Painting 101: Learn painting basics @ Ogden!

PAINTING 101:
September 15, 2009 – October 20, 2009 (6 weeks)
Every Tuesday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Study and learn basic painting materials and techniques in a museum setting. Artist Anastasia Pelias (www.anastasiapelias.com) will provide individual instruction as she leads an investigation of the dynamics of color, line, scale, and space.

This course is designed for novices, but anyone wanting a refresher is welcome.

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED: Limited to 20 students

Members: $150 plus $30 supply fee /
Non-members: $175 plus $30 supply fee

For more information or to reserve a spot, contact Stephanie Spicer at 504.539.9616 or sspicer@ogdenmuseum.org

This program is supported in part by the Louisiana Division of the Arts and the Windgate Charitable Foundation.

No Dead Artists

Amy Guidry
And Justice for All, Void where Prohibited
Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 in.

13th Annual No Dead Artists
Group Show
A Juried Exhibition of Louisiana Art Today
September 1 - Sept 26, 2009
http://www.jonathanferraragallery.com/dynamic/exhibit_artist.asp?ExhibitID=147&Exhibit=Current
400a Julia Street
New Orleans, LA
70130
(504) 522-5471 tel
(253) 399-1649 fx
info@jonathanferraragallery.com

Reminder: Dirty Linen Night THIS Saturday 8/8 - 60 galleries!

This Saturday, August 8th from 6-9pm, please join the galleries on Royal Street in the French Quarter for DIRTY LINEN NIGHT!

About: Dirty Linen Night was founded by the artists at one small Royal Street gallery in 2001, as a tongue-in-cheek way to invite visitors to an Art Party during the slowest month of the year. Since then, DLN has taken place anually, a week after its inspiration, Julia Street's "White Linen Night" (a not-to-be-missed Art Event in The Arts District on the First Saturday of every August.)

Mission: To feature the unique Artist-run Galleries, the shops and other businesses of the Royal Street Artist's District, to and bring attention to the uniqueness of this community, which is all within walking distance in one of the most Historic neighborhoods in the country.

Galleries and Shops in the Artist's District produce all manner of art, from original oils, water colors, to sculpture, glass, prints and mixed media. The street abounds with unique shops that carry clothing, jewelry, home accessories, perfume, decorative arts, floral and topiary crafts, antiques, hats, wigs and much more.
There are also coffee shops, restaurants, a post office, museums, and lovely hotels on this stretch of Royal Street.

** Afterparty Information - FREE! - W French Quarter 8-10 pm **

The W French Quarter will feature a new series of large-scale paintings by local emerging artist Chris Kaiser. The new series “Hotter than July, Notes for a Greener New Orleans” is inspired by the unusual combination of Sesame Street, local music and greening New Orleans to spread the message that sustainability is a shared effort.

FREE to the public and benefiting Tipitina’s Foundation ($5 suggested donation,) the event runs Saturday, August 8th from 8-10 p.m. at the W French Quarter Hotel at 316 Chartres Street. See great art, enjoy tasty treats from BACCO and complimentary VeeV Açaí Spirit eco-friendly cocktails, you may even hear a surprise…

“I believe it’s important to utilize our passions to create positive change in the world,” Kaiser said. “New Orleans music is the reason I’m part of this community. I want that music to continue and hope this show communicates the importance of working together to sustain the culture of New Orleans.”

Don’t miss you chance to be at the weekend’s most exciting event, that's certain to be hotter than July!

Follow Kaiser on Twitter: http://twitter.com/studiokaiser

White Linen Night 2009 @ Louisiana Artworks

What:
Meet the Artists: Open Studios with Tim Best, Lee Deigaard & Dave Greber;
Unveiling of new Shoe Stories designs by Claudia Lynch in the ArtWorks MarketPlace
Kick Off White Linen Night at Louisiana ArtWorks with some refreshing White Sangria!

When:
Saturday, August 1, 4:00pm-6:00pm

Where:
Louisiana ArtWorks
725 Howard Avenue (at Carondelet)
Plenty of street parking available
504-571-7373 or www.louisianaartworks.org

For more information, call Karen Louise Crain at 504-571-7373, or 504-723-6593, email her at klcrain@louisianaartworks.org or visit the website at www.louisianaartworks.org.

