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Kina B. Joshua
Radical Healer, 2021, Louisiana
Radical healing is a nonlinear approach requiring commitment and heartful action through practices that are often not shared in our current health system. As a Radical Healer, Kina B. Joshua incorporates her scientific knowledge of the human body, art, dance, meditation…
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Kristina Kay Robinson
Literary Artist, 2021, Louisiana
Kristina Kay Robinson is a writer, curator, and visual artist born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her ongoing installation and performance art project, Republica: Temple of Color and Sound has been presented in exhibition at “Welcome to the Afrofuture”…
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Claire Alexandre
Visual Artist, 2021, North Carolina
Claire Alexandre will create a series of mixed-media painted portraits of folks of color at the community forefront of New Orleans’ climate change adaptation actions. The six portraits will be symbolic of modern academic research paper paragraphs (introduction, hypothesis, methods,…
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Sidiki Conde
Performing Artist, 2021, New York
Sidiki Conde will use his residency to immerse himself in the culture, nature and music of the region and compose a series of songs about the rising crisis of climate change. Within the New Orleans community, he will host a…
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Lisa E. Harris
Interdisciplinary Artist, 2021, Texas
Lisa E. Harris’ residency will support the regional development of an international research project, ONSHORE TRILLING: What to Do When the Earth Sings the Bruise, by affording opportunities for mutual creative exchange between Harris and the Women of Cancer Alley and Rise…
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LaChaun Moore
Visual Artist, 2021, South Carolina
LaChaun Moore will create an agriculturally-based installation titled Heirloom utilizing heirloom plants as a catalyst to talk about the historical context of the natural environment and how that differs from ancestral and familial ties. LaChaun Moore is an interdisciplinary artist who…
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Lydia Y. Nichols
Literary Artist, 2020-21, Louisiana
Lydia Y. Nichols will continue work on a speculative dark comedy stage play titled Don’t Look Away, set at the turn of the 22nd century in a post-reparations Gulf South, following a climate event that results in the disappearance of…
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J.M. Nimocks
Anti-Disciplinary Artist, 2021, Illinois
J.M. Nimocks, madame joy ma, will produce a public radio show that illuminates the work of QTBIPOC healers/organizers of southern Louisiana who work with the earth. They will also organize a kiki ball centered around the theme of QTBIPOC cultural…
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Andrina Turenne
Performing Artist, 2021, Canada
Andrina Turenne will use her residency to explore Indigenous and local perspectives on water, language and land through music, past and present, as it relates to climate and landscape. In doing research, exploring geographic and cultural throughlines, and speaking with…
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Wendy Gaudin
Literary Artist, 2021, Louisiana
Wendy Gaudin is an essayist, a beadworker, a poet, an American historian, and the proud descendant of Louisiana Creoles who migrated to California. Her nonfiction writing delves into the themes of race and belonging, skin color and ancestry, colonialism and…
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Ra Malika Imhotep
Literary Artist, 2021, Louisiana
Ra Malika Imhotep is a Black feminist writer and performance artist from Atlanta, Georgia deeply invested in Black storytellin’ practices and the ways our bodies make sense of language. As co-convener of an embodied spiritual-political education project called The Church…
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Christopher Dunn
Scholar, 2021, Louisiana
Christopher Dunn received his Ph.D. in Luso-Brazilian Studies from Brown University in 1996, the same year he joined the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane University. He holds a joint appointment with the African and African Diaspora Studies Program…
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Loren Gragert
Scholar, 2021, Louisiana
An Assistant Professor in the School of Medicine, Dr. Loren Gragert received his PhD in Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology from the University of Minnesota in 2014. He was a bioinformatics scientist at National Marrow Donor Program / Be The…
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Mia L. Bagneris
Scholar, 2021, Louisiana
Associate Professor Mia L. Bagneris teaches African diaspora art history and studies of race in Western Art. She is also Director of the Africana Studies Program. Concentrating primarily on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and American art and visual culture, much…
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Michelle Kohler
Scholar, 2021, Louisiana
Michelle Kohler is an Associate Professor of English with research and teaching interests in 19th-century American literature, poetry and poetics, and environmental studies. She is author of Miles of Stare: Transcendentalism and the Problem of Literary Vision in Nineteenth-Century America…
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Anya Groner
Literary Artist, 2021, Louisiana
Anya Groner plans to use this residency to continue work on a novel. Set in Louisiana between 1911-1927, the narrative follows Simone Walsh, an Irish-American teenager living in New Orleans who is diagnosed with leprosy and sent upriver to Carville,…
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Jarrell Hamilton
Performing Artist, 2021, Louisiana
Jarrell Hamilton is a Mother, Choreographer, Actress, Singer, Dancer, Educator and Film Director. A graduate of Tulane University Theatre and Dance Department Master of Fine Arts Interdisciplinary Dance Program (Choreography and African-American Studies) and Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX,…
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Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Literary Artist, 2021, Louisiana
Maurice Carlos Ruffin is the author of We Cast a Shadow, which was published by One World Random House. The novel was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the PEN America Open Book Prize.…
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Pippin Frisbie-Calder
Visual Artist, 2015 and 2020, Louisiana
Working with Tim McLean, Pippin Frisbie-Calder rendered microscopic phytoplankton in large-scale prints and real-time projections to demonstrate their importance and build awareness of wetland microorganisms in our ecology. Spending hours canoeing and collecting phytoplankton together, the two discovered their mutual…
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Jeffery Darensbourg
Literary Artist, 2020, Louisiana
Jeffery Darensbourg is interested in the knowledge of flora, fauna, and people his Atakapa-Ishak ancestors carried with them and wishes to connect this sort of Louisiana-specific knowledge to the knowledge urban Natives such as himself have in negotiating Indigeneity, within…
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Nick Slie
Performing Artist, 2020, Louisiana
While in residence, Nick will embark on “Invisible Rivers,” a series of performances and public walks that seek to re-engage citizens with the wisdom of adaptation and uncertainty inherent in the once wild paths of the Mississippi River. “Invisible Rivers”…
