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We are at an extraordinary time in the world of Contemporary Art. The need for fundamental change, social justice, and institutional accountability
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resistance. The CAC is meeting this moment with principled art and a critical stance in relationship to power, identity, and community. We believe it is not
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do not guide decisions in the boardroom and administrative offices. Our
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mission is to present the art of our time and today’s artists are calling for the
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transformation not only of aesthetics but of society.
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At the CAC, we have transformed a difficult year into a period of exciting
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renewal. We have refined our mission and vision, and re-examined our history through conversations with our community and its artists. To foster
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higher-education, music, youth, media, and healthcare. Our patrons and
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expanded residency and exhibition opportunities for artists across the Gulf
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South. The Inter[SECTOR] program, generously funded by Andrew W. Mellon
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and environment through a constellation of exhibitions, performances, and
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residencies. We welcome you to participate in this evolving conversation of artists, policy makers, civic leaders, and community activists.
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James Flynn, Epiphany, 2018. Ultraviolet Reactive Acrylic on Wood Panel with black light bulbs, 41 x 62.” Image courtesy of the artist
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the most prescient contemporary work from around the globe. Intermixed,
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“Gorgeous Offerings”, a year-long artist residency filled with workshops and community programs, expands a space for public grief through film,
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movement, and music into the heart of this contemporary institution. Through a season of genre-blending artistic experimentation, multimedia
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with the power of this place, I often ask myself, what is the purpose of contemporary art in a city so steeped in creative culture? I look forward to
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on health and wellness in the wake of the pandemic. In the fall, along performance, will share the stories of families impacted by incarceration.
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Human Condition” presents the work of 36 Gulf South artists reflecting the banks of the Mississippi, The Wait Room, an astonishing aerial dance
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Encountering Bodies, Wrestling the Human Condition Following an unprecedented pandemic year, the heightened visibility of health inequity throughout the nation has elevated concerns about mental and physical well-being, the industrialization of medical practices, disease, illness, and (dis)/ability. Featuring multimedia
artworks f rom 36 Gulf South artists, the CAC’s annual Open Call exhibition offers a deeply personal portrayal of artists’ experiences with health and illness, and the reverberating impact on the life, body, and psyche of the individual and their community.
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Artemis Antippas Jan Arrigo Abdul Aziz Micaela Rianne Cadungog Anita Cooke Luis Cruz Azaceta Stephen Paul Day Kabot + Desmarais Muse Dodd Andrea Dubé Su Ecenia Owen Ever James Flynn Steven Forster Maria Haag Ann Haley Gia M. Hamilton Sally Heller
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Gris Gris Lab July 31-September 26, 2021 Created by “Gris Gris Mama” Gia M. Hamilton, the Gris Gris lab is an Afrofuturist Apothecary and healing incubator, located inside the CAC’s Oval Gallery. Activations and performances will take place in this space throughout the summer of 2021.
StudioV August 12, 5 PM & September 2, 5 PM Join us for virtual studio tours featuring Gulf South artists from “Behind Every Beautiful Thing”. Tours will be hosted online via Zoom by guest curator David W. Robinson-Morris, Ph.D.
Panel Discussion: “Behind Healing and Wholeness: Art + Health” September 9 at 6 PM Join us for a panel discussion featuring artists and health policy-makers, hosted by guest curator David W. Robinson-Morris, Ph.D.
