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What's it like to Photograph the Streets for half a century?

At first glance, Mung'ora's work offers glimpses into everyday life in Nairobi, capturing moments ranging from bustling cityscapes to intimate portraits.Yet, upon deeper reflection, Mung'ora's canvases reveal a profound commentary on the fragmentation of urban landscapes, where physical and socialboundaries delineate diverse experiences from street to street. Through meticulously layered compositions, Mung'ora intertwines historical referenceswith modern-day scenes, highlighting the enduring imprints of past lives while emphasizing the disparities inherent in Nairobi's evolving environments. Mung'ora is a member of Brush Tu, a Nairobi-based artists' collective, and has exhibited widely including: A Tapestry of Contemporary Africa, MoCaL.I., New York (2024); Common Ground, NCAI, Nairobi (2023); African Identities, AKKA Project, Venice (2022); Walking the Edge, Afriart Gallery,Kampala (2022); 1-54 Contemporary Art Fair, New York (2022); Fragments, Antoine Dupin, Rennes (2022); A Gathering of Small Fires, MontagueContemporary, New York (2021); Sacrifice Pasture, One Off Gallery, Nairobi (2021); Kikulacho, British Institute in East Africa, Nairobi (2018);Remains, Waste & Metonymy II, British Institute in East Africa, Nairobi (2017); Stranger Times, Circle Art Gallery, Nariobi (2017), among others. He was the winner of the 2016 Manjano Art Prize in Nairobi, a finalist in the 2018 edition of the Barclays L'Atelier competition, and a finalist in the 2020EPI competition.His works form part of many notable collections, including the I&M Bank Collection, MFA Boston (promised), New Orleans Museum of Art (promised),Rodney Miller Collection, Nicolas Jay Collection, Rift Collection, Sir John Rose Collection, among others. His work been featured in the Artnet, Art inAfrica, the New York Times, and the Nation, among others. Installation, ‘Song of Lawino,' a solo exhibition by Kenyan artist Elias Mung'ora held at Indiana State University's Yang Gallery Installation, ‘Song of Lawino,' a solo exhibition by Kenyan artist Elias Mung'ora held at Indiana State University's Yang Gallery Unplanned Move 2 2024 Mixed Media on Canvas 71 x 71 in Self Portrait 2024 Signed and Dated on Front Mixed Media on Canvas 71 x 71 in

New Orleans was set to have a big 2025. The city hosted the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras season is especially long this year, stretching all the way into March. But the terrorism attack on New Year's Day has business owners worried about what will happen to the tourism they rely on.The Gulf States Newsroom's Stephan Bisaha caught up with some in the French Quarter to hear how they're preparing for what's usually the busy season. The New Orleans Museum of Art has a new chief curator. Anne Collins Smith comes to NOMA after serving as director of the Xavier University of Louisiana Art Gallery. The New Orleans native joins us for more on curatorial history and her new role, leading exhibition initiatives with a focus on the museum's modern and contemporary art. The New Orleans-based Musaica Chamber Ensemble continues its 19th season, Hidden Treasures, in concert tonight. The company is presenting, “French Connections,” with works by Ravel, Saint-Saens and others. Musaica violist and president Bruce Owen shares  more about this musical journey. ___Today's episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Diane Mack. Our managing producer is Alana Schreiber. We receive production and technical support from Garrett Pittman, Adam Vos and our assistant producer, Aubry Procell. You can listen to Louisiana Considered Monday through Friday at noon and 7 p.m. It's available on Spotify, Google Play and wherever you get your podcasts. Louisiana Considered wants to hear from you! Please fill out our pitch line to let us know what kinds of story ideas you have for our show. And while you're at it, fill out our listener survey! We want to keep bringing you the kinds of conversations you'd like to listen to.Louisiana Considered is made possible with support from our listeners. Thank you!

Ep.231 Lina Iris Viktor is a Liberian- artist who lives and works in Italy. Influenced by architecture, archaeology, West African sculptural traditions, ancient Egyptian iconography, classical astronomy and European portraiture, her paintings, sculptures, performances, photography and water-gilding with 24-carat gold produce a charged materiality that address philosophical ideas of the finite and the infinite, the microcosm and macrocosm, evanescence and eternity. Her use of gold, marble, bronze, wood and volcanic rock establish an intimate and intangible timelessness whilst her focus on black as ‘materia prima' challenges the sociopolitical and historical preconceptions surrounding ‘blackness' and its universal implications. By interweaving disparate materials, methods and visual lexicons associated with contemporary and ancient art forms, Viktor authors an idiosyncratic mythology that threads through deep time, knitting together a diasporic past with an expansive present in order to divine future imaginaries. Viktor received her BA in film at Sarah Lawrence College and studied photography at The School of Visual Arts in New York. Solo exhibitions include Sir John Soane's Museum, London (2024); Fotografiska Museum of Photography, Stockholm & Tallinn(2020); Autograph, London (2019); and New Orleans Museum of Art (2018), among others. Group exhibitions include the Museum of the African Diaspora [MoAD],San Francisco (2024); Hayward Gallery, London (2022); North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh (2020); Somerset House, London (2019); Ford Foundation, New York(2019) ); Ford Foundation, New York (2019); Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento (2018); Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville (2016); Spelman Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta (2016); and Cooper Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge (2016). Photo credit ©2024 Courtesy of LVXIX Atelier.   Sir John Soane Museum https://www.soane.org/exhibitions/lina-iris-viktor-mythic-time-tens-thousands-rememberings Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD https://www.moadsf.org/exhibitions/liberatory-living Pilar Corrias https://www.pilarcorrias.com/exhibitions/419-lina-iris-viktor-solar-angels-lunar-lords/ Hayward Gallery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ZHUFirMRM&ab_channel=SouthbankCentre New Orleans Museum of Art https://noma.org/exhibitions/lina-iris-viktor-a-haven-a-hell-a-dream-deferred/ Fotografiska Stockholm https://stockholm.fotografiska.com/en/exhibitions/lina-iris-viktor Autograph https://autograph.org.uk/online-image-galleries/lina-iris-viktor-some-are-born-to-endless-night-dark-matter-exhibition-highlights Elephant https://elephant.art/lina-iris-viktors-distinct-mythology-a-photo-diary-from-the-artists-home-on-the-amalfi-coast/ Apollo Magazine https://www.apollo-magazine.com/lina-iris-viktor-soane-museum-review/ An Other https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/15758/lina-iris-viktor-interview-mythic-time-sir-john-soane-museum-exhibition Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/lina-iris-viktor-2379189 British Vogue https://www.vogue.co.uk/gallery/lina-iris-viktor-sir-john-soane Something Curated https://somethingcurated.com/2023/03/21/interview-lina-iris-viktor-on-the-libyan-sibyl-beauty-as-a-tool-for-truth/ The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/08/03/a-brush-with-lina-iris-viktor New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/04/arts/design/in-the-black-fantastic-london.html

The November elections are less than two months away, and Verite News in New Orleans recently launched “Civics 504,” a guide on voter registration, ballot propositions and news coverage. The guide was launched in partnership with Verite's sister newsroom, Mississippi Today. Verite's Managing Editor Charles Maldonado joins us now for more on this guide and the information it offers.The LSU Museum of Art is currently working on an oral history project on Clementine Hunter. Born in 1887, Hunter was a self-taught Black folk artist, who lived and worked on Melrose Plantation and depicted early 20th century plantation life in her work. Before her death in 1988 at the age of 101, Hunter became the first artist to have a solo show at the New Orleans Museum of Art. LSU Museum of Art educator and public programs manager Callie Smith, and LSU graduate student and interviewer Sarah Nansubuga, tell us how they used conversations with Hunter's family to capture her story. New Orleans has long been famous for its culinary traditions that combine traditional southern cuisine with broader cultural influence. Now, a new podcast is celebrating the global reach of New Orleans food. Zella Palmer, local food historian and director and chair of the Dillard University Ray Charles Program in African American Material Culture speaks with chefs, farmers, activists and culture bearers as host of “Culture & Flavor.” She joins us for more on her conversations and how you can listen. ___Today's episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Karen Henderson. Our managing producer is Alana Schrieber. Matt Bloom and Aubry Procell are assistant producers. Our engineer is Garrett Pittman.You can listen to Louisiana Considered Monday through Friday at noon and 7 p.m. It's available on Spotify, Google Play and wherever you get your podcasts. Louisiana Considered wants to hear from you! Please fill out our pitch line to let us know what kinds of story ideas you have for our show. And while you're at it, fill out our listener survey! We want to keep bringing you the kinds of conversations you'd like to listen to.Louisiana Considered is made possible with support from our listeners. Thank you!

Gene Koss uses glass as a medium of pure sculptural expression resulting in monumental sculptures of cast glass, steel and light. He developed innovative techniques to transform his memories of the mechanized Wisconsin farm of his youth into foundry-based glass sculptures. He combines glass and steel found objects to create small-scale sculptures that often also serve as studies for his larger-scale works. Opening on September 20, 2024 and running through February 9, 2025, The Bergstrom Mahler Museum of Glass (BMM), Neenah, Wisconsin, presents a major solo exhibition of Koss' work: From Farm to Flame. Says Casey Eichhorn, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at BMM: “Gene Koss' career in glass has been one informed by experience, and driven by creative experimentation. Alongside two of his sketchbooks, Farm to Flame showcases the tangible results of these experiments in the form of 14 sculptures of glass, steel and wood – each highlighting a specific point in time in the artist's illustrious career.” After receiving a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin at River Falls in 1974, Koss then earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, in Philadelphia. In 1976, he moved to New Orleans to develop a new glass facility and program for Tulane University, and subsequently became head of the department.  “Gene's career at Tulane University helped shape the Newcomb Art Department, and he is a pivotal figure in the teaching and creation of glass art in the South,” said Stephanie Porras, chair of the Newcomb Art Department.  Koss is the recipient of several awards including the National Endowment for the Arts, The New Orleans Community Arts Board and Pace-Willson Art Foundation grants. His work has been exhibited at the New Orleans Museum of Art; the Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans; the Masur Museum of Art in Monroe, Louisiana; the Sculpture Center in New York City; as well as the International Biennale for Contemporary Art in Florence, Italy. It has been published in International Glass Art, Contemporary Glass-Color, Light & Form and Glass Art from Urban Glass publications. Koss is represented by Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans, LA. His work is in many prominent collections including the Pan American Life Collection in New Orleans and the Corning Museum of Glass in New York. The Arnoldsche Art Publishers of Germany released a 2019 retrospective monograph of his work, Gene Koss Sculpture. Creating Koss' majestic works in glass and steel requires demanding techniques to realize their monumental scale. These massive volumes of glass are married with elaborately engineered steel elements. The artist casts molten glass directly from the hot furnace, working with teams of highly-skilled assistants and rigging elaborate systems for transporting his finished abstract works for display in museums, galleries and public spaces. Working with serial cast glass parts to enlarge scale and combining these elements with iron and neon, he has raised glass sculpture to the realm of public art. Koss' work has had a profound impact on American artists working in both steel and glass media.  

To mark  the upcoming 19th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's, the New Orleans Museum of Art will screen the documentary, Katrina Babies on Aug. 21. The documentary offers a close look at the aftermath of the storm and its impact on youth in New Orleans. Filmmaker and director Edward Buckles, Jr. joins us for more on the legacy of his film and the storm. 2024 was expected to be one of the most highly active hurricane seasons in recent history. Although Louisiana has been mostly spared so far this summer, we aren't out of the woods quite yet.On Aug. 24, the Equality Health Foundation will host a weather ready drive-thru emergency backpack giveaway at Zion Tabernacle Church in Lake Charles. This is just the latest in the organization's ongoing efforts to help prepare Louisianans for threatening conditions.Tomás Leon, the president of the Equality Health Foundation and John Nugent, the managing director of Beacon Community Connections in Lafayette, join us to share more about the storm readiness events. ___Today's episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Diane Mack. Our managing producer is Alana Schrieber. Matt Bloom and Aubry Procell are assistant producers. Our engineer is Garrett Pittman.You can listen to Louisiana Considered Monday through Friday at noon and 7 p.m. It's available on Spotify, Google Play and wherever you get your podcasts. Louisiana Considered wants to hear from you! Please fill out our pitch line to let us know what kinds of story ideas you have for our show. And while you're at it, fill out our listener survey! We want to keep bringing you the kinds of conversations you'd like to listen to.Louisiana Considered is made possible with support from our listeners. Thank you!

A new law in Louisiana gives police officers the power to order journalists and citizens to remain 25 feet from them at any time, creating a “buffer zone.” Critics say it's law enforcement's response to growing surveillance and scrutiny of police work by the public. Verite News and ProPublica reporter Richard Webster joins us to discuss the law.Another new law that was passed in this spring's special legislative session on crime eliminates parole for prisoners. Louisiana has also scaled back “good time” reductions for those serving long sentences. Chelsea Brasted of Axios New Orleans gives us the details.A new sculpture installation outside the New Orleans Museum of Art gives viewers a peek into the secrets held in a common household receptacle. “Craig's Closet” is a bronze and granite work by artist Jim Hodges. It will be on view outside the entrance to NOMA through June 2025.___Today's episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Karen Henderson. Our managing producer is Alana Schrieber. Matt Bloom and Aubry Procell are assistant producers. Our engineer is Garrett Pittman.You can listen to Louisiana Considered Monday through Friday at noon and 7 p.m. It's available on Spotify, Google Play and wherever you get your podcasts. Louisiana Considered wants to hear from you! Please fill out our pitch line to let us know what kinds of story ideas you have for our show. And while you're at it, fill out our listener survey! We want to keep bringing you the kinds of conversations you'd like to listen to.Louisiana Considered is made possible with support from our listeners. Thank you!

New Orleans food writer Ian McNulty on a unique museum to food and drink culture.

