Welcome to ArtOrbit!

Welcome to ArtOrbit, your online universe for all things CAC, contemporary art, and community! As New Orleans gradually re-opens in the wake of COVID-19, we invite you to explore our online galleries and uplifting art resources from our community and around the world. On this page you will also find a list of vital resources for artists who art struggling during this incredibly difficult time.

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Inter[SECTOR]: Conversations in Art, Action, and Policy

Decarceration and The Arts with Jo Kreiter and Special Guests

In this conversation series, Jo Kreiter, Artistic Director of Flyaway Productions, leads community dialogues with local activists surrounding her aerialist work The Wait Room, which addresses trauama faced by incarcerated people and their families. The Wait Room will be presented at the CAC in Spring of 2021. Learn more about The Wait Room by Jo Kreiter / Flyaway Productions

Watch Part I with Alanah Odoms, Executive Director of the ACLU of Louisiana

Watch Part II with Ivy Mathis, formerly-incarcerated activist

Watch Part III with Ausettua Amor Amenkum and Kathy Randels (The Graduates of New Orleans)

Watch Part IV with Maryam Henderson-Uloho and Kathy Randels (SisterHearts Thrift Store and The Graduates)

Watch Part V with Felicia Gomez and Fox and Rob Rich (ESSIE Justice Group and Participatory Defense NOLA)

Part VI with Zoe Boekbinder (The Prison Music Project)

BEHIND THE CURTAIN: Inside the Design of Sound, Light, & Sets

Designing KindHumanKind with Jo Nazro and Special Guests

Behind The Curtain: Designing KindHumanKind is a series of discussions between CAC Technical Director Jo Nazro and the designers of Aurora Nealand and Goat in the Road's KindHumanKind, an incredible multi-discplinary work that, after its successful 2019 debut, was scheduled to return to the CAC before COVID-19 cancelled our Spring 2020 performing season.

Part I with Set Designer Jebney Lewis

Part II with Projection Designer Kourtney Keller

Part III with Lighting Designer Josh Courtney

CONVERSANCE: Dialogues in Art, Practice, and Performance

Conversance is a conversation series featuring intimate discussions among artistsnear and dear to the CAC, surrounding their work, artistic practices, and aspects of performance.

Dance and "Home" in a Time of Isolation, with David Roussève and Kyle Abraham

Explore Our Digital Galleries

Meg Turner: Here and Now
View Gallery Guide

Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen
View Gallery Guide

Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires
View Gallery Guide

COVID-19 Resources for Artists

Are you an artist who has been impacted by COVID-19? The CAC has assembled an ever-growing listing of resources for artist emergency funding, grants, work opportunities, how-tos, and much more.

Find COVID-19 Artist Resources

From the Web: Experience Art Online

Activities For Families and Kids

• Creative Response Arts Activity Kits for Families
• Sketch Basin: Make Zen Doodles and Patterns
• Sketch Basin: Value Scale and Shading Practice
• 826 New Orleans: Youth Writing Packet
• New Orleans Museum of Art: Here Comes the Sun!
• YAYA Coloring Pages
• YAYA: Design a Mini-Chair!
• Youth Run NOLA: Exercise Routines
• Art with Heart’s arts activities guide for children sequestered at home

Online Art Experiences

• Vogue previews the online exhibition Tri-Still Life by architect & designer Adam Charlap Hyman
• Watch Nine Films from MoMA's Private Lives Public Spaces exhibition with commentary from the curators
• Nikon has made its full online photography school FREE for everyone during COVID-19
• Support artists through HireArtists, a marketplace designed to facilitate creative exhange during economic crisis for the arts and creative sector
• Letters from the Porch: New Orleans Serenades its Medical Community: New videos posted Wednesdays and Fridays
• Spice up your conference calls by using free works of art as your Zoom Virtual Background
• "The Internet is Restaging Famous Paintings While Museums Are Closed" - Hyperallergic
• OVID, Platform for Independent/Arthouse film, adds new films to watch from home
• "Send This Sound Artist Your Quarantine Haikus" - Hyperallergic
• Jazz Gallery in NYC is streaming intimate concerts and meet & greets to support artists
• 12 Art Museums/Organizations you can experience online today - VeryLocal New Orleans
• Stream top films from 2019 New Orleans Film Festival online
• The Ogden Museum Online: Explore the Ogden Museum of Southern Art's online programming
• "Tired of Netflix? Stream Experimental Films and Video Art" - Hyperallergic
• "Phone Call," A Remote Phone-Based Reading Curatorial Project created to address isolation during COVID-19 by DC-based Rose Arcade and Transformer
• #SongsofComfort, an effort led by world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma to collect encouraging arts contributions from people across the world
• Google Arts and Culture - 2,500+ Online Exhibitions (these are Hyperallergic’s top 12 picks)
• Berlin Philharmonic makes Digital Concert Hall free for all during COVID-19 outbreak
• Met Opera launches “Nightly Met Opera Streams” for free during COD-19 pandemic
• Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and The Historic New Orleans Collection’s March 11, 2020 community concert streaming online
• Virtual tours of New Orleans Museum of Arts are available through NOMA’s free mobile guide, accessible via any mobile app store or by following this link
• Paris Musees online collections, available here
• The Social Distancing Festival
• “Arts + Culture Experiences” crowdsourced Google doc organized by Chicago-based arts educator Kinneret Kohn
• Sofa King Festival
• OntheBoards.tv offering free performance rentals through April
• The Seattle Symphony announces free video broadcasts and live streams

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