For more information, please visit the link below:
http://www.sandraburshell.com/default4.asp?WebsiteID=13063&theIF=%2Fud2%2Easp%3FWebsiteID%3D13063
NOMA FRIDAY NIGHTS
Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by The Roamin’ Jasmine
July 29 from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
This Friday night at NOMA, check out a cooking demonstration in Cafe NOMA, live music by The Roamin’ Jasmine, and a film screening on designers Ray and Charles Eames, whose work is featured in the current exhibition The Essence of Things – Design and the Art of Reduction: An Exhibition of the Vitra Design Museum.
- 5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot
- 5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by The Roamin’ Jasmine
- 6:30 pm: Artful Palate in Cafe NOMA: “Simplifying Sorbet” with Brett Gauthier, Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group corporate executive pastry chef
- 7:30 pm: Film: Eames: The Architect and the Painter
About The Roamin’ Jasmine
Forged out of the lively street music scene in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the members of Rhe Roamin’ Jasmine found one another busking under the swampy Louisiana sun, along the banks of the Mississippi, or after hours in storefronts on Royal, Frenchmen and Decatur Streets. Inspired by the city’s history of ethnic and musical diversity, and fresh out of music school at University of Miami, bassist, vocalist, and bandleader Taylor Smith began to collect some of his favorite old blues, jazz, and country tunes, while also composing some of his own songs. Arranging this collection for a six piece jazz ensemble and giving them a healthy dose of New Orleans flavor, he decided to share his work with some like-minded colleagues, and bring it to the streets of New Orleans. The Roamin’ Jasmine repertoire explores 1920’s era speakeasy blues, vintage calypso from Trinidad, seminal 1950’s New Orleans rhythm & blues, and original compositions, all set to traditional jazz instrumentation with original arrangements.
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 exhibits focus on the art and practice of minimalism. The 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.
The Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group is proud to operate Café NOMA, one of the “Best Museum Restaurants in America” according to Travel + Leisure and Food & Wine magazines. Artful Palate is held every Friday night at 6:30 pm from July 15 to September 9. It is free of charge and open on a first come, first served basis. Come early for an evening of enlightening art appreciation — in the very best of taste!
About Eames: The Architect and the Painter
The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames are widely regarded as America’s most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products, from splints for wounded military during World War II, to photography, interiors, multi-media exhibits, graphics, games, films and toys. But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life – from the development of modernism, to the rise of the computer age – has been less widely understood. Narrated by James Franco, Eames: The Architect and the Painter is the first film since their death dedicated to these creative geniuses and their work. (85 minutes)
Neighborly Art
Faubourg St. John neighbor Jeannie Detweiler has an art show through January 6th.
New art work, Sketches in Felt, up at Bao & Noodle Restaurant in the Marigny from Saturday, December 12 through Wednesday, January, 6.
Jeannie says, “This is my first solo exhibit in a while so I am very excited about it! ”
Bao & Noodle Hours:
Closed Sunday and Monday
11:30 am-2:00pm Lunch
5:00pm-10:00pm Dinner
Jeannie hopes to see you!
Neighbor Remembers
CAROL ROBINSON GALLERY
840 Napoleon Avenue New Orleans
continues to show my
KATRINA PHOTOGRPHY
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RESILIENCE 3
10th Anniversary of Katrina
Friday, August 28, 2015 7-10 pm
TEKREMA CENTER for ART & CULTURE
5640 Burgundy Street New Orleans, LA
Exhibit through September 14 (by appointment)
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Other Katrina photographs are also hanging at the
MAKE IT RIGHT FOUNDATION New Orleans
I have been recently posting my images and thoughts about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath at a time that is very bittersweet for many New Orleanians, ten years later. Media coverage at the time telecast the enormity of the tragedy, but I needed to relate to this disaster on a closer, more personal level, capturing the individual rather than the collective tragedy. I have always tried to find beauty and humanity in my surroundings; my challenge was to continue in this vein…By zooming in on the details, simple objects represented enormous loss – these images are universal, yet deeply personal. And there is beauty in them.
What struck me most when I entered the disaster zones was the sheer silence. I saw no people, no moving cars, no birds, no vegetation, no sound other than rustling debris. Mud was caked everywhere. Mud had quickly made its way up walls. The aftermath of cataclysmic upheavals of furniture and personal belongings was overwhelming. The guts were ripped from homes and lives. I felt that I was on a movie set depicting the death of a city. The wasteland seemingly had no beginning and no end.