Veronica Ibargüengoitia Heather Ryan Kelley Frahn Koerner Maria Lino Lake Newton Mary Jane Parker Antoine Prince Jr. Nik Richard Coralina Rodriguez Meyer Judith Rushin-Knopf Caroline Ryan Cynthia Scott Rick Shopfner VntheV Sam Spahr Jamie Spinello Sarah Sudhoff Caitlin Ezell Waugh
GUEST CURATOR: DAVID W. ROBINSON-MORRIS PH.D. David Robinson-Morris, Ph.D. is a scholar, author, philosopher, social justice and human rights advocate-activist, educator, philanthropist, community organizer, DEI practitioner, and administrator. As Founder and Chief Reimaginelutionary at The REImaginelution, LLC, a strategic consulting f irm working at the intersections of imagination, policy, practice, and prophetic hope to radically reimagine diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) toward racial justice and systemic transformation. Most recently, he served as the Regional Director of Diversity and Inclusion at Ochsner Health System for the Bayou Region of Louisiana. David is the Founding Director of The Center for Equity, Justice, and the Human Spirit at Xavier University of Louisiana, former Assistant Professor in the Division of Education and Counseling, and served as Xavier’s Assistant Vice President of Development. Frahn Koerner, Into the Vortex, 2008. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 61 x 47 x 2 in., Image courtesy of the artist
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ARTIST RESIDENCIES The CAC’s Artist Residencies are an annual, application-based program offering time, space, resources, and professional development opportunities for visual and performing artists in New Orleans. Each spring, artists and
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companies are selected to be in residence f rom June to August, culminating in the sharing of works-in-process performances and a month-long group visual art exhibition.
PROGRAM ACTIVITIES CAC Studio Sundays July 25 and August 22 11 AM - 2 PM Get a look inside the artistic practices of the CAC’s performing and visual artists-in-residence during free open rehearsals and public studio hours.
“SOLOS” Exhibition On View August 27 - September 26, 2021 Experience a month-long exhibition of new works by CAC visual artists-in-residence.
PERFORMANCE Showcases August 27 - 29, 2021, 7:30 PM Join us for a weekend of nightly performances featuring new works-in-process by CAC performing artists-in-residence.
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Jarrell Hamilton / De La SoL Dance-Theatre Co.
Rebecca Elizabeth Hollingsworth
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J Knoblach
Keysha Rivera
kai barrow
Ellen Bull
Shana M. griffin, 2020 CAC artist-in-residence. Regulated Movements, 2020. Acrylic and paper on wood, 48” x 48.” Photo by Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee
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The Graduates is a New Orleans-based performance ensemble of formerly- incarcerated women who were former members of the Drama Club at Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women (LCIW). Life is a performance that was created by The Graduates to accompany The Life Quilt (2018), a hand-beaded quilt adorned with the names of the 107 women serving life sentences in Louisiana. Created to honor the women named on the quilt, Life combines spoken word, music, dance, video, and live musical accompaniment by New Orleans musicians Zohar Israel and Big
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Chief David Montana. The names, compiled by Selina Anderson of the LCIW Drama Club, were hand-beaded by members of the Black Masking Indian gangs: Golden Feather Hunters, Creole Osceola, Washitaw Nation, Wild Magnolias, Cheyenne Hunters, and the Young Masai Hunters. The center portrait was created by Brandan ‘BMike’ Odums and features an image of the late Mary Turner, founding LCIW Drama Club member and “Lifer.” The entire piece was sewn together by Louise Mouton Johnson.
SACRED JOURNEY Created during The Graduates’ year-long Sacred Wellness 360º residency, Sacred Journey is a new work by the ensemble. Each piece of the performance will address the
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thoughts, challenges, and needs faced by its members as they continue to heal f rom the carceral system.
ARTISTS Taece Defillo Carry Emerson Ivy Mathis Fox Rich Jacqueline Hall Williams Ausettua AmorAmenkum, Co-Director Kathy Randels, Co-Director
The Graduates perform Life at The Ford Foundation
THE GRADUATES The Graduates and the LCIW Drama Club are co-directed by Kathy Randels of ArtSpot Productions and Ausettua AmorAmenkum of Kumbuka Af rican Drum & Dance Collective. Their performances focus on the experiences that women f rom Louisiana have faced when they interact with the prison system, and are designed to move and motivate audiences to become active in helping to end mass incarceration in Louisiana. The Life Quilt, 2017. Image courtesy of the artists
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FLYAWAY PRODUCTIONS THE WAIT ROOM The Wait Room exposes the physical, psychic, and emotional burden on women with incarcerated loved ones. Utilizing a large hydraulic stage shaped as a clock dial, the performance incorporates dance, installation, an original score by Pamela Z, and oral histories of women whose families are f ractured by the carceral system. The work is Part One of Jo Kreiter’s “Decarceration Trilogy: Dismantling the Prison Industrial Complex One Dance at a Time.”