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Brandon Ballengée
Artist, biologist and educator, 2020, Louisiana
Through participatory art and science, Searching for Ghosts of the Gulf will explore missing species from the Gulf of Mexico in collaboration with Plaquemines Parish coastal communities that are themselves endangered. Ballengée will work with ‘at risk’ coastal populations with…
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Dovile Vilda
Scholar, 2020, Louisiana
Dovile Vilda’s academic and research background is in social policy analysis and child/youth research, and her current work examines the role of state-level policies and other social determinants on maternal and child health. She received a Ph.D. in Child &…
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Karen E Goulet
Visual Artist, 2020, Minnesota
Karen E Goulet, White Earth Ojibwe Nation/Métis – Artist, writer, community organizer, educator, daughter, mother, sister Karen E Goulet is an enrolled member of the White Earth Ojibwe Nation. She is also from Métis, Saami, and Finnish people. She was…
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José Sánchez Vera
Scholar, 2020, Louisiana
José Sánchez Vera is a Ph.D. Candidate at Tulane University’s Spanish and Portuguese Department. His research focuses on contemporary Mexican and Central American Literature taking the interdisciplinary point of view of ecocriticism. His dissertation explores how Mexico City’s ecological crisis…
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AnnieLaurie Erickson
Visual Artist and Scholar, 2020, Lousiana
AnnieLaurie Erickson is an Associate Professor and the head of photography in the Newcomb Art Department of Tulane. Her work explores how science can combine with artistic creation to probe social and environmental issues in the Gulf South through the…
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Jenny Mercein
Scholar, 2020, Louisiana
Jenny Mercein is an actor, teacher, writer, and director. A member of Actors Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA, Jenny’s acting credits span theater, film, and television. Along with KJ Sanchez, Jenny is the co-creator of the acclaimed docudrama X’s and O’s…
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Tiona Nekkia McClodden
Visual Artist, 2020, Pennsylvania
Tiona Nekkia McClodden [she/her] is a visual artist, filmmaker, and curator whose work often employs a citational practice exploring and critiquing issues at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and social commentary. Her interdisciplinary approach traverses documentary film, experimental video,…
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Benjamin Aleshire
Literary Artist, 2020, Louisiana
Benjamin Aleshire is a poet who for many years has made a living by composing poems for strangers on a manual typewriter – on Royal Street in the French Quarter, as well as in Paris, Havana, Madrid, New York, London,…
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Saheli Khastagir
Literary Artist, 2020, Louisiana
Saheli Khastagir is a painter, writer & development professional from India, living in New Orleans. One third of her days are spent providing professional service in monitoring and evaluation, technical writing and research for programs spanning gender, education, health, labor,…
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Su Prevost
Literary Artist, 2020, Louisiana
Su Prevost is a climate activist, teacher, writer, and South Louisiana water baby whose creative writing process incorporates nature’s turmoil, subtleties, and all the beauty of home into narratives that highlight her formative challenges for survival. She utilizes regional and…
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Leon August Waters
Literary Artist, 2020, Louisiana
Leon August Waters is a New Orleans native, historian, publisher and social activist. Waters attended Xavier University for Business Administration and graduated from St. Augustine High School. He serves as the Board Chairperson of the Louisiana Museum of African American History…
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Robin Bartram
Scholar, 2020, Louisiana
Robin Bartram is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Tulane University. Bartram’s research focuses on cities, regulations, housing, and inequality. While in residence she worked on a book manuscript, Cities of Stacked Decks: Code Enforcement, Inequality, and Frontline Justice which…
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Alexander Burin
Scholar, 2020, Louisiana
A professor in the School of Science and Engineering, Alexander Burin’s research is in three areas of theoretical physical chemistry. The first area involves collaborative investigation of charge and exciton transport in DNA affected by the environment (solvent), charge-induced molecular…
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Arianna King
Scholar, 2020, Louisiana
Arianna King is an RPCV, recent Fulbright alumna, and current doctoral candidate in Tulane’s interdisciplinary City, Culture, and Community Doctoral Program. She has recently returned from a year of ethnographic fieldwork in Cape Coast, Ghana and will be using her…
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Haley Peele
Scholar, 2020, Louisiana
Haley Peele, M.A., M.S. is a doctoral student in school psychology at Tulane University. Her research interests include social justice oriented, strengths based interventions to disrupt the disproportionate discipline and incarceration of Black individuals and improve familial relationships. She recently…
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Ann Yoachim
Scholar, 2020, Louisiana
Ann Yoachim is a Professor of Practice at the Tulane School of Architecture and the Director of the Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design. Her research and practice focusses on the intersections of built, natural, and socially constructed…
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Laura Rosanne Adderley
Scholar, 2020, Louisiana
An Associate Professor of history in the School of Liberal Arts, Laura Rosanne Adderley is primarily a historian of Black experience in the Americas during the years of slavery, but is also broadly interested in African-American history, Caribbean history and…
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Andrew McDowell
Scholar, 2020, Louisiana
An Assistant Professor in the School of Liberal Arts, Andrew McDowell is a medical anthropologist specializing in the social worlds of tuberculosis (TB) and TB care in India. His project combines an interest in entanglements of social, bacterial, and technical…
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Larkin Page
Scholar, 2020, Louisiana
Dr. Larkin Page, Associate Professor/Researcher, Division of Education-Xavier University of Louisiana, holds a Ph.D. in Reading/Literacy. He is a former elementary school teacher in diverse urban settings. These experiences contribute to his research interests that in the context of Literacy/Reading…
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Ross Louis
Scholar, 2020, Louisiana
Ross Louis is a performance scholar/artist who works as a Professor of Performance Studies and co-director of the Performance Studies Lab at Xavier University of Louisiana. In 2019, he was a faculty in residence at the Université de Lyon 3…
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Riley Moran
Scholar, 2020, Louisiana