When you walk into just about any interior space in the US – from the biggest office building to the smallest apartment – you're almost certain to find art hanging on the walls. And not just one piece. From your doctor's waiting room to your sister's bedroom, you'll typically find multiple works of art. Sure, they're not all paintings, some of them are posters or prints, but at some point, each one had to be created by an artist. Only around 1% of the US workforce are artists. So, with limited availability and high demand you'd expect artists to be highly paid. Most of them, though, are not. The reason might be something to do with the business model by which visual artists get paid. In the film business, actors, directors, and writers pay agents a commission of 10% of their income. Musicians pay booking agents 10% of their income. Directors of commercials pay their business representatives 18% commission. If you're a visual artist, you'll pay your business representative – typically a gallery owner – a commission of 50% of the sale price of your artwork. How does an artist survive in this kind of financial setup? That's what we're asking Anastasia Pelias. Anastasia is a New Orleans born-and-raised visual artist whose paintings and sculptures are in museums and in private and public collections across the country and around the world. In New Orleans you can see Anastasia's paintings in the permanent collections of The New Orleans Museum of Art, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art and The Newcomb Art Museum. You can see her sculptures in St. John Park in Lake Terrace, and on Poydras Street as part of the Helis Foundation's Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition. In case you're thinking all 50% commission art gallery owners must be hard-hearted blood-sucking mercenaries, meet Marguerite Oestreicher. Marguerite owned an art gallery in the heart of New Orleans' art district on Julia Street, until Hurricane Katrina closed it down. In part, Marguerite credits the skills she picked up running her art gallery with her ability to perform her current job as Executive Director of New Orleans Area Habitat For Humanity. NOAHH, as it's commonly known, has 65 full-time employees and builds around 25 homes a year. Their stated mission is, “To responsibly build communities where families can thrive in homes they can afford.” For whatever reason – maybe because it helps bring order to a chaotic world - human beings like to divide by 2. We like to put things in one category, or another. Republican or Democrat. Employed or unemployed. Artist or Businessperson. Renter or Homeowner. Marguerite's mission at Habitat For Humanity is defined by categories: moving people from one to another. From renter to homeowner. To survive as an artist, like Anastasia, you have to defy the categories of art versus business – you need to keep one foot in each world. Across all these categories, the one thing most of us have in common is, we like to live in an affordable home where we can hang our art on the walls. Out to Lunch was recorded live over lunch at Columns in Uptown New Orleans. You can find photos from this show by Blake Langlinais at itsneworleans.com.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

American cinematographer Erin Haynes is making her way in an industry that she believes has a long way to go to increase diversity among its crews. Erin was born in New Orleans in 1999—one of two daughters to Denise and Joe Haynes. She grew up in the 7th Ward of a complex city as a young Black woman mindful of the challenges facing minorities. Erin attended Cabrini High School in the shadow of New Orleans Museum of Art where she was drawn to English Literature, writing, art and film. She developed a talent as a sketch artist and at Loyola University she studied Mass Communications; Journalism and French.  Erin describes herself as a ‘shy, nerdy kid' who surprised everyone by leaving the Big Easy for the Big Apple in pursuit of modeling opportunities; something she is still open to today alongside her day job. Her immersion in fashion modeling led to an interest in the photography and filmmaking. She prefers film that makes you think like psychological thrillers and horror. Her early inspiration in filmmaking came when she discovered Greta Gerwig's work in the 2017 Comedy Romance Lady Bird, and Christopher Nolan's 2014 SciFi/Adventure Interstellar, which captured her imagination for its visuals and soundtrack. Erin's career path has so far led to being a Second Camera Assistant, FAA Drone Pilot and an emerging Steadicam and Underwater Camera Operator at the age of 24. She says: ‘I want to be a complete master of the camera.'  Erin's ambitions align with her mission to champion the need for diversity, visibility and possibilities for women of color in the film industry. Erin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erinhaynesofficial/ Some Female Visual Artists Erin admires:Supermodel Coco RochaSupermodel Naomi CampbellCinematographer, Camera Operator, and Founder of 600 Black Women, Chris Wairegi Cinematographer, Camera Operator, and Founder of @ladycameraguy on Instagram, Gretchen WarthenCinematographer and Steadicam Operator, Megan MasurActress ZendayaDirector and Cinematographer Chloe WeaverCinematographer Mandy WalkerFashion Model and Activist Bethann Hardison (whose film Invisible Beauty was shot by Cinematographer Mia Cioffi Henry)Photographer Nadia Lee CohenFashion and Beauty Influencer: Karen Blanchard (@karenbritchick on Instagram and YouTube)Singer, songwriter, entertainer, performer and business woman Beyoncé Knowles CarterFilmmaker Ava DuVernayFilmmaker Shonda RhimesFashion Designer Donatella VersaceVisual Artist and Painter Hill SprigginsPhotographer Kris DavidsonActress, Filmmaker, Fashion Icon, and Founder of PATTERN Beauty Tracee Ellis RossDirector, Writer, and Actress Greta GerwigActress, Writer, and Producer Meryl Streep Host: Chris StaffordProduced by Hollowell StudiosFollow @theaartpodcast on InstagramAART on FacebookEmail: hollowellstudios@gmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/wisp--4769409/support.

American cinematographer Erin Haynes is making her way in an industry that she believes has a long way to go to increase diversity among its crews. Erin was born in New Orleans in 1999—one of two daughters to Denise and Joe Haynes. She grew up in the 7th Ward of a complex city as a young Black woman mindful of the challenges facing minorities. Erin attended Cabrini High School in the shadow of New Orleans Museum of Art where she was drawn to English Literature, writing, art and film. She developed a talent as a sketch artist and at Loyola University she studied Mass Communications; Journalism and French.  Erin describes herself as a ‘shy, nerdy kid' who surprised everyone by leaving the Big Easy for the Big Apple in pursuit of modeling opportunities; something she is still open to today alongside her day job. Her immersion in fashion modeling led to an interest in the photography and filmmaking. She prefers film that makes you think like psychological thrillers and horror. Her early inspiration in filmmaking came when she discovered Greta Gerwig's work in the 2017 Comedy Romance Lady Bird, and Christopher Nolan's 2014 SciFi/Adventure Interstellar, which captured her imagination for its visuals and soundtrack. Erin's career path has so far led to being a Second Camera Assistant, FAA Drone Pilot and an emerging Steadicam and Underwater Camera Operator at the age of 24. She says: ‘I want to be a complete master of the camera.'  Erin's ambitions align with her mission to champion the need for diversity, visibility and possibilities for women of color in the film industry. Erin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erinhaynesofficial/ Some Female Visual Artists Erin admires:Supermodel Coco RochaSupermodel Naomi CampbellCinematographer, Camera Operator, and Founder of 600 Black Women, Chris Wairegi Cinematographer, Camera Operator, and Founder of @ladycameraguy on Instagram, Gretchen WarthenCinematographer and Steadicam Operator, Megan MasurActress ZendayaDirector and Cinematographer Chloe WeaverCinematographer Mandy WalkerFashion Model and Activist Bethann Hardison (whose film Invisible Beauty was shot by Cinematographer Mia Cioffi Henry)Photographer Nadia Lee CohenFashion and Beauty Influencer: Karen Blanchard (@karenbritchick on Instagram and YouTube)Singer, songwriter, entertainer, performer and business woman Beyoncé Knowles CarterFilmmaker Ava DuVernayFilmmaker Shonda RhimesFashion Designer Donatella VersaceVisual Artist and Painter Hill SprigginsPhotographer Kris DavidsonActress, Filmmaker, Fashion Icon, and Founder of PATTERN Beauty Tracee Ellis RossDirector, Writer, and Actress Greta GerwigActress, Writer, and Producer Meryl Streep Host: Chris StaffordProduced by Hollowell StudiosFollow @theaartpodcast on InstagramAART on FacebookEmail: hollowellstudios@gmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/aart--5814675/support.

Dapper Bruce Lafitte (b. 1972 New Orleans) is a self-trained artist who began making and showing work in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to commemorate the then-decimated street culture of parades and marching bands of New Orleans. He has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally, notably at the Prospect Biennial, New Orleans, and in solo shows at the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum, Biloxi, MS; M+B Gallery, Los Angeles; Fierman Gallery, New York; Gryder Gallery, New Orleans; Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, and Vacant Gallery, Tokyo. Lafitte's work has been in group shows and fairs at the Brodsky Center, New York; Dieu Donné, New York; Tatjana Pieters, Belgium; and the Outsider Art Fair, Paris. Lafitte's next solo exhibition, The Game is Mine, will be at Alchemy Gallery starting March 7. Lafitte's work is held in the permanent collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, and has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine and Victory Journal. In 2009, he was a recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation artist award and was a mentee by renowned curator and tastemaker Diego Cortez prior to his passing in 2021. Canal and Carrollton Ave on a Saturday, 62x42 inches archival ink on acid free paper, 2023 Canal and Claiborne Ave Saturday Night, 62x42 inches archival ink on acid free paper, 2024 Fat Tuesday in the Lafitte Projects, 62x42 inches archival ink on acid free paper, 2024

Edward Burtynsky is regarded as one of the world's most accomplished contemporary photographers. His remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes represent over 40 years of his dedication to bearing witness to the impact of human industry on the planet. Edward's photographs are included in the collections of over 80 major museums around the world, including the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa; the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York; the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid; the Tate Modern in London, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California.Edward was born in 1955 of Ukrainian heritage in St. Catharines, Ontario. He received his BAA in Photography/Media Studies from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) in 1982, and has since received both an Alumni Achievement Award (2004) and an Honorary Doctorate (2007) from his alma mater. He is still actively involved in the university community, and sits on the board of directors for The Image Centre (formerly Ryerson Image Centre).In 1985, Edward founded Toronto Image Works, a darkroom rental facility, custom photo laboratory, digital imaging, and new media computer-training centre catering to all levels of Toronto's art community.Early exposure to the General Motors plant and watching ships go by in the Welland Canal in Edward's hometown helped capture his imagination for the scale of human creation, and to formulate the development of his photographic work. His imagery explores the collective impact we as a species are having on the surface of the planet — an inspection of the human systems we've imposed onto natural landscapes.Exhibitions include: Anthropocene (2018) at the Art Gallery of Ontario and National Gallery of Canada (international touring exhibition); Water (2013) at the New Orleans Museum of Art and Contemporary Art Center in Louisiana (international touring exhibition); Oil (2009) at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. (five-year international touring show), China (toured internationally from 2005 - 2008); Manufactured Landscapes at the National Gallery of Canada (toured from 2003 - 2005); and Breaking Ground produced by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (toured from 1988 - 1992). Edward's visually compelling works are currently being exhibited in solo and group exhibitions around the globe, including at London's Saatchi Gallery where his largest solo exhibition to-date, entitled Extraction/Abstraction, is currently on show until 6th May 2024.Edward's distinctions include the inaugural TED Prize (which he shared with Bono and Robert Fischell), the title of Officer of the Order of Canada, and the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award for Art. In 2018 Edward was named Photo London's Master of Photography and the Mosaic Institute's Peace Patron. In 2019 he was the recipient of the Arts & Letters Award at the Canadian Association of New York's annual Maple Leaf Ball and the 2019 Lucie Award for Achievement in Documentary Photography. In 2020 he was awarded a Royal Photographic Society Honorary Fellowship and in 2022 was honoured with the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award by the World Photography Organization. Most recently he was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and was named the 2022 recipient for the annual Pollution Probe Award. Edward currently holds eight honorary doctorate degrees and is represented by numerous international galleries all over the world. In episode 224, Edward discusses, among other things:His transition from film to digitalStaying positive by ‘moving through grief to land on meaning'Making compelling images and how scale creates ambiguityDefining the over-riding theme of his work early onThe environmental impact of farmingWhether he planned his careerWhy he started a lab to finance his photographyAnd how being an entrepreneur feeds into his work as an artistVertical IntegrationExamples of challenging situations he has facedThe necessity for his work to be commoditisedHis relative hope and optimism for the future through positive technologyThe importance of having a hopeful component to the workHow he offsets his own carbon footprint Referenced:Joel SternfeldEliiot PorterStephen ShoreJennifer BaichwalNicholas de Pencier Website | Instagram“The evocation of the sense of wonder and the sense of the surreal, or the improbable, or ‘what am I looking at?', to me is interesting in a time where images are so consumed; that these are not for quick consumption they're for… slow. And I think that when things reveal themselves slowly and in a more challenging way, they become more interesting as objects to leave in the world. That they don't just reveal themselves immediately, you can't just get it in one quick glance and you're done, no, these things ask you to look at them and spend time with them. And I discover things in them sometimes that I never saw before. They're loaded with information.” Become a full tier 1 member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of previous episodes for £5 per month.For the tier 2 archive-only membership, to access the full library of past episodes for £3 per month, go here.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards is about to leave office, and the Democrat will soon be succeeded by Republican Jeff Landry. The Times-Picayune/New Orleans Advocate's editorial director and columnist Stephanie Grace joins us to discuss the state's political transition.  As we step into the New Year, Greater New Orleans, Inc. is highlighting $3.5 billion in projects that have been completed or are starting construction in 2024. President and CEO of GNO, Inc. Michael Hecht joins us for more on infrastructure developments in the region. The New Orleans Museum of Art will begin a three-week series of poetry workshops on Jan. 10. The series aims to give poets of all ages and experience levels a chance to write while surrounded by art. Daniel Fitzpatrick, author, poet, translator and member of the NOMA's Creative Assembly Cohort, which is hosting the workshop, joins us for more on the intersection between visual and language arts. Today's episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Bob Pavlovich. Our managing producer is Alana Schreiber and our assistant producer is Aubry Procell. Our engineer is Garrett Pittman.  You can listen to Louisiana Considered Monday through Friday at 12 and 7 p.m. It's available on Spotify, Google Play and wherever you get your podcasts.  Louisiana Considered wants to hear from you! Please fill out our pitch line to let us know what kinds of story ideas you have for our show. And while you're at it, fill out our listener survey! We want to keep bringing you the kinds of conversations you'd like to listen to. Louisiana Considered is made possible with support from our listeners. Thank you!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

548. We talk with Allison Alsup and Jessica Kinnison, who run the New Orleans Writers’ Workshop. "Since its founding in Spring 2017, the New Orleans Writers Workshop has aimed to affordably meet the need for quality creative writing classes in the New Orleans community. Joining forces with an ever-growing number of community partners that embraced the venture like only New Orleans can, NOWW has held one-day, two-day, four-week, and nine-week classes at the New Orleans Museum of Art, the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, A Studio in the Woods, and the Southern Hotel, among other venues, in addition to free workshops at public libraries and in nonprofit or congregate settings, including Orleans Parish Prison, Project Lazarus, and 826 New Orleans... Allison Alsup is an award-winning writer, teacher and editor. Her debut novel, Foreign Seed, is slated for publication by Turner Publishing in August 2024.  She holds an M.F.A. in Fiction from Emerson College.  Her short fiction has won multiple contests and appears, among other places, in the 2014 O'Henry Prize Stories and the U.K.‘s 2018 Manchester Fiction Prize shortlist, her non-fiction in Best Food Writing 2015.... ​Jessica Kinnison's work has appeared in Columbia Journal, Phoebe, Entropy, Juked, and The Southern Humanities Review, among other publications. A 2018 Kenyon Review Peter Taylor Fellow, her story “Star Party” placed second in the 2019 Tennessee Williams Festival Short Short Fiction Contest." This week in Louisiana history. November 11, 1984. Louisiana World Exposition closes with financial loss. This week in New Orleans history. Shortly before 6 p.m. on November 18, 1926, the Orleans-Kenner commuter train was struck and overturned at the Southport crossing by a string of boxcars being back toward the river on a Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company switch track. More than a dozen passengers were injured, though only two of them were taken to the hospital. This week in Louisiana. The 4th Annual Human Horse Races will take place on Nov 23rd, 2023 from 11 – 3 P.M. at Easton Park in MidCity. Website Entry is free. Live music is provided and food and beverages are available. Purchase betting tokens to place donation bets on the horse you think will win the following round. Winners of races receive prizes, and betters get an entry for a chance to win a mega-prize! All donations benefit local animal & wildlife rescue initiatives. The 2023 beneficiary will be Greeno Equine Sanctuary located in Leblanc, Louisiana. Postcards from Louisiana. TBC Brass Band & Hasizzle at Satchmofest in the Old Mint in New Orleans. Listen on Google Play. Listen on Spotify. Listen on TuneIn. The Louisiana Anthology Home Page. Like us on Facebook.   

