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The Collaborative Process:
From Joan Mitchell to Contemporary Artists

Saturday June 26, 12:30 – 7pm

The Collaborative Process: From Joan Mitchell to Contemporary Artists is an afternoon of discussions that will explore artistic collaborations: first in relationship to Joan Mitchell’s work, then by expanding the conversation to the experiences of artists who are currently collaborating as part of their artistic process.

The two panels will both tackle the questions of what defines collaboration and will look at how collaborations can influence and expand an artist’s practice. Both panels are free and open to the public, though reservations are requested. There will be a cocktail reception immediately following the second panel.

For a complete schedule please visit CAC’s website at cacno,org.
The Collaborative Process is organized by the Joan Mitchell Foundation and coincides with the final weekend of the three-venue exhibition, Joan Mitchell in New Orleans. For further information please visit joanmitchellinneworleans.org

Questions about the Foundation:
Please contact Christa Blatchford at the Joan Mitchell Foundation at info@joanmitchellfoundation.org.

Address:
4100 St. Claude Avenue

Zip Code:
70117

Web Site:
www.nolafront.org

A special screening of the film, “God’s Architects” is scheduled at The Front for Wednesday, June 16th, 8pm.

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Author and humorist Roy Blount Jr. and artist Bill Dunlap bring their limitless talents to the Ogden Museum of Southern Art to create an evening of incomparable fun on Sat. June 12. Playing Possum includes: the telling of tales, the unveiling of �Marsupius Magnanimous II� (a possum portrait by Dunlap), a special �O-Possum� cocktail (created by Dunlap and another noted storyteller, moderator and Ogden Board Chair Julia Reed), audience Q-&-A, plenty of hilarity, and at least one big surprise.
If you want to mix and mingle with Blount, Dunlap and Reed�and grab the best seats�there is a special O-Possum reception before the event begins, starting at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are $40, and include an �O-Possum� cocktail.
For those who want a souvenir of the night, there will be a special poster and T-shirts featuring Dunlap�s painting for sale, as well as books by Blount, Dunlap and Reed. (And they�ll sign them, too.)
You don�t want to miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to exalt one of the South�s most maligned creatures with three of the South most celebrated ones!

Date/Time: Sat. June 12; 5:30 p.m. for O-Possum reception; 6 p.m. for general admission
Location: Patrick F. Taylor Library, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., New Orleans
Admission: $20 Museum members; $25 general admission; $40 for the O-Possum Reception with Roy Blount Jr., Bill Dunlap and Julia Reed before event. All prices include one free �O-Possum� cocktail.
To reserve your tickets or information: Contact Stephanie Spicer, 504.539.9616, sspicer@ogdenmuseum.org; or order online at: playingpossum@eventbrite.com

Address:
1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, New Orleans

Zip Code:
70124

Web Site:
http://www.noma.org/

NOMA�s 2010 Summer Art Experience is a series of week-long, half-day programs for students aged 6 to 10. Each daily program consists of a visit to the Museum�s galleries to look at some of the masterpieces on display, followed by a fun and creative hands-on art activity. Taught by NOMA education staff along with professional art teachers and artists, each class offers an in-depth exploration of a variety of art media and approaches using both traditional and non-traditional methods. Workshops are based on different aspects of NOMA�s permanent collection and special exhibitions.

Programs are one week long (Monday to Friday) and last 2 � hours (9:30 AM to 12 noon OR 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM). Class sizes are limited to 24 students each.

NOMA�s 2010 Summer Art Experience will be offered during the following weeks:

June 7 � June 11
Ages 5-6

June 14 � June 18
Ages 7-8

July 19 � July 23
Ages 9-10

July 26 � July 30
Ages 5-6

Cost: $125 per one week session (= 5 half-days)
NOMA Member Price: $100

Please call the NOMA Education Department at 504-658-4128 to reserve your space!

Address:
925 Camp St., New Orleans, La

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
ogdenmuseum.org

The Kohlmeyer Circle presents a new series of one-of-a-kind experiences for parents to share with their children, and the inaugural event starts with renowned New Orleans artist Alex Beard at his French Quarter gallery. This �Playdate� is an interactive art experience where Beard reaches out to children of all ages, with hands-on participation in the creative process. Beard will roll out paper on the floor of the gallery, then allow children to explore their creativity through paint and markers. This is not any art class, but an opportunity for children to have fun with an artist and the arts!
The Ogden Playdate is presented by the Kohlmeyer Circle, the young patron membership of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, through a generous gift from Phelps Dunbar.

Admission: The event is free and open to the public. And, there will be milk and homemade cookies for the kids, and a specialty cocktail for parents!

Event is at Alex Beard Studio, 712 Royal St. (corner of Pirate’s Alley)

Address:
4100 St. Claude Avenue

Zip Code:
70117

Web Site:
www.nolafront.org

Dear Friends,

Please join us at The Front on Thursday, May 27th @ 6:30pm for the second installment of Back Talk. This month’s discussion is on the topic of Arts Education in the Greater New Orleans Area. Facilitating this discussion will be a panel of arts educators from public, private, high school, grade school, university level, and extracurricular institutions. As our arts community enjoys this period of growth, we must be diligent in our support of every available opportunity to expose students to The Arts. On the 27th, we will explore some of these current opportunities, address some of the needs not being met, and discuss what can be done in the face of an ever-shrinking budget. As always, audience participation is welcomed, and everyone is invited to add to the conversation.

Back Talk is a series of monthly lectures, brought to you by The Front, focusing on topics important to the cultural community of New Orleans. This series is free and open to the public. Please stay tuned each month for more information on Back Talk.

We hope to see you There!
The Front

Address:
527 St. Joseph Street

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
http://www.becaicad.org/upcoming-events.php

May 25, 2010: Creative Connections Mixer – The BECA Foundation has launched a weekly mixer – Creative Connections – for resident New Orleanians and visiting guests to New Orleans who are part of the creative sector. You never know who will show up and who you might meet…

Visual + Performing Artists, if you’re interested in connecting with materials suppliers, framers, fabricators, web designers, seeking studio/gallery space, marketing and other service consultants, etc. –

Architects, if you’re interested in connecting with suppliers, designers, artists, builders, developers, etc. –

Designers, if you’re interested in connecting with suppliers, photographers, printers, architects, studio directors and other service providers, seeking studio space, etc. –

Musicians + Performers, if you’re interested in connecting with equipment and other suppliers, collaborators, consultants, venues, talent organizers, videographers, etc. –

Film + Video, if you’re interested in connecting with equipment and other suppliers, talent/crew, collaborators, future partners and service providers, etc. –

Writers, art + design enthusiasts and supporters of the creative sector, if you’re interested in learning about what’s new in the creative sector and how you might get involved in variety of new projects, etc. –

Administrators and directors, if you’re interested in connecting with collaborators, future partners, artists, designers and service providers, etc. –

Visiting guests here in New Orleans, if you’re interested in connecting with collaborators, future partners, artists, architects, designers, musicians and service providers, etc. –

And anyone else who may be involved in the creative sector:

Please join us Tuesday May 25 from 5pm – 7pm at BECA ICAD, 527 St. Joseph Street, across from the Contemporary Arts Center for some mixing, mingling and connecting. If you’d like to sponsor a future mixer or propose adding something to the organizing of the mixers, please email us at: mail@thebecafoundation.org with the subject line “mixer”.

Address:
527 St. Joseph Street

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
http://www.becaicad.org/upcoming-events.php

May 18, 2010: Creative Connections Mixer – The BECA Foundation has launched a weekly mixer – Creative Connections – for resident New Orleanians and visiting guests to New Orleans who are part of the creative sector. You never know who will show up and who you might meet…

Visual + Performing Artists, if you’re interested in connecting with materials suppliers, framers, fabricators, web designers, seeking studio/gallery space, marketing and other service consultants, etc. –

Architects, if you’re interested in connecting with suppliers, designers, artists, builders, developers, etc. –

Designers, if you’re interested in connecting with suppliers, photographers, printers, architects, studio directors and other service providers, seeking studio space, etc. –

Musicians + Performers, if you’re interested in connecting with equipment and other suppliers, collaborators, consultants, venues, talent organizers, videographers, etc. –

Film + Video, if you’re interested in connecting with equipment and other suppliers, talent/crew, collaborators, future partners and service providers, etc. –

Writers, art + design enthusiasts and supporters of the creative sector, if you’re interested in learning about what’s new in the creative sector and how you might get involved in variety of new projects, etc. –

Administrators and directors, if you’re interested in connecting with collaborators, future partners, artists, designers and service providers, etc. –

Visiting guests here in New Orleans, if you’re interested in connecting with collaborators, future partners, artists, architects, designers, musicians and service providers, etc. –

And anyone else who may be involved in the creative sector:

Please join us Tuesday May 18 from 5pm – 7pm at BECA ICAD, 527 St. Joseph Street, across from the Contemporary Arts Center for some mixing, mingling and connecting. If you’d like to sponsor a future mixer or propose adding something to the organizing of the mixers, please email us at: mail@thebecafoundation.org with the subject line “mixer”.

