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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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" […]
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, […]
