June 16, 2017
Sarah Dahnke’s Dances for Solidarity is an ongoing, community-based performance choreographed by incarcerated people in solitary confinement, borrowing from the personal narratives of 50 people in prison in Texas and Louisiana. In 2015, New York-based choreographer and cultural activist Sarah… Read More
May 23, 2017
Esther Solondz, a past Flint & Steel Resident, designed and installed The Bee Palace to house solitary bees at the Audubon Zoo. Artist Joseph Beuys famously declared that “every man is an artist,” and that “even the act of peeling a… Read More
April 27, 2017
David Benedetto sits down with A Studio In The Woods’ Managing Director Ama Rogan and Board of Director’s member Ben Morris to talk about the project and their Writer’s Cabin initiative. Click here for the full interview. Read More
November 7, 2016
2016 Flint & Steel Resident, Jebney Lewis, along with Rick Snow and Christopher Staudinger created Songs of Home Songs of Change which raises questions about authorship, collaboration, and community involvement. Songs of Home Songs of Change is a map of New… Read More
July 22, 2015
A percentage of sales from Mignon Faget’s new piece “IN GRATITUDE” will support the Center for Bioenvironmental Research and the Newcomb Art Gallery. The pieces are also a lovely symbol of thanks to all of the people who… Read More
January 13, 2015
Our own David Baker, Environmental Curator at A Studio in the Woods, contributed to Examination of Deltaic Processes of Mississippi River Outlets—Caernarvon Delta and Bohemia Spillway in Southeastern Louisiana by John A. Lopez, Theryn K. Henkel,… Read More
December 3, 2014
The Arts Council of New Orleans announced A Studio in the Woods as one of the 2014 Community Arts Awards recipients to be honored during an awards celebration on Wednesday, December 3rd. We are honored to be amongst esteemed company… Read More
June 5, 2014
2012 Ebb & Flow Resident Rebecca Snedeker helped create Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, a book of 22 imaginative essays and maps she co-authored with Rebecca Solnit. The editors of Unfathomable City, Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca Snedeker, have maintained that… Read More
May 28, 2014
Click HERE to view article at theneworleansadvocate.com Art and science don’t often intersect, but 14 mixed-media artists found inventive ways to express the environmental significance of water in the lives of Louisianians during Ebb & Flow,… Read More
April 29, 2013
2013 Ebb & Flow Resident Isabelle Hayeur has created Underworlds, focusing on polluted and endangered waterways. During her residency at A Studio in the Woods, Hayeur spent six weeks photographing local bayous, lakes, and the Mississippi River. Her efforts only… Read More
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