The Platforms Fund, a collaborative effort of Antenna, Ashé Cultural Arts Center, and Pelican Bomb in partnership with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, is excited to announce an expansion of awards for the 2017-18 cycle. The Fund will distribute a total of $60,000 in grants to a diverse array of artist-driven projects … Platforms Fund Artist Grants 2017
Antenna is thrilled to announce that at our recent board meeting, representatives from the Bywater Community Development Corporation, Skip Henderson and John Guarnieri, delivered a check to establish an educational partnership between Antenna’s 24 hour Draw-a-thon and the Homer A. Plessy Community School. Draw-a-thon, one of New Orleans’ most successful community art events is developed and … Gift from the Bywater CDC helps expand Draw-A-Thon
11 ARTIST DRIVEN PROJECTS RECEIVE A TOTAL OF $45,000 IN GRANT AWARDS! The Platforms Fund, developed by Antenna / Press Street, Ashé Cultural Arts Center, and Pelican Bomb with generous support by both the Andy Warhol Foundation and the Joan Mitchell Foundation, is excited to announce the 2016 second round of grant awards! This year we received 83 applications and we were … Platforms Fund 2016 Grantees
Have Fun! Learn basic DJ skills and produce your own recorded mix! Sign up for NOLA Mix Youth DJ Classes and learn how to mix, scratch, and perform music with new technology, and hands-on training. Wednesdays from 6:00pm – 8:00pm / January 11th to February 15th (6 classes). Course Highlights: DJ History The Ins & Outs … NOLA MIX – DJ & Music Production
Purchase limited edition Press Street publications for the holidays! Join us at AVANT GARDEN – a new semi-annual curated arts market hosted by Constance, a local arts organization. Avant Garden features artists, designers, makers and taste-makers from the New Orleans community, as well as PECHA KUCHA – a place for young artists and thinkers to … Press Street Book Sale @ Avant Garden
Room 220 is pleased to host a group of writers brought to New Orleans by PANK Magazine at 7 p.m., on Friday, Nov. 18, at the Antenna Gallery. PANK is an literary undertaking that includes periodicals both print and online, as well as a chapbook imprint. Its editors occasionally muster PANK‘s national network of writers … Live Prose and Poetry: PANK Magazine Invades New Orleans
SLIDE SHOW / ARTIST TALK & BOOK SIGNING Friday, October 7th, 6:00pm at Antenna Artist Lynda Frese will give an artist talk followed by a book signing for her new publication Pacha Mama: earth realm. The artist will share recent images from the Peruvian Amazon and other off-the-grid experiences that helped shape the environmental themes of her work. … PACHA MAMA: earth realm
Please join Press Street in supporting T-Lot’s fundraiser for their upcoming show “Range” which opens this October and will be on view until January 2012. Funds raised will help the group cover the costs of printing, installation staples, such as extension cords, lights, projector, etc… Special thanks to The Lost Love Lounge for providing the … Drunken Spelling Bee
Press Street’s Antenna Gallery is proud to announce an opportunity for emerging and established artists and curators to exhibit in the historic Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans. Exhibitions are not limited to any media, and all applicants will be considered for solo or group exhibitions for 2012.
The Antenna Gallery presents 10-12 exhibitions each year, featuring work by internationally renowned and local, emerging and mid-career artists. We encourage you to view our exhibition archive at http://press-street.com/antenna to get an idea of the diverse range of our exhibitions.
Thanks to the generosity of the Andy Warhol Foundation, artists or curators selected from this application process will be awarded an honorarium of $1,200 (split for group exhibitions) which is meant to offset installation, shipping, and travel costs for the development of their selected exhibitions. Additionally, Press Street will publish an exhibition catalog or ephemera to be determined after selection.
For full details on how to apply, please visit : http://press-street.com/antenna-open-call-2012/
The Good Children Gallery will host BYOB: NEW ORLEANS, a one-night exhibition featuring a number of local artists that use projectors in their work. A selection of that work will also be available for viewing on the following day during regular gallery hours (Sunday, July 31st from12p-5p). In Europe, projectors are often referred to as … BYOB: NEW ORLEANS
What should Antenna carry forward? What can evolve? What does our creative ecology need from Antenna now & what pathways can we build together to get there?
This October, Antenna invites artists, writers, culture bearers, cultural workers, neighbors, partners, and audiences to join a series of Critical Response Process (CRP) sessions around our emerging Values + Pathways Framework.