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In a video address by the Conroe ISD superintendent, Dr. Curtis Null gave an update on the latest numbers on Friday as COVID-19 cases in the district continue to climb. ....
L.B. Landry High School in Algiers. May 1, 2021. For more than a decade, high school students around the country have honored the life and work of the late playwright August Wilson with an annual monologue competition, delivering scenes from “Fences” and “The Piano Lesson.” The first round of competition is held regionally and in a typical year winners advance to a national final in New York City. Louisiana hasn’t held a local competition in the past, but that changed Saturday when L.B. Landry High School in Algiers hosted the state’s inaugural event. Twenty-one students from eight New Orleans schools participated including Landry senior Laila Joseph. She said while her teachers had mentioned Wilson in passing, she was largely unfamiliar with his work before signing up for the competition. ....
My New Orleans 03/15/2021 NEW ORLEANS (press release) – Downtown New Orleans’ first and largest signature mural collection expands with the addition of “You Are What You Eat” by New Orleans native and artist, Jessica Strahan. Strahan’s work is the seventh mural featured in Unframed presented by The Helis Foundation, a project of the Arts Council New Orleans. Strahan was the first muralist to be announced from the Unframed 2.0 international call to women artists, which resulted in 82 submissions. “You Are What You Eat” is located in Legacy Park at 730 Baronne St. “Jessica celebrates New Orleans’ distinctive culture in her artwork,” says The Helis Foundation Managing Director Jessie Schott Haynes. “She not only captures the city’s rich community, but she engaged with local students to create this impressive and vibrant mural.” ....
The Studio Museum in Harlem s annual Artist-in-Residence exhibition on view at MoMA PS1 This Longing Vessel: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 201920, MoMA PS1 December 10, 2020March 14, 2021. Photo: Kris Graves. LONG ISLAND CITY, NY .- The Studio Museum in Harlems annual Artist-in-Residence exhibition is on view at MoMA PS1, moving this presentation outside the Studio Museums walls for the second time as part of a multiyear partnership with the Museum of Modern Art and PS1. This Longing Vessel features new work by the 201920 cohort of the Studio Museums signature residency programartists E. Jane (b. 1990, Bethesda, MD), Naudline Pierre (b. 1989, Leominster, MA), and Elliot Reed (b. 1992, Milwaukee, WI)whose artistic practices span new media, performance, and painting. With a title that suggests radical intimacy, a vessel to hold and to be held by, this exhibition presents the intersection between queerness and Blackness as a waypoint to yearn from, r ....