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SUMMARY:Artist's Perspective with Rose Bratcher on Buddha and Shiva\, Lotus and Dragon – CANCELED
DESCRIPTION:Throughout the exhibition Buddha and Shiva\, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society\, artists influenced by Asian aesthetics will offer their perspective on the objects on view. \nRose Bratcher is an ensō painter and a monk at the New Orleans Zen Temple. In Zen\, ensō is a circle that is hand-drawn in one or two uninhibited brushstrokes to express a moment when the mind is free to let the body create. The ensō symbolizes absolute enlightenment\, strength\, elegance\, the universe\, and mu (the void). It is characterised by a minimalism born of Japanese aesthetics.
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/artists-perspective-with-rose-bratcher-on-buddha-and-shiva-lotus-and-dragon/
CATEGORIES:Artist Perspectives
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SUMMARY:Artist's Perspective with MaPo Kinnord on Buddha and Shiva\, Lotus and Dragon – CANCELED
DESCRIPTION:Throughout the exhibition Buddha and Shiva\, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society\, artists influenced by Asian art will offer their perspective on the objects on view. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. \nRaised in Cleveland\, MaPo Kinnord earned a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and a MFA from Ohio State University. From 1984 to 1992\, she taught ceramics and produced functional ceramics in Massachusetts and Berkeley\, California. She moved to Louisiana in 1995 and is currently an associate professor of art at Xavier University of Louisiana. She continues to create ceramic sculpture and develop art education projects at her studio in New Orleans.
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/artists-perspective-mapo-kinnord-on-buddha-and-shiva-lotus-and-dragon/
CATEGORIES:Artist Perspectives
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200115T180000
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SUMMARY:The Helis Foundation Artist Talk: Teresita Fernández
DESCRIPTION:Join artist Teresita Fernández for a discussion about her work as part of The Helis Foundation Artist Talk series. Fernández’s 60-foot mosaic mural Viñales (Mayombe Mississippi) is among the works on view in the expansion of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. \nFernández’s work is characterized by an interest in perception and the psychology of looking. Her experiential\, monumental works are often inspired by a rethinking of landscape and place\, as well as by diverse historical and cultural references. Often referencing the natural world\, Fernández’s practice emphasizes the connection between place and material by using gold\, graphite\, iron-ore\, and other minerals that have loaded historical ties to colonization and the violence embedded in the landscape. She is a 2005 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and the recipient of numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship\, an NEA Artist’s Grant\, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award. Fernández’s works have been exhibited both nationally and internationally at The Museum of Modern Art\, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston; The Smithsonian Museum of American Art\, Washington\, D.C.; and MASS MoCA\, North Adams\, Massachusetts; among others. Fernández’s mid-career museum retrospective\, Teresita Fernández: Elemental\, is currently on view at Pérez Art Museum Miami and will tour throughout the United States.  She lives and works in Brooklyn\, New York. \nAdmission to NOMA is free for all Louisiana residents on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. \n 
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/artists-perspective-with-teresita-fernandez/
CATEGORIES:Artist Perspectives
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191218T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191218T190000
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SUMMARY:The Helis Foundation Lecture: Regina Agu with Tia-Simone Gardner
DESCRIPTION:Regina Agu’s installation of Passage in NOMA’s Great Hall marks the first museum show for the contemporary artist. In a lecture sponsored by The Helis Foundation\, Agu will discuss the environmental and historical themes in her creation of panoramas with Tia Simone-Gardner. Admission is free to all Louisiana residents on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. \nPassage was created in partnership with A Studio in the Woods\, through an artist residency. \nABOUT REGINA AGU\nRegina Agu’s recent work investigates the complex relationships between the landscape and communities of color\, with a special focus on the U.S. Gulf Coast region. Her practice employs a variety of tactics and theories drawn from black geographies\, critical geography\, conceptual writing\, and poetry. Her research often involves site exploration and working with and through archives. Agu produces texts\, photographs\, and drawings\, in addition to installations\, performances\, and collaborative public projects. Her work has been included in exhibitions\, public readings\, and performances nationally. In 2018\, Agu was a Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts + Project Row Houses fellow at the University of Houston\, a Lawndale Artist Studio Program resident\, and was awarded a residency at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans through a partnership with For Freedoms. Agu received a 2017 Artadia Houston award and was a 2016-2017 Open Sessions participant at The Drawing Center. Agu was the co-director of Alabama Song\, a collaboratively-run art space in Third Ward\, Houston\, which received a 2016 SEED grant from The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Agu is the founder of the Houston-based WOC Reading Group\, and her other collaborative projects include Friends of Angela Davis Park and the Houston-based independent small press paratext. \nABOUT TIA-SIMONE GARDNER\nTia-Simone Gardner is an artist\, educator\, and Black feminist scholar from Birmingham\, Alabama. Her practice is interested interdisciplinary strategies that activate ideas of ritual\, iconoclasm\, and geography. Gardner received her BA in Art and Art History from the University of Alabama in Birmingham. In 2009 she received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Practices and Time-Based Media from the University of Pennsylvania. Gardner participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program as a Studio Fellow and has been an invited artist to a number of national and international artist residencies including the Center for Photography at Woodstock\, A Studio in the Woods\, and IASPIS Sweden. She has also been awarded a number of fellowships for her work including the McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship. She is currently working on a project on Blackness and the Mississippi River as well as a photographic/writing project with her mother that addresses questions of biopolitics\, Black memory and Indigineity by looking at the houses that the women in her family lived in the post-bellum South. Gardner currently lives in Minneapolis.