Riley Moran is a Floridian, a student at Tulane University, and the recipient of the 2020-21 English Department Graduating Senior Retreat at A Studio in the Woods. Her senior thesis is on the subversive political strategies of women writing the…
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David L. Harris
Performing Artist, 2020, Louisiana
David L. Harris is lyricist, vocalist, trombonist, composer and arranger. Harris embodies the edge of modern jazz and the sultriness of blues taking his audiences on an emotionally engaging journey of love and liberation, wrapped in a sound that embraces…
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Christine “Cfreedom” Brown
Visual Artist, 2020, Louisiana
Christine Brown (aka Cfreedom) is a New Orleans artist, activist, and entrepreneur. Her instagram bio reads “a Nola-based, international, universal, queen-yeyo, photographer-filmmaker kickin in the door for young black women in film and photography to come through 2”. She is…
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Greer Mendy
Literary and Performing Artist, 2020, Louisiana
Greer Mendy founded and directs Tekrema Center for Art and Culture, a cultural arts organization dedicated to the maintenance, development and perseverance of African and African Diaspora art and culture. She is an independent scholar of African, Caribbean, and Louisiana…
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Ash Arder
Transdisciplinary Artist, 2019, Michigan
Ash Arder is a transdisciplinary artist who creates idea and object-based systems for interpreting and re-imagining interspecies relations (i.e. relations between humans and plants). This highly flexible, research-based approach examines these relationships primarily through pop culture and historic lenses. Arder’s…
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Geraldine Laurendeau
Multidisciplinary Artist, 2019, Canada
Geraldine Laurendeau is a multidisciplinary artist from Montreal (Canada). She has a background in Fine Arts, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Studies. She’s also a trained ethnologist and collaborates with First Nations, museums and research institutions as an independent curator, designer…
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Hannah Pepper-Cunningham
Performing Artist, 2019, Louisiana
Hannah Pepper-Cunningham has been creating performance work in New Orleans since 2009. A member of Mondo Bizarro from 2009-2018, Hannah served as co-artistic director of training programs and collaboratively developed and performed in “Cry You One” and “The Way at Midnight.”…
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Marcia Glass
Scholar, 2019, Louisiana
Glass used her time in residence to create a year-long curriculum in palliative care, finish editing her book with Oxford University Press, Palliative Care in Crisis Areas, publish a blog story, work on pieces for her blog on the opioid…
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Jeffrey Tasker
Scholar, 2019, Louisiana
A professor of neuroscience, Jeffrey Tasker will use his time in residence to write a major review article focusing on rapid signaling mechanisms of a novel membrane glucocorticoid receptor and its role in affective disorders of the brain. The Tasker lab uses…
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Ladee Hubbard
Writer, 2019-20, Louisiana
Ladee Hubbard has been named the second Gulf South Writer in the Woods, to be in residence for a total of six weeks spread out over 2019 and 2020. During the residency, Hubbard will be revising her novel, The Rib King.…
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kai barrow
Visual and Performing Artist, Louisiana, 2019-20
While in residence, kai barrow will continue work on “A CHORUS OF OUTLAWS,” a multimedia assemblage of ‘singing’ sculptures. The work features the recorded voices, ecologies, and sounds of historic and contemporary refugees, fugitives, abolitionists, and nomads—people who demonstrate radical…
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Margaret Pearce
Cartographer, 2019, Maine
Margaret Pearce (Citizen Band Potawatomi), will continue research for “Mississippi Dialogues,” a three-year project to map public opinion about flooding into an Indigenized map of the Mississippi River. She will use her residency to be in proximity to Indigenous communities…
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kei slaughter and ChE
Performing Artists, 2019-20, Louisiana
kei slaughter and ChE will work on “The People Can Fly,” a land-responsive performance ritual rooted in Queer Afro-Indigenous cultural strategies to address issues of climate gentrification, environmental racism, and land displacement for communities most impacted by climate adaptations. kei…
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Regina Agu
Visual Artist, 2019, Texas
In residence through a collaboration with New Orleans Museum of Art, Regina Agu created Passage, an installation for NOMA’s Great Hall, displayed in conjunction with their exhibition Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana. Agu worked closely with Studio botanist David…
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Katharine Jack
Scholar, 2019, Louisiana
Katharine Jack is a primate behavioral ecologist whose research examines male reproductive strategies and hormonal correlates of male dominance rank and life history status. Jack has studied a number of different primate species throughout her career, though the bulk of…
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Erin Glackin
Scholar, 2019, Louisiana
Erin Glackin is a fifth-year graduate student in the School Psychology doctoral program. Her research and clinical interests center on the experience and impact of violence and other forms of trauma, particularly when experienced in early life. Ms. Glackin has…
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Sarah Garner
Scholar, 2019, Louisiana
Sarah E. Garner holds multiple appointments at Tulane as Director of Pathologists’ Assistant Program; Assistant Professor Department of Cell and Molecular Biology – Tulane University School of Science and Engineering; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Structural and Cellular Biology –…
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Kate Baldwin
Scholar, 2019, Louisiana
Kate Baldwin is a scholar and teacher who specializes in comparative literary and cultural histories. Her first book, Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters between Black and Red, remaps black American modernism by addressing the involvement…
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Aurora Levins Morales
Writer and Historian, 2005 (Pre-Katrina), 2018, California
Aurora Levins Morales is an internationally known Puerto Rican Jewish feminist poet and essayist whose work explores issues of identity, social justice, and the interwoven social and natural histories of our landscapes and our bodies. Raised in a house full…
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Monique Michelle Verdin
Visual Artist, 2007, 2017, 2018 and 2019, Louisiana
Monique Michelle Verdin uses imagery to expose the reality of a Louisiana lost and the Louisiana left behind. More folk artist than photographer, more storyteller than visual artist, Verdin has captured, collected and exposed an intimate perspective into the survival…
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John Kleinschmidt
Visual Artist, 2018, Louisiana
John Kleinschmidt used drawing and installations to explore prehistoric and present-day environmental change and project what plants and animals might thrive in the distant future environment of New Orleans. John, in collaboration with evolutionary biologists, geologists, and experts in ecological…
