Rising: Climate in Crisis
Rising Residencies invite artists to examine the severity of the climate crisis and be agents of change to guide our collective understanding, response, and vision as we shape our shared future. 2020 - present
Rising: Climate in Crisis Residencies at A Studio in the Woods invite artists to face the severity of the climate crisis and be agents of change to guide our collective understanding, response, and vision as we shape our shared future. New Orleans and the inhabitants of our region are frequently invoked as some of the most vulnerable to the effects of environmental degradation. While sea levels, temperatures and emotions are rising, our highly manipulated landscape can be seen as a microcosm of the global environment, manifesting both the reckoning and hope which are required in the ways humans interact with shifting urban and natural ecosystems. As the climate crisis permeates the collective understanding of the future, the challenges faced by Southern Louisiana resonate exponentially. We look to artists to ignite our imaginations, illuminate our challenges, and offer new ways to examine the world.
Upcoming Events
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Artist Salon with Simi Kang, Nailah Jefferson, and Laurie Sumiye
Dec 8, 2022
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Artist Salon with Zeelie Brown and Rachel Lin Weaver
Jan 12, 2023
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Artist Salon with Niki Franco
Mar 8, 2023
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Rising: Climate in Crisis Residents
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Zeelie Brown Multidisciplinary Artist, 2023, New York and Alabama Zeelie Brown’s first art museum was the pine woods in Alabama. They make Black&queer wilderness refuges called “soulscapes” to (re)imagine what nature might be. Zeelie is currently working with the MIT Department of Architecture, NOMAS, and Group Project to create sustainable human waste… -
Simi Kang Interdisciplinary Artist, 2022-23, Canada Simi Kang is a mixed Sikh American community advocate, educator, artist, and scholar. Their work centers Asian American collaborative resistance as a site for imagining environmentally and economically just futures in Southeast Louisiana. In collaboration with a Vietnamese and Cambodian… -
Rachel Lin Weaver Interdisciplinary Artist, 2023, Virginia Rachel Lin Weaver is an artist whose work spans video, installation, sculpture, and performance. Weaver’s creative interests relate directly to an upbringing in rural Alaska and West Virginia, and their projects explore intersectional identity, queer/trans embodiment, memory, and interdependence. They… -
Nailah Jefferson & Laurie Sumiye Filmaker & Conceptual Artist, 2022-23, Louisiana & Hawaii With nature as their guide, a New Orleans-born filmmaker and Hawaii-born artist from two different tourist-driven, coastal economies grappling with climate-caused sea rise explore the historical effects invasive species have on fragile native ecosystems and relate it to the growing… -
Quintron & Miss Pussycat Performing Artists, 2023, Louisiana Quintron and Miss Pussycat will create a live puppet show about extreme weather events, which will utilize a “Wildlife Organ” built and installed by Quintron at A Studio in the Woods. The Wildlife Organ is envisioned as a musical instrument… -
Niki Franco Multidisciplinary Artist, 2023, Florida 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… -
Claire Alexandre Visual Artist, 2022, North Carolina Claire Alexandre is an intersectional artist and storyteller who weaves autobiographical reflections with ancestral knowledge while exploring larger themes of environmental, gender and racial justice. She seeks to deepen our collective understanding of Black community prosperity and its close ties… -
Andrina Turenne Performing Artist, 2022, Canada Andrina Turenne used her residency to explore Indigenous and local perspectives on water, language and land through music. In addition to doing research, exploring geographic and cultural throughlines, and speaking with people on the land, she produced recordings and performances… -
Virginia Hanusik Visual Artist, 2022, Louisiana While in residence, Virginia Hanusik worked on The Place We Keep, a series exploring the inequality of disaster relief and preservation in communities along the Gulf Coast experiencing the impacts of climate change through a compilation of photographs, oral histories,… -
Hye Sea Visual Artist, 2022, Maryland Hye Sea is an artist, alchemist, and a steward of the earth. Hye Sea’s residency project will focus on documenting the stories of those who are devoted to being stewards of the land and earth. She will create a solar-engraved… -
Sidiki Conde Performing Artist, 2021 and 2023, New York Sidiki Conde used his residency to immerse himself in the culture, nature and music of the region and compose a series of songs about climate change. Sidiki collaborated with Dr. Michael White for a performance and panel on music of… -
Lisa E. Harris Interdisciplinary Artist, 2021-22, Texas Lisa E. Harris’ residency supported 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… -
LaChaun Moore Visual Artist, 2021, South Carolina LaChaun Moore created 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… -
Lydia Y. Nichols Literary Artist, 2020-21, Louisiana Lydia Y. Nichols worked 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 New Orleans.… -
J.M. Nimocks Anti-Disciplinary Artist, 2021, Illinois J.M. Nimocks (SWAMP XADDiii) is the descendant of survivors of the transatlantic slave trade and Choctaw Native Americans who settled in Meridian and Sunflower, Mississippi before migrating to the midwest. They are an anti-disciplinary artist and scholar who is most… -
MILAGROS Visual Artists, 2021, Louisiana During their residency, MILAGROS focused on the development of their “Crud Buddies” project. Crud Buddies are cute, adoptable pets made from ocean-bound foam fished out of the Mississippi River and given new life through artistic intervention. Their residency helped facilitate… -
Yudith Azareth Nieto Multidiscipliary Artist and Organizer, 2021-22, Lousiana Yudith Azareth Nieto is a two spirited (queer) Mexican-American environmental justice organizer, language justice worker, and multidisciplinary artist based in the Gulf South. She is a cofounder of BanchaLenguas Language Justice Collective in Bvlbancha (New Orleans,LA) and part of the…