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/the-helis-foundation-lecture-regina-agu-in-conversation-with-tia-simone-gardner/
CATEGORIES:Artist Perspectives
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SUMMARY:Artist's Perspective: Photographer Lily Brooks discusses Tina Freeman: Lamentations
DESCRIPTION:Throughout the exhibition of photographs in Tina Freeman: Lamentations\, a seven-year photo-documentation of Louisiana’s wetlands and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic by Tina Freeman\, fellow artists\, including Lily Brooks\, will offer their perspective on the subject matter. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. \nABOUT LILY BROOKS\nLily Brooks is an instructor of photography at Southeastern Louisiana University. She received a BFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art + Design and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin. In her research\, Lily uses photography to describe systems and structures of control—personal\, political\, and environmental. Her ongoing series We Have to Count the Clouds traces the visual remnants of our relationship to weather and climate.. \nImage: 20140222_Dritvik_016 Ice along a stream\, western Iceland | 20130911_Louisiana_Deltas_270 Healthy marsh along the lower Mississippi River\, just west of South Pass by Tina Freeman.
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/artists-perspective-tina-freeman-lamentations-with-artist-lily-brooks/
CATEGORIES:Artist Perspectives
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SUMMARY:Artist's Perspective: Dawn DeDeaux discusses Tina Freeman: Lamentations
DESCRIPTION:Throughout the exhibition of photographs in Tina Freeman: Lamentations\, a seven-year photo-documentation of Louisiana’s wetlands and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic by Tina Freeman\, fellow artists\, including Dawn DeDeaux\, will offer their perspective on the subject matter. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. \nABOUT DAWN DEDEAUX\nNew Orleans-based artist Dawn DeDeaux has merged art with new technologies for decades to broaden art and audience engagement. Early works from the 1970s such as CB Radio Booths were works of mobility that travelled the communication systems and streets of underserved communities.  Mid-career works were large-scale installations and pioneering immersive\, synchronized media environments including Soul Shadows\, Women Eating\, and The Face of God that premiered at the 1996 Olympics.  Latter works\, including Project Mutants\, The Goddess Fortuna and The MotherShip Series\, are inspired by environmental challenges. DeDeaux will be the subject of a retrospective exhibition at NOMA in 2020. \nImage: 20140225_Jökulsárólon_069 Glacial lagoon in southern Iceland | 20140418_Avoca_Island_377 A healthy freshwater marsh near Morgan City by Tina Freeman.
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/artists-perspective-dawn-dedeaux-discusses-tina-freeman-lamentations/
CATEGORIES:Artist Perspectives
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190918T160000
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SUMMARY:Activation of Brève braises with artist Manon Bellet and Justin Peake
DESCRIPTION:In the installation Brève braises\, artist Manon Bellet affixes the charred remains of burned paper on the walls of the gallery in the exhibition Bodies of Knowledge. From these tattered remains\, she creates a script or musical score that runs across an entire length of a long white wall. Created in collaboration with musicians that Bellet invites to compose an accompanying musical score\, these burned fragments of paper have a graphic dynamism and rhythm that resembles that of improvisational music or impromptu speech. Over the course of her installation\, she allows these papers gradually drop to the floor\, encouraged by movement of air generated by the improvisational energy of bodies and instruments as the move through and activate the installation. \nMusician Justin Peake will participate in this activation. \nJustin Peake is an New Orleans-based drummer\, composer\, technologist\, visual artist and researcher. His music features acoustic and electronic elements including his own interactive software instruments. He produces music for dance as well as audio-visual installations. He is a graduate of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program\, where he focused on building new software for variably structured improvisation in performance. He has released music on the Moodgadget\, Ghostly International\, Ears & Eyes\, and Articulated Works labels.
