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Tesiya McClary, Willow Jones, Nicholas Jones, Ja'Leaha Thornton
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Dr. Shearon Roberts
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6:34 (6 minutes and thirty-two seconds)
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Ja'Leaha Thornton: Hi, you guys it's Ja'Leaha Thornton. I'm
reporting live from the French Quarter Festival, and as you can we have a lot of great things going on today but
today, in this video, you'll be watching us interview different people
this includes families and different business owners, as they tell us about their experience, time here if they're coming back and of course, about their product. So sit back and enjoy this tape.
[Music]
Tesiya McClary: Hi, I'm here with ...
Jenna A: Jenna
Tesiya McClary: Jenna, where are you from?
Jenna A: I'm from New Orleans
Tesiya McClary: okay and what are you excited about seeing in French Quarter fest this year?
Jenna A: I think I'm most excited about the music and the food
Tesiya McClary: Okay, so why do you think French Quarter Fest is important for the black community
Jenna A: I think it's very important because it brings all the families
together for family time, and they spend
time together and eat food and have fun.
Tesiya McClary: do you think French Quarter Fest will be a cultural shock to other people or other races
Jenna A: yes I do because our food is
different out here and also because
they're not used to the jazz music and
other stuff that comes with New Orleans.
Tesiya McClary: all right, and what would be a good tip for people who are just experiencing French Quarter Fest for the first time
Jenna A: a good tip to probably bring some chairs
Willow Jones: taking place at the center of New Orleans French Quarter Fest is the place to be to enjoy some great music.
[Music]
[Music]
oh yeah
[Music]
[Music]
thank you
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
Willow Jones: French Quarter Fest is a great place for
artists and vendors to display their
work and products
Ja'Leaha Thornton: all right hi so what brings you out today
James Alexander: It's Florida quarter Fest 2023 you know
Ja'Leaha Thornton : all right
James Alexander: doing my thing pushing my brand promoting my
shirts and my you know hats my artwork my lovely artwork
Against All Odds but I still stand you know
Ja'Leaha Thornton: what is your favorite part of the
experience just being out here ?
James Alexander: uh the people, the festivities of the
people the energy you know what I'm
saying just everybody having a good time
you know, showing some support to a local
artist and you know it's a good day it's
Sunday, it's good weather
Ja'Leaha Thornton: all right so will you be back out here next year?
James Alexander: oh definitely I'll be out here next week
[Music]
Tesiya McClary: hi I'm Tesiya and I'm here with ?
Hailey R: Hi I'm Hailey
Tesiya McClary: all right Hailey where are you from?
Hailey R: New Orleans
Tesiya McClary: all right, it's your first time experiencing French Quarter Fest
Hailey R: yes it actually is
Tesiya McClary: Okay, so what are you most excited about this year
Hailey R: I'm actually most excited about the food I
believe um people say the music is great but I really want to try the food
Tesiya McClary: okay okay so why do you think French Quarter
Fest is important for the black community?
Hailey R: it feels like it brings everyone together like if you know New Orleans guys you just really know um they're not really friendly so I feel like the festivals bring people together not just French Quarter but like all of them together
Tesiya McClary: okay so and my last
question would be as a tip to people who
aren't from New Orleans what do you feel
like would be the best thing for people
to do as they experience this Festival
Hailey R: um maybe going on Bourbon at nighttime
something like that if you're not from here people actually love it
Willow Jones: French Quarter Fest brings together family and friends to have a great time let's hear from more New Orleans why
they come to French Quarter Fest and all
that it has to offer
Tesiya McClary: hi, my name is Tesiya and am here with ...