Someone’s closet laid bare for all to see,,, a wedding picture found strewn in the dried mud….a neighbor’s window blinds bent by the forces of water…what was once a cherished sofa now finding its demise in a Katrina landfill….
I hope these images can present a part of New Orleans history. Such tragedies need to be surmounted but not forgotten.
Excerpt “Eye of the Storm”, photo-essay by Sandra Burshell, Louisiana Cultural Vista Magazine, Louisiana Endowment for the Arts, Fall, 2008
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My KATRINA images also were exhibited at the New Orleans Museum of Art, “Katrina Exposed”, 2006
New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, “Response to Katrina”, 2006
appeared in WHERE WE KNOW: NEW ORLEANS AS HOME, Chin Music Press, 2010
NEW ORLEANS BY NEW ORLEANS, compiled by Smolar/Potucek, 2012
A selection of my KATRINA images can also be viewed on my website.
sandra burshell
Community Invited to Funnel Tunnel
Faubourg St. John neighbor Sarah Hess wrote that she and her children were able to work with Patrick (an artist from Houston) on the Funnel Tunnel located on Poydras by the Claiborne overpass.
Sarah says you too can enjoy the opportunity to take part in a public art project by showing up at 10 a.m. on Poydras by the Claiborne overpass. More lath is needed to complete the project and, with your help, the project will be completed today.
What: FUNNEL TUNNEL
Where: On Poydras at the Claiborne overpass.
When: 10 a.m. until, Saturday, June 20th
Who: You and all your friends!
More info at:
http://canalstreetbeat.com/check-out-funnel-tunnel-a-large-new-sculpture-coming-to-poydras-street/
Sculpture for New Orleans applied with the city’s Design Advisory Committee earlier this month to install a rather large and unique sculpture called “Funnel Tunnel”. The sculpture is approximately 180 feet long and is composed of lots of reclaimed parts.
“Sculpture for New Orleans” is an on-going sculpture exhibition placing monumental sculptures throughout New Orleans, from the well-traveled areas of Downtown, Uptown and the Garden District to City Park and the New Orleans Museum of Art. The Central Business District will be the starting point of the exhibition with James Surls’ monumental bronze and stainless steel sculpture, “Me, Knife, Diamond and Flower” in front of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
The concept of the project is to bring national and international attention to the visual arts and the artists of post-Katrina New Orleans. With the support of an international field of artists, the sculpture exhibition will give local artists a chance to assist and install artwork, as well as the opportunity to network with the visiting artists. In addition, the show will give the local artists a much-needed support structure. Plans are in place for artists to lecture at local universities, including University of New Orleans, Tulane and Xavier.
Funnel Tunnel will be located on the block of Poydras directly north of Claiborne. Here’s a street view of the particular block now:
More info at:
http://canalstreetbeat.com/check-out-funnel-tunnel-a-large-new-sculpture-coming-to-poydras-street/
Neighborhood Artist in Drawing Show
Medium Density can be seen at Staple Goods gallery on St. Claude – an artist collective of which Scott is a member. The show assembles 30 works on paper by 16 renowned New Orleans artists, including abstract and figurative pieces from very small to very large, some framed, some not, providing a wide selection for local collectors at reasonable cost.
Located two blocks from the new St. Roch Market, a visit to the gallery could be accompanied by a plate of oysters and an artisanal cocktail.
Staple Goods is located at 1340 St. Roch Avenue. Staple Goods is open Saturdays and Sundays 12-5.
Medium Density is on view through July 5 (the gallery will be closed July 4).
Staple Goods is a collective of artists with a gallery in the St. Claude Arts District. Their diverse membership includes painters, sculptors, ceramic artists, photographers, printmakers, videographers and an architect dedicated to innovative programming of contemporary art. In addition to showing their members’ work, Staple Goods showcases selected artists from locations outside New Orleans as well as themed local shows. Staple Goods is proud of their location within the close-knit St. Roch neighborhood. Staple Goods strives to have programming that reflects collaboration with the community.
Staple Goods
1340 St. Roch Ave, New Orleans, LA 70117
(504) 908-7331
www.postmedium.org/staplegoods
staplegoodsnola@gmail.com
Bodacious on the Bayou
The Bayou Boogaloo will take place on the banks of Bayou St. John May 15, 16 and 17, 2015.
Music, art, food and lots of fun.
It’s a bodacious party you don’t want to miss.
Get a daiquiri at the Bayou Daiquiris booth manned by your Faubourg St. John neighbors!
The Bayou Boogaloo connects neighbors, neighborhoods, and businesses while celebrating the heritage, culture, and diversity of New Orleans.
From NOLA.com:
Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo 2015
Admission: Free
Music: The 2015 Bayou Boogaloo will feature Terrance Simien & the Zydeco Express, hip-hop producer Mannie Fresh, the New Orleans Suspects, modern rock band Rotary Downs and scores of well-regarded New Orleans bands. For a complete, stage-by-stage schedule, see below.
Food: The 2015 festival hosts 26 food vendors, ranging from such noted restaurants as Boucherie, Praline Connection and Ralph’s on The Park to a contingent of well-known food truck purveyors: Crepes a la Carte and Woody’s Fish Tacos, among others.
Arts Market: The 2015 festival will showcase 64 area artists and craft workers in tented booths. Look for jewelry, hats, handmade soap, glass objects and much more.
Parking: Bayou Boogaloo is working with Deutsches Haus, 1700 Moss St., which is selling off site parking to festival visitors. A three-day parking pass is $25; daily parking is $10. Reservations are recommended and must be made online through the event website. Payment is through Eventbrite: Fees apply. One can also pay for parking at the gate on a first-come, first-served basis. Bayou Boogaloo will provide a free shuttle between the Deutsches Haus parking area and the festival grounds. Bayou Boogaloo is still seeking to confirm additional off-street parking at The Cannery, 3803 Toulouse St. Watch the festival website for details about hours, prices and purchase options.
2015 Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo Music Schedule:
FRIDAY, MAY 15
Positive Vibrations Stage (Orleans Avenue)
Dave Jordan & Neighborhood Improvement Association, 5 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
Mannie Fresh, 6:30 p.m.-7:20 p.m.
MotherShip Foundation Stage (Dumaine Street)
Pontchartrain Wrecks, 5 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
Alexandra Scott & Her Magical Band, 6:45 p.m.-8:15 p.m.
SATURDAY, MAY 16
Positive Vibrations Stage (Orleans Avenue)
Soul Creole, 12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Wild Magnolias, 2:45 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Tony Hall & Friends, 5:15 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
New Orleans Suspects, 7:45 p.m. – 9:15 p.m.
MotherShip Foundation Stage (Dumaine Street)
Ecirb Muller’s Twisted Dixie, 11 a.m – 12:05 p.m.
Davis Rogan, 12:35 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Pirates Choice, 2:15 p.m. – 3:25 p.m.
Funky Dawgz Brass Band, 3:55 p.m. – 5:05 p.m.
Yojimbo, 5:35 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.
Kristin Diable, 7:15 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Abita Stage (Lafitte Street)
Bantam Foxes, 11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Kevin Stylez, 1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Erica Falls, 4 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Woodenhead, 6:30 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.
SUNDAY, MAY 17
Positive Vibrations Stage (Orleans Street)
Papa Mali, 12 p.m. – 1:10 p.m.
Mike Dillon’s Punk Rock Percussion Consortium, 2:20 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
101 Runners, 4:40 p.m. – 5:50 p.m.
Ivan Neville’s Dumstaphunk, 7 p.m – 8:30 p.m.
MotherShip Foundation Stage (Dumaine Street)
Chicago Children’s Choir, 11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Meschiya Lake and Tom McDermott, 12:45 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Chrisitan Serpas & Ghost Town, 2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
N’awlins Johnny’s, 4:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Rotary Downs, 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Abita Stage (Lafitte Street)
Bhakti Caravan, 11 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Kim Carson, 1:10 p.m. – 2:20 p.m.
Colin Lake, 3:30 p.m. – 4:40 p.m.
To Be Continued Brass Band, 5:50 p.m. – 7 p.m.
http://www.thebayouboogaloo.com/shop
The official 2015 Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo Festival poster artist is Becky Fos. This is the official commissioned piece, now available for pre-order on www.TheBayouBoogaloo.com. Get that 10th annual poster now before they sell out!
