Poetry in Motion Lin Emery Papersgift of Brooks Emery Braselman, 2022.0005 Lin Emery (1926–2021) was an internationally recognized kinetic sculptor and a New York native who spent much of her adult life in New Orleans. Her father passed away when she was very young, and her mother suffered from mental health challenges, so Emery was…
Dawn DeDeaux’s retrospective The Space Between Worlds at the New Orleans Museum of Arts has been featured in the November/December 2022 issue of Sculpture Magazine. You can read the transcript below and download view the spread below. Progressive Destinations: A Conversation with Dawn DeDeaux by Leah Triplett Harrington For multimedia artist Dawn DeDeaux, “between”…
Big Easy living made even easier, thanks to Brockschmidt & Coleman. BY NANCY HASS AND STYLED BY BEBE HOWORTH for ELLE DECOR The journalist Walter Isaacson, former editor of Time magazine and biographer of Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein, comes to his love of New Orleans honestly: He was born and raised in the raucously omnivorous, ebullient…
Photos by Chris Granger for NOLA Adore. Demond N. Melancon Neighborhood: BYWATER BIG CHIEF OF THE YOUNG SEMINOLE HUNTERS AND CONTEMPORARY BEAD ARTIST WHAT YOU SEE AS OUR FUTURE 100 Black masking tribes on the streets. Mardi Gras with no Covid. Many more opportunities for youth in the arts in our city. DESCRIBE YOUR CHARITABLE WORK I currently serve…
Exhibitions, products and personalities. By Matt Shaw for The New York TimesPublished April 21, 2022 Updated April 22, 2022 This article is part of our latest Design special report, about new creative pathways shaped by the pandemic. Five years ago, when she chewed a piece of balsa wood into something resembling a small Giacometti, her owner, Joseph Havel, an artist based…
Houston sculptor Joseph Havel discovered he was living with a genius. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, my parrot can make Giacomettis.’ ” by Molly Glentzer for TexasMonthly The busiest artist in Texas has little to say when we meet, but she lets out a brief whistle. She quivers slightly as she sizes me up, gazing at…
by Grace Ebert for Colossal Through intricately woven displays of minuscule glass beads and rhinestones, Big Chief Demond Melancon continues a legacy. He belongs to the tribe of the Young Seminole Hunters in New Orleans, where he was born and raised, and is a leader in the tradition of creating Mardi Gras suits. The “wearable…
The Undersung Histories of Mardi Gras’s Black Indians Video by Michael PietrzykText by Natelie Meadefor The New Yorker In the predawn, Demond Melancon threads a detailed mosaic made of a million tiny glass beads. The stretch of canvas is etched with designs in red, gold, and green—the signature colors of the Rastafarian movement. He’ll continue…
By Dave Walker, communication strategist for The Historic New Orleans Collection Many of the subjects of George Dureau’s photographic portraits look directly at the camera’s lens. “I see you,” their eyes say. “See me.” The faces the viewer sees are often those of “othered” people — Black people, queer people, little people, naked people, people missing…
from ArtDaily NEW ORLEANS, LA.- The New Orleans Museum of Art presents Dawn DeDeaux: The Space Between Worlds, the first comprehensive museum exhibition for the pioneering multimedia artist Dawn DeDeaux, on view October 22, 2021 through January 23, 2022. One of the first American artists to connect questions about social justice to emerging environmental concerns,…