Demond Melancon
Demond Melancon was featured on WYES’ “Steppin’ Out”. See the segment below.
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Eco Tone: Courtney Egan featuring collaborations with Natori Green on view at the Knoxville Museum of Art
KNOXVILLE, TENN.- Eco Tone is a show at the Knoxville Museum of Art of Egan’s artwork from 2020 to present, including new pieces made in collaboration with another New Orleans…
Historic New Orleans Collection – Acquisition Spotlight
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…
Dawn DeDeaux featured in Sculpture Magazine
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…
WITH 12-FOOT CEILINGS AND A DASH OF SOUTHERN CHARM, THIS HOUSE IS A LOVE LETTER TO NEW ORLEANS
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…
A-List 2022: Demond N. Melancon
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…
A Panorama of Design
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…
Texas’s Newest Master Sculptor Is a Parrot Named Hannah
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…
Invoking Black Masking Traditions, Artist Demond Melancon Beads Elaborate, Celebratory Portraits
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
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…