TravelingMermaid: It's Yours! Take It!

TravelingMermaid: It's Yours! Take It!: "NoLA Rising is making a call for art for It’s Yours, Take It (NoLA 4) NoLA  Rising has a long history of distributing artwork at no cost to..."

Happy Gobble Gobble Turkey Day

From NoLA Rising to you...Happy Gobble Gobble Turkey Day. On behalf of us at NoLA Rising, we are grateful for the people of New Orleans and all the wonderful things you do!

EMERGE: St. Claude Arts District & Beyond 41 Artists from the Saratoga Collection @ the OGDEN Museum of Southern Art

The Ogden Museum of Southern Art/University of New Orleans is proud to announce the unveiling of EMERGE – St. Claude Arts District and Beyond: 41 New Orleans Artists from “The Saratoga Collection” on Thurs. November 18.

This exhibition celebrates 41 emerging and mid-career artists who live and work in New Orleans. It documents and further validates the burgeoning contemporary art scene developing in the New Orleans St. Claude and Bywater arts districts, but more importantly, artists who have made a decision to live and work in New Orleans. The artists in this collection are relevant, coherent and offer a peek into the world of the new New Orleans contemporary art movement.



The exhibition is curated by Terrance Sanders for architect/developer Marcel Wisznia.

The Saratoga Collection:
Libbie Allen, Katrina Andry, James T Bonds, Blaine Capone, Anthony Carriere, Stephen Collier, Bruce Davenport Jr., Michael Dingler, Hannah Downey, Keith Duncan, Brad Dupuy, Robin Durand, Aubrey Edwards, Hayley Gaberlavage, Generic Art Solutions, Grissel Giuliano, Dave Greber, Nick Hasslock, Olivia Hill, Chris Jahncke, Kevin H. Jones, Bruce Keyes, Stephen Kwok, Miranda Lake, Barbie L'Hoste, Srdjan Loncar, Colin Meneghini, Layla Messkoub, Tony Nozero, Alex Podesta, Rajko Radovanovic, Rebecca Rebouche, Aaron Reichert, Terrence Sanders, Jim Sohr, Jameson Stokes, Dan Tague, Robert Tannen, Jonathan Traviesa, Miriam Waterman, and Paige Valente.

The opening is 6 p.m.-8 p.m., during Ogden After Hours featuring John Mooney.

For more information, check HERE

NoLA Rising

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If by Rudyard Kipling

If...

by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

Invite to 100sqft @ Arts After Dark

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Click the link to find out more and get a better view of the flyer...

And check this out:
http://www.nola.com/arts/index.ssf/2010/10/gray_ghost_is_welcomed_to_make.html

Dinglerization of America : The Book

Just when you thought Rex had dried up and died...there's this. A book highlighting pieces from the Coup D'Oeil Art Show: The Dinglerization of America held in New Orleans' Lower Garden District in 2009 is now available from Blurb. Sure, it's taken some time to put it together, but like all things New Orleans, when it's ready, it's ready. Take a moment to check out the preview and if you're so inclined, scoop one up to go with the work you bought (or the work you wanted to buy). Two bucks from the sale of each book goes to Rex's two lovely daughters...everything else goes to Blurb (just like a true publishing house). Enjoy!

The Dinglerization of America by Rex Dingler | Make Your Own Book