Second Saturday Openings & Events

Phase One of Dithyrambalina

Creative Director and Curator: Delaney Martin
Associate Curators: Theo Eliezer and Swoon
Musicians Curated by Quintron and Jay Pennington

The Music Box: a shantytown sound laboratory will be reopening to the public on April 14th during the Second Saturday Art Walk of the St. Claude Art’s District. At the opening visitors will have the rare opportunity to explore the conceptual shantytown at night as well as to meet many of the sculptors and sound artists who will be on hand to demonstrate of the shantytown’s singing walls, heartbeat-triggered percussion machine, organ staircase, and weather sensitive oscillators.

The Music Box, which opened in October 2011 to international acclaim, is an interactive installation of purpose-built shacks and miniature houses made out of New Orleans’ beautiful architectural details and plentiful salvaged materials. Each shanty houses an invented instrument created by a sound artist. Last fall Quintron, the musician and local hero, conducted a series of legendary concerts at the shantytown that featured a changing roster of world-class musicians such as Mannie Fresh, Hamid Drake, James Singleton, Dicky Landry, Helen Gillet, Andrew W.K and Jim White.

The Music Box’s free public opening hours will resume on Fridays and Saturdays from April 20th – June 2nd. A final performance by Quintron and the Music Box Orchestra will take place in June. This Spring awakening of The Music Box will be the last chance to visit and hear the ground-breaking installation before it is dismantled in June. This project is being led by New Orleans Airlift and the influential street artist Swoon who is known for her community-driven collaborative endeavors.

Spring Opening Hours: Noon - 5pm Fridays  Saturdays

Exhibit Closing Date: June 2nd

The Music Photography of Greg Miles, Barry Kaiser, Chris Felver, Zack Smith, Bob Compton

Music by Kristin Diable

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 14th, 7pm-Midnight

Closing Date of Exhibition: June 30th

Gallery Hours: Thurs & Sun 12 noon - 8pm, Fri & Sat 12 noon - 12 midnight

IN BACK GALLERY UNTIL JUNE 30th - SEAN YSEULT: Sex&Death&Rock&Roll

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This annual vegan food festival is held in New Orleans, and takes place this year at the New Orleans Healing Center. The NOLA Veggie Fest's mission is to promote awareness of the ethical and health benefits of a vegan diet! The festival is also a fundraiser for the Humane Society of Louisiana.

For the most up to date info on the festival, go to www.nolaveggiefest.com or facebook.com/NOLAVeggieFest

Date & Time: Saturday & Sunday, May 12th - 13th, 10am - 'til

Tickets: $4.00 - $15.00 - Click here to purchase!

The UNO St. Claude Gallery is pleased to present UNO M.F.A. Thesis Exhibitions by Natalie Tobacyk and Maria Levitsky.

Tobacyk's show, entitled Perceptions, includes prints and a variety of other media.

More information is available at UNOStClaudeGallery.wordpress.com. 

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 12, from 6:00-9:00 PM

Show Closes: June 2nd

Gallery Hours: Thursday - Sunday 11am - 4pm

Experience life from a non-human perspective, surrounded by a super-sonic soundscape that responds to your every move. Vital Organ is an interactive multi-media work emphasizing sonic phenomena--an exploration of the lives led by man-made inventions after their designated use has been exhausted. Obsolescence uniquely positions the center of our exhibit--an abandoned chord organ--on an Island of Lost Toys, its memory fading alongside its relevance. Is it possible that an invention truly comes to life when its original purpose has been made obsolete?

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 12th, 5:00pm

Show Closes: Sunday, June 3

How can it be expressed, this moment! The erotic glance of a lover, the sadness of loss. Hands say so much, the way a person holds a cigarette; smoke curling into the blackness. At this moment she's so beautiful, but what lies in the shadows? Why does his arm reach into the void? Are hands as expressive as the eyes? I don't know, but I want to explore the idea. Hidden or in the foreground, in the shadows, or staring at you with a million possibilities. Inviting, expressing grief, remorse, or just plain self absorption. The human face and hands are so fascinating to me, compelling and irresistible.

Works by Nikki Crook, Amy Guidry and Monique Ligons with a Pop Up Exhibit by R. Ramos: SukebeArt

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 12th, 6pm - 9pm

Recent Work by Cynthia Scott

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 12th, 6pm - 9pm

Show Closing: June 3rd

Gallery Hours: Saturdays & Sundays Noon - 5pm

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 12th, 6pm - 10pm

Show Ends: June 5th

Johnny Gembitsky is a photographer based in New York and New Orleans and has an interest in Portrait , Fashion and Fine Art photography.

Johnny was educated in New Zealand, where he gained an MA Honours degree at Victoria University of Wellington. He came to New York in the early nineties and worked as an assistant to many fashion photographers for 3 years. Moving to London in the late 90's he began to work for magazines such as Dazed and Confused and Purple. He has since worked for Teen Vogue and The New York Times magazine and is a regular contributor to The Independent Newspaper magazine in London.

Johnny continues to work between Paris, London, New York and New Orleans, where he is working on a series of portraits.

Opening Reception: Sautrday, May 12th, 6pm - 'til
 

A gathering of artists and architects examining the built environment; responding to and revealing alternatives to the usual presentation of shelter and structure, while honoring the basic materials of built space--wood, concrete and paint.

A group show featuring the multi-media work of seven visual artists, two architects and one sound artist, all who present a unique view of the buildings and structures that surround us.

