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1. ARTinACTION's Field Guide to Louisiana Birds

ARTinACTION's Field Guide to Louisiana Birds

2008-07-26 09:03

Moe Beitiks - Art

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ARTinACTION is an artist-in-residence program for post-Katrina Louisiana that effectively uses art as a creative, rehabilitative tool. Invited artists are encouraged work on-site and with local communities that are still struggling to recover from the ravages of the hurricane’s devastation. Says Director Elizabeth Underwood, “The ARTinACTION context creates a very real ‘aesthetic eco-system’ in partnership with the land and community of each site.” Today (July 26) is the unveiling of ARTinACTION’s most recent installation, Field Guide, by artist Jacqueline Bishop. We wanted to give you a closer look at just one example of how this part of Louisiana is imaginatively rebuilding itself.

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