SECOND WEEKEND JACQUES EUGÈNE Metal Sculpture – Haiti Featured at the Cultural Exchange Pavilion celebrating Haiti in 2011 The Haitian village of Croix Des Bouquets is the home of a thriving artisan community transforming raw metal drums into stunning iron sculptures. Recognized as part of a new generation of masterartisans from Croix Des Bouquets, Jacques Eugène combines other scrap metal and recycled material into works of art.
NOZIMASILE MAKHUBALO Embroidery – South Africa Featured at the Cultural Exchange Pavilion celebrating South Africa in 2004 Nozimasile Makhubalo is part of the Keiskamma Art Project, a community initiative of over 100 South African artists and crafters based in Hambourg, South Africa. She was one of the chief designers of the Keiskamma tapestry, a work over 400 feet-long on permanent display in the South African Parliament.
ZODWA MAPHUMULO Telephone Wire Plates – South Africa Featured at the Cultural Exchange Pavilion celebrating South Africa in 2004 Zodwa Maphumulo was one of the first women to learn to weave telephone wires into colorful plates. She has developed her own style that incorporates geometric and figurative elements, gaining recognition in public and private collections around the world.
SÉRGIO CEZAR Cardboard Architecture - Brazil
Nozimasile Makhubalo
Featured at the Cultural Exchange Pavilion celebrating Brazil in 2014 Sérgio Cezar is a Rio de Janeiro artist who uses cardboard and recycled materials to create houses, shacks and slums that depict the harsh reality of social inequality in Brazil. For his demonstration at the Festival in 2014, Cezar recreated a small-scale version of a Rio neighborhood incorporating found objects from New Orleans.
STEPHEN JEROME BAIN Junkanoo Costumes – The Bahamas Performed at the Festival in 1989 with the Valley Boys Bahamas Junkanoo Parade Stephen Bain is the Deputy Chairman of the Valley Boys, one of the main Junkanoo parading groups in Nassau, Bahamas. He joined the Valley Boys at the age of seven, and he learned the many facets of the Junkanoo traditions, whether it is drumming, dancing, playing the cowbell, or creating costumes.
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Sérgio Cezar
JAZZ FEST @ 50: THE WORLD WITHIN
Celebrating the Festival’s History of Cultural Exchange Since the mid 1970’s, the Festival has celebrated the multi-cultural makeup of Louisiana’s heritage by presenting artists from Africa, Europe, The Caribbean, and beyond. The Festival’s commitment to featuring foreign artists culminated with the establishment of the Cultural E xchange Pavilion in 1996, a place of celebration for our state’s cultural ancestors and its unique melting pot of cultures. Country celebrations included Haiti in 1996 and 2011, Mali in 1997, Panama in
1998, Brazil in 20 0 0 and 2014, Martinique in 20 03, South Africa in 20 04, Belize in 2016, and Cuba in 2017. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Festival, the photography exhibit, JAZZ FEST @ 50 : The World Within illustrates some of the unique international artists who have appeared at the Festival since its early days, with an emphasis on the many culturally-unique presentations featured at the Cultural E xchange Pavilion since its creation in 1996.
Presented by Shell | Jazz Fest 2019
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