In Our Galleries: August 1, 2009
A Think Tank Requiem
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 1 at Whitney White Linen Night
ART-IN-ME-MO-RI-AM, a three-window light-work installation by KRISTEN STRUEBING-BEAZLEY, will illuminate the August anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in the Saint Joseph Street windows of the Contemporary Arts Center. Incorporating backlit text from the poem "Requiem" by Yusef Komunyakaa set into outlines of double shotgun houses, the work is embellished with motifs relevant to "Requiem" and the black and white tragedy of the South. Symbolic elements include floating specters and rib cages, unhinged shutters, a galloping surge, classical Bacchus and native Zulu icons and a geometric representation of death in the attic. The windows will transition as the DAY OF THE DEAD approaches in early November.
Gallery hours are Thursday through Sunday, 11am-4pm.
Gallery admission: $5/general, $3/students & seniors, FREE To CAC members.
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Visual Arts programs of the Contemporary Arts Center are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Sydney & Walda Besthoff Foundation. Programming at the CAC is supported in part by our Business Arts Fund Members: Arthur Roger Gallery; Gallery Bienvenu; Hunt Telecom, LLC; The Law Offices of Matt Greenbaum; LeMieux Galleries; Merrill Lynch; Mignon Faget, Ltd.; and Rosenberg & Clark, LLC.
CAC 35th Birthday programming is supported by Nick Mayor & Jessica Bride, Entergy, Helis Foundation, Greater New Orleans Foundation, Arts Council of New Orleans, Louisiana Division of the Arts & Regions Bank.