Featuring the works of: Alyssa Dennis, Anne Nelson, Daniel Kelly, David Jason Pressgrove, Hanhah Chelaw, Jill Stoll, Kentaro Tsubaki, Phillippe Landry & Richard McCabe

Curated by Maria Levitsky

Opening Reception: Sautrday, May 12th, 6pm - 9pm

Show Closes: June 3rd

Gallery Hours: Saturdays Noon - 5pm, Sundays Noon - 3pm

And please join us May 19th, 5pm for a special sound art performance by Phillipe Landry

Room 1: Ariya Martin
Ariya Martin is excited to be showing a collection from her newest body of work. The photographs on display are from a series of images that began over a year ago in Queens, NY at her grandfather's house shortly before his death at the age of ninety two.

Room 2: Philiipe Landry and Rachel Avena Brown: I and I and I
This new installation is a representation of a dialogue between two strangers, who make things. The two artists began to communicate through the sharing of room two, at The Front. This will be Mrs. Brown’s last exhibition as a Front member, and she is attempting to connect with the community in a way that she has not before. Foot traffic will be directed in order to separate the individuals for a moment before coming in close contact with not only the visual works of art, but the eyes of a stranger.

Room 3: Art Club: We'll Meet You There
Art Club is a triumvirate of female artists from Columbus, Ohio who have been working as a collective since 2009. An Art Club production might be a patriotic picnic, a game of spin the bottle, a roller rink birthday party, or a walk through a haunted forest, with three distinct visions tethered into a conceptual whole. Join Art Club for a night in their traveling caravan.

On the evening of May the Twelfth, Art Club may ask you to give something of yourself for a sweet peek into your destiny. Are you prepared to trade secrets and flesh in a tarot parlor? Will you reveal your deepest desires in return for a mail-order fortune? Will you let yourself be coddled and cared for by your hidden mother? Flirt with decay and plead with preservation as you venture across the threshold into a realm of transition, possibility, and darkness, into a world in which American Magic makes all things possible.

This is a tale of travel, magic, intimacy, and possibility. We’ll meet you there.

Room 4: Dave Greber and Katie Gelfand, Curators: Scapes n' Similes
A new gamechanging collaborative multimedia dream communication.

Backyard: Sculpture by Gregory Price

Opening night performance by transdimensional vibration monger, Transmuteo at 8:30 pm.

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 12th, 6pm - 10pm

Show Closes: June 3rd

Gallery Hours: Saturday & Sunday Noon - 5pm

Group exhibition with installation, photography, print and video by:
Lana Čmajčanin, Jim Finn, Ivan Grubanov, Sophie Lvoff, Maha Maamoun, Marko Peljhan,
Ahmet Öğüt and Nebojša Šerić Shoba.

Special Events:
May 13, June 2 & 3, 3 pm - exhibition walk through and screening of ‘Interkosmos’ by Jim Finn (71’)
May 19 & 20, 8 pm – performance by Twos and Ones.

Look up the blog/catalog of the exhibition for more information: http://thatpassesbetweenus.wordpress.com/

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 12th, 6pm - 10pm

Show Closes: June 3rd

Featuring: Sharon Martin

Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill by Lanie Robertson shows us the great and tragic vocalist Billy Holiday in the final days of her career. The show is simple but by no means easy to do. It’s basically a monologue woven around some of Holiday’s famous hits.

Date & Time: May 12 at 7:00 PM

NOLA BRC and the New Orleans Burning Man Community are hosting another fine event called Burning Bayou at Michalopoulos Studio 527 Elysian Fields 8pm-2am

This will be a pre-party for Burning Man and a fund raiser for the CORE burn project that we are taking to Burning Man this year. For more info on the CORE project and the New Orleans Burning Man Community go to www.facebook.com/NolaBurners.

Live music - interactive art - costumes - fashion shows - Art auction - food and drink (Old New Orleans Rum & more) - dancing - and foot rubs.

Live performances from: VOODOO Town - Mic Phedusha - DJ Proppa Bear - OTTO - Paul B - Alternative Collaborations - Skull & Bones - Thugsy da Clown and many more

Tickets: $14 in advance at FUNROCKN on 1125 Decatur and 3109 Magazine St.; $20 at the door includes all food & drink.

For advance tickets online go to this link on paypal, make the $14 donation and include your name and names of paid guests. The names will be at will call at the event.

**Costumes highly encouraged**

We still need volunteers to help run the show - e-mail us at noomoonlandofnod@gmail.com if you want to get involved or you have art to contribute to the Art Auction or an installation you would like to set up.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD AND IF YOU HAVE ART TO DONATE TO THE ART AUCTION, BRING IT TO EITHER OF THE MEETINGS OR BRING IT TO THE EVENT.

Event Time: Saturday, May 12th, 8pm - 2am

By Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard

Greater Tuna is the hilarious comedy about Texas' third smallest town, where the Lion's Club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies. The eclectic band of citizens that make up this town are portrayed by only two performers, making this satire on life in rural America even more delightful as they depict all of the inhabitants of Tuna -- men, women, children and animals.

Returning after selling out shows at the Shadowbox last June, and again in Slidell in January!

Show Dates & Times: May 11, 12, 18, 19, 8:00pm

Tickets:  $15 - Click here to purchase

By Valerie Ewing

From the very often inebriated minds of The National Comedy Company comes what we're pretty sure is the world's first LIVE CARTOON SKETCH COMEDY SHOW. In a show that's probably not physically possible, NCC: Drunktoons allows the audience to watch character actors perform the voices of hysterical (poorly) animated shorts live. Recommended for 18+ years of age.

Drunktoons was a smash at the 2012 New Orleans Fringe Festival! Don't miss your chance to see it!

Show Dates & Times: May 12 - June 23 Saturdays, 11:00pm

Tickets: $10 - Click here to purchase