Marvin Jones: Marvin Jones
Tesiya McClary: so where are you from
Marvin Jones: Typical Louisiana
Tesiya McClary: okay okay this is your first
time experience at first quarter Fest
Marvin Jones: Typical no no, it's every year,
Tesiya McClary: okay, and my first question is what would you say it
would be a good tip for people who are
come out here for the first time
Marvin Jones: uh pace yourself and try Foods everywhere
Tesiya McClary: Okay, were you excited about anything
this year
Marvin Jones: uh no just the atmosphere that's it all right
Tesiya McClary: and my last question would be why do you feel like French quarter fest is important for the black community
Marvin Jones: um just part of everybody getting along seeing how others do it
[Music]
Tesiya McClary: all right this is Tesiya and I'm here with
Christina Malden : Christina Malden
Tesiya McClary: all right Christina what are you most
excited about for French quarter fest this year
Christina Malden: I'm definitely excited to try
all the good food and just to have a good time in this weather with my
friends
Tesiya McClary: okay so why do you think French
Quarter Fest is important for New Orleans culture
Christina Malden: I feel like the French
Quarter Fest definitely brings the
community together as a whole just to
celebrate the food diversity and just
the culture of our city that we live in
and also it brings a lot of tourists
just to represent our city well for just
a nice joyful fun, and festive weekend
Tesiya McClary: all right Aye you gonna be
seeing any bands this weekend on this uh
event or what
Christina Malden: um I'm not particularly here for the
bands more for the food but I'm definitely gonna have my ear open and listen to it in the background
Willow Jones: as you can see French Corner Fest is a
festival that is celebrated by all of
its residents and visitors we hope you
can attend next year thanks for watching
[Music]
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French Quarter Fest 2023
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Video
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Tesiya McClary, Willow Jones, Ja'Leaha Thornton
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My Nola My Story via YouTube
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Xavier Exponential at Xavier University of Louisiana
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April 16, 2023
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My Nola, My Story 2023 Exhibit
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In this video, we provide an overview of the 2023 French Quarters Fest by interviewing vendors, performers, and attendees.
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The following video presents a detailed video showcasing the much-awaited French Quarters Fest. The video comprises extensive interviews with various individuals, including vendors, performers, and attendees. By watching this video, you'll gain an in-depth insight into the different aspects and experiences that await you at this thrilling event.
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Morgan Banks: Ok, so thanks for meeting with us. Did you want to go ahead and introduce yourself?
Darryl Durham: Sure, sure. So my name is Darryl Durham, and I’m the founder of what we used to call Anna’s Arts for Kids, now it’s called Anna’s Place NOLA and so now I am the director of arts and community engagement.
Morgan Banks: So why did you decide to create Anna’s Place?
Darryl Durham: Well when I came to New Orleans, I found out about this church because of the murder board, where they listed the names of people who had died after Hurricane Katrina through violent means and so I wanted to see what that was about. My backstory is I actually am an artist and I’ve been executive director for the Harlem School of the Arts. So, I’d always been interested in developing programming that worked specifically with kids of color. Um, and so when I came to New Orleans immediately identified what the issue was, and saw that the schools were not preparing the kids to deal with, not to become artists necessarily but just have those experiences which lead to a full life. And so the program itself was initially founded because the priests and I wanted to interrupt the cycle of violence and poverty that was going on. Now, this was 2009 when we did that.
Morgan Banks: ok, so how have you seen Anna’s place grow over the years?