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/activation-of-breves-braises-with-artist-menon-bellet-and-justin-peake/
CATEGORIES:Artist Perspectives
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190724T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190724T163000
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SUMMARY:You Are Here Photographer's Perspective with Abdul Aziz
DESCRIPTION:New Orleans-based photographer Abdul Aziz will discuss his connection to themes in the exhibition You Are Here: A Brief History of Photography and Place. Admission is free on Wednesdays to all Louisiana residents courtesy of The Helis Foundation. \nAziz is a freelance photojournalist\, filmmaker\, and serial entrepreneur. For nearly two decades\, he has worked to document conflict\, war\, social issues and culture spanning the globe from the Middle East and Africa to the far reaches of the Himalayas.  His photos have been published by opinion leading news agencies worldwide.  Most recently his work has focused on the rise of white nationalism in the United States and the removal of Confederate monuments in cities at the center of the debate\, such as New Orleans and Charlottesville. \nImage credit: Abdul Aziz\, Untitled\, 2009\, Courtesy of the artist \nGallery Talks in conjunction with You Are Here will conclude on Saturday\, July 27\, 3 pm\,with Mellon Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/you-are-here-photographers-perspective-with-abdul-aziz/
CATEGORIES:Artist Perspectives
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SUMMARY:Gallery Activation of Brève braises with artist Manon Bellet
DESCRIPTION:In the installation Brève braises\, on view in the exhibition Bodies of Knowledge\, artist Manon Bellet affixes the charred remains of burned paper upon the wall of a gallery. From these tattered remains\, she creates a script or musical score that runs across an entire length of a long white wall. Created in collaboration with musicians that Bellet invites to compose an accompanying musical score\, these burned fragments of paper have a graphic dynamism and rhythm that resembles that of improvisational music or impromptu speech. Over the course of her installation\, she allows these papers to gradually drop to the floor\, encouraged by movement of air generated by the improvisational energy of bodies and musical performances. \nMusicians from the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) will perform for this activation.
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/activation-of-breves-braises-with-artist-menon-bellet/
CATEGORIES:Artist Perspectives
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190717T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190717T150000
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SUMMARY:Gallery Activation for 168:01 with artist Wafaa Bilal
DESCRIPTION:Artist Wafaa Bilal will visit NOMA to interpret his interactive installation 168:01 in the exhibition Bodies of Knowledge. The work comprises a large bookshelf filled with blank\, white books which symbolizes the burning and looting of libraries in Baghdad during the 2003 American invasion of Iraq. Museum visitors are invited to transform the shelves from austere white to color by donating a book that will be shipped to the College of Fine Arts at the University of Baghdad at the closing of the exhibition. In exchange for a new book (for sale in the Museum Shop) visitors may take home one of the white volumes\, which are meant to serve as a reminder that across the globe many people are denied equal access to knowledge. \nWednesday admission is free to all Louisiana residents courtesy of The Helis Foundation. \nABOUT WAFAA BILAL\nIraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal\, an Associate Arts Professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts\, is known internationally for his on-line performative and interactive works provoking dialogue about international politics and internal dynamics. For his 2007 installation\, Domestic Tension\, Bilal spent a month in a Chicago gallery with a paintball gun that people could shoot at him over the Internet. The Chicago Tribune called it “one of the sharpest works of political art to be seen in a long time” and named him 2008 Artist of the Year. Bilal’s work is constantly informed by the experience of fleeing his homeland and existing simultaneously in two worlds—his home in the “comfort zone” of the U.S. and his consciousness of the ‘conflict zone’ in Iraq. Using his own body as a medium\, Bilal continued to challenge our comfort zone with projects like 3rdi and …and Counting. Bilal’s most recent body of work\, Canto III\, premiered in a solo booth at the New York Armory Show in 2015 and went on to be shown in the 2015 Venice Biennale. \nIn 2008 City Lights published Shoot an Iraqi: Art\, Life and Resistance Under the Gun\, about Bilal’s life and the Domestic Tension project. He holds a BFA from the University of New Mexico and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Photography\, Chicago; and the MATHAF: Arab Museum of Modern Art\, Doha\, Qatar.
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/gallery-activation-for-16801-with-artist-wafaa-bilal/
CATEGORIES:Artist Perspectives
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190619T130000
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SUMMARY:You Are Here Photographer's Perspective Talk with Monique Verdin
DESCRIPTION:Louisiana-based photographer Monique Verdin will discuss themes in You Are Here: A Brief History of Photography and Place. Admission is free on Wednesdays to all Louisiana residents courtesy of The Helis Foundation. \nVerdin is a filmmaker\, photographer\, and interdisciplinary storyteller who has intimately documented the complex interconnectedness of environment\, culture\, climate\, and change in southeast Louisiana. She is director of the Land Memory Bank & Seed Exchange and a former United Houma Nation Tribal Council member. She serves within the core leadership circle Another Gulf Is Possible Collaborative among brown (Indigenous\, Latinx and Desi) women\, from Texas to Florida\, working to envision just economies\, vibrant communities\, and sustainable ecologies in the Gulf South. Verdin’s film My Louisiana Love won Best Feature Documentary at the 2015 imagineNATIVE Film Festival. \nImage credit: Monique Verdin\, The Castle and the Chef Menteur\, 2017\, Courtesy of the artist \nAdditional talks by photographers represented in You Are Here will take place on the following dates: \nWednesday\, June 26\, 3 pm: Allison Beondé\nWednesday\, July 10\, 3 pm: Johnathon Traviesa\nWednesday\, July 24\, 3:30 pm: Abdul Aziz\nSaturday\, July 27\, 3 pm: Gallery Talk with Mellon Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/you-are-here-photographers-perspective-monique-verdin/
CATEGORIES:Artist Perspectives
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181212T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181212T150000
DTSTAMP:20260525T064944
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SUMMARY:Under Three Things\, a performance by artist Cristina Molina in Ear to the Ground exhibition
DESCRIPTION:At select intervals throughout the run of the exhibition Ear to the Ground: Earth and Element in Contemporary Art\, New Orleans-based artist Cristina Molina will host a series of intimate guided tours of the exhibition in which she will assume the perspective of the earth\, personified. \nDrawing upon cultural mythologies of the underworld\, Molina will guide museum visitors through a whispered exploration of the exhibition in which the different artworks in the exhibition constitute the topography of an imagined subterranean landscape. Inspired by the classical myth of Persephone\, who was doomed to spend a third of the year in the underworld\, Molina reimagines this mythological figure as an empowered goddess who harnesses the earth as a place of primordial cultural emergence. Spanning video installation\, performance\, photography\, sculpture and textile design\, Molina’s work privileges female protagonists to explore themes related to origins\, heritage\, and personal mythology\, and how they work in concert with natural and urban landscapes. \nAdmission to NOMA is free on Wednesdays for all Louisiana residents courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/under-three-things-a-performance-by-artist-cristina-molina-in-ear-to-the-ground-exhibition-3/
CATEGORIES:Artist Perspectives,Performances
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181209T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181209T163000
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CREATED:20181114T165924Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181206T170608Z
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SUMMARY:Lina Iris Viktor in Conversation with Renée Mussai
DESCRIPTION:Join Renée Mussai\, Senior Curator and Head of Curatorial\, Archive & Research at Autograph in London\, as she speaks with artist Lina Iris Viktor\, whose work is currently on view in the Great Hall in Lina Iris Viktor: A Haven. A Hell. A Dream Deferred. The lecture is free with museum admission. \nABOUT RENÉE MUSSAI\nRenée Mussai is Senior Curator and Head of Curatorial\, Archive and Research at Autograph\, a London-based international\, nonprofit photographic arts charity\, with a remit in photography and film addressing cultural identity\, race\, representation and human rights. A scholar-curator with a special interest in African\, Black European and diasporic lens-based practices\, Mussai publishes and lectures internationally on photography\, curatorial activism and cultural politics. \nSince 2009\, she has been a regular guest curator and former non-resident fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. She is presently a Research Associate in the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre\, University of Johannesburg\, and PhD candidate in Art History at University College London. She has curated numerous exhibitions in Europe\, Africa and the US \, including the critically acclaimed and internationally touring programmes and gallery installations\, Black Chronicles (2014 – 2018) and Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama\, Hail the Dark Lioness (2017 – 2020)\, currently touring the US. Her writing has appeared in artist monographs\, anthologies and journals such as Aperture\, and Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art.  Her publications include James Barnor: Ever Young (2015)\, Glyphs: Acts of Inscription (2014; with Ruti Talmor) and the forthcoming Black Chronicles (2018/19). \nABOUT LINA IRIS VIKTOR\nLina Iris Viktor is a conceptual artist\, performance artist\, and painter. She lives and works itinerantly between New York and London. \nThe multidisciplinary approach to her work\, which weaves disparate materials and methods belonging both to contemporary and ancient art forms calls into question the nature of time and being. Her works are a merging of photography\, performance\, abstract painting\, along with the ancient practice of gilding with 24-karat gold to create increasingly dark canvases embedded with “layers of light” in the form of symbols and intricate patterns. Viktor regards these dark canvases to be “light-works”. Each provoke a philosophical commentary through material that at once addresses the infinite and the finite\, immortality and mortality\, the microcosm and macrocosm\, in addition to the socio-political and historical preconceptions surrounding ‘blackness’ and its universal implications. \nViktor’s multi-disciplinary practice is informed by a background in film which she studied at Sarah Lawrence College\, and her continued studies within photography and design at The School of Visual Arts\, along with an education in performance arts during high school. Viktor creates her own mythology as a painter\, sculptor\, photographer\, and performance artist. \nViktor has exhibited at Harvard Art Museums and The Cooper Gallery\, Harvard University\, Boston; The Kentucky Museum of Arts & Craft\, Louisville; and Spelman Museum of Fine Art\, Spelman College\, Georgia. Viktor has engaged in critical talks\, panels & lectures at Smithsonian National Museum of African Art\, Harvard University\, New York University\, The Institute of Contemporary Arts (London)\, King’s College London\, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture\, Saint Louis Art Museum\, and Autograph ABP.
