NEW ORLEANS (AP) — John T. Scott, a renowned artist who created drawings and prints but was best known for large-scale abstract sculptures, is dead at age 67.
Scott, a longtime Xavier University art professor who received the prestigious John D. MacArthur Fellowship — commonly called the "genius grant" — in 1992, died Saturday at Methodist Hospital in Houston, after a long fight against pulmonary fibrosis.
Scott was born on a farm in the Gentilly section of New Orleans; his father was chauffeur to the owners of Kolb's Restaurant. When he was 7, the family moved to the Lower 9th Ward.
His love of art may have been sparked when his mother taught him to embroider.
He graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in 1958 and began formal art studies, earning a bachelor of arts degree from Xavier University and a master of fine arts degree from Michigan State University in 1965.
Hurricane Katrina forced Scott to evacuate to Houston, where his disease required two double-lung transplant surgeries.
He is survived by his wife, Anna Rita Scott; a son, Ayo Scott; four daughters, Maria Scott-Osborne, Tyra Joseph, Lauren Kannady and Alanda Rhodes; and six granddaughters.
An exhibit of his work entitled Spirit House is on display at Meadows Museum of Art, Shreveport. In addition to his work, there are t-shirts and jewelry based on his designs.
Meadows hours:
Tues . . . 12-4
Wed . . . 12-4
Thur . . . 12-5
Fri . . . 12-4
Sat . . . 1-4
Sun . . . 1-4
(318) 869-5169
Sunday, September 02, 2007
Friday, August 31, 2007
Romeo, the Shrew and a few ghosts: weekend update from the SBC&TB
What's happening this weekend in Shreveport Bossier City, as
provided by Pat Gill at the Shreveport-Bossier Convention & Tourist Bureau:
Friday
"Taming of the Shrew"
Marjorie Lyons Playhouse
8pm - $15
318-869-5242
Funny Bone presents Todd Johnson
Red River District Downtown
8pm & 10:30pm
318-221-4290
Saturday
R.W. Norton Art Gallery presents
Special Saturday Tour
R.W. Norton Art Gallery
2pm - Free
318-865-4201
"Romeo & Juliet"
Marjorie Lyons Playhouse
8pm $15
318-869-5242
Shreve Town Ghost Walk
Downtown Shreveport - at the Courthouse Steps
5pm & 7pm - $10
318-865-1218
Sunday
Gators & Friends
Hwy 80 - Greenwood, LA
10am
318-938-1199
Barnwell Garden & Art Center
Shreveport Riverfront
1pm - Free
318-673-6535
Stage of Stars Museum
Municipal Auditorium
1pm - $2.00
318-220-9434
www.shreveport-bossier.org
318-222-9391
smanfredi@sbctb.org
provided by Pat Gill at the Shreveport-Bossier Convention & Tourist Bureau:
Friday
"Taming of the Shrew"
Marjorie Lyons Playhouse
8pm - $15
318-869-5242
Funny Bone presents Todd Johnson
Red River District Downtown
8pm & 10:30pm
318-221-4290
Saturday
R.W. Norton Art Gallery presents
Special Saturday Tour
R.W. Norton Art Gallery
2pm - Free
318-865-4201
"Romeo & Juliet"
Marjorie Lyons Playhouse
8pm $15
318-869-5242
Shreve Town Ghost Walk
Downtown Shreveport - at the Courthouse Steps
5pm & 7pm - $10
318-865-1218
Sunday
Gators & Friends
Hwy 80 - Greenwood, LA
10am
318-938-1199
Barnwell Garden & Art Center
Shreveport Riverfront
1pm - Free
318-673-6535
Stage of Stars Museum
Municipal Auditorium
1pm - $2.00
318-220-9434
www.shreveport-bossier.org
318-222-9391
smanfredi@sbctb.org
Why we will be ecstatic at the opening concert of the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra on Sat, Sept 15, 7:30 pm
Riverview Theater will be bustling with nicely-dressed people and a spirit of benevolence akin to that produced by Vedic soma will issue forth from the assembled throng.
That's how I see the opening of the Shreveport Symphony's 60th season.
May I offer that the orchestra, composed of highly-skilled adult performers working like priests to mesmerize us, is a gift more precious than ever in this shnoggy era?
Tickets to the season upon us, called Symphonic Fusion because music director Michael Butterman is too alive and electric to be contained by one format, are cheap for the value.
If I sound like a ticket salesman it is because I willing don the mantle of the devotee. I place my hands upon thy cranial crown and pray for you
and your family to be healed by the power of the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra.
Call 227-8863 for your ducats before the salad arrives, is what I say.
Personally, I like the package called Anytime Tickets. It is an enormously smart deal, you'll see at the web site.