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Bicycle Pub Crawl May 16th
- 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM: REGISTRATION AT “THE BANKS STREET BAR & GRILL” 4401 BANKS ST
- 9:45 AM – 10:30 AM: 2ND STOP. “LIUZZA’S BY THE TRACK” 1518 N LOPEZ ST
- 10:35 AM – 11:20 AM: 3RD STOP. “PAGODA CAFE” 1430 N DORGENOIS ST
- 11:25 AM – 12:10 PM: 4TH STOP. “OOH POO PAH DOO BAR” 1931 ORLEANS AVE
- 12:15 PM – 1:00 PM. 5TH STOP. “THE BROAD THEATER” 636 N BROAD ST
- 1:05 PM – 1:50 PM: 6TH STOP. “ZULU SOCIAL AID AND PLEASURE CLUB” 732 N BROAD ST
- 2:00 PM: LAST STOP. “BAYOU BOOGALOO FESTIVAL“
Mid-City Volleyball Group is planning another outrageous bicycle pub crawl in association with the Bayou Boogaloo. This is the seventh year of a Saturday morning pub crawl to get primed for the Bayou Boogaloo. It’s a joint fundraiser for Mid-City Volleyball Group and the MotherShip Foundation with a suggested donation of $20.00. You’ll have to buy your own drinks at most, but not all, stops, and you’ll get a little swag at one of the stops. Please sign up for this fun-filled event at their website so they can get an accurate head count: www.midcityvolleyball.org.
Friday Nights at NOMA
FRIDAY NIGHTS AT NOMA: LECTURE WITH GREY GUNDAKER, POETRY SLAM, AND MORE
5-9 p.m. April 17, 2015
Tonight, Grey Gundaker gives a lecture in the Stern Auditorium: “Ancestors, Remembrance, and Moral Force: Flashes of Spirit in Burial and Residential Settings.” Enjoy live performances by N’Kafu Traditional African Dance Company, plus NOMA has free art activities, a cash bar, and of course, great art!
*5-8 p.m.: Art on the Spot
*5-6, 7-8 p.m.: Music by N’Kafu Traditional African Dance Company
*6 p.m.: Lecture by Grey Gundaker, Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at William and Mary College
*6 p.m.: Youth Poetry Slam Open Mic
*7 p.m.: Poetry Slam hosted by Slam New Orleans
About N’Kafu Traditional African Dance Company
N’Kafu Traditional African Dance Company was founded by Mariama Curry out of the pure love and passion of African traditions. N’Kafu is dedicated to the research, historical documentation, preservation, presentation, and promotion of African folklore. Mariama has taught and performed in New Orleans area schools for over 20 years. Her company performs annually for events throughout the state.
About Slam New Orleans
Slam New Orleans is a spoken word grass root initiative whose goal is to promote spoken word and slam poetry competitions to all ages, genders and races. Founded in 2008 by a group of local poets that believed that this medium of expression could save lives, and wanted New Orleans to be represented nationally, because they were not since hurricane Katrina in 2005. Each year Slam New Orleans organizes a team of adult poets, named Team S.N.O. to go to regional and national poetry competitions to represent the New Orleans poetry scene. Since its inception, Team S.N.O. has won three national poetry slam titles, placed second at the Southern Fried Poetry Slam in 2010 and 2012, and third place at Southwest Shoot Out Poetry Slam and 3rd at the National Poetry Slam 2014.
About Grey Gundaker
Grey Gundaker is Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of American Studies and professor of Anthropology at the College of William & Mary. She began studying and writing about African American religious and philosophical knowledge that informs designed landscapes, burial and ancestral tributes, and the arts 25 years ago, while a graduate student at Yale, where she worked with the anthropologist John Szwed and art historian Robbert Farris Thompson. Her publications include numerous articles and the books Signs of Diaspora/Diaspora of Signs: Literacies, Creolization and Vernacular Practice in African America, Keep Your Head to the Sky: Interpreting African American Home Ground, and with co-author Judith McWillie, No Space Hidden: The Spirit of African American Yard Work.