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The Wait Room was created in partnership with ESSIE Justice Group, an organization of women with incarcerated loved ones that addresses the rampant injustices created by mass incarceration. With this presentation of The Wait Room, the CAC broadens its engagement with New Orleans’ prison justice movement working to transform the conditions and policies that have led to Louisiana having the highest rates of incarceration in the nation.
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All performances will be held in Algiers Point (across f rom the Algiers Courthouse).
PROGRAM ACTIVITIES Post-performace talks September 24: Maryam Henderson-Uloho,
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The Graduates Alanah Odoms Hebert and Friends, ACLU of Louisiana
September 26: Norris Henderson and Bruce Reilly,
SisterHearts Thrift Store Participatory Defense NOLA The Prison Music Project Operation Restoration Learn about these organizations and their work to end mass incarceration at cacno.org/intersector-series
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FLYAWAY PRODUCTIONS Flyaway Productions makes dances as part of an intersectional feminist discourse on the body and the transformation of women’s images in the public domain. Their tools include coalition-building, an intersectional feminist lens, and a body-based push against the constraints of gravity. Jo Kreiter, Artistic Director of Flyaway Productions, is a San Francisco-based choreographer and site artist with a background in political science.
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Productions is creating “The Decarceration Trilogy: Dismantling the Prison Industrial Complex One Dance at a Time” as part of the national wave of political action aimed at exposing the devastating effects of prison on American citizens. Learn more at flyawayproductions.com. The Wait Room by Flyaway Productions. Dancers: Laura Elaine Ellis, Sonsherée Giles, Clarissa Dyas, and Megan Lowe
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OCTOBER 23, 2021 – JANUARY 23, 2022 [E XHI BI T I ON]
P.5 New Orleans
This Fall, museums, cultural spaces, and public sites throughout New Orleans will host the long-awaited return of Prospect, New Orleans’ Triennial exhibition, with Prospect.5: “Yesterday we said tomorrow”. The CAC’s f irst and second floor galleries will feature exciting works by leading contemporary artists f rom around the world. Curated by Artistic Directors Naima J. Keith and Diana Nawi, P.5 features an intergenerational group of artists f rom the United States, the Caribbean, Af rica, and Europe, and will include both existing and newly-commissioned
projects. P.5 will examine the ways in which the past informs the present, and will take a nuanced approach to history as a form of haunting and as a presence held in the land. Acknowledging time as cyclical and layered, rather than linear, the exhibition presents a range of artistic practices that attend to history as an ever-present specter in the individual and collective consciousness. Stay tuned for a complete list of artists in early October 2021. Learn more at prospectneworleans.org
PROGRAM ACTIVITIES P.5 Exhibition Opening October 23, 2021 6 PM - 10 PM Featuring music, drinks, and special performances by P.5 artists.
CURATORS Diana Nawi is an independent curator based in Los Angeles. Most recently she organized Mark Bradford: Los Angeles at the Long Museum, Shanghai, and Michael Rakowitz: Dispute between the Tamarisk and the Date Palm at REDCAT, Los Angeles. Her writing has appeared in publications for the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Marrakech Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, New Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Studio Museum of Harlem, among others. She received her BA f rom UCLA and her MA f rom the Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art. Naima J. Keith is the Vice President of Education and Public Programs at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) where she is responsible for overseeing youth, family, school, teacher, as well as adult, f ilm and music programs. Keith previously served as the Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the California Af rican American Museum (CAAM), where she guided the curatorial and education departments as well as marketing and communications. She was the 2017 recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize in recognition of her contributions to the f ield of Af rican American art history. She has lectured extensively and her essays have appeared in numerous publications. Keith holds degrees f rom Spelman College and UCLA and is a proud native of Los Angeles.