Louisiana ArtWorks is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization whose mission is to inspire artistic growth, enhance technical skills, and provide marketing and economic development for Louisiana artists in a unique arts environment, while offering the public opportunities to see, enjoy, and explore the processes involved in the creation of the visual and applied arts.

Private Preview Screening of 'New Orleans Contemporary Art: Post Katrina & The Revolution will be Televised

‘The Revolution will be Televised’

WHAT: Preview Screening of ‘The New Orleans Contemporary Art: Post
Katrina & 9 site specific video installations of “The Revolution will
be Televised”

WHEN: Friday July 31st @ 7PM

WHERE: Studio 527 located @ 527 Julia Street.

From the artist:
"After my friend and fellow Artist Jeffrey Cook’s untimely death, I
decided to document our Contemporary Art scene in New Orleans. The
outcome is a concise and coherent motion picture that celebrates our
struggle to articulate the movement of Contemporary Art in Nola."

The New Orleans Contemporary Art Documentary features: Andy Antippas,
Willie Birch, Dan Cameron, Dawn DeDeaux, Brad Dupuy, Olivia Hill,
Kirsha Kaechele, Mia Kaplan, Borislava Kharalampiev, Miranda Lash,
Shantrelle Lewis, Srdjan Loncar, Tony Nozero, Terrence Sanders, Dan
Tague, Robert Tannen, & Christopher Porche West.

“I have a simple philosophy about life and death. How easily it comes
and how easily it can end! What man can afford to waste time? At any
moment death can claim anyone, and when it does, death itself is
unimportant. The only thing that matters is the work that one has
accomplished.” – King Hussein 1

Join us on July 31st @ 7PM at Studio 527 for an advanced screening of
‘New Orleans Contemporary Art: Post Katrina’ and ‘The Revolution will
be Televised’. 9 site specific video installations by Terrence
Sanders.

The New Orleans Contemporary Art: Post Katrina screening will be
Friday, July 31st @ 7PM for

‘ONE NIGHT ONLY’.

For more information please contact: Mandy Pumilia at artvoices@gmail.com.

Private Preview Screening of 'New Orleans Contemporary Art: Post
Katrina' & 'The Revolution will be Televised'.

Make it Right: From Concept to Community: CAC

Opening Reception: Saturday, August 1 at Whitney White Linen Night

In December 2007, more than two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Lower 9th Ward, the once-vibrant neighborhood was still silent and razed and the community frustrated by the lack of rebuilding progress. After touring the area and meeting with neighborhood groups and families, actor Brad Pitt was moved by the injustice he saw to "Make It Right." Pitt created the Make It Right Foundation to help the Lower 9th Ward recover by building 150 affordable, green high quality design homes in the neighborhood closest to the Industrial Canal levee breach.

From Pitt's concept, a thriving and growing community has grown. Fourteen families now live on the site, 19 homes are under construction and another 49 families are in process. The first 13 local, national and international architects who contributed their designs to Make It Right based their work on the traditional New Orleans "shotgun" home. In June 2009, a second round of 14 architects submitted designs based on traditional New Orleans' "duplexes" (two-family homes). For the first time, the models of the duplex designs will be on display beginning August 1 at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans. In addition, the exhibition, Make It Right: From Concept to Community, will trace the evolution of the first generation of houses from design to finished houses and thriving neighborhood, and detail the pioneering materials, processes and technologies being used in the Lower 9th Ward that will benefit communities across America.

Gallery hours: Thursday through Sunday, 11am-4pm.

Gallery admission: $5/general, $3/students & seniors, FREE To CAC members.

For information, call (504) 528-3805

White Linen Night: CAC

Picking up where the Louisiana OPEN (the CAC's biennial) left off, Hot Up Here is the first in an ongoing series of exhibitions of new work by New Orleans and Louisiana-based artists. Organized by CAC Visual Arts Director Dan Cameron.

