John Scott is a lion of New Orleans. Works by Scott from the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Arthur Roger Gallery are on display at Meadows Museum, says Diane DuFilho.
DuFilho, director of Meadows, is a New Orleans native and an unusually adept curator for audiences trying to appreciate the Crescent City.
Included in this exhibition are eight monumental, black-and-white woodblock prints depicting the neighborhoods of New Orleans, two domestic scale bronze sculptures, and a maquette (small-scale model) of Scott’s public work, New Orleans Spirit House, that withstood the floods and still stands in the De Saix community.
The scale model of the New Orleans Spirit House will provide the basis for the Centenary College course Introduction to Community-Based Arts that will be taught in fall 2007. It will also be used in a variety of public programs for the community-at-large.
An additional Big Easy exhibit is on display, called City of Hope: Photographs of the Crescent City from 2005 and 2007.
It juxtaposes photographs taken by the staff of The Historic New Orleans Collection just following Hurricane Katrina with approximately one dozen photographs taken during the spring of 2007.
Meadows Museum of Art:
- 2911 Centenary Boulevard
- noon to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.
- noon to 5 p.m. on Thursday.
- 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
- closed on Monday.
- 318-869-5040.
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