The particulars? One well-planned concert after another from the tight but effervescent team at the SSO. Mozart's Overture to The Marriage of Figaro was the first piece performed at the premiere Shreveport Symphony concert in November of 1948, says Scott Green. The SSO will begin its 60th season celebration with the same selection.
Nena Plant Wideman performed on that historic evening, and in her honor, Yoonjung Han, winner of the 2006 Wideman competition, will join the Symphony to perform Listz's Piano Concerto No. 1.
Tchaikovsky's Capriccio Italien, also perfomed at the inaugural concert, will round out the season opener.
See you there, near the very front of the seating in the Riverview, the better to ritually bathe in the holy music.
That's how I see the opening of the Shreveport Symphony's 60th season.
May I offer that the orchestra, composed of highly-skilled adult performers working like priests to mesmerize us, is a gift more precious than ever in this shnoggy era?
Tickets to the season upon us, called Symphonic Fusion because music director Michael Butterman is too alive and electric to be contained by one format, are cheap for the value.
If I sound like a ticket salesman it is because I willing don the mantle of the devotee. I place my hands upon thy cranial crown and pray for you
and your family to be healed by the power of the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra.
Call 227-8863 for your ducats before the salad arrives, is what I say.
Personally, I like the package called Anytime Tickets. It is an enormously smart deal, you'll see at the web site.
The particulars? One well-planned concert after another from the tight but effervescent team at the SSO. Mozart's Overture to The Marriage of Figaro was the first piece performed at the premiere Shreveport Symphony concert in November of 1948, says Scott Green. The SSO will begin its 60th season celebration with the same selection.
Nena Plant Wideman performed on that historic evening, and in her honor, Yoonjung Han, winner of the 2006 Wideman competition, will join the Symphony to perform Listz's Piano Concerto No. 1.
Tchaikovsky's Capriccio Italien, also perfomed at the inaugural concert, will round out the season opener.
See you there, near the very front of the seating in the Riverview, the better to ritually bathe in the holy music.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Jane Ryder and Designers Consortium members ready to serve the movie industry as well as the public; opens Sat, Aug 31, 10 am
"I've worked as a seamstress for movie productions for some time now," says Jane Ryder. "Among my work has been the gowns worn by actress Megan Brown for the premieres of the Kevin Costner movie Mr Brooks. When I began to collect the names of local artists and craftsmen for a shop to be called Designers Consortium, someone said 'Jane, you should put together an entire movie crew.'"
Thus we watch the evolution of the ancillary pieces of the movie production puzzle.
The new boutique, aimed at serving the movie industry as well as the public, is located at 208 E. King's Highway in Shreveport, across from Counter Culture. It will open Saturday, says Ms Ryder. Included in the opening roster:
Willie's Dream Gowns (Willie Rayburn)
Flamingo Rose Designs (Ann Chandler)
Steven May Designs
Kishva's Enchantments (lingerie by Kishva Daniel)
(all of the above are fashion designers)
Tracy Carnes - Master Florist
Sandi Walton - custom pet clothes
Cliff Brown - sculptor
Theresa Mormino - jewelry
Penne Mobley - jewelry and accessories
Leigh Lowery - art
Tommy Gibbs - photographer
Starting shortly:
Jennifer Olah - jewelry
Crystal Collins - upholstered furniture
Elaine Hertlein - shell designs and handpainted scenic furniture
Charlie Patterson - custom made wigs
janeryderdesigns.com
218-6593
Thus we watch the evolution of the ancillary pieces of the movie production puzzle.
The new boutique, aimed at serving the movie industry as well as the public, is located at 208 E. King's Highway in Shreveport, across from Counter Culture. It will open Saturday, says Ms Ryder. Included in the opening roster:
Willie's Dream Gowns (Willie Rayburn)
Flamingo Rose Designs (Ann Chandler)
Steven May Designs
Kishva's Enchantments (lingerie by Kishva Daniel)
(all of the above are fashion designers)
Tracy Carnes - Master Florist
Sandi Walton - custom pet clothes
Cliff Brown - sculptor
Theresa Mormino - jewelry
Penne Mobley - jewelry and accessories
Leigh Lowery - art
Tommy Gibbs - photographer
Starting shortly:
Jennifer Olah - jewelry
Crystal Collins - upholstered furniture
Elaine Hertlein - shell designs and handpainted scenic furniture
Charlie Patterson - custom made wigs
janeryderdesigns.com
218-6593
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Rest in peace: Willard Cooper, artist and Professor Emeritus, Centenary College
Willard Cooper, artist and a professor of art at Centenary College for some 30 years, is dead. Cooper died of pneumonia in Costa Rica on Aug 28, said daughter Arden Rembert Brink. Surviving Cooper is his wife, Phyllis Cooper, and progeny.
Among the artists who developed under Cooper's professorship were watercolorist William McNamara of Ponca, Ar, and Centenary art department head Bruce Allen.
