A Studio in the Woods

Artist Salon with Desiree S. Evans
2022-05-10 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
Join us and New Orleans Center for the Gulf South to meet and learn more about current Gulf South Writer in the Woods Desiree S. Evans! Desiree will give a short presentation followed by a light dinner and refreshments outdoors. At A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd. New Orleans 70131. Registration required below. Proof of vaccination or negative PCR test within 72 hours required for those 5 and up. Directions here.
As the third Gulf South Writer in the Woods, Desiree S. Evans will be completing work on a dystopian literary fantasy novel set hundreds of years into the future along what remains of the Gulf Coast. The novel tells the story of an African-American woman and her family surviving in a post-climate change world where most of Louisiana is under water. In this phantasmagorical new landscape, monsters of myth and legend converge alongside stories of our past and dreams of our possible futures. As a work of speculative fiction and eco-fabulism, the novel makes its home alongside the growing canon of literature exploring the effects of anthropogenic climate change. Desiree will also spend time during her residency editing her short-fiction collection — an interlinked series of stories steeped in the folklore, mythology, and history of the bayou communities of rural Louisiana. As a Louisiana native, the Gulf South region plays an important role in Desiree’s writing. In taking readers into her speculative Southern landscapes, she aims to showcase the rich heritage and cultural traditions of a place that is sometimes more water than land. Desiree’s stories exist in a space where storms and rivers rage, where ancestors call, and where magic just might be real enough to touch.
Desiree S. Evans is an award-winning writer, scholar, and activist from South Louisiana. She writes fiction for children, teens, and adults. She is a 2020 winner of the Walter Dean Myers Grant for children’s fiction awarded by the organization We Need Diverse Books. She is a contributor to the anthology Foreshadow: Stories to Celebrate the Magic of Reading and Writing YA (Algonquin Young Readers, 2020). Her creative writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and has appeared in literary journals such as Gulf Coast, The Offing, Nimrod Journal, Cosmonauts Avenue, and other venues. Her work has received support from the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA/Voices), Kimbilio Fiction, the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Hurston/Wright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. Desiree holds an MFA in creative writing from the Michener Center for Writers at The University of Texas at Austin, an MA in international policy from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and a BA in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
Gulf South Writer in the Woods, a program of A Studio in the Woods and the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, supports the creative work, scholarship and community engagement of writers examining the Gulf South region.
Register here for Artist Salon with Desiree S. Evans

Fishes: Masters of Adaptation – Workshop and Tour of the Royal D. Suttkus Fish Collection
2022-05-21 09:45 - 12:00, 2022-06-18 09:45 - 12:00, 2022-09-24 09:45 - 12:00 | Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute, 3705 Main St, Belle Chasse, LA, 70037
Join artist and biologist Brandon Ballengée for an art-science workshop on Gulf fish species diversity, natural history and specimen drawing! We will tour Tulane University’s Royal D. Suttkus Fish Collection (the largest collection of preserved fishes on the planet!) in Belle Chasse followed by a drawing workshop on-site in one of the fish labs.
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 over 34,000 species with new species being found all the time! However, overfishing, oil spills, changes to habitats and climate have caused many species to decline. The Gulf of Mexico is home to 77 endemic fishes, found nowhere else in the world, and many of these have not been reported in recent decades.
This event is part of Searching for the Ghosts of the Gulf, a collaborative project with the Plaquemines Parish Government supported by an Our Town grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Register here for Workshop with Brandon Ballengée

sURGE in the East
2022-06-04 18:30 - 20:00 | Crown of Life Church’s Crown Community Garden, 11721 Morrison Rd., New Orleans, LA, 70128
Join the EASEL team for their culminating performance, “sURGE in the East” at Crown of Life Church, 11721 Morrison Rd, New Orleans, LA 70128, Saturday, June 4 – doors open at 6pm, show at 6:30pm sharp.
EASEL is a unique project that uses the performing arts to learn about climate change and how it is altering our lives. Over the last two months, EASEL community participants have collaborated with a team of theater artists, scientists, and science educators to co-create this performance to share with the community.
EASEL is part of a research project organized by A Studio in the Woods, Dillard University, ArtSpot Productions, Tulane ByWater Institute, STEM NOLA, LSU, and SUNY-Buffalo. Learn more about the project at art-sci-ed.org
Dress for outside, audience will travel some during performance. If you have accessibility concerns please contact Anthony White at 716-727-9922.

