Also, for Art Home ticket holders a free lecture will be held Saturday, November 19^th at 11am. Come listen to Jonathan Ferrara, Dorian Bennett, Marcel Wiznia and others discuss how they began collecting and why they continue to purchase art.

Art Home New Orleans introduces participants to the depth and quality of art collectors in New Orleans. On November 19^th and 20^th from 12 to 5.30pm, selected homes will open up to the public to exhibit their local collections. Art Home’s true mission is to have art collectors educate participants on the individuality of art collections and encourage them to go one step beyond appreciation, to the actual purchase of art.

Don’t forget to buy your tickets here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1059321459

Also, check out our Facebook and Twitter pages:

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/Creative-Alliance-of-New-Orleans/108225029289265

https://twitter.com/#!/CANONOLA

Thank you to the City of New Orleans and the State of Louisiana for their support.

Art Home New Orleans is part of the 3^nd annual arts+gardens+new orleans fall festival. arts+gardens+new orleans is a four-month long festival of events that highlights parks, gardens, and cultural venues, performances and exhibitions all over town, including major museums, theater groups, musical venues, neighborhood cultural venues and sites.

Tickets are $15/day and $25/weekend and can be purchased online at cano-la.org or at Eventbrite or by calling 504.218.4807. Tickets can also be purchased on the day of at the House on Bayou Road at 2275 Bayou Road.

The Creative Alliance of New Orleans aims to increase investment in the creative sector of the New Orleans economy, promote the creative products and presentations of New Orleans visual, performing, design, media and culinary artists, and help New Orleans become internationally  renowned as the important international cultural center that we know it is. Thanks to the City of New Orleans for their support and to our partner, the New Orleans Museum of Art.



Creative Alliance of New Orleans and Moving Stories Dance Project will be presenting Creative Capital’s Core Curriculum Workshop 5:30-8:45pm Friday, March 9th, 8:30am-5pm Saturday, March 10th, and 8:30am-5pm Sunday March 11th. This one of a kind opportunity has been described as a “crash course in self-management, strategic planning, fundraising and promotion” for artists of all creative genres. The Creative Capital Workshop takes artists on a two and one-half day retreat led by nationally renowned arts professionals. The experience is limited to 24 artists from Louisiana. Applications will be reviewed by a selection committee with the goal of assembling a very diverse group of artists from varied artistic genres and cultural backgrounds. Applicants must create original works. We encourage visual artists, composers, filmmakers, choreographers and all other mediums to apply. This is the first time that Creative Capital’s workshop will be held in New Orleans. While many different forms of art are flourishing in New Orleans, it is still tough for local artists to create a sustainable income for themselves. The Creative Capital Workshop intends to change this situation.

Some of the skills that will be taught are:·

·financial planning basics, including choosing financial partners, best practices for savings and retirement planning, options for reducing debt and acquiring property.
·the essentials for operating your art as a small, independently run business, including employment, contracts, negotiation, decision-making, budgeting and cash flow
·strategies for funding your work and revenue-generating, including improving your fundraising materials; working in partnership with venues, donors and funders, building a base of individual contributors; and knowing the real cost of your work so you can communicate it to funders, presenters and other partners
·how to consider promoting your work as an integral, natural part of the creative process
·the best practices for artist websites, blogs, social media and communications
·how to identify and reach new audiences for your work

The Creative Alliance and Moving Stories believe that this program presents an opportunity for Louisiana artists to learn new methods in improving their professional careers in the arts. This program is able to be presented thanks to the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Creative Capital, National Performance Network and in kind support from the Joan Mitchell Center. Thank you!

For Immediate Release

January 20, 2009

Contact:

Jeanne Nathan: 504 218 4807

Rashida Ferdinand: 504 975 5168

City-wide and Neighborhood-based Cultural Organizations

Aim for Greater Investment in Cultural Development

Candidates speak about priorities outlined in the Joint Platform

NEW ORLEANS JAN 20–In an unprecedented show of unity, over 60 organizations contributed to or endorsed a platform of actions for the new mayor and council. They recommend such measures as a new city agency for the arts, cultural centers in neighborhoods, dedicated and expanded funding, and a focus on education, career development and work force training, all aimed to improve the earning ability of creative producers of all disciplines in the city, and to improve the city’s overall economic prospects.

Click here to download and read the Joint Platform (PDF)

The Contemporary Arts Center today hosted various members of the gathering of cultural economy

Luther Grey, contributor to the platform, speaks to the power of art and performances in public places

organizations, local artists along with key cultural leaders to present the platform which aims to expand and support the economic opportunities available to the visual and performing artists, designers and producers, architects, landscape and interior designers, apparel and jewelry designers, furniture makers, building and preservation arts professionals, and culinary artists who have created the cultural fabric of our city.

“We have made much progress in support of our culture bearers and producers in the last quarter of the 20th century, and in the first decade of the 21st. But we are still not “at the table” of policy makers in the public, non-profit and private sectors in a way that reflects the importance of our creative output to the city’s economy, culture, and quality of life,” said Rasheda Ferdinand of the Contemporary Visual Arts Association of New Orleans.

Cultural leaders and organizations representing all of the creative disciplines throughout the city came together to develop a united platform representing what they see as priorities for new administration in city hall, and the council so we can continue to stimulate cultural change through music, visual and media arts, and design.

“Arts are catalytic, it’s the rising tide that lifts all boats,” said Carol Bebelle Executive Director of the Ashe cultural center. After Ms. Bebelle and several other supporters of New Orleans’ arts scene spoke the candidates for mayor and city council spoke of their experiences in the arts and how they intend to address the concerns of our citizens.

