Contemporary Arts Center Fall 2018 Brochure

Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans Fall Season 2018

In This Issue

Cover: Roger Guenveur Smith, Photo: Craig Schwartz This page: Zarouhie Abdalian, brunt (i), 2017. Steel tool, 15.8 x 2 x 2 cm, 6 1/4 x 3/4 x 3/4 in. Courtesy of the Artist and Altman Siegel, San Francisco.

Photo: Robert Divers Herrick

From the Director

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Open Call Exhibition: Constructing the Break

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Rodney King by Roger Guenveur Smith

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Roger Guenveur Smith, Photo: Patti McGuire

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Sur Le Fil by Nacera Belaza

Southern Crossings CAC Artist Residencies

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Zarouhie Abdalian: Production

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Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick: Labor Studies

William Monaghan: I—Object

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20 William Monaghan, 1709 Detail, 2017

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Vijay Iyer Sextet CAC Membership

Public Programs & Education

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Vijay Iyer, Photo provided by Artist

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Rentals Special Events 27

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BOARD OFFICERS Deborah Brockley President and Chair

STAFF Neil A. Barclay Director and CEO

Bush Wrighton Vice Chair

Nanette Saucier Deputy Director and Chief Financial Officer

Luis BaĂąos III Treasurer

Andrea Andersson The Helis Foundation Chief Curator of Visual Arts

Staci Rosenberg Secretary

Lindsay Barfield Exhibitions Manager and Chief Preparator

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Morris Adjmi Carla D. Arriola Bryan Bailey David Thaddeus Baker Judy Barrasso Dawn Barrios Valerie Besthoff Leslie Castay Sandra Chaisson Anna Coleman Dunbar Jonathan Fawer Sayde F. Finkel Nurhan Gokturk Kara Tucina Olidge David Patron Gregg Porter Virginia Freeman Rowan Elise Thomas Ryan Patrick Schindler Michael Schneider Robyn Dunn Schwarz Nathalie Simon Randall A. Smith Hank Torbert Gretchen Wheaton Sarah Wood David Workman Leopoldo J. Yanez

Jennifer Francino Senior Curatorial Associate

EMERITUS BOARD MEMBERS Sydney J. Besthoff Patricia Chandler Thomas B. Coleman Sandra Garrard Barbara Motley Jeanne Nathan Michael J. Siegel MK Wegmann

Laura Tennyson Associate Director of External Affairs

Neil Barclay Ex-officio member

Michele Frentzos Controller Emmeline Johnston Associate Director of Sales and Hospitality Sean Kendall Event Production Manager Ann Kerrin Individual Giving Manager Summer Mead Frontline Supervisor Courtney Mouton Finance Associate Leah Oby External Affairs Manager Samuel Oliver Assistant Director of Operations Mariana Sheppard Associate Director of Education and Public Programs

FROM THE DIRECTOR

5 As we approach the final months of New Orleans’s Tricentennial celebration, the CAC’s Fall 2018 performance and exhibition season focuses its attention on the ways in which we identify and examines how cultural perspectives and labor practices shape our daily lives.

Our season’s opening exhibition, Constructing the Break, features the work of 30 regional artists and is curated by Allison M. Glenn, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Using the Mississippi River as its central metaphor, the exhibition looks at artistic practices that engage with the shapeshifting that is at the core of New Orleans—a place where the concept of being “rooted” is consistently tempered by infrastructural fragility.

Photo: Logan Magee

In our new performing arts season curated by Laurie Uprichard, Roger Guenveur Smith’s prophetic portrayal of Rodney King takes its impetus from what seems to be an event of the past. However, in the hands of an artist like Smith, this historic event becomes an occasion to explore the present realities of many of our fellow citizens as they navigate how their actual cultural and racial identities conflict with the perceived ones placed upon them—often with fatal consequences.

Algerian native Nacera Belaza follows with her critically acclaimed Sur le Fil. The work is the latest exploration of the choreographer’s world-renowned minimalist and highly spiritual dances. Sur Le Fil is a piece that moves from a solo to a duet and ultimately a trio of dancers and is an evening length choreographic tour de force.

