Dr. Kellie Jones

Dr. Kellie Jones is Chair of the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies and Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. Her research interests include African American and African Diaspora artists, Latinx and Latin American Artists, and issues in contemporary art and museum theory. Dr. Jones, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has also received awards for her work from the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University and Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation. In 2016 she was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.

Dr. Jones’s writings have appeared in a multitude of exhibition catalogues and journals.  She is the author of two books published by Duke University Press, EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art (2011), and South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s (2017), which received the Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award from the American Book Award in 2018 and was named a Best Book of the Decade in 2019 by ArtNews, Best Art Book of 2017 in The New York Times and a Best Book of 2017 in Artforum.

Dr. Jones has also worked as a curator for over three decades and has numerous major national and international exhibitions to her credit. Her exhibition, “Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980,” at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, was named one of the best exhibitions of 2011 and 2012 by Artforum, and best thematic show nationally by the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). She was co-curator of “Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the 1960s” (Brooklyn Museum), named one the best exhibitions of 2014 by Artforum.

Arthur Lewis

Arthur Lewis is a Partner and Creative Director of Fine Arts and the UTA Artist Space at leading global talent, entertainment, and sports company, UTA. A patron of the arts and a significant collector of both emerging artists and Contemporary African American Art, Lewis – who is a member of the board of Governors Otis College Art and Design, on the board of Prospect New Orleans and the board of USC Roski School of Art and Design, a member of the National Advisory Committee for The New Orleans African American Museum and is a Global Council member at The Studio Museum of Harlem – is a well-known and distinguished figure in the art world.

Lewis joined UTA in 2019 and during his tenure the Artist Space has exhibited diverse showcases including collaborative exhibitions such as: partnering with Carpenter’s Workshop Gallery, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Rachel Uffner Gallery for a solo show with Arcmanoro Niles, a solo show for Blitz Bazawule, a group exhibition with Galerie Myrtis, and most recently, a solo exhibition with Ryan Hewett. 

Lewis previously served as Executive Vice President of the New York Design Office for Kohl’s, where he oversaw product design and development. Lewis has also held executive leadership roles at HSN, Hautelook, and Gap Inc., where he focused on brand management, merchandising and product development. He is a tireless advocate for artists and the arts community at large.

Keith Calhoun & Chandra McCormick

Chandra McCormick (b. 1957) and Keith Calhoun (b. 1955) are artists, documentary photographers, living and working in New Orleans. McCormick and Calhoun use their cameras to provide visual testimony to the lived experiences of Black life in the U.S. South. 

Since the early 1980s, Calhoun and McCormick have engaged photography as a site of social activism—documenting, illuminating, and conveying the struggles and celebrations of the Black American experience. They have chronicled religious ceremonies, cultural traditions, and visual histories of the Lower 9th Ward. Most notably Calhoun and McCormick traced the legacy of slavery through sugarcane laborers on plantations, sweet potato harvesters, or the series of photographs featuring residents at Louisiana’s State Correctional Institution, better known as Angola Penitentiary. Their images bear witness to the social realities of Black life—historicizing and archiving the rich unique traditions and deep-rooted attributes of Louisiana culture. 

In 2007, they collaborated with artist Mark Bradford to open the L9 Center for the Arts. Located in New Orleans Lower 9th Ward, L9 Center for the Arts is a community-based arts non-profit dedicated to the expression and progression of the creative arts. 

Calhoun and McCormick’s work has been featured nationally and internationally in numerous exhibitions, publications, and events. They were included in Prospect.3; La Biennale di Venezia 56th International Art Exhibition in Photography (2014); Labor Studies at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans (2018); and We No Longer Consider Them Damaged at St. Olaf College’s Flaten Art Museum (2020). Calhoun and McCormick have also been featured in group exhibitions, such as Prison Nation at Aperture Gallery (2018); Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration at MoMa PS1 (2020), and Barring Freedom, organized in collaboration with the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at University of California, Santa Cruz and the San José Museum of Art. Recent awards include Art Matters (2020) and the Southern Arts Fellowship Award for the state of Louisiana (2021). Calhoun and McCormick are proud recipients of the Prospect New Orleans 2021 Artadia Award.

Antenna

Antenna is a multidisciplinary arts organization committed to being a vital participant in the life of New Orleans, supporting and producing an expansive array of artist- and writer-driven programs. Since 2005, Antenna has served as a critical multidisciplinary art leader, pairing contemporary art, activism, collaborations, and place as sites of intervention, experimentation, and creative risk-taking. Antenna hosts a range of programs serving as an engagement hub of diverse communities and publics, presenting exhibitions, residencies, publications, grant opportunities, workshops, performances, gatherings, and public programming.

