"Gardenberries" Mardi Gras Bead painting by Market artis Jenny Kölbel, just one of the many artists showing this weekend at Palmer Park.

Saturday, January 28th
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Palmer Park, S. Carrollton and S. Claiborne Aves in Uptown.
Free and open to the public

Celebrate the Carnival Season with over 100 of your favorite visual artists, tasty food and drink, live music, and kid's activities in beautiful Palmer Park. This is the last Market before Mardi Gras, so don't miss out on your chance to get one-of-a-kind Carnival essentials this weekend!

Start your masking early at the booth off Ann Guccione, or unleash some Mardi Gras magic with the wearable wire creations of Cathy Cooper-Stratton. Shop local and support handmade Fine Art and Crafts at the Arts Market of New Orleans!

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Award-winning performance companies ArtSpot Productions and Mondo Bizarro present a kid adaptation of FLIGHT, a fantasia of myths, music, and flying machines exploring the dream of flight and its unpredictable consequences. Follow a reluctant young girl’s adventure as she overcomes her fear of flight. Two performances only for the Contemporary Arts Center's Children's Theater Series on Saturday January 28th at noon and 2:30pm.

Don’t miss your FLIGHT!

Bring your kids to the CAC. Take off your shoes. Get checked in. And soar into the highly imaginative world of ArtSpot Productions and Mondo Bizarro’s Big Easy award-winning production of FLIGHT. We have adapted this jet-setting show, which has toured internationally since its premier in 2008, for kids and their families. Don’t miss this special one-time showing on January 28th. Directed and designed by Jeff Becker, music composed by Sean LaRocca, lighting design by Hannah Adams, video by Courtney Egan, written by Lisa D’Amour and Lisa Shattuck, performed by Bruce France, Nick Slie, Lisa Shattuck, Rebecca Mwase, Kathy Randels, Ashley Sparks and debuting child performers Aja Becker, Emma Randels LaRocca and Rio Shattuck. For more information visit: www.artspotproductions.org or www.mondobizarro.org.

Where: Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St. New Orleans

When: Jan 28th Noon AND 2:30

Tickets: $10 CAC Members and Children 12 and under $12 Adult General Admission CAC Box Office: 504-528-3800 www.cacno.org Coming up in the CAC’s Children's Theater Series:

Saturday, February 25, NOON & 2:30pm

The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits by Skin Horse Theater

A stage adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s epic nonsense poem which details the perilous voyage of an improbable crew who set sail in search of the dangerous and elusive Snark.

Saturday, March 24, NOON & 2:30pm

Les Gitans by Artist Inc.

Les Gitans (translation, "Gypsies") are a nomadic family traveling from village to village. They seek shelter and food, and are both entertaining and confusing to the mainstream community. In the end, Les Gitans are finally accepted! But how will they affect the community and how will the community affect our Gypsies? Come meet Les Gitans and find out!

MORE HERE  

ELLA Project Supervising Attorney and Project Co-Founder has been named Best Music Attorney in the 2012 Best of the Beat Awards presented by Offbeat Magazine. Fourth year in a row for Ashlye. Congratulations to Ashlye for this well deserved honor!

ELLA Provides low to moderate income Louisiana artists and grass roots non-profits with pro bono legal assistance. If you need help from ELLA, please call 504-523-1465

The ELLA Project is a partnership of the Arts Council, Tipitina's Foundation and Tulane Law School, and received additional support from the Greater New Orleans Foundation and the Louisiana State Bar Association.  

An effective artist brand communicates your values and helps you attract new customers. On Thursday, February 9th at 12 noon, Join Lindsay Glatz, Director of Marketing for the Arts Council of New Orleans as she discusses:

• What we mean by branding?
• What makes a great brand.
• The importance of authenticity.
• How to best use graphic design.
• Integrating your brand into everything you do.

Branding the Arts: an Arts Council webinar
presented by Lindsay Glatz.
Thursday, February 9th at 12 noon

For a link to the webinar, Please Email Us.

Can't join us live? Don't worry, the archived version will be posted for free streaming from our website on February 10th. But live is the only time to ask Lindsay your questions!

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This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support comes from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation

 

Deadline March 1, 2012

The Stabilization Program seeks to support nonprofit 501(c)3 arts organizations that help to create, present, and preserve the various unique arts resources that make up Louisiana. The Stabilization Program provides grants to arts organizations that have made an impact locally, statewide, regionally, nationally, or internationally. Stabilization grants provide general operating funds in three funding tiers. They are (1) Institution, (2) Advancement, and (3) Entry.

Goals and Objectives for the Stabilization Program

• Strengthen the infrastructure of the arts industry
• Celebrate Louisiana's diverse artistic tapestry
• Invest in nonprofit arts organizations to maintain authenticity and uniqueness of their communities
• Increase in-state purchasing of Louisiana cultural products and services by Louisiana residents and businesses
• Develop, stabilize, and maintain the producers and presenters of Louisiana's arts industries and products
• Create and nourish artists of the future and the audiences for those artists

For more information, please click here.  

Deadline February 3, 2012

The Office of Cultural Development/Division of the Arts is accepting applications for a special initiative to directly support the work and careers of individual artists - Artist Career Advancement Grants.

Applications will be accepted through February 3, 2012 through our online grants system. Funds will be awarded in March for opportunities through June 15, 2012.
Grants of up to $3,000 are available for individual artists for Artist Career Advancement proposals in dance, design arts, folklife, literature, media, music, theatre, and visual arts and crafts for expenses, supplies, training and equipment directly related to creative and entrepreneurial endeavors.
Guidelines and application forms for this program are available online at http://www.crt.state.la.us/arts/grants.aspx

If you need assistance regarding an application, or if you would like more information on programs and services, please contact Ann Russo, Director of Artists Services, at arusso@crt.la.gov or by phone at 225-342-8174. www.crt.state.la.us/arts
 

The internet, YouTube, Ebay, and Facebook are great ways for artists to share their artwork, but there is a downside also: increased piracy of your artwork. Recently, the Arts Council and attorney and ELLA Project pro bono volunteer John H. Norris presented our latest webinar, Protecting your Art Online. The webinar lasts about 30 minutes and addresses:

• Understanding online copyright infringement.
• Problems from online piracy.
• Your rights and takedown notices.
• Step by step removal instructions.

You can now stream this webinar for free over the internet! To view the webinar, please click here.

To see all of the Arts Council's Arts Business Development webinars, just visit the webinars section of our website.

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These webinars are presented in part with support from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. 

CLICK HERE to Donate Today

 

This video was too good, we just had to share. Use dancers instead of powerpoint. That's science writer John Bohannon's "modest proposal." In this spellbinding choreographed talk from TEDxBrussels he makes his case by example, aided by dancers from Black Label Movement.

Click here to watch the video. 

New Orleans creative community is receiving significant international recognition recently. Last month the Arts Council completed and facilitated local artist interviews with Laura Dixon of The London Times to discuss the role the growing creative community has played in the recovery of our city. On November 4th her article appeared in the Arts section of the UK newspaper and today was picked up by The Australian as a featue in the Arts & Style section. To read Laura Dixon's article in it's entirety CLICK HERE to access the story online.

In national news, an Arts Council funded project was featured in the New York Times yesterday. Produced by New Orleans Airlift, the Bywater-based Music Box project is described by project curator Delaney Martin as “a shantytown-sound laboratory.” Sound interesting? CLICK HERE to read the New York Times Music Box feature article.