Louisiana has roughly 29,000 producing oil and gas wells around the state, according to the Department of Natural Resources. But what happens to those wells when they stop producing? Or when a company goes bankrupt and owners just walk away?  In Louisiana, there are over 16,000 inactive wells and 4,600 are considered  “orphaned,” meaning they have been abandoned or turned over to the state. These wells could be leaking methane — a dangerous greenhouse gas.  A new $3 million grant from the Department of Natural Resources is helping researchers at Louisiana State University  find these wells, estimate the costs to plug them and measure their flow of methane.  Three members of LSU's research team discuss their efforts — Ipsita Gupta, associate professor of petroleum engineering, Kanchan Maiti, chair of the school's oceanography and coastal sciences department, and Greg Upton, associate professor of research at LSU's Center for Energy Studies.  After 12 years of collaboration, two of New Orleans premiere arts organizations ended their partnership last month.  The relationship between New Orleans Museum of Art and the NOLA Project theatre group came to an abrupt halt over the production of a play. But there are two sides to the story.  Verite reporter Josie Abugov explains how intense conversations on racial reckoning may have led the groups to splinter. Today's episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Bob Pavlovich. Our assistant producer is Aubry Procell and our engineer is Garrett Pittman.  You can listen to Louisiana Considered Monday through Friday at 12 and 7 p.m. It's available on Spotify, Google Play and wherever you get your podcasts.  Louisiana Considered wants to hear from you! Please fill out our pitch line to let us know what kinds of story ideas you have for our show. And while you're at it, fill out our listener survey! We want to keep bringing you the kinds of conversations you'd like to listen to. Louisiana Considered is made possible with support from our listeners. Thank you!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's Article Discussion Time! On August 14th, 2023, the New York Times published 'His Name Was Bélizaire': Rare Portrait of Enslaved Child Arrives at the Met. In the month since, there has been a flurry of information and media attention because just how rare this acquisition is. Elene and Steph help break down just how the acquisition came to be where it is now: hanging in the prestigious halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Join us as we struggle with reading comprehension, fangirl about the magic that is art conservation, shake your fist at the New Orleans Museum of Art for the arrogance of bad collection management, and genuinely Things have changed, but we're changing with it. Donate. Sign petitions. Support Black-owned businesses. Challenge racism. Educate yourselves. Listen. Speak. Repatriate. Stay Safe. Don't Touch Your Face. Wash Your Hands. If you like what we do, you can support BYWAP over on our ⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠! Find us online! NEW: We're on Youtube! Go check us out! You can follow BYWAP on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠. You can also find us over on our ⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠! We want to hear from you, to share this time with you. We're in this together, and we're better together. Please leave us a review wherever you listen to podcasts. Every little bit helps as we grow, and we cannot wait to talk to you all again. This is global. Your voice matters. Systemic change is possible. It will not happen overnight—so keep fighting! We stand with you. Our music was written and recorded by Elene Kadagidze. Our cover art was designed by Lindsey Anton-Wood.

Questions and Answers about New Orleans In this episode, Mark is enjoyed by guest Chris Masrhsall. Together, they answer listener questions about New Orleans. Timestamps 05:05 - Top 5 Restaurants in Bywater/French Quarter or walking distance? 07:50 - Advance ticket sales for New Orleans Museum of Art? 09:25 - Connection between New Orleans and French Wine? 12:15 - Where do you beat the heat in CBD/Marigny for a drink or bite to eat? 14:05 - Do you see New Orleans population growing dramatically? 18:00 - Ways to help the Unhoused population 21:35 - Bars/restaurants in Lakefront area? 25:55 - Celebrating 25th anniversary in NOLA what 2 restaurants should they choose? 29:10 - Sailing Clubs on Lake Ponchartrain 30:40 - A 2nd Edition of the BBS Book? 31:50 - Growth of Vietnamese influence in New Orleans food 35:30 - Restaurants/Bars that locals avoid still worth a visit? 39:30 - Mark hosting a Book Club? 41:00 - New Orleans Thanksgiving plans 41:30 - Taking kids on adventures outside of New Orleans 44:45 - Any breweries that serve cocktails as well? 47:50 - Safety in the French Quarter 50:50 - How to Be a “good tourist” in New Orleans 53:40 - Streetcar episode? 54:10 - Historic ships to tour? 54:50 - What is the best seafood restaurant not fried in the French Quarter? 56:10 - Asian Market in New Orleans? 57:30 - What can ages 18-20 do when traveling to New Orleans? 1:00:10 - Lingua Madre

Ep. 163 features Jammie Holmes. Born and raised in Thibodaux, Louisiana, Jammies Holmes (b. 1984) is known for his paintings that portray intimate and poignant scenes of distinctly American communities, families, and traditions. Holmes draws heavily on his own recollections to depict the stories and experiences of Black life in the deep American South, capturing moments of celebration and struggle. The artist, who works intuitively and without formal artistic training, creates expressive tableaux that incorporate portraiture, symbols, text, and objects to reveal universal truths through personal narratives. Jammie Holmes is a self-taught painter. Following his graduation from high school, Holmes spent more than a decade working in an oil field. He relocated to Dallas in 2016. His work has most recently been presented in exhibitions at Library Street Collective, Detroit; Deitch Projects, Los Angeles; Marianne Boesky, New York; Nassima-Landau Projects, Tel Aviv; Dallas Museum of Art; and Dallas Contemporary, among others. His work is also included in the permanent collections of the Aïshti Foundation, Brooklyn Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Hammer Museum, ICA Miami, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, New Orleans Museum of Art, Perez Museum of Art, X Museum, and The Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art. Artist https://www.jammieholmes.com/ The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/jammie-holmes-make-revolution-irresistible e-flux https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/510210/jammie-holmesmake-the-revolution-irresistible/ Library Street Collective https://lscgallery.com/artists/jammie-holmes The Gordon Parks Foundation https://www.gordonparksfoundation.org/grants/fellowships-in-art/jammie-holmes2 Various Small Fires https://www.vsf.la/exhibitions/127/works/artworks-5351-jammie-holmes-somewhereinamerica-2023/ ARTNews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/jammie-holmes-paintings-various-small-fires-1234657924/ Artnet News https://news.artnet.com/art-world/wet-paint-in-the-wild-jammie-holmes-2300880 Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/795017/jammie-holmes-and-jose-parla-named-gordon-parks-fellows/ Mousse Magazine https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/jammie-holmes-various-small-fires-los-angeles-2023/ Dallas News https://www.dallasnews.com/event/c2c3bb5b-f7c7-edc0-7329-f9f9bf48d4e1/ Contemporary Art Daily https://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/project/jammie-holmes-at-various-small-fires-los-angeles-27148 Dallas Contemporary https://www.dallascontemporary.org/jammie-holmes

We meet renowned British painter and artist David Remfry MBE RA RWS, to discuss curating/coordinating this year's RA Summer Exhibition, working with watercolour, more than 5 decades of art making, and what it was like to live in New York's iconic Hotel Chelsea for 20 years!!!Remfry's Summer Exhibition 2023 explores the theme Only Connect, taken from the famous quote in Howards End by E.M. Forster. Among the 1,614 featured works you will find towering sculptures by the late Phyllida Barlow RA, Richard Malone's dramatic mobile installation in the Wohl Central Hall, and a witty painting by comedian Joe Lycett. Plus pieces by Tracey Emin RA, Hew Locke RA, Barbara Walker RA, Gavin Turk, Lindsey Mendick, Caroline Walker and much, much more.Remfry was born in Worthing, UK, in 1942. His family moved to Hull and he studied Art and Printmaking at the Hull College of Art. He currently lives and works in London. Early solo exhibitions include Ferens Art Gallery, Hull in 1974 and Folkestone Art Gallery, Kent in 1976. Since 1973 he has exhibited regularly at galleries and museums across the UK, Europe and the USA. He is perhaps best known for his large-scale watercolours of dancers; his series of drawings and watercolours of his neighbours and friends at the Hotel Chelsea New York City where he lived from 1995-2016, and his commission by designer Stella McCartney to produce a series of drawings for the launch of her fashion house and for Absolut Vodka.Over the past five decades his work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida; MoMA PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Pallant House Gallery, Chichester; and the DeLand Museum of Art, Florida. In 2014 he was commissioned by Fortnum & Mason, London, to create a series of watercolours which is now on permanent display in Piccadilly, and he was commissioned to paint Sir John Gielgud for the National Portrait Gallery, London, which also acquired for their collection his portrait of Jean Muir.Remfry was elected a member of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1987. In 2001 he was awarded an MBE for services to British Art in America, in 2006 he was elected a Member of the Royal Academy of Arts and, in 2007, he was invited to receive Honorary Doctorate of Arts by the University of Lincoln. He was awarded the Hugh Casson Drawing Prize at the 2010 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and, in 2016, was appointed Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy Schools.His work is included in museum permanent collections including the Bass Museum of Art, Florida; Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida; the British Museum, London; the Contemporary Art Society, London; the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; MIMA, Middlesborough; the National Portrait Gallery, London; New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana; the Royal Academy of Arts, London; the Royal Watercolour Society, London; and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.A retrospective of Remfry's work, curated by Dr Gerardine Mulcahy-Parker, is planned for 2025 at Beverley Art Gallery, East Riding.Follow @David_Remfry_RA on InstagramVisit his official website: www.davidremfry.com/Visit the RA Summer Exhibition until 20th August 2023: www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/summer-exhibition-2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this segment, Amanda Seales discussed the upcoming documentary on the Atlanta strip club magic city, which is being produced by Jermaine Dupri and Drake. The documentary will explore the history of the club, its impact on Atlanta culture, and the lives of the women who work there. In this segment, Amanda Seales discussed the trend of major cities dropping fares on public transportation. She argued that this is a positive development, as it makes public transportation more accessible to people of all income levels. In this segment, Amanda Seales discussed the recent trend of people throwing things at artists on stage. She argued that this is a form of disrespect and that it needs to stop. She also discussed the importance of artists being able to be vulnerable on stage, and how this can be difficult when there is a risk of being attacked. In this segment, Amanda Seales discussed the recent decision by the New Orleans Museum of Art to appoint a white woman as curator of African art. She argued that this is a missed opportunity to appoint a black curator who would have a deeper understanding of the African art collection. Overall, this was a thought-provoking episode that explored a variety of important topics. Amanda Seales is a gifted interviewer, and she was able to get her guests to open up and share their thoughts on these issues. FOLLOW ALONG AS WE COVER: 0:00 Today Is: July 12th National Simplicity Day. A Day To Embrace Simplicity In Our Spaces, Finances, Time And Health. National Etch A Sketch Day Etch A Sketch Day Is Celebrated Mainly By Organizations, And Everyone Is Encouraged To Be Creative And Have Fun. The Etch A Sketch Was Introduced On July 12, 1960 And Sold For $2.99 And Entertained A Generation Of Kids.  4:28 Major Cities Are Dropping Fares On Public Transportation 9:38 Jermaine Dupree And Drake Are Releasing A Documentary 13:54 Group Chat: We'll Talk About The One Day In A Woman's Life Where Everything Gets To Be About Her...Why Only One Day? 18:51 60 Sec Headlines Story 1: Trump Asks Court To Delay Setting Trial Date In Documents Case Story 2: Prince Fans Get Ready....Prince Estate Releases Two Unreleased Tracks From His Vault Story 3: Baby Congrats Are In Order... Story 4: Nelly Secures $50M Deal For Half Of His Music Catalog 20:25 Today Is Wednesday July 12th. Happy Birthday! Fitness Guru Richard Simmons Bill Cosby 24:55 New Orleans Museum Of Art Is Slammed For Appointing White Woman As Curator Of African Art 29:24 The Jamie Foxx Conspiracy Discussion 33:07 Big Up/Let Down!: Big Up-  Amanda For Having A Good Day Let Down- Federal Studies Estimates Tap Waterfrom 45% Of U.S. Faucets May Contain Forever Chemicals. 38:03 Caller : Our Phone Lines Are Open, 24/7…At 855-AMANDA-8 THAT'S 855-262-6328! 40:26 Today Is Wednesday, July 12TH… On This Date: In 1996.... Basketball Player Michael Jordan Was Offered The Richest Nba One-Year Contract Of $30 Million From The Chicago Bulls. 42:20 Georgia Democrat, At Odds With Her Party Switches To Republicans 46:53 What's Up With Throwing Things On Stage At Artist's? Drake Is The Latest One To Be Hit By A Phone... 52:25 We'll Play A Game....”One's Gotta Go”  (90's Nickelodeon Version) 57:40 Call Us Anytime At  1 855 AMANDA 8 … Thats 1855 262-6328 … 61:52 The Word For The Day…. And The Word Of The Day Is… Loquacious (Merriam Webster Dictionary - Someone Described As Loquacious Might Also Be Called Wordy (Prone To Using More Words Than Considered Necessary When Talking) Or Garrulous (Tending To Talking A Lot). 67:15 Politicians Say The Darndest Things 72:40 Show Close: Thank You For Joining Us On This Wednesday! We Covered A Lot Of Stories: Stay Connected With Us On Social Media @SEALESSAIDIT. Coming Up Thursday, You Can Chime In On Our Group Chats Every Hour…And We'll Have Another Round Of 60 Second Headlines, …. Plus Our Segment “Most Likely To” With Jeremiah Like The Bible, …..All That Is Coming On Thursdays  Amanda Seales Show!  FOLLOW THE SHOW ON ALL SOCIALS: @sealessaidit @amandaseales @jeremiahlikethebible If you have a comment leave Amanda a message at 1 855-AMANDA-8 that's 1-855-262-6328  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robert Del Bonta will share how Shiva's Many Dances and the celebrated ‘Nataraja' pose is a culmination of how the ultimate depiction of Shiva's essence evolves over time in a dynamic conception among the Hindu trinity of gods (the Trimürti). Del Bonta creates an engaging aspect of one of the Hindu trinity gods, reflecting on how the iconic image of Shiva Nataraja the "Lord of Dance" illustrates a creative and destructive power over eons of time. Shiva's nature as both male and female is also a constant theme. Shiva manifests many other forms suggestive of power and mythological stories of dance or in prayers. It's but a tiny introduction to a major dance visualization heritage. Teacher and curator Dr. Robert Del Bonta's work has been presented in exhibition venues such as San Francisco's Asian Art Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Mills College, Notre Dame de Namur University, Art Passages in San Francisco and New York City, Portland Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art. He has lectured widely at museums and institutions in the United States, and published numerous articles and exhibition catalogue contributions on South Asian art with thematic focus largely on Indian art of the Jainas. MLF ORGANIZER Anne W. Smith and George Hammond Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael visits with photographer and educator, Stephen Hilger at his studio in Brooklyn to talk about his upcoming book, In the Alley, published by Purple Martin Press. Stephen was a guest on the show all the way back on episode 47 so we don't spend a lot of time on his history but we do talk alot about the alleyways in Beverly Hills and the creative decisions that went into making this leporello book. Order Here: https://www.artbook.com/9780979776854.html http://www.stephenhilger.com Don't forget to check out our bonus content: https://www.youtube.com/@realphotoshow This podcast is sponsored by the Charcoal Book Club where members receive signed copies of each monograph, guest curator notes, special edition prints, members-only pricing to our store, and first dibs on exclusive editions. @charcoalbookclub Stephen Hilger is a photographer whose work traces historical memory in the American urban and social landscape. His monograph, Back of Town (SPQR Editions, 2016), chronicles the disappearance of a neighborhood in New Orleans. BLVD, (ROMAN NVMERALS, 2017) presents visual motifs at the intersection of public and private spaces throughout Los Angeles. Hilger's forthcoming book, In the Alley, (Purple Martin Press, 2023) is currently in production. Hilger has exhibited at venues including Acta International, Rome; Los Angeles Contemporary Art Exhibitions; Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles; Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles; the Contemporary Art Center New Orleans; and Transmitter, Brooklyn. His photographs are in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Hilger's photographs have appeared in periodicals including New York Magazine and the New York Times. He has written about photography and contemporary art including for Aperture's PhotoBook Review and BOMB. Hilger received his B.A. and M.F.A. degrees from Columbia University and was a fellow in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program. He teaches at Pratt Institute where he is an Associate Professor in the Photography Department. Support Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-Dalton by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/real-photo-show

The Exhibit, on MTV and the Smithsonian Channel, introduced America to the wonderful, brilliant Baseera Khan, and she joins Studio Noize to talk all about it. Baseera has been making her performances, sculptures, and installations for years, and her work explores materials and their intersections with identity. She talks about being on the show, her approach to exploring materials, and her life's many facets. We discuss her solo exhibition, I Am an Archive, at the Brooklyn Museum and the ways that experience changed her view of her work and herself. We learn more about her psychedelic prayer rugs, her upcoming project for Highline Park in New York, and some of the work from The Exhibit. Listen, subscribe, and share!Episode 167 topics include:making art on The Exhibitmeeting all the artistsusing identity in artpsychedelic prayer rugsI Am an Archive exhibition at the Brooklyn Museumbeing an artist during the pandemicdealing with rejection as an artistthe excitement of exploring materials how your practice can change after a big projectBaseera Khan is a New York-based performance, sculpture, and installation artist who makes work to discuss materials and their economies, the effects of this relationship to labor, family structures, religion, and spiritual well being. Khan is currently working on a public art commission on The High Line for fall 2023. Khan mounted their first museum solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York (2021-22), and opened their first solo touring exhibition in Houston, Texas at Moody Arts Center for the Arts, Rice University (2022-2023). Khan has representation at Simone Subal Gallery, New York where they mounted their first solo exhibition called Snake Skin (2019). They have exhibited in numerous locations such as Wexner Center for the Arts (2021), New Orleans Museum of Art (2020), Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism, Munich, Germany, Jenkins Johnson Projects, Brooklyn, NY (2019), Sculpture Center, NY (2018), , Aspen Museum (2017), Participant Inc. (2017). Khan's performance work has premiered at several locations including Brooklyn Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Art POP Montreal International Music Festival. Khan completed a 6 week performance residency at The Kitchen NYC (2020) and was an artist in residence at Pioneer Works (2018-19), Abrons Art Center (2016-17), was an International Travel Fellow to Jerusalem/Ramallah through Apexart (2015), and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2014). Khan is a recipient of the UOZO Art Prize (2020), BRIC Colene Brown Art Prize and the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant (2019), was granted by both NYSCA/NYFA and Art Matters (2018). Their works are part of several public permanent collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim, Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, MN, and the New Orleans Museum of Art, LA. Khan's work is published in 4Columns, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Art in America, BOMB, Brooklyn Rail, and TDR Drama Review. Khan is an adjunct professor of sculpture, performance, and critical theory, and received an M.F.A. from Cornell University (2012) and a B.F.A. from the University of North Texas (2005)See more: www.baseerakhan.com + Baseera Khan IG @baseerakhanPresented by: Black Art In AmericaFollow us:StudioNoizePodcast.comIG: @studionoizepodcastJamaal Barber: @JBarberStudioSupport the podcast www.patreon.com/studionoizepodcast

In Platemark s3e20, host Ann Shafer talks with Kimberli Gant, curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum. While Kimberli's specialty isn't in prints per se, she is one of those unusual non-print curators who likes and appreciates prints and incorporates them into her projects.  Among many projects, her work on Jacob Lawrence and his time in Nigeria led to the exhibition, Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club, which traveled to the Chrysler Museum, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Toledo Museum of Art, and unlocks an area of Lawrence's oeuvre that has been overlooked. If you missed the exhibition, Kimberli's beautiful catalogue is worth acquiring. 