Woods Volunteer Day
2022-09-17 09:00 - 12:00 | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
Join us to get your hands dirty in support of the forest! Volunteers will assist with Environmental Curator David Baker’s work, learning how to identify and properly remove a range of invasive species common in our area.
9am – 12pm on Saturday, September 17. Registration required, lunch will be provided.
Register Here

Artist Salon with Hye Sea
2022-10-04 18:30 - 20:30 | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
Join us to meet and learn more about current Rising: Climate in Crisis Resident Hye Sea. Hye will give a short presentation on her work followed by a light dinner and refreshments. Registration required below.
Hye Sea is an artist, alchemist, and steward of the earth. Her residency project will focus on documenting the stories of those who are devoted to being stewards of the land and earth. She will create a solar-engraved collection of portraiture and collage to shine a light on Black, melanated, and/or Indigenous identified stewards. Her intention is to take viewers on a journey into the medicine each steward has discovered through their collaboration with the land and earth; their homage to the divine; their embrace of a multi-layered existence and what it looks like to trust in the wisdom found in nature.
Her materials include reclaimed wood, used paper from local libraries, earth and mineral pigments and regenerative sources of paint aka solar rays. Hye Sea’s inclination to prioritize local, up-cycled and ethically sourced materials stem from her connection to nature where waste is a nonexistent thing. The foundation of her artwork is rooted in a knowing—that we already have everything we need. And oftentimes, our problems stem from an unwillingness to alchemize the resources and tools that are right in front of us.
Hye Sea’s solar engraving practice is how she pays tribute to the natural worlds and those that have long communicated through glyphs. Her intention is to remind us of our connection to the forces of nature available for connection & collaboration. Visit Hye Sea’s website to learn more.
This program is supported by WWNO 89.9FM
Register here for Artist Salon with Hye Sea

Woods Volunteer Day
2022-10-07 09:00 - 12:00 | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
Join us to get your hands dirty in support of the forest! Volunteers will assist with Environmental Curator David Baker’s work, learning how to identify and properly remove a range of invasive species common in our area.
9am – 12pm on Friday, October 7. Registration required, lunch will be provided.
Register Here

Hurricane Ecology Walk in the Woods with David Baker
2022-10-21 09:00 - 10:30 | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
Join us for a Walk in the Woods with Studio Botanist David Baker to learn about his work and the land first-hand. This walk will focus on the forest’s response to hurricanes and how increasing storm frequency is changing the forest. The event is free but registration is required.
Friday, October 21 at 9am at A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd. New Orleans, LA 70131. This program is sponsored by the New Orleans Town Gardeners.
Register Here

Solar Engraving Workshop with Hye Sea
2022-10-30 13:00 - 15:00 | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
Reset with the Sun
Join current Rising Resident Hye Sea for a 2 hour, hands-on workshop where you’ll learn how to create a solar engraved artwork to take home and cherish. This workshop will serve as a reminder to enjoy the present, make use of what you have, and will be an opportunity to spend time in nature enjoying the elements.
All tools including eye protection will be provided. Please wear comfortable clothing (and bring sunscreen if needed) as we will be in the sun for the majority of the workshop.
Hye Sea is an artist, alchemist, and a steward of the earth. Her solar engraving practice is how she pays tribute to the natural worlds and those that have long communicated through glyphs. Her intention is to remind us of our connection to the forces of nature available for connection & collaboration. Visit Hye Sea’s website to learn more. Register Here

