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HOME, New Orleans?

HOME, New Orleans? uses creative power to rebuild community through neighborhood arts projects, memorials, workshops, performance and installation art
  • Status: Active
  • Submitted: Tue Dec 04, 2007   |   Last updated: Tue Dec 04, 2007
  • Location(s): Orleans
    only these New Orleans neighborhoods - Central City, Lakeview, Lower Ninth Ward, Seventh Ward
  • Topics(s): Community development, Education
  • Tag(s): University Collaboration, Hurricane Katrina, Community Cultural Developmenet
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Details

HOME, New Orleans? responds to local priorities through community arts projects, memorials, performance, and installation art—any art making that enhances life and creates new opportunities to rebuild community for New Orleans. We believe merging art-making, education, and community involvement will produce opportunities that are more powerful for individuals, neighborhoods, and the city.

Project Scope: Vision, Aim, & Objectives

Why this project is being done:
Collaboration allows us to leverage resources more effectively. Moreover, the management and the decision-making infrastructure created by this project enables us to take on larger scale projects than that of a single participant.
Who or what this project would impact:
We seek to address inequities, such as those of race and class, and explore art’s capacity to bring people together in recognition of both difference and commonality, enabling constructive dialogue and action around polarized issues.
Project intends to address:
All of New Orleans was wounded by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Art is uniquely situated, in partnerships with people in many disciplinary, to respond to the needs and uncover the opportunities emerging from this experience.

Project Timeline

ongoing

Project Plan & Participants

Other people and/or organizations involved in this project:
HOME, New Orleans? is a collaborative entity with various layers. Including: Xavier, Dillard & Tulane Universities, Central City, Lakeview, Seventh Ward & Lower Ninth Ward neighborhoods, and various local visual and performing artists.

Help or Additional Resources Needed

Help needed from other people:
human resources, resources to support continuation, resources to support infrastructure, resources for art-making, technical resources

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