Willard and Phyllis attended art exhibits and concerts in Shreveport for some 40 years, and entertained art appreciators at their vine-covered house in Broadmoor. Willard was tall, lean and witty. He used his joie de vivre to keep the art scene from pretentiousness.
He was preceded in death by his artist son, David.
In recent years Willard and Phyllis were cared for by Arden and David Brinks in Maine, said Bruce Allen. Recently they relocated to Costa Rica.
Said his daughter in an email to Allen, "While Daddy's health had begun to decline quite a bit before the move here, he was well enough to enjoy Costa Rica and we're glad of that. The countryside here offers many scenes that are just the sort of thing he loved to sketch and paint, and you could see the artist in him scoping things out, mentally constructing compositions as we drove around and even just right out our front door. We would have loved it if he could have added Costa Rica to his "Maine to Spain" collection. He was never well enough to actually do any work, but I enjoy knowing that he thought about it and perhaps was making sketches in his mind."
Of Phyllis, Arden writes, " He and Mom were so devoted to each other that she certainly feels the loss deeply. She is grateful too, though, that he didn't suffer and takes considerable comfort from that. We're glad that she's here with us and even though we've been here less than a year, we've made some dear friends here who will help us make sure that she doesn't feel alone. We continue to hope that people from "our other life" back in the U.S. will come visit us here and I know now, more than ever, she'll enjoy and appreciate that."
A Shreveport memorial service will be held in another month or so.
arden@on-the-brink.com
phone (from the U.S.): 011.506.447.44.15
mail: #SJO14589, 7979 NW 21st Street, Doral, FL, 33122-1616
Among the artists who developed under Cooper's professorship were watercolorist William McNamara of Ponca, Ar, and Centenary art department head Bruce Allen.
Willard and Phyllis attended art exhibits and concerts in Shreveport for some 40 years, and entertained art appreciators at their vine-covered house in Broadmoor. Willard was tall, lean and witty. He used his joie de vivre to keep the art scene from pretentiousness.
He was preceded in death by his artist son, David.
In recent years Willard and Phyllis were cared for by Arden and David Brinks in Maine, said Bruce Allen. Recently they relocated to Costa Rica.
Said his daughter in an email to Allen, "While Daddy's health had begun to decline quite a bit before the move here, he was well enough to enjoy Costa Rica and we're glad of that. The countryside here offers many scenes that are just the sort of thing he loved to sketch and paint, and you could see the artist in him scoping things out, mentally constructing compositions as we drove around and even just right out our front door. We would have loved it if he could have added Costa Rica to his "Maine to Spain" collection. He was never well enough to actually do any work, but I enjoy knowing that he thought about it and perhaps was making sketches in his mind."
Of Phyllis, Arden writes, " He and Mom were so devoted to each other that she certainly feels the loss deeply. She is grateful too, though, that he didn't suffer and takes considerable comfort from that. We're glad that she's here with us and even though we've been here less than a year, we've made some dear friends here who will help us make sure that she doesn't feel alone. We continue to hope that people from "our other life" back in the U.S. will come visit us here and I know now, more than ever, she'll enjoy and appreciate that."
A Shreveport memorial service will be held in another month or so.
arden@on-the-brink.com
phone (from the U.S.): 011.506.447.44.15
mail: #SJO14589, 7979 NW 21st Street, Doral, FL, 33122-1616
Nicole Atkins & the Sea surf the edge of Cross Lake, Jayne Marie's, Th, Sept 13 and Fri, Sept 14
Nicole Atkins & the Sea will be performing Sept 13 & 14 (Thurs & Fri) at Jayne Marie on Cross Lake, says Bruce Flett.
The Bluebirds open the Sept 13 (only) show at 6:30. Nicole comes on at 8. No cover charge for this National artist, points out the frugal Flett. But, he says, reservations would be highly recommended. Tables are reserved for dining customers.
Here's what Rolling Stone says about the talented singer.
also, see www.nicoleatkins.com
Concludes the value-conscious Flett: "A Rising Star in shreveport in an Intimate setting! Yes!"
318-631-0919
The Bluebirds open the Sept 13 (only) show at 6:30. Nicole comes on at 8. No cover charge for this National artist, points out the frugal Flett. But, he says, reservations would be highly recommended. Tables are reserved for dining customers.
Here's what Rolling Stone says about the talented singer.
also, see www.nicoleatkins.com
Concludes the value-conscious Flett: "A Rising Star in shreveport in an Intimate setting! Yes!"
318-631-0919
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Brodnax, Soffer, Lewis and Mears at Turner Art Center, Centenary College: cool competency
The artists on display at Centenary College's Turner Art Center are the college drawing and painting teachers as well as staff members at Meadows Museum. It seems they can make fine art themselves.