Susie Anders, owner of Anders Art Conservation, LLC has been conserving three-dimensional objects and sculpture for over twenty years. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and a Master of Arts degree with a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Art Conservation from Buffalo State College.Prior to opening Anders Art Conservation, Susie worked in the conservation departments of The American Museum of Natural History, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art, among others. Over the past 15 years, Anders Art Conservation has served many regional clients, including The Louisiana State Museum, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Mobile Museum of Art, The Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Louisiana Endowment of the Humanities, and the Baton Rouge Area Foundation. She holds a Professional Associate status within the American Institute for the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Artifacts (AIC). Ms. Anders lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with her husband David, and their two girls.To learn more about the work of the Foundation, please visit braf.org.

Putting Artists First in Curatorial Projects with Melissa Messina Today's conversation on The Art Biz is packed with tips and insider info. In my conversation with independent curator Melissa Messina, we discuss what an independent curator does, how Melissa finds and works with artists, and what happens during a studio visit to an artist she is (or might be) working with. You won't want to miss the insights she shares about common mistakes she sees artists making, as well as how to correct them. Above all, Melissa shares the empowering reminder that the artist is at the center of all a curator, a museum, or a gallery does. First posted: https://artbizsuccess.com/curator-messina-podcast Highlights “I think that curator gene has always been in me.” (1:55) Melissa's work as an independent curator. (5:32) How does a curator find their artists? (9:00) The importance of your network. (14:37) Insights from the details of Melissa's standard project. (18:46) Scheduling projects and finding funding with fellowships. (23:55) Curating an artist's estate is the joy of Melissa's life. (26:53) What piquesMelissa's interest in the artists she encounters? (32:01) The cities, websites, publications, and galleries where Melissa looks for artists. (35:00) Working with galleries as an independent curator. (38:04) The role that studio visits play in a curator-artist relationship. (40:54) What curators are looking for from a studio visit. (48:51) Correcting the mistakes that too many artists make. (50:54) This Week's Assignment Research my guest Melissa Messina and start following her on social media. Then start researching independent curators in your area and start following them. Consider inviting them into your studio for a low-stress visit—and don't forget to offer them a drink. Mentioned ArtBizAccelerator.com Brooklyn Museum Art Papers Hyperallergic Valerie Cassel Oliver Tyson Scholars of American Art Program at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Melissa Messina Melissa Messina on Instagram Resources Show notes, images, and listener comments How to Price Your Art free report Art Biz Connection artist membership Quotes “I'm constantly making calculations to see where an exhibition or project might percolate out of my experiences and relationships.” — Melissa Messina “Your network is everything.” — Melissa Messina “There are some really good artists with bad attitudes, and I would much rather give the opportunity to someone who is a joy to work with.” — Melissa Messina “I think artists would do better to let go of their expectations in a studio visit.” — Melissa Messina “Without the artist and their work, there wouldn't be anything for us to do.” — Melissa Messina About My Guest Melissa Messina is a nationally recognized arts professional who has developed thought-provoking exhibitions, dynamic site-responsive projects and engaging educational public programming both independently and in leadership positions at museums and non-profit arts organizations. For 20 years, her work with regional, national, and international artists has been presented in the U.S. in Atlanta, Kansas City, Miami, New York, New Orleans, Richmond, Savannah, and Washington, D.C., as well as in Bermuda, France, and Hong Kong. She has lectured extensively and published widely, and her research has been funded by Creative Time and The Andy Warhol Foundation, as well as by fellowships at Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Library, Atlanta, GA, and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR. In addition to serving select public and private clients, she is the curator of the Mildred Thompson Estate. She has also recently served as guest curator at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, and the New Orleans Museum of Art, and was the co-curator of the 2018 and 2020 Bermuda Biennials. In 2017, she co-created Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today, an intergenerational exhibition highlighting 21 Black female abstract practitioners that traveled from Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City to The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.

Last week, the New Orleans City Council approved a nearly $1.5 billion budget for 2023. New Orleans Metro Reporter Carly Berlin tells us about budget priorities for the new year - especially when it comes to housing and transportation. The New Orleans Museum of Art presents, “Called to the Camera,” an exhibition focusing on Black American studio photographers and their impact on the medium from the 19th Century to present day. Curator Dr. Brian Piper tells us more about the more than 150 photographs on display in the exhibit.  LSU's Golden Band from Tigerland and Lake Charles Kreole Rock and Soul musician Sean Ardoin are in the running for a Grammy in the Best Regional Roots Music Album category. Ardoin joins us along with Hank and John, two LSU students in the marching band, for more on their historic collaboration on the album, Full Circle.  Today's episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Diane Mack. Our managing producer is Alana Schreiber and our digital editor is Katelyn Umholtz. Our engineers are Garrett Pittman, Aubry Procell, and Thomas Walsh.  You can listen to Louisiana Considered Monday through Friday at 12:00 and 7:30 pm. It's available on Spotify, Google Play, and wherever you get your podcasts.  Louisiana Considered wants to hear from you! Please fill out our pitch line to let us know what kinds of story ideas you have for our show. And while you're at it, fill out our listener survey! We want to keep bringing you the kinds of conversations you'd like to listen to. Louisiana Considered is made possible with support from our listeners. Thank you!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this specially commissioned series with Grantmakers in the Arts, The Lost Files, Dr. Durell Cooper invites artists, community organizers, researchers, cultural and racial studies experts, and scholars to think about the narratives driving the arts and cultural sector – as it intersects with systems of structural racism and economic exclusion – and what opportunities for narrative change exist.  In this episode Dr. Cooper speaks with Dr. Zannie Voss. Dr. Zannie Voss is Director of SMU DataArts and Professor of Arts Management in SMU's Meadows School of the Arts and the Cox School of Business. Previously she was Chair of Arts Management at SMU, a Professor at Duke University and Producing Director of Theater Previews at Duke, where she transferred two productions to Broadway.  Her 70+ academic and applied research articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals and as professional publications.  She has co-authored Theatre Facts for Theatre Communications Group since 1998.  She serves on the boards of the International Association of Arts and Cultural Management, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Dallas Symphony Association, and she is a former member of the American Academy of Arts and Science's Commission on the Arts. 

Last Spring, the New Orleans Public Library launched a new music streaming service. But unlike Spotify or iTunes, this website exclusively features artists in the Big Easy. NPR's Scott Simon takes a deep dive into this newly-released project, Crescent City Sounds.  When the Kyiv City Ballet went on tour last February, dancers had no idea they'd be stuck abroad for 8 months due to the war. Now, they're embarking on their inaugural US tour, making stops in both New Orleans and Lafayette.  Kyiv City Ballet artistic director Ivan Kozlov and New Orleans Ballet Association executive director Jenny Hamilton tell us more about these upcoming performances, and the importance of sharing Ukrainian artistic expression even amid an ongoing war back home.   The NOLA project opens its 18th season with a world premiere adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull. This modern spin, The Seagull; or, How to Eat It, takes audiences on an immersive outdoor experience in the New Orleans Museum of Art's Besthoff Sculpture Garden Amphitheater. The Nola Project's co-artistic director A.J. Allegra tells us more. Today's episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Alana Schreiber. Our digital editor is Katelyn Umholtz and our engineers are Garrett Pittman, Aubry Procell, and Thomas Walsh.  You can listen to Louisiana Considered Monday through Friday at 12:00 and 7:30 pm. It's available on Spotify, Google Play, and wherever you get your podcasts.  Louisiana Considered wants to hear from you! Please fill out our pitch line to let us know what kinds of story ideas you have for our show. And while you're at it, fill out our listener survey! We want to keep bringing you the kinds of conversations you'd like to listen to.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode No. 570 features artist vanessa german and curator Kimberli Gant. german is included in "Start Talking: Fischer/Shull Collection of Contemporary Art," an exhibition of gifts to the North Carolina Museum of Art pledged by Hedy Fischer and Randy Shull. The show is on view through February 5, 2023. The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum is presenting "THE RAREST BLACK WOMAN ON THE PLANET EARTH," german's response to the Joseph Allen Skinner Museum, an early 20th-century cabinet of curiosities at Mount Holyoke. The exhibition is in previews through October 12, the artist will perform at the museum on October 13, at which point the show will remain on view through May 28, 2023. german is showing recent work at New York City's Kasmin Gallery in "Sad Rapper" through October 22. With Ndubuisi Ezeluomba, Gant is the co-curator of "Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club" which is at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Va. through January 8, 2023. The exhibition explores the connection between Lawrence and his contemporaries based in the Global South via the Nigerian journal "Black Orpheus" and the presentation of their work at Nigeria's Mbari Artists & Writers Club. After debuting in Norfolk, the show will travel to New Orleans and Toledo. The exhibition is accompanied by an outstanding catalogue published by Yale University Press in association with the Chrysler and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Indiebound and Amazon offer it for $50. Instagram: vanessa german, Kimberli Gant, Tyler Green. Air date: October 6, 2022.

Episode No. 568 features curators Anthony Graham and Brian Piper. Graham is the curator of the retrospective "Alexis Smith: The American Way." Across Smith's career she has used collage and installation to explore how we are shaped by the culture and media around us.  The exhibition is on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego's new La Jolla building through January 29, 2023. The excellent exhibition catalogue was published by Scala. Indiebound and Amazon offer it for about $50. Piper discusses his exhibition "Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers," which is at the New Orleans Museum of Art through January 8, 2023. The show examines how Black photographers have worked to produce beautiful portraits, while also engaging in a range of other photographic work. "Called to the Camera" also reveals how Black studio photographers engaged movements such as pictorialism, modernism, and abstraction. The museum will publish the exhibition catalogue next month; Amazon offers it for $50. Instagram: Anthony Graham, Brian Piper, Tyler Green.

Richard Royal, a native of the Northwest, has become recognized internationally as one of the most skilled and talented glassblowers in the Studio Glass movement. Bodies of work such as his early Diamond Cut series to the more recent Geometrics are the hallmarks of his successful career in glass. The artist began working as a glass sculptor in 1978 at the Pilchuck Glass School, located north of Seattle. After spending a number of years as a ceramist, the birth of a new artistic movement appealed to the young artist.  Working his way through the ranks, Royal became one of Dale Chihuly's main gaffers. This relationship lasted for a number of years and consequently led to Royal's emergence in the art market in the 1980s. He has since been an independent artist exhibiting work internationally in both solo and group exhibitions. Wrote gallerist, Ken Saunders: “When Royal joined the staff of Pilchuck it was ostensibly as a maintenance man. In those early days a guy hired to clean up and a guy hired to drive a truck – Royal and William Morris respectively – might easily find themselves assisting the world's greatest glassblowers as they worked the hot glass, in demonstrations for students and for themselves after hours and after the summer sessions had ended for the season. Though Royal was introduced to glass as a student at the Central Washington University he pursued an interest in ceramics and in 1972, he and fellow student Ben Moore built a studio in their hometown of Olympia, Washington. There they created a line of production objects made from clay. The young men worked compulsively and energetically but typically found themselves in bohemian circumstances. Royal made his rent money building high-end wood furniture and endeavored to keep the studio viable while Moore enrolled in the under-graduate program at the California College of Arts. At CCA Moore met Marvin Lipofsky, who was running the glass program, though Moore did not participate in glass at that time and went on to earn his undergrad degree in ceramics. For graduation, Moore's parents gifted him with a session at Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington. There, Moore met Chihuly who liked his energy and encouraged the young artist to help out during the summer programs at Pilchuck and later to attend RISD to earn an MFA in glass. As the small staff of the school expanded to accommodate the explosion of interest in the programming, Moore reached out to his buddy Royal, inviting him to join the staff in 1978. Royal jumped at the chance to get out of Olympia where maintaining the ceramics studio had become a lonely enterprise. ‘I'd heard about what was going on at Pilchuck but I was just thinking about having a job and getting fed regularly. I had no idea what was going to happen…it changed my life.' After spending the summer of 1978 at Pilchuck, working maintenance and, on many occasions, assisting in the hot-shop during classes and after hours, Royal was invited to stay for the fall to assist Chihuly with his work. Chihuly was assembling a large team that he felt would allow him to create ambitious, large- scale sculptures and installations… Once winter descended on the Pacific Northwest the team was forced to abandon Pilchuck for the season. Chihuly filled his calendar with Visiting Artist Residencies at colleges and universities around the country and took members of the team with him. Royal recalls the excitement: ‘We'd take over the art department and during our demonstrations the hot shop would be standing room only,' the team putting on what amounted to a performance with Chihuly playing the master of ceremonies breathlessly directing the action. ‘We would hit the campus like rock stars.' While Chihuly developed a very specific vision of a large studio employing extremely gifted crafts people to handle very specific tasks in an effort to harness the best each had to offer to the process, most artists working in glass in those days worked in very small teams, basically a handful of artist/friends who took turns leading the creation of their own works with the assistance of the others. ‘We all had our own ideas. In fact, when it was your turn you were expected to have your own ideas for your own work.' And led by the example set by Dale, ‘everybody was completely supportive of the others and willing to lend a hand if need be.' Dale set the tone, ‘really supporting whatever each of us wanted to create.'  Royal continued working with Chihuly for nearly 30 years until 2006,. He simultaneously worked at Benjamin Moore Inc. beginning in 1984.  Wrote Saunders: “Royal's first series of blown objects to find commercial and critical success, the Diamond Cut and Shelter Series, were begun at this time… The most important technical characteristic of this early work was the overlay of color on the outside of the bubble – a strategy that turns the usual process of picking up color first on its head. Royal describes the process: ‘In the Diamond Cut Series I overlaid four or five different colors on the outside of a bubble, brought the blank down to room temperature and used a diamond band saw to cut through those layers…I wanted to create an object that would allow you to look at the outside and inside simultaneously…This was a personal metaphor for exploration, looking inside.” The Shelter Series extended this metaphor reflecting profound changes he was going through emotionally, financially and professionally.  In 1989 his engagement and subsequent marriage to Jana led to Royal's Relationship Series. The form consists of a top and a bottom of equal size that meet and entwine around a smaller vessel at the center of the sculpture. ‘The Relationship pieces…show two equal entities coming together around a single idea.' Central to these works was the artist's sense of scale. Royal committed early on to working in the largest scale that was technically feasible. Those early bodies of work especially reflect the profound influence Moore and Chihuly had on the artist's work. Moore's tight technical approach was itself influenced by Italian Design. Moore blew on-center and his work is often characterized by a restrained use of color. Chihuly, on the other hand, had an organic sensibility but his approach to the creative impulse was as much informed by Warhol as by nature. His pieces were gestural, gaudy and loud in color and in form. Royal thinks that his work has benefited from the influence of these two opposites. In Royal's latest body of work, the Geos, the artist has sought to capture the qualities of kiln cast glass in his blown glass constructions. He has emphasized simple and subtle coloration and given the individual pieces a sculptural presence by referencing organic forms as opposed to utilitarian objects. The artist is also reinventing his Diamond Cut series, creating fresh new objects (such as those seen at the top of this page). Royal's work can be found in such noteworthy museum collections as The Mint Museum of Art + Design, The High Museum, the New Orleans Museum of Art, The Tampa Museum of Art, and the Daiichi Museum (Japan). His artwork is also included in the SAFECO Collection, PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBM, and the Westinghouse Corporation. One of the first Artists-in-Residence at the Waterford Crystal Factory, Royal continues to teach as both a guest artist and faculty member at various universities and the Pilchuck Glass School. A past grant recipient from the National Endowment for the Arts, he has served as a visiting artist at the Corning Museum of Glass, the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Ohio State University and the University of Hawaii at Manoa.  

