art’s Great Hall titled Passage, performance artist Megan Easley will deliver a water and audio performance in the Great Hall in tribute to the work at 1pm. The performance will be followed by a Gallery Talk with Regina Agu at 1:30 pm. Passage was created in partnership with A Studio in the Woods, through an artist residency. More information here.

Mardi Gras from a Bird's Eye View Costume Building
2020-01-28 18:00 - 20:30 UTC | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, United States
We are looking for volunteers to participate in a Mardi Gras recycling program to promote citizen science! Volunteers will need to commit to attending the costume building session on January 28 and one bead collection day (4 hours) that will take place on the Uptown New Orleans parade route on the 15th and the 23rd of February, times TBA.
SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER HERE
More information on the project here

Artist Salon with Nick Slie
2020-01-30 18:30 - 21:30 UTC | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
Please join us to meet A Studio in the Woods’ newest resident artist, Nick Slie, who has been awarded one of six Adaptations Residencies at A Studio in the Woods this season.

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!

While in residence, Nick will embark on “Invisible Rivers,” a series of performances and public walks that seek to re-engage citizens with the wisdom of adaptation and uncertainty inherent in the once wild paths of the Mississippi River. “Invisible Rivers” unites the power of art, the strategies of cultural organizing, and the wisdom of ancestry to investigate how the structures of control it takes to levee a river have shown up in the interior landscapes of the people, protecting us from a most necessary tool of adaptation: grief.
Nick Slie is a New Orleans-born performer, producer and cultural organizer. He is the Co-Artistic Director of Mondo Bizarro and an Associate Professor of Theater at Nunez Community College. Nick’s creative endeavors range from interdisciplinary solo performances to large-scale community festivals, from innovative digital storytelling projects to site-responsive productions. For more than a decade, he has been passionately engaged in rebuilding his hometown of New Orleans, collaborating across sectors on a vast array of local performance and arts-based civic engagement projects. Since 2002, Nick has toured a wide array of imaginative projects to art centers, universities and outdoor locations in 38 states across the country and abroad. However, he is most proud of the work he does in Southeast Louisiana, where the land kisses the water.

New Orleans Town Gardeners Walk in the Woods with David Baker
2020-02-07 11:00 - 12:30 UTC | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
Join us for a fun and informative Walk in the Woods with Studio Botanist David Baker to learn about his work and the land first-hand. Visitors are welcome to bring lunch with them to enjoy on the grounds following the tour. The event is free but please RSVP. Friday, February 7 at 11am at A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd. New Orleans, LA 70131. This program is sponsored by the New Orleans Town Gardeners.

Mardi Gras From a Bird's Eye View Bead Collection
2020-02-15 13:00 - 17:30 UTC | Uptown Parade Route – St. Charles between Napoleon and Louisiana
Recycle your beads with the Mockingbird Project! Artist Pippin Frisbie-Calder, scientists from Karubian Lab, and community volunteers will be out on the Uptown parade route (St. Charles between Napoleon and Louisiana) to recycle Mardi Gras Beads and raise awareness about lead contamination in the city. Bring us your beads and we will exchange them for a hand-made throw and recycle them. Saturday, January 15, 1:30pm – 5:30pm.
A Studio in the Woods is working in collaboration with Tulane biologists Dr. Jordan Karubian and PhD student Annelise Blanchette to host an artist residency for printmaker Pippin Frisbie-Calder to raise awareness about urban birds and lead contamination in New Orleans with themes related to both public health and the well being 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.
A key component to this project will be getting toxic beads out of the trash and into recycling programs. In addition to high levels of lead in New Orleans from historic contamination, Mardi Gras beads have been shown to have high levels of heavy metals. Objects tossed off of Mardi Gras parade floats, called ‘throws’ locally, comprise approximately 25 million pounds of trash produced annually during the two week celebration. Our intention is to incentivize people to recycle their beads by exchanging them for a beautiful, eco-friendly, handcrafted throw. Thanks to GroundsKrewe.org and ArcGNO.org for assistance in recycling our beads!

Mardi Gras From a Bird's Eye View Bead Collection
2020-02-23 13:30 - 17:30 UTC | Uptown Parade Route – Napoleon between Tchoupitoulas and St. Charles
Recycle your beads with the Mockingbird Project! Artist Pippin Frisbie-Calder, scientists from Karubian Lab, and community volunteers will be out on the Uptown parade route (Napoleon between Magazine and St. Charles) to recycle Mardi Gras Beads and raise awareness about lead contamination in the city. Bring us your beads and we will exchange them for a hand-made throw and recycle them. Sunday, February 23, 1:30pm – 5:30pm.
A Studio in the Woods is working in collaboration with Tulane biologists Dr. Jordan Karubian and PhD student Annelise Blanchette to host an artist residency for printmaker Pippin Frisbie-Calder to raise awareness about urban birds and lead contamination in New Orleans with themes related to both public health and the well being 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.
A key component to this project will be getting toxic beads out of the trash and into recycling programs. In addition to high levels of lead in New Orleans from historic contamination, Mardi Gras beads have been shown to have high levels of heavy metals. Objects tossed off of Mardi Gras parade floats, called ‘throws’ locally, comprise approximately 25 million pounds of trash produced annually during the two week celebration. Our intention is to incentivize people to recycle their beads by exchanging them for a beautiful, eco-friendly, handcrafted throw. Thanks to GroundsKrewe.org and ArcGNO.org for assistance in recycling our beads!