Kathy Brodnax showed a series of funky, sepia chairs as well as painterly landscapes marked by sharp, sure strokes. Fellow teacher Graham Mears, newly returned to Centenary after a number of years in England, presented large canvasses that almost yowled. An agape red-mouthed ape dominated one exhibit area. Another room was watched by a squatamous pug. Mears also had small, droll images of dark hue that were plopped onto large, white fields.
Steven Soffer's paintings offered stories made from brighter than bright colors. A child-like simplicity and sense of mystery shone forth. Soffer is also exhibiting sculptural ceramics of organic, columnar shape that I like better than any of his work heretofore. Sculptures by Leia Lewis take viewers 'round the world via boxes festooned with African and Indian imagery.
Diane DuFilho, one of the city's leading curators by her vigorous direction of Meadows Museum, has been gardening with pen and ink. Her islands of shrubbery reminded me of the lines of Edward Gorey. DuFilho invites viewers to laugh as well as to admire her competency with pen and yard. One of her hedges is unerringly like a baguette of French bread.
Worth a stop at Turner Art Center, corner of Centenary Blvd and Rutherford? Yes. And there's an adjacent parking lot.
M - Th, 10 am to 6 pm
F, 10 am to 5 pm
Weekends, 2-5 p.m.
318-869-5260
Kathy Brodnax showed a series of funky, sepia chairs as well as painterly landscapes marked by sharp, sure strokes. Fellow teacher Graham Mears, newly returned to Centenary after a number of years in England, presented large canvasses that almost yowled. An agape red-mouthed ape dominated one exhibit area. Another room was watched by a squatamous pug. Mears also had small, droll images of dark hue that were plopped onto large, white fields.
Steven Soffer's paintings offered stories made from brighter than bright colors. A child-like simplicity and sense of mystery shone forth. Soffer is also exhibiting sculptural ceramics of organic, columnar shape that I like better than any of his work heretofore. Sculptures by Leia Lewis take viewers 'round the world via boxes festooned with African and Indian imagery.
Diane DuFilho, one of the city's leading curators by her vigorous direction of Meadows Museum, has been gardening with pen and ink. Her islands of shrubbery reminded me of the lines of Edward Gorey. DuFilho invites viewers to laugh as well as to admire her competency with pen and yard. One of her hedges is unerringly like a baguette of French bread.
Worth a stop at Turner Art Center, corner of Centenary Blvd and Rutherford? Yes. And there's an adjacent parking lot.
M - Th, 10 am to 6 pm
F, 10 am to 5 pm
Weekends, 2-5 p.m.
318-869-5260
Artists and politics and the governor's race
By general definition, artists abhor the political realm. Then there are the artists who believe that conscience requires us all to address political issues.
At sptBlog we are artists who believe that politics is an unavoidable part of daily hell. We are civic-minded artists who, ahem, help pay the bills by a state-funded check every now and then.
We also believe that the best way to enhance the efforts of Bayou State artists would be to withdraw all political monies from the artists' trough. The indignation and privation would likely bring forth a fiery, celestial burst of artistic energy.
But today's lecture is not utopia. It is dystopia, or the governor's race. How to track the candidates without mucking up the soles of our shoes.
The best thing I've come across are the candidate interviews being conducted by the Times editorial board and reported at the editor's blog. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the audio from Bobby Jindal's recent interview.
You have a better way to stay informed or develop some insight?
At sptBlog we are artists who believe that politics is an unavoidable part of daily hell. We are civic-minded artists who, ahem, help pay the bills by a state-funded check every now and then.
We also believe that the best way to enhance the efforts of Bayou State artists would be to withdraw all political monies from the artists' trough. The indignation and privation would likely bring forth a fiery, celestial burst of artistic energy.
But today's lecture is not utopia. It is dystopia, or the governor's race. How to track the candidates without mucking up the soles of our shoes.
The best thing I've come across are the candidate interviews being conducted by the Times editorial board and reported at the editor's blog. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the audio from Bobby Jindal's recent interview.
You have a better way to stay informed or develop some insight?
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Yolanda Young muses upon Hollywood South, once her home, in the Aug 26 Washington Post
USA Today columnist Yolanda Young has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, NPR and Black Entertainment Television (BET), says her web site. Her memoir, On Our Way to Beautiful (Random House), was lauded in The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Essence Magazine and was her ticket to a life in the media.
Young, based in Washington, DC, is one of Shreveport's most celebrated scribes. This weekend in the Washington Post she uses that advantage to profile Hollywood South - It's Shreveport's Season - for the puzzled masses.
Young once told stories to an audience at Caddo Magnet High about growing up in the Stoner Hill neighborhood. She entered high school at the time of The Crossover. Stoner Hill kids had been given a chance to go to a neighborhood school or Capt Shreve. She chose Shreve and paid a price in the adjustment. But her most uncomfortable stories were about classmates who defaulted to the less-challenging neighborhood schools.