The past several years reflect Antenna’s continual growth and development as a multidisciplinary arts leader. Throughout Antenna’s 16 years of operations, the organization has grown from a small artist collective to a robust arts non-profit. This growth comes in the form of experiential strategies, innovative programming, collaborations, mistakes and setbacks, and successes through the development, production, and presentation of multi-scale community-engaged projects. These include Reflections on Water (2020-21), Creative Response (2020), Slave Rebellion Reenactment (2019), and Fossil Free Fest (2018), as well as learnings from the many public programs and opportunities that our community has come to know and love, such as Draw-A-Thon, Antenna::Signals, Platforms Fund, Paper Machine, monthly rotating gallery shows, residencies, and more.

As an independent artist-founded and centered institution, accountable to the communities that make our work possible, Antenna is committed to moving art beyond the confines of galleries and museums, attending to the histories, communities, and ecologies of the region and their (trans)national implications, while reimagining artmaking for social change.

In addition to being an honoree at this year’s gala, Antenna Gallery is also part of the P.5 Satellite Program with their current exhibition, Sugar, which is on view until February 6th. The exhibition was curated by Denise Frazier and Renee Royale, and features the following artists: Amanda Cassingham-Bardwell, Amelia Broussard, Angel Perdomo, AnnieLaurie Erickson, Caesar Meadows, Carl Joe Williams, James W. Goedert, kai barrow, L.Kasimu Harris, Laura Gipson, MaPó Kinnord, Nic Brierre Aziz, Robin Levy, Ron Bechet, Rontherin Ratliff, Sean Fader, Shana M. griffin, Stylo Moniker, Thom Karamus, Ursa Eyer and Wayne Amedee.

The Front

The Front engages and enriches the New Orleans community by providing accessible exposure to exceptional contemporary art. Born out of the necessity and desire to provide artists a site for exploration without the constraints of the commercial bottom line, or the bureaucratic hurdles of large institutions, The Front, almost twelve years later, continues to uphold its mission of fostering the work of emerging contemporary artists through innovative exhibitions, lectures, screenings, performances, arts programming and career building programs which are free and open to the public. The Front acts as an incubator for artists to test new ideas, take risks, and take control of their own careers. In an era where arts funding is the first to be cut, and the majority of artists cannot rely on the gallery model as a sustainable option, The Front provides much needed support for artistic growth and creative stability. As a member-administered 501c3 nonprofit organization, The Front includes artists who embody our diverse society, pursuing singular artistic expression within a democratic framework. 

Present members include Samantha Best, Lily Brooks, Erica Christmas, Anita Cooke, Nurhan Gokturk, Ann Haley, Augustus Hoffman, Dani Leal, Sara Madandar, Ruth Owens, Cynthia Scott, Rosalie Smith, Shannon Stewart, Elliott Stokes, and Tom Walton.

Good Children

Located on the corner of Mazant and St Claude Avenue, Good Children Gallery is a pioneer artist-run space in the St. Claude Arts District aimed at enhancing the cultural landscape of New Orleans. The space serves as a bellwether for artistic endeavors by exhibiting engaging work from local, national, and international artists. We currently have a group exhibition installed in the gallery celebrating our thirteenth year in operation. Present members include John Alleyne, Joshua Bennett, Grant Benoit, Jessica Bizer, Wendo Brunoir, Dan Charbonnet, Carrie Fonder, Generic Art Solutions, Valerie George, Brian Guidry, Gabrielle Ledet, Christopher Saucedo, Michel Varisco, and Luba Zygarewicz.

Level Artist Collective

Established in New Orleans in 2015, Level Artist Collective was founded by Ana Hernandez, Horton Humble, Rontherin Ratliff, John Isiah Walton and Carl Joe Williams. It is the result of an organic formation of painters, sculptors and writers whose different degrees of relations extend a multitude of connections. Through cohesion and the merging of creative resources, the objective of Level Artist Collective is to cultivate a platform that promotes, supports and sustains their collective voice and vision. Group exhibitions include Level Artist Collective, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA (2015); Level Artist Collective, Carroll Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (2017); Land Lines, Level Artist Collective, Double Shotgun Gallery, New Orleans, LA (2017); Inside Out, Level Artist Collective, Double Shotgun Gallery, New Orleans, LA (2018); Bull Meet the Bayou, The Carrack, Durham, NC (2018); OF COLOR & VALUE, Isaac Delgado Fine Arts Gallery, New Orleans, LA (2019); and Level Artist Collective, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA (2019). Their current exhibition, CONTEXT, is on view at Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA.

Staple Goods

Located in a former corner grocery in the St. Roch neighborhood, Staple Goods is an artist collective dedicated to innovative programming of contemporary visual art by its members and invited guests from the U.S. and abroad. Celebrating our eleventh year of exhibitions, Staple Goods looks to continue to foster the space for artists to make the type of unbridled, experimental, and exploratory choice-making that nourishes a long-term practice.

Collective members include Imogen Banks, Thomasine Bartlett, Aaron Collier, William DePauw, Abe Geasland, J Knoblach, Norah Lovell, Kaori Maeyama, Anne C. Nelson, and Virginia Walcott.

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