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Sculpture for New Orleans

A city wide sculpture exhibition with local, national and international artists lending their work to New Orleans.
  • Status: Active
  • Submitted: Thu May 08, 2008   |   Last updated: Wed May 27, 2009
  • Location(s): Orleans all of New Orleans
  • Topics(s): Community development, Education
  • Tag(s): Michael Manjarris, Peter Lundberg, Sculpture for New Orleans
  • Views: 4701   |   Comments: 2

Details

“Sculpture for New Orleans” an all volunteer ongoing sculpture exhibition placing monumental sculptures throughout New Orleans, downtown New Orleans, Uptown, the Garden District, City Park, the New Orleans Museum of Art and Lakefront. Lafayette Square in the CBD is the starting point of the exhibition. www.sculptureforneworleans.org sponsored by Mariposa Arts Foundation.

Project Scope: Vision, Aim, & Objectives

Why this project is being done:
In early 2006, Jazz and Heritage Foundation Board president David Oestreicher and board member Dorian Bennett asked Michael Manjarris and Peter Lundberg to come up with a project to aid New Orleans artists. The result is a city wide sculpture show.
Who or what this project would impact:
Local artists will benefit from international exposure working with artist on a national and international level. Sculptures on exhibit will bring cultural tourists from around the world to New Orleans.
Project intends to address:
Millions of dollars were being contributed to the musicians. The visual artists were left with very little. Studios flooded, artwork lost or stolen. Bronze sold for scrap. This project is intended to make something positive happen for artists in NOLA
Included or excluded:
On any given day in some part of the City citizens will be able to see 3 or 4 monumental sculptures by the local, national and internationally known artists.

Project Timeline

Ongoing.

Project Plan & Participants

Other people and/or organizations involved in this project:
http://www.sculptureforneworleans.org/artists/ http://www.sculptureforneworleans.org/sponsors/
Plan for implementing this project:
Covering the city with interesting art, Xavier, Tulane, UNO, Ogden Museum, NOMA, Lafayette Sq., Audubon Park, the Lakeshore, Central Business District, City Park and more.

Help or Additional Resources Needed

Materials needed (wish list):
Sponsorship of Shipping, Containers of sculpture from Europe. Concrete, Steel, rebar, cranes, airfare, trucking,
Help needed from other people:
Grant writers, assistants installing art, docents and volunteer organizers.

Comments

This is when I lash myself

Submitted by flemming.flemming on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 12:10am.

This is when I lash myself for neglecting this blog so horribly. I'll spare you all from the self flagellation and just say that I hope my two readers come here with a feeder because otherwise, I've probably lost you for not updating in thirteen years.All in all I've been neglecting a lot of my writing across the board. My 70-291 exam recent distraction was catching up on five seasons of Lost in a period of a week. This was no small feat and as a friend reminded me, not fun but WORK. I would like the throw out there 70-432 exam that as confusing as the show is, Heroes is way worse.I would be remiss if I did not mention the fact that the Saints are going to the Superbowl. I don't like sports. I detest football. Yet somehow this city makes it fun. A wrote a mcse 2008 certification really nice post about the Saints so I'll just send you over there since she likes football. All I can say is that I don't believe that there is anywhere else in the country that would have erupted like this city did when the Saints won the playoffs. There were fireworks, celebratory gun shots, cars honking and neighbors running out of their homes to share in the moment. It was incredible.

Million of dollars

Submitted by HeribertoG on Tue, 03/17/2009 - 11:02pm.

Million of dollars were spent for New Orleans Sculpture exhibit become a success, even the dollar plunges and even against inflation, still gold remains a solid investment. Actually gold prices are going up. Wall Street panics like Orson Welles is reading the War of the Worlds again, yet gold is still solid. The thing about gold is that it’s separate from our normal currency, even though we used to be on the gold standard. At one point, we opted out of the Bretton Woods System, an international gold standard, and began using fiat currency, which is based on credit and not the value of a commodity. Its value has dropped over time, as it is no longer tied to something real, like gold prices.