Join us live on Zoom for Delfeayo & Friends, the CAC’s bi-weekly happy hour with trombonist and composer Delfeayo Marsalis, alongside friends from around the world! This Friday, Delfeayo will be joined by his brother and Grammy Award-winning jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis for conversation, music, and more! CAC Members receive priority access to RSVP for this event and all future episodes...Read more
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Monday, January 6, 2020
Floating & Fixed , co-presented by the Contemporary Arts Center and The Shop at the CAC, traces a history of platform design from motorcar to mobile phone, exploring Henry Ford as a platform designer and crucial precursor to contemporary platform ecosystems. Stephanie Sherman, a design researcher, curator, and strategist working across, art, architecture, technology, and media, will lead this...Read more
Friday, October 25, 2019
Join Slave Rebellion Reenactment on Friday, October 25, 6pm - 7:30pm at the Contemporary Arts Center, located at 900 Camp St. New Orleans for a free and open discussion with New York-based visual and performance artist Dread Scott , about his artistic practice and his latest collaborative project Slave Rebellion Reenactment. Slave Rebellion Reenactment is a large-scale, community-engaged art...Read more
In Part II of Behind The Curtain: Designing KindHumanKind , CAC Technical Director Jo Nazro chats with Kourtney Keller, Projection Designer on KindHumanKind . Kourtney is a mother, daughter, comrade, artist, teacher, karaoke singer, wife and human (most of the time). Over the years her sketchbooks have turned into hard drives and her paintings have become MP4’s. She builds things out of Legos and...Read more