Andrea Andersson, The Helis Foundation Chief Curator of Visual Arts, has woven three distinct exhibitions into a singular vision which further advances the ever-present subject matter of identity, perspective and labor in our Fall season.

Among them is William Monaghan’s I—Object, which represents a larger body of work by this architecturally trained sculptor. Monaghan, who was raised in New Orleans, brings to the CAC his early large-scale works of fabricated steel and canvas. This work was last exhibited in 1975 by the ICA|Boston and this showing presents Monaghan’s first public exhibition of many of these works in nearly 40 years.

Zarouhie Abdalian also returns to her native New Orleans with her sound works, sculpture, film and two-dimensional engravings, which have also been shown at the Berkeley Museum of Art and the Whitney Biennial. An evening of performance directed by Zarouhie Abdalian and Joseph Rosensweig, her longtime collaborator, completes the presentation.

The infinite need for labor provides the subject matter for the photographic works of Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun’s depiction of laboring communities. The artists’ stunningly beautiful photographs prominently feature the region’s last sugarcane and sweet potato harvesters, as well as unionized dockworkers, musician day laborers, hospitality and restaurant workers, domestic caretakers and one of the largest workforces in the state of Louisiana—the inmates of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.

In an effort to foster the development of new interdisciplinary performance work by Southern artists funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the CAC is proud to inaugurate SOUTHERN CROSSINGS, a presentation of works in development by three New Orleans–based artistic collaborations: Vessels by Rebecca Mwase and Ron Ragin, a sevenwoman harmonic meditation on the transcendental possibilities of song during the Middle Passage; Raw Fruit by the KM Dance Project, which is a collection of stories that reveal the ancestral values that have been woven into the cultural fabric of our lives; and Breaking the Thermometer to Hide the Fever, a multimedia piece by composer Leyla McCalla and director Kiyoko McCrae.

Finally, we culminate our 2018 Fall Season with Vijay Iyer, an award-winning jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, producer, electronic musician and writer whose one-of-a-kind musical innovations never cease to amaze and delight.

I invite you to explore your own identity in what promises to be another topical and pioneering season here at the CAC. It is my sincere hope that you will develop your own unique affinity to each of the featured artists this season, as well as an appreciation for the unique aesthetic perspectives embodied in their amazing work. Enjoy!

Neil A. Barclay Director and CEO

Constructing Opening the season—the Contemporary Arts Center’s 5th annual Open Call Exhibition presents the work of 30 regional artists.

The Mississippi River makes meaning of the landscape as it careens through the United States, flowing South from Minnesota through the Midwest, caressing the edges and embankments of Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, and Arkansas, until finally pouring down through Louisiana to empty into the Gulf of Mexico. The landscape is similarly marked by the bodies who move through it, by the passing of time, and by the social politics that inform migration, homesteading, and documenting cartographies.

With these considerations, this exhibition looks to the intersection of the body and the landscape—from the gentle overlap of conceptual practices and the physicality of environments to spatial politics that are deeply embedded within the social fabric of this country. This exhibition considers artistic practices that engage with the shape-shifting that is at the core of New Orleans, where the concept of being rooted is consistently tempered by infrastructural fragility.

Constructing the Break Guest Curated by

Allison M. Glenn Associate Curator, Contemporary Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas

Dates

Opening: Saturday, August 4 August 4–October 6

the Admission

$10 (Free on Sundays for Louisiana residents) CAC Members Free Join at cacno.org

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Support for this exhibition is provided by the Azby Fund, Sydney & Walda Besthoff, The Helis Foundation, the Welch Family Foundation and the Visual Arts Exhibition Fund.

This exhibition is also supported in part by a Community Arts Grant made possible by the City of New Orleans and administered by the Arts Council New Orleans, as well as by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council.

ON VIEW AUGUST 4–OCTOBER 6, 2018

Michel Varisco, Crosshairs, 2017. Photo courtesy of the artist and A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans​

EXHIBITIONS

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Rodney King

“You look into the rear view and there’s that familiar red and blue and you’re a young African American male and you should know what to do”

Rodney King Roger Guenveur Smith Dates

Friday, September 14, 7:30pm Saturday, September 15, 7:30pm Sunday, September 16, 3pm

Admission

$35/$30 CAC Members Discounts and early seating Join at cacno.org

Roger Guenveur Smith returns to the CAC with a performance that the Washington Post called “a striking, idiosyncratic solo work,” Rodney King. Having enjoyed international acclaim from New York City’s Public Theater to London’s Tate Modern Museum, the film version, directed

by Spike Lee, continues to stream on Netflix with subtitles in 42 languages.

Smith’s New Orleans engagement is a rare opportunity to experience live an artist who, according to The New York Times, “gets it all and gets it brilliantly.” In writing this rhythmically wrenching tour de force monologue, Smith was inspired by the late Rodney King, whose videotaped beating by the Los Angeles Police Department in 1991 sparked rioting upon the officers’ acquittal of assault charges the next year. King tragically expired in his backyard swimming pool in 2012. Smith received a New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) Award for Rodney King in 2015.

Smith’s Obie Award-winning A Huey P. Newton Story was previously presented at the CAC, as was Inside the Creole Mafia, the “not-too-dark comedy” which earned Smith and cocreator Mark Broyard an official key to the city.

Smith is on faculty at Cal Arts where he teaches a workshop entitled Performing History. Smith’s prolific screen credits include Kasi Lemmons’ classic Eve’s Bayou and the acclaimed Queen Sugar. He and longtime colleague Spike Lee were honored at last year’s Cannes Film Festival for their extraordinary body of collaborative work.

This presentation of Rodney King is made possible by the Wallace Foundation. The CAC is supported in part by a Community Arts Grant made possible by the City of New Orleans and administered by the Arts Council New Orleans, as well as by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council. Funding has also been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works.

Roger Guenveur Smith, Photo: Patti McGuire​

SEPTEMBER 14, 15 & 16, 2018

ROGER GUENVEUR SMITH THEATER

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Sur La Nuit and La Traversée followed by Sur le fil compose a journey through the minimalist and spiritual dance of Nacera Belaza. Moving from the solo to the duo and then the trio, these dances explore three times the same release that conquers existential loneliness. The solitude in La Nuit is essential to “remain porous to its environment and to be able to welcome the world into itself.” La Traversée opens up this quest for the imperceptible to two performers who are like magnets to each other, a sketch of a new celebration carried by a memory of rhythms and steps from ancient traditions. Sur le fil, finally the culmination, is suspended between the visible and invisible, between transcendence and internality. This lively trio is free, even rebellious, and brings the performers and the audience to a place that “we agree not to know” carried along by a fascinating sound track that evokes both adolescence and a Sufi prayer.

Sur Le Fil Nacera Belaza Dates

Friday, September 28, 7:30pm Saturday, September 29, 7:30pm

Admission

$25/$20 CAC Members Discounts and early seating Join at cacno.org

Nacera Belaza’s performances are made possible by FUSED (French U.S. Exchange in Dance), a program developed by FACE Foundation and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States with the support from the Florence Gould Foundation, nstitut français-Paris, the French Ministiry of Culture and private donors. Additional support for women artists has been provided by Fondation CHANEL. Support is also provided by Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

Nacera Belaza, Photos: Claudia Pajewski

NACERA BELAZA

SEPTEMBER 28 & 29, 2018

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Southern Crossin CAC Artist Residencies

In an effort to foster the development of new performance work, the CAC invited three artist/ensembles to utilize the CAC resources and space to further develop their artistic work during the month of August and September. An informal showing of new work will occur on Art for Arts’ Sake, October 6th.

Vessels Vessels is a seven-woman harmonic meditation on the transcendental possibilities of song during the Middle Passage. Experienced within an interactive and acoustically rich sculptural environment that invokes those infamous ships, this interdisciplinary ritual performance explores singing as a survival tool and asks, “What does freedom sound like in a space of confinement?”

Vessels will premiere in 2018 on a floating barge in New Orleans and then tour to East Coast port cities that were active during the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Vessels is co-conceived/shaped by Rebecca Mwase and Ron Ragin. Rebecca is a Zimbabwean- American theater artist, creative consultant, producer, and cultural organizer.

Ron writes, sings, and creates interdisciplinary performance work that integrates sound, text, and movement. Sculptor and set designer Jeff Becker will design the sculptural environment in which the performance will occur. The process is highly collaborative, drawing upon the artists’ backgrounds in song, dance, poetry, theater, and experimental performance.