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Tia-Simone Gardner
Multidisciplinary Artist, 2018, Minnesota
Tia-Simone Gardner began a new project, There’s Something in the Water, Yemaya and Oshun, amassing footage and archival research to create a seven-channel video installation that documents seven sites along the Mississippi River, chosen because of their relationship to the…
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Dasha Chapman, Jean-Sebastien Duvilaire, Ann Mazzocca & Phil Rodriguez
Performing Artists, 2018, Massachusetts, Virginia and Haiti
The Tè Glise Collective– comprised of Dasha Chapman, Jean-Sebastien Duvilaire, Ann Mazzocca and Phil Rodriguez– is a group of dance artists, scholar-practitioners and musicians who explore collaborative site-specific projects in relation to place-making, history, and the role of spirit in…
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Jonathan Mayers
Visual and Literary Artist, 2018, Louisiana
Jonathan “rat de bois farouche” Mayers is a Louisiana Creole artist and writer from Baton Rouge, LA. His paintings depict metaphorical beasts amid meticulously rendered landscapes. The mysterious creatures – somewhat wicked, somewhat charming – were born of the artist’s…
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Manon Bellet
Visual and Olfactory Artist, 2018, Louisiana
Manon Bellet [b. 1979] is a French artist who lives and works in New Orleans since 2016. Bellet holds a BA/MFA from the University of the Arts, ECAV Switzerland. She has been awarded, Monroe Fellowship from The New Orleans Center…
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Julio Blancas
Visual Artist, 2018, Canary Islands
Julio Blancas was born in 1967 in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. He studied art at Las Escuelas de Artes Plásticas in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria and sculpture in Santa Cruz, Tenerife. He works mainly with pencil or graphite on paper,…
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Jessica Liddell
Scholar, 2018, Louisiana
Jessica Liddell participated in a scholarly retreat in fall of 2018 where she continued work on the literature review for her dissertation. Originally from Logan, Utah, Jessica Liddell completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology at Reed College, in Portland, Oregon.…
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Sarah Woodward
Scholar, 2018, Louisiana
Sarah Woodward worked on her disseratation in the Woods during a scholarly retreat in fall of 2018. Sarah Woodward is a proud New Orleans native. Her research interests include the intersections between art, technology, and education in improving outcomes for…
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Danica Brown
Scholar, 2018, Louisiana
Danica Brown worked on revising her area exam, preparing her dissertation and conducting data analysis for a research paper during a scholarly retreat in the Woods in the fall of 2018. Danica is a Ph.D. candidate in the City, Culture,…
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Adam Crosson
Scholar, Visual Artist, 2018, Louisiana
During a scholarly retreat in the fall of 2018 Adam Crosson worked toward completing a video work. Adam Crosson received his MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from The University of Texas at Austin where he was a Jack G.…
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Katie Mathews
Filmmaker, 2018, Louisiana
With New Orleans Video Access Center, Katie Mathews has helped produce Post Coastal, a series of short documentary films addressing coastal communities and water issues. She used her time in residence to develop programming around screenings for coastal communities grappling…
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Rachel Wallis
Visual Artist, 2017, Illinois
Blakeslee Gilpin assisted Rachel Wallis with research and mapping to inform a community-quilting project exploring the links between textiles and the historic and current global slave economy. Rachel worked with high school students from New Orleans Center for Creative Arts…
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Esther Solondz
Visual Artist, 2017, Rhode Island
Esther Solondz designed and installed The Bee Palace, a beautiful sculpture that also functions as a nesting site for wild solitary bee pollinators at Audubon Zoo. Faculty partner and Director of the New Orleans Mosquito Board Claudia Riegel provided information…
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Sarah Dahnke
Performing Artist, 2017, New York
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. The New Orleans iteration of the project was performed…
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Julia Kumari Drapkin & Lindsey Wagner
New Media Artists, 2017, Louisiana and Massachusetts
Julia Kumari Drapkin and Lindsey Wagner are founding members of ISeeChange, a global online platform and app where citizens can observe and discuss what they notice changing in the environment and the ways those changes impact their lives. Julia and…
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Aubrey Edwards & Gretchen Faust
Visual Artists, 2017, Louisiana
Aubrey Edwards and Gretchen Faust applied as a collaborative team to work on a project comprised of a short observational film exploring an array of healing practices and a contextualizing, accompanying publication featuring an ensemble of over fifty regional, female-identified…
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Edward Ball
Writer, 2017-18, Connecticut
As the inaugural Gulf South Writer in the Woods resident, Edward Ball was hosted in the woods in partnership with the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South. During his residency, Ball worked on a new manuscript, gave lectures, and…
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Fallen Fruit
Social Practice, 2017-18, California
Internationally acclaimed Artist collaborative Fallen Fruit with hosted through partnerships with Pelican Bomb and Newcomb Art Museum to create Fallen Fruit of New Orleans. Throughout 2017 and into early 2018, Fallen Fruit made a series of five 1-2 week residency…
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Anastasia Kurdia
Scholar, 2017, Louisiana
A professor in the Computer Science program of the School of Science and Engineering, Dr. Kurdia came to A Studio in the Woods to create new and engaging materials for Tulane’s CS program and adapt those materials for Engage-cs.edu, an…
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Amalia Leguizamón
Scholar, 2017, Louisiana
While in residence, Amalia Leguizamón worked towards completing a manuscript entitled Seeds of Power: Genetically Modified Crops and Socio-Environmental Change in Argentina. Leguizamón is a sociologist interested in the political economy of the environment in Latin America. She is curious…
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Nathan J. Lyons
Scholar, 2017, Louisiana
Nathan Lyons is a geomorphologist, a scientist that studies the processes and landforms at Earth’s surface. Nathan used his residency to bring together geologists and evolutionary biologists to begin a new research project. This group set out to test ideas…
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Ignacio Sarmiento
Scholar, 2017, Louisiana
A PhD Candidate in Spanish, Ignacio Sarmiento’s research focuses on postwar Central American literature, paying particular attention to the problems of mourning and national community in Salvadoran and Guatemalan fiction. Sarmiento used his residency to work toward completing his dissertation.