In her lecture she was plainly jubilant that through her successful memoir she was escaping another ghetto: that of being a Washington lawyer.
Young, based in Washington, DC, is one of Shreveport's most celebrated scribes. This weekend in the Washington Post she uses that advantage to profile Hollywood South - It's Shreveport's Season - for the puzzled masses.
Young once told stories to an audience at Caddo Magnet High about growing up in the Stoner Hill neighborhood. She entered high school at the time of The Crossover. Stoner Hill kids had been given a chance to go to a neighborhood school or Capt Shreve. She chose Shreve and paid a price in the adjustment. But her most uncomfortable stories were about classmates who defaulted to the less-challenging neighborhood schools.
In her lecture she was plainly jubilant that through her successful memoir she was escaping another ghetto: that of being a Washington lawyer.
For the Love of God: London artist Damien Hirst seems not to have gained an ounce of fat
Says The Economist, the pungent British weekly, "Jay Joplng's new London gallery, White Cube Mason's Yard, played host this summer to the year's most talked-about piece of art: “For the Love of God”, by Damien Hirst. A life-size cast of a human skull in platinum, covered by 8,601 almost flawless pavé-set diamonds, “Love” glittered balefully from countless television news bulletins and from the front pages of the world's major newspapers.
This was a characteristic Hirst piece: outrageous in its demands (not least a $100m price tag), daring in conception and execution, flamboyantly showy, but as piercingly accurate in its nailing of our thoughts and feelings about life, death, art and money, as one of the pins through one of Mr Hirst's famous butterflies."
You like, yes? After a bit of "Rats, I should have done that one before this idiot did it."
Damien Hirst is easily the world's most interesting artist.
This was a characteristic Hirst piece: outrageous in its demands (not least a $100m price tag), daring in conception and execution, flamboyantly showy, but as piercingly accurate in its nailing of our thoughts and feelings about life, death, art and money, as one of the pins through one of Mr Hirst's famous butterflies."
You like, yes? After a bit of "Rats, I should have done that one before this idiot did it."
Damien Hirst is easily the world's most interesting artist.
Noids and OnoNinjas wail at Big D's Bbq Sat, Aug 25, at dusk and beyond; all ages, free, organic
The only band in the region that has come to our attention as performers of Leadbelly tunes: The Noids! They're fearsome and have one of the best drummers on local turf: Jesse Gabriel.
Big D's BBQ
outdoors, with the flying tiny things
at dark
Caddo at Common Sts.
Big D's BBQ
outdoors, with the flying tiny things
at dark
Caddo at Common Sts.
Turner exhibit by the art mavens of Meadows Museum opens Sun, Aug 26, 1 to 4 pm
You are invited to the opening of an exhibition of works by the Meadows Museum of Art staff, says Diane DuFilho.
The artists: Kathy Brodnax, Diane Dufilho, Neeta Kaji, Leia Lewis, Graham Mears, Steven Soffer.
We know that Soffer works in ceramics and other media and that Brodnax and Mears are painters. Otherwise, we are expecting revelations.
The show will be in Turner Art Center, across the street from Meadows.
Sun, Aug 26
1 - 4 pm
2911 Centenary Blvd.
Refreshments.
R.S.V.P. at 869.5040
The artists: Kathy Brodnax, Diane Dufilho, Neeta Kaji, Leia Lewis, Graham Mears, Steven Soffer.
We know that Soffer works in ceramics and other media and that Brodnax and Mears are painters. Otherwise, we are expecting revelations.
The show will be in Turner Art Center, across the street from Meadows.
Sun, Aug 26
1 - 4 pm
2911 Centenary Blvd.
Refreshments.
R.S.V.P. at 869.5040
Friday, August 24, 2007
Spirit House and more from notable New Orleans artist John T Scott at Meadows Museum, Centenary College
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.
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.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Batik exhibition at the Barnwell Center: Women of Destiny show by Patricia Mason and Karen Harrington open through Sept 23
"Patricia Mason began perfecting the ancient art of batik as a part of her thesis study, which she completed in 2006," says Freda Powell. The Barnwell Art Center is currently showing 31 of Mason's batik pieces.
Also exhibiting at the Barnwell Center in the Corridor Gallery is Karen Harrington. Her work includes batiks and watercolors.
Batik is the art of decorating cloth by using wax and dye.
A series of batik events will include an all-day workshop on Saturday, September 8 from 9 am to 3 pm.
A limited number of gallery walks with discussion and hands-on workshops for high school art students are supported in part by a grant from the Shreveport Regional Arts Council’s Regrant Program, as are school tours of the exhibition.
To register for the batik workshop or to schedule a school tour, call (318) 673-7703
Also exhibiting at the Barnwell Center in the Corridor Gallery is Karen Harrington. Her work includes batiks and watercolors.