A new documentary tells the story of how a friendship between two historians led to the founding of the National World War II Museum. Dubbed, “Founded on Friendship & Freedom: The National World War II Museum,” the one-hour feature is set to premiere next week. Producer Marcia Kavanaugh joins us with the details on the film and the legacy of this friendship. The exhibit, Queen Nefertari's Egypt, is in its final days at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Today, we listen back to a conversation with curator Lisa Rotondo-McCord to hear more about the stories behind the exhibition's ancient artifacts.  Today's episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Diane Mack Our managing producer is Alana Schreiber and our digital editor is Katelyn Umholtz. Our engineers are Garrett Pittman, Aubry Procell, and Thomas Walsh.  You can listen to Louisiana Considered Monday through Friday at 12:00 and 7:30 pm. It's available on Spotify, Google Play, and wherever you get your podcasts.  Louisiana Considered wants to hear from you! Please fill out our pitch line to let us know what kinds of story ideas you have for our show. And while you're at it, fill out our listener survey! We want to keep bringing you the kinds of conversations you'd like to listen to. Louisiana Considered is made possible with support from our listeners. Thank you! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Heidi Hahn (b. 1982) was born in Los Angeles, CA and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Hahn received her M.F.A. from Yale University in 2014, and has been the recipient of several awards, residencies, and fellowships, including the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Residency, Jerome Foundation Grant, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Residency, Madison, ME; and the Fine Arts Work Center Residency, Provincetown, MA, among others. Her work has been collected by the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; the New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; the Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France; Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection, Helsinki, Finland; and New Century Art Foundation, Shanghai, China; in addition to being exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the world including the New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, KS; Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY; and Premier Regard, Paris, France.

Treasures from Ancient Egyptian Civilization spark a sense of wonder and admiration at the latest exhibit at the New Orleans Museum of Art: Queen Nefertari's Egypt. Curator Lisa Rotondo-McCord, tells us how the exhibition came together.  Written by Randy Johnson, the musical, “A Night with Janis Joplin,” celebrates one of Rock & Roll's greatest legends. Now the show is wrapping up its run at Le Petit Theatre. Actress Leslie McDonel, who stars as Janis, tells us more about the show as she approaches her final week of performances. Today's episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Karen Henderson. Our managing producer is Alana Schreiber and our digital editor is Katelyn Umholtz. Our engineers are Garrett Pittman, Aubry Procell, and Thomas Walsh.  You can listen to Louisiana Considered Monday through Friday at 12:00 and 7:30 pm. It's available on Spotify, Google Play, and wherever you get your podcasts.  Louisiana Considered wants to hear from you! Please fill out our pitch line to let us know what kinds of story ideas you have for our show. And while you're at it, fill out our listener survey! We want to keep bringing you the kinds of conversations you'd like to listen to. Louisiana Considered is made possible with support from our listeners. Thank you! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The summer of 2022 is looking like a perfect time for a vacation. After enduring a lot of stay-at-home time over the last two years, there's plenty to explore in one of America's favorite playgrounds – New Orleans. On this week's show, we learn about Vue Orleans – the 20 million dollar multimedia experience that opened earlier this year at the foot of Canal Street. Then we travel to Egypt with the help of the New Orleans Museum of Art, which has rolled out the red carpet for Queen Nefartari, the royal wife of Ramses II. Chef Chris Montero of Café NOMA and Khaled Hegazzi of Pharaoh's Cave and Sittoo's Kitchen have cooked up authentic tastes of Egypt to further enrich the museum-goers experience at NOMA this summer. We also chat with Today Show co-stars Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager, before partaking in New Orleans' ultimate liquor experience, The Sazerac House. The multimillion dollar three-story interactive museum on the corner of Canal and Magazine Street is a liquor-laden Disney World for historians and cocktail lovers alike. For more of all things Louisiana Eats, be sure to visit us at PoppyTooker.com.

The summer of 2022 is looking like a perfect time for a vacation. After enduring a lot of stay-at-home time over the last two years, there's plenty to explore in one of America's favorite playgrounds – New Orleans. On this week's show, we learn about Vue Orleans – the 20 million dollar multimedia experience that opened earlier this year at the foot of Canal Street. Then we travel to Egypt with the help of the New Orleans Museum of Art, which has rolled out the red carpet for Queen Nefartari, the royal wife of Ramses II. Chef Chris Montero of Café NOMA and Khaled Hegazzi of Pharaoh's Cave and Sittoo's Kitchen have cooked up authentic tastes of Egypt to further enrich the museum-goers experience at NOMA this summer. We also chat with Today Show co-stars Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager, before partaking in New Orleans' ultimate liquor experience, The Sazerac House. The multimillion dollar three-story interactive museum on the corner of Canal and Magazine Street is a liquor-laden Disney World for historians and cocktail lovers alike. For more of all things Louisiana Eats, be sure to visit us at PoppyTooker.com.

Francis X. and Cathi Pavy joined Discover Lafayette to talk about Pavy Art + Design, their contemporary line of Acadian-inspired textiles derived from the iconic artwork of Francis X. Pavy. Pavy Art + Design's offerings are inspired by Francis X Pavy's visual vocabulary and iconic imagery­—aka Pavicons. Textiles and wallpaper are derived from his original artwork and he designs and hand paints every pattern and colorway in their collection. "It is important to me that the artwork has a narrative behind it, to have depth, meaning, and experience behind it," says Francis Pavy. While Pavy Art + Design is primarily focused on business-to-business sales, individuals can also buy direct. Cathy says, "Our goal is to get into showrooms to the trade across the country" so that everyone can get to know what is special about Acadiana. The business was conceptualized in 2019; the Pavys had "always talked about extracting elements of Francis' paintings and creating textiles." The process of converting art into a textile design is a business that has allowed the couple to honor their mutual South Louisiana heritage, which they both cherish. Francis spoke of the prevalence of native grasses such as Tunica, Cane, Marsh, and Briar and how his patterns each embody a story about South Louisiana. Pavy Art + Design offers delightfully colorful designs for any home decor based upon the work of Francis X. Pavy. Francis has been creating art for forty years in his studio in Downtown Lafayette. He was originally inspired as a child by a Saturday morning syndicated show called "Drawing with Jon Gnagg," and his parents signed him and his sister, Camille, up for art classes with the acclaimed Elemore Morgan who was teaching at that time at Girard Park. Francis kids that he hounded his parents for a drawing kit and he still has a piece of it. He also learned photography while still a young boy when his dad documented their lives through his photos. Francis had a darkroom in the attic and learned to develop the film. He still "takes photographs in his head" when he is inspired to paint. "Sometimes I'll see something in my head and the image haunts me. Or, someone will explain something to me and I'll visualize it in my head and the image keeps coming back again and again. I think of it as taking photographs in my head." Francis is an internationally acclaimed painter and mixed-media artist known for his vivid works capturing the folklore of South Louisiana. Both Francis and Cathi stressed the importance of their formative years, being raised in families that played music and loved to dance to Cajun music. The discovery and reinvention of Cajun Culture is a new experience for every generation according to Francis. "The younger kids playing music interpret it in their own way, which is no different than the 80s when Beausoleil came out. I think our culture is reinvented every so many years. Even before us, it was Dewey Balfa and Iry LeJeune who changed Cajun culture after the war and the Newport Folk Festival. We have a dynamic culture that is always changing." In 1990, Rolling Stone Magazine dubbed Francis the “Picasso of Zydeco.” Collectors of his art include The New Orleans Museum of Art and the Morris Museum of Art, Ron Howard, Paul Simon, and Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia, among others. His work is featured on the TomTom Club album cover of the Talking Heads. Lorne Michaels of SNL fame discovered Francis' work while traveling to Louisiana a couple of times and he has the artist's work front and center in his office in NYC and his home in Montauk on Long Island. While Francis is an internationally known painter, Cathi brings years of experience to the business; she has been a brand strategist with more than 20 years as an agency partner and creative director. Well known in our community for her work in the industry, Cathi's heart is also in the service work she does,

A beloved New Orleans neighborhood festival is making a comeback for the first time since 2019 as the Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo, presented by the Friends of Bayou St. John returns this weekend.  Jared Zeller, founder, and president of Friends of Bayou St. John and executive producer of Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo tells us more about the weekend of events. A 21st century adaptation of Treasure Island by the NOLA Project brings pirates to the Besthoff Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Co-artistic director A.J. Allegra tells us how ensemble members adapted Robert Louis Stevenson's work for the new performance. Today's episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Karen Henderson. Our managing producer is Alana Schreiber and our digital editor is Katelyn Umholtz. Our engineers are Garrett Pittman, Aubry Procell, and Thomas Walsh.  You can listen to Louisiana Considered Monday through Friday at 12:00 and 7:30 pm. It's available on Spotify, Google Play, and wherever you get your podcasts.  Louisiana Considered wants to hear from you! Please fill out our pitch line to let us know what kinds of story ideas you have for our show. And while you're at it, fill out our listener survey! We want to keep bringing you the kinds of conversations you'd like to listen to. Louisiana Considered is made possible with support from our listeners. Thank you! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this edition of Straight Talk Africa, host Haydé Adams and her guests discuss the significance of European and U.S. museums returning African art and objects looted during colonial times. Guests include Ndubuisi C. Ezeluomba, an African art curator at New Orleans Museum of Art, Dan Hicks, professor and author of “The Brutish Museums” and Oluwatoyin Sogbesan, a cultural historian and curator.

On this edition of Straight Talk Africa, host Haydé Adams and her guests discuss the significance of European and U.S. museums returning African art and objects looted during colonial times. Guests include Ndubuisi C. Ezeluomba, an African art curator at New Orleans Museum of Art, Dan Hicks, professor and author of “The Brutish Museums” and Oluwatoyin Sogbesan, a cultural historian and curator.

On this edition of Straight Talk Africa, host Haydé Adams and her guests discuss the significance of European and U.S. museums returning African art and objects looted during colonial times. Guests include Ndubuisi C. Ezeluomba, an African art curator at New Orleans Museum of Art, Dan Hicks, professor and author of “The Brutish Museums” and Oluwatoyin Sogbesan, a cultural historian and curator.

Episode 85 features Pat Phillips. He was born in Lakenheath, England in 1987. His work was featured in the 2019 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Solo exhibitions include ROOTS (Antenna Gallery, New Orleans), Told You Not to Bring That Ball (Masur Museum of Art, Monroe), SubSuperior (Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York) and Summer Madness (M+B, Los Angeles). In 2017, he received a Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant. Phillips has also participated in residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. His work can be found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL; and New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, among others. Phillips' paintings combine personal and historical imagery into surreal juxtapositions, drawing on his experience living in America to meditate on complex questions of race, class, labor and a militarized culture. Phillips, who grew up primarily in a small town in Louisiana, found his way to art through painting and photographing boxcars. He embraces this entry point, creating paintings that discuss the Americana subculture, as well as the current social and political threads running through American culture. His works often contain references to confederate flags, fences, and guns—all objects that suggest the violent underpinnings of this country and its institutions. Phillips currently has a solo exhibition titled 'Consumer Reports' at the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Wooster Street in NYC, November 13th - January 8th, 2022. Headshot Photo credit Nicholas Calcott Artist ~ http://www.patphillipsart.com/paintings-2021 Jeffrey Deitch ~ https://deitch.com/new-york/exhibitions/pat-phillips-consumer-reports M+B ~ https://www.mbart.com/exhibitions/194/ Juxtapoz ~ https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/pat-phillips-intricate-layered-works-on-paper-m-b-gallery-los-angeles/ Joan Mitchell Foundation ~ https://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/pat-phillips Art of Choice ~ https://www.artofchoice.co/pat-phillips-calls-on-his-own-history-to-spotlight-systemic-inequities/ Hyperallergic ~ https://hyperallergic.com/488557/subsuperior-pat-phillips-catinca-tabacaru-gallery/

On this edition of Straight Talk Africa, host Haydé Adams and her guests discuss the significance of European and U.S. museums returning African art and objects looted during colonial times. Guests include Ndubuisi C. Ezeluomba, an African art curator at New Orleans Museum of Art, Dan Hicks, professor and author of “The Brutish Museums” and Oluwatoyin Sogbesan, a cultural historian and curator.

On this edition of Straight Talk Africa, host Haydé Adams and her guests discuss the significance of European and U.S. museums returning African art and objects looted during colonial times. Guests include Ndubuisi C. Ezeluomba, an African art curator at New Orleans Museum of Art, Dan Hicks, professor and author of “The Brutish Museums” and Oluwatoyin Sogbesan, a cultural historian and curator.

On this edition of Straight Talk Africa, host Haydé Adams and her guests discuss the significance of European and U.S. museums returning African art and objects looted during colonial times. Guests include Ndubuisi C. Ezeluomba, an African art curator at New Orleans Museum of Art, Dan Hicks, professor and author of “The Brutish Museums” and Oluwatoyin Sogbesan, a cultural historian and curator.

On this edition of Straight Talk Africa, host Haydé Adams and her guests discuss the significance of European and U.S. museums returning African art and objects looted during colonial times. Guests include Ndubuisi C. Ezeluomba, an African art curator at New Orleans Museum of Art, Dan Hicks, professor and author of “The Brutish Museums” and Oluwatoyin Sogbesan, a cultural historian and curator.

Episode No. 516 features art historian and author Mary Beard and artist Tabitha Soren. Beard's new book is Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern. It details how for more than two millennia, portraits of the rich and powerful have been informed by portraits of Roman emperors (and often by portraits believed to be Roman emperors), and investigates how 12 murderous rulers came to be so prominent in the work of artists -- and in the minds of patrons -- ever after. The book descends from Beard's 2011 Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art. Indiebound and Amazon offer the book for about $35. Material referenced on the program includes: Aegidius Sadeler II's prints after Titian's Eleven Caesars (which were destroyed by fire in 1734). Hall of the Emperors, Capitoline Museums, Rome. On the second segment, Tabitha Soren discusses her work on the occasion of "Surface Tension" at the Mills College Art Museum in Oakland, Calif. The exhibition features work from Soren's series of the same title, pictures of iPad screens made to reveal how we interact with digital screens in ways that join touch, art history and the present. The exhibition is on view through December 12. Concurrently, RVB Books has published a book of pictures from the series. It's also titled Surface Tension and includes an essay by Jia Tolentino. As of taping, it's available from RVB Books for 29€. Works from the series have previously been shown at museums such as the Davis Museum at Wellesley College and at Transformer Station in Cleveland. Soren's work is in the collections of many museums, including the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Harvard Art Museums, the New Orleans Museum of Art and the George Eastman Museum.