Artists:Brad Benischek, Stephen Collier, Generic Art Solutions, Jessica Goldfinch, Brian Guidry, Scott Guion, Christopher Jahncke, Rachel Jones, Michelle Levine, Gina Phillips, Christopher Saucedo, Karoline Schleh, Maxx Sizeler, Chris Sullivan, David Sullivan, Monica Zeringue.

At NOMA: Tour: Mnemonic Devices with Rachel Jones and David Webber; Summer Art Studios;

New Orleans Museum of Art
6 p.m.
Tour: Mnemonic Devices with Rachel Jones and David Webber

Join artists Rachel Jones and David Webber for a tour of their current two-person exhibition Mnemonic Devices: Rachel Jones and David Webber. The two Louisiana-based artists working in painting (Jones) and video (Webber) explore the process of selecting and assembling information from memories and pre-existing documents into new visual amalgams. The New Orleans-based Jones has exhibited her work locally at The Front, as well as in New York and Austria. Webber is Assistant Professor of Media Art at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and has exhibited his work in numerous international film festivals.

The film is part of the Mid-Week in Mid-City series of public programs on Wednesday evenings, when the Museum stays open until 8 p.m. As always, a cash bar will be available from 5-8 p.m.

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August 8, Ages 13-17
Drawing Studio
Designed for the beginning to intermediate artist, this course is an introduction to many drawing approaches with a variety of media and subject matter. Basic figure drawing techniques will be introduced as well as drawing from life with a clothed model.
http://noma.org/learn.html

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Coming Up at NOMA:

Wednesday, August 5, 6 p.m.
"Instant" Tour with George Roland
George Roland, Doris Zemurray Stone Curator of Prints and Drawings, leads an informal tour of An Instant Arrested in Eternity: Sketches by Steinlen, Forain & Tchelitchew.

Wednesday, August 5, 6 p.m.
Poets & Writers Workshop
An open poetry workshop led by New Orleans-based poet Jean E. Grau, held in conjunction with Poets & Writers, the nation's largest nonprofit serving creative writers.

Friday, August 7, Noon-1 p.m.
"Instant" Tour with George Roland
George Roland, Doris Zemurray Stone Curator of Prints and Drawings, leads an informal tour of An Instant Arrested in Eternity: Sketches by Steinlen, Forain & Tchelitchew.

Saturday, August 8, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
"An Afternoon Focus on Alzheimer's"
An afternoon of community awareness events presented in conjunction with "Caring Partners" from the Greater New Orleans Alzheimer's Association. In the Stern Auditorium, the HBO Films documentary Alzheimer's Project screens at
11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Wednesday, August 12, 6 p.m.
"Highlights of the Chinese Collection" Tour
with Lisa Rotondo-McCord
Lisa Rotondo-McCord, Assistant Director for Art and Curator of Asian Art, leads an informal tour of highlights from the permanent collection of Chinese art.

Wednesday, August 19, 6 p.m.
The Art of Caring Tour with Alice Dickinson
Join Alice Webb Dickinson, associate collections manager and the institutional curator for The Art of Caring, on a tour of the current major exhibition, The Art of Caring: A Look at Life through Photography.

Collaboration between ReX and Steph Stelmach

www.michaeldingler.com
dingler.blogspot.com

When Lafcadio Hearn moved to New Orleans in the 1870s, he wrote to a friend
back in Cincinnati:

"Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been
buried under a lava flood of taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that
it has become only a study for archaeologists. Its condition is so bad that
when I write about it, as I intend to do soon, nobody will believe I am
telling the truth. But it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes,
than to own the whole state of Ohio."

Support Young Aspirations/Young Artists TONIGHT!

YA/YA (Young Aspirations/Young Artists), Inc. is a non-profit arts and social service organization whose mission is to provide educational experiences and opportunities that empower artistically talented inner-city youth to be professionally self-sufficient through creative self-expression.

Since its founding in 1988, the YA/YA studio-gallery has provided young artists who have limited access to educational resources and career opportunities the chance to apprentice with professional artists, create public artworks, design merchandise, serve as cultural ambassadors, work as project managers, and mentor others in the arts.

