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New Orleans, LA (January 13, 2015)- Prospect New Orleans, the international contemporary art triennial, will wrap up its three-month run of Prospect.3: Notes for Now (P.3) with a full weekend of Closing Festivities, including the official announcement of the newly appointed P.4 Artistic Director, scheduled to take place during an invitation-only reception hosted by the board of directors.

Not just a few of us, a Performance by Andrea Fraser
• Wednesday, January 21, 6 p.m., Dixon Hall, Tulane University (6823 St. Charles Avenue)
• P.3 Artist Andrea Fraser's Not just a few of us is the interpretation of one public confrontation with racist systems in contemporary New Orleans: a 1991 City Council hearing regarding the official desegregation of the unofficially self-segregated Mardi Gras krewes. Fraser has transcribed, internalized, and performed the heat: one person embodying divergent voices and perspectives. Originally performed for the opening of P.3 in October, 2014, Fraser revisits the performance for this event.
• Free and open to the public

Motor coach tour of Prospect.3: Notes for Now
• Thursday, January 22, 9:30 a.m.- 5 p.m., Departing from the Hyatt Regency (601 Loyola Avenue)
• Prospect New Orleans and Royal Insider will offer two bus routes to view Prospect.3: Notes for Now. Each route will run from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. daily on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
• The cost is $75 per day. For more information or to reserve a seat, email Megan Koza Young.

Andrea Fraser Post-Performance Lecture
• Thursday, January 22, 7 p.m., Contemporary Arts Center (900 Camp Street)
• Prospect New Orleans, Artspeak and the Contemporary Arts Center present a public lecture with P.3 artist Andrea Fraser, who will discuss her work and performance, Not just a few of us.
• Free to CAC members; $5 general admission

Motor coach tour of Prospect.3: Notes for Now
• Friday, January 23, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Departing from the Hyatt Regency (601 Loyola Avenue)
Prospect New Orleans and Royal Insider will offer two bus routes to view Prospect.3: Notes for Now. Each route will run from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. daily on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
• The cost is $75 per day. For more information or to reserve a seat, email Megan Koza Young.

A Conversation with P.3 Artistic Director Franklin Sirmans
• Friday, January 23, 6 p.m., New Orleans Museum of Art (City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle)
• P.3 Artistic Director Franklin Sirmans will lead a conversation of the Prospect.3: Notes for Now exhibits at the New Orleans Museum of Art, including works by Frederick J. Brown, Tarsila do Amaral, Huguette Caland, Ed Clark, Andrea Fraser, Paul Gauguin, Jeffrey Gibson and Alma Thomas.
• The event is free with museum admission. For more information, call 504.658.4100.

Motor coach tour of Prospect.3: Notes for Now
• Saturday, January 24, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Departing from the Hyatt Regency (601 Loyola Avenue)
• Prospect New Orleans and Royal Insider will offer two bus routes to view Prospect.3: Notes for Now. Each route will run from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. daily on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
• The cost is $75 per day. For more information or to reserve a seat, email Megan Koza Young.

Last Weekend of Prospect.3: Notes for Now
Closing Celebration of Prospect.3: Notes for Now
• Saturday January 24, 10 a.m.-10 p.m., The Ogden Museum of Southern Art (925 Camp Street)
• The Ogden will offer a daylong celebration of Prospect.3: Notes for Now and Basquiat and the Bayou Presented by The Helis Foundation. The day will include activities for all ages, including an exhibit walkthrough; a guided gallery tour with Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun; film screenings' libations and a DJ party with Los Jaichackers, P.3 artists.
• Standard museum admission fee applies, but re-entry is allowed, and all events are included with price of admission. For more information, visit www.ogdenmuseum.org.

ExhibitBe Bus Excursion
• Saturday, January 24, 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Departing from the Hyatt Regency (601 Loyola Avenue)
• Prospect New Orleans is offering bus transportation to visit ExhibitBE before the panel discussion, which will include a tour with Brandan Odums, and includes transportation to Xavier University for the panel.
• The cost is $75. For more information or to reserve a seat, email Megan Koza Young.

ExhibitBE Panel Discussion, featuring artists Willie Birch, Imani Brown, Brandan Odums, Lisa Sigal and Nari Ward; moderated by Gia Hamilton
• Saturday, January 24, 2 p.m., Science Building Auditorium, Xