Prospect New Orleans

05/07/2025

🚨Prospect.6 Catalog Pick-Up is Here! 🚨⁠
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Swing by and pick up your copy this week. ⁠
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Pick-Up Location:⁠
📍 The Warehouse⁠
3014 Dauphine Street, Suite T⁠
New Orleans, LA 70117⁠
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Pick-Up Hours:⁠
🔹 Wednesday, May 7th: 1:30 PM - 6:30 PM | Door code: 54751 #⁠
🔹 Friday, May 9th: 9:30 AM - 6:30 PM | Door code: 54752 #⁠
🔹 Saturday, May 10th: 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM | Door code: 54753 #⁠

Order here: https://shop.prospect6.org/
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04/29/2025

WHAT PIECE FROM PROSPECT MOVED YOU MOST?⁠
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From Prospect.1 to Prospect.6, we’ve had the privilege of bringing over 300 works of art to New Orleans—offering new ways of seeing, connecting, and reflecting through the minds of leading artists from around the world, while amplifying voices deeply rooted in the city itself.⁠
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This , give in honor of the edition that moved you most:⁠
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🌀 P.1 – $20.08⁠
🌱 P.2 – $20.11⁠
🗣️ P.3 – $20.14⁠
🌊 P.4 – $20.17⁠
🔥 P.5 – $20.21⁠
🌍 P.6 – $20.24 (or $2,024!)⁠
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Share your favorite piece in the comments.⁠
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Every gift helps shape the future o⁠
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🎉 Early giving is now open!⁠
👉 Share your favorite piece in the comments and donate today at GiveNOLA.org⁠
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🔗 Link to donate: https://www.givenola.org/organization/ProspectNewOrleans
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04/28/2025

Head over to State of the Arts to watch the latest episode with P.6 artist Deborah Jack. Deborah Jack fuses film and poetry in immersive video installations exploring shifting coastlines affected by climate change. State of the Arts goes on location with the artist in New Orleans and at her studio in Jersey City.⁠
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🔗 Watch here: https://www.njpbs.org/schedule/?program=7398
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04/21/2025

We’re thrilled to announce that Miranda Lash, Ellen Bruss Chief Curator at MCA Denver and recent co-Artistic Director of Prospect.6, will deliver the keynote for Building a Cathedral, our free, public curatorial conference in Chicago as part of Expo Chicago.

As part of the annual Curatorial Forum, Building a Cathedral invites cultural practitioners to imagine how we can shape long-term change in the field.⁠
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For more information, visit the link in our bio. ⁠
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04/04/2025

Congratulations to Ron Bechet on the opening of From the Storms of Our Souls: The Art of Ron Bechet, debuting Friday, April 5 at 6 PM at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans. ⁠
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A beloved artist in the city of New Orleans and a participant in the P.5 edition and P.6 Gala, Ron has long been a champion of the arts and a vital presence in the city and art world.⁠
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Curated by Shana M. Griffin—artist, scholar, and former Artistic Director of our Artists of Public Memory initiative—this powerful exhibition presents nearly 50 large-scale charcoal works that reflect on Black identity, memory, and nature.⁠
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"Featuring large-scale monochrome works inhabited by expressive portraits arising from nature, From the Storms of Our Souls invites viewers to engage in a poetic collection of belonging—journeying through the intimate dimensions of deeply furrowed barks of trees intertwined with curves of vines and punctuating roots, trunks, and falling leaves—revealing the often-concealed narratives of Black life.⁠
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Ron Bechet’s commanding use of charcoal drawings brings into sharp focus a Black visuality that challenges the often-overlooked experiences, voices, teachings, and whispers of ancestral wisdom reflected in nature. Within the exhibition, gestural traces of memory are juxtaposed with choreographic themes oscillating between severed kin, racial caste, social constraints, death, and loss to contemplation, rebirth, freedom, beauty, ancestral devotion, reverence, and justice."⁠
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For more info visit: https://cacno.org/from-the-storms-of-our-souls-the-art-of-ron-bechet⁠
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Ron Bechet, 2021–22. Installation view: Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow, 2021–22. Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University, New Orleans. Courtesy Prospect New Orleans. Photo: Jeffery Johnston

04/03/2025

Thank you to everyone who attended the Spring Celebration at Nanih Bvlbancha! For updates on more events, happenings, and initiatives at the mound, visit www.nanihbvlbancha.net.⁠
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04/01/2025