FORESTival: A Celebration of Art and Nature
2022-11-12 11:00 - 17:00 | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
Join us at A Studio in the Woods on Saturday, November 12, 2022, 11am – 5pm for our 12th annual celebration of art and nature. 13401 Patterson Rd. New Orleans, LA 70131.
SEE FULL DESCRIPTIONS HERE
Music
The Congo Square Drum Circle, 11:15am – 11:45am
Sabine McCalla, 12pm – 1pm
Wayne Singleton & Same Ol’ 2 Step with Zydeco dance instruction from Harold Guillory, 1:30pm – 3pm
Shamarr Allen, 3:30pm – 4:30pm

Art and Activities
Leaf Monoprinting with Pippin Frisbie-Calder, 11am – 2pm
Singing to the River with Shay Nichols, 1:30pm and 3pm
Founders’ History and Home Tour with Managing Director Ama Rogan, 2pm
Mushroom + Mycelium Fingerpuppets with Elizabeth MacDougal, 2pm-3:30pm
Poetry Reading by Sha’Condria “Icon” Sibley, 3pm
Installation by The Weavers Project, All Day
Fish Drawing with Brandon Ballengée, All Day
Build a Clay Forest with Kids in the Woods Camp Alumni, All Day

Environmental Justice Hub
Another Gulf is Possible with Yudith Nieto, 12pm – 4pm
Healthy Gulf with Laura-Sage Marshall, 12pm – 4pm
RISE St. James with Pastor Harry Joseph and Shamell Lavigne, 12pm – 4pm
Liberatory Land Offering and Sacred Space by ChE, All Day

Walk in the Woods
Tree Walk with Environment Curator David Baker, 11:45am
Creole Food and Medicine Walk with Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes, 1pm
Tree Walk with Environment Curator David Baker, 2:30pm
Fungus Walk with Ecologist Elizabeth MacDougal, 3:30pm
Silent auction of one-of-a-kind art objects and experiences, 11am – 4pm
Food and drink by Big O’s Original Pops, Plant Bass Vegan Deli, Top Notch Creole Creations, Zony Mash Beer Project and more!
Suggested donation is $15 per adult, kids free. All proceeds support the programming of A Studio in the Woods. Pre-sales end at 5pm on Friday, November 11 – you can always donate at the gate!
SEE DESCRIPTIONS HERE
Special thanks to our FORESTival Committee:
Jeff Bromberger, Entrepreneur
Angelle Bradford, Sierra Club
Kaitlynn Joshua, EarthWorks
Teddy McGlynn-Wright, Board Member
Alexandra Mora, Board member
Renee Peck, Board member
Robert Taylor, Algiers Economic Development Foundation
FORESTival is made possible by the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, New Orleans Tourism and Cultural Fund, Earthworks, The Solutions Project, Zony Mash Beer Project, Walmart Giving, Ten Nineteen Gallery, WWNO, Cresent City Auction Gallery, Mary & Larry Antonini, Thomas & Ellen Prewitt, Ellen & Mac Ball, Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Brennan, Jr., Joe M. Carmichael, Lee Dupont, Alicia Franck & Brinkley Serkedakis, Jacqueline Sullivan, Emily Wilkerson, and Constance Willems.

Searching for the Ghosts of the Gulf at Plaquemines Parish Orange Festival
2022-12-03 10:00 - 2022-12-04 18:00 | Fort Jackson, 38039 LA-23, Buras, LA, 70041
Join current Special Collaboration Resident Brandon Ballengée at the Plaquemines Parish Orange Festival to learn more about Searching for the Ghosts of the Gulf. 10am-6pm on Saturday, December 3 and Sunday, December 4.
Brandon will share his knowledge of gulf fishes and engage festival-goers with art activities about them. 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 over 34,000 species with new species being found all the time! However, overfishing, oil spills, changes to habitats and climate have caused many species to decline. The Gulf of Mexico is home to 77 endemic fishes, found nowhere else in the world, and many of these have not been reported in recent decades.
Searching for Ghosts of the Gulf brings artist, biologist and educator Brandon Ballengée to A Studio in the Woods for a community-based residency with Plaquemines Parish coastal communities. Through participatory art and science, this project will explore missing Gulf of Mexico fish species with youth, fishermen, and community members that are themselves under threat.

Artist Salon with Simi Kang, Nailah Jefferson, and Laurie Sumiye
2022-12-08 18:30 - 21:00 | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
Join us to meet and learn more about current Rising Resident Simi Kang and a collaborative project by Rising Residents Nailah Jefferson and Laurie Sumiye. They will each give short a presentation on their work followed by a light dinner and refreshments. Registration required below.
Simi Kang is a mixed Sikh American community advocate, educator, artist, and scholar. Their work centers Asian American collaborative resistance as a site for imagining environmentally and economically just futures in southeast Louisiana. Their project, Mapping Shrimping Futures, directly addresses the severity of multiple and layered climate crises in southeast Louisiana and asks its residents what futures they would most like to see. The project engages community-based organizations and Southeast Asian American fishing families to create audio and physical story maps. Through this, the project aims to re-emplace stories and experiences that are kept out of official maps about climate change, population density, and the health of our water and land.
With nature as their guide, New Orleans-born filmmaker Nailah Jefferson and Hawaii-born artist Laurie Sumiye, from two different tourist-driven, coastal economies grappling with climate-caused sea rise will explore the historical effects invasive species have on fragile native ecosystems and relate it to the growing threat of gentrification in their neighborhoods. They ask the question, “Can equity be maintained when invasion occurs?”
Nailah Jefferson is a native New Orleans filmmaker intrigued and inspired by the enduring human spirit, whose films span fiction and nonfiction. Her acclaimed work has been distributed domestically and internationally on the film festival circuit, theatrically and televised.
Laurie Sumiye is a conceptual artist & storyteller whose work about nature and species extinction plays with themes of reciprocity, care and spirituality. Her cross-disciplinary practice spans drawing, painting, animation, sculpture, installation, film and immersive media.
This program is supported by WWNO 89.9FM
Register here for Artist Salon with Simi Kang, Nailah Jefferson, and Laurie Sumiye

Artist Salon with Zeelie Brown and Rachel Lin Weaver
2023-01-12 18:30 - 21:00 | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
Join us to meet and learn more about current Rising Residents Zeelie Brown and Rachel Lin Weaver. They will each give short a presentation on their work followed by a light dinner and refreshments. Registration required below.
Zeelie Brown’s first art museum was the pine woods in Alabama. They make Black&queer wilderness refuges called “soulscapes” to (re)imagine what nature might be. Zeelie is currently working with the MIT Department of Architecture, NOMAS, and Group Project to create sustainable human waste solutions in their native rural Alabama. While in residence, Zeelie will work on Little Creole Gardens, which aims to tend a revolutionary front of Black wilderness which rages against the tide of white greed threatening to drown our world. To that aim, they will spend six weeks designing a creole liberation wild garden — via research in New Orleans’ wealth of archives of Gulf South visual and material culture, providing a solid groundwork for future acts within a creole aesthetic of survival.
Rachel Lin Weaver is an artist whose work spans video, installation, sculpture, and performance. Weaver’s creative interests relate directly to an upbringing in rural Alaska and West Virginia, and their projects explore intersectional identity, queer/trans embodiment, memory, and interdependence. While in residence, Weaver will work on MOSQUITO DANCE. Created through partnerships with tropical medicine researchers, entomologists, and Native elders, MOSQUITO DANCE is a two-part experimental short film and video/projection mapping installation. Looking closely at mosquitos as vectors and cultural symbols, the project contends with disease history in New Orleans and the greater American South, climate crisis-caused tropical disease spikes (which correlate to booms in mosquito population), and Louisiana American Indian community resilience in the face of climate crisis.
This program is supported by WWNO 89.9FM
Register here for Artist Salon with Zeelie Brown and Rachel Lin Weaver