Darryl Durham: It's grown from about eight kids in the original class to as many as a hundred kids during the summer program, and I think that now that we’re developing a new building, which is going to be the community center, we’ll be able to triple the number of kids. I think the best growth though is figuring out what we’re doing. As I said, I am a musician and when we started the program it was a weekend arts program because that was my strong point but then the parents came to us and said: “We see what you’re doing with the kids and they need tutoring.” So we said, “okay, well we’ll start after-school tutoring” I don’t know anything about tutoring. Luckily we were able to get volunteers from Loyola, Tulane, from Xavier. We were able to bring in a volunteer education director who worked with us for the first couple of years. So the real growth of the organization is not, in my mind necessarily, being in the number of kids we’ve served which is powerful, but it’s figuring out what we’re doing and coming up with an actual plan that can be replicated by other organizations that want to do this cause people always say “I wanna make a change but I don’t know how to do it.” Well if I give you… if I show you how we did it you may not have to do it with the arts you might do it with sports or you might do it with something else. There are lots of good, positive youth development organizations out there but I think the formula that we put together is really solid. And that is Academic enrichment which is more than just doing the tutoring but giving experiences in things like stem and stuff like that, arts and culture which is actually teaching kids not only about singing and notes on a keyboard but also taking them to the opera and let them see beauty in the world, health and wellness so we get inside their head at an early age and we teach them about philosophy, we teach them about making decisions, we teach them what to put in their bodies. They live in a great city don’t get me wrong, but you know, we don’t always eat well. This is okay but there's a balance, and Recreation, how to take care of yourself. And then, the most important thing is that we show them that if you pay attention to these things, if you use the correct behaviors, and you develop good patterns and good habits, habits and behaviors if you just do those things then they will influence your academic achievement, influence your cultural awareness, your social development all that kind of stuff. So that’s really what we’re teaching, we’re teaching them what any middle-class parent would do with their child. I mean, I grew up and my mother made us take ballet. I was good though, excuse me! I was the best out of my three brothers but I ended up being a musician cause we also had piano lessons. She knew the importance of doing stuff like that. Our parents are overwhelmed with trying to survive, trying to put food on the table, put clothes on the kid's back, so this stuff wasn’t done for them, or they can’t… your brain can only handle so much. So we step in as sort of a surrogate parent which is what I love about the program which makes it easily replicable because what we’re doing anybody can do.
Morgan Banks: So I know the Treme community has changed over the years how has that affected the program and how have y’all adapted?
Darryl Durham: Well, the original eight used to walk. A couple of them went to church here so their parents would drop them off, literally all these kids lived within a three-block radius of the church. And over the years, there was a point where there were pictures of me with like fifteen kids following us going back and forth from the church to the program. As the community began to gentrify, as the community began to change, we went out and bought a five-passenger van, and then that turned into a seven-passenger van because more and more kids were being displaced to central city, the east… to now where we have a fourteen passenger van. And for us, that continuity of care is what helps the kids overcome the challenges that they’re dealing with. So despite the fact that the community has changed, and you know change is interesting because I remember going to a meeting with the short term rental people, and one woman who represented an organization was saying “ well there used to be nothing but drug dealers and prostitutes…” and she did not walk on the streets she didn’t see the grandmothers sitting on the porches, she didn’t see the families, she didn’t see the community. She just saw what you see in your periphery as you drive through. You see a couple of guys on the corner doing drug deals, but the drug dealers, I mean the user everybody know… But she didn’t see the grandmas, she didn’t see the little kids, she didn’t see the real community so these people had no problems coming in and taking that community away, but we had to create a community and keep that community here, and so the biggest change is that we had to invest in transportation which cost us about $30,000 a year, but we have to, you know we found that if we keep… cause again we only work with the kids 20 hours a week so it takes us about 2 years to develop their trust, and then after we develop their trust, we’re able to take them to wherever they want to go because they believe in themselves… but that takes a certain period of time and so you’ve got to stay engaged so those 20 hours over four days, I guess it’s a lot but it doesn’t seem like a lot.
Morgan Banks: Last question, so what is your hope for Anna’s Place in the future or how do you see it developing into like a bigger organization?
Darryl Durham: Well I mentioned the Mansion, an old creole that we purchased built in 1846, which ironically was the same year the church was established, but we will be able to house a program that can house up to 250 kids. We’ve been offered another facility in the city, not gonna say where, but central city, not gonna say who, which is exciting because these people have looked at our program and said “okay, we see what you guys are doing, we got an abandoned building, can you guys come in and do that program?” But more importantly, what I see, what I hope for the future is that people can say “ I can replicate that, I can do that, I know a church that’ll give us space, I know eight to ten to twelve kids who could use the help.” By the way, we never advertise for this program, the program grew because parents and kids talked to their friends. So we never had to pay for marketing because we never were ever in a situation where we had a shortage of kids, but I think for the future if people can look at what we’re doing if they really wanna make a difference, cause you can’t do it for a couple of days couple of weeks couple of years. We’ve been at this for 12 years like I said we figured it out and made it easy on you, but you still gotta be dedicated to doing it because it’s not easy work and luckily for us we’re now moving to the second generation of kids so I think that once you move to that next generation we have new leadership so once you start doing that you become a mature organization and you begin to exhibit staying power and you begin to realize that mission, procedures that you’ve established are working.