Batik is the art of decorating cloth by using wax and dye.
A series of batik events will include an all-day workshop on Saturday, September 8 from 9 am to 3 pm.
A limited number of gallery walks with discussion and hands-on workshops for high school art students are supported in part by a grant from the Shreveport Regional Arts Council’s Regrant Program, as are school tours of the exhibition.
To register for the batik workshop or to schedule a school tour, call (318) 673-7703
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Margaret McNew, Shreveport, prompts region to make 1000s of cranes for peace; Sciport a partner
In June, Margaret McNew discovered Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, a book that had been read by her mother, Suzette, and older sister, Audrey. The book tells the story of Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese girl born in 1943.
Sadako was diagnosed with a form of Leukemia related to radiation from the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima when she was two. She was told of the Japanese legend that anyone folding a thousand paper cranes is granted a wish. Hoping for recovery, she completed 644 before she succumbed to the disease and died at age twelve, writes Eric Gipson of Sciport.
Sadako’s courage became inspirational throughout Japan and abroad, with Sadako statues raised in Hiroshima and Seattle. Her story made the paper crane an international symbol of peace.
With instructions provided in the book, and with help from her mom, Margaret soon became adept at making her own origami cranes. This turned into a home project to work on cranes to send to the United Nations for the September 21 Day of Peace. Her school, A.C. Steere Elementary has since become involved, as has sister Audrey’s school, Caddo Middle Magnet.
Enthusiasm spread when the McNews contacted Sci-Port Discovery Center for a potential partnership in the project. Crane-making workshop dates were quickly established.
Sci-Port’s new President & CEO, Ann Fumarolo, got her former science center, Science North in Fort Wayne, Indiana, to join the effort.
Sci-Port welcomes origami cranes from any individual or group; crane making instructions can be found at www.sciport.org.
Cranes can be dropped off or sent to Sci-Port Port Discovery Center, 820 Clyde Fant Parkway, Shreveport, LA 71101, phone (318) 424-3466, toll-free (877) 724-7678. International Day of Peace information is available at www.internationaldayofpeace.org.
Sci-Port Cranes for Peace workshops:
Saturday, September 8, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Sunday, September 9, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Saturday, September 15, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Sadako was diagnosed with a form of Leukemia related to radiation from the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima when she was two. She was told of the Japanese legend that anyone folding a thousand paper cranes is granted a wish. Hoping for recovery, she completed 644 before she succumbed to the disease and died at age twelve, writes Eric Gipson of Sciport.
Sadako’s courage became inspirational throughout Japan and abroad, with Sadako statues raised in Hiroshima and Seattle. Her story made the paper crane an international symbol of peace.
With instructions provided in the book, and with help from her mom, Margaret soon became adept at making her own origami cranes. This turned into a home project to work on cranes to send to the United Nations for the September 21 Day of Peace. Her school, A.C. Steere Elementary has since become involved, as has sister Audrey’s school, Caddo Middle Magnet.
Enthusiasm spread when the McNews contacted Sci-Port Discovery Center for a potential partnership in the project. Crane-making workshop dates were quickly established.
Sci-Port’s new President & CEO, Ann Fumarolo, got her former science center, Science North in Fort Wayne, Indiana, to join the effort.
Sci-Port welcomes origami cranes from any individual or group; crane making instructions can be found at www.sciport.org.
Cranes can be dropped off or sent to Sci-Port Port Discovery Center, 820 Clyde Fant Parkway, Shreveport, LA 71101, phone (318) 424-3466, toll-free (877) 724-7678. International Day of Peace information is available at www.internationaldayofpeace.org.
Sci-Port Cranes for Peace workshops:
Saturday, September 8, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Sunday, September 9, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Saturday, September 15, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Monday, August 20, 2007
After the work crews, social entrepreneurship; Changing Louisiana seminar Th, Sept 6, Conven Center, 9 to 4
Changing Louisiana through volunteerism and social entrepreneurship is a seminar that was developed by the office of Lt. Governor Mitch Landrieu, says the press release.
In Shreveport the seminar will unfold on Thurs, Sept 6, at the Shreveport Convention Center, 400 Caddo Street.
The program is open to the public and is a no-fee event. Seating is limited. Learn About: New Partnerships, Citizen Leadership
and Innovative Solutions.
Registration is Online and Easy, it says.
9 to 4. Lunch.
Here's a challenge from sptBlog for those of you who can attend the event: try to find a fellow-attendee to meet you there who's not from your ethnic group. One of the limiting factors of life in Shreveport is a lack of knowledge and awareness across the ethnic divide. If volunteers begin the day with a sense of trust and communication in this problematic area of local life, the seminar will be unusually successful.
In Shreveport the seminar will unfold on Thurs, Sept 6, at the Shreveport Convention Center, 400 Caddo Street.
