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New York artist Sanford Biggers has been busy despite the pandemic. Last year, he debuted a suite of works at New York City’s Rockefeller Center, anchored by a 25-foot cast-bronze statue called “Oracle,” which blends concepts of classical Greco-Roman sculpture and African art. There also were other sculptures, flags, multimedia works with photographs and video, and a large-scale mural inside the center.
The mural featured the words “JUST US,” set shadowed in a blue sky full of clouds…
If you’ve driven on Camp Street recently as you enter the Warehouse District, you’ve seen the stages of a new, expansive mural resembling a sky. On Thursday, January 20, Just Us by Sanford Biggers will be officially unveiled and the public is invited to attend the presentation.
“We’re excited for residents of and visitors to the city to enjoy this beautiful work of art by such a distinguished artist,” said Jessie Schott Haynes, Managing Director of The Helis Foundation, in a statement…
Arts New Orleans and The Helis Foundation announce the unveiling of Downtown’s newest mural, Just Us by internationally renowned artist Sanford Biggers. The latest addition to the ongoing project in New Orleans’ Arts District, Unframed presented by The Helis Foundation, a project of Arts New Orleans, the mural is located on the west-facing wall of the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) on Camp Street. To commemorate the new work, an unveiling and panel will take place on Thursday, January 20, 2022 at the CAC…
Arts New Orleans and The Helis Foundation announce the unveiling of Downtown’s newest mural, Just Us by internationally renowned artist Sanford Biggers. The latest addition to the ongoing project in New Orleans’ Arts District, Unframed presented by The Helis Foundation, a project of Arts New Orleans, the mural is located on the west-facing wall of the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) on Camp Street. To commemorate the new work, an unveiling and panel will take place on Thursday, January 20, 2022 at the CAC…
Ogden Museum of Southern Art is pleased to announce that its Board of Trustees has elected a new Board Chair, Jessie Schott Haynes, Managing Director of The Helis Foundation in New Orleans. Haynes, also an attorney, began her term on January 1, 2022. Additionally, Cleophus Thomas, an Anniston, AL attorney began his term as Treasurer at that time. They will join previously-installed Vice-Chair, Geoffrey Snodgrass, a New Orleans attorney and private investor, and Secretary, Justin Woods, Clerk of Court for the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals…
New Orleans, Louisiana (Dec. 21, 2021) — Multidisciplinary artist Asante Salaam will serve as the inaugural director of The Helis Foundation John Scott Center at the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH). Named for artist, activist and humanist John T. Scott, the center will present more than 50 original works by Scott in 6,000 square feet of interactive exhibition space. The center will open on the ground floor of the LEH’s historic Turners’ Hall headquarters in downtown New Orleans in the spring of 2022…