Fishes: Masters of Adaptation – Workshop and Tour of the Royal D. Suttkus Fish Collection
2023-01-28 09:45 - 12:00 | Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute, 3705 Main St, Belle Chasse, LA, 70037
Join artist and biologist Brandon Ballengée for an art-science workshop on Gulf fish species diversity, natural history, and specimen drawing! We will tour Tulane University’s Royal D. Suttkus Fish Collection (the most extensive collection of preserved fishes on the planet!) in Belle Chasse, followed by a drawing workshop on-site in one of the fish labs.
Fishes are the most successful vertebrates (animals with backbones) ever to occupy Earth. Fish are marvels of adaptation and resilience, inhabiting almost all bodies of water on our planet, and scientists have described over 34,000 species, with new species being found all the time! However, overfishing, oil spills, and changes to habitats and climate have caused many species to decline. The Gulf of Mexico is home to 77 endemic fishes found nowhere else in the world, and many of these have not been reported in recent decades.
This event is part of Searching for the Ghosts of the Gulf, a collaborative project with the Plaquemines Parish Government supported by an Our Town grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Registration is required.
Register here for Workshop with Brandon Ballengée

Hurricane Ecology Walk in the Woods with David Baker
2023-02-03 09:00 - 10:30 | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
Join us for a Walk in the Woods with Studio Botanist David Baker to learn about his work and the land first-hand. This walk will focus on the forest’s response to hurricanes and how increasing storm frequency is changing the forest. The event is free but registration is required.
Friday, February 3 at 9 am at A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd. New Orleans, LA 70131.
This program is sponsored by the New Orleans Town Gardeners.
Register here for Hurricane Ecology Walk in the Woods with David Baker

Replenish Residency Info Session
2023-02-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom – register to receive link
Join us for an online information session about Replenish Residencies. Staff will give an overview of the application process and residency experience then field questions from attendees.
Replenish Residencies provide 1-2 week restorative visioning retreats to local BIPOC artists and culture bearers; the heart of New Orleans culture. In light of the many racial disparities still present in our society at large and the arts economy specifically, we offer these residencies to provide time to rest and restore, vision and create. The call is open to BIPOC artists and culture bearers from the Greater New Orleans area who have not attended a residency before. Details and application here.
Replenish Residency Info Session

Header image by Virginia Hanusik

Woods Volunteer Day
2023-02-27 09:00 - 12:00 | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
Join us to get your hands dirty in support of the forest! Volunteers will assist with Environmental Curator David Baker’s work, learning how to identify and properly remove a range of invasive species common in our area.
9am – 12pm on Monday, February 27. Registration is required, and lunch will be provided.

Register Here – Woods Volunteer Day

Rising Residency Info Session
2023-03-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom – register to receive link
Join us for an online information session about Rising: Climate in Crisis Residencies. Staff will give an overview of the application process and residency experience and then field questions from attendees.
Rising: Climate in Crisis Residencies at A Studio in the Woods invite artists to be agents of change in guiding our collective understanding, response, and vision as we shape our shared future.
Artists play a vital role in facing the climate crisis. We encourage artists to guide our collective response to this challenging issue while bringing wisdom, integrity, optimism and even humor to intentional projects seeking transformation for our species and our planet. Southeast Louisiana’s land and inhabitants are continually challenged by the effects of environmental degradation. As sea levels and temperatures rise, our landscape acts as a microcosm of the global environment. We look for ways to reimagine our interactions with our shifting urban and natural ecosystems. Rising Residencies provide artists with time, space, funding, and staff support to foster critical thinking in the creation of new works – igniting our imaginations while illuminating our challenges and inspiring solutions.
We are open to artists of all disciplines who have demonstrated an established dialogue with environmental and cultural issues. We ask artists to describe in detail how our unique region will affect their work, propose a public component to their residency, and suggest ways how they will engage with the local community. Details and application here.
Register for Rising Info Session

Residency Office Hours Registration
2023-03-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom – register to receive link
Drop in and ask any questions you have about current open calls. Staff will be present to answer questions on the application process, living experience, residency theme, public engagement component, documentation, and beyond. Drop in any time between 12:00pm – 1:00pm CST on Thursday, March 9, 2023. Register below to receive Zoom link. Can’t make it? Questions can be directed at any time to info@astudiointhewoods.org.
Residency Office Hour