Southern Crossing CAC Artist Residencies

Dates

Vessels Rebecca Mwase & Ron Ragin Raw Fruit Kesha McKey & The KM Dance Project Breaking the Thermometer to Hide the Fever Leyla McCalla & Kiyoko McCrae

More info to follow

Informal presentation during Art for Arts’ Sake on October 6th Admission

Free and Open to the Public

​Vessels, Photo provided by Artist

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Southern Crossings is made possible by the Institute for Interdisciplinary Innovation (I³), a three year pilot project of the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans (CAC), supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, designed to provide both the context and content for the expanding aesthetic landscape of interdisciplinary performance as practiced by artists whose projects are drawn from or inspired by the rich cultural traditions of the South.

The CAC’s I³ Southern Partners include Duke Performances, Fusebox, The Nasher Museum of Art, Oz Nashville, and Speed Art Museum.

PERFROMANCE

sings Kesha McKey, Photo: James Cage Jr.

Raw Fruit Raw Fruit is a collection of stories that reveal the essence of ancestral values which have been woven into the cultural fabric of our lives. This work examines legacy, identity, socialization, unity and friction inside the Black family dynamic.

We delve deep to expose the impact of race, class, gender and sexuality on maternal relationships as well as reveal how the retention of cultural values, morals and taboos have shaped our current existence. These influences, which have defined our beliefs and actions, are explored through experimental dance theater and textile art to illustrate lineage, retention and history.

KM Dance Project, led by Artistic Director Kesha McKey is an emerging New Orleans based dance company presenting choreographic works that lie at the intersection of art and social justice, and provide opportunities for emerging choreographers needing a platform to express ideas and issues that affect and impact marginalized communities.

Breaking the Thermometer to Hide the Fever

McCalla’s original compositions and arrangements of both music inspired by and found in the Radio Haiti archives serve as the centerpiece for telling the story of Radio Haiti in Breaking the Thermometer. The songs and compositions are juxtaposed with the archival video and audio recordings of Radio Haiti.

Each of these sketches will be paired with one or more archival materials from the Duke University Radio Haiti Archive which include a diverse array of resources including field recordings, studio recordings of music, news reports, jingles and commercials.

OCTOBER 6, 2018

​Leyla McCalla, Photo: Greg Miles

​Vessels, Photo provided by Artist

Breaking the Thermometer to Hide the Fever is a multimedia piece in development by composer Leyla McCalla and director Kiyoko McCrae. Breaking the Thermometer to Hide the Fever is a multidisciplinary performance inspired by Radio Haiti-Inter, Haiti’s first privately owned Kreyol-speaking radio station. The title is derived from one of the myriad proverbs used by Jean Dominique, Radio Haiti-Inter’s agronomist turned journalist and station owner, to describe the harsh political realities of Haiti’s marginalized poor.

Production

Zarouhie Abdalian: Production Dates

Opening: Saturday, November 3 November 3–February 10, 2019

Admission

$10 (Free on Sundays for Louisiana residents) CAC Members Free Join at cacno.org

Support for this exhibition is provided by the Azby Fund, Sydney & Walda Besthoff, The Helis Foundation, and the Visual Arts Exhibition Fund. Performance support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works.

This exhibition is also supported in part by a Community Arts Grant made possible by the City of New Orleans and administered by the Arts Council New Orleans, as well as by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council.

Zarouhie Abdalian, from chalk mine hollow (iv), 2017. Hydrocal, 10 1/4 x 7 1/4 x 1 3/4 in. (Detail) Courtesy of the Artist and Altman Siegel, San Francisco. Photo: Robert Divers Herrick

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As part of this exhibition, the CAC will present an evening of performance—directed

by Zarouhie Abdalian and Joseph Rosensweig.

Part musical theater, part chamber music—the performance, including 12 instrumentalists playing both traditional and ‘created’ instruments, will build towards the presentation of American composer Frederic Rzewski’s “The Price of Oil,” which made its premiere in Amsterdam in 1980.