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Chris Rodning
Scholar, 2017 and 2019, Louisiana
All anthropologists, Christopher Rodning, Marcello Canuto, Tatsuya Murakami, and Jason Nesbitt engaged in collaborative retreats at A Studio in the Woods to explore and exchange ideas about the archaeology of monuments within cultural landscapes in the ancient Americas in both…
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Anjali Niyogi
Scholar, 2017, Louisiana
Dr. Anjali Niyogi, a physician, and Dr. Ashley Wennerstrom, a public health researcher and practitioner, have been collaborating successfully since 2014 to improve access to health care services for formerly incarcerated persons. Their residency was used to produce a manuscript…
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Robin Vander
Scholar, 2017, Louisiana
Dr. Robin Vander is a professor of English, African-American and Diaspora Studies, and Performance Studies at Xavier University. During her residency at A Studio in the Woods, Dr. Vander worked on a manuscript length book of images and essays juxtaposing…
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Cirecie A. West-Olatunji
Scholar, 2017, Louisiana
Focusing on the field of counselor education, Dr. West-Olatunji has initiated several clinical research projects that focus on culture-centered community collaborations designed to address issues rooted in systemic oppression, such as transgenerational trauma and traumatic stress. Dr. West-Olatunji’s residency afforded…
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Matthew Escarra
Scholar, 2017, Louisiana
An assistant professor in engineering physics, Matthew Escarra used his residency to create a proposal for the NSF CAREER Award, the biggest young investigator award for junior scientists and engineers. Matthew Escarra received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Princeton…
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Marcello Canuto
Scholar, 2017, Louisiana
All anthropologists, Rodning, Canuto, Murakami, and Nesbitt engaged in a weeklong collaborative retreat at A Studio in the Woods to explore and exchange ideas about the archaeology of monuments within cultural landscapes in the ancient Americas. Marcello A. Canuto is…
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Tatsuya Murakami
Scholar, 2017, Louisiana
All anthropologists, Rodning, Canuto, Murakami, and Nesbitt engaged in a weeklong collaborative retreat at A Studio in the Woods to explore and exchange ideas about the archaeology of monuments within cultural landscapes in the ancient Americas. Dr. Murakami received his…
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Jason Nesbitt
Scholar, 2017, Louisiana
All anthropologists, Rodning, Canuto, Murakami, and Nesbitt engaged in a weeklong collaborative retreat at A Studio in the Woods to explore and exchange ideas about the archaeology of monuments within cultural landscapes in the ancient Americas. Jason Nesbitt’s fields of…
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Ashley Wennerstrom
Scholar, 2017, Louisiana
Dr. Anjali Niyogi, a physician, and Dr. Ashley Wennerstrom, a public health researcher and practitioner, have been collaborating successfully since 2014 to improve access to health care services for formerly incarcerated persons. Their residency was used to produce a manuscript…
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Christy George
Writer, 2016, Oregon
During her residency, environmental journalist Christy George continued work on her creative non-fiction book Vanishing Hometowns, and with faculty partner Laura Murphy hosted conversations across generations and geography – bringing together people along the bayous endangered by rising seas with…
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Jan Mun
Media Artist, 2016, New York
Jan Mun collaborated with Howard Mielke and his Lead Lab to revision and activate best practices for lead testing and soil remediation through a site-specific installation. Neighborhood leaders helped identify a community garden in the Treme with a high lead…
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E. Oscar Maynard
Visual Artist, 2016, California
With input from faculty collaborator and religious studies expert Randy Sparks, E. Oscar Maynard created an ongoing community-based art project that uses the idea of Tent Revivals to explore the ways we stray from our own power, and the ways…
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Jebney Lewis
Visual and Performing Artist, 2016, Louisiana
Jebney Lewis worked with faculty collaborator Rick Snow, New Orleans youth, and Tulane students to build a map of the city made from sonified steel plates and repurposed brass instruments. The pair also partnered with local writer Christopher Staudinger to…
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Donna Cooper Hurt
Visual Artist, 2016, South Carolina
Donna Cooper Hurt created site-specific installations that address place and the human relationship to the environment. In a day-long workshop with youth from the Jefferson Parish Department of Juvenile Services, Donna and Donata Henry shared their work and processes and…
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Jacqueline Ehle Inglefield
Visual Artist, 2016, Louisiana
Jacqueline Ehle Inglefield in collaboration with Mark Gstohl, built a shrine to the bottomland hardwood forest to reignite a reverence for nature. Referencing religious scriptures and past spiritual practices, the shrine encourages contemplation of the global impact of habitual consumption…
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Byron Asher
Composer, 2016, Louisiana
Byron Asher is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser based in New Orleans. Raised in Maryland, he has performed across Europe and the US. Festivals include the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and French Quarter Festival, the Montreux Jazz Festival,…
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Jeff Whetstone
Visual Artist, 2016-17, New Jersey
Jeff Whetstone was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee and has been photographing and writing about the relationship between humans and their environment since he received a Zoology degree from Duke University in 1990. Jeff came to the woods for a collaborative…
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MarkAlain Dery
Scholar, 2016, Louisiana
MarkAlain Dery is a physician and the founder of the Tulane T Cell Clinic who places compassion in the highest category of his professional duties. Dr. Dery used his residency to compile a collection of stories from his life and…
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Jocelyn Horner
Scholar, 2016, Louisiana
Jocelyn Horner studies the relationship between creative self-expression and positive development among young people. While in residence she completed data analysis for her dissertation, Digital storytelling as positive development: African American adolescent women exploring the politics and possibilities of personal…
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Sarah Gray
Scholar, 2016, Louisiana
Sarah Gray is a clinical psychologist with a focus on early childhood. Dr. Gray’s research examines the developmental consequences of early life adversity, with a specific focus on intergenerational processes. She takes a multilevel approach, integrating narrative, behavioral, and physiological…
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Lisa Settles
Scholar, 2016, Louisiana
The main focus of Dr. Lisa Settles’ clinical work is on the treatment of children under the age of six with a variety of emotional, relational, and developmental problems. Dr. Lisa Settles is the program director, lead psychologist, and grant…
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Maria Möller
Visual Artist, 2015, Pennsylvania
Maria Möller collaborated with geographer Richard Campanella, and members of New Orleans Chinese American community to symbolically excavate the city’s forgotten and demolished Chinatown. Oral histories, photography and map-making combined to create temporary installations on sites in the Central Business…
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Jessica Levine
Installation Artist, 2015, West Virginia
Faculty Partner: Jordan Karubian, Professor, and Renata Ribeiro, Professor of the Practice, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University Jessica Levine, in collaboration with Renata Ribeiro and Jordan Karubian, created an interactive, mixed media visual art installation to bring…
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Anna Fitzgerald
Performing Artist, 2015, Maryland
