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Growing Food for the Community: New Farm Stand Installed at the Galvez Garden
Pleased to announce the new farm stand has been installed at the Galvez Garden! In anticipation of upcoming harvests, we recently added the farm stand for fresh produce to be shared with anyone and everyone who would like it. This morning we picked fresh spinach, lettuce, herbs, tomatoes, and peppers and added them to the…
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Executive Director Starts Artist-in-Residency at the Louisiana Children’s Museum
Executive Director, Lissie Stewart, started her Summer Artist-in-Residency at the Louisiana Children’s Museum to today. For the next two months she’ll be working at the Studio in the Park on the second floor of the museum. Her project, “How Does Your Garden Grow?” aims to work with children exploring themes in nature and also creating…
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Announcing the Art in the Park 2023 Cohort!
Our selection committee was very impressed with the quality of submissions we received. After careful consideration we are pleased to announce that these ten Louisiana based artists were selected to participate in our Art in the Park Program this Fall! Their work will be made at Art in the Park at the Audubon Louisiana Nature…
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The NOLA Artist Incubator Hosts a Second Line to Celebrate “Arts, Education, Sustainability, and Cultural Development Day”
We are pleased to announce we hosted “A Garden Party; Ribbon Cutting Ceremony & Collaborative Cultural Arts & Crafts” this Sunday! The event included: •Magical Mobile Art Cart Tour; •Second Line Featuring Shannon Haynes Brass Band; •Acoustic Performance Featuring Bogue Chitto; •Collaborative Installation with Featured Artist Lissie Stewart; AND •Special Appearance by Big Chief Tee…
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Magical Mobile Art Cart Delivers at ART JAM
We were thrilled to be asked to participate in this year’s ART JAM, an annual free art festival hosted by KID smART. For this event we brought our shade tent, which really came in handy! We set up our table underneath it and we’re protected from the sun as we had fun making paper pots…
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2nd Weekend of Jazz Fest a Huge Success!
The second weekend of Jazz Fest was filled with excitement and fun in the Peace Garden. We offered printmaking on seed envelopes, weaving, painting, planting, and making God’s Eyes from the Magical Mobile Art Cart. Festival goers of all ages enjoyed making from our Sustainable Environmental Art Delivery (S.E.A.D.) program. We completed our Earth Loom…
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Jazz Fest: First Weekend is a Wrap
The first weekend at the Jazz and Heritage Festival is a wrap and the Magical Mobile Art Cart is a hit! We facilitated weaving, printmaking, and painting activities over the course of three days at Jazz Fest this weekend. Working collaboratively and independently children and their families were welcomed to make art with us in…
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The NOLA Artist Incubator Presents at the Jazz and Heritage Festival
Jazz Fest is officially underway and we had an amazing time celebrating music, art, and culture from our spot in the Peace Garden. The Magical Mobile Art Cart is a hit and doing its job of delivering the joy of making and gardening to the public. Today we set up tables and chairs to facilitate…
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Making a Peace Garden around the Magical Mobile Art Cart for Jazz Fest
We are delighted to share that the Magical Mobile Art Cart is safely situated near the entrance and the Children’s Tent at the fairgrounds for the 2023 Jazz and Heritage Festival! We drove the cart in on Monday and spent the morning today working to create the Peace Garden around the art cart. Driving the…
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Love the Boot at Galvez Garden 2023
Happy Earth Week! Today we celebrated our second Love the Boot at Galvez Garden and planted a new berry patch at the garden! Our design is very permaculture influenced and incorporated various layers, sometimes called lasagna gardening, in the process. It’s a really interesting layout and the result is a forest like landscape where the…
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