ZAROUHIE ABDALIAN

EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW NOVEMBER 3, 2018–FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Zarouhie Abdalian, brunt (ii), 2017. Steel tool head, 11 x 4 x 4 cm, 4 3/8 x 1 5/8 x 1 5/8 in. Courtesy of the Artist and Altman Siegel, San Francisco. Photo: Robert Divers Herrick

Zarouhie Abdalian, from chalk mine hollow (iv), 2017. Hydrocal, 10 1/4 x 7 1/4 x 1 3/4 in. (Detail) Courtesy of the Artist and Altman Siegel, San Francisco. Photo: Robert Divers Herrick

After presentations at the Berkeley Museum of Art, LAXART, and the Whitney Biennial, Zarouhie Abdalian returns to her hometown with a solo exhibition. Including sound works, sculpture, and two-dimensional engravings as well as film, Abdalian uses a minimalist vocabulary to examine a subject defined by scarcity—of opportunity and agency.

Operating in the tradition of found object, Abdalian foregrounds the tools and the traces of labor. The exhibition will include works from the last decade as well as newly commissioned pieces.

Labor Studies Keith Calhoun, Foundation, Lower 9th Ward after Hurricane Katrina (New Orleans), 2005. Photograph

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Labor Studies Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick Dates

Opening: Saturday, November 3 November 3–February 10, 2019

Admission

$10 (Free on Sundays for Louisiana residents) CAC Members Free Join at cacno.org

Support for this exhibition is provided by the Azby Fund, Sydney & Walda Besthoff, The Helis Foundation, the John T. Scott Guild and the Visual Arts Exhibition Fund.

This exhibition is also supported in part by a Community Arts Grant made possible by the City of New Orleans and administered by the Arts Council New Orleans, as well as by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council.

KEITH CALHOUN AND CHANDRA McCORMICK

EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW NOVEMBER 3, 2018–FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Chandra McCormick, Joyce Priestley, Bessie K Plantation (Louisiana),1986. Photograph

Living and working in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Calhoun and McCormick have documented the city and its people for forty years. This presentation will exhibit their photographs of laboring communities including the last sugar cane and sweet potato harvesters, unionized dockworkers, musician day laborers, hospitality and restaurant workers, domestic caretakers and one of the largest workforces in the state of Louisiana, the inmates of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. This will be the first exhibition to present this comprehensive study of the history and present of the city’s changing labor force.

I—Object William Monaghan, 1602, 2016. Paint on steel, aluminum, and cotton fabric, 24” x 24”

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Raised in New Orleans, Monaghan spent his childhood watching the mechanical operations of the Reily Coffee Company where his father worked. Later, he trained in the studios of architect William Wainwright and Buckminster Fuller and established his artist studio in the Portland Sheet Metal Shop in Somerville, MA. In 1975, the ICA Boston organized his first solo exhibition. William Monaghan: I—Object is Monaghan’s first museum exhibition in forty years, including work from the 1970s and 1980s as well as a large body of work from the last three years of production in New Orleans. Monaghan’s early, largescale works in steel and canvas—mounted and exposed

William Monaghan: I— Object Dates

Opening: Saturday, November 3 November 3—February 10, 2019

to rain and the elements—locate artistic agency at the intersection of materials. Chemical reactions, oxidization, and evaporation gave way to marks in rust and red. His recent work returns to the industrial scrap yard. Composed of remaindered and unwanted detritus, Monaghan’s assembled, affixed and painted canvases estrange perceptions of depth, space, and the relationship of the viewer to histories and functions of commonplace objects.

Collectively, they serve as portraits of a contemporary post-industrial economy and the aestheticized remains of a foregone day.

Admission

$10 (Free on Sundays for Louisiana residents) CAC Members Free Join at cacno.org

Support for this exhibition is provided by the Azby Fund, Sydney & Walda Besthoff, The Helis Foundation and the Visual Arts Exhibition Fund.

This exhibition is also supported in part by a Community Arts Grant made possible by the City of New Orleans and administered by the Arts Council New Orleans, as well as by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council.

