This Friday night, join us for another screening in our summer design trilogy film series. There’s also a live cooking demonstration in Cafe NOMA, live music, free art activities, and of course, great art.

• 5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot
• 5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Indigo Strings Music
• 6:30 pm: Artful Palate in Cafe NOMA: “Demystifying Poached Fish” with Patrick Brennan, Brennan’s sous chef
• 7:30 pm: Film: Objectified with an introduction by Laszlo Fulop
  

About Indigo Strings Music

Indigo Strings Music is Marta Vincent and Anne Hibbs. Marta Vincent is a music therapist, pianist, and a great highland bagpiper in the New Orleans area. She graduated from Loyola University where she was selected as a competition winner to perform a Mozart piano concerto with the university’s orchestra. She has performed throughout the New Orleans area on both pipes and piano. As a bagpiper she was honored to ceremoniously present President William Clinton, President George H. W. Bush, and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. She also piped for several Rod Stewart performances in the Louisiana Superdome. In her work as a music therapist, Marta has been fortunate to meet and be influenced by many musicians from the early eras of jazz, swing, and gospel.

Anne Hibbs is a professional violinist and teacher with a passion for live performance and helping others find their own music. After winning scholarships and earning degrees from LSU and Loyola University in performance, Anne toured throughout EUrope as a soloist with Loyola’s chamber orchestra. She has played classical music professionally with the Baton Rouge Symphony and the Orquesta de Camara Vericruzana in Mexico. She has also provided stage music for Liberace and Tommy Tune at the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans. Anne entered the film industry as on-site violin coach with Academy Award winning production Twelve Years a Slave.

About Café NOMA’s 2016 Artful Palate Summer Cooking Series

Chefs of the Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group will soon demonstrate their own culinary masterpieces at Café NOMA’s Artful Palate, the fifth annual summer cooking series featuring nine artfully inspired demonstrations at the historic New Orleans Museum of Art. Friday evenings are FREE for all café guests and patrons to partake in the presentation, and savor samples as each artful dish is created.

In conjunction with the launch of NOMA’s exhibition The Essence of Things: Design and the Art of Reduction, the talented executive chefs, sous chefs and mixologists of Café NOMA, Ralph’s on the Park, Red Fish Grill, Brennan’s, and Napoleon House will share their culinary vision inspired by the exhibition’s focus on the art and practice of minimalism. Artful Palate demonstrations will take a minimalist approach to cooking; featuring local seafood, meats, fruits and vegetables with simplistic recipes highlighting the core of their natural essence.

About the Design Film Series

The film series will showcase three distinct facets of design through the “Design Trilogy” of documentary filmmaker Gary Hustwit: Helvetica (2007, 80 min.), Objectified (2009, 75 min.), and Urbanized (2011, 85 min.). This series is curated by Laszlo Fulop, UNO Associate Professor (Documentary, Video Writing).

Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the designers who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential product designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?

About Laszlo Fulop

Laszlo Fulop teaches Documentary Production, Script Analysis, Spring Film Production, Video Writing, and Screenwriting. He received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans in 2000.

In the past few years, Fulop has been credited as director, producer, videographer, and editor in various film and television projects, including documentaries, feature films, TV pilots, and short films. His credentials include an Addy Award and several film festival appearances. His recent work includes Tim’s Island, a documentary about Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans co-directed, co-produced, and edited by Fulop. The film is available from IndiePix.

The Sunken City: Rebuilding Post-Katrina New Orleans, his documentary co-directed and co-produced with Marline Otte (Associate Professor, History Department, Tulane University), has been screened at film festivals and various college campuses nationwide and internationally. The documentary is available from Sky Merchants and from Amazon.