In this episode, Eric speaks with celebrated artist Gustave Blache III who talks about his journey as an artist; his education, working with gallerists and establishing his unique style of painting -- combining traditional painting methods of portraiture with journalism in a brand of art which he affectionately terms, Visual Journalism: series of paintings that documents the lives of  and  highlights the process and unique labors of everyday society from mop makers to prison entertainment... the process of discovering and the challenges of gaining access these unique stories and occupations... and how he develops a relationship of trust with his subjects. He discusses some of his most notable work; including the Leah Chase series  that documented national culinary star chef in the kitchen and the dining room in one of New Orleans' most famous restaurants, Dooky Chase Restaurant and his most recent project "Rodeo Lifers". Gustave  discusses the establishment of the Gustave Blache Art Scholarship with The School of Visual Arts and the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities; and Blache's commitment to community and education.For more visit: www.ericsperspective.comGuest Bio:  Gustave Blache III  is an American figurative artist from  New Orleans, Louisiana, currently residing in  Brooklyn, New York. He is best known for his works in series that highlight the process and unique labors of everyday society. Blache is largely credited for combining traditional painting methods of portraiture with journalism in a brand of art which he affectionately terms, Visual Journalism. His documentary style format uses a series of paintings, dedicated to one subject, to tell the story of an overlooked individual or process. Labor is usually at the center of Blache's series' and depiction of laborers including The Curtain Cleaners, The Mop Makers, Leah Chase: Paintings by Gustave Blache III, and Simon Parkes Art Conservation (SPAC). From April 24, 2012 to September 16, 2012, the New Orleans Museum of Art exhibited Blache's most notable series up to date, Leah Chase: Paintings by Gustave Blache III. The exhibition documented national culinary star chef Leah Chase in the kitchen and the dining room in one of New Orleans' most famous restaurants, Dooky Chase Restaurant. In 2018 Gustave established the Gustave Blache Art Scholarship with The School of Visual Arts and the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. The scholarship covers half the tuition for two students from Louisiana chosen to attend the School of Visual Arts in New York City. The scholarship is an extension of a Blache's commitment to community and education.Eric's Perspective : A podcast series on African American art with Eric HanksSUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/2vVJkDn

Diane Mack hosted this Tuesday's episode of Louisiana Considered.   Gulf States Newsroom Education Reporter Aubri Juhasz spoke with Red River School Board Superintendent Alison Hughes, Red River Elementary School Principal Mike Beckand parent Roxie Gray-Relifordabout the parish's switch to a “balanced” school calendar in which the school year is divided into quarters instead of two semesters. New Orleans Museum of Art Curator Katie Pfohljoins us to discuss her new exhibit at NOMA, NEW at NOMA: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art. The exhibit highlights work from BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ and female-identifying artists with the goal of better representing New Orleans' diverse communities. Actor Borris Anthony Yorkjoins us to discuss his admission to the masters program at the prestigious Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in the United Kingdom. York is the first Black New Orleans native to be accepted to the program. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf, Sasha and photographer, publisher, and teacher, Peter Kayafas, discuss his process of following his camera to move through and explore the world. Peter and Sasha also talk about the different ways in which Peter has found professional satisfaction outside of making photographs and how that has allowed him to continue his work free of the pressures and demands of the art world. Be sure to listen all the way through to the end for a bonus conversation between Sasha and Peter about how Sasha got started as a dealer and the pivotal role Peter played in that origin story. https://peterkayafas.com   Peter Kayafas is a photographer, publisher, curator and teacher who lives in New York City where he is the Director of the Eakins Press Foundation. He is a Guggenheim Fellow (2019), and his photographs have been widely exhibited, and are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; The New York Public Library; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the New Orleans Museum of Art; and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others. He has taught photography at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn since 2000 and is Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Corporation of Yaddo. He has published four monographs of his photographs—The Merry Cemetery of Sapanta (2007); O Public Road! Photographs of America (2009); Totems (2012)—and The Way West (2020) with an essay by Rick Bass.   “Kayafas manages to pack a lot of history — of photography and, implicitly, of America’s real and imagined images of itself — into each of his photos. For some viewers, these pictures may merely offer an abbreviated, reportorial glimpse of what a once-fabled region looks like today. For others, they may allude to a more expansive, Whitmanesque concept of America as a big, diverse place that is also a big, diverse, national family. In doing so, the vision and spirit of Kayafas’s broad body of work, of which The Way West represents only a small sampling, may even begin to point a way home.” —Edward M. Gomez, Hyperallergic, May 24, 2014   “Kayafas is an artist who keeps his strength in check.… [His photographs are] as initially unassuming as they are ultimately powerful. Kayafas’s pictures are rich in knowledge…. Candid is just the beginning.” —Boston Phoenix, March, 2005   “His pictures are crisp and direct, and the best of them vibrate with understated graphic tension.” —The New Yorker, March, 2005   “Kayafas’s images have a timeless quality. They’re simple and spare, yet quietly overpowering with their evocation of a history on a scale beyond that of individual human lives.” —Mark Feeney, The Boston Globe, January 2012 Find out more at https://photowork.pinecast.co

Gerald Cyrus is a photographer whose works depict urban street scenes, African American family life, and intimate scenes from jazz lounges and nightclubs. His work has been exhibited in several museums including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum. His photographs are currently in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and so much more. Gerald is currently a member of Kamoinge Inc., the esteemed African American photographer's collective.In this episode, we talk about pivoting careers, how to develop your style as an artist, maintaining longevity as a photographer, and he offers some salient advice to emerging photographers.::::If you're getting value from these conversations, please share an episode with someone you think would benefit from it. Learn something new? Share your thoughts with us in our review and rating section here. (Your review helps creatives like you find us.)Help us cover the costs of producing resourceful content for you. Support the podcast with a donation at artisansandtrade.com/donate.Follow: @artisansandtrade::::Discover Gerald Cyrus: Website: www.geraldcyrus.com

Museum directors are juggling more than ever before, and few as ably as Susan M. Taylor, the Montine McDaniel Freeman Director of the New Orleans Museum of Art since 2010. We retrace the beginning of her tenure, five years after Hurricane Katrina, and fast forward to the city's appeal to international visitors, her 6 ½-acre expansion of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, increased appointments of women museum directors, how she has addressed challenges in the aftermath of George Floyd's murder, the need to balance art history with the art of our time, and her tenure as president of the Association of Art Museum Directors.,

Museum directors are juggling more than ever before, and few as ably as Susan M. Taylor, the Montine McDaniel Freeman Director of the New Orleans Museum of Art since 2010. We retrace the beginning of her tenure, five years after Hurricane Katrina, and fast forward to the city’s appeal to international visitors, her 6 ½-acre expansion of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, increased appointments of women museum directors, how she has addressed challenges in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, the need to balance art history with the art of our time, and her tenure as president of the Association of Art Museum Directors.

Ann McCoy is a New York-based sculptor, painter, and art critic, and Editor at Large for the Brooklyn Rail. She was awarded a 2019 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. She lectured on art history, the history of projection, and mythology in the graduate design section of the Yale School of Drama until May 2020, and taught in the Art History Department at Barnard College from 1980 through 2000. She has written about artists working with projection including William Kentridge, Tony Oursler, Nalini Malini, and Krzysztof Wodiczko.  Ann McCoy and Kentridge did a conversation at the American Academy in Rome for his Tiber project, “Triumphs and Laments”, which was published in the Brooklyn Rail. Ann McCoy’ work is included in the following collections: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Australia, the Roy L. Neuberger Museum, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. Ann McCoy has received the following awards: the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the Asian Cultural Council, the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Award, the Award in the Visual Arts, the Prix de Rome, the National Endowment for the Art, the Berliner Kunstler Program D.A.A.D., and the New Talent Award of Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Ann McCoy has exhibited in the Venice Biennale and the Whitney Annual, and has had one-person exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, New Delhi, Poland, and Berlin. She is known primarily known for her large format drawings, work with projection, installation, and bronze sculpture. Ann McCoy worked with Prof. C.A. Meier, Jung’s heir apparent for twenty-five years in Zurich. She has a background in Jungian psychology and philosophy. She has studied alchemy since the early seventies in Zurich, and Rome at the Vatican Library.  Most of her work is based on her dreams, and their relationship to alchemical texts, and Christian alchemy in particular.  For McCoy, alchemy is a symbolic language of processes dealing with spiritual transformation.  Incarnation of spirit into matter is the key concept of the alchemical practice.  The imagination is the gateway to the gods. Dream of the invisible College  (Size: 9 x 14 ft. ) pencil on appear on canvas (2018) photo credit: Peter Dressel Processional with Resplendor (Size: 19" by 7 ft. 2" by 9 inches) cast bronze with silver crown (installation 2018) photo credit: Peter Dressler

Episode No. 469 features artist Alia Ali and historian Molly Rogers. The New Orleans Museum of Art is exhibiting "Alia Ali: FLUX" through November 15.  The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College is showing Alia Ali's work in a "projects series" exhibition. The Benton is closed to the public as a result of the pandemic. The Benton will offer four bodies of Ali's work, three at the museum and one which is will soon be streaming on the Benton's website. Along with Ilisa Barbash and Deborah Willis, Rogers is the editor of "To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes." The book, which was co-published by Aperture and Peabody Museum Press, provides a broad historical and artistic consideration of fifteen daguerreotypes of two enslaved women and five enslaved men acquired by Harvard professor Louis Agassiz in support of his notion that Black men and women were inferior to whites.

Episode No. 464 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Torkwase Dyson and historian Dennis Reed. The New Orleans Museum of Art is showing "Torkwase Dyson: Black Compositional Thought, 15 Paintings for the Plantationocene," a series of works made for the museum. These new paintings were inspired by Dyson's interest in the systems that underlay water delivery, energy infrastructure and by the physical impacts of climate change. Through this and other work, Dyson investigates the legacy of agriculture enabled by slave economies and its relationship to the environmental and infrastructural issues of the present, a relationship known as the “plantationocene.” The exhibition is on view through December 31, 2020. Dyson is an artist-in-residence at the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University. She is preparing work that will be included in "Climate Changing: On Artists, Institutions, and the Social Environment," which is scheduled to debut at the Wexner on January 30, 2021. Dyson's previous solo museum exhibitions have been at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery at Columbia University, at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at Cooper Union, at the Colby College Museum of Art, The Drawing Center, Eyebeam, and more. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Smith College Museum of Art, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. On the second segment, historian and curator Dennis Reed discusses the J. Paul Getty Museum's acquisition of 79 pictures made by Japanese-American photographers between 1919 and 1940. Reed's collection and the Getty's acquisition of it is a result of 35 years of work Reed and his students at Los Angeles Valley College did to learn about Japanese-American photographers who made work before the war. Reed and his students built a list of 186 names from photography catalogues at UCLA's Charles E. Young Research Library and painstakingly cold-called the photographers and their relatives in an effort to build knowledge related to an art-making community that was disappeared by the illegal American internment of Japanese-Americans. Reed's collection -- which includes the only surviving work by several of the artists -- has been exhibited in venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington. The Getty, which remains closed due to the pandemic, will be exhibiting work from the acquisition at a date to be announced. In addition to the images below, the Getty and Google created this slideshow.

In capturing the transcendent moments between silence, introspection and self-discovery, Sibylle Peretti seeks to find and depict places of mystery and wonder as launching spots in a journey towards the infinite. Ethereal imagery and haunting subtexts flow freely from porcelain sculpture and mixed media panels, which incorporate multiple layers of paper, oil paint, and watercolor on either side of Plexiglas. Through these techniques the artist creates a darkly romantic mix of fairytale and tension. Her skillful combination of engraving, photography, painting, and glass casting exposes exquisitely subtle environments we wish to enter in spite of some uneasiness.  Heller Gallery, New York City, has recently extended Peretti’s current online solo exhibition, Backwater, through June 13, 2020. The show features nine major new works – five wall pieces and four cast sculptures, as well as an installation of Glass Notes, an ongoing collaboration between Peretti and her husband, artist Stephen Paul Day.  Peretti says: “One aspect of my work reflects on our disrupted relation to nature and our yearning to achieve a unity with the natural world. Backwater describes places that are isolated and constantly changing. Living in New Orleans just footsteps away from the Mississippi river, I explore almost daily the ever-changing alluvial land with its magical backwaters.” Anchoring Backwater is Tchefuncte, Peretti’s large 48-panel wall piece (60 x 80 inches), which combines photography and drawing with surface interventions such as engraving, mirroring and glass slumping. It is based on a photograph she took along the riverbanks of the Tchefuncte river north of New Orleans, an area that was populated by the Tchefuncte culture as early as 500 BCE, and which derives its name from the Choctaw word for a dwarf chestnut, a plant used as medicine by the first people who inhabited this area. Peretti calls it a “temporal place that is likely to soon vanish due to flooding and human expansion,” but the composition suggests a portal, “a waterway that is open to the viewer’s imagination. When you look at the landscape, you also see your own reflection in the mirrored parts of the glass, and you become a part of the journey.”  Peretti received her MFA in Sculpture and Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cologne, Germany, after first studying glassmaking and design at the State School of Glass in Zwiesel, Germany. In the past year her work was added to the collections of the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH; the newly established Barry Art Museum in Norfolk, VA; and most recently to the Huntsville Museum of Art in Huntsville, AL. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada; the Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt, Germany; the Hunter Museum, Chattanooga TN; and the Speed Museum and 21c Museum, both in Louisville, KY.  Awards and endorsements include grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Joan Mitchell Foundation, as well as the 2013 United States Artist Fellowship. In 2018 Peretti’s work was featured in a solo exhibition Promise and Perception: The Enchanted Landscapes of Sibylle Peretti, at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, VA.  Exploring the relationship between time, loss, emotion, memory and solitude, Peretti’s multimedia collages and sculptures provide a place into which her protagonists- the people and animals that inhabit her work – retreat. Impactful and unforgettable, the work balances the nostalgia of impending loss with the profound fortitude of understanding ourselves… and the world. In October 2020, during her residency at the Corning Museum of Glass, Peretti will work on a new project inspired by the Werner Herzog movie Heart of Glass. She will explore ideas of the historic importance of making Gold Ruby, and how it can be seen as a metaphor for a collapsing world.  

This week on Inside the Arts, India Fest is back. We’ll get a sneak peek at the 2020 festivities featuring Indian arts, culture and cuisine at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Event note: India Fest rescheduled for Saturday, June 6. In the interest of public safety due to concerns over coronavirus (COVID-19), NOMA has rescheduled India Fest to Saturday, June 6. Then, acclaimed tenor and native son, Bryan Hymel returns with Opus Opera and Delta Festival Ballet in a concert performance celebrating Spring and our planet. It’s called Earthly Delights, featuring works by Mahler and Canteloube. Event note: Earthly Delights Canceled/Postponed concerning COVID-19 in NOLA. And we round out the show with singer and songwriter René Marie. Inside the Arts Tuesdays at 1pm, Wednesdays at 8:30pm and Thursdays at 8:45 am.