In collaboration with epidemiologist Felicia Rabito and her lab at the Tulane School of Public Health, Anna Fitzgerald created a puppet-based performance for and with children with asthma. Together, they created characters with objects like inhalers to tell a story…
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Shay Nichols
Composer, 2015, California
Composer Shay Nichols and faculty partner Tom Sherry created nature-based compositions with local musicians and led public listening excursions to discover the beauty and power found in the “chorus” of the Southern Louisiana natural environment. Inspired by the residency, Shay…
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Matt Wright
Visual Artist, 2015, New York
Sign painter Matt Wright photographed the city’s historically significant signage and with faculty partner Vicki Mayer they collected stories about existing signs from neighbors and sign painters to be included in Vicki’s Media NOLA project, an online portal for cultural…
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Andy Horowitz
Scholar, 2015, Louisiana
Andy Horowitz specializes in modern American political, cultural, and environmental history. He is writing a book which is under contract with Harvard University Press. He used his time at A Studio in the Woods to revise the manuscript and think…
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Samantha Lantz
Scholar, 2015, Louisiana
A behavioral ecologist, Samantha Lantz has been studying birds for over 10 years. While at A Studio in the Woods, she submitted the first chapter of her thesis for publication. The article came out in April 2016 in The Auk:…
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Kevin Morris
Scholar, 2015, Louisiana
Kevin Morris received his PhD in philosophy from Brown University in 2011. His research is primarily in metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, and the history of analytic philosophy. At A Studio in the Woods in fall 2015, Kevin worked on…
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Workineh Kite
Scholar, 2015, Louisiana
Dr. Kite and Dr. Blair used their scholarly retreat to analyze immunological data from studies on the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) which has implications for treatment of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
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Grant McCall
Scholar, 2015, Louisiana
Dr. McCall and Dr. Townsend convened a two-day symposium at A Studio in the Woods bringing together scholars from the fields of philosophy and anthropology to discuss the some of the shared concerns of both fields; especially those having to…
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Mary Townsend
Scholar, 2015, Louisiana
Dr. McCall and Dr. Townsend convened a two-day symposium at A Studio in the Woods bringing together scholars from the fields of philosophy and anthropology to discuss the some of the shared concerns of both fields; especially those having to…
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Robert Blair
Scholar, 2015, Louisiana
Dr. Kite and Dr. Blair used their scholarly retreat to analyze immunological data from studies on the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) which has implications for treatment of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Dr. Blair is an Assistant professor and veterinary…
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Sebastian Muellauer
Creative Design, 2014, Germany
Muellauer used his residency to make advances on his Open Research Buoy (ORB), an open-sourced, community-driven project that aims to develop technology which will help monitor and research endangered water ecosystems. He met with scientists and environmental specialists to assess…
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Monica Haller
Media Artist, 2014, Minnesota
Haller created a “field station” in a gutted home in Plaquemines Parish, enlisting the help of local geologists and sedimentologists, in order to learn more about the transitory eroding spaces that face Southern Louisiana’s coast. She gathered together experiments, photos,…
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Megan Singleton
Visual Artist, 2014, Missouri
Singleton created an installation of sculpture and pulp paintings investigating native and invasive flora that clutch Louisiana between the fingers of their roots. The works transformed natural materials into art using hand paper making techniques and clay and referencing maps…
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Shivaprasad Adireddy
Scholar, 2014, Louisiana
As a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Dr. Adireddy used his residency to finish writing a manuscript entitled Flexible Energy Storage Devices Based on Polymer-Dielectric Nanocomposites.
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Catherine Burnette
Scholar, 2014, Louisiana
An assistant professor in the School of Social Work, Dr. Burnette’s research focuses on health disparities related to Indigenous Peoples. Data analysis conducted during her retreat enabled the identification of factors perpetuating violence and mental health disparities among American Indian…
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Thomas Mulligan
Scholar, 2014, Louisiana
A philosopher, Thomas Mulligan used his residency at A Studio in the Woods to continue work on his dissertation which sought to answer the question, “What is the role that merit should play when we choose our political leaders and…
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Apollo Nkwake
Scholar, 2014, Louisiana
Dr. Apollo Nkwake and Prof. Nathan Morrow both teach research methods and program evaluation at Tulane University’s Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy. While in residence, they prepared workshop tools and case studies for the American Evaluation Association as well as a…
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Courtney N. Baker
Scholar, 2014, Louisiana
Courtney N. Baker is a clinical psychologist interested in systems-level interventions that promote the mental health and well-being of children and families. Dr. Baker utilized her time in residence to analyze data and draft an article reporting on the reliability…
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Teresa Cole
Scholar, Visual Artist, 2014, Louisiana
A professor of printmaking, Teresa Cole spent her time at A Studio in the Woods continuing work on her series Seamless Belonging, an exploration of identity and place, visualized through handmade paper works. Professor Teresa Cole holds the Ellsworth Woodward…
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Nicole Burton
Scholar, 2014, Louisiana
Nicole Burton spent time in residence while a doctoral candidate in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She worked on her dissertation prospectus at A Studio in the Woods, which attempted to fill in a gap in the…
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Nathan Morrow
Scholar, 2014, Louisiana
Prof. Nathan Morrow and Dr. Apollo Nkwake both taught research methods and program evaluation at Tulane University’s Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy. While in residence, they prepared workshop tools and case studies for the American Evaluation Association as well as a…
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Dawn DeDeaux
Visual Artist, 2014-15, Louisiana
A Studio In The Woods collaborated with artist Dawn DeDeaux to present Selections from the MotherShip Series as a P3+ Host Site at two locations from October 25, 2014 – January 25, 2015 DeDeaux is a professional New Orleans-based artist…
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Daniel McCormick and Mary O’Brien
Installation Artists, 2013, California
McCormick and O’Brien worked with local grassroots environmentalists to invent a reusable cage to protect cypress seedlings from invasive rodents, placing dozens of these cages along the coast as a remedial art installation. Rigorous in their research, the artist team…
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Isabelle Hayeur
Visual Artist, 2013, Canada
Hayeur used special equipment to shoot over/underwater photography in polluted waterways, creating evocative images from the unusual perspective of the waterline that were then exhibited on four billboards on major thoroughfares across New Orleans. Born in Montreal, Isabelle Hayeur is…
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Laurel True
Visual Artist, 2013, Louisiana
True created a series of sculptural mosaic forms that float on the surface of water, interacting with the environment through light, movement and reflection. The sculptures were made from elements collected from both the urban and the rural landscape, including…
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Emily Nelson Corazon