Address:
4100 St. Claude Avenue

Zip Code:
70117

Web Site:
www.nolafront.org

Ell�phant presents Visual Mischief: a program of video and film from the near and far-out.

The Front hosts VISUAL MISCHIEF, a program of experimental videos and short films by artists from the US and Europe. The works are eclectic and diverse, from conceptual visual exercises to digitally mediated performance narratives. Highlights include Erika Yeomans� videos on 70�s Dutch Artist Bas Jan Ader and Bunny Boy with Casey Spooner (FischerSpooner), Kahlil Joseph�s music video for Shabazz Palace, Nicolas Jenkins’ homage to Genesis P-Orridge and the darkly comic work of Jennet Thomas.

PROGRAM II

May 11th, Reception 7 pm, Screening 8 pm Running Time 70 minutes

ERIKA YEOMANS � 3 EXPERIMENTAL NARRATIVES
Paging Dr. Freud (2007, multi-frame video, 18 minutes)
In Search of Bas Jan�s Miraculous (1997, Mixed Media, B&W/Color, 39 minutes)
Chubby Buddy (“The Last Castrato”) (2003, Super 8, color, 13 minutes)
www.fortherestofyournaturallifeproductions.com

Address:
527 St. Joseph Street

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
http://www.becaicad.org/upcoming-events.php

May 11, 2010: Creative Connections Mixer – The BECA Foundation has launched a weekly mixer – Creative Connections – for resident New Orleanians and visiting guests to New Orleans who are part of the creative sector. You never know who will show up and who you might meet…

Visual + Performing Artists, if you’re interested in connecting with materials suppliers, framers, fabricators, web designers, seeking studio/gallery space, marketing and other service consultants, etc. –

Architects, if you’re interested in connecting with suppliers, designers, artists, builders, developers, etc. –

Designers, if you’re interested in connecting with suppliers, photographers, printers, architects, studio directors and other service providers, seeking studio space, etc. –

Musicians + Performers, if you’re interested in connecting with equipment and other suppliers, collaborators, consultants, venues, talent organizers, videographers, etc. –

Film + Video, if you’re interested in connecting with equipment and other suppliers, talent/crew, collaborators, future partners and service providers, etc. –

Writers, art + design enthusiasts and supporters of the creative sector, if you’re interested in learning about what’s new in the creative sector and how you might get involved in variety of new projects, etc. –

Administrators and directors, if you’re interested in connecting with collaborators, future partners, artists, designers and service providers, etc. –

Visiting guests here in New Orleans, if you’re interested in connecting with collaborators, future partners, artists, architects, designers, musicians and service providers, etc. –

And anyone else who may be involved in the creative sector:

Please join us Tuesday on May 11th from 5pm – 7pm at BECA ICAD, 527 St. Joseph Street, across from the Contemporary Arts Center for some mixing, mingling and connecting. If you’d like to sponsor a future mixer or propose adding something to the organizing of the mixers, please email us at: mail@thebecafoundation.org with the subject line “mixer”.

Address:
4100 St. Claude Avenue

Zip Code:
70017

Web Site:
www.nolafront.org

Ell�phant presents Visual Mischief: a program of video and film from the near and far-out.

The Front hosts VISUAL MISCHIEF, a program of experimental videos and short films by artists from the US and Europe. The works are eclectic and diverse, from conceptual visual exercises to digitally mediated performance narratives. Highlights include Erika Yeomans� videos on 70�s Dutch Artist Bas Jan Ader and Bunny Boy with Casey Spooner (FischerSpooner), Kahlil Joseph�s music video for Shabazz Palace, Nicolas Jenkins’ homage to Genesis P-Orridge and the darkly comic work of Jennet Thomas.

PROGRAM I
May 8th Reception 6 pm | Screening 8 pm � Running Time 60 Minutes – Loop

AMBER BOARDMAN (NEW YORK) Animations from the Inside Series
ERIKA YEOMANS (NEW YORK) Bunny Boy, Hardhead Flair
NICOLAS JENKINS (NEW YORK) New York Story
KAHLIL JOSEPH (LOS ANGELES) Belhaven Meridian
JEREMIAH CLANCY (NEW YORK) Feelings & Opinions
DANIEL STEDMAN & ARON EPSTEIN (NEW YORK) The Moth & the Firefly
VIRGINIE YASSEF & JULIEN PR�VIEUX (PARIS) L�Arbre
ANDREA STANISLAV (MINNEAPOLIS) Blow Away
WILLIAM LAMSON (NEW YORK) Actions, Intervention & Fall
JENNET THOMAS (LONDON) Double Dummy, The Truth and The Pleasure

May 8th, Reception 6 pm, Screening 8 pm , Program 1
May 11th, Reception 7 pm, Screening 8 pm, Program 2

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Family Art Day
Saturday, May 8 from 10am-noon
Exploring Abstract Expressionism

Artist Elizabeth Underwood, director of Aorta Projects, will lead an art-making workshop exploring the potential for emotional expression in working abstractly. Using the Newcomb Art Gallery’s current exhibition (“Joan Mitchell: Works on Paper”) for inspiration, participants will build an appreciation for the skill of Mitchell, one of the masters of the genre.

The workshop is for youth 8 years and older with a companion, and those 14 years and above. No art experience necessary and art supplies are provided.

The workshop is free and open to the public. There is limited space, so reservations are encouraged. Please RSVP in advance at 504-865-5361 or sboles@tulane.edu.

Image: Joan Mitchell, Untitled, 1967-68. Pencil and watercolor on paper, 12 × 40 1/2 in. Copyright Estate of Joan Mitchell. Courtesy Joan Mitchell Foundation and Cheim & Read Gallery.

Address:
527 St. Joseph Street, New Orleans, LA

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
http://www.becaicad.org/artist-designer-solo-exhibition-opportunity.php

The BECA Foundation is pleased to present the following double solo exhibition opportunity to two artists, designers, duos, groups or collectives to exhibit new works of art or design at BECA ICAD (International Center for Art + Design) located at 527 St. Joseph Street, New Orleans, LA 70130, USA. This Call to Artists and Designers will remain open through June 3, 2010. Artists + designers at least 18 years of age from all countries are encouraged to submit their works for consideration according to the guidelines below. Two artists, designers, duos, groups or collectives will be selected by BECA Foundation directors + advisors to receive the double solo exhibition opportunity from July 3 � 31, 2010. Each of those two selected will be allocated either the front or rear gallery space for the exhibition of their work. Submitted works are not required to conform to any particular medium, style, theme or concept. Accepted works and mediums include but are not limited to: site-specific installations, painting, sculpture, mixed-media, drawing, printmaking, fiber, textiles, illustration, digital art, photography, video/new media, film, performance art, music and sound focused works, 3D animation, graphic design, product design, furniture design, haute couture fashion + accessories, architectural interventions/designs and functional art, etc. In other words, all creative culminations are welcome.

With a growing international BECA network now approaching 30,000, it is more important than ever for BECA to ensure that in addition to hosting the physical exhibition at BECA ICAD, the exhibition also be made available online at www.BECAICAD.org for those who are unable to attend in person. A special edition e-publication covering the exhibition will be distributed to over 19,000 journalists, writers, curators, collectors, gallery and studio directors in the US and abroad.

BECA is an acronym for Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art and the core belief system at The BECA Foundation is that �New art + new design fuels the best of what�s yet to come on this planet.� Some of you may know that The BECA Foundation is in the early development phase of BECA ICAD (International Center for Art + Design), the world�s first large scale exhibition facility dedicated to the exhibition of works by both emerging artists AND emerging designers. In the meantime, exhibitions will continue to be held at the current exhibition space located at 527 St. Joseph Street, New Orleans, LA across from the Contemporary Arts Center where exhibitions have been held since January 2008. Gallery photos may be viewed at: http://www.becaicad.org/photos.php

Complete submission information may be downloaded from http://www.becaicad.org/artist-designer-solo-exhibition-opportunity.php

Address:
102 metarie heights ave.