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“The Gorgeous Offerings” are a series of rituals, sacred spaces, workshops, and community gatherings created to support healing f rom the loss and disorientation of the COVID-19 pandemic. Open to all, these events are created to respond to the particular burden of grief held in the BIPOC community, compounded by layers of embodied stress and disruptions to communal forms of mourning and healing. “The Gorgeous Offerings”, conceived by Renee Benson and co-produced by Jennifer Sargent, were born out of the theatrical creation, Requiem for a Stranger, created by Renee and theater company Vagabond Inventions.
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resources across the artists’ yearlong Inter[SECTOR] residency, including: the episodic experimental f ilm The Black Ophelia, accompanied by community dialogue around Black women’s birthright to f ragility in mourning; integrative health sessions led by staff f rom the Center for Mind Body Medicine; and workshops on “Grief Mapping” and anticolonial relationships to the land led by Raconteur Alaina Comeaux. The culmination of “The Gorgeous Offerings” will be the premiere of Requiem for a Stranger, a stage performance that explores the heartspace of grief. Learn more about “The Gorgeous Offerings” and its collaborating artists at requiemforastranger.com
re:FRAME re:FRAME is a movement-research collective of six dance-makers exploring alternative systems for cultivating artistic community, exchange, and sustainability. Rehearsing in
DECEMBER 13 – 19, 2021 residence since 2020, re:FRAME is currently developing f ive evening-length solo works for joint presentation at the CAC.
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Every Body Dance Now
Ann Glaviano Ryuta Iwashita Meryl Merman Yanina Orellana Jeremy Guyton Shannon Stewart
December 13-19, 2021 Join re:FRAME for an exploration into the magnif icent expression of our bodies, their creative potential to examine the society we live in, and to celebrate moving together after a year of physical distance. Over the course of a week, the re:FRAME cohort will lead activities and workshops, including f ree Community Conversations, all-levels movement workshops that address different socio-political issues, and a dance second line through downtown New Orleans. Every Body Dance Now is produced in collaboration with Beaubourg Theatre/The Free School.
Together, these events will form a transmedia storytelling project offering an array of
PROGRAM ACTIVITIES The Black Ophelia: A Film Screening and Community Discussion November 5 and 6 at 6:30 PM Created by Benson, Jason Foster, Ja’nese Brooks-Galathe, and Jennifer Sargent, The Black Ophelia is a short f ilm that chronicles a “grief walk” f rom the Black femme perspective, exploring the dignity of f ragility in mourning. It is a collaborative, experimental work that weaves documentary style into an expressionistic, f ilmic ritual. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the f ilm’s creators.
ARTISTS Jennifer Sargent is the director of Vagabond Inventions, an association of physical theater artists who share a language of ensemble-devised performance. The company’s original, highly physical productions explore worlds in disequilibrium: unmoored feminine identity at midlife; migrants waiting in an immigration off ice; and social biases that survive the apocalypse. Renee Benson is a New Orleans-based singer, songwriter, poet and composer. On the stage, her dynamic and rhythmically challenging phrasing calls her listeners to break away f rom the world of the overstimulated to the world of the living. As a singer ( jazz, hip-hop, soul, funk, gospel, reggae and more), she has been featured on TV, radio, and in f ilm.
