SPRING 2018
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Photo: Logan Magee
We did it. With the help of our world-class staff and a dedicated group of trustees, we have restored to magnificence our 113-year-old facility at 900 Camp Street—with significant expansion of our programmatic spaces, full activation of the third and fourth floors, and work that has literally touched every corner of this 100,000-square-foot facility. While there is still more work to do, these projects have placed the CAC on a firm foundation from which we can build and grow for decades to come. As a venue for contemporary performance, visual art, and education the CAC is a unique institution in our region, and as such it serves many purposes to many different communities. To an artist, we might represent a venue to realize their aesthetic ambitions or provide a source of new inspiration. To our patrons, we might be described as a wellspring of new experiences, a place to meet friends and encounter art, or a sanctuary to find an hour of quiet reflection on a Sunday afternoon. We see great opportunities in our work to advance the livelihood of the artists who work among us while expanding the definition of what role an arts center like ours can serve in the lives of its patrons in the iconic city that is New Orleans. In looking deeper at ourselves as an institution, we also continue to realize that the CAC is not just a place to highlight creative innovation but increasingly it is a gathering place for all of the communities that make New Orleans a unique and world-renowned city. We are a place where our work reflects our greatest aspirations as a community while animating the challenges we share through robust public programs that clearly illustrate the transcendent power of the arts to change and enhance the quality of life of those it touches. Our audience-building initiatives over the past three years have taken a solid first step down a long road. Our current path seeks to address the systemic inequity in the accessibility and relevance of the arts to people around the world. Today the CAC has one of the most diverse audiences for contemporary art in all its forms in a city known for its deep and multifaceted cultural traditions from throughout the global South. Please join us in the coming months for the exciting programs we have in store for you on the following pages. Neil A. Barclay Director and CEO
CAC Staff Neil A. Barclay Director and CEO Nanette Saucier Deputy Director and Chief Financial Officer Andrea Andersson The Helis Foundation Chief Curator of Visual Arts Hasan Aquil Associate Director of External Affairs Lindsay Barfield Exhibitions Manager and Chief Preparator
Christopher Staudinger Patron Services Coordinator Mariana Sheppard Associate Director of Education and Public Programs Laurie Uprichard Senior Curator of Performing Arts Board Officers Deborah Brockley President and Chair Gregg Porter Vice Chair Bush Wrighton Treasurer
William Bowling Performing Arts Manager
Staci Rosenberg Secretary
Noni Clemens Individual Giving Manager
Board of Trustees
Brigid Conroy Education and Public Programs Associate Nelly Cotton Financial Services Associate Jennifer Francino Senior Curatorial Associate Michele Frentzos Senior Manager, Financial Services Gracie Goodrich Institutional Giving Manager Joel Jackson Assistant Director of Rentals and Hospitality Services Sean Kendall Event Production Manager Beth Lavin Associate Director of Development Summer Mead Frontline Supervisor Courtney Mouton Finance Associate Jo Nazro Resident Technical Director Leah Oby External Affairs Manager Samuel Oliver Senior Manager of Executive Affairs
Carla D. Arriola Bryan Bailey David T. Baker Luis BaĂąos III Judy Barrasso Dawn Barrios Valerie Besthoff Jacquee Carvin Leslie Castay Sandra Chaisson Anna Coleman Dunbar Jonathan Fawer Krystle Ferbos Sayde F. Finkel, J.D. Grant Harris Russ M. Herman Orelia Minor Kara Tucina Olidge, Ph.D. David Patron Virginia Freeman Rowan Patrick Schindler Robyn Dunn Schwarz Randall A. Smith Hank Torbert Gretchen Wheaton Sarah Wood David Workman Leopoldo J. Yanez Emeritus Board Members Sydney J. Besthoff Patricia Chandler Thomas B. Coleman Sandra Garrard Barbara Motley Jeanne Nathan Michael J. Siegel MK Wegmann
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samples + patches Marianne Desmarais
Through parallel practices of art and architecture, productive cross-pollination shapes the work of artist Marianne Desmarais. Techniques from architectural practice are applied in drawings and sculptures that attempt to alter space through the manipulation of form, optics, and surface. Utilizing manual and digital modes of production, resistance and collapse are explored as themes of structural response. Marianne works with geometry and material characteristics to visually amplify the relationships between constructive parts, media, and disciplines. Her works move off the surface of the gallery walls to approach the viewer physically, to push and pull space. Current works are composite textiles made of linen and wood— where one material is rigid, the other is soft. In combination, these qualities result in emergent forms and fluid composition. Desmarais continually pairs these contrasts to express the stillness present when tension is produced by gravity and resisted or encouraged by inscribed hinge points. The works reveal that balance is a state between equal and opposing forces. Support for this exhibition is provided by The Azby Fund, Sydney & Walda Besthoff, The Helis Foundation and the Visual Arts Exhibition Fund.
