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If Jazz Was a Color, What Color Would it Be?
By Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney©97

 

 

Blue as in 'mo better?
Cobalt, azure teal,
Sapphired, indigoed midnight sky?

If jazz was a color..it'll fire up red hot!
Cinnamon salsa, mustard tinged lavender lace.
Improvising multiple patterned hues & blues..

RHYTHMS!!

Effortless blacks & whites!
Shading elegant brocades in smoky velvet
Coltraned…

Billie, Sarah, Duke.
Fly a way Bird!
Groove on Wash- ing- ton!
(No Kenny G here)!

Miles awake,
Miles high!
Miles wide

Colors erupting like a Cannonball!
If jazz was a color, the color would be what the eyes see...
Blue! As in mo betta…
Yeah
All rights reservedJHM ©97

Seasoned en Vieux exhibtione will close February 27th~There Still Time to See a Different View.

Featiring Michele Wallace on wall and Amina Dada on pillars.

 

 

A Different angle

Ransom McCormick's "Uncle Lionel"



 

Rearranged

Silk Rivers Metals

(Top) Karel Sloane Boekbinder (Bottom) Jeff Todd (right) Ha'Sohn Gorden's "Ms. Rosa"

Silk Rivers Metal











 

l to r: Sheila Pipps, Michele Lambert & Corrie Boudreaux (floor)




"Paris"~ Michele Lambert & "Spirited"~ Saundra Dymond




 

In Every Nook and Cranny: (Top) Sweet Olive Sunrise~ Karel Sloane Boekbinder.  Center: Vieux Carre~Jeff Todd. Bottom Mardi Gras Indian Drew. (R) Silk Metal Rivers & Han'Sohn Gorden























 

A Different View.




 

Jeff Todd, artist





 

Standing in the Shadows exhibition opens March 6, 2015

 

Well we are coming around the closing our our workshops at Ashe Cultural Art Center.  Shadows no More last day will be January 27th,2015.  I'll then have the fun and the honor to document the quilts and prepare to mount the show on March 6th.

 

The opening reception is on Friday March 6th. 

The Official Ashe quilt~ Karel SLoane Boekbinder, artist

Addendum:  I am delighted to say that our Standing in the SHadows workshops have now become part of Ashe's family!

We have now become "Lydia's Purple Cloth Comunity Group". You are invited to participate in the classes held every Tues from 6-8pm at Ashe.

At Ashe

 

 

Part of the vision for Standing in the Shadows (no more) was the foundation for not only these women but others to examine in a creative way a desire not to be swallowed up by shadows, either ones of their own makings but also dynamics others try to force them into.  Quilting, a millineum old tradition dating back to ancient Africa & China is being used as that jump off point. For many, this was a safe, soothing yet forceful way to articulate sometime what could barely be thought of let along being spoken of.

 

Shadows don't always have to be somethng formidable... sometime it is a quiet yearning, a secret desire to do things a bit differently, to try or embrace smething new or see yourself in a different light. 

Now we will have as a sister companion exhibition opening a few days later at Galerie 1501 located at 1501 Canal Street the "Lydia's 1st Purple Moon: You are Ish-Shah" (Hebrew for woman) exhibition that will run from March 10th-May 10th.  You wil see many more pieces of these talented women, other women artists and their allies there in support to the "Standing in the Shadows No More"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Where Art Thou?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Folks have been asking me where is my art in Seasoned en Vieux.  Well I'm lurking. Handling the responsibility of curator, promoter, writer etc has taken up a vast amount of my time and focus.  It hadn't even dawned on me to hang my own work, but I'll put something in it.

 

My aim is to represent the 29 artists in the show, doing things as creatively with limited time and resources.  But something will pop up.

 

 

 

 

 

Work in Progress from my Red Beans & Rice series

 

 

Fiddling

 

In Seasoned en Vieux

 

 

 

 

 

 

Got an Idea

I am trying to see a way to recyle serving platters.  Hmmm may end up being a "frame'?

Syenergy en Vieux

NEW ORLEANS, LA - December 15, 2014 – Galerie 1504 is pleased to present a
group exhibition of new works featuring all Gallery artists. The “Seasoned en Vieux” (A Seasoned View) exhibition will run from December 19, 2014 – January 13, 2015 

"Baby Boy"~Farris Armand

 

Galerie 1501 partners with Reinments of Power & through the generousity of HRI Properties in presenting “Seasoned en Vieux" or “A Seasoned View” is a multi-faceted exhibit with a number of thought provoking themes that are meant to dispel the common thought of our society as a whole. One of the most prevalent of these themes being that individual talent does not simply dissipate with age, but rather it grows in wisdom and perspective as time passes. Just as this theme is meant to dispel these specific misconceptions in both the creative realm and general society, it is also intended as a caveat of positive change for senior citizens & their allies, to dispel the myth about the ones who are entering their encore years with panache!
 
 
 This exhibit is a part of the The Fig Tree Project pop-up series, spotlighting various collections of art for a limited time in alternative spaces.

Galerie 1501, is located at 1501 Canal Street on the first floor of the historic Texaco building bordering Faouborg Treme & downtown New Orleans. HRI Properties has kindly donated this temporary exhibit space as a part of their mission to enhance the lives and sensibilities of their tenants, as well as, creatively enhance the current Canal Street Renaissance process.

“Seasoned en Vieux” has a synergy made up from varied disciplines; such as photography, studio art, studio art quilts, sculptures, muralists, and wearable art form manifested in the ingenious styling of Alfred Tumblin & Beesiyge Ogden. This team gives homage to a time where fine craftmanship & styling was vibrant & alive mixed with a modern twist! 

 

 

 

 

 

"White Goddess Coat"~Alfred Tumblin & Beesigye Ogden,artists

 Seventy-five percent of the twenty-nine artists featured are over the age of 60. This impressive representation of senior artists only exemplifies the thought that true artists never retire...they only become more seasoned.  Eight of the artists are under the age of 60 with our youngest being 17 &  several veterans are presented.  It highlights that an intergenerational vieux can blend easily when it come to art, that there is no reason to box in people, not matter the reason.
The exhibit will also feature pieces by New Orleans’ own, Terrence Osburne, Michele Lambert, "visual poet" artist Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney, artists Farris Armand & Sheila Phipps. Many of these works are city inspired pieces that reflect the extraordinary history and traditions that have set the city of New Orleans apart from anywhere else in the world.

This exhibit is a part of the The Fig Tree Project pop-up series, spotlighting various collections of art for a limited time in alternative spaces. "Seasoned en Vieux” will run through January 13, 2015.  Gallery hours are Monday – Friday 1:00 – 4:00 p.m., and by appointment.


For additional information please contact Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney,curator at 504.645.6168 or rhythmnhues@gmail.com.