So yeah I think we’re in a position right now where we’re gonna be in great shape for the future so I’m pretty excited.
Morgan Banks: Thank you so much for meeting with us
Darryl Durham: Yeah, thank you guys, really enjoyed it!
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Morgan Banks
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Darryl Durham
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Anna's Place NOLA
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Morgan Banks: Ok, so thanks for meeting with us. Did you want to go ahead and introduce yourself?
Darryl Durham: Sure, sure. So my name is Darryl Durham, and I’m the founder of what we used to call Anna’s Arts for Kids, now it’s called Anna’s Place NOLA and so now I am the director of arts and community engagement.
Morgan Banks: So why did you decide to create Anna’s Place?
Darryl Durham: Well when I came to New Orleans, I found out about this church because of the murder board, where they listed the names of people who had died after Hurricane Katrina through violent means and so I wanted to see what that was about. My backstory is I actually am an artist and I’ve been executive director for the Harlem School of the Arts. So, I’d always been interested in developing programming that worked specifically with kids of color. Um, and so when I came to New Orleans immediately identified what the issue was, and saw that the schools were not preparing the kids to deal with, not to become artists necessarily but just have those experiences which lead to a full life. And so the program itself was initially founded because the priests and I wanted to interrupt the cycle of violence and poverty that was going on. Now, this was 2009 when we did that.
Morgan Banks: Ok, so how have you seen Anna’s place grow over the years?
Darryl Durham: It's grown from about eight kids in the original class to as many as a hundred kids during the summer program, and I think that now that we’re developing a new building, which is going to be the community center, we’ll be able to triple the number of kids. I think the best growth though is figuring out what we’re doing. As I said, I am a musician and when we started the program it was a weekend arts program because that was my strong point but then the parents came to us and said: “We see what you’re doing with the kids and they need tutoring.” So we said, “okay, well we’ll start after-school tutoring” I don’t know anything about tutoring. Luckily we were able to get volunteers from Loyola, Tulane, from Xavier. We were able to bring in a volunteer education director who worked with us for the first couple of years. So the real growth of the organization is not, in my mind necessarily, being in the number of kids we’ve served which is powerful, but it’s figuring out what we’re doing and coming up with an actual plan that can be replicated by other organizations that want to do this cause people always say “I wanna make a change but I don’t know how to do it.” Well if I give you… if I show you how we did it you may not have to do it with the arts you might do it with sports or you might do it with something else. There are lots of good, positive youth development organizations out there but I think the formula that we put together is really solid. And that is Academic enrichment which is more than just doing the tutoring but giving experiences in things like stem and stuff like that, arts and culture which is actually teaching kids not only about singing and notes on a keyboard but also taking them to the opera and let them see beauty in the world, health and wellness so we get inside their head at an early age and we teach them about philosophy, we teach them about making decisions, we teach them what to put in their bodies. They live in a great city don’t get me wrong, but you know, we don’t always eat well. This is okay but there's a balance, and Recreation, how to take care of yourself. And then, the most important thing is that we show them that if you pay attention to these things, if you use the correct behaviors, and you develop good patterns and good habits, habits and behaviors if you just do those things then they will influence your academic achievement, influence your cultural awareness, your social development all that kind of stuff. So that’s really what we’re teaching, we’re teaching them what any middle-class parent would do with their child. I mean, I grew up and my mother made us take ballet. I was good though, excuse me! I was the best out of my three brothers but I ended up being a musician cause we also had piano lessons. She knew the importance of doing stuff like that. Our parents are overwhelmed with trying to survive, trying to put food on the table, put clothes on the kid's back, so this stuff wasn’t done for them, or they can’t… your brain can only handle so much. So we step in as sort of a surrogate parent which is what I love about the program which makes it easily replicable because what we’re doing anybody can do.
Morgan Banks: So I know the Treme community has changed over the years how has that affected the program and how have y’all adapted?
