My New Orleans
03/09/2021
RUSTON, La (press release) – The Ross Lynn Charitable Foundation (RLCF) and the North Central Louisiana Arts Council (NCLAC) have partnered again to organize the 2021 North Louisiana Virtual Residency. This year’s residency started on February 8th and lasts eight weeks, bringing artists from across the globe together as pairs to collaborate on new artwork. Sixteen artists from 7 different countries make up the 2021 residents with diverse art forms ranging from painting, wearable art, and paper arts, to photography, sculpture, performance art, and more.
The first Virtual Residency began in May of 2020 as a way to offer virtual space and support for artists to come together as a community during the early stages of the pandemic. RLCF and NCLAC seek to foster a communal and collaborative environment that brings about connections that would otherwise not exist. To do this they facilitate video calls, online discussions, and interviews with the artists. Th