Zip Code:
70001

Web Site:
www.tamicurtisellis.com

Ellis Gallery is celebrating its grand opening with a benefit to raise funds for the New Orleans Musicians Clinic. 20 percent of all gallery sales will go to support our local musicians mind, body, and spirit. Everyone is welcome to come enjoy a festive evening of local music, vibrant art, food, and drinks. Friday, April 16 from 6 to 8pm at 102 Metairie Heights. Featuring paintings by Tami Curtis Ellis.

Address:
4100 St. Claude Avenue

Zip Code:
70117

Web Site:
www.nolafront.org

BACK TALK with Miranda Lash
Thursday April 15th @ 7 p.m.

Dear Friends,

The Front is pleased to announce the launch of our new monthly lecture series, Back Talk. Please join us Thursday, April 15th at 7:00 pm for a conversation with Miranda Lash, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art for The New Orleans Museum of Art. Among her many achievements, Miranda Lash has reinforced NOMA’s connection to the community by recently showcasing the work of local artists such as Skyler Fein, Jennifer Odem, Mr. Quintron and Miss Pussycat, among others. The lecture will take place outdoors, in The Front’s backyard, 4100 St. Claude (at Mazant St.).

Back Talk is a series of monthly lectures, brought to you by The Front, focusing on topics important to the cultural community of New Orleans. This series is free and open to the public. Please stay tuned each month for more information on Back Talk.

We hope to see you there!
The Front

Address:
925 Camp St., New OLreans,

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
www.ogdenmuseum.org

Start with Art
The O�s NEW continuing series for toddlers and pre-school children
Wednesday mornings April 14-May 19

Parents and children, eighteen months to age 5 years, are invited to enjoy music and art in a museum setting. In this new continuing series, we will nurture your child’s sense of rhythm and movement through music and inspire your child�s self expression and imagination with art. This series is taught by Patricia Kaufman. Kaufman is a graduate from Tulane University with a bachelor of arts in Communications. After having children, she saw the positive physical, emotional and cognitive influence music had on them. As a result, she’s been teaching a �Gymboree� style music class for the past 10 years.

Where: The Ogden Museum of Southern Art/ university of new orleans
925 Camp Street
New Orleans, LA 70130

When: Series I: April 14, 21, 28,
Series II: May 5, 12, 19
New activies presented in each series

9:30 am � 10:30 am

Who: For children eighteen months to 5 years and their parent or caregiver

Cost: $15 per series for members! $45 per series for non-members, $15 per additional child

FREE parking with advanced registration!

How: To register or for more information please contact Kate Barron at 504.539.9608
or email kbarron@ogdenmuseum.org

A comprehensive survey of Joan Mitchell’s works on paper created over a 30-year period, the show focuses on the artist’s bold work in pastel but also includes examples of other media, such as watercolor and oil paint. The artist’s archival sketchbooks containing unframed pastel studies from the late sixties and late eighties are also on view.

The exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Joan Mitchell Foundation and Cheim & Read Gallery, New York.

Address:
925 Camp Street, New Orleans

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
www.ogdenmuseum.org

On Sunday, March 21, it�s a Sunday Afternoon Double Feature of screenings of
“Tootie�s Last Suit” and “Always for Pleasure,”
in honor of St. Joseph’s Day and Super Sunday with filmmakers Lisa Katzman and Les Blank in conversation following their films.
3p.m.-6 p.m.
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., New Orleans

Tootie’s Last Suit by Lisa Katzman (2007/2010, 54 minutes)
A new version of the critically acclaimed documentary, courtesy of the filmmaker.
The late Allison “Tootie” Montana is a New Orleans icon, famed for his brilliant handmade Mardi Gras costumes and renowned as a community leader for his onetime role as Big Chief of the Yellow Pocahontas Indian tribe. His family life, however, is undoubtedly more complicated. When he decides to come out of retirement to participate in one last Carnival, a long-simmering conflict with his son (and heir apparent) Darryl erupts. As both vie for the spotlight, it becomes evident that they are fueled less by animosity than by a deep passion for their craft. For Tootie, the costumes are artistic creations as well as emblems of a long-standing family history; for Darryl, they are a means of self-expression but also a way of distinguishing his own carefully honed suit-making skills from those of his father. At once a riveting family drama and an insightful exploration of the history of Mardi Gras within the city’s vibrant African-American community, the film is a celebration of the resilient spirit of a man determined at all costs to preserve a vital tradition.
��In finding out about Tootie, we learn so much: about the inherent segregation of Mardi Gras, the 19th-century relationships between slaves and local Choctaws, and about the real roots of jazz and New Orleans R&B. But mostly, we learn about the amazing art of creating the magnificent, feathered and beaded suits the Mardi Gras Indians wear, and the role marching Indian groups like Tootie’s Yellow Pocahontas played in New Orleans’ African-American culture.”??� Richard Hart, The Independent Weekly

Following Tootie�s Last Suit, there will be a one-on-one conversation with Lisa Katzman and Les Blank about their films and filmic alliances with New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians and musicians followed by a screening of:

Always for Pleasure by Les Blank (1978, 58 minutes)
An intense insider’s portrait of New Orleans’ street celebrations and unique cultural gumbo: Second-line parades, Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest. Features live music from Professor Longhair, the Wild Tchoupitoulas, the Neville Brothers, and more. This glorious, soul-satisfying film is among Les Blank’s special masterworks and aptly adheres to his credo: �Doing a film is a way of getting close to the spirit or the soul of a place.�

For information, contact 504.539.9616.

Address:
925 Camp St., New Orleans

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
www.ogdenmuseum.org

The Art of Southern Film: Established Masters & Emerging Makers presents: A Well-Spent Life: An Evening with Les Blank, on Sat. March 20, 7 p.m.-10 p.m.
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St.

This one-night only event is a tribute to Tampa-born, Tulane University graduate Les Blank: ethnographer, documentarian, naturalist, storyteller, a chronicler of custom, gesture, tradition, ritual, song and dance. Fiercely prolific and steadfastly independent, Blank (b.1935) has made more than 40 vibrant, poetic, lyrical and loopy films in as many years and collaborated with cultural icons�Werner Herzog, Ry Cooder, Clifton Chenier, Alice Waters�and unheralded, unknown heroes.
His films on and about the characters and customs of the American South are true, unadulterated experiences, both sacred and profane. For Blank, �I do what I do. I just film. I stick things together in a way I think they should be put to make a picture of what it was I saw.�
For this program, in collaboration with the filmmaker, the Museum has selected four works, rarely screened, that tell stories about various people and places in Texas, Louisiana, Appalachia, and Alabama:

Del Mero Corazon (1979, 29 minutes)
Shot during the making of Blank�s 1976 classic Chulas Fronteras (selected for preservation by the Library of Congress National Registry), Del Mero Corazon is a lyrical journey through the heart of Chicano culture as reflected in the love songs of the Tex-Mex Norte�a music tradition. Featuring Little Joe and the Familia.

Dry Wood (1973, 37 minutes)
A fascinating look at black Creole life in French Louisiana, held together by the wild, insistent music of Bois-Sec Ardoin and Canray Fontenot. Image shown here.

Sprout Wings and Fly (1983, 30 minutes)
This touching tribute to Appalachian culture profiles legendary, old-time fiddler Tommy Jarrell. His unpretentious folk wisdom is interlaced with family scenes and reminiscences, plus plenty of old-time music.

A Well-Spent Life (1971, 44 minutes). Kurt Vonnegut Jr.�s favorite film. Many people consider Texas bluesman Mance Lipscomb to be the greatest blues guitarist and songster of all time. This glowing portrait of the legendary musician (also life-long husband and sharecropper) is among Blank’s special masterworks. Instead of growing bitter, tough times made Lipscomb sweet.

Blank will also preview an excerpt of an untitled film on the life and work of self-taught artist Butch Anthony, of Seale, Ala. Blank’s camera follows Anthony to various folk art festivals around the South, and visits the friends and artists who inspired him to create art. He also observes Anthony’s life in Alabama’s rural landscape. From raccoon hunting to calling up alligators and digging up fossils, Butch Anthony shows us a South not known to many.

