Image courtesy of the L9 Center for the Arts.
Last night's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer featured a report by Jeffry Brown about art in today's New Orleans and after watching it, my boyfriend and I started thinking it would be a good idea to travel and check it out.
The show profiled artists such as New Orleans native Willie Birch and photographer Deborah Luster, in addition to the L9 Center for the Arts and the city-wide art exhibition Prospect.1.
Going Home by artist Willie Birch courtesy of the blog Newsgrist.
L9 Center for the Arts was started by artists Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick who have been documenting the city of New Orleans for 30 years through their work, according to NewsHour. In the report Calhoun said, "We see this space as a light for the community. What we're doing here in L9, as artists, we take in our space. We have art. We've got painters coming in. We have photographers, filmmakers, people who just want to come and help. So we're going to make sure that we have a space that's vibrant in the community."
Prospect.1 image courtesy of their website.
The phenomenal exhibition Prospect.1 is taking place at venues throughout the city including Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) The Edgar Degas Foundation, Hefler Warehouse and Common Ground Relief. The show features an impressive list of international artists such as Nari Ward, Wangechi Mutu, Jose Damasceno, Isaac Julien, Tatsuo Miyajima, Ghada Amer, Takashi Horisaki and one of my personal favorites El Anatsui.
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