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New Orleans Center for the Gulf South

The New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University (NOCGS) is an interdisciplinary, place-based institute that promotes the understanding of New Orleans and the Gulf South region. We support research, teaching, and community engagement that relate the local to the global and planetary. All of our programming is based on the belief that the more we understand where we are, the more fully we can engage in our democracy and collective destiny.

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Fun day of art and science at Fish Stock! Pigment paint workshop with environmental activist and artist Hannah Chalew. And a natural print lab with environmental artist Pippin Frisbie-Calder. Shout out to A Studio in the Woods and all the Woodland folks, musicians, artists, scientists, and vendors for making such an informative and beautiful start to festival season! #fishstock @astudiointhewoods @bywatertulane @tulaneu @studio.hnnh.chlw @pippinprint

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A Studio in the Woods’ Fish Stock!!! 🐠🐟🎣🐡 @astudiointhewoods @bywatertulane

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We are so sorry excited!!!! ✨✨✨✨🤩🤩🤩🤩

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This year's Inspiring Health Justice Residencies in collaboration with the Dillard Minority Health and Health Equity Research Center will culminate on April 13, 2023 at 5pm with an art opening and performance at Dillard University. Restoring Humanity: The Fight for Reproductive Justice in a Post-Roe World will showcase the work of three Dillard University students-in-residence; Tia Green, Olivia Johnson, and Gabriel Prewitt; who have been meeting all year with Dr. Robert Maupin (Professor of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the LSU Health Sciences Center and Associate Dean of Diversity & Community Engagement) and Dillard faculty members John Barnes (Associate Professor of Visual Arts) and Ray Vrazel (Associate Professor of Theater). The aim of Inspiring Health Justice is to bring the arts and public health together to address our region’s long-standing health disparities through creative, cross-disciplinary mentorship focusing the energy and passion of Dillard art students towards fostering health equity. This year’s focus has been on reproductive health disparities and the intersecting challenges for everyone affected by the issue of reproductive health — particularly Black women — historically as well as now in a post-Roe v. Wade world. WHEN: April 13, 2023 at 5:00pm WHERE: Samuel DuBois Cook Fine Arts and Communications Center 2601 Gentilly Boulevard, New Orleans, LA 70122 @astudiointhewoods @dillarduniversity @bywatertulane @tulaneu

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THIS SUNDAY!!! HIDE TANNING WORKSHOP w/ Chief Cougar Goodbear SUNDAY, MARCH 19 10AM-1PM 400 Lee Avenue Lafayette, LA Cougar Prejean Goodbear (he/him) is Chief of the Canneci N'de Band of Lipan Apache. He was born in Lafayette and currently lives in Carencro, Louisiana. He is a tribal leader and preserver of cultural traditions, including language, music, traditional medicine, and foodways. He attended the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. The Canneci N'de Band of Lipan Apache (“Poles in a Row Standing” or “Red Mud People”) are descendants of Lipan Apache enslaved and trafficked to Louisiana in 18th and 19th Centuries, particularly a group headed by an ancestor named “Coco” and his group who settled in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, after gaining freedom. The Lipan Apache in general are from Texas, New Mexico, and the Mexican States of Chihuahua, Nuevo León, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas. There are multiple organized groups of Lipan Apache in Louisiana, including not only the Canneci N'de Band of Lipan Apache but also the Choctaw Apache Tribe of Ebarb.