Ancestors, Remembrance, and Moral Force: Flashes of Spirit in Burial and Residential Settings
In the African Diaspora legacies of Kongo join the traditions of other peoples and American Christianity in a rich repertoire of commemorative symbols and practices that show respect for those who have transitioned recently and in the more distant past. For many African peoples rights in land were demonstrated by material signs showing ancestral connections to the landscape. When groups migrated they planted these signs in new terrain. For African Americans enslaved in the United States, it remained essential to show respect for the dead, but it was especially important to transcend the rupture of the Middle Passage by asserting rights in a new and hostile surroundings. This talk follows a transatlantic thread which links flashing and white substances with transition across water and continuing spiritual presence in the world of the living, showing how these signs move back and forth between burial and home landscapes of commemoration.
Plan to Attend The Bayou Boogaloo May 15, 16, 17 in 2015
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Neighbor Shows Art
WHO: Sandra Burshell
WHAT: Art Opening Reception
SHOW TITLE: Transcendence (Works in Pastel)
WHERE: Carol Robinson Gallery
WHEN: Saturday, November 1, 2014 6-8 pm
ADDRESS: 840 Napoleon Avenue New Orleans, LA 70115
SHOW DURATION: Nov. 1-29
WALK-THRU with the artist: Saturday, November 15 1-2 pm
GALLERY PHONE: 504-895-6130
BODY OF WORK THEME: Light and how it can fill environments and create atmosphere at certain times….Inspiration from local venues, others from Italy, Greece, other travel where there is a great combination of light, atmosphere, and character in architecture! Light is everything!
Creole Master Craftsmen
Reviving the Tradition of the Creole Master CRAFTSMEN
By Sharon Litwin at nolavie.com
Master Plasterer Jeff Poree, NOMCG President Jonn Hankins, Master Blacksmith Darryl Reeves.
Over a decade ago when Jonn Hankins worked at the New Orleans Museum of Art, he helped to organize an extraordinary exhibition called Raised to the Trades: Creole Building Arts of New Orleans. Its focus was on the craftsmen and artisan families who were the original builders of so many of this city’s magnificent houses. But more than that, it was an eloquent and poignant look at those still working in the building trades.
As the years have gone by, the number of skilled master craftsman has gotten smaller and smaller. For Jonn, who moved on from NOMA to a number of other positions around the city, it is a worry since he has never lost his admiration for the skill of those few master craftsmen remaining. So he has created the New Orleans Master Crafts Guild in order to pass along the knowledge of New Orleans’ still-living artisans. Its beginnings are modest and small.
“We’re going to start with the two trades most identifiably related to New Orleans: ironwork and plastering,” he says. “There is generation upon generation of expertise still existing. And, more importantly, they are both the most threatened.”
But who really needs these old-fashioned trades in this day and age anyway? After all, the construction needs of many of today’s houses, modest or McMansions, can be met through the vast and affordable inventories of this country’s big box home-building stores.
Jonn says there definitely is still a need for individual craftsmen and artisans here. For, he explains, unlike other older communities with historic areas in defined compact sections – Charleston and Savannah, for example – we are blessed with an extraordinary number of centuries-old properties throughout the entire Crescent City.
“As long as they are around there will always be a need for ironwork repair, as well as outdoor columns and ceiling medallions,” he says. “So the most important thing is to bring in younger people not yet in those trades and to develop more skills in those already in the trades so they can become masters. We need to have a trained community who know how to maintain our housing stock.”
And, he adds, this trained community can also become the hub for an industry that can be exported. Not only are there other cities in need of such craftsmen skills, there are other countries, too. Take the case of a young Englishman who had not only discovered the joys of living in New Orleans, but had also expanded on his own skills as an historic building’s craftsman by observing that was occurring here. He was recently wooed back to his homeland to work on restoring a 17th century manor house there.
In the coming months, NolaVie will focus on the skills and philosophies of our city’s remaining revered master craftsmen. In the meantime, for more information on the New Orleans Master Crafts Guild and its soon-to-be incubation center in the 7th Ward Community Center on the site of the former Corpus Christi School, contact info@nomcg.org.
Thanks Tommy!
photo courtesy http://cvunola.org
Artist Lindsey Postaski works on her artwork on the utility box on the neutral ground at Orleans and Moss.
This art was made possible by neighbor Tommy Crane who donated $1,000 to make this happen here and on the utility box at Banks and Jeff Davis. Thanks Tommy!
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Click on the photos below by Charlie London for a larger view.
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