Prospect.6 Travels to Denver!⁠
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We're thrilled to announce that selections from Prospect.6: The Future is Present, The Harbinger is Home will be on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver from May 23–August 24, 2025. This special summer exhibition invites audiences to engage with powerful works that consider New Orleans—and other climate-vulnerable regions—as starting points for reflecting on our collective future, climate change, colonial legacies, and ideas of home and belonging.⁠
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“By presenting Prospect’s first exhibition outside New Orleans, MCA Denver is thrilled to bring artworks by a wide range of groundbreaking artists to our community in Colorado, which is wrestling with its own dynamics related to climate change, belonging, and systemic legacies." said Miranda Lash, the Ellen Bruss Chief Curator at MCA Denver. ⁠
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“Artists present possibilities for ways forward, in times of uncertainty, questioning, and evolution,” says Ebony G. Patterson, artist and 2024 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow. “This is an opportunity to wrestle with these very questions, postured by these artists, that have been long unfolding globally, and to consider its own imprint in the global discourse.” Patterson adds.⁠
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Head to the link in our bio to read the full press release, see the artist list, and learn more about the exhibition. ⁠
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Teresa Baker, Tracing the Dirt, 2024. Installation view at Ford Motor Plant, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home (Nov 2, 2024–Feb 2, 2025). Commissioned by Prospect.6. Image courtesy of the artist and Prospect New Orleans. Photo by Alex Marks.

03/28/2025

Looking back at the P.6 Closing Weekend Catalogue Mixer; a night filled with vibrant conversations, a sneak peek into Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home catalogue, and a performance by Karisma Price.⁠
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For the first time ever, our catalogue will include documentation of the exhibition, venues, and public programming for Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home. Featuring seven essays, three works of poetry, and various speculations on the future, the publication also includes images of artworks by all fifty-one participating artists, including the forty-two artists who created new work for the triennial.⁠
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Pre-order your copy today by visiting: https://shop.prospect6.org/products/p-6-catalogue
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03/25/2025

Congratulations to P.6 artist Christian Đinh on the inclusion of his work in Hoa Tay: Flower Hands at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art!⁠
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This deeply personal exhibition explores Đinh’s Vietnamese heritage through a poignant blend of photography, sculpture, and installation. Hoa Tay delves into themes of memory, migration, and inherited identity—core threads in Christian’s artistic practice, which will also be on view in Prospect.6 this fall.⁠
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On view now through July 7, 2025. Don’t miss it!⁠
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For more information visit:

https://ogdenmuseum.org/exhibition/hoa-tay-flower-hands/

02/27/2025

Congrats to P.6 artist Abdi Farah and Artists of Public Memory Keith Calhoun, Jenna Mae, and Monique Verdin on joining the 4th cohort of the Take Notice Fund, honoring artists of color in Louisiana.⁠
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Each year, the Take Notice Fund awards $5,000 grants to 30 artists and culture bearers of color living and working in Louisiana. The unrestricted grant funds are intended to support an artist’s creative practice and well-being. The fund seeks to allow artists to determine what they need to thrive creatively, professionally, and personally. “It’s clear this grant is impactful for Louisiana artists and culture bearers who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color,” noted Southern Programs Assistant Daniel Pruksarnukul. “The Take Notice Fund is supporting these artists at critical moments in their practices and provides them opportunities for their work to thrive.”⁠
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To learn more about the artists and initiative, visit the link below:

The National Performance Network is thrilled to announce the fourth cohort of the Take Notice Fund, honoring artists of color in Louisiana.

02/19/2025

We were honored to host P.6 artist Stephanie Syjuco during Prospect.6's closing weekend at Music Box Village. In collaboration with BayouBarkada and Dr. Randy Gonzales, we delved into Syjuco's project, "Phantom Visions (The Lacustrine Village of St. Malo)," while also exploring Filipinx and African-descended histories.⁠
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We extend our heartfelt gratitude to all participants and attendees for making this event a memorable exploration of culture and history.⁠
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02/17/2025

Work by P.5 artist, Tau Lewis currently at David Zwirner Los Angeles () for Tau Lewis: Spirit Level on view from February 13—March 29, 2025.⁠
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"The works in Spirit Level emerged from a period of profound loss for Lewis. In the conception of these anthropomorphic figures, the artist developed respective identities and narratives that implicate our ancestral pasts, spiritual and cultural similitudes, and multiplanar existences. Comprising found and inherited objects, each sculpture embodies the transitional period in which they were made as well as the liminal space in a material object’s journey as it changes hands and takes on a new form.⁠
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Drawing from the faces of the Caribbean Sea, techno and dub music, literature, and studies of religion and spirituality, with this exhibition Lewis expands her world-building, weaving figures that reappear across her practice, connected by what she calls their “material DNA.” In the gallery’s airy space, these stately sculptures gather in quiet majesty, engaged in a silent spiritual dialogue."⁠
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For more information, visit: https://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/2025/tau-lewis-spirit-level
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Images courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner.