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CAC Surviving the Hurricane
Filmmaker Jeremy Campbell Filmmaker Jeremy Campbell will present a free screening of his Katrina documentary "Hexing a Hurricane" this morning at eleven at the New Orleans Museum of Art. WWNO's Fred Kasten has more... |
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Carnival Krewes The Carnival "Super Krewes" parade in New Orleans this weekend. Endymion, with 2,000 members and 28 floats, rolls tomorrow, while Bacchus, with 1,200 members and 27 floats, hits the streets Sunday. Everybody knows about these super-sized krewes ... but have you ever heard of the Krewe of Oak? All around New Orleans, you'll find smaller, neighborhood krewes whose members have no grander ambition than to have a good time. WWNO's Susan Roesgen takes you behind the scenes of a true neighborhood celebration ... |
Maxine Cassin Poet Maxine Cassin's latest book highlights the last three decades of her poetic output. But her fascination with the sound of words began much earlier, as she tells WWNO's Fred Kasten ... |
Charter Chat with Barbara McPhee Getting public schools up and running is essential for New Orleans to rebound from Katrina. A number of new charter schools will open in Orleans Parish in January, including the New Orleans Charter Science and Mathematics High School. WWNO's Fred Kasten recently talked with the Science and Mathematics High School's director Barbara McPhee about plans for the new year... |
Chefs in Exile Chef Stacey Meyer and freelance writer Troy Gilbert, both New Orleans natives, have been friends since high school. Since Katrina they've been partners on a project they call "Chefs in Exile"... |
Dale Chihuly Dale Chihuly was introduced to glass while studying interior design at the University of Washington. Since then, he's worked all over the world, creating art housed in over 200 museum collections worldwide. But his story doesn't begin at school, as he explains to WWNO's Fred Kasten ... |
William Christenberry William Christenberry is a southern artist with an international reputation. The Tusclaloosa, Alabama native and University of Alabama graduate recently had his first solo exhibitions in Europe, and has work in such significant collections as the Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian, and High Museum in Atlanta. Christenberry's acclaimed photographs and sculptures of backwoods Alabama vernacular architecture will also be a part of the permanent collection at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art when it opens here next year. William Christenberry is currently Artist-in-Residence at Dartmouth College, and has taught art for many years at the Corcoran School of Art and Design in Washington, D.C. He recently sat down with WWNO's Jacqueline Bishop to talk about his work and career ... |
Joshua Clark: Louisiana In Words |
Louisiana Artist: John Clemmer |
Louisiana Artist: Teresa Cole
Common Ground Medical Clinic The the immediate aftermath of Katrina, health care in New Orleans was scarce for the insured, and virtually nonexistent for the uninsured. Then a grass-roots effort began to change that, first on the West Bank and later in the Ninth Ward and Kenner. WWNO's Fred Kasten has the story... |
Contemporary Arts Center Tomorrow night, the Contemporary Arts Center opens its first touring exhibition of art since Katrina --- a touring exhibition that was actually Made In New Orleans. WWNO's Fred Kasten has the story... |
John Corigliano's Clarinet Concerto John Corigliano's Clarinet Concerto is part of the LPO's "Festival of Living Composers." Earlier this week, Corigliano stopped by the WWNO studios to talk about the birth of his concerto...