For answers to questions or to learn more about YA/YA, please call 504-529-3306

Support Dirty Linen Night, Forget the Rest!

The status of Dirty Linen Night, discussed here, is known! It appears that the *FREE* Dirty Linen Night is still on for August 8th from 6-9pm, despite the Vieux Carre Soiree's simultaneous, more corporate (read: cheesy) pirate-themed event. I encourage everyone to participate in Dirty Linen Night as it was meant to be: a *FREE* open gallery event with beautiful art, wine sipping and sans pirates. This is Royal Street afterall, not Bourbon.

More info from Humid City here: http://humidcity.com/?p=2320&cpage=1

Women on the Verge Exhibition - Galerie Gigi

WOMEN ON THE VERGE

WHAT: “Women on the Verge” art exhibition
WHEN: July 18th – August 29th, Opening Reception July 18th at 6PM
WHERE: Galerie Gigi, 627 St. Peter (In the Quarter between Royal and Chartres)

From the gallery:

We are thrilled to announce the unveiling of “Women on the Verge” at Galerie Gigi. The much anticipated group show, curated by Terrence Sanders, features work by artists Ariel Jackson, Hannah Downey, Grissel Guiliano, Layla Messkoub, Libbie Allen, Marin Dearie, Miriam Waterman, Olivia Hill, and Rebecca Rebouche.
“‘Women on the Verge’ is an important exhibition featuring a new era of women in art”, says the show’s curator and Art Voices Magazine editor and publisher, Terrence Sanders. “When I began conceptualizing this exhibition I wanted to feature young promising, gifted and talented female artists living in New Orleans…Nine independent women, each with an individual statement; concise, original, and refreshing.”
Join us on July 18th, 6 pm at Galerie Gigi for an opening reception with the artists and curator “as they hang their struggles, joys, and dreams - articulating a new narrative in Contemporary Art.”

The exhibition runs at Galerie Gigi from July 18th until August 29th, Thursday through Sat 11am to 5pm. For more information visit www.galeriegigineworleans.com or contact Galerie Gigi director, Lindsay Viner at (713) 385-7890 or lindsay.viner@gmail.com.

"Dirty Linen Night" No More?

According to an article here, a beloved New Orleans tradition - Dirty Linen Night - has been usurped by the "Vieux Carre' Soiree". Currently, it is being reported that the founder of Dirty Linen Night owns the trademark "Dirty Linen Night". This year's producer of the event, Fleur de Lis Consulting, along with Glazer's Companies of Louisiana and the Young Professionals Society, decided to change the name. The Dirty Linen Night event, held annually one week after its White Linen Night counterpart on Julia Street, (this year on August 1,) has not been reached for comment.

The Vieux Carre Soiree is asking for interested attendees to visit their Facebook fan page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vieux-Carre-Soiree/120639040943

More information as it becomes available.

Ellen Gilchrist at the Ogden

Southern Storytellers: Ellen Gilchrist
July 12, 2009
Southern Literature

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Throughout the Ogden Museum's Stephen Goldring Hall

Author Ellen Gilchrist has captured the essence of love, longing and life through her short stories, novels and essays. She won the National Book Award for Fiction (1984) for "Victory over Japan," a collection of short stories. Her novels include "The Annunciation" (1983) and "The Cabal"(2000). This discussion is a rare opportunity to see this writer.

This event is presented by the Kohlmeyer Circle, and was funded in part by the Louisiana Division of the Arts and Poets & Writers, Inc.

Contact: Libra LaGrone, 504.539.9600, llagrone@ogdenmuseum.org

What's Coming Up for White Linen: Arthur Roger galleries

Simon Gunning
The Waterline, Untouched with Ghosts, 2006
oil on canvas
30 x 40 inches

WHITE LINEN AT THE JULIA STREET GALLERY
Simon Gunning
432 Julia Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 | 504.522.1999
http://www.arthurrogergallery.com/default.asp

WHITE LINEN AT ARTHUR ROGER 434
Mitchell Gaudet
434 Julia Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 | 504.522.1999
http://www.arthurrogergallery.com/default.asp