About the Ogden Museum of Southern Art�s Art of Southern Film: Established Masters and Emerging Makers: This series showcases established and emerging auteurs whose films and video present unique visions and versions of the people and places, memories and histories, of the American South. Quarterly events include discussions with filmmakers and collaborators, as well as the temporary exhibition of relevant artwork. The series is supported by a grant from the Louisiana State Arts Council through the Louisiana Division of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Additional support provided by the W Hotel and Full Motion Productions. Series Producer and Ogden Museum Curator of Film: Madeleine Molyneaux.

For information, 504.539.9616.

“Femme Fest 2010,” an art exhibit celebrating Women’s History Month, opens March 13 at the Jazz & Heritage Gallery. The exhibit is organized by the Women’s Caucus for Art of Louisiana.
Date: Saturday, March 13, 2010
Time: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Location: The Jazz & Heritage Gallery, 1205 N. Rampart Street
Admission & Opening Hours: Admission is free. The Jazz & Heritage Gallery’s regular opening hours are 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. The “Femme Fest 2010” exhibit will be on display through April 10.
The Jazz & Heritage Gallery is pleased to announce “Femme Fest 2010,” an exhibit featuring works created by professional women artists of Louisiana.

The exhibit will be on display from March 13 through April 10.

An opening celebration will be held Saturday, March 13, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., as part of the “Second Saturday” openings by galleries in the St. Claude Arts District.

Gallery admission is free. Regular opening hours are 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Address:
925 Camp St., New Orleans

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
www.ogdenmuseum.org

An Evening with artist Bo Bartlett
Fri. March 12
6 p.m.-8 p.m.

Artist Bo Bartlett, a native of Columbus, Ga., is one of the leaders of the New American Realist movement. In the tradition of Thomas Eakins and Andrew Wyeth, of whom he was prot�g�, Bartlett�s large canvases capture the spirit and beauty of the everyday and the extraordinary, often with a hint of mystery and fantasy. He also directed the film �Snow Hill,� a biography of Andrew Wyeth, in collaboration with Wyeth�s widow, Betsy. For this event, Bartlett will screen images of his paintings while discussing his influences and evolution of his work. All of this will be set in the exhibition, “Bo Bartlett: Paintings 1984-2000” (currently on view through March 28, 2010). Admission: Free to members; $10 nonmembers. (Museum members can reserve a seat no later than Weds. March 10). For information, call 504.539.9616.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art
925 Camp St.
New Orleans, La.
www.ogdenmuseum.org

Address:
925 Camp St., New Orleans, La

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
www.ogdenmuseum.org

� PUPPET MAKING WORKSHOP: TOY THEATER and PUPPETS INSPIRED BY CLEMENTINE HUNTER
Have fun imagining the world inside of a painting and bringing it to life!

SAT. FEB. 27 10 am-noon
For Children
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., New Orleans, La.

Calliope Puppets� Karen Konnerth directs a two-hour workshop for children, leading them to use puppetry to bring to life stories of their own, inspired by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art collection. For this workshop, the inspiration is Clementine Hunter’s paintings. Children will look a Hunter’s paintings and “animate” scenes from them. Focusing on one element of the painting, children will recreate the background with simple materials, then build quick-rod puppets of the painting’s people, as well as dream up dialogue for each one for a short performance. Children will leave with a toy theater stage and the puppets they create. This is part of a series of workshops directed by Calliope Puppets. Each workshop will feature a different puppetry technique, so they may by taken as a series, or individually. Through these workshops, children will learn about Southern artists and art traditions.

Fee: $20 (Museum members); $25 (non-members). Fees includes materials.
RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED

UPCOMING PUPPET WORKSHOP includes: March 27: Robot Marionettes inspired by Clyde Connell and John T. Scott

Information: Contact Stephanie Spicer, 504.539.9616, sspicer@ogdenmuseum.org

Recently, many cultural organizations came together on a joint cultural and cultural economy platform. We are presenting it on Wednesday, January 20th, at the Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp Street at 12 noon. If your organization would like to be listed as a partner, please send us the name of your organization by 5 p.m. today. Please invite your friends, associates, artists, and art supporters to demonstrate our unity.

To view the cultural platform, visit www.artscouncilofneworleans.org.

Jeanne Nathan for
Cultural Election Coalition for New Orleans

For Immediate Release:
January 19, 2010

Contact: Jeanne Nathan
504.218.4807
917.232.4522

COALITION OF CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS AND LEADERS
TO ANNOUNCE JOINT PLATFORM IN SUPPORT OF CULTURE, AND THE CREATIVE ECONOMY: 21 FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

What:

A group of cultural organizations, leaders, presenters, performers, artists, designers have come together on a joint platform for policies, programs and funding in support of the city’s culture and creative economy.

When:

12pm, Noon, Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Where:

Contemporary Arts Center
900 Camp Street

Why:

Several cultural groups had prepared and presented platforms regarding the current municipal election campaign. After attending each other’s meetings, it was determined that agreement on priorities was high, and that a clearer and more effective message for the candidates could be developed and communicated best in a joint platform. The consensus is expected to help candidates understand better the needs and aspirations of the city’s cultural producers. Protecting the city’s traditional culture, welcoming cultural innovation, and growing the ability of all to earn a living, grow their businesses, and remain in New Orleans is an underlying theme to many of the specific recommendations.

The joint platform and individual industry or discipline platforms will be available at www.artscouncilofneworleans.org and www.cano-la.org. Partners in preparing the joint platform will be announced on Wednesday. Mayoral and Council candidates have been invited to attend

Printing with Glitter! with Meg Turner
Saturday Jan. 16th 2-6 pm

How do you make a print look so amazing you wish it was food so you could eat it? Add glittter! This one-day workshop goes through the basics of exposing a screen and
printing a color, but with the added twist of printing with sparkles. Warning: you will leave covered in glitter, and any place you take your prints will leave a trail of fairy dust.

Provided: Screens, proof Paper, Basic Inks and Glitter
Bring: a drawing on acetate or a photocopy to coat with oil. fancy paper if you want it.
For Purchase: Rives BFK or Japanese Washi or Neenah Duplex Paper.

$25.00/day including provided materials (except tuesdays)
maximum: 7 students, minumum: 4 students.
To register: call (504) 571-7373 During office hours.

Address:
925 Camp St., New Orleans, La.

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
www.ogdenmuseum.org

Jessica Harris, culinary historian and cookbook author, joins artist and raconteur William Dunlap to discuss the manners and foodways of the film �Gone with the Wind.� The duo will analyze selected scenes from the film and discuss some aspects of the culture of the Antebellum and Civil War-era South.

When: Wednesday, January 13, 2010; 6 p.m.
Where: Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., New Orleans, La.
Admission: Free to museum members; $10 nonmembers

Every Tuesday: Drop in Screen Print Night at Louisiana ArtWorks
6pm-11pm, Sliding Scale $5-20

Come With a Drawing on Acetate or a photocopy to coat with oil. No registration required! just come by and do some printing, or bring a screen and burn it to take home, experience not necessary! There will be two print shop monitors here to do a demo and give you a hand.

Provided: screens, emulsion, proof paper, some ink.
Bring: Paper, shirts or your own screen.
For purchase: unmixed Speedball inks. Rives BFK

Don’t miss the Creative Industry sponsored special holiday “BUY ART and…” pop-up shop at the Broad Street Holiday Flea and Bazaar this coming Saturday, December 12!

The pop-up will present a variety of local designers, artists, sculptors and jewelry designers featuring handmade art objects. “BUY ART and…” will inspire you to give affordable art as a holiday present- your friends, family, and our local artists will all appreciate that you stopped by!

Broad Flea patrons will find a mix of handcrafted and heirloom jewelry and decorative objects, eco-friendly repurposed messenger bags, used and rare books, vintage vinyl, handmade soaps and other crafts, deconstructed fashions, farm fresh produce and much more. The wallet friendly prices will satisfy savvy shoppers’ appetites, while they stumble upon prized gifts for relatives with everything and unique eye-catchers for themselves.

