By ANDREW LASANE for Colossal For the past three decades, Louisiana-based artist Demond Melancon has created highly detailed Mardi Gras Indian suits using millions of hand-sewn small glass beads. Each suit takes…
Demond Melancon was featured on WYES’ “Steppin’ Out”. See the segment below.
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…
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…
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…
Posted by Kelly Beall for Design Milk A needle and thread. Glass beads. Canvas. A whole lot of time. These are the tools and materials New Orleans-based artist Demond Melancon…
by: Anna McAllister for WGNO NEW ORLEANS — Thread by thread, bead by bead. Demond and Alicia Melancon are creating one of a kind masterpieces. “I’ve been beading for almost thirty years….
By Ray Funk for Trinidad Guardian In 1911, a statue was put up in New Orleans of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy. A century later, the New Orleans…
by Doug Maccash for The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate Canal Street commuters’ heads swiveled on Mardi Gras morning at the sight of a magnificent Mardi Gras Indian suit…
“Art in the Time of Empathy” will be on display until December 19th. It can be viewed at the Arthur Roger Gallery at 432 Julia Street in New Orleans by…
by Doug MacCash for The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate The year 2020 has been a tangle of medical, political, social, economic and ecological trouble. There’s no getting around it. But…
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