Greetings SOTA listeners! We have some major power ladies to discuss this episode. Sarah presents an interview with body-positive Twin Cities figure painter, Erin Sandsmark. Jasa continues to cover the “beyond” by delving into the exhibition Dear 1968,… by artist Sadie Barnette, which was presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. In art news, we discuss the New Orleans Museum of Art's new mobile museum, NOMA+ and speculate on how a similar model could be applicable to the Twin Cities. This episode also features a special guest, Sarah's cat, Kitty. We apologize for his outlandish interjections. References: Erin Sandsmark's Website Dear 1968,… at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego “A New Orleans Museum Is Now Mobile, Transforming How People See Art” – Hyperallergic Art Adventure at Minneapolis Institute of Art --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sota/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sota/support

Photo credit: Cedric Angeles Reoccurring themes of technology and the manipulation of nature can be found in Brian Guidry’s paintings and installations. Guidry's paintings range visually from compressed lines of color to abstract eruptions. The artist synthesizes color, sound and texture to create “digitized” or “dissolved landscapes,” using a specific color palette sampled from a variety of natural sources. The injection of these “natural” colors into geometric planes and constructions creates shapes and voids suggestive of portals or slips in time, leading the viewer over the precipice of the normal, into the magical realism of the uncanny, peculiar and quantum. Brian Guidry lives and works in South Louisiana. He received his BFA from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He received his MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Selected exhibitions include; The Bronx Museum in New York; Gana Art Space, Seoul, Korea; the Odgen Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans; The Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans and the National Collage of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan. His work has been featured and discussed in Time Out Chicago, ArtForum, The Times-Picayune, Gambit Weekly, Pelican Bomb, The New York Times, and New American Paintings. His work is in the collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art; The Odgen Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA.; National College of Arts--Lahore, Pakistan; New York Public Library, New York, NY; Pratt Institute Library, Brooklyn, NY; and Paul & Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA. The book mentioned during the interview was "Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018” , Peter Schjeldahl Blueshift 2017, Hand-lined acrylic on canvas 43 1/4 x 33 1/4 inches Oxizion 2014, acrylic and oil on canvas, 40.5” X 33”

OG Liner Notes from this replay episode #66, Part One:Stacey Pfingsten, Executive Director of Louisiana Architectural Foundation joins the show to talk about next weekend's Architecture & Design Film Festival: New Orleans. Joining Stacey is photographer Catherine Ledner whose documentary about her architect father Albert Ledner will premiere at the New Orleans Museum of Art on Friday, August 25. Not to mention Catherine's Mimi Beulah Ledner, the Queen of the iconic New Orleans pastry, the Doberge cake. What a delightful conversation.

Plant height is one of the factors often indicated on plant tags.   But mature height often takes ten years - especially if you're talking about trees and shrubs.    Most plants benefit from some amount of pruning - in which case their height can be controlled.   BTW, Bamboo is the fastest growing plant on the planet. It can grow 3 feet in just 24 hours.       Brevities #OTD President Abraham Lincoln created the U.S. Department of Agriculture today in 1862.   When Lincoln signed the bill, he was bombarded with advice about who should be the first Commissioner of Agriculture. Perhaps he should choose the editor of a Farm magazine? Perhaps a scientist would be best? Maybe a simple pragmatist? A man named Isaac Newton - a direct descendant of Sir Isaac Newton - got the job. Newton was born in Burlington County, New Jersey on March 31, 1800. He had set up an impeccable farm in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.  Newton's farm was a model for others; efficient, orderly; and productive.  After advocating for farmers for over two decades,  Newton was picked to be the chief of the agricultural section of the Patent Office. A master relationship builder; every week Newton sent butter from his dairy farm to the White House. It wasn't long before Newton, and his entire family became friends with the Lincolns. That's why when it came time for Lincoln to make the appointment for commissioner of the USDA, Newton had a firm lock on the job in Lincoln's mind.  When he was appointed, Isaac Newton, quoted Jonathan Swift saying, "It should be the aim of every young farmer to do not only as well as his father, but to do his best: to make two blades of grass grow where but only one grew before."  Newton brought the same high standards and efficiency he had cultivated for his farm to the USDA. Three years after his appointment, on the evening of April 15, 1865, around 10:30 PM, it was Isaac Newton who had rushed over to the White House, and informed the doorkeeper, Thomas Pendall, that President Lincoln had been shot. In his account of the incident, the doorkeeper said Newton was a bosom friend the president. Sadly, Newton experienced a severe case of sunstroke while surveying the experimental farm in Washington, D.C.  The incident debilitated him for a year before he passed a way.  He died in office at the age of 67 in 1867 after serving for four years.     #OTD On this day, Governor David B. Hill signed a law creating the Adirondack and Catskill Forest Preserve; ensuring the land "be forever kept as wild forest lands."   The previous year, Charles Sprague Sargent had been appointed to lead a three-member committee to investigate the Adirondack wilderness.   Thanks to the Sargent commission, the area was preserved and Sargent's team created two historically important maps of the Adirondacks. On the 1890 map, Forest areas were outlined in red and the park was outlined in blue. Today, the "blue line" is a term used to mean boundaries of the Adirondack and Catskill Parks. And, if you get a chance to check out the original map, you'll see that the blue ink has turned almost black -after a century of aging.   The park land around the Adirondack and Catskill has expanded over the years. Today, the two parks combined comprise more than 6,000,000 acres; larger than Yellowstone, Yosemite, Glacier, Grand Canyon, and Great Smoky Mountains National Parks combined.         #OTD An article called “The Prettiest Wild Flowers.” by Ettie C. Alexander was featured in the San Francisco Call, May 15, 1898.   In the article, Ettie shared her magnificent experiences collecting wildflowers around San Francisco before the turn-of-the-century.   In the span of a decade, Ettie had noticed a remarkable decline in the quantity and quality wildflowers in the area. Here's her comment about the California Cream Cups - an Annual herb in the poppy family found mainly in California.   She said, "Nine years ago, cream cups grew in great profusion all around San Francisco. The most beautiful ones that I have ever seen were near Holy Cross Cemetery. I have picked dozens of them in former years as large as a dollar. But now you can scarcely find a plant, and the blossoms are small and of an inferior quality. A great many other varieties of flowers that once were plentiful have disappeared entirely." In the article, it said that Alexander's wildflower collection was the best in the state of California.   And Alexander, had teamed up with a chemist; and had worked to refine a process – a preservative – that would help the wild flowers retain their fresh-picked, original color.   Alexander's process worked remarkably well.  Yet, sadly she never disclosed her formula to the public.    Two side comments about Alexander are worth sharing;:   First, Alexander was never able to find a process to preserve the brilliant color of the poppy for more than two years.   Second, in all of her works she's known simply as E C Alexander. I had to do a great deal of sleuthing just to discover that her first name was Ettie. Unfortunately, there's next to nothing written about her. It seems, for now, the rest of her story is lost to the ages.         #OTD Today, the New Orleans Museum of Art will unveil its 6.5-acre Sculpture Gardenexpansion.    The beloved Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden has earned awards from both the American Society of Landscape Architects, as well as the American Institute of Architects.   It's home to dozens of primarily 19th and 20th century sculptures from around the world, valued at more than $25 Million.  The new expansion includes an installation of 26 new pieces of art, 65 new trees, 475 shrubs, 1.7 acres of groundcovers, 1.13 acres of open lawn, and 9.35 acres of aquatic planting; as well as the creation of an indoor sculpture pavilion and an outdoor amphitheater with beautiful, grass-stepped seating. Sounds amazing!       Unearthed Words The world lost the poet Emily Dickinson on this day in 1886.    Every year, the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst hosts A poetry walk to mark the anniversary of the poets death.   This year the walk takes place on Saturday, May 18 From 10:30 AM to 12 PM.   The walk begins on the homestead lawn and proceeds through Amherst - stopping at Important historical sites that were significant to Dickinson.  The walk ends at her grave in West Cemetery.   At the cemetery, you can join in the traditional light hearted lemonade toast to the poet and also read a favorite Dickinson poem or memory of Emily Dickinson.   Here's one of Emily's poems - we'll take a second to toast her... Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower? But I could never sell. If you would like to borrow Until the daffodil Unties her yellow bonnet Beneath the village door, Until the bees, from clover rows Their hock and sherry draw, Why, I will lend until just then, But not an hour more!   Emily grew up gardening. She would help her mother with their large edible and ornamental garden.   The flower garden became Emilys responsibility when she got older. She planted in a carefree cottage garden style.   After Emily died, her sister Lavinia took over the garden.  Emily's niece and editor Martha Dickinson Bianchi recalls:   "All [Lavinia’s] flowers did as they liked: tyrannized over her, hopped out of their own beds and into each other’s beds, were never reproved or removed as long as they bloomed; for a live flower to Aunt Lavinia was more than any dead horticultural principle."       Today's book recommendation: Ina Coolbrith: The Bittersweet Song of California’s First Poet Laureate by Aleta George I discovered Ina Coolbrith when I was researching Ettie Alexander. Ettie's book on wildflowers included some poems by Coolbrith.  Coolbrith was the niece of THE Joseph Smith of the Mormon Church. She became California's poet laureate. In post-Gold Rush San Francisco, she was known as the pearl of her tribe, a tribe that included Bret Harte, Mark Twain, and John Muir. Jack London and Isadora Duncan considered her their literary godmother, and John Greenleaf Whittier knew more of her poems by heart than she did his.     Today's Garden Chore : Top-dress your raised beds with a couple inches of organic compost.  After a season of rest, I start planting season off by adding nutrients back into my beds where I grow my edibles. When I harvest my spring crops, I'll add even more compost to keep the soil nutrient rich throughout the summer.         Something Sweet  Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart   #OTD Today in 1869 Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in New York.   As part of her rhetoric to fight for the right to vote, Elizabeth Cady Staton used the metaphor of the original garden when she said, "Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy."       Thanks for listening to the daily gardener, and remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

David talks with Megan Holt about their upcoming event on April 24th at the New Orleans Museum of Art and more! Originally aired on April 18th 2019.

TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a new TriPod Xtra segment. As part of the New Orleans Museum of Art’s literary ‘Arts and Letters’ series, Laine Kaplan-Levenson spoke with sociologist Peter Marina in front of a live audience about his book ‘Down and Out in New Orleans.’ The two discussed the various informal economies in New Orleans, and alternative lifestyles people choose as a way to live outside of mainstream society. Laine starts the conversation with what Marina’s book is inspired by.

TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a new TriPod Xtra segment. As part of the New Orleans Museum of Art’s literary ‘Arts and Letters’ series, Laine Kaplan-Levenson spoke with sociologist Peter Marina in front of a live audience about his book ‘Down and Out in New Orleans.’ The two discussed the various informal economies in New Orleans, and alternative lifestyles people choose as a way to live outside of mainstream society. Laine starts the conversation with what Marina’s book is inspired by. You can hear the unedited version of the conversation between Laine and Peter Marina here . TriPod is a production on WWNO in collaboration with the Historic New Orleans Collection and the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies at UNO . Subscribe to the Tripod Podcast wherever you get your podcasts, and be sure to give it a review. You can also follow tripod on facebook, twitter, and Instagram at @tripodnola.

TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a new TriPod Xtra segment. As part of the New Orleans Museum of Art’s literary ‘Arts and Letters’ series, Laine Kaplan-Levenson spoke with sociologist Peter Marina in front of a live audience about his book ‘Down and Out in New Orleans.’ The two discussed the various informal economies in New Orleans, and alternative lifestyles people choose as a way to live outside of mainstream society. Laine starts the conversation with what Marina’s book is inspired by. You can hear the edited version of the conversation between Laine and Peter Marina here . TriPod is a production on WWNO in collaboration with the Historic New Orleans Collection and the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies at UNO . Subscribe to the Tripod Podcast wherever you get your podcasts, and be sure to give it a review. You can also follow tripod on facebook, twitter, and Instagram at @tripodnola.

TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a new TriPod Xtra segment. As part of the New Orleans Museum of Art’s literary ‘Arts and Letters’ series, Laine Kaplan-Levenson spoke with sociologist Peter Marina in front of a live audience about his book ‘Down and Out in New Orleans.’ The two discussed the various informal economies in New Orleans, and alternative lifestyles people choose as a way to live outside of mainstream society. Laine starts the conversation with what Marina’s book is inspired by.

Our Guest Nicole Caridad Ralston is a food Instagrammer, Off the Eaten Path and also is a contributor/ community leader for Best Food New Orleans. With her being able to explore New Orleans through food, she has been able to fall in love with NOLA. Nicole has lived there for 6 years and has no intention to move away. She enjoys being able to show off and help others understand New Orleans on a different level. This episode Nicole gives great recommendations to give any first timers the best experience. What you'll learn Where to get Beignets How to say certain New Orleanian words What to avoid in New Orleans What to expect when traveling there    Nicole's Personal Spots to Chow down Lower Garden/Uptown: -Take the streetcar Uptown to Audubon Park -Surreys -Lilly’s Vietnamese -Mais Arepas -Couli's -DTB -Cavan -Stein's -Wayfare -St. James Cheese Co -Dat Dog on Magazine St. Or Frenchmen St. Mid City/City Park: -Parkway Bakery (best Poboys). -Beignets at Morning Call -Bevi Seafood Co for seafood platters and boiled crawfish -Taqueria Guerrero CBD (Central Business District) -Monkey Board rooftop for drinks or food -Johnny Sanchez -Happy hour at NOSH -Hot Tin Bar (rooftop in lower garden district) -Willa Jeans -Aglio -Cochon -The Butcher -Balise French Quarter -Beignets at Cafe du Monde. -Coops Place -Happy hour at SOBOU or Bombay Club -muffuletta at Central Grocery -Drinks at the carousel bar in Hotel Monteleone -Check out the free PB&J and milk bar at Le Pavillion Hotel every night at 10 PM Marigny/Bywater -3Muses -Coffee and pastries at Cafe Rose Nicaud -Go to Bacchanal (this is a MUST DO -wine bar and amazing food & cheese plates & live music) -Paladar 511 -Jazz & eat at Spotted Cat Food & Spirits -Kebab and Pizza Delicious Nicole’s recommendations of things to do Lower Garden/Uptown: -Stroll Magazine street (a MUST do for shops, restaurants, bars) -Fleurty Girl Store -Zele Store Mid City/City Park: -Walk the sculpture garden (free) -New Orleans Museum of Art CBD (Central Business District) -Drinks and music at Ace Hotel rooftop French Quarter -Walk around Jackson Square -St. Louis Cemetery number 1 -Stroll Royal Street for galleries, shops, music Marigny/Bywater -Stroll Frenchmen street for live music -Crescent Park for the best river views -Music & fun on St. Claude Ave: go to Hi Ho Lounge -Kajuns is a fun karaoke bar near there too! -Studio Be Share your thoughts with us! We'd like to hear from you about places you might want to learn more about or even stories about your adventures. Message us through our website OurFoodAdventures.com Share the show on your Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. Let us know how much you liked the episode with a 5-star rating and what your favorite part was.     Thanks for listening!   -Chris and Tiarra

TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a tripod Xtra produced by Laine Kaplan-Levenson. In this tripod xtra, we hear an abridged talk given by Dr. Erin Greenwald, curator of the Historic New Orleans Collection's 'The Founding Era' exhibit. Greenwald traces New Orleans' African roots -- from their kidnapping in Africa, through the middle passage, to the seminal role Africans played in the founding of our city. Dr. Erin M. Greenwald is the Curator of Programs at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Her talk was part of programming for the exhibition, New Orleans, the Founding Era, curated by Dr. Greenwald, for The Historic New Orleans Collection. The exhibition is on view through May 27, 2018, at 533 Royal Street . Carte particulière du Royaume de Juda [Detailed map of the kingdom of Ouidah] from Voyage du chevalier des Marchais en Guinée, isles voisines, et à Cayenne, fait en 1725, 1726, et 1727, vol. 2 Amsterdam, 1731 Credit Jean Baptiste Labat / The Historic New Orleans Collection, 2015