Creative Industry looks forward to seeing you at our “BUY ART and…” pop-up shop this weekend! Stop by, finish your holiday shopping and support your local arts community. (504) 218-4807

A panel discussion featuring artists from Hot Up Here: New Work by New Orleans Artists

Evocative black-and-white environmental portraits of 100 people who encompass the widely ranging diversity of New Orleanians comprise the book �Portraits: Photographs in New Orleans 1998-2009� by Jonathan Traviesa. There will be a booksigning on Thurs. Dec. 10 at 6 p.m. The booksigning also corresponds to the exhibition at the Ogden Museum: �Jonathan Traviesa: Portraits in New Orleans 1998-2009.� The exhibition opens on Nov. 27, 2009 and will be on view until Jan. 24, 2010. The subjects of Traviesa�s photographs are not random, but were carefully selected by the photographer, based on friendship and an intuitive understanding of his subjects and their environments. Some know each other, some do not.
�I am interested in where and how people live in New Orleans,� says Jonathan Traviesa. �I believe that who these people are is shaped in part by the spaces they know and live around. This project attempts to record the dialogue between the intimate, built environment of New Orleans and the personalities contained therein.� The black-and-white images were taken with an old Rolleiflex twin-lens camera that was given to him by his father. The settings are outdoors, which keeps the lighting simple and gives the viewer a sense of how and where the subjects live. (Most reside in the Marigny and Bywater neighborhoods in New Orleans.) This exhibition offers a unique update on the Southern tradition of integrating the arts�visual, literature and theater�with a sense of place.

Curator’s Talk with Richard McCabe
Revival: Historical Processes in Contemporary Photography focuses on contemporary artist who are utilizing 19th century photographic methods. In a one-hour lecture curator Richard McCabe will discuss the threads of modern alchemy in an increasingly digital age. McCabe will talk about the artists and works he selected for the exhibition. Using images in the show as examples he will elaborate on the processes employed by the featured photographers: including cyanotypes, tintypes, wet-plate collodion, ambrotypes gum-bichromate and platinum prints. He will also discuss his own interest and involvement with historic photographic processes. Immediately following McCabe’s talk featured artist Bruce Schultz will demonstrate wet and dry plate photographic methods.

Bio
Richard McCabe was born in Mildenhall, England and grew up in the American South. McCabe received an MFA in Studio Art from Florida State University in 1998. In the last 12 years has lived and worked in New York City and New Orleans, Louisiana. Currently, McCabe works as the Chief Preparator at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and as an Associate Professor of Art at Xavier University. He continues to pursue his own art, working primarily in photography, painting, and installation.

One of the first public exhibits of the pastel portraits from the series on free people of color was presented at Café Rose Nicaud. Owned by Kenneth and Melba Ferdinand, this Faubourg Marigny business is named in honor of a slave woman who is said to have bought herself out of bondage with the earnings she made from the firs coffee stand ever set up on the riverfront in the early the early 19th century. It is an epic story of courage and transformation. Her portrait and others are documented in the art book titled NEW ORLEANS FREE PEOPLE OF COLOR & THEIR LEGACY, which was published by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans.

The exhibit allowed me to connect this body of work to the community outside of the established art houses, and this Saturday, I will read from the book as part of a signing at the Café. The reading includes a spoken word performance of poems from the series “Channeling the Spirits: The Creoles”. If you are in The New Orleans area, please join us for this signing and performance. It is free and open to the public.
Café Rose Nicaud: 632 Frenchmen Street
Saturday, December 5 from 6-8PM. A reception will follow.

ABOUT THE FREE PEOPLE OF COLOR & BOOK:
“Les gens de couleur libres” are considered the first multiracial people in the United States, borne of an illegal but tolerated mixing between the French, Spanish and African races of colonial Louisiana. This visual history project celebrates the legacy of New Orleans’ hybrid caste and their cultural and political contributions. For the past seven years, I have been developing these colorful and expressionistic pastel portraits on paper that identify a Creole intelligentsia of artists and activists who fought to abolish slavery and dismantle the institutional prejudices of their times.

Funded with support from the Joan Mitchell Foundation in New York, the publication’s release coincided with the Ogden Museum’s exhibition of the same name that recently closed. The art book chronicles these lesser-known heroic individuals who played a major role in the city’s cultural heritage. The book contains biographical notes on each individual portrayed and a time line of New Orleans colonial history, both written by Creole historian Keith Weldon Medley. Mr. Medley will join me to sign at the Café.

OTHER DECEMBER SIGNINGS:
Ogden Museum: 925 Camp Street, December 4 from 6-9PM. The book and art prints on FREE PEOPLE are available at an Ogden event for Members only, and it includes numerous artists signing their books and selling prints throughout the three museum floors.

Faubourg Marigny Art & Books: 600 Frenchmen Street, Sunday, December 20 from 4-6PM

For more information on this series of pastel drawings, you can visit
http://www.torrestama.com/ogden/index.html.

The Ogden Museum of Southern Art�s Center for Southern Craft and Design will expand its boundaries for �The Art of Giving�: a museum members-only deluxe shopping evening event on Fri. Dec. 4.
In addition to the museum�s first-floor retail space, the atrium and third floor will be filled with one-of-a kind pieces by more than 80 Southern artists.
� Gifts! Give a present with a sense of style and place! Original art (photographs, prints), art glass, jewelry (personal appearances by Gogo Borgerding and John Humphries), ceramics, wood, metal, textiles, as well as books (fiction, nonfiction�even cookbooks) and CDs by Southern musicians will be available.
� Musicians: Kermit Ruffins and Jeremy Davenport, both on the Basin Street Label, will be on hand to sign CDs. (Davenport will be at the Museum 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. only.) Ruffins has just released �Have a Crazy Cool Christmas� and Davenport recently came out with �We�ll Dance �Till Dawn.�
� Booksignings: Chef John Besh, My New Orleans: The Cookbook, Alex Beard, The Jungle Grapevine, and Jos� Torres-Tama New Orleans Free People of Color & Their Legacy will be there to personalize their books. Also, look for a special tastings by Besh and special art prints (for sale) by Torres-Tama.
� Museum members receive 15 percent off all items this night only.
� Additional Savings! Because the Ogden is in a special cultural district, there is no sales tax on purchases of original art.
� Exhibitions: While shopping, peruse art by Bo Bartlett, Stanley Staniski, Dusti Bong�, Fritz Bultman, as well as art from the Ogden�s Permanent Collection.

This event is made possible in part with a grant from the Windgate Charitable Foundation.

PhotoNOLA is an annual celebration of photography in New Orleans, coordinated by the New Orleans Photo Alliance in partnership with galleries, museums and photographers citywide. December 2009 marks the fourth annual festival. Scheduled events will take place from Dec 1-13, with broad ranging photography exhibitions on display throughout the month of December.

PhotoNOLA festivities will begin with a series of French Quarter openings from Dec 1-3. We are thrilled to be hosting our first Slideluck Potshow on Friday, Dec 4. Saturday Dec 5 will include a wet-plate photography demonstration at Homespace Gallery, a multi-artist book signing event at the New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery, evening art openings and an after party at The Big Top. Sunday Dec 6 brings afternoon lectures with Linda Troeller and Casey Kelbaugh.

The PhotoGALA Benefit Party & Auction on Thursday, Dec. 10 at the New Orleans Museum of Art is not to be missed. An Education Day on Dec 11 will feature a Blurb Self-Publishing seminar followed by a Mary Virginia Swanson lecture, and will wrap with a slideshow presentation by Lauren Greenfield, sponsored by Canon. Portfolio Reviews with a national cast of curators, editors and gallerists will take place Dec 12 & 13. The Saturday evening PhotoWALK featuring review participants will offer the public a peek at 60 rising photographers from across the nation. Lower Garden District and St. Claude Arts District openings will follow.

Exhibitions will feature work by Susan Burnstine, Debbie Fleming Caffery, William Greiner, David Halliday, Louviere + Vanessa, Robert Polidori, Jonathan Traviesa, Alvaro Villela, POYi’s “Visions of Excellence,” Lori Waselchuk, Sarah Wilson and many others. Gallery talks, additional book signings and lectures and a Six Shooters panel discussion are also included in the lineup. Most events are free and open to the public.

Please join us to celebrate the art of photography, New Orleans style!

Studio 527 and the Creative Alliance of New Orleans invite you to join a group of creative thinkers who are kicking off a series of brainstorming sessions to come up with new ideas for projects for New Orleans.

“We hope people will come with their dreams, inventions, off the wall ideas, and the kind of thoughts that are game-changers,” said Robert Tannen, Director of Studio 527.

“We want artists, designers, scientists, financial mangers, real estate developers, educators, business owners, planners and any citizen who cares about our city to come and throw out new ideas,” said Tannen. Many artists who have shown their work in the gallery are expected to attend, as well as coastal engineers, economists and generally creative members of the community.