The program is open to the public and is a no-fee event. Seating is limited. Learn About: New Partnerships, Citizen Leadership
and Innovative Solutions.
Registration is Online and Easy, it says.
9 to 4. Lunch.
Here's a challenge from sptBlog for those of you who can attend the event: try to find a fellow-attendee to meet you there who's not from your ethnic group. One of the limiting factors of life in Shreveport is a lack of knowledge and awareness across the ethnic divide. If volunteers begin the day with a sense of trust and communication in this problematic area of local life, the seminar will be unusually successful.
Full Moon Bistreaux presents spoken word and melody event on Sat, Sept 3
Topcat@topcatlive.com says of the Poetic Blue Labor Day poetry event being produced by Mocha Blue Blaze, "Make it if you can; wish her luck if you can't. Peace."
Sat, Sept 3
Full Moon Bistreaux, 204 Tex Ave
Shreveport
7 pm
$5
featuring the Atlanta Acoustic All Stars
and a poem was included:
In the darkness of night,
Deep within countless dimensions,
I brushed minds with an angel,
And encountered a passion so pure,
My thoughts are still tingling...
-----------------------------------
Everett Webb
Sat, Sept 3
Full Moon Bistreaux, 204 Tex Ave
Shreveport
7 pm
$5
featuring the Atlanta Acoustic All Stars
and a poem was included:
In the darkness of night,
Deep within countless dimensions,
I brushed minds with an angel,
And encountered a passion so pure,
My thoughts are still tingling...
-----------------------------------
Everett Webb
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Yoginis Monica Fayad, Kathy Fontaine planning Global Mala Project for Lotus Center & Columbia Cafe for Sun, Sept 23
Heather Provenza, Kathy Fontaine, Monica Fayad, Suzie Golas, Shreveport, Lotus Center
Originally uploaded by trudeau
It's part of a world-wide day of peace called Global Mala (a mala is a string of 108 beads used in prayer).
Events on the current docket include
* 12:30: a gathering at Lotus Center for yoga. Artists are being invited to sketch and photograph the yoga session.
* 1:30: the gathering will bicycle or walk to Columbia cafe, corner of Creswell and King's Hwy.
* 2:00: water and snacks at Columbia Cafe. Making of luminaria to place on the periphery of the site near nightfall.
*3:00: musical concert and dancing. Band(s) to be announced in the near future.
4:00: Sound & Light video / music show of local work.
5:00: more music and dance.
6:00: Lighting of luminaria.
Info: monicafayad@gmail.com
Review: Jessica Maxey and Nate Wasson find ways to touch the audience in Centenary College production of Romeo & Juliet; shows continue to Sept 1
The clock struck 11:15 pm as the audience clapped for the cast of Romeo & Juliet at Centenary College's Marjorie Lyons Playhouse on Saturday night. But it was a better production than is implied by the 3-hour length. Nate Wasson and Jessica Maxey, students playing the principal roles, each have a way of touching the audience.
Maxey is a radiant 17 year-old. The lights like her. Having seen her in children's theater as well as with the River City Repertory, I can see that she's growing in dramatic fluency as well as beauty.
Wasson is a Centenary student who plays Romeo with becoming vulnerability.
The supporting players are led by Rob Gilchrist, who plays Juliet's nurse. Early in the play he capably channels the spirit of Church Lady. Watching him wrestle with a role that slides from fun to forlorn is engrossing.
Blake Powell presents a strong Friar Lawrence. Cameron Bradford is cutting as Mercutio.
In my favorite of his many roles upon local stages, Jim Cowles plays blustery Signor Capulet, father to Juliet. Haley Young plays his wife with cool competence. Destin Bass has the minor role of the Prince of Verona in this play but his voice and stage presence have the vibe of big talent.
Don Hooper's spare set design is effective in providing a New Orleans ambience to the play in the opening scenes and an otherworldly air to the bedroom scenes. Yet metal towers have loomed in a number of plays at Marjorie Lyons Playhouse. The air of default design is creeping in upon the tall rectangles.
The jazz and blues used as incidental music was striking. But in the early part of the play the music played in the background as the dialogue unfolded. That music was distinctly distracting and handicapped the actors' lines. Happily, the background music disappeared later in the play.
Heather Peak Hooper, director, has not allowed her cast to wear body mics. Hurrah. Because they almost never work as well as intended and because they rob voices of their timbre, I despise the mics so ubiquitous upon the modern stage. Pardon my rant, but if you want to be an actor, build your diaphragm and vocal cords while you develop the expressiveness of your eyes and hands. That said and compliment delivered to the director, I'd recommend you get a seat in one of the front rows.
Saturday night there were a lot of young students in the audience, which was good. My 11 year-old son seemed captured by the drama. He gave the production quite a compliment when he noted that, "The bedroom scene; ahem. That was a lot like a James Bond movie."
Box office (noon to 4 pm): 869-5242. Please see an earlier post for dates and times.
Note that director Hooper is presenting an alternating set of plays; the companion to R & J is an all-female cast that presents The Taming of the Shrew.
Maxey is a radiant 17 year-old. The lights like her. Having seen her in children's theater as well as with the River City Repertory, I can see that she's growing in dramatic fluency as well as beauty.
Wasson is a Centenary student who plays Romeo with becoming vulnerability.
The supporting players are led by Rob Gilchrist, who plays Juliet's nurse. Early in the play he capably channels the spirit of Church Lady. Watching him wrestle with a role that slides from fun to forlorn is engrossing.
Blake Powell presents a strong Friar Lawrence. Cameron Bradford is cutting as Mercutio.
In my favorite of his many roles upon local stages, Jim Cowles plays blustery Signor Capulet, father to Juliet. Haley Young plays his wife with cool competence. Destin Bass has the minor role of the Prince of Verona in this play but his voice and stage presence have the vibe of big talent.
Don Hooper's spare set design is effective in providing a New Orleans ambience to the play in the opening scenes and an otherworldly air to the bedroom scenes. Yet metal towers have loomed in a number of plays at Marjorie Lyons Playhouse. The air of default design is creeping in upon the tall rectangles.
The jazz and blues used as incidental music was striking. But in the early part of the play the music played in the background as the dialogue unfolded. That music was distinctly distracting and handicapped the actors' lines. Happily, the background music disappeared later in the play.
Heather Peak Hooper, director, has not allowed her cast to wear body mics. Hurrah. Because they almost never work as well as intended and because they rob voices of their timbre, I despise the mics so ubiquitous upon the modern stage. Pardon my rant, but if you want to be an actor, build your diaphragm and vocal cords while you develop the expressiveness of your eyes and hands. That said and compliment delivered to the director, I'd recommend you get a seat in one of the front rows.
Saturday night there were a lot of young students in the audience, which was good. My 11 year-old son seemed captured by the drama. He gave the production quite a compliment when he noted that, "The bedroom scene; ahem. That was a lot like a James Bond movie."
Box office (noon to 4 pm): 869-5242. Please see an earlier post for dates and times.
Note that director Hooper is presenting an alternating set of plays; the companion to R & J is an all-female cast that presents The Taming of the Shrew.
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Where to find jazz in Shreveport: follow Don Crenshaw, aka Dirty Redd, to the Noble Savage on Thursdays
Where to find jazz in Shreveport is a question frequently found on the lips of knowledgable newcomers. It's Louisiana, right? Where's the jazz?
In Shreveport jazz is an evanescent thing. It pops up and disappears as quickly as that. People love to talk about jazz, but supporting it is another thing.
At the moment Don Crenshaw, the Man with a Horn, is hosting a jazz jam at the Noble Savage, 417 Texas. He and his pods blow on Thursdays. As Dirty Red he is a local star, sitting in with many a band, recording, inspiring by his very mystique as well as musicianship.
Crenshaw and friends know how to burn a roux. They understand that a steady diet of high-flown improv is not a universal draw. So they do the blues and get funky and keep the groove up.
The Noble Savage is a perfect place for this jazz-blues experience. Parking is easy and you get to say hello to the statue of Leadbelly across the street. The room, with its brick walls and high, mahogany bar, is remarkably evocative of a classic New Orleans bar.
Seating is informal; don't be surprised if there's a reason to chat with people seated around you. Chef Colby's cooking is solid. The variety of beers ready to be quaffed is righteous.
Don't hesitate to spy the link to the Noble Savage calendar right here among the sptBlog roster.
Jazz, man.
In Shreveport jazz is an evanescent thing. It pops up and disappears as quickly as that. People love to talk about jazz, but supporting it is another thing.
At the moment Don Crenshaw, the Man with a Horn, is hosting a jazz jam at the Noble Savage, 417 Texas. He and his pods blow on Thursdays. As Dirty Red he is a local star, sitting in with many a band, recording, inspiring by his very mystique as well as musicianship.
Crenshaw and friends know how to burn a roux. They understand that a steady diet of high-flown improv is not a universal draw. So they do the blues and get funky and keep the groove up.
The Noble Savage is a perfect place for this jazz-blues experience. Parking is easy and you get to say hello to the statue of Leadbelly across the street. The room, with its brick walls and high, mahogany bar, is remarkably evocative of a classic New Orleans bar.
Seating is informal; don't be surprised if there's a reason to chat with people seated around you. Chef Colby's cooking is solid. The variety of beers ready to be quaffed is righteous.
Don't hesitate to spy the link to the Noble Savage calendar right here among the sptBlog roster.
Jazz, man.
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