Join us for an online information session about Replenish Residencies. Staff will give an overview of the application process and residency experience then field questions from attendees. Replenish Residencies provide 1-2 week restorative visioning retreats to local BIPOC artists and culture bearers; the heart of New Orleans culture. In light of the many racial disparities still present in our society at large and the arts economy specifically, we offer these residencies to provide time to rest and restore, vision and…

Join us to get your hands dirty in support of the forest! Volunteers will assist with Environmental Curator David Baker’s work, learning how to identify and properly remove a range of invasive species common in our area. 9am – 12pm on Monday, February  27. Registration is required, and lunch will be provided.   Register Here - Woods Volunteer Day

Join us for an online information session about Rising: Climate in Crisis Residencies. Staff will give an overview of the application process and residency experience and then field questions from attendees. Rising: Climate in Crisis Residencies at A Studio in the Woods invite artists to be agents of change in guiding our collective understanding, response, and vision as we shape our shared future. Artists play a vital role in facing the climate crisis. We encourage artists to guide our collective…

Join us to meet and learn more about current Rising Resident Niki Franco. Niki will give short a presentation on her work followed by a light dinner and refreshments. Registration required below. Niki Franco is a Caribbean abolitionist community organizer, writer, and facilitator of spaces for collective study. Seeking to disrupt the institutionalized bureaucratic frameworks of academia and transactional ways in which relationships exist under capitalism, her work experiments with truth-telling, radical history and thought, and revolutionary imagination. She also…

Join us and artist Brandon Ballengée for a celebration of art, adaptation, and fishes! Check back here for more details as we get closer. Fishes are by far the most successful group of vertebrates (animals with backbones) to ever occupy Earth. Fish are marvels of adaptation and resilience, occupying almost all bodies of water on our planet, and scientists have described over 34,000 species with new species being found all the time! However, overfishing, oil spills, changes to habitats and climate…