Visual Artist, 2013, Louisiana
Nelson used her residency to collect and commission images of water landscapes in Southern Louisiana rendered in oil-based media. She then subjected the images to Corexit, the disperant used in the Gulf during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill cleanup. Emily…
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Rebecca Snedeker
Writer and Filmmaker, 2011-12, Louisiana
Snedeker’s residency was crucial in the formation of Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, a book of 22 imaginative maps and essays she co-authored with Rebecca Solnit. She spent her time recruiting writers for the book, writing an essay on…
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Katie Holten
Visual Artist, 2012, Ireland
Holten researched the historical, current, and projected ecosystem of New Orleans and the Mississippi river delta, through site visits and engagement with local communities and expressed these scientific and ecological investigations through sculptures and works on paper. This work formed…
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Nina Nichols
Performing Artist, 2012, Louisiana
Nichols produced costumes, puppets, and props for an operetta titled The Vanities of the Poor, set on the banks of the Mississippi River. The show debuted during A Studio in the Woods’ FORESTival. She received a grant to take the…
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Sarah Quintana
Composer, 2012, Louisiana
Quintana used water as an instrument in composing and recording a dozen new songs. She transformed her studio into a mixed media sound installation with a number of professional and home made instruments for a collaborative performance. She invited the…
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Andy Behrle
Sculptor, 2012, Hawaii
Behrle explored issues of erosion and accretion with a living installation sited on the grounds of Longue Vue House and Gardens. The piece took the form of a mausoleum covered with mud and the seeds of native plants which slowly…
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Bernard Williams
Sculptor, 2011, Illinois
Williams built a sculpture, Ghost Trails, based on a map he found from the 1940’s tracing the meanderings of the Mississippi River. In an ambitious move, he decided that the piece needed to be launched in the waters that inspired…
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Suzanne Bennett
Visual Artist, 2011, New York
Bennett completed four large-scale paintings contrasting the dichotomy of the city’s baroque sensibilities with its location on the edge of an untamed swamp. Suzanne Bennett received her B.F.A. from U.C. Santa Cruz and her M.F.A. from Brooklyn College. She has…
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Benjamin Morris
Writer, 2011, Louisiana and Mississippi
Morris took every opportunity to go out in the woods absorbing great botanical detail and spent his studio time creating allegories based on the changing forest ecology for a new book of poetry titled Ecotone, which was published by Antenna/Press…
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Roy Staab
Installation Artist, 2011, Wisconsin
Staab used driftwood, willow branches, bamboo, bloodweed, and other natural materials found onsite or nearby – even footprints – to construct ephemeral artworks in our pond and on the banks of the Mississippi River. Roy’s residency culminated with a piece…
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Alex Harris
Photographer, 2011, North Carolina
Alex Harris (b. 1949) was raised in the South and lives in Durham, NC with his wife, Margaret Sartor, and their two children. Harris has photographed extensively in the American South, New Mexico, Alaska, and Cuba. His work is represented…
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Karen Rich Beall
Sculptor, 2010, Pennsylvania
Beall examined lichens and ferns from the woods under a microscope and rendered them larger than life using hand-knitting, paper mache, and other mixed media. She also led a nature journaling workshop for youth from The Porch 7th Ward Cultural…
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Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
Writer, 2010, Texas
Rhodes-Pitts used local historical archives to write a cycle of prose poems based on a 1811 slave revolt that she shared in a reading at the New Orleans African American Museum. She experimented with making paper from traditional “cash crops”…
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William Cordova
Visual Artist, 2010, Peru
Cordova used 16MM film to document and preserve traces of displaced histories of New Orleans. His project aimed to create monuments of secular sacred spaces within Louisiana history and folklore. William Cordova was born and raised in Lima, Peru. He…
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Eric Dallimore
Installation Artist, 2010, Colorado
Dallimore created a living public sculpture titled The Louisiana Pipeline. The installation took the form of a pipeline composed entirely of organic matter and seeds, visually representing man’s destructive force of oil exploration on the Gulf Coast. A New Orleans…
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Anne Devine
Performance Artist, 2009, California
Devine made a solo performative distance walk of 38 miles from New Orleans to Hopedale as a “kinetic valentine” to the residents and landscape of the area, a route that highlighted the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet and brings attention to…
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Rafael Santos
Visual Artist, 2009, Argentina
Santos’ primary concerns are the social-ecological communities that have developed over time around freshwater rivers and coastal zones, and the close collaboration with local people, other artists, scientists and environmental groups working in the same realm nationally and internationally. While…
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David Sullivan
Media Artist, 2009, Louisiana
Sullivan rendered and debuted Fugitive Emissions, an abstract animation inspired by the effects of air and water pollution prevalent in our chemical corridor. The works were projected on screens installed in the lantern-lit woods, using the ambient sounds of the…
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Tory Tepp
Installation Artist, 2009, California
Fourteen volunteers joined Tepp in “artscaping” a 10-foot flatbed trailer into the form of a boat. The Spirit Ferry Project built community and investment in sustainable urban agriculture; the boat’s cargo included soil, seeds, and the tools needed to plant…
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Gianna Chachere
Filmmaker, 2008, Louisiana
Gianna Chachere served as the Managing Director of the Hamptons International Film Festival located in East Hampton, New York from 2006 to 2014. She has extensive experience in conceptualizing and curating film, video and live performance programs for various film…
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Jon Gross
Composer, Musician, 2008, Louisiana
Jon Gross began playing the tuba when he was 9 years old. A scholarship to Loyola University’s College of Music landed him in New Orleans where he currently makes a living playing with several different bands and as a freelance…
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Brigham Hall
Composer, Musician, 2008, Louisiana
Brigham Hall is an active pianist, composer, and music educator. After completing his bachelor’s degree in music education at LSU, Hall became an instructor at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and also served as a piano accompanist for…
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Raymond “Moose” Jackson
Poet, Musician, 2008, Louisiana
Raymond “Moose” Jackson is a performance poet whose work is not content to live in poetry readings and literary events. He regularly performs with a rock band, in theatrical settings, with jazz groups, at festivals and in the street. He…
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Andrea Myers
Visual Artist, 2008, Illinois
Working with wood, fabric, printmaking, and pen and ink, Myers created a number of sculptural pieces which reflect the dynamic layered landscape. Andrea Myers explores the space between two and three dimensionality by combining forms of painting, sculpture and textile…
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Mollie Day
Poet and Environmental Journalist, 2008, Louisiana
Mollie Day is a New Orleans-based poet. She holds a masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of New Orleans and is a fellow of the Institute for Environmental Communications, Loyola University, New Orleans. Through her work, Mollie illustrates…