William Monaghan, 1709 Detail, 2017. Painted steel, aluminum, and cotton fabric, 60” x 60”

William Monaghan, 1602, 2016. Paint on steel, aluminum, and cotton fabric, 24” x 24”

ON VIEW NOVEMBER 3, 2018–FEBRUARY 10, 2019

WILLIAM MONAGHAN EXHIBITIONS

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Vijay Iyer Sextet The Vijay Iyer (pronounced “VIDjay EYE-yer”) Sextet is a group of generation-defining, virtuoso improvisers—horn players Graham Haynes, Steve Lehman and Mark Shim alongside rhythm partners bassist Stephan Crump and one of a revolving cast of stellar drummers— Tyshawn Sorey, Marcus Gilmore, and Jeremy Dutton—who leverage a wealth of jazz history even as they push it boldly forward. The music ranges from the explosive to the elegiac, incorporating melodic hooks, entrancing atmosphere, rhythmic muscle and an elemental spirit. Iyer has been working with the members of this sextet for close to 20 years in a number of different configurations and Far From Over, Iyer's newest ECM Records release, represents

something of a culmination of that work while also furthering his prolific and diverse artistry.

Vijay Iyer Sextet

Admission

Dates

Friday, November 30, 7:30pm Saturday, December 1, 7:30pm

Throughout Far From Over, the pianist plays off the melodicrhythmic possibilities of the material, orchestrating the horns as textural commentary. In creating his sextet music, Iyer tends to “build from the rhythm first, from the identity of the groove,” he explains. “Many of the rhythms come from folk music—from West African drumming, Indian classical music, or South Indian folk rhythms.”

times—in 2016, 2015 and 2012.

He was named a 2013 MacArthur Fellow, and a 2012 Doris Duke Performing Artist. In 2014 he began a permanent appointment as the Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts in the Department of Music at Harvard University.

Iyer has released twenty albums covering remarkably diverse terrain.

He has been voted DownBeat Magazine's Artist of the Year three

$35/$30 CAC Members Discounts and early seating Join at cacno.org

This performance is supported in part by the CAC’s JazzNet Endowment Fund, made possible by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The CAC is supported in part by a Community Arts Grant made possible by the City of New Orleans and administered by the Arts Council New Orleans, as well as by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council. Funding has also been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works.

NOVEMBER 30 & DECEMBER 1, 2018

Vijay Iyer, Photo: Barbara Rigon

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CAC Membership

Photo: Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee

Thanks to the support of our members, the CAC can fulfill its mission of providing bold and innovative contemporary arts programming to diverse audiences. By becoming a member, you help the CAC remain an accessible and thought provoking gathering place for visitors, artists, students and families, and all those in our local and extended communities.

Be sure to take advantage of your CAC Member Benefits • Free admission to CAC exhibitions and invitations to CAC Members-only tours • Free admission to the Hancock Whitney White Linen Night “Party After Dark”, CAC’s Art for Arts’ Sake, film screenings copresented with New Orleans Film Society and other special events • $10 off CAC performance tickets with priority seating • Guest passes to CAC galleries and special events • 15% discount at Revelator Coffee Company • Listing in quarterly digital CAC Members newsletter.

Photo: Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee

Join at cacno.org/membership, by phone (504) 528-3805, or in person at the front desk.

CAC’s Second Thursdays Free & Open to all 6–9pm, Happy Hour: 6–8pm Join us on the Second Thursday of each month for a robust evening of programs designed to enhance your appreciation of contemporary art and artists: Meet the Maker, Young Professional Happy Hour Meetup, Gallery Tour & Conversation, Performances, Hands-On Activities, Live Music, Food Trucks and more!

Photo: Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee

Photo: Scott Meyers Support for Second Thursdays is provided by The Hearst Foundations; The Helis Foundation; The J. Edgar Monroe Foundation; The Keller Family Foundation; Darryl Will

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Education & Public Programs Teens@ CAC Curious about the arts? The CAC Teen Board and Teen Internship provide opportunities for high school students to explore different careers in the arts, meet working artists and art professionals, and share their own artwork in a rigorous and professional setting.

Learn more about Teens@CAC programs at cacteens.com or email teens@cacno.org

Photo: Scott Meyers Education and Public Programming support is provided by City of New Orleans | Edward Wisner Donation; The Hearst Foundations; The Helis Foundation; The J. Edgar Monroe Foundation; The Keller Family Foundation; The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation; Darryl Willis.