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BREAKING THE THERMOMETER TO HIDE THE FEVER Breaking the Thermometer to Hide the Fever is a multidisciplinary performance set to new music by Haitian-American singer-songwriter Leyla McCalla. The project explores the legacy of Radio Haiti-Inter, Haiti’s f irst privately owned Creole-speaking radio station, and the assassination of its owner, Jean Dominique, in 2000. The title is derived f rom a proverb used by Dominique to describe the spirit of Haiti’s marginalized poor in the face of violence and political oppression. Directed by Kiyoko McCrae, Breaking the Thermometer to Hide the Fever combines
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storytelling, dance, video projection, and audio recordings f rom the Radio Haiti Archive housed at Duke University and is anchored by McCalla’s original compositions and arrangements of traditional Haitian songs. We see Haiti through McCalla’s eyes as she grapples with the harsh political realities of its people and the journalists, like Dominique, who fought to uplift their voices. The piece premiered in March 2020 at Duke Performances, lead commissioner of the project. As a co-commissioner, the CAC hosted the show in a series of development residencies between 2018-2020.
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PROGRAM ACTIVITIES Caribbean Wake: Contemporary Art f rom a Diasporic Perspective November 19, 2021 at 6 PM Join the creators of Breaking the Thermometer to Hide the Fever in conversation with Haitian and Caribbean curators and artists as they discuss their work through the lens of diasporic culture.
ARTISTS Leyla McCalla is a New York-born Haitian-American living in New Orleans, who sings in French, Haitian Creole, and English, and plays cello, tenor banjo, and guitar. Deeply influenced by traditional Creole, Cajun, and Haitian music, as well as by American jazz and folk, her music is at once earthy, elegant, soulful, and witty — it vibrates with three centuries of history, yet also feels strikingly f resh, distinctive, and contemporary. Kiyoko McCrae is a multidisciplinary artist and producer who directs theater and f ilm productions that are aimed at creating social change. She was recently named the Director of Documentary Programming and Filmmaker Labs at the New Orleans Film Festival. Photo by Rush Jagoe
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the movement, sound and spirit of Black folks in New Orleans and layered with visceral expressions of lineage, retention and ancestral memory. From crawf ish boils to second lines, living room altars to junior daughters, and bread pudding to pecan pralines, these experiences, rituals and ancestral contributions have created a web of lineage connecting our present experiences with customs rooted in the past. We recognize and value what we have acquired, what we release, what we hold and what we will
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PROGRAM ACTIVITIES Sowing Seeds: A Workshop Series by KM Dance Project Winter 2021 Sowing Seeds is a multigenerational workshop series focused on celebrating the histories of Af rican American women who have always been responsible for holding space for others, while rarely receiving the opportunity to be held themselves. KM Dance Project presents a genealogical love fest focusing on storytelling, creating family trees, honoring the selfless contributions of familial matriarchs, and creating movement that synthesizes discoveries made in the process.
KM DANCE PROJECT KM Dance Project is a New Orleans-based dance company presenting choreographic works that lie at the intersection of art and social justice. The organization provides opportunities for emerging choreographers seeking a platform to express their ideas while addressing issues that affect and impact marginalized communities.
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Raw Fruit is a collection of stories that reveals the essence of ancestral values which have been woven into the cultural fabric of our lives. This multidisciplinary work uses the technology of the kitchen to examine legacy, identity, socialization, unity, and f riction inside the southern Black family dynamic. Raw Fruit is a celebration of New Orleans culture juxtaposed to the complexities of the Af rican American experience in the south. Using dance as the foundational medium to elevate the voices of Af rican American women, this work is steeped in
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CAC BOARD OF TRUSTEES & STAFF BOARD OFFICERS Michael Schnieder President & Chair David T. Baker Vice Chair Jane Cooper Secretary Jonathan Fawer Treasurer Bryan Bailey Immediate Past President George Scheer (Ex-Officio) CAC Executive Director CAC BOARD OF TRUSTEES Bryan Bailey David T. Baker Valerie Besthoff Jane Cooper Jonathan Fawer Nurhan Gokturk Michael Hecht Delfeayo Marsalis Gina Monette Robin Rankin Babette Rittenberg
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The Wait Room by Flyaway Productions. Dancers: Bianca Cabrera, Laura Elaine Ellis, MaryStarr Hope, Sonsherée Giles, and Clarissa Dyas
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