Artist Salon with Niki Franco
2023-03-09 18:30 - 20:30 | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
Join us to meet and learn more about current Rising Resident Niki Franco. Niki will give short a presentation on her work followed by a light dinner and refreshments. Registration required below.
Niki Franco is a Caribbean abolitionist community organizer, writer, and facilitator of spaces for collective study. Seeking to disrupt the institutionalized bureaucratic frameworks of academia and transactional ways in which relationships exist under capitalism, her work experiments with truth-telling, radical history and thought, and revolutionary imagination. She also curates educational and cultural programming that navigates the current urgency on global solidarity, environmental and ancestral preservation, and strategies on building emotional and intellectual capacities to dismantle systems of oppression that inform and deform our current lives. She is the host of “Getting to the Root of It with Venus Roots,” a podcast that leans into conversations with artists, theorists, and organizers.
Niki’s residency project will function as the seeds for a short video educational/creative resource for community organizers, activists, researchers, artists, and educators available to the public. “Constellations Illuminating the Swamp” will have audio, visual, conversational, and written components to it. The short video will be about 5 minutes and will be shot in both digital and camcorder footage, featuring emblematic visuals that represent communities of New Orleans, as well as making connections to the environments in other parts of the US South and Caribbean. She will record poetic excerpts, interview excerpts, as well as informational-educational voiceovers. This project will reject binary interpretations of climate change and will center the resistance against disaster capitalism and climate crisis in places like New Orleans, Miami, and Puerto Rico, for example. It will be available for the public through YouTube, videoshare, and social media.
This program is supported by WWNO 89.9FM
Register here for Artist Salon with Niki Franco

Replenish Residency Application Deadline
2023-03-15 | LA
Applications for Replenish Residencies are due by 11:59pm pacific time on March 15, 2023. View full application details here.

ByWater Institute Scholarly Retreats Application Deadline
2023-03-15 | LA
Applications for ByWater Institute Scholarly Retreats are due by 11:59 pm pacific time on March 15, 2023. View full application details here.

FishSTOCK!
2023-03-25 11:00 - 16:00 | Plaquemines Parish, 499 F. Edward Hebert Blvd , Belle Chasse, LA, 70037
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 over 34,000 species with new species being found all the time! However, overfishing, oil spills, and changes to habitats and climate have caused many species to decline. The Gulf of Mexico is home to 77 endemic fishes found nowhere else in the world, and many of these have not been reported in recent decades.
This event is part of Searching for the Ghosts of the Gulf, a collaborative project with the Plaquemines Parish Government supported by an Our Town grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
FEATURING:
Searching for the Ghosts of the Gulf
Hands-on art & science activities
Tour of the world’s largest fish collection
Fishy foods from Bad Wolf, Woodlands Plantation, and more
MUSIC SCHEDULE:11:30am-12:30pm – Sidiki Conde & Wowo Souakoli with Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes and Peter Carter
1:00-2:00pm – Aaron Foret and the Swamp Pop Band
2:30-3:15pm – Valparaiso Men’s Chorus
FOOD:
Bad Wolf
Kenny’s Cajun & Creole Cuisine
Woodlands Plantation
Kona Ice
Chargrilled oysters on-site!!
BAR:

Bar will be cash only. ATM is available on-site.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS & ORGANIZATIONS:
Artists: Brandon Ballengée, Cori Ander, Hannah Chalew, Shannon Cruz, Hye Sea, Pippin Frisbie-Calder and student artists from Plaquemines Parish.
Organizations:Restore the Mississippi River Delta, Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, Coastal Wetlands Planning Protection and Restoration Act, Couvillion Group, Delta Discovery Tours, The Hive, Glass Half Full, LAYAYA Bus, The Nature Project, Woodlands Conservancy, Woodland Plantation and more!!
PRESS:
WWLTV
Creative-Capital
Country Road Magazine
Louisiana Life
Photos by: Fernando Lopez.

Volunteer for FishSTOCK!
2023-03-25 11:00 - 16:00 | Plaquemines Parish, 499 F. Edward Hebert Blvd , Belle Chasse, LA, 70037
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.
Register Here

Rising Residency Application Deadline
2023-04-10 | LA
Applications for Rising: Climate in Crisis Residencies are due by 11:59 pm pacific time on April 10, 2023. View full application details here.