Draw-a-thon is a twenty-four hour, action-packed community art event. In activities led by local artists, both beginners and professionals of all ages explore a variety of techniques and materials. Draw-a-thon attracts participants from diverse communities across the region, learning and creating side by side.

Along with structured, scheduled events, Draw-a-thon creates an environment in which spontaneous collaboration and expression is encouraged, with materials and space provided for free-drawing. For example, the Drawing Room is completely covered in paper, a space where where families can draw together. Participants can attend for any length of time, from an hour to twenty-four hours.

Draw-a-thon generates constant artistic activity, promoting the possibilities of process and demonstrating that anyone can participate. By emphasizing process over product, Draw-a-thon encourages participants to continue with artistic endeavors on their own.

The event also includes periodic live music, food vendors, the amazing Draw-o-tron 3000, art performances, art games, stunts and shenanigans. Held annually in November at The Green Project, located in the St. Claude Arts District, Draw-a-thon also raises awareness for Recycle for the Arts.

Free and open to the public. All materials are provided.

A free screening of the documentary BETWEEN THE FOLDS By Vanessa Gould Saturday, November 21, 2009 6:00PM ANTENNA 3161 Burgundy Street New Orleans, LA 70117 Think origami is just paper planes and cranes? Meet a determined group of theoretical scientists and fine artists who have abandoned careers and scoffed at graduate degrees to forge new lives as modern-day paper folders.

The Big Idea is back on! Studio 527 and the Creative Alliance of New Orleans invite you to join a group of creative thinkers who are kicking off a series of brainstorming sessions to come up with new ideas for New Orleans and its greater region.

The Creative Alliance will also ask participants to contribute suggestions for cultural projects that can help expand and grow the cultural economy, listed as one of four new emerging industries by GNO Inc, Horizon Inc, and the Master Plan.

Other emerging industries that will be addressed include the bio- medical, alternative energy, green building industries, and issues of coastal restoration. Coastal restoration and hurricane protection have been Big Ideas since Katrina in New Orleans and the surrounding Gulf of Mexico region. The problems of urban development, flood and storm protection, agriculture, forests, prairies and wetlands, industry, energy, economic development, and the huge resources of the rivers and the Gulf of Mexico will be examined as relating to other Big Ideas during Saturday’s meeting.

“Big thinkers”, or those willing to think big, from all disciplines are invited to participate. The meeting will be informal, quick paced, and will be recorded for distribution to participants as the basis for follow up initiatives and future “What’s the Big Idea” brainstorming sessions.

Organizers of the sessions hope candidates for public office will consider these ideas; but these sessions will not be political forums.

“We hope people will come with their dreams, inventions, off the wall ideas, and the kind of thoughts that are game-changers,” said Robert Tannen, Director of Studio 527.

“We want artists, engineers, designers, architects, scientists, financial managers, real estate developers, educators, business owners, planners and any citizen who cares about our city and region to come and propose new ideas,” said Tannen. Artists who have shown their work in the gallery are expected to attend, as well as coastal engineers, economists and generally creative members of the community.

A light brunch will be served, and guests are encouraged to bring refreshments to add to what the organizers hope will be a spirited, fun, and productive event. For more information, call 504.218.4807.

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Studio 527 and the Creative Alliance of New Orleans are bringing together a group of creative thinkers who are kicking off a series of brainstorming sessions to contribute suggestions for cultural projects that can help expand and grow the cultural economy in New Orleans.

Bring your Big Ideas to Studio 527, 527 Julia Street this Saturday, November 21st. Brainstorming kicks off at 10 A.M., free brunch and lunch will be served!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA ADVISORY
Contact: Ashley Davis (504) 897-0462
ashley@bondpublicrelations.com

WHO: New Orleans Non-Profit Homebuilder Build Now

WHAT: Art House: Big Easy Artists Celebrate Build Now’s New Homes
Art House is a home/art tour featuring New Orleans art displayed in our New Orleans-style houses. For one day only, Build Now’s houses, built for families who lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina, will be transformed by local artists into in-home galleries featuring some of New Orleans’ most exciting new artwork. Some of our families will also be opening up their completed Build Now homes to the public.

WHEN: Saturday, November 14th – 1pm until 5pm

WHERE: Build Now Model House 5713 Elysian Fields Avenue New Orleans, LA 70122

WHY: Build Now is one of the biggest players in the revitalization of New Orleans. Art House recognizes the fact that Build Now has been rocking out the rebuilding scene for almost two years now and has helped more than 20 families on their journey back home.

CONTACT: (504) 324-3964 or email mail@buildnownola.com for more information

ABOUT BUILD NOW
Build Now is a non-profit homebuilder. The organization helps New Orleans residents who lost their homes as a result of Hurricane Katrina overcome the obstacles preventing them from rebuilding. Build Now assists each client with everything from choosing a floor plan to finding financing and then builds a new home on the client’s lot. For more information on Build Now visit www.buildnownola.com or contact Ashley Davis at 504.897.0462 or ashley@bondpublicrelations.com

The Honorable Mitch Landrieu, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana
Introductions by Barbara Motley, Executive Director of U.S. Biennial, Inc.
Mike Siegel, Chairman of the Board of U.S. Biennial, Inc.
Carol Bebelle, Executive Director, Efforts of Grace/Ashe Cultural Arts Center
….with special remarks by
Dan Cameron, Founder of U.S. Biennial, Inc., and Artistic Director for prospect new orleans

ASHE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER
1712 ORETHA C HALEY BLVD
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70113

Please R.S.V.P. by emailing:
sarah@theehrhardtgroup.com

Who: Chicago and NOLA contemporary artists and art spaces
What: Drinks and light food
When: Thursday, November 12th, 7:30pm
Where: 817 Mandeville Street (hosted by Jonathan Rhodes and Alisoun Meehan)

I wanted to invite you to a little cocktail hour I’m hosting for some of the Chicago-based arts organizations who will be visiting New Orleans during the upcoming Alliance of Artist Communities conference. ThreeWalls, InCUBATE and Ox-Bow will be presenting at the conference, and our hope is that we can share some drinks, ideas, and possibly some collaborations and exchanges in the future.
ThreeWalls is dedicated to increasing Chicago’s cultural capital by cultivating contemporary art practice and discourse, and by creating a locus of exchange between local, national and international contemporary art communities through a range of programs. www.three-walls.org

InCUBATE is a research institute and artist residency program dedicated to exploring new approaches to arts administration and arts funding. We at InCUBATE act as curators, researchers and co-producers of artists projects. www.incubate-chicago.org

Ox-Bow has served as a haven for visual artists since 1910. Founded on the shores of Lake Michigan as an escape from the city, Ox-Bow is an experience more than a location. Through its affiliation with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Ox-Bow offers one and two-week courses for credit and non-credit for beginning, intermediate, and advanced students in 6 main studio areas—Ceramics, Glass, Painting and Drawing, Papermaking, Print, and Metals. www.ox-bow.org

The New Orleans Botanical Garden has partnered with the KK Projects Life is Art Foundation to present a series of large-scale art works for public viewing inside the Garden. The sculptures first gained attention while they were on view during last weekend’s VOODOO Experience in City Park, and have now been brought into the Botanical Garden where they will stay through January.

Some of the larger-than-life pieces include the Cone by German artists Hans Sachs and Manuel Kretzer, a light based sculpture that rotates with human force. Watch your Eyes, by Elliott Coon, and Light Harps, by Jen Lewin will also be on display. Additionally there is a piece commissioned by City Park from Eric Ehlenberger called Venusian Swamp Lily that will hover above the Botanical Garden’s renowned Lily Pond. All of the sculptures are lighted, and some are kinetic, and interactive. All of the sculpture will be on display and open to the public for Celebration in the Oaks which runs from Friday November 27th to Wednesday December 30th.

The sculptures will be on exhibit for a special preview event at the New Orleans Botanical Garden on Thursday, November 12, from 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. The Garden encourages members of the artistic, gardening, and cultural community to view the sculptures and take part in the ongoing vitalization of New Orleans as an arts and gardens destination.

