Entries to be showcased later this month at New Orleans Entrepreneur Week, March 22-28 with winners to be displayed at NOMA

The New Orleans Museum of Art together with The Idea Village are issuing a call for artists to share their 3D printed designs to be included in New Orleans Entrepreneur Week’s inaugural 3D Printed Design Contest. Since New Orleans is an incubator for creativity, and early adopters are making both practical and artistic use of new printing technologies, this contest aims to encourage new forms of production of artwork made possible by 21st-century methods of computer-assisted digital fabrication.

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The Arts Council’s annual awards ceremony honors outstanding achievements and lifetime dedication to the arts. Nominations should be based on artistic excellence, sustained contributions, unusual achievements, perseverance, and a deep commitment to the local arts and cultural community. Nominees may be individuals, organizations and corporations in the Greater New Orleans region. Past recipients select honorees. Deadline is March 31st.

Click here to submit your nomination and tell us who should be in that number! 

Arts Council of New Orleans today names E. Tiffany Adler as Chair of the Board of Directors. In this position Adler will support the Arts Council’s work to facilitate awareness and investment in the role that arts and culture play in advancing civic life.

A member of the Arts Council board since 2011, Adler has played a leading role in the Arts Council’s most public community events. She has served as Chair of the 2012 Community Arts Awards, an annual celebration honoring lifetime and exceptional achievement in the arts, in addition to developing Lux Lounge, which premiered in 2013 as the official Dirty Linen, One Hot Night after party.

“Tiffany brings a transformative vision to Art Council, recognizing the community-wide benefit of public art in the new proposed airport and as part of a healthy environment in our new hospitals,” Arts Council President and CEO Kim Cook said. “She is equally committed to grassroots cultural activities, which she demonstrates through her passion for Hollygrove Market and participation as a musician in New Orleans Concert Band.” Continued »

Are you a painter? A whiz behind a camera lens? Does your dream job involve being covered in a rainbow of paint colors? Whether your medium of choice is oil, watercolors, spray paint, pencil, or an SLR camera, or whether your approach is literal or abstract, you should enter the 2014 Jazzin’ Up Main Street design contest. The contest is sponsored by the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO) and the Arts Council of New Orleans and will highlight the importance of microbusiness in the New Orleans cultural economy and invest in creative talent within the community.

The selected artist will earn a $1,000 commission and be featured in a broad range of marketing materials, and at AEO conference events!

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British scholar Dr. Andy Pratt will give a keynote lecture on cultural economies at Tulane University’s inaugural Framing Cities: Understanding Equities of Place symposium on Wednesday, February 12, 6:30pm, at the Freeman Auditorium in the Woldenberg Art Center on Tulane’s campus. His talk, “Can the Creative Economy Save New Orleans? Global Lessons,” will examine the implications of cities’ increased investment in creative industries and the challenges and opportunities facing individuals who pursue creative or cultural work. The event, along with all other symposium activities, is free and open to the public.

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Deadline February 14, 2014

New Orleans Culture Exhibition May – July 2014
Hosted at: Multimedia Museum - Moscow House of Photography
Sponsored by: The United States Embassy in Moscow
Curator: Frank Relle

The exhibition's focuses on contemporary cultural photography. The show features 80 to 100 framed color and black and white photographs curated from journalist, fine art and documentary photographers. The show will reveal the depth of Louisiana music, cuisine, dance, religion, street life, industry and trade, sport traditions, cultural geography and other cultural traditions of modern Louisianians, including indigenous peoples and Cajun communities.

For more information, and an application, please click here.  

Each year the City of New Orleans'Office of Cultural Economy does a quantitative report on cultural economic activity in the City of New Orleans. For the first time, they would like to include a more detailed look at visual artists and crafters and their experience selling their work in New Orleans and how it could be improved or sustained.

This survey is completely anonymous. Results will only be reported collectively and no individual data will be published. The Office of Cultural Economy will not be able to identify individual survey respondents.

To take this online survey, please click here.  

 

Hello folks, meet Dolita Brown. You may recognize Dolita’s welcoming smile from the Arts Market information tent or, up until a few weeks ago, from her post at the front of the Arts Council office. You may have thought Dolita was our receptionist— but she is so much more to the Arts Council.

As Membership Manager, Dolita has revamped our membership program and boldly set a goal to DOUBLE ARTS COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR.

Why this year? We have a new CEO and lots of ideas for enhancing the local arts community so we think there’s no better time to welcome new friends into the Arts Council. And besides, as patient and sweet as Dolita is, she’s a real go-getter and thinks it’s about time that folks realized how cool the Arts Council really is.

We need your help to reach Dolita’s goal. Over the next few weeks we will introduce you to our newly expanded staff, let you know what we’re up to and share our reasons to gain your support. So whether you’ve lapsed in membership or never signed up before, we hope you plan to join the Arts Council as an official member in 2014. After all, who couldn’t use a few more friends?

JOIN US TODAY  

Support of the Arts Council helps grow our cultural economy.

Arts Entrepreneur $75

• Invitation to members-only events
• Access to Riverland Credit Union
• Arts Council Resource Center access

Arts Enthusiast $150

• One free annual use of the Arts Council Conference Room
• One Community Arts Awards Patron Ticket

Arts Patron $250

• Two Community Arts Awards Patron Tickets
• Name entered in quarterly gift basket drawing
• $25 Arts Market Dollars

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