Louisiana Artist with Judy Cooper
LA Garden Journal: Culinary Herbs New Orleans probably sports more good cooks per square block than any other city on the planet, their efforts enhanced significantly in recent years by the growing availability of fresh herbs. Those herbs are here thanks in large part to the efforts of the West Bank gardener Jeannette Hardy introduces you to next, in today's "Herbs" entry in the Louisiana Garden Journal... |
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Dangerous Zoning - Part I No matter where you live, your quality of life is in danger of being radically changed by planning decisions that are unforseen, unwelcome, and often unstoppable. WWNO's Susan Roesgen reveals how planning decisions are made in New Orleans, and why no neighborhood is safe from "Dangerous Zoning"... You could call it the second "Battle of New Orleans" -- the battle over neighborhood planning decisions. In New Orleans, as things are now, controversial decisions that affect thousands of people are almost always made by a single politician -- and both neigborhoods and developers have to fight to win that politician's favor. WWNO's Susan Roesgen has the second part of our special report -- "Dangerous Zoning"... Dangerous Zoning - Part III If you could gaze into a crystal ball and see the future of New Orleans, you might be unpleasantly surprised by what you see. Without a master plan for future development, neighborhoods are in a constant struggle with developers over what this city should become. WWNO's Susan Roesgen concludes our special report ... |
Stephen Danker Tonight at the Orpheum Theater, Klauspeter Seibel and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra join forces with the Symphony Chorus of New Orleans, Loyola Chorale, and vocal soloists Philip and Ellen Frohnmayer, for the world premiere of New Orleans composer Stephen Dankner's monumental Symphony No. 5 "Odyssey of Faith". WWNO's Fred Kasten has the story... |
Louisiana Artist: Stephen Paul Day Artist Stephen Paul Day was born in Iowa, grew up in Louisiana, earned degrees in sculpture and glass from LSU, and studied printmaking in Paris. Stephen Paul Day recently sat down with WWNO's Jacqueline Bishop to talk about his life and work as a Louisiana Artist... |
Tom Dent Tom Dent set out to find what significant changes have happened as a result of the efforts of the American civil rights movement of the 1960s. He traveled into the south and into the past, and put his answers in a book: "Southern Journey". He discusses his discoveries, and his book, with WWNO's Fred Kasten ... |
Michael Depp on Hurricane Preparedness Just how prepared are you for this hurricane season? And what might you face if New Orleans gets hits again? Those are two of the questions on the mind today of writer and commentator Michael Depp... |
Roger Dickerson He couldn't march with a piano, so he had to learn something else in high school... New Orleans native Roger Dickerson soon learned that becoming familiar with different instruments facilitated his composition, as he discusses with WWNO's Diane Mack ... |
Preview: "Dis+Graced" New Orleans actress Amy Woodruff's new one-woman show opens it Crescent City run this weekend and the Zeitgeist Arts Center, and critic Dalt Wonk has this preview... |
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March 1, 2006
New Orleans video artist Courtney Egan is best known for
her "Chaos Hags" video series. She's also a member of the Media Arts faculty
at NOCCA|Riverfront. A few weeks prior to the arrival of Katrina, Egan talked
with WWNO's Jacqueline Bishop about her life and work as a Louisiana Artist..
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Alfred Eisenstaedt
February 9, 1993 A chat with the famed photographer about the gift from his uncle, getting work as a photographer, leaving for the U.S., World War II, and more. |
Lin Emery |
John Clemmer has figured prominently in New Orleans art circles since his days as a student at the since-closed New Orleans Art School in the French Quarter in the late 1930s. He joined the faculty at Tulane University's School of Architecture in 1951, where he remained until 1978, when he became chairman of the art department at Tulane's Newcomb College. Following his retirement from Tulane in 1986, Clemmer remained active as a painter and sculptor, and his work is in numerous private and public collections. John Clemmer recently talked with WWNO's Jacqueline Bishop about his life as a "Louisiana Artist"... to view more from Clemmer, 
Printmaker Teresa Cole exhibits her work nationally - and internationally - and recently worked with acclaimed artist Judy Chicago at the Pilchuck Glass School in Washington State. Teresa Cole studied art in Baltimore and Detroit - and currently holds the Ellsworth Woodward Professorship in Art at Tulane University. Not long ago - Teresa Cole sat down with WWNO's Jacqueline Bishop to talk about life as a "Louisiana Artist"... To see some of Teresa Cole's work, 
New Orleans sculptor Lin Emery's kinetic pieces grace and animate private collections and public spaces from here to Japan, and many places in between. One of Lin Emery's most viewed pieces in the Crescent City is her 1988 "Wave", which is beautifully situated in a pool at the entrance to the New Orleans Museum of Art. Lin Emery recently talked about her life and work as a Louisiana Artist with WWNO's Jacqueline Bishop ...
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