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Dates
January 11–April 1 Admission
$10
CAC Members
Free admission Join at cacno.org
MARIANNE DESMARAIS
Marianne Desmarais, pink (small), yellow with pink (small), red extrusion with dark pink, 2018. Basswood, linen, acrylic. Photo: Courtesy of the artist
CAC Spring 2018 Exhibition
SAMPLES + PATCHES
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URBAN BUSH WOMEN 6
Photo: Hayim Heron
CAC Spring 2018 Performance / Dance
Louisiana Premiere
Hair & Other Stories Urban Bush Women
and Junebug Productions. SLIs took place in New Orleans for seven years. Dates
Wednesday, January 24– Saturday, January 28 7:30pm Sunday, January 28 3pm Admission
$20–$35 CAC Members
Discounted tickets Join at cacno.org/membership
HAIR & OTHER STORIES Founded in 1984 by choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Urban Bush Women (UBW) seeks to bring the untold and under-told histories and stories of disenfranchised people to light through dance from a woman-centered perspective of the African Diaspora. The organization’s goal is to create a more equitable balance of power in the dance world and beyond.
Thursday, Janurary 11 6–9pm Free and open to all Artist talks, performances, live music, bar, food trucks, and more!
For more than 30 years, UBW has continued to use dance as both the message and the medium to bring together diverse audiences through innovative choreography, community collaboration, and artistic leadership development.
To celebrate this 25-year anniversary of collaboration with the CAC and Junebug, Jawole Zollar and Urban Bush Women, along with director Raelle Myrick-Hodges will be developing an alternative version of Hair & Other Stories for the entire CAC building. A multidisciplinary, evening-length work, this piece will incorporate stories sourced in New Orleans to address matters of race, gender identity, and economic inequality through the lens of hair, primarily that of African American women. The presentation of Hair & Other Stories and accompanying public programs are made possible with support from The Wallace Foundation, the Starseed Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works. This presentation of Hair & Other Stories is made possible in part by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This performance is funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Louisiana Division of the Arts. Hair & Other Stories is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project cocommissioned by the Contemporary Arts Center in partnership with Junebug Productions (New Orleans), Dance Place (Washington, DC), and NPN. The Creation & Development Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). The Contemporary Arts Center is an NPN Partner of the National Performance Network (NPN). This project is made possible in part by support from the NPN Performance Residency Program. Major contributors include the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information: www.npnweb.org.
UBW galvanizes artists, activists, audiences, and communities through performances, artist development, education, and community engagement. The company’s Summer Leadership Institute (SLI) evolved from UBW’s Community Engagement Projects, the first of which took place over three months in 1992 in association with the CAC
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CHRISTIAN SCOTT ATUNDE ADJUAH
Photo: Kiel Scott
CAC Spring 2018 Performance / Music
Stretch Music Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah
Christian Scott, also known as Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah (born March 31, 1983, in New Orleans), is a trumpeter, composer, producer, and music executive who has won the Edison Award twice (2010 and 2012). Scott’s Grammynominated international recording debut, Rewind That, was called “arguably the most remarkable premiere the genre has seen in the last decade” by Billboard magazine, earning Scott two prominent features on their cover and inclusion in their list of “Ones to Watch in 2006.” Scott is the nephew of jazz innovator and legendary sax man Donald Harrison, Jr. He began his musical tutelage under the direction of his uncle at the age of 13. After graduating from the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) in 2001, Scott received a full scholarship to Berklee College of Music, where he earned a degree 30 months later. Since 2002, Scott has released seven critically acclaimed studio recordings and two live albums. Scott is known for developing the harmonic convention known as the “forecasting cell” and for his use of an un-voiced tone in his playing, emphasizing breath over vibration at the mouthpiece, widely referred to as his “whisper technique.” Scott is also widely recognized as one of the progenitors of “Stretch Music,” a jazz-rooted, genre-blind musical form that attempts to “stretch” jazz’s rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic conventions to encompass as many other musical forms, languages, and cultures as possible.
STRETCH MUSIC Dates
Wednesday, February 21– Friday, February 23 7:30pm Admission
$20–$35 CAC Members
Discounted tickets Join at cacno.org/membership
The presentation of Stretch Music is made possible with support from The Wallace Foundation. This program is supported in part by the CAC’s JazzNet Endowment Fund, made possible by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
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Típico Miguel Zenón
Nominated for multiple Grammys and recipient of both a Guggenheim and a MacArthur fellowship, Miguel Zenón represents a select group of musicians who have masterfully balanced and blended the oftencontradictory poles of innovation and tradition. Widely considered one of the most groundbreaking and influential saxophonists of his generation, he has also developed a unique voice as a composer and as a conceptualist, concentrating his efforts on perfecting a fine mix between Latin American folk music and jazz. His latest release, Típico (Miel Music, 2017), celebrates the Miguel Zenón Quartet, his working band of more than 15 years, which includes Venezuelan pianist Luis Perdomo, Austrian bassist Hans Glawischnig, and fellow Puerto Rican, drummer Henry Cole. The album features original music by Zenón, which was specifically written for the members of the Quartet and directly inspired by their individual playing and personalities. The end result is a testament to the band’s unique chemistry and their outstanding collective musicianship. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Zenón studied classical saxophone at the Escuela Libre de Música before receiving a bachelor’s degree in jazz studies from Berklee College of Music, and a master’s degree in jazz performance at Manhattan School of Music. Zenón’s more formal studies, however, are supplemented and enhanced by his vast and diverse experience as a sideman and collaborator. Throughout his career he has divided his time equally between working with older jazz masters and younger innovators— irrespective of styles and genres.
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Dates
Friday, March 16 Saturday, March 17 7:30pm Admission
$20–$35 CAC Members
Discounted tickets Join at cacno.org/membership
TÍPICO
This program is supported in part by the CAC’s JazzNet Endowment Fund and made possible by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Thursday, March 8 6–9pm Free and open to all Artist talks, performances, live music, bar, food trucks, and more!
CAC Spring 2018 Performance / Music
Photo: Jimmy Katz
MIGUEL ZENÓN
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Sawdust and Tinsel Sarah Morris
Presented during the tricentennial year of the city of New Orleans, Sawdust and Tinsel is an exhibition of the artist’s painting, drawing, and film, examining the mythologies of contemporary urbanity.
SARAH MORRIS
Since the mid-1990s, Morris has developed a vocabulary of abstraction to investigate what she describes as “urban, social, and bureaucratic typologies.” Positioning itself as an urban outlier, New Orleans has insisted throughout its history on a brand of cultural and social independence from conventional urban archetypes. Sawdust and Tinsel challenges myths of originality with a constellation of urban portraits from Morris’ series on Rio De Janeiro, Paris, and Abu Dhabi. Together, the artist’s gridded, graphic paintings and simultaneously seductive and estranging films present an index of an artist’s practice and of modern urban conditions. This exhibition is organized by the CAC, and curated by Andrea Andersson, The Helis Foundation Chief Curator of Visual Arts at the CAC. Support for this exhibition is provided by The Azby Fund, Sydney & Walda Besthoff, The Helis Foundation, The Visual Arts Exhibition Fund, and the National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works. Additional support provided by Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York. Additional support provided by Petzel Gallery, New York.
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Dates
March 22–June 17 Opening Reception
March 22 Admission
$10
CAC Members
Free admission Join at cacno.org
Thursday, April 12 6–9pm Free and open to all Artist talks, performances, live music, bar, food trucks, and more!
SAWDUST AND TINSEL
Sarah Morris, Rio Atlantica [Rio], 2013. Photo courtesy of the artist and Petzel Gallery, New York
CAC Spring 2018 Exhibition
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WHY IS EVERYTHING A RAG
Photo: Bersa.se
CAC Spring 2018 Exhibition
Why Is Everything A Rag Jockum Nordström
JOCKUM NORDSTRÖM Dates
March 22–June 17
Why Is Ever ything A Rag is the first solo museum exhibition of the Stockholm-based artist Jockum Nordström in the United States. Children’s books, jazz and blues vinyl covers, collages, drawings, paintings, and paper sculptures collected from the start of his career through today figure in Nordström’s practice animated by and built of visual vernacular. Inhabiting liminal spaces heralded as much by surrealism as by folk traditions, Nordström looks to the cultural, psychological, and physical margins of society. Positioning his audience as voyeurs—into derelict buildings, soundscapes, and private lives—Nordström uses the idea, as much as the aesthetic, of outsider art to develop an oeuvre of outlines, including physical perimeters, cutouts, and scraps to for the creative edges of civilization.
Opening Reception
March 22 Admission
$10
CAC Members
Free admission Join at cacno.org
Thursday, April 12 6–9pm Free and open to all Artist talks, performances, live music, bar, food trucks, and more!
Organized by the CAC, Why I s E v e r y t h i n g A R a g brings Nordström—for the first time—to the city that has shaped his artistic imagination since the early ‘90s and to the home of the music he continues to make as a member of the band, Joakim Ahlund & Jockum Nordström. This exhibition is organized by the CAC, and curated by Andrea Andersson, The Helis Foundation Chief Curator of Visual Arts at the CAC. Support for this exhibition is provided by The Azby Fund, Sydney & Walda Besthoff, The Helis Foundation, The Visual Arts Exhibition Fund, the American-Scandinavian Foundation and the Consulate of Sweden. Additional support provided by David Zwirner, New York | London | Hong Kong, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Sweden, and Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp.
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CAC Spring 2018 Performance / Dance
Photo: Melisa Cardona xxx
GOMELA/TO RETURN: MOVEMENT OF OUR MOTHER TONGUE
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Gomela Junebug Productions
Dates
Friday, April 20 Saturday, April 21 7:30pm Admission
$20–$35 CAC Members
Discounted tickets Join at cacno.org/membership
Thursday, April 12 6–9pm Free and open to all Artist talks, performances, live music, bar, food trucks, and more!
Directed by Stephanie McKee and developed by dancers Kesha McKey, Kai Knight, Jeremy Guyton, and poet Sunni Patterson, Gomela/to return: Movement of Our Mother Tongue takes us on a journey through time and space. Making evident the connection between Africa, Haiti, and New Orleans, Gomela highlights the vibrant and percussive movements and stories that breathe life into ancient African dance and drumming and contemporary artistic expression, such as spoken word, hip-hop, and jazz. Gomela is an experience of collective memories passed down from generation to generation, a tapestry woven by a group of multidisciplinary artists who represent the diversity of African Americans who call New Orleans home. Gomela is based on hope, survival, courage, and the resilience that exists in the face of oppression. It is about the heartbeat of a people that will never die, the culture and traditions that continue to evolve, grow, and survive the test of time. Lighting designer Evan Spigelman, sound designer Muthi Reed, projection designer Jason Foster, costume designer Ja’nese of Aya Designs, and recorded music by trumpeter Troy Sawyer and singer Janet “Sula Spirit” Evans of Zion Trinity will bring life to the sights and sounds of Gomela.
With plans to bring Gomela to cities and towns across the country, Junebug Productions will use this performance to engage in deep dialogue about Place Matters (gentrification and the Right of Return of New Orleanians displaced after Katrina) and Black Lives Matter, a commemoration of the beauty and resilience of black people, past and present. The discussions will be rooted in the values of Junebug’s story circle process that encourages audiences to share their own experiences that are sparked by the performance. Gomela/to return: Movement of Our Mother Tongue is one of six productions nationwide that was awarded the prestigious 2015 New England Foundation of the Arts (NEFA) National Theater Project (NTP) creation and touring grant. Gomela is presented in partnership with Junebug Productions. Support for this performance is provided by The Wallace Foundation.
JUNEBUG PRODUCTIONS
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Photos: Piotr Jaruga
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V-4 Dance Festival
The Visegrad countries—the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia—represent a cultural and political alliance of four Central European countries formed in 1993 to foster their integration into the European Union. This festival, curated by Laurie Uprichard, CAC’s Senior Curator of Performing Arts, in association with the Polish Cultural Institute New York and the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYU, includes one choreographer/ company from each of the countries. The selected artists/companies and their works are: Ve ˇ ra Ondrašíková (Czech Republic) Wednesday, April 25, 7pm
Paweł Sakowicz (Poland) Thursday, April 26, 8:30pm TOTAL is a solo created and performed by Sakowicz that speculates on dance virtuosity with a tongue-incheek approach. Sakowicz trained at London Contemporary Dance School and knows his subject matter all too well. Support is provided by the Visegrad Fund, Trust for Mutual Understanding, Polish Cultural Institute New York, Fond na podporu umenia (Fund for the Arts), Central European Institute | Quinnipiac University, Starseed Foundation, and Aerowaves.
Dates
Wednesday, April 25 Thursday, April 26 7pm & 8:30pm Admission
$20–$35 CAC Members
Discounted tickets Join at cacno.org/membership
Guide is a hypnotic audiovisual experience in which past and present become one. The two performers, in individual solos, sculpt the stage space with lasers to magical effect. Timothy and the Things (Hungary); László Fülõp and Emese Cuhorka, Choreographers Wednesday, April 25, 8:30pm Your Mother at My Door is a duet that plays with the idea of boredom and elapsed time spent on odd and humdrum activities. The two extraordinary performers interact with and confront each other in scenes that conjure up childhood foolishness enacted with adult emotions. Debris Company (Slovakia); Stanislava Vicˇeková, Choreographer Thursday, April 26, 7pm Wow! is a fantastical duet exploring the history of humankind and its impact on the environment.
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Sound Art Festival Southern Sonic
Southern Sonic is a new festival at the CAC for audiences seeking unusual aural experiences. In this inaugural festival year, the CAC welcomes local and regional musicians, composers, sound installation artists, circuit builders, engineers, audio professionals, and enthusiasts. With a host of world premiers and new collaborations, the festival will feature work that runs the gambit of the genre—from experimental hip hop to avant chamber music, from utopian installation environments to sonified architecture, and from remixes of vintage cinema to airborne music made by drones. This gathering and celebration of southern contemporary music and sound creation will also feature discussions of the historical practices and base ingredients that have made this city and this region a hotbed of aural innovation. Each night will close with a 10pm improvised music set.
SOUND ART FESTIVAL
The festival seeks to present artists who operate in the idioms of experimental music and sound art and installation, but the very definitions of what might be cast as “experimental” are entirely up for grabs. The goal is to create a space where musicians and audiences can share interlaced etudes played as a rhizome on a rhinestone or a circuit-bent cell phone.
the city’s historical associations with the development of jazz, funk, ragtime, blues, and early rock and roll. Southern Sonic wishes to continue to honor and explore music- and art-making in New Orleans and the region, supporting the work of artists and practitioners using forms, technologies, tonalities, and resources extant in the South today and inspired by a similar spirit but from a distinctly different point of departure.
The curators (Andrea Andersson, Courtney Br yan, Jebney L ewis, Aurora Nealand, Mariana Sheppard, and Rick Snow) seek new aural experiences that explode and recombine musical genres or even seek to redefine the goals of music and sound art. The city of New Orleans is internationally recognized as a center for American musical heritage and preservation. Festivals such as Jazz Fest, Satchmo Summer Fest, and French Quarter Fest celebrate
Artists, musicians, and practitioners include Courtney Br yan, Amy Bryan, and Alma Bryan Powel; Jane Cassidy, Holland Hopson, and Tim Feeney; Andrew Raffo Dewar; Jeff Albert; Rob Cambre; Cliff Hines and Trapper Keeper; Free Feral; Nick Benoit; Yotam Haber and Anna Schuleit Haber; Jebney Lewis and Steve Parker; Rick Snow; Charm Taylor and Adee Roberson; and the Versipel New Music Collective, with other artists soon to be announced.
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Dates
Thursday, May 10– Sunday, May 13 Various times; see detailed schedule at cacno.org Admission
$5–$10
CAC Members
Discounted tickets Join at cacno.org/membership Panels and workshops are free and open to all
Support is provided by the Amphion Foundation and The Institute for Interdisciplinary Innovation (I³), a three year pilot project of the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans (CAC), supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, designed to provide both the context and content for the expanding aesthetic landscape of interdisciplinary performance as practiced by artists whose projects are drawn from or inspired by the rich cultural traditions of the South. The CAC’s I³ Southern Partners include Duke Performances, Fusebox, The Nasher Museum of Art, Oz Nashville, and Speed Art Museum.
Thursday, May 10 6–9pm Free and open to all Artist talks, performances, live music, bar, food trucks, and more!
Photo: Blaze Edwards Photography
CAC Spring 2018 Performance / Music
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EDUCATION & Artist Exchange Field Trips
Summer Arts Camp
Bring your class of young artists to the CAC to learn from professional New Orleans artists—choose from classes in Theater, Dance, Music, Visual Arts, and Creative Writing
The CAC Summer Arts Camp ignites campers’ imaginations with classes in Music, Visual Arts, Digital Arts, Theater, Culinary Arts, and Dance. Come explore your talents!
Artist Exchange Field Trips introduce young artists to applied skills in the arts, reinforce Common Core Standards, and address the needs and abilities of all students. • Grades K–12 • 10am–1pm, M, W–F • Two workshops for groups of 25–34 or three workshops for groups of 35–50 • $8 per student • Free for chaperones • Schedule early and customize your trip!
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Ages 6–14 9am–3pm, M–F After care is available July 9–August 3 $220/week non-members $200/week members
Summer Arts Camp is supported by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, Inc.
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Free to children & students through grade 12 and under at all times, courtesy of The Helis Foundation and The Hearst Foundations
Teen Board
Second Thursdays
Attention Artists, Creators, and Innovators! Host per for mances with your friends, curate art shows, and design workshops as a member of the Teen Board! The CAC Teen Board meets twice a month to create youth programming at the CAC, produce the Teen Arts Exhibition, and operate the print and online platform, Third Eye. They will also have the opportunity to meet working artists and museum professionals, participate in hands-on workshops, and connect with art resources around the city. Participation in the Teen Board can be listed on resumes for college, and will count towards volunteer hours.
Join us on the second thursday of each month for a robust evening of programs designed to enhance your appreciation of contemporary art and artists: Meet the Maker, Young Professional Happy Hour Meetup, Galler y Tour & Conversation, Performances, Hands- on, Live Music, Food truck, and more!
Free and open to all
Teens Only What do you want to see at the CAC? Teens Only nights take place in the evenings at the CAC and are co-curated with the Teen Board. Find our pop-up table in the Resource Center during Second Thursdays, our evening programs throughout the spring season.
Teen Arts Exhibition The Teen Arts Exhibition is guided by the Teen Board in collaboration with a professional curator. Application to the exhibition is open to any high school student in New Orleans and offers the opportunity to share their work in a public, professional setting and celebrate with friends and family at the exhibition opening April 14, 2018.
Education and Public Programming support is provided by Nancy Aronson and Virginia Besthoff, City of New Orleans | Edward Wisner Donation, The Hearst Foundations, The Helis Foundation, and the J. Edgar Monroe Foundation.
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CAC Fall 2017 Membership
Thanks to the support of our members, the CAC can fulfill its mission of providing bold and innovative contemporary arts programming to diverse audiences. By becoming a member, you help the CAC remain an accessible and thought-provoking gathering place for visitors, artists, students and families, and all those in our local and extended communities.
JOIN THE CAC Every CAC Membership includes •
Free admission to CAC exhibitions and invitations to CAC Members-only tours
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Free admission to the Whitney White Linen Night Afterparty, CAC’s Art for Arts’ Sake, film screenings co-presented with New Orleans Film Society and other special events
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$10 off CAC performance tickets with priority seating
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15% discount at The Stacks Bookstore and Revelator Coffee Company
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Guest passes to CAC galleries and special events
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Listing in quarterly digital CAC Members newsletter Join at cacno.org/membership, by phone (504) 528-3805, or in person at the front desk.
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CAC Support The CAC Is Supported By
Arts Council New Orleans; Bryan Subaru; Cox Communications; The Domain Companies; Felicity Property Co.; The Helis Foundation; Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation; Louisiana Division of the Arts; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; Josephine W. Nixon; The Wallace Foundation; Whitney Bank; Bush and Shameen Wrighton Major In-Kind Support
Ace Hotel New Orleans; Corporate Realty; Event Rental; Uniti Fiber; The New Orleans Advocate; Premium Parking; SkyCom Education and Public Programs Support
Nancy Aronson and Virginia Besthoff; City of New Orleans | Edward Wisner Donation; The Hearst Foundations; J. Edgar Monroe Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, Inc. Performing Arts Support
The Amphion Foundation; CEC ArtsLink; Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; National Performance Network; New England Foundation for the Arts; New Orleans Theatre Association; South Arts; Starseed Foundation; Trust for Mutual Understanding Visual Arts Support
The Azby Fund; Sydney & Walda Besthoff; Greater New Orleans Foundation; John T. Scott Guild; Visual Arts Exhibition Fund Capital Support
Anonymous; Dathel & Tommy Coleman; Ella West Freeman Foundation; The Helis Foundation; Past Presidents of the CAC; RosaMary Foundation; The Selley Foundation
Hours
Gallery Hours Wednesday–Monday 11am–5pm The last admission to the galleries is at 4:45pm Hours vary for performances, lectures, and special events. Call for holiday hours and closures.
The Stacks, Art and Design Bookstore Monday–Sunday 11am–5pm Revelator Coffee Company Monday–Friday 9am–5pm Saturday and Sunday 11am–5pm Open during performances and events
Gallery Admission $10 General Admission $8 Students and Seniors Free to CAC Members Free to Louisiana Residents on Sundays courtesy of The Helis Foundation Free to children and students grade 12 and under at all times courtesy of The Helis Foundation and The Hearst Foundations
Business Arts Fund Members
Audubon Communities; Joan Mitchell Center The CAC is supported in part by a Community Arts Grant made possible by the City of New Orleans and administered by the Arts Council New Orleans, and by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council. Funding has also been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works.
Contact
Phone: (504) 528-3805 Tickets/Info: (504) 528-3800 Fax: (504) 528-3828 cacno.org Contemporary Arts Center 900 Camp Street New Orleans, LA 70130 The CAC is located on Camp Street between Andrew Higgins Drive and St. Joseph Street in the New Orleans Warehouse Arts District, one block from Lee Circle and the Saint Charles streetcar line
On the cover: Sarah Morris, Casa das Canoas [Rio], 2013. Photo courtesy of the artist and Petzel Gallery, New York
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JANUARY
MARCH
MAY
Exhibition
Performance
Festival
Marianne Desmarais: samples + patches January 11–April 1 Performance
Urban Bush Women: Hair & Other Stories January 24–28, 7:30pm, January 28, 3pm FEBRUARY Performance
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah: Stretch Music February 21–23, 7:30pm SweetArts 2018 Art Unfolds February 24, 7pm–Midnight
Miguel Zenón: Típico March 16 & 17, 7:30pm Exhibition
Sarah Morris: Sawdust and Tinsel March 22–June 17
Southern Sonic: A Festival of Southern Sound Art and Experimental Music May 10–13 JULY
Exhibition
Jockum Nordström: Why Is Everything A Rag March 22–June 17 APRIL Performance
Junebug Production: Gomela April 20 & 21, 7:30pm & 8:30pm Performance
V-4 Dance Festival April 25 & 26, 7pm, 8:30pm
Summer Camp July 9–August 3 AUGUST White Linen Night Saturday, August 4