NOVEMBER MASTER RESIDENCY
with ARTIST FRANCIS X. PAVY

A Louisiana native, Francis X. Pavy has worked in a variety of mediums, including glass, printmaking, photograpy, and ceramics. Primarily a painter, Pavy has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. His work has been collected by museums including The New Orleans Museum of Art and the Morris Museum of Art, and by individuals such as Ron Howard, Paul Simon, Walker Percy, Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia, Antoine de Caunes, and Steve Cropper. For more information, visit www.pavy.com.

PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP
Fee: $130.00
Dates: November 6, 6-9 PM; November 7 & 8, 12-4 PM; November 9, 6-9 PM.

This 4 day course will provide an understanding of the tools and techniques of relief block printing. Other topics that will be covered include: editions, reduction prints, embossing and chin colle�. Come with ideas and drawings and leave with finished prints!

Workshop takes place at Louisiana ArtWorks, 725 Howard Avenue at Carondelet. Please call the office at 504.571.7373 to enroll.

Cancellation policy for workshops: Student must notify Louisiana ArtWorks a minimum of three days in advance of the workshop in order to receive a full refund. A refund of 50% will be given for cancellation 2 days in advance.

ARTIST LECTURE
Free and Open to the Public; Suggested Donation $3.00
November 10th, 7-8:30 PM.

On Tuesday, November 10th, Artist Francis X. Pavy will present a lecture on his work, including a slide presentation and Q&A Session with the audience. All are welcome to attend!

This program is made possible by the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and Foundation.

OGDEN MUSEUM ART BOOK SIGNING NOV. 1 @ 2PM:
Upon my return to New Orleans, I will be having a book signing at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art for the publication NEW ORLEANS FREE PEOPLE OF COLOR & THEIR LEGACY, which documents the exhibition of portraits on paper by the same name. Funded by the Joan Mitchell Foundation in New York, the book contains an essay and a time line of New Orleans colonial history, both written by Creole historian Keith Weldon Medley.

The book is available for purchase at the Center for Southern Craft & Design in the museum. The Ogden, located at 925 Camp St., will host a signing for Sunday, November 1 at 2PM, and three other November signings will take place at the Community Bookstore, the Ashé Cultural Arts Center and at the Cabildo for the Faulkner Society’s Words and Music Festival.

For more information on this series of pastel drawings that I began in 2002 as part of an educational residency with the Ogden Museum, you can visit
http://www.torrestama.com/ogden/index.html.

This coming Tuesday, October 27th from 6-8pm there will be a meeting for the New Orleans Visual Arts Community. This gathering will be held at the Latter Library located @ 5120 St. Charles Ave. This meeting will give visual artists of all forms including photographers an opportunity to share their needs and learn of opportunities for the visual arts community. Please forward this e-mail to any visual artists you know.

The meeting is sponsored by AIRNOLA, the New Orleans Library Foundation, Irvin Mayfield the Cultural Ambassador of New Orleans and Bright Moments.

The meeting is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. For more information please call 495-0463.

Next Tuesday will be your last chance to comment on the draft master plan! After this meeting, the CPC will make a recommendation to the City Council, who will have 90 days to accept, reject, or propose modifications. You can read the plan here, and offer feedback to the CPC in City Council chambers on Tuesday, October 27 from 3:30 – 5:30. The CPC will consider the Master Plan and render a recommendation at its meeting on Tuesday, November 10. Written comments may be submitted to the CPC via mail at 1340 Poydras, #900, New Orleans, LA 70112, faxed to 658-7032, or emailed to nola.masterplan@goodyclancy.com, and must be received no later than October 28 at 5 p.m.

New Orleans, traditionally known for its live music and deep bowls of gumbo, is evolving into a city that respects its past, but is transforming itself into a contemporary, cosmopolitan city with a full and diverse menu of cultural, gardening, architectural, design and culinary offerings. Over the next two months, the city’s leading arts and gardens cultivators will be showcasing programs and events to establish New Orleans as one of the nation’s top cultural and gardens destinations. See below for full calendar and detailed map of events throughout the city.

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The New Orleans Botanical Garden launches a campaign to celebrate the city�s unique gardens, with a Bon Voyage Brunch and Tours of the Botanical Garden, City Park, the Bayou St. John, Esplanade Ridge and Treme neighborhoods, and Longue Vue House and Gardens with Gray Line Tours. Complete with live music, great food, and tours of the garden, the inaugural event will kick-off the celebration New Orleans arts and gardens culture. Friends of City Park and the board members of the Botanical Garden, and Longue Vue House and Gardens, and New Orelans City Park have all pitched in to make the launch on October 11th an exciting event, with a great brunch, refreshments, Champaign toast, and preview tours. Call 504-218-4807 for event information.

Address:
1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

Zip Code:
70113

Web Site:
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/rogerbb/films/fall09tour.pdf

Renowned experimental filmmaker Roger Beebe, whose films have shown around the globe from Sundance to the Museum of Modern Art and from McMurdo Station in Antarctica to the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square, comes to New Orleans to present a program of his recent mutli-projector films as part of a 6-week US tour. In his films, Beebe explores the possibilities of using multiple projectors�running as many as 8 projectors simultaneously�not for a free-form VJ-type experience, but for the creation of discrete works of �expanded cinema.� The show builds from the relatively straightforward two-projector films �The Strip Mall Trilogy� and �TB TX DANCE� to the more elaborate three-projector meditation on Las Vegas, �Money Changes Everything,� and on finally to the eight-projector meditation on the mysteries of space �Last Light of a Dying Star.� These films are simultaneously performance films (as they can only be screened with Beebe actually running the projectors�and running from projector to projector), technological demonstrations (with a parade of different modes of image making and presentation�16mm and super 8mm film alongside video and digital formats), and significant aesthetic works in their own right.

“[Beebe�s films] implicitly and explicitly evoke the work of Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander, all photographers of the atomic age whose Western photographs captured the banalities, cruelties and beauties of imperial America.” —David Fellerath, The Independent Weekly

“Beebe’s work is goofy, startling, and important.” —Daniel Kraus, Wilmington Encore
ABOUT ROGER BEEBE:
Roger Beebe is a professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Florida. He has won dozens of awards for his filmmaking including a 2009 Visiting Foreign Artists Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, a 2006 Individual Artist Grant from the State of Florida, and Best Experimental Film at the 2006 Chicago Underground Film Festival. In addition to his work as a filmmaker, he is also a film programmer: he ran Flicker, a festival of small gauge film in Chapel Hill, NC, from 1997-2000 and is currently Artistic Director of FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival. He also owns Video Rodeo, an independent video store in Gainesville, FL.

Address:
725 Howard Avenue

Zip Code:
70113

Web Site:
www.louisianaartworks.org

Instructor Rachel David
Fee: $100
October 3 & 4, 11 AM – 3 PM

A perfect introduction to blacksmithing as a craft, this course will cover the basic of heating and shaping steel, techniques that are present in all levels of blacksmithing. In this weekend class students will be introduced to skills including tapering, shouldering, bending, punching, twisting, and upsetting. Exposure to the pace of working the metal, understanding the forge and the tools used will provide the beginner the interest and experience to take blacksmithing further.

Workshop takes place at Louisiana ArtWorks, 725 Howard Avenue at Carondelet. Please call the office at 504.571.7373 to enroll.

Cancellation policy for workshops: Student must notify Louisiana ArtWorks a minimum of three days in advance of the workshop in order to receive a full refund. A refund of 50% will be given for cancellation 2 days in advance.

This program is funded by the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and a grant from the Louisiana State Arts Council through the Louisiana Division of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Address:
One Collins C. Diboll Circle, City Park, New Orleans, Louisiana

Zip Code:
70124

Web Site:
www.noma.org

With its timeless themes, heartfelt performances, memorable music and brilliant artistry, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is generally acknowledged to be the most popular and widely seen motion picture ever produced by Hollywood. The timeless story of a young princess who, with the aid of her forest friends and adoring diamond minders, overcomes various worldly challenges to finally meet her prince. Rich in detail and imagination, this film stands apart from all other animated features because it was Hollywood’s first attempt at the genre and proved to numerous skeptics of the day that feature-length animation was a viable and exciting form of filmmaking.

Location: Stern Auditorium

Also referred to as MEMORY JEWELRY, the Found Object Sandwich offers the opportunity to explore design concepts and fabrication techniques important to an assemblage approach to jewelry making using cold connections. Students are encouraged to bring photographs (old, new or magazine) and found-objects such as buttons, heirloom jewelry or stuff found in the street, in nature, or industrial materials (chain, electronic parts, etc.) to incorporate in the design and fabrication of a personal wearable expression No previous jewelry marking skills required.