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Jane Hill
Sculptor, 2007, Louisiana
Jane Hill was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. She received a Bachelor of Science in painting from Towson University and an MFA from Pratt Institute of Art. In 1991 she moved to New Orleans to…
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Christy Speakman
Multimedia Visual Artist, 2007, Louisiana
Christy Speakman received a BFA in Fine Art from the University of New Orleans in 2002 and an MFA in Photography from Ohio University’s School of Art in 2005. She has participated in artist residencies at Sandarbh US, The Santa…
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Elizabeth Underwood
Multimedia Visual Artist, 2007, Louisiana
Elizabeth Underwood is a visual artist, activist, writer and long-term resident of New Orleans. In pursuit of “the art of relationships” she focuses on site-specific installation and performance as well as formal work in photography, collage, and drawing. Her poetry,…
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Dr. Michael White
Composer, 2003-2004 and 2007, Louisiana
Dr. Michael White, a renowned clarinetist, composer and jazz historian, has been a pioneer in perpetuating the origins of traditional New Orleans jazz. Among the most respected musicians in the Crescent City, White is one of only a few clarinetists…
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Damien Aquiles
Painter, Rescheduled from 2005 to 2007 due to Hurricane Katrina, Cuba
Damian Aquiles is a graduate of the graphic design institute and the Art Academy of San Alejandro in Havana. His work has been exhibited in Cuba, Switzerland, Spain, Sweden, Argentina, Italy, South Africa, Nicaragua, and the United States and is…
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Kathy Randels & Sean Larocca
Artspot Productions, Performing Artists, 2006, Louisiana
Kathy Randels, a native New Orleanian, is a theatre artist/educator and the founding artistic director of ArtSpot Productions. She studied, lived and worked in Chicago from 1987-1994, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Performance Studies in 1991 from Northwestern University.…
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Jason Chaffin
Installation Artist, Musician, 2006, Louisiana
Jason Chaffin grew up across 36 states and 4 countries. He received his BFA in photography from Kansas City Art Institute and a MFA from the University of New Orleans. His work is based upon his diversity of personal experience…
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Jenny Kahn
Painter, 2006, Louisiana
Jenny Kahn was born and raised in New Orleans. She studied painting at the Gerritt Reitveld Academie in Amsterdam and The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. She has exhibited in New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans and elsewhere. Kahn…
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Monique Moss
Choreographer, Dancer, 2006, Louisiana
A native of New Orleans, Monique Moss graduated from NOCCA in Dance and then attended Tulane University where she earned a BA in French and a MA in Latin American Studies. Currently an Adjunct Professor of Dance at Tulane University…
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Valentine Pierce
Poet, Photographer, Graphic Designer, 2006, Louisiana
Valentine Pierce is a poet, writer, photographer and graphic designer who is very active in the New Orleans art scene. She has been writing for more than 30 years and her creative and journalistic work has been published throughout the…
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Yvette Sirker
Playwright, Director, Actor, 2006, Louisiana
Yvette Sirker’s one-act play, Hay Outta Hell, written while in residency at A Studio in the Woods, premiered Off-Off Broadway and was very well received by New York City audiences. As a result of the success of Hay Outta Hell,…
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Peter Coles
Writer and Photographer, 2006, England
Peter Coles is a writer and photographer based in London. For 20 years he lived and worked in Paris, contributing articles and photographs to a number of international magazines. He is currently Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Urban and…
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Sheryl St. Germain
Writer, 2005 (Pre-Katrina), Iowa
Sheryl St. Germain directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Chatham University. She has published several poetry books and a memoir, Swamp Songs, about growing up in New Orleans. Winner of many awards, including two NEA grants and the…
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Reggie Young
Writer, 2005 (Pre-Katrina), Louisiana
Reggie Scott Young is a scholar, fiction/nonfiction writer, and poet who lives in Lafayette, La. He is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and a member of the Macondo Writers’ Workshop. Samples of his…
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Stephen Dankner
Composer, 2004, Louisiana
Stephen Dankner received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Composition from the Juilliard School in 1971. A list of works since 1990 includes nine symphonies, thirteen string quartets, background environmental music for the New Orleans Aquarium of the Americas,…
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Krista Franklin
Poet, 2004, Illinois
Krista Franklin is a poet and visual artist from Dayton, Ohio, who lives and works in Chicago. Her poetry and mixed media collages have been published in lifestyle and literary journals such as Coon Bidness, Copper Nickel, Clam and Callaloo,…
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Deedra Ludwig
Painter, 2004, Washington
Born in Chicago, Deedra has been honored by Arts Alliance in Atlanta, GA; SouthEast Arts Award in Tunbridge Wells, UK; Sitka Center for the Arts Fellowship Residency in Otis, Oregon; and the National Parks Service. She has also been a…
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Alexis Wreden
Sculptor, Landscape Architect, 2004, Louisiana
Alexis Wreden is an artist and is trained as landscape architect. She is involved in making public art, gardens and parks in Louisiana. She lives and collaborates with her architect husband, Robert Fakelmann, two dogs, three cats and many wild…
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Pat Warner
Sculptor, 2004, California
Pat Warner was born and raised in an agricultural area of southeastern Pennsylvania, and traveled extensively throughout the world observing the natural environment and indigenous cultures. Those experiences influence her indoor and outdoor sculptural environments and drawings that are involved…
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Jane Marshall
Painter and printmaker, 2003, Alabama
Jane Marshall is an artist of great versatility and depth. She is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, fabric and book artist who delves deeply into her subject matter including nature and the great themes and figures of history, mythology and literature.…
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Wendy Taylor Carlisle
Poet, 2003, Texas
Wendy Taylor Carlisle lives between Texarkana, Texas, and Eureka Springs, Ark. She is the author of Discount Fireworks (2008) and Reading Berryman to the Dog (2000). Among the anthologies that include her work are The Poets Grimm (2003), Is This…
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Daniel Winkert
Architect, Louisiana, 2003
Daniel Winkert (Wink) is an architect and planner who came to New Orleans at the age of 18 (having spent his previous life in Maryland and Tennessee). Graduating from Tulane University School of Architecture, Wink then began a career of…
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Yuki Fukushima
Potter, 2002, Japan
Yuki Fukushima was born in Matsue, Japan, a small city on the Sea of Japan. Yuki’s father, Kazuo Fukushima, was a traditional potter whose noborigama, or climbing kiln, was on a mountainside near Matsue. When her father fell seriously ill,…
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Francine Prevost
Poet, 2002, France
Francine is a French poet and visual artist living in Canada. Francine spent three weeks exploring the levee, batture, and riverside collecting rocks and driftwood. She created a show of her poetry on large paper laid on a city sidewalk…
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M. Jude
Artisan, 2001, India
In February and March of 2000, Lucianne Carmichael visited Penukonda, India, at the invitation of the Young India Project, a non-profit organization founded by Sonja and Narinda Bedi and doing work to improve the lives of rural farmworkers and crafts-people…