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/lina-iris-viktor-in-conversation-with-renee-mussai-exhibition-catalog-debut-and-signing/
CATEGORIES:Artist Perspectives
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180727T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180727T210000
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SUMMARY:Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by DJ Jess | Artist Perspective with L. Kasimu Harris | Screening of Mr. Cao Goes to Washington
DESCRIPTION:Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music\, movies\, children’s activities\, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm. \n\n5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table\n5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by DJ Jess\n6 pm: Artist Perspective with L. Kasimu Harris in Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories\n6 pm: Artful Palate cooking demonstration in Café NOMA\n7 pm: Picturing Us Film Series: Screening of Mr. Cao Goes to Washington\n\nABOUT DJ JESS\nAs a lover of all genres and eras of music\, New Orleans’ own DJ Jess sets an eclectic and energetic mood. \nABOUT ARTFUL PALATE COOKING DEMONSTRATIONS\nChefs of the Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group will demonstrate their own culinary masterpieces at Café NOMA’s “Artful Palate\,” the seventh annual summer cooking series featuring seven artfully inspired demonstrations at the New Orleans Museum of Art. \nIn conjunction with the launch of NOMA’s exhibition Changing Course: Reflecting on New Orleans Histories\, the talented executive chefs and sous chefs will share their culinary vision by commemorating the past and looking to the future by offering a contemporary twist on iconic New Orleans dishes. \nThis evening\, Chris Montero\, Café NOMA culinary curator and Napoleon House executive chef\, will prepare beignets. \nABOUT L. KASIMU HARRIS\nL. Kasimu Harris is a storyteller who uses writing\, photography and video to push the narrative. Images from his War on the Benighted series are a part of the group exhibition\, Changing Course: Reflection of New Orleans Histories.  War on the Benighted  is a narrative constructed reality series about New Orleans public school students who became frustrated with the inequalities in education; they rose up and began a quest to educate themselves. Their grievances include the school-to-prison pipeline\, emphasis on standardized testing\, and a diminishing arts curriculum. \nHarris is a New Orleans native who has participated in twenty group exhibitions across the US\, two abroad\, and three solo photography exhibitions. In 2015\, his work was exhibited in both The Rising and Louisiana Contemporary at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and garnered coverage in The New York Times and NPR. He also a featured artist in Dandy Lion (Re) Articulating Black Masculinity\, curated by Shantrelle P. Lewis\, a  traveling exhibition with the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago that has traveled to San Francisco\, Miami\, and London. \nABOUT MR. CAO GOES TO WASHINGTON\nMr. Cao Goes to Washington follows the journey of Rep. Joseph Cao\, the first Vietnamese American elected to the US Congress\, the only non-white House Republican of the 111th Congress\, and the only Republican to vote for President Obama’s Health Care Reform Bill. A former seminarian and an idealistic attorney from the small but well-respected Vietnamese-American neighborhood in New Orleans\, Anh “Joseph” Cao enters the political arena in  hoping to affect greater good. Having never won an election\, in 2009 Cao scores a stunning upset by unseating Rep. Bill Jefferson\, a nine-term incumbent mired in a bribery scandal\, to capture a Congressional seat in just his second run for public office. (2012 | Not rated | 1 hour\, 12 minutes) \nFriday Nights at NOMA is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation; and the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation and Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council.
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/friday-nights-at-noma-music-by-dj-jess-artist-perspective-with-l-kasimu-harris-screening-of-mr-cao-goes-to-washington/
CATEGORIES:Artist Perspectives,NOMA at Night
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