Art in Action needs volunteers

Art in Action!
! VOLUNTEERS URGENTLY NEEDED !

What: “Field Guides”, an “ArtInAction” site-specific installation
Artist: Jacqueline Bishop
Where: Milne Boys Home; 5420 Franklin Avenue, Gentilly Google Map
When: Thursday June 26th (Installation Begins)

“Art In Action” is honored to collaborate with artist Jacqueline Bishop on “Field Guide”, a site-specific installation by contemporary artist Jacqueline Bishop at the historical Milne Boys Homein Gentilly. “Field Guide” will be initiated June 26th and formally unveiled July 26th. In her efforts to call attention to the current global environmental crisis, Ms. Bishop will be painting 2500 originally designed stencils of indigenous and migratory Louisiana birds on the Milne site.

Volunteers are needed to assist “ArtInAction” and Ms. Bishop with this installation. The primary task will be to work with Ms. Bishop in the painting of the stencils. Hours are from 8:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. for 5 days. One hour shifts are available – larger time commitments will be greatly appreciated. All necessary tools and refreshments will be provided.

Working so closely with an established artist on such a radical project, interacting with the landscape to participate in its recovery, and connecting with the Gentilly community will be a rewarding experience on many levels. Don’t miss this opportunity to participate in such an exciting event! Please contact Elizabeth Underwood at aia@elizabethunderwood.net to volunteer or for further information. Thank you!

Artist Jacqueline Bishop is known for paintings and installation that focus on landscape issues particularly through birds, butterlfies and flora. In this way she explores the politicizing of nature, species extinction and eco-political injustice. This work has been influenced by her thirty years of traveling third world countries, Latin American forests and her native Louisiana swamps. She attended the University of Kansas, received a BA from the University of New Orleans and an MFA from Tulane University. Currently Ms. Bishop teaches “Art and the Environment” at Loyola University. She is author of “Em Memoria Chico Mendes: A Tribute on the 10-Year Anniversary of His Death“ and “Losing Ground: Imaginary Landscapes”. She founded ArtSpeak at the Contemporary Arts Center and for 6 years organized this program. For 5 years she co-hosted “Louisiana Artist” for WWNO, New Orleans’ NPR affiliate radio station, interviewing contemporary visual artists about their work. She has exhibited and lectured in Europe, Asia, South America, Canada and the U.S. and is a grant recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and Joan Mitchell Foundation. Ms. Bishop is represented by the Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans.