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Creative Response Ida Activity Kits for Youth

Each kit contains an activity book with drawing, writing and creativity exercises for youth affected by Hurricane Ida to prompt creativity and healing. Each kit also contains crayons, mechanical pencil, glue stick, scissors and other supplies to assist in completing the activities in the workbook. Kits have been distributed throughout South Louisiana, including indigenous communities in the lower parishes, including Grand-Caillou Dulac Band of … Creative Response Ida Activity Kits for Youth

Cheryl Derricotte in Residence at Paper Machine

Cheryl Derricotte is a visual artist and her favorite mediums are glass and paper. Originally from Washington, DC, she lives and makes art in San Francisco, CA. Her art has been featured in the New York Times, The Guardian, The San Francisco Chronicle, MerciSF and the San Francisco Business Times. In 2021, she was awarded … Cheryl Derricotte in Residence at Paper Machine

Meredith Davenport in Residence at Paper Machine

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

Lee Laa Ray Guillory in Residence at Paper Machine

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

Paper Machine Artist in Residence: Chandra McCormick

This fall, Paper Machine hosts artist-in-residence Chandra McCormick. Chandra’s residency will focus on her archival work of the Lower 9th Ward Indigenous community, creating a publication of new and old work that speaks to the histories, landscapes, spirit, facts, and communal life she has documented and engaged with over the past thirty years. Bio: Chandra McCormick … Paper Machine Artist in Residence: Chandra McCormick

Kalamu ya Salaam in Residence at Paper Machine

This fall, Paper Machine hosts artist-in-residence Kalamu ya Salaam who will be creating his project, BANANA REPUBLIC: Black Life and Culture. Building off the unfinished collaborative work of Kalamu ya Salaam, Keith Calhoun, and Chandra McCormick from the 1980s, Banana Republic will present a spectrum of photography by Keith and Chandra with words by Kalamu in a … Kalamu ya Salaam in Residence at Paper Machine

Ingrid Sibley in Residency at Paper Machine

Ingrid Sibley was artist-in-residence at Paper Machine during the summer of 2020. During her residency, Ingrid designed a publication and also undertook the #100walksproject. You can see more of Ingrid’s time in residency here on her website. Two books were created around the concept of life scripting: an art book and a workbook. The artbook … Ingrid Sibley in Residency at Paper Machine

Paper Machine Welcomes Resident Sara Shotland

Antenna welcomes artist Sarah Shotland, the January 2021 Paper Machine artist in resident. Sarah Shotland is the author of the novel Junkette, and a playwright whose work has been produced in theaters nationally and internationally. She is cofounder and program director of Words Without Walls, which brings creative writing to jails, prisons, and drug treatment facilities in … Paper Machine Welcomes Resident Sara Shotland

Ingrid Sibley #100Walks Project

Join the current Paper Machine resident artist Ingrid Sibley for a concluding event on June 30. Change is the only constant. The question is, are you going to write that change, or allow it to be written for you? Since January 2019, Black Box NOLA has explored Black Quantum Futurism under the guise of one … Ingrid Sibley #100Walks Project

Uluhaimalama, A talk with Allison Milham

Uluhaimalama, A talk with Allison Milham Wednesday, February 5 at 7 p.m. Paper Machine, 6330 St Claude Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70177 ALLISON LEIALOHA MILHAM is a musician, visual artist, and educator of Native Hawaiian descent who is the current artist-in-residence at Paper Machine. She holds an MFA in Book Arts and her work often combines … Uluhaimalama, A talk with Allison Milham