New Orleans Festival of Photography
MICKALENE THOMAS: FEMMES NOIRES November 2, 2019 – June 14, 2020 Opening: Saturday, Nov 2, 5:30 – 10pm Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires is an exhibition of new work—collages and montages by Mickalene Thomas that confront and subvert stereotypes with powerful, self-possessed depictions of Black women. BIO Mickalene Thomas makes paintings, collages, photography, video, and installations […]
FEMMES FÉROCES: MATERIAL LIFE X FEMMES NOIRES November 2, 2019 – June 14, 2020 Openng: Saturday, Nov 2, 5:30-10pm A collaborative pop-up between Material Life and Mickalene Thomas, Femmes Féroces celebrates the creativity and originality of our collective community of femmes noires—who, borrowing from the 100 Black Females Project, we define as “…all who express […]
MEG TURNER: HERE AND NOW November 2, 2019 – April 12, 2020 Opening: Saturday, Nov 2, 5:30pm-10pm Meg Turner: Here and Now is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition. The installation, including over 100 portrait tintypes of artists, activists, teachers, school mates, friends, lovers, and near-strangers, documents a self-selected community who over the past five […]
AKOSUA ADOMA OWUSU: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE November 2, 2019 – February 2, 2020 Opening: Saturday, Nov 2, 5:30 -10:30pm Akosua Adoma Owusu is a Ghanian-American filmmaker, producer, and cinematographer whose films and installations address the collision of identities. Often combining personal ethnography and cultural representations of beauty in her work, Owusu transitions between avant-garde […]
