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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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Magical Mobile Art Cart Delivering Programming at Art Jam!
We’re excited to announce that the Magical Mobile Art Cart will be featured at this year’s Art Jam! Hosted by KID smART, the annual family oriented event will include live music, food trucks, and tons of hands on activities by multiple organizations. We are looking forward to being among the participants delivering art activities and…
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Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Awards NOLA Artist Incubator Grant
Pleased to share that the NOLA Artist Incubator has been awarded a grant in the amount of $5000 to aid in the development of an Emergency Plan for the organization. With this funding we plan to attend emergency preparedness courses, report on the learning, and use the new resources to develop an emergency plan to…
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The Incubator Celebrates Earth Day with the University of New Orleans
Today we exhibited at the University of New Orleans. We brought seeds and our paper pot maker and gave visitors and students a chance to plant seeds to take home and grow their own plants. It was great to be able to share about all the different events we have going on and share all…
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Give NOLA Day Early Giving Period Starts Today!
Early Giving Period starts today! https://www.givenola.org/nolaartistincubator We have two active campaigns to help our nonprofit grow! We’re asking for donations to help support our educational programs and for water to help our Galvez Garden grow. Educational Programming Water for Galvez Garden Visit our page on the Give NOLA Day website! Every donation helps, and we…
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Love the Boot at Galvez Garden 2023
One week from today we’ll be hosting our second Love the Boot event at Galvez Garden! If you haven’t already signed up, you can do so below! We’ll be planting strawberries and raspberries and look forward to seeing you at the beautification event! Also, for our Budding Artists families that attended 2 or more of…
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Jazz Fest Tickets for Budding Artists Families!
We are thrilled to announce that thanks to the generosity of the Jazz and Heritage Festival Foundation, we have Jazz Fest tickets to share with participating families of our Budding Artists program! Each caregiver that attended our programming this March will receive one ticket for the first weekend of the festival. Participants of Budding Artists…
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