The Porch 7th Ward Cultural Organization proudly invites you to the premiere of Down in the Seventh – a digital web-series filmed and acted by the Porch youth theatre company the “Original Little 7 Players”. The event will take place September 25th at 7pm at the Porch – 1941 Pauger Street at the corner of Urquhart. Down in the Seventh bravely addresses the impact of violence in the 7th Ward neighborhood and throughout the city. It was written and directed by Andrew Larimer based on stories told by the cast and crew and local news items. Please join us to celebrate the youth’s incredible hard work. We will have a question and answer talk-back with the “Original Little 7 Players” after the premiere. Refreshments will be served. Contact the Porch Director Edward Buckner for more information at 504-401-1836 or e_buckner@yahoo.com.

About the Original Little 7 Players: The Original Little 7 Players are a program of the Porch and a project of Home, New Orleans? (an initiative of the National Performance Network) with funding provided by the Ford Foundation. Much of the technical equipment used to make Down in the Seventh came from a generous grant from the Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation

Tulane University, Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art CenterZip Code:
www.newcombartgallery.tulane.edu

In conjunction with the Newcomb Art Gallery exhibition “American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print,” Jim Sherraden (chief designer and manager of Nashville’s Hatch Show Print since 1984) will speak about the company�s colorful history, emphasizing its fidelity to the craft of letterpress printing in an era of digital media.

Hatch Show Print is one of the oldest continuously operating print shops in the U.S. and has produced iconic posters advertising everything from vaudeville shows, state fairs, and stock car races to the Grand Ole Opry, Louis Armstrong, and Bruce Springsteen.

Address:
527 Julia Street, New Orleans LA

Zip Code:
70130

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Screening of Inside Look at Citizen’s Role in Post-Katrina Rebuilding

Luisa Dantas may know more about how the citizens of New Orleans took up the reins of recovery after Katrina that almost anyone else. She certainly turned up at every citizens’ event in those harrowing months after the storm. She then pursued the participants to learn more about their efforts, struggles, and dreams.

She is working on what should be a monumental documentary about the rebuilding of this city. As she approaches the completion of the work in its entirety, she has prepared selected short pieces that highlight some of the core issues that emerged during that time. Her style is hard hitting, but eerily beautiful as well.

Her piece, FLUX will be screened on Saturday, August 29th, memorializing the end of one way of life, and the beginning of another in this coastal outpost of the earth’s global warming.

“FLUX consists of short videos that reflect upon the precariousness of affordable housing in New Orleans and America four years after Katrina.”
-Luisa Dantas

WHEN and WHERE:
Satuday, August 29th, 6:30 p.m.
Studio 527, 527 Julia Street, New Orleans

Studio 527, a pop-up contextual art gallery that hosts exhibitions from Louisiana’s top contemporary artists, is located at 527 Julia Street. Regular gallery hours are Thursday through Saturday from 1:00 until 6:00 p.m. and by appointment. For more information, call 504.218-4807.

On Tuesday, August 25th at 7:00 PM Louisiana ArtWorks presents “The Trajectory of Digital to Video”. Digital production and distribution processes have dramatically changed how artists work in film and video. New, ever-expanding toolsets present different conceptual and aesthetic choices to artists. This panel in the “Art Sessions: A Series of Discussions on Visual Contemporary Art” series will present and discuss contemporary trends and issues in video art with an emphasis on the influence that digital processes have on the form, content, and presentation of time-based media. Artist Courtney Egan moderates the discussion with panelists Madeleine Molyneaux (Producer, Picture Palace Pictures; Programmer, Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal) and artists Michael Greathouse and Dawn Dedeaux.

Event is free and open to the public. Louisiana ArtWorks is located at 725 Howard Avenue at Carondelet.

Please also note that the Louisiana ArtWorks MarketPlace is open Saturdays from 11 AM to 5 PM, featuring fine crafts from artists across Louisiana and a flat file of original works on paper.
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The Louisiana ArtWorks Team
T: 504.571.7373
F: 504.571.7368
info@louisianaartworks.org
www.louisianaartworks.org

This program is made possible by the Joan Mitchell Foundation and a grant from the Louisiana State Arts Council through the Louisiana Division of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Studio 527 Anniversary Celebration with Miranda Lash-NOMA curator- Leading a Discussion on Contemporary Art in New Orleans

In honor of our first anniversary, Studio 527 is hosting a discussion on contemporary art to be led by NOMA’s Curator of Contemporary and Modern Art, Miranda Lash. We are excited to welcome Ms. Lash, celebrate the anniversary of Prospect One and the opening of Studio 527.

This coming Saturday, August 22, from 4 PM to 6 PM. The anniversary event begins at 4 PM and Ms. Lash will begin her discussion shortly after. Regular hours for Studio 527 are 1 – 5 PM, Thursday through Saturday and by appointment. The current show runs through August 25.

Studio 527 is located at 527 Julia Street in New Orleans.

For more information, contact Morgan Molthrop at 504-638-3057.

Join us for an informal tour of An Instant Arrested in Eternity: Sketches by Steinlen, Forain & Tchelitchew with George Roland, Doris Zemurray Stone Curator of Prints and Drawings. Th鯰hile-Alexandre Steinlen roamed his beloved Montmartre filling his sketchbooks with the images he would draw upon to create vivid lithographs for weekly publications. Jean-Louis Forain haunted the courts, pen in hand, to capture his popular caricatures. Pavel Tchelitchew recorded the incidents from his personal life, planning more comprehensive compositions. These rapid and fluent images bring us closer to the spirit of the artist than many more highly developed works and give us the pleasure of seeing the artist at work. The exhibition features approximately 40 sheets selected from the recent gift of 135 drawings by the late Joseph F. McCrindle.

Whitney White Linen Night presented by the N.O. Arts District on August 1st (Rain date: Aug 8) celebrates the galleries and businesses throughout the Arts District with a Julia Street block party from 6-9pm. Free Live Music, Cuisine and Cocktails available for purchase. The CAC’s after-party from 9pm-midnight features DJ Soul Sister ‘s Deeper Discoteque and the Booty Patrol Dancers.

In the current two-person exhibition Mnemonic Devices: Rachel Jones and David Webber, two Louisiana-based artists working in painting (Jones) and video (Webber) explore the process of selecting and assembling information from memories and pre- existing documents into new visual amalgams. Though they work in different mediums, the artists share an interest in dissolving imagery and narratives into expressive fragments. The New Orleans-based Jones has exhibited her work locally at The Front, as well as in New York and Austria. Webber is Assistant Professor of Media Art at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and has exhibited his work in numerous international film festivals.

Released in conjunction with The Andy Warhol Museum, 13 Most Beautiful features 13 of Warhol’s classic silent film portraits. Subjects include Nico, Lou Reed, Edie Sedgwick, Dennis Hopper and more. Shot between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol’s Factory studio in New York City, the screen tests are presented with newly commissioned soundtracks performed by Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips. (60 minutes)

Polymorphic Plastic Parade features a village of tipis made with salvaged and renewable resources. The juxtaposition of modern waste materials with the humble iconic structure of the tipi encourages site visitors to contemplate issues of excess and sustainability in present times. PPP is maintained by Ian Gamble and Sarah Witt, “Etc,” Artists. “Etc.” is an international collective of artists associated with Elsewhere Artist Collaborative, a living museum in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina.

Installation on view July 3rd and 4th at Irby Field, City Park between Victory and Dreyfous Streets and in the backyard of The Front.

The Front is located at 4100 St. Claude Avenue, opening hours Saturday & Sunday, 12 to 5 pm. Please visit at www.nolafront.org for more information.

“Take a peek into the illustrious career of one of today’s most prolific photographers, Annie Leibovitz. The film depicts the various phases that shaped her life while tracing her photographic life…. The images form a narrative rich in contrasts and continuities in this collection of her work from 1990-2005.” www.pbs.org

In this Emmy-award-winning documentary, famed documentary photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, featured in the current exhibition The Art of Caring: A Look at Life through Photography, returns to his German homeland for the first time since 1935. While on assignment, he re-establishes his roots and photographs it with fresh eyes for his tenth and possibly most important book, Eisenstaedt: Germany. Filmed with Eisenstaedt’s cooperation, the photographer at the height of his Life magazine career, the artist tells all about photography, Hitler, Hollywood, the 1950s and more.