All the candidates in attendance endorsed the platform and also had some ideas of their own such as the creation of an agency to support the arts, dedication of city funding to the local cultural economy and placing a greater focus on the arts as an engine for economic development to benefit New Orleans. In attendance were Virginia Blanque, Rob Couhig, John Georges, Cynthia Willard-Lewis, Stacey Head, Denis Holden, Nadine Ramsey, Jackie Clarkson, Jerrelda Drummer-Sanders, Nolan Marshall and Joe Butler, representing Kristin Palmer.

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The Hip Hop Orchestra!

CANO’s principal project of 2009 was the establishment of the Studio At Colton; a program which converted a vacant public school building into artist studios and office space for creative professionals and cultural community organizations.  In exchange for free space, tenants were required to offer free project-based arts training and educational programming to the youth of Katrina-flooded, long-disinvested neighborhoods including the 7^th, 8^th and 9^th ward neighborhoods surrounding St. Claude Avenue, and parts of Central City in New Orleans.

Throughout the year of operation, Studio At Colton provided space and hosted multiple exhibition, presentation, and retail opportunities for over 160 artists, cultural community groups, and non-profit arts and education organizations, and served hundreds of students through technical and vocational training

and arts enrichment education in multiple creative disciplines including music, performance, theater, the visual arts, graphic design, industrial design, film and video production, set design, architectural and landscape design, building arts, culinary arts, internet media, ceramics and upholstery design. This unique interdisciplinary approach allowed students to experience an array of creative skills and trades through project-based instruction.

CANO also provided extensive marketing services on behalf of creative producers in the program by building a web site, preparing and distributing news alerts, releases, e-blasts and a “meet-up” site to build audience and market for their products as presented in the school, and in off-site presentations. A directory of participating artists was also available at the cano-la.org, and studioatcolton.org.

Studio At Colton was a Prospect.1 Biennial exhibition site, which brought nearly 20,000 international arts lovers, patrons, tourists, and local residents through the building to view world-class arts installations alongside a showcase of Studio At Colton-hosted locally based cultural projects and programs.

The Recovery School District (RSD) was an incredibly generous partner in the program, supplying over $1M of real estate and a year of utilities to CANO free of charge.  In turn, RSD benefited from the program, as inaddition to offering free after-school arts enrichment education, CANO’s positive reactivation of the vacant building received frequent press in local news and rebranded the former school in the minds of residents citywide.  CANO’s lease for the Colton School building terminated in August 2009 as RSD began renovations to return the building to use for two primary schools.

Studio At Colton met three goals: to present the work of local creative producers and demonstrate the extent of creative talent in the city during the Prospect.1 Biennial; to foster collaborative, innovative work between artists of different disciplines; to educate youth on potential future educational and career opportunities based on their creative talents. In exit reports, artists frequently mentioned the importance of the networking and opportunity to work with youth.

Reestablishment and development of the unique and successful Studio At Colton model- community arts education in a creative, interdisciplinary studio environment, is a principal project for CANO in the coming years.  Several CANO artists are already assigned classrooms in functioning schools to test the model of incorporating studios into working schools, a model that may be developed system-wide in New Orleans, along with incorporation in neighborhood-based community centers and the free-standing CANO Creative Studio program.

CANO’s future and ongoing community impact objectives include:

Providing youth opportunities for free, project-based vocational training and arts education.

Providing and promoting new venues and opportunities for cultural exhibitions and performances specially designed for enhanced accessibility to community and neighborhood-based cultural and creative producers.

Producing forums to engage creative producers, New Orleans residents, and the private and public sectors in a dialogue focused on better mobilizing support for the creative economic sector.

Helping to answer the need for affordable healthcare and housing on behalf of New Orleans’ self-employed creative professionals and cultural producers.

Collaborating with and assisting other established organizations and non-profits with similar objectives.

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Ceramics Studio at the Studio at Colton

CANO Creative Studios are interdisciplinary creative entrepreneurial incubators, each with its own creative-industry focus, that provide rental office and studio space, exhibition and presentation facilities, along with shared equipment and meeting space to artists, creative professionals, and community cultural organizations.  In addition to shared facilities, residents have access to CreativeTech, CANO’s technical support, business capacity building, and job training programming.

Residents at Creative Alliance Studios are accepted based on proposals for projects and activities planned for their use of the space, and upon their demonstration of commitment to developing creative and cultural opportunities in New Orleans.  Residents at Creative Alliance Studios represent diverse creative disciplines, resulting in cross-discipline resource sharing and unique opportunities for collaboration.

Claymation Nation Summer Camp at Studio at Colton

CreativeTech at CANO’s Creative Studios delivers both short-term and long-term impacts for strengthening New Orleans’ creative economy.  Services offered to artists, creative professionals, and cultural community organizations immediately expand the business capacity of the current generation of creative producers, resulting in residual benefits for New Orleans overall economy.  Simultaneously, Creative Studios fosters mentorship roles between the current and future creative professionals and bearers of New Orleans’ culture.

CANO is currently working to relocate our Studio programs following a fantastic year in the Colton Middle School on St. Claude Avenue.  If you’ve got a lead on a possible space (shuttered schools or public buildings, vacant commercial buildings, etc.) or would like to donate space, please contact Katherine Bray: bray@cano-la.org

CANO has begun an analysis of business capacity building, technical assistance, and workforce development programming currently available to creative professionals and entrepreneurs in New Orleans.  Based on this research, CANO is developing programs that best answer the needs of our city’s most vibrant economic sector.

Please contact Katherine Bray: bray@cano-la.org to give us your ideas or to participate in the study.