In today’s episode, we head over to the Historic New Orleans Collection in the French Quarter, and explore their newest exhibit, titled, New Orleans, the Founding Era. The exhibit is part of the tricentennial of New Orleans celebration and is a great way to envision what the city was like at the very beginning. It brings together a vast array of rare artifacts from the Historic New Orleans Collections holdings, and from institutions across Europe and North America to tell the stories of the city’s early days. To help us explore the exhibit, I am joined by the exhibition curator, Erin M. Greenwald. Erin is currently the Curator of Programs at the New Orleans Museum of Art, but was previously the Senior Curator and Historian at the Historic New Orleans Collection. She was the lead curator in putting New Orleans, the Founding Era together and shares her stories and insights about what you'll see when you visit the exhibit. The Historic New Orleans Collection The Historic New Orleans Collection is open Tuesday-Saturday year round, and offers both permanent and rotating exhibits. There is no admission charge to the view the exhibits. There is a small charge of $5 for non-members if you would like to tour the Williams Residence. Located at 533 Royal Street, it is a nice destination when you want to escape the heat and the crowds. Be sure to let them know you heard about the museum from Beyond Bourbon Street! The Historic New Orleans Collection is also a wonderful resource - I use it frequently when researching topics for the podcast. If you have a particular interest about New Orleans and want to learn more, try the research desk! Additional Resources You can follow the Historic New Orleans Collection on Instagram (@visit_thnoc)  They also publish a quarterly magazine with historical essays and information about exhibits. You can download free copies of the current and past issues at their website. Related Episodes Today's show was the 3rd one we've done we done with the Historic New Orleans Collection team. Here are the others: 34 – Guidebooks to Sin, with Pamela Arceneaux - the guidebooks are the blue books that listed the names and details about the prostitutes who worked in the Storyville District of New Orleans 35 – Madams, Music and Musicians of Storyville - this discussion was about a now-closed exhibit that explored the Storyville District. While the exhibit is gone, this episode will give you a glimpse into that infamous red light part of New Orleans. If you want to learn more about the founding of New Orleans, I strongly recommend you check out my discussion with author Richard Campanella, in episode #53 - Bienville's Dilemma and the Founding of New Orleans. Thank You Thanks to Erin Greenwald for talking with us about the exhibit. Erin is extremely busy with both the exhibit and her role as the the Curator of Programs at the New Orleans Museum of Art, not to mention being a mom. (Erin - I hope the performance of James and the Giant Peach was splendid!) Thanks to the team at the Historic New Orleans Collection for inviting me to the sneak preview of New Orleans, the Founding Era, and for reaching out about the interview. A special thanks to Lauren Noel and Eli Haddow for pulling everything together! Want to Make Your Trip to New Orleans the Best Ever? Of course you do! If you’re planning a trip to New Orleans and want to cut through all the research we’re here to help. We offer a personalized travel consult. Here’s how it works: You complete a brief questionnaire to help us get to know you and the experience you want to have in New Orleans. Next, we set up a 20-30 minute phone or video call. During the call, we get to know you a little better. We can clarify any questions and bounce a few ideas off of you to make sure we ‘re on the right track. Finally, we prepare and deliver a pdf document with our recommendations for your trip. Depending on your needs the report will contain specific places to stay, eat and drink. It will also offer suggestions on things to do and see, all based on your budget and interests. Sound good? Just go to beyondbourbonst.com/travel for all the details and a link to order the service. Subscribe to the Podcast If you enjoy the show, please subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play Music or wherever you get your podcasts. If you do enjoy listening, please share Beyond Bourbon Street with someone who shares our love of New Orleans. Join Us on Facebook We have a free Facebook group where you can ask questions, share your New Orleans experiences and engage with others who love all things New Orleans! Join us by going to beyondbourbonst.com/facebook Contact Us Got an idea for an episode, have some feedback or just want to say hi? Leave us a message at 504-475-7632 or send an email to mark@beyondbourbonst.com Thanks for listening! Mark

Dr. Erin Greenwald is the Curator of Programs for the New Orleans Museum of Art. In this episode of Filibustering History, Erin talks about her academic and professional background, her experience planning and curating the Purchased Lives exhibit at the Historic New Orleans Collection, and how public history exhibits and institutions respond to changing political and social climates. This episode’s recommendations: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database: http://www.slavevoyages.org/ I, Tonya (film): http://www.itonyamovie.com/ Fire and Fury books mixup: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2018/01/08/toronto-profs-fire-and-fury-book-now-a-bestseller-thanks-to-donald-trump_a_23327825/ The New Orleans Museum of Art’s website is https://noma.org/. Rob Denning can be reached at snhuhistory@gmail.com or r.denning@snhu.edu. James Fennessy can be reached at j.fennessy@snhu.edu. Follow us on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/FilibusterHist.

Frank Relle is no stranger to adventure. As will become obvious as you listen to Frank’s interview, he is so well acquainted because he finds comfort in the face of risks others seek to avoid. For example, after reading a book about sailing the open seas for little to no money (and no experience sailing), Frank headed to the docks and talked his way onto a boat leaving that day, only to find out mid-trip that no one on the boat had any significant sailing experience. The story of Frank’s days at sea is one of many. It is no surprise then that when Frank took up photography in earnest, the project that first brought him acclaim required him to move about in post-Katrina New Orleans in the darkest hours of the night. It should also be no surprise that as a result of Frank’s unique combination of guts and creative genius his work has been featured in The Smithsonian Museum of American History, the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and in the private collections of Wynton Marsalis, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Ellen DeGeneres, Drew Brees, Sheryl Crow and Kanye West. Nowadays, if Frank is not at his gallery in the French Quarter (910 Royal Street), he’s probably waist deep in the swamps of Southeast Louisiana, competing with gators for turf as he sets up his camera to shoot for his current project, “Until the Water.” Until you can make it to Royal Street, you can check out Frank’s work at www.frankrelle.com, on IG @frankrelle, and Facebook at Frank Relle Photography.

We tackle the career of our favorite living artist/human being. Brandon and Britnee recap the New Orleans Museum of Art's recent summertime John Waters Film Festival with fellow Krewe Divine co-founder Virginia Ruth. Also, Britnee makes Brandon watch the Golan-Globus horror comedy Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype (1980) for the first time. Enjoy! https://swampflix.com/ http://thextrasmallfiles.tumblr.com/

Brian Camelio, Founder and CEO of ArtistShare; Ghazi Shami, Founder and CEO of EMPIRE Distribution; Anne Roberts, Curator of New Orleans Museum of Art

In our first hour of the 2012 French Quarter Festival broadcast we will celebrate our 5th anniversary of LIVE broadcasts from New Orleans by sharing sound bites from the previous years. You'll recognize prior guests and the comedy relief they offered on past shows; guests like Rockin' Dopsie Jr. and Chef Duke "Big Sexy" Locicero of Cafe Giovanni. We'll also have new friends from the art and film community join us like Katie Williams with the New Orleans Film Office and Grace Wilson from the New Orleans Museum of Art. We will welcome back French Quarter Festival Executive Director, Marci Schramm and our own Kelly Schulz from New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Callers and artist Robert Tannen weigh in on the proposed removal of Confederate monuments from New Orleans; and Russell Lord, curator with the New Orleans Museum of Art, promotes the Katrina 10 retrospective “Ten Years Gone," which includes Willie Burch’s representations in bronze of the homes of crawfish. Also, Tannen promotes the upcoming “People’s Mural” interactive art project at the Myrtle Banks Building on Oretha Castle Haley.

Artist Brandon Graving talks about experimental printmaking and surviving Hurricane Katrina. Brandon Graving is an artist whose focus is experimental printmaking and sculpture. She has expanded and contributed to experimental techniques in printmaking and been at the forefront of creating very large scale monoprints. Her print installation " Ephemera: River with Flowers" , is the largest monoprint made by a single artist measuring 10.5' x 32'. Collected by the Frederick R.Weisman Foundation, this work was on exhibit at the New Orleans Museum of Art when Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans.

Wyatt Gallery, a person not a place, was raised in Philadelphia and received his BFA from NYU Tisch School of The Arts in 1997. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, the PDN 30, the PDN Rising Stars, and 25 Under 25 Up-and-Coming American Photographers by Duke University. His photographs are in numerous public and private collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the George Eastman House, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Worcester Art Museum, Comcast, Twitter, and American Express. His work has been featured in Esquire, Departures, Condé Nast Traveler, Mother Jones, The New York Times, Oprah's OWN Network, and NBC, amongst others. Wyatt was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and continues to lecture at New York University, the School of Visual Arts, the New School, and more. His first book Tent Life: Haiti was featured in the Moving Walls 19 exhibition at George Soros' Open Society Foundation and has sold out of the first edition. His most recent book #SANDY was selected for “Best Photo Books of 2014” by American Photo magazine. 100% of the royalties from both books have been donated to support rebuilding efforts and have raised over $50,000 to support communities in Haiti and New York City. Wyatt recently exhibited his new series, SUBTEXT, at Foley gallery in New York City, which received reviews in The New Yorker, PDN, Feature Shoot, and more. His forthcoming book Jewish Treasures of The Caribbean will be released in the Spring of 2016 by Schiffer Publishing.

If you spend any time driving, you probably know the name Lamar. You ve no doubt seen it on a billboard. But Lamar is not a product it's the name of the company that owns the billboard. In fact Lamar owns more interstate billboards and outdoor advertising than just about anybody in America. And they re based in Baton Rouge. The CEO of Lamar Advertising, Sean Reilly, is Peter s guest on Out to Lunch. So is Susan Taylor. Susan has some outdoor artworks too. They're in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Susan is the Director of the New Orleans Museum of Art. The New Orleans Museum of Art is a public gallery supported by public and private donors, and billboards are privately owned works of art in public spaces. This is a unique conversation about the intersection if you'll pardon the pun of highbrow art and highway art. In the You Heard It Here First segment of the show Peter talks to the Muhammad Yunus of New Orleans, Haley Burns, founder of Fund 17. Haley pitches Peter and his guests on her local micro funding startup. It s a 3rd world inspired idea based on Haley s startling statistic that 40 of New Orleaninas don t have a bank account. You can hear a more in depth conversation about Fund 17 with Haley Burns, Peter, Susan, and Sean, here. The photos on this page were taken at Commander s Palace by Chet Overall. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Maria Levitsky has a dragon tattooed over most of her body Maria used to play the flute, she lived in Spain when she was 11, and she rides a horse she bought from a charismatic preacher called Bootise. Actually the horse is called Bootise, not the preacher. And that s just the tip of the iceberg of the fascinating stuff you ll find out about Maria on this free wheeling episode of Happy Hour. Tore Wallin is an artist masquerading as a musician masquerading as an architect and a Norwegian masquerading as a New Orleanian who ended up here as the result of a hurricane and the smell of mildew. The most talented Nolawegian on earth, Tore has played in NOLA bands for 30 years, has a painting in the New Orleans Museum of Art and designed a Jazz Fest poster. Naughty Professor are an assembly of some of New Orleans truly finest young musicians, and that s saying something in this town. Naughty P are taking NOLA funk into a whole new stratosphere of slick playing, clever arrangements and hook laden songs. Their first album, Until The Next Time, is a collection of songs inspired by corn dogs, obscure TV shows, and a crawfish playing double bass. Mariachi skeletons and the true story mystery of "T" the missing tattoo artist with a 100 bill tattoed on his forehead have something to do with it as well. We catch guitarist Bill Daniel and alto sax player Nick Ellman as they re about to start a nationwide tour. Remember you heard Naughty Professor here first these guys are going to be superstars. This is one of those magic Happy Hours where 4 people who have nothing whatsoever in common other than being hand picked by Producer Graham daPonte standing and Music Director Christian Unruh, of widely divergent ages and backgrounds, are delighted to discover they share all kinds of thoughts, emotions and experiences. A real New Orleans get together of transplants who have found a home in New Orleans. All the photos on this page were taken at Casa Borrega by cycling shutter meister Douglas Engel. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: Amanda talks to artist Skylar Fein!   Skylar Fein was born in Greenwich Village and raised in the Bronx. He has had many careers including teaching nonviolent resistance under the umbrella of the Quakers, working for a gay film festival in Seattle, stringing for The New York Times and as pre-med student at University of New Orleans where he moved one week before Hurricane Katrina hit. In the wreckage of New Orleans, Fein found his new calling as an artist, experimenting with color and composition of the detritus of Katrina. His work soon became known for its pop sensibility as well as its hard-nosed politics. After a few starring roles in group shows, he had his first solo show in May 2008 at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans. In the fall of 2008, his Prospect.1: Biennial installation, "Remember the Upstairs Lounge," shined a spotlight on an overlooked piece of New Orleans history: a fire that swept through a French Quarter bar in 1973, killing everyone inside. The worst fire in New Orleans history has never been solved. His installation walked visitors right through the swinging bar doors, and offered visual riffs on politics and sexuality circa 1973. The piece was praised in Artforum, Art In America, The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker, among others. In late 2009, Fein had his first solo museum show, "Youth Manifesto," at the New Orleans Museum of Art. The exhibition was an ode to punk rock as a force for social and cultural upheaval. True to form, the opening reception was shut down by police responding to the look of the unlikely art-going crowd. In March 2010, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery presented Fein's solo installation, “Skylar Fein: Rise of the Youth Front" at VOLTA Art Fair in New York during Armory Week. This installation drew thousands of people and delved into revolutionary politics past and present, a continuing theme in Fein's work.In May 2010,Fein was invited by the New York curatorial project No Longer Empty to recreate his "Remember the Upstairs Lounge" installation in a vacant Chelsea space.The exhibition, once again, drew thousands of visitors and sparked renewed interest in this piece of history. In September 2011, Fein exhibited over eighty new works in his solo exhibition Junk Shot at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans. This exhibition embodied this artist’s turn towards formalism and art historical reference while maintaining Fein’s iconic sensibilities and aesthetic. Skylar Fein was the recipient of a 2009 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award and his work is in several prominent collections including The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, The Louisiana State Museum, The Birmingham Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art and collectors Beth Rudin DeWoody, Lance Armstrong, and Lawrence Benenson.

Mark Sloan has been the Director and Senior Curator of the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston since 1994. The Halsey Institute is a multi-disciplinary, non-collecting contemporary arts museum, with an emphasis on emerging and mid-career artists from around the world. In his twenty-eight year career he has organized hundreds of exhibitions, ranging from contemporary Japanese installation art to 19th Century Baluchi tribal weavings. Several of his exhibitions have traveled to institutions such as the High Museum in Atlanta, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, the New Orleans Museum of Art, Presentation House in Vancouver, and the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. He has authored or co-authored twelve books on subjects ranging from Russian conceptual art to early twentieth century circus life. He is also an active visual artist whose works have been exhibited, published, and collected internationally. Watch a video of a recent Halsey Institute exhibit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLIJuQSOJis

In this week's show, hosted by Kevin Klose, Corey and Julie Martin talk about the Dreams Come True: Art of the Classic Fairy Tales from the Walt Disney Studio exhibit at New Orleans Museum of Art. Kathy Werling gives us a few updates from around the parks, including her experience at the Animation Academy in Disney's Hollywood Studios. Teresa Echols updates us on the progress she's making for her $2500 Disney challenge. All that plus this week's news and Rapid-Fire on this week's edition of the DIS Unplugged.

BRIAN H. PETERSON, has more than thirty years' experience as a curator, critic, artist, and arts administrator in the Philadelphia area. The Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest Chief Curator at the James A. Michener Art Museum, he was the editor and principal author of the major Michener publication Pennsylvania Impressionism as well as monographs on painters William L. Lathrop, Robert Spencer, and Charles Rosen. His critical writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, American- Arts Quarterly, Photo Review, and thePhiladelphia Inquirer As a practicing artist, Peterson has had more than thirty solo exhibitions of his photographs since 1980. His work is in the collections of the Amon Carter Museum, Denver Art Museum, Library of Congress, Milwaukee Art Museum, New Orleans Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. WWW.TELLMEPRESS.COM, AMAZON BOOKS.COM,BARNES AND NOBLE, BORDERS