Changing Landscapes
Inspired by the drastic upheaval in our local ecology, Changing Landscapes residencies were based on the premise that Southern Louisiana can be seen as a microcosm of the global environment, manifesting both the challenges and possibilities inherent in human interaction with the natural world. 2008-2011
At the close of the 2008 deadline, we noticed a marked decrease in artists applying for Restoration Residencies, indicating to us that New Orleans and Gulf Coast artists were in a more stable position than they had been since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Inspired by the drastic upheaval in our local ecology Changing Landscapes was formed, a six-week residency based on the premise that Southern Louisiana can be seen as a microcosm of the global environment, manifesting both the challenges and possibilities inherent in human interaction with the natural world.
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Changing Landscapes Residencies were supported in part by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council. This program was supported by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council. The grant was administered through the Arts Council of New Orleans. Funding has also been provided by the Ford Foundation, Rosamary Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal Agency.
Changing Landscapes Residents
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Bernard Williams Sculptor, 2011, Illinois Williams built a sculpture, Ghost Trails, based on a map he found from the 1940’s tracing the meanderings of the Mississippi River. In an ambitious move, he decided that the piece needed to be launched in the waters that inspired… -
Suzanne Bennett Visual Artist, 2011, New York Bennett completed four large-scale paintings contrasting the dichotomy of the city’s baroque sensibilities with its location on the edge of an untamed swamp. Suzanne Bennett received her B.F.A. from U.C. Santa Cruz and her M.F.A. from Brooklyn College. She has… -
Karen Rich Beall Sculptor, 2010, Pennsylvania Beall examined lichens and ferns from the woods under a microscope and rendered them larger than life using hand-knitting, paper mache, and other mixed media. She also led a nature journaling workshop for youth from The Porch 7th Ward Cultural… -
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts Writer, 2010, Texas Rhodes-Pitts used local historical archives to write a cycle of prose poems based on a 1811 slave revolt that she shared in a reading at the New Orleans African American Museum. She experimented with making paper from traditional “cash crops”… -
William Cordova Visual Artist, 2010, Peru Cordova used 16MM film to document and preserve traces of displaced histories of New Orleans. His project aimed to create monuments of secular sacred spaces within Louisiana history and folklore. William Cordova was born and raised in Lima, Peru. He… -
Eric Dallimore Installation Artist, 2010, Colorado Dallimore created a living public sculpture titled The Louisiana Pipeline. The installation took the form of a pipeline composed entirely of organic matter and seeds, visually representing man’s destructive force of oil exploration on the Gulf Coast. A New Orleans… -
Anne Devine Performance Artist, 2009, California Devine made a solo performative distance walk of 38 miles from New Orleans to Hopedale as a “kinetic valentine” to the residents and landscape of the area, a route that highlighted the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet and brings attention to… -
Rafael Santos Visual Artist, 2009, Argentina Santos’ primary concerns are the social-ecological communities that have developed over time around freshwater rivers and coastal zones, and the close collaboration with local people, other artists, scientists and environmental groups working in the same realm nationally and internationally. While… -
David Sullivan Media Artist, 2009, Louisiana Sullivan rendered and debuted Fugitive Emissions, an abstract animation inspired by the effects of air and water pollution prevalent in our chemical corridor. The works were projected on screens installed in the lantern-lit woods, using the ambient sounds of the… -
Tory Tepp Installation Artist, 2009, California Fourteen volunteers joined Tepp in “artscaping” a 10-foot flatbed trailer into the form of a boat. The Spirit Ferry Project built community and investment in sustainable urban agriculture; the boat’s cargo included soil, seeds, and the tools needed to plant… -
Andrea Myers Visual Artist, 2008, Illinois Working with wood, fabric, printmaking, and pen and ink, Myers created a number of sculptural pieces which reflect the dynamic layered landscape. Andrea Myers explores the space between two and three dimensionality by combining forms of painting, sculpture and textile…