Photo: Scott Meyers

Support for the CAC’s teen programming provided by City of New Orleans | Edward Wisner Donation; The Hearst Foundations; The Helis Foundation; The J. Edgar Monroe Foundation; The Keller Family Foundation; Darryl Willis.

Artist Exchange Field Trips Bring your class of young artists to the CAC to learn from professional New Orleans artists—choose from classes in Theater, Dance, Music, Visual Arts, and Creative Writing!

Artist Exchange Field Trips introduce young artists to applied skills in the arts, reinforce Common Core Standards, and address the needs and abilities of all students.

Grades K–12 10am–1pm M, W–F 2 workshops for groups of 25–34 or 3 workshops for groups of 35–50 $8 per student, Free for chaperones Schedule early and customize your trip!

Email education@cacno.org for more information.

Photo: Frank Aymami

Family Free Day Sunday, October 14, 12–3pm Join us for a day of hands-on workshops for artists and makers of all ages! CAC galleries and workshop spaces will be free and open to the public as part of The Helis Foundation Free Day for Louisiana Residents.

Family Free Days are made possible by The Helis Foundation and the Hearst Foundations. Additional support is provided

by City of New Orleans | Edward Wisner Donation; The J. Edgar Monroe Foundation; The Keller Family Foundation; Darryl Willis.

Photo: Scott Meyers

Support for the CAC’s educational programming is provided

by City of New Orleans | Edward Wisner Donation; The Hearst Foundations; The Helis Foundation; The J. Edgar Monroe Foundation; The Keller Family Foundation; Darryl Willis.

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Your Event Reimagined As one of New Orleans' most unique spaces for private parties, corporate entertaining and film locations, the CAC offers 30,000 square feet of renovated turn-of-the century warehouse space and the awardwinning architecture of our Atrium, Galleries and the Theater.

For more information on Facility Rentals, Contact: Emmeline Johnston, Associate Director of Sales and Hospitality at event@cacno.org.

Photo: Arte de Vie Photography

Kaylynn Marie Photography, (504) 458-0085, www.kaylynnmarie.com

Upcoming Special Events Art For Arts’ Sake Saturday, October 6

Photo: Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee

The 29th New Orleans Film Festival October 17–25 Hub: The Contemporary Arts Center Screening Venues: The Prytania Theater, The Broad Theater, Cinebarre Canal Place, The New Orleans Advocate neworleansfilmfestival.org #NOFF2018 Photo: Craig Mulcahy

SweetArts 2019 Saturday, February 9, 2019 SweetArts 2018, Photo: Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee

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THE CAC IS SUPPORTED BY: Arts Council New Orleans; Cox Communications; The Domain Companies; Downtown Development District; Felicity Property Co.; The Gore Family Fund; Hancock Whitney Bank; The Helis Foundation; Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation; Louisiana Division of the Arts; Matt Bowers Chevrolet/ Matt Bowers Nissan; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; Josephine W. Nixon; The Wallace Foundation MAJOR IN-KIND SUPPORT: Ace Hotel New Orleans; Corporate Realty; Event Rental; Uniti Fiber; The New Orleans Advocate; Premium Parking; SkyCom EDUCATION AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS SUPPORT: The Hearst Foundations; The J. Edgar Monroe Foundation; The Keller Family Foundation; The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation; Darryl Willis PERFORMING ARTS SUPPORT: Cultural Services of the French Embassy; Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; FUSED (French U.S. Exchange in Dance); National Performance Network; New England Foundation for the Arts; South Arts VISUAL ARTS SUPPORT: The Azby Fund; Sydney & Walda Besthoff; FACE Foundation’s Étant Donnés Contemporary Art; Greater New Orleans Foundation; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; The Welch Family Fund; John T. Scott Guild; Visual Arts Exhibition Fund CAPITAL SUPPORT: Anonymous; Dathel & Tommy Coleman; Ella West Freeman Foundation; The Helis Foundation; Past Presidents of the CAC; RosaMary Foundation; The Selley Foundation Business Arts Fund Members: Audubon Communities; Joan Mitchell Center; W.I.N.O. The CAC is supported in part by a Community Arts Grant made possible by the City of New Orleans and administered by the Arts Council New Orleans, as well as by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council. Funding has also been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works.