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Platforms Fund Artist Grantees 2025-2026

Culture Bearers Implementation Trans Queer Youth New Orleans: Coneflower (@transqueeryouth.nola) Coneflower is a participatory documentation project designed to archive and uplift the mutual aid and creative resistance of queer and trans youth in south Louisiana. \Trans Queer Youth of New Orleans is a youth-led community organization that has autonomously organized workshops, gathering spaces, vigils and Platforms Fund Artist Grantees 2025-2026

Thermal Shutdown with David Sullivan

EXHIBITION STATEMENT: There is no intelligence in AI. There are no aesthetics or qualitative judgements. It is all patterns of information. In 2022, I started experimenting with the large language models we generally call AI, in the form of web based image diffusers. I was curious how these technologies could be used as part of Thermal Shutdown with David Sullivan

Gazing B(l)ack by Chris Leaux

Perception is power. It alters, influences, and conveys. Being seen by others or being seen as other can morph an experienced reality. Being the one to gaze has the power to transform people and even define their humanity. This exhibition is a reversal of the gaze generally placed upon Blackness. That which is often not Gazing B(l)ack by Chris Leaux

The Lay of the Lack of the Land: Exhibition Interview with Nicole Sara Simpkins

NOTE: These interviews have been edited for clarity and length. Interview conducted and edited by FreeQuency, Photos by danielle miles. “The Lay of the Lack of the Land” was on view at Antenna:3718 June-July, 2025. You can view a virtual tour of The Lay of the Lack of the Land on Antenna’s website and purchase a copy of the accompanying The Lay of the Lack of the Land: Exhibition Interview with Nicole Sara Simpkins

INTERTWINED: Interview with Flora Cabili

NOTE: These interviews have been edited for clarity and length. Interview conducted and edited by FreeQuency, Photos by danielle miles. Intertwined was on view at Antenna:3718 from June 14th-July 28th, 2025. You can view a virtual tour of ⫘⫘ ✺ 𝐼𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓉𝓌𝒾𝓃𝑒𝒹 ✺ ⫘⫘ on Antenna’s website and purchase a copy of the accompanying exhibition publication INTERTWINED: Interview with Flora Cabili

Transmissions: Antenna Blog

September 2nd Saturday Photo Recap EXHIBITIONS:Antenna:6330: Words of the Redeemed by Danita BrightAntenna 3718: Gazing B(l)ack by Chris Leaux and Thermal Shutdown by David Sullivanphotos by danielle miles THE LAY OF THE LACK OF THE LAND: Exhibition Interview with Nicole Sara Simpkins I want to create an environment that promotes that sense of being immersed, Transmissions: Antenna Blog

The Lay of the Lack of the Land by Nicole Sara Simpkins

The Lay of the Lack of the Land 2025Nicole Sara Simpkins6×9, 68 pagesPerfect bound $23 Nicole Sara Simpkins is the recipient of Antenna’s 2025 Solo National Exhibition. This collection of prose poems integrates research about the predicaments of engineering, extraction, and changing ecosystems in the Mississippi River. Featuring photos, drawings, prints, notes and references, this publication was produced in tandem with an exhibition of The Lay of the Lack of the Land by Nicole Sara Simpkins

Intertwined by Flora Cabili

Intertwined 2025, Flora Cabili6×9, 50 pages, Perfect Bound$14.50 at Antenna Bookstore Intertwined by Flora Cabili is an immersive, mixed media exhibition that reflects on space, carving, permanence, and expansion. The paintings, collages, sculptures, videoed movement story, and soundscape are entangled in metaphysical environments that are both confined and liberated. Intertwined invites us to consider how we experience these patterns, at times Intertwined by Flora Cabili

FROM WHERE WE STAND

The 2025 Louisiana Group Show “From Where We Stand” opens Saturday, April 12, 2025 from 6-10 at Antenna, 3718 St. Claude! As a disparate group of artists selected by renowned New York-based curator, Niama Safia Sandy @___niama___ , our works explore a variety of issues in different visual mediums: the Indigenous people of Bvlbancha; spirituality and the FROM WHERE WE STAND