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My New Orleans
03/15/2021
NEW ORLEANS (press release) – Downtown New Orleans’ first and largest signature mural collection expands with the addition of “You Are What You Eat” by New Orleans native and artist, Jessica Strahan. Strahan’s work is the seventh mural featured in
Unframed presented by The Helis Foundation, a project of the Arts Council New Orleans. Strahan was the first muralist to be announced from the
Unframed 2.0 international call to women artists, which resulted in 82 submissions. “You Are What You Eat” is located in
Legacy Park at 730 Baronne St.
“Jessica celebrates New Orleans’ distinctive culture in her artwork,” says The Helis Foundation Managing Director Jessie Schott Haynes. “She not only captures the city’s rich community, but she engaged with local students to create this impressive and vibrant mural.”
kaufmann repetto announces a solo exhibition of artist Corita Kent
Corita Kent, to the everyday miracle, 2021. Installation view, kaufmann repetto, Milan. Image: Andrea Rossetti. Courtesy: Corita Art Center, Los Angeles and kaufmann repetto Milano / New York.
MILAN
.-kaufmann repetto announces a solo exhibition of artist Corita Kent (b. 1918, Fort Dodge, d. 1986, Boston). Developed in collaboration with the Corita Art Center in Los Angeles, to the everyday miracle presents a retrospective view of Kent s work, bringing together over 40 prints and watercolors as well as a selection of archival materials spanning from the early 1950s until her death in 1986.
Corita Kent was an artist, educator, and advocate for social justice whose work reflects the ascendancy of Pop Art, the spiritual renewal of the Second Vatican Council and the political activism of the 1960s. A catholic nun for more than three decades, Kent was deeply committed to cultural, social, and aesthetic innovation. He