Darryl Durham: Well, the original eight used to walk. A couple of them went to church here so their parents would drop them off, literally all these kids lived within a three-block radius of the church. And over the years, there was a point where there were pictures of me with like fifteen kids following us going back and forth from the church to the program. As the community began to gentrify, as the community began to change, we went out and bought a five-passenger van, and then that turned into a seven-passenger van because more and more kids were being displaced to central city, the east… to now where we have a fourteen passenger van. And for us, that continuity of care is what helps the kids overcome the challenges that they’re dealing with. So despite the fact that the community has changed, and you know change is interesting because I remember going to a meeting with the short term rental people, and one woman who represented an organization was saying “ well there used to be nothing but drug dealers and prostitutes…” and she did not walk on the streets she didn’t see the grandmothers sitting on the porches, she didn’t see the families, she didn’t see the community. She just saw what you see in your periphery as you drive through. You see a couple of guys on the corner doing drug deals, but the drug dealers, I mean the user everybody know… But she didn’t see the grandmas, she didn’t see the little kids, she didn’t see the real community so these people had no problems coming in and taking that community away, but we had to create a community and keep that community here, and so the biggest change is that we had to invest in transportation which cost us about $30,000 a year, but we have to, you know we found that if we keep… cause again we only work with the kids 20 hours a week so it takes us about 2 years to develop their trust, and then after we develop their trust, we’re able to take them to wherever they want to go because they believe in themselves… but that takes a certain period of time and so you’ve got to stay engaged so those 20 hours over four days, I guess it’s a lot but it doesn’t seem like a lot.
Morgan Banks: Last question, so what is your hope for Anna’s Place in the future or how do you see it developing into like a bigger organization?
Darryl Durham: Well I mentioned the Mansion, an old creole that we purchased built in 1846, which ironically was the same year the church was established, but we will be able to house a program that can house up to 250 kids. We’ve been offered another facility in the city, not gonna say where, but central city, not gonna say who, which is exciting because these people have looked at our program and said “okay, we see what you guys are doing, we got an abandoned building, can you guys come in and do that program?” But more importantly, what I see, what I hope for the future is that people can say “ I can replicate that, I can do that, I know a church that’ll give us space, I know eight to ten to twelve kids who could use the help.” By the way, we never advertise for this program, the program grew because parents and kids talked to their friends. So we never had to pay for marketing because we never were ever in a situation where we had a shortage of kids, but I think for the future if people can look at what we’re doing if they really wanna make a difference, cause you can’t do it for a couple of days couple of weeks couple of years. We’ve been at this for 12 years like I said we figured it out and made it easy on you, but you still gotta be dedicated to doing it because it’s not easy work and luckily for us we’re now moving to the second generation of kids so I think that once you move to that next generation we have new leadership so once you start doing that you become a mature organization and you begin to exhibit staying power and you begin to realize that mission, procedures that you’ve established are working.
So yeah I think we’re in a position right now where we’re gonna be in great shape for the future so I’m pretty excited.
Morgan Banks: Thank you so much for meeting with us
Darryl Durham: Yeah, thank you guys, really enjoyed it!
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My Nola My Story: Interview with Darryl Durham, Founder of Anna's Place NOLA
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This is an interview with Darryl Durham, the founder of Anna's Place NOLA. Currently, he serves as the director of arts and community engagement.
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Anna’s Place NOLA is an afterschool program that works with children and youth from K-12 to address the inequities that systematically affect them in New Orleans, such as failing schools, violent neighborhoods, insufficient healthcare, low self-esteem, and food scarcity.
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Morgan Banks, Karrington Stewart, and Devin Sloan
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My NOLA, My Story via Youtube
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Mass Communications Department at Xavier University of Louisiana
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April 12, 2022
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Darryl Durham
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My NOLA, My Story
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk4-Lyj_5hw
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Digital Humanities project by Xavier University of Louisiana's Xavier Exponential students, led by Dr. Shearon Roberts.
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My NOLA, My Story 2022
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Anna's Place NOLA
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Darryl Durham
Devin Sloan
Karrington Stewart
Morgan Banks
New Orleans Art
Treme
Xavier University of Louisiana
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4:42 (four minutes, forty - two seconds)
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Allison Swann
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Dr. Shearon Roberts
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Allison (voiceover): New Orleans is a city rich in history and culture. From Mardi Gras to the French Quarter, one thing that stands out is the southern Art diaspora. To truly understand this wildly unique city, travelers must venture beyond its highly trafficked tourist core to explore the lesser-known yet wonderfully diverse neighborhoods and museums that help make the Crescent City one of America’s preeminent centers of art and culture.
Irvin Washington: What makes New Orleans art unique would definitely be just the amount of passion that goes into the piece itself. I mean, there's nothing like seeing a New Orleans piece of art by a New Orleans artist, and it's just something that they add its that I don’t know it that New Orleans flavor that spice that you just know that that's some New Orleans artwork and they always come from a place of like, can’t even explain it just its just like it hits different burh it just hit different
Allison (voiceover): While other city museums have foreign acquired paintings or sculptures, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art features shrines and spiritual temples to voodoo priestesses and biblical figures to document their cultural significance in New Orleans.
Allison (voiceover): The museum also demonstrates the southern diaspora, by showing not only specific New Orleans culture but the broader southern culture that has acted as a melting pot and shaped the uniqueness of the city.
Irvin Washington: I think having art museums is important because they serve as these capsules of history and time, and housing all these differences create different creative minds and their bodies. So many different people express what they were going through or what they wanted to convey to the world. We're a city filled with so many cultures, we've been through so much and we do so many things and I feel like it's very important for New Orleans to have, you know, to be in our museums as well as have our museums because we like trendsetters, Come on, you know jazz, you name it no one is in New Orleans is like we out here.
Irving Washington: There are definitely some that influence the wall. More particularly than one escape team is seen as definitely overlooked, especially in his city. So my artwork especially well, I'm saying it twice, but specifically, this artwork and this body just is highlighting the skate scene of New Orleans in terms of this in this body of work. In particular, I went around the city of New Orleans for about half a year, a year and a half up to a year just went to various skate spots and went to the park everywhere where there was skaters, I was just shooting. Some of them were a little more, you know, action-packed some were Just one more, you know, like this one, just like in the moment, you know, I want to highlight the raw, the real and uncut. In this scene I wanted people to see skating for what skating truly is not for you know, there's a lot of stigmas and stereotypes that are involved with the skate scene. So I want to highlight the positive side of the skate scene and show that there's so much to offer in terms of just uniqueness and different different types of people that exist in it.
Allison (voiceover): In addition to traditional art, New Orleans is rich in street art. At the local skate parks, personal representations of art like graffiti and murals are abundant. Skate culture coincides with art, especially physical art like sculptures. Skate spots are plastered in art, life, and experiences, the same way New Orleans is.
Allison (voiceover): Skaters in New Orleans have turned rundown shacks in the woods into canvases for their work and experiences. It's little places like this that show the uniqueness of New Orleans in every aspect and especially in art.
Allison (voiceover): Art is not only pictures and viewing things in New Orleans. Art is experiences, its life, its community. Art is documenting the importance of being in New Orleans and in keeping its memory alive. Not just through painting or phones carved in cement, but in the memories and people that surround them. Art was born and thrives in New Orleans.
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The New Orleans Art Diaspora
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Allison Swann
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Video
Subject
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This is an exploration of the New Orleans art scene.
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Both traditional forms of art like museums and unconventional like the unique street art scene was studied along with interviews with artist/skater, Irvin Washington.
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My Nola My Story via Youtube
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Mass Communications department at Xavier University of Louisiana.
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December 5, 2021
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Irvin Washington
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My Nola, My Story.
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My Nola, My Story 2021 Exhibit.
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English
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Final Cut Pro X, video
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A Digital Humanities project by Xavier University of Louisiana's Mass Communication department students, led by Dr. Shearon Roberts
2021
Allison Swann
My Nola My Story
New Orleans
New Orleans Art
Skate
XULA
XULA Mass Comm