Inspiring Health Justice Residencies Showcase
2023-04-13 17:00 - 18:00 | Cook Theater, Samuel DuBois Cook Fine Arts and Communications Center, 2601 Gentilly Boulevard, New Orleans, LA, United States
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 of three Dillard University students-in-residence; Tia Green, Olivia Johnson, and Gabriel Prewitt; who have been meeting all year with Dr. Robert Maupin (Professor of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the LSU Health Sciences Center and Associate Dean of Diversity & Community Engagement) and Dillard faculty members John Barnes (Associate Professor of Visual Arts) and Ray Vrazel (Associate Professor of Theater).
The aim of Inspiring Health Justice is to bring the arts and public health together to address our region’s long-standing health disparities through creative, cross-disciplinary mentorship focusing the energy and passion of Dillard art students towards fostering health equity. This year’s focus has been on reproductive health disparities and the intersecting challenges for everyone affected by the issue of reproductive health — particularly Black women — historically as well as now in a post-Roe v. Wade world.
WHEN: April 13, 2023 at 5:00pm
WHERE: Samuel DuBois Cook Fine Arts and Communications Center
2601 Gentilly Boulevard, New Orleans, LA 70122

Sanctuary: Multi-channel video Installation by Nailah Jefferson & Laurie Sumiye
2023-05-08 17:00 - 19:00 | Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design, 1725 Barronne Street, New Orleans, LA, United States
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.
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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 by ocean-level rise, “invaders” change the make-up of local neighborhoods. Invasive species, such as the ubiquitous Cat’s Claw vine (Uncaria tomentosa) in New Orleans represent the creeping of both climate change and rampant gentrification.⁠
Many thanks to The Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design for hosting!
Where: The Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design, 1725 Baronne Street
When: May 8-26, visit (M-F, 9am-5pm) by appointment jcotto@tulane.edu
Reception with the artists: May 8th, 5-7pm

Singing to the Trees with Shay Nichols
2023-05-12 10:00 - 12:00 | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
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 patterns to create soundscapes. Participants will explore simple musical exercises such as sonic niche and mycelial tapestry that can be used in your own park or backyard.
This kind of wild singing opens pathways of connection and perception and is a way of practicing being in harmony with the earth.
The workshop is free, but space is limited and registration is required. You are welcome to bring a bag of lunch and join workshop participants for lunch. Studio will provide beverages and popsicles!

Register here for Singing to the Trees with Shay Nichols

Artist Salon with Quintron & Miss Pussycat
2023-05-23 18:30 - 21:00 | A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Rd, New Orleans, LA, 70131, United States
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 Organ” built and installed by Quintron at A Studio in the Woods. The Wildlife Organ is envisioned as a musical instrument using specially-housed microphones to intimately capture and process the broad spectrum of natural sounds on site, routing each distinct sound back to a playable, musical keyboard.
Miss Pussycat began her career in art and puppetry as a child in the Southern Baptist Church of Antlers, Oklahoma as part of the Christian Puppet Youth Ministry. She later moved to New Orleans and started a secret nightclub in her house called Pussycat Caverns, which hosted bands and all types of performances in a unique and lively atmosphere. Today, and for over 20 years, she is busy presenting live puppet shows in rock clubs, libraries, and secret clubhouses all around the world, and singing and playing maracas with Quintron. Her puppets and their worlds often become the genesis for other art projects, such as ceramic statues, paintings, videos, and electronic soundtracks.
Quintron has been inventing electronic gadgets and creating genre-defying noise, soundscape, and house-rocking dance music in New Orleans for over 20 years, much of it in collaboration with artist/puppeteer Panacea Theriac aka “Miss Pussycat”. In 1999, Quintron helped to foster a DIY analog synth revival with a patented instrument called the DRUM BUDDY, a light-activated analog drum machine that creates murky, low-fidelity, rhythmic patterns. These experiments eventually led to Quintron’s focus on a weather-controlled drone synthesizer called Weather Warlock and a website devoted to streaming its music called Weather For The Blind.
This program is supported by WWNO 89.9FM
Photo credit: Caitlyn Ridenour
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