September 30, 2021
We are pleased to announce a new organizational partnership with Alternate ROOTS. Over the next two years we will host residencies for artists in their Partners for Change program, an artist support program where ROOTS… Read More
September 29, 2021
2021 marks the twentieth year of programming at A Studio in the Woods! To celebrate this milestone, we will be bringing you reflections throughout the year, looking back on our programs, the artists and scholars who have shaped them, and… Read More
September 15, 2021
Thank you to everyone who has reached out and checked in, all of our staff are now back in New Orleans and we are beginning to tend to the needs of the land, buildings, and artists we serve. We have been able to direct funds… Read More
August 13, 2021
Conceptualized in response to Covid-19, Relief Residencies provide one-to-two week retreats for local BIPOC artists and culture bearers who have not had a residency experience before. In 2020-21 we piloted the program through a nomimation process. This year, the initial… Read More
August 13, 2021
Tulane ByWater Scholarly Retreats A Studio in the Woods and the Tulane ByWater Institute seek to enhance and support the scholarship and creativity of Tulane faculty and trainees by awarding one- to two-week residencies. These… Read More
June 9, 2021
Starting in January 2021 and for the entire Spring 2021 semester, Dr. Sacoby Wilson, (Associate Professor, Applied Environmental Health and the UMD Prevention Research Center at the University of Maryland, College Park) worked remotely with Dillard faculty members John Barnes… Read More
June 4, 2021
We are excited to share that we have been selected by the Alliance of Artists Communities (AAC) to be one of sixteen artist residency organizations to take part in a new consortium program created through… Read More
May 28, 2021
Educational programming grounded in the forest has been a part of our work at A Studio in the Woods since before we were formalized as an organization – our founders built their lives around it. Lucianne Carmichael was a life-long… Read More
May 19, 2021
A Studio in the Woods has been approved for a $75,000 Our Town grant to support Searching for the Ghosts of the Gulf, a collaborative project with artist and biologist Brandon Ballengée and the Plaquemines Parish Government. This… Read More
May 18, 2021
We can’t host our normal Kids in the Woods Summer Camp this year, but thanks to New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation and Ruth U. Fertel Foundation we are thrilled to have been able to provide 50 ‘camp-at-home’ boxes to 3rd and 4th… Read More