LOUISIANA PROXIMITIES

LOUISIANA PROXIMITIES
The 4th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference invites all artists residing in the United States and Canada to enter its Louisiana Proximities exhibition. All works meeting the guidelines will be considered by the juror. The works selected will be on exhibit in the Orville J. Hanchey Gallery at Northwestern State University of Louisiana (NSU), September 1-24, 2012. The Conference and exhibition are co-sponsored by the Department of Fine + Graphic Arts, the Folklife Society of Louisiana, the Louisiana Folklife Center and the NSU College of Arts, Letters, Graduate Studies and Research. Exhibition Chair is Leslie Gruesbeck, Assistant Exhibition Chair is Jordan Wade. Conference Chair is Shane Rasmussen
JUROR
Dawn DeDeaux has exhibited throughout the country including the Whitney Museum of American Art and is a American Academy in Rome Prize recipient as Knight Foundation Visiting Southern Artist. She was one of eight artists selected to represent the south in the 1996 Olympics exhibition "Out of Bounds" that premiered her fully immersive media work "The Face of God." She is a featured artist in Prospect 2, and is working in association with Tulane University on her "Project Mutants" - illuminated floating sculptures with water sensoring devices to monitor chemicals in waterways. DeDeaux is the founding editor of Arts Quarterly (1976-1984) for the New Orleans Museum of Art and a co-founder of the Contemporary Arts Center. As educator she established a comprehensive arts program for a 6000 inmate prison facility (Orleans Parish Prison) and has served as Artist in Residence at institutions including Maryland Institute College of Arts. In the late 70s / early 80s she produced and hosted the New Orleans’ first radio program dedicated to contemporary art, ART NOW. She is winner of the 1976 Demolition Derby in the Louisiana Superdome as the only woman contestant in a field of 35 drivers - "far surpassing any of my achievements in the arts."