My practice combines a lifetime as a documentary photographer with an impulse to expand and build upon the language of photographic images. Being witness to and telling stories about the world I live in are at the heart of everything I do. After years of working as photojournalist, I returned to graduate school to think … Meredith Davenport in Residence at Paper Machine
Black Fusionist Society is an Afrosurrealist multimedia narrative exhibition about the Black descendants of survivors of the 1898 Wilmington Massacre who create a secret society that uses magic and fringe science to navigate systemic racism and migrate to a different dimension. This exhibition serves as contemporary Black folklore within a historical fiction narrative told through … Black Fusionist Society :: Antoine Williams
The many stories of what happened after Hurricane Katrina have yet to be told. Instead of a swift rescue, people of New Orleans were abandoned in the sweltering heat for days without electricity, without food, without water and without hope. Left to fend for themselves, they were preyed on and killed by criminals, by white … New Orleans Katrina Holocaust :: Paintings by Beverly Kimble Davis
Paper Machine hosts artist Lee Laa Ray Guillory as artist in residence, June 2021. Lee Laa Ray Guillory is a New Orleans based interdisciplinary artist and independent curator whose work is grounded in her devotion to Black mysticism and photographic investigation of intersectional identity. Guillory inherited rituals of hair maintenance, oral mythologies, and alternative photographic … Lee Laa Ray Guillory in Residence at Paper Machine
Antenna’s Spillways residency is a way of providing the meaningful dispersion of outside thought and practice into the city through the development of creative feats. Spillways hosts national and international artists, writers, and cultural organizers that are interested in developing projects within the greater New Orleans region, and whose efforts question, transform, or expand the … 2021-2022 Spillways Fellows
THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 7 TO 8:15 P.M. || MOSQUITO CONTROL HEADQUARTERS AT 2100 LEON C. SIMON Join us at dusk for a performance and talkback with chamber music group Les Cenelles, co-hosted with the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South. Les Cenelles is a contemporary string ensemble exploring the Creole diaspora through melody and … RISE at the Wildflower Meadow
THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 6 TO 7 P.M. || MOSQUITO CONTROL HEADQUARTERS AT 2100 LEON C. SIMON Grab a spot on the grass and join us for a conversation on the connections between environmental research, community empowerment, and K-12 formal and informal education, co-hosted with Ripple Effect. Since 2013, the environmental education nonprofit Ripple Effect has … Community Conversation: Environmental Education, Water Literacy, and Climate Adaptation
THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 5:30 TO 7:30 P.M. || MOSQUITO CONTROL HEADQUARTERS AT 2100 LEON C. SIMON Check in on the native wildflower meadow and join a community conversation on planting and environmental stewardship. In April, the Water Leaders Institute, NOMRTCB, NPI-GNO, Courtney Egan, Antenna, and Civic Studio came together to plant a native wildflower meadow … Wildflower Meadow Check-in and Community Conversation
Servicios en Español, a solo exhibition by Carolina Carusol, explores local aesthetics from small business signs in Latino communities to portrait contemporary dilemmas, such as identity, immigration and labor. Aritst BioB. 1986, Lima, Perú.Carolina Casusol lives and works in Miami, Florida. She holds her MFA from Tulane University and BFA from Corriente Alterna Art School, … Servicios en Español :: Carolina Casusol
THURSDAY, MAY 6, 5 TO 6:15 P.M. || MOSQUITO CONTROL HEADQUARTERS AT 2100 LEON C. SIMON Grab a spot on the grass next to the newly planted wildflower meaow, and join a conversation on plants, bugs, and ecology in urban areas. Ecology and evolutionary biologist Dr. Jelagat Cheruiyot and NOMRTCB entomologist Dr. Jennifer Breaux will … Community Conversation: Plants, Bugs, and Ecology
