Curator In Residence In 2024, we are launching a Curatorial Fellowship to engage with national curators to facilitate connecting Louisiana artists to national art networks. This is an invitational curatorial residency. Over the course of two years, the invited curator will generate a curatorial statement for their residency and use this statement to guide the … Meet 2024 Curatorial Fellow: Niama Safia Sandy
“No Home for You Here/No hay hogar para ti” is a collection of work that explores the notion of loss and conflict by examining one’s hybrid identity – especially that of Latin Americans and how that has become defined by U.S. borders. In the politically divided, nationalist, and insular U. S., many blame the country’s … No Home for You Here,
No Weak and Ordinary Voice links speeches by Reverdy C. Ransom, a pivotal civil rights activist and founding member of the Niagara Movement, to sites across America through sculptural forms. This exhibition presents the metaphorical act of putting a flower in the barrel of the continued assault on equal rights. By connecting plants to historical … No Weak and Ordinary Voice
Proximity and Touch: Louisiana Group Show Exhibition 2023Vernell Dunams, Ryan Leitner, Kelsey Scult, and Jill StollSeptember 9 – October 29, 2023 Louisiana Group Show Annually, Antenna Collective orchestrates the ‘Louisiana Call for Exhibitions’, which offers Louisiana artists the opportunity to have their artwork evaluated by a distinguished guest juror, who meticulously selects exhibiting artists from … Proximity and Touch
Workshop with Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo – 2023 National Call for Exhibition SelecteeJuly 29th, 12:00 to 3:00 PMPaper Machine, 6330 St Claude Ave Interested in creating a sculpture with found objects? Join us for a one-day workshop lead by Memphis based artist, Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo. Participants in the workshop will explore the significance and charged nature … Aesthetics of Accumulation Workshop
Night Bloom is a collection of works that celebrates the process and power of drawing. Consisting of prints, illustrations, and moving images, Sigrid’s work is playful and honest in investigating how and why drawing aids us. The show is accompanied by a book of the same name that describes the process of overcoming creative block … Night Bloom
“Disturbance Ecologies,” reflects upon the possibility of living cooperatively towards partial recuperation in the wake of a human disturbed world. A disturbance marks simultaneously a problem, an end, and a beginning of something new. Places marked by human disturbance have struggled and responded with real world examples consisting of new mineral classifications, plastic eating fungi, … Disturbance Ecologies
Every year, to provide the opportunity for Louisiana artists to have their work reviewed by curators from around the country, Antenna Gallery’s Louisiana call for exhibitions hosts a guest juror to choose the exhibition selection. For 2024 year, our juror is Risa Puleo based in Chicago, IL. Risa Puleo is an independent curator and one … Meet 2024 Louisiana Open Call Juror :: Risa Puleo
Antenna is thrilled to announce our recipients for 2024 (2023) National and Louisiana Open Call for Exhibitions. A big thank you to all the applicants. The Antenna Collective and Jurors were impressed by the brilliant creativity, and ingenuity in the submissions. National Open Call for Exhibitions 2024 Recipient: Jasmine Best Jasmine Best is a true … Announcing 2024 Open Call Winners!
Antenna is thrilled to announce our recipients for 2023 (2024) National and Louisiana Open Call for Exhibitions. A big thank you to all the applicants. The Antenna Collective and Jurors were impressed by the brilliant creativity, and ingenuity in the submissions. National Open Call for Exhibitions 2023 Recipient: Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo is … Announcing the 2023 Open Call Winners!
Every year, to provide the opportunity for Louisiana artists to have their work reviewed by curators from around the country, Antenna Gallery’s Louisiana call for exhibitions hosts a guest juror to choose the exhibition selection. For 2023 year, our juror is Betsy Lohrer Hall based in Long Beach, California. Betsy Lohrer Hall is a visual … Meet 2023 Louisiana Call Juror :: Betsy Lohrer Hall
The Dry Garden is a publication composed of vignettes and reimagined material from herbaria, where plants are dried and stored for scientific purposes. Created by Magali Duzant for her 2023 exhibition at Antenna, the publication reconsiders archival histories and explores how narrative can help us build more empathetic relationships with nature. Visually, the publication is … The Dry Garden
A Tree, A Garden reflects on the many ways in which trees manifest into other things, from memorials and myths to memes, markers, and meeting points.The exhibition brings together two research projects that explore the place of trees in our understanding of the world. Inspired by trees found both in old-growth forests and on city … A Tree, A Garden
A catalog for Williams’ 2022 exhibit at Antenna, documenting the artist’s anthropomorphic sculptures. Lorna Williams was born in 1986 in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 2010, she received a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. She has exhibited work at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Studio Museum Harlem, Montserrat College of Art, and University … Lorna Williams: Works 2011-2017
Exhibition Dates: November 5th 2022 – December 16th 2022Receptions: Saturday November 12th and Saturday December 10th 2022, 6pm – 10pm Open Mic Nights: Nov. 17th & Dec. 15th 6:30-8pm Named after the book “Bright Boy; the Art of Defined/Designed Black” by Mark T. Williams. Bright Boy; The Art of Defined/Designed Black is an anthology focused … Bright Boy; the Art of Defined/Designed Black
Exhibition Dates: September 3rd – October 30th 2022Receptions: Saturday September 10th and Saturday October 8th 6pm-10pm Anxious poems is a zine that was made after an anxiety outburst in Portugal. The poems and illustrations guide us through a journey that unfortunately is very familiar to queer people: fear of not being accepted, social anxiety, and … Anxious Poems
Exhibition Dates: September 10th – October 2nd 2022Opening Reception: Saturday September 10th 2022, 6pm – 10pm Union is an investigation of the unity of blackness beyond borders using paint. The idea that blackness exists in an infinite space operating outside of white supremacy is inferred through the painting by disregarding a typically western style of … Union
Exhibitions Dates: August 13th – September 4th 2022Opening Reception: Saturday August 13th 2022, 6pm-10pm “As the lukewarm hands of the godsCame down and gently picked my adrenalin pearlsPlaced them in their mouths and rinsed all the fear outNourished them with their saliva All rested As if the healthiest pastimeIs being in life-threatening circumstancesAnd once again be … Meta-Retrospect
On view: July 9th – August 28thReceptions: Saturday, July 9th from 6:00 – 10:00 PM Saturday, August 13th from 6:00 – 10:00 PM “In order for me to speak a truer word concerning myself, I must strip down through layers of attenuated meanings, made an excess in time, over time, assigned by a particular historical order, and … “…marvels of my own inventiveness…”
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Exhibition Dates: Saturday July 9 – Sunday Aug 7, 2022 //
Opening Reception: Saturday July 9, 6pm-10pm
