January 10, 2018
In honor of the city’s tricentennial year, Fallen Fruit is teaming with local individuals, organizations, and the city park department to plant 300 citrus trees in New Orleans public areas throughout 2018. David Burns and Austin Young, co-founders of… Read More
December 15, 2017
Fallen Fruit’s citywide project is designed to open conversations and provide local communities with free homegrown fruit. One particular aspect of the project is to give the Tulane University community the opportunity to adopt a free fruit tree. “New Orleans is… Read More
December 12, 2017
Jeff Whetstone’s film “The Batture Ritual,” 2017, currently on view at UNO St. Claude Gallery, 2429 St. Claude Ave., New Orleans, can be considered a portrait of the Mississippi River. Historically portraits have offered a narrowed or focused perspective on… Read More
November 7, 2017
An adventure in the woods awaits as FORESTival kicks off its 7th celebration of art and nature at A Studio in the Woods in lower Algiers. Click here for full recording. Read More
November 6, 2017
The seventh annual FORESTival, a fundraiser for A Studio in the Woods, takes place Saturday, Nov. 11, with new and returning events. “It’s a lovely day in the woods outside of the city, and that appeals to a lot of… Read More
October 2, 2017
David Sullivan’s Fugitive Emissions is an abstract animation inspired by the effects of air and water pollution prevalent in our chemical corridor. You may think that you know everything about art, but how much do you know about non-traditional forms of art? You… Read More
June 16, 2017
Sarah Dahnke’s Dances for Solidarity is an ongoing, community-based performance choreographed by incarcerated people in solitary confinement, borrowing from the personal narratives of 50 people in prison in Texas and Louisiana. In 2015, New York-based choreographer and cultural activist Sarah… Read More
May 23, 2017
Esther Solondz, a past Flint & Steel Resident, designed and installed The Bee Palace to house solitary bees at the Audubon Zoo. Artist Joseph Beuys famously declared that “every man is an artist,” and that “even the act of peeling a… Read More
April 27, 2017
David Benedetto sits down with A Studio In The Woods’ Managing Director Ama Rogan and Board of Director’s member Ben Morris to talk about the project and their Writer’s Cabin initiative. Click here for the full interview. Read More
November 7, 2016
2016 Flint & Steel Resident, Jebney Lewis, along with Rick Snow and Christopher Staudinger created Songs of Home Songs of Change which raises questions about authorship, collaboration, and community involvement. Songs of Home Songs of Change is a map of New… Read More