River Residencies
River Residencies honored the Mississippi River, a magnificent body of water that has inspired authors, musicians, artists, historians, and playwrights for over a century yet today is challenged by pollution and containment.
River Residencies honored the Mississippi River, a magnificent body of water that has inspired authors, musicians, artists, historians, and playwrights for over a century yet today is challenged by pollution and containment. River Residencies provided sustained quality work time in contact with the Mississippi; time in which one could experience and study the river and use it as a catalyst to create art that contributes to our awareness of the river, its needs and its gifts to all life.
River Residencies were funded by the Louisiana Division of the Arts and the Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research with a grant from the Aron Foundation Charitable Trust.\
River Residents
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Aurora Levins Morales Writer and Historian, 2005 (Pre-Katrina), 2018, 2025, Puerto Rico Aurora Levins Morales is a cuir, feminist, disabled and chronically ill Boricua-Ashkenazi (Puerto Rican Jewish) poet, essayist and visual artist. She is a movement elder and sixth generation radical. The author of nine books, her writing is widely taught and… -
Pat Warner Sculptor, 2004, California Pat Warner was born and raised in an agricultural area of southeastern Pennsylvania, and traveled extensively throughout the world observing the natural environment and indigenous cultures. Those experiences influence her indoor and outdoor sculptural environments and drawings that are involved…