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New Orleans Arts Renaissance

Here, you can download a copy of Fear of Water: A Response After Hurricane Katrina.

This conference paper was delivered at Aesthetic Education: Expanding Notions of Excellence in K-18 Learning Communities The conference was held

Download KENT.LCI.conf.paper.doc

in March and sponsored by Lincoln Center Institute and Queens College.

Habitat = Good

Below, I have inserted a list of the world-wide projects that Habitat for Humanity has organized. Wow. Maybe some home building can be in your summer plans?

Gallo Award Recipients

I am happy to announce that I am one of the recipients of the 2007 Gallo Awards from the University of Massachusetts, Boston program in Critical and Creative Thinking. I will be using the funds to implement a weaving curriculum at an East Village afterschool art club.

Reflections on/in Kapoor's Sky Mirror

A must see! British sculptor Anish Kapoor's Sky Mirror at Rockefeller Center. It is three stories tall 35 feet in diameter and weighs 23 tons...only viewable for a short time, until 10/27. Instead of sitting as an unrelated art-for-arts-sake object, the mirror reflects the bustle of the sidewalk and more beautifully the architecture of the center on the concave side...a "non-object." Take a picture of yourself in the reflection or just go to see the masses passing, sometimes looking.

Planning Fear of Water NOLA

Fear of Water is a community arts project I am curating this October in New Orleans. It is difficult to plan from a distance, but I now have five participating artists and hope for a few drop ins. The New Orleans-based artists are: Mary Jane Parker, Chicory Miles, Jan Gilbert, Malcolm McClay and Lori McWhorter. The project, funded by the Puffin Foundation, will be a weekend long printmaking studio set up at Peligro Gallery on Decatur Street. Fear of Water will be offer the opportunity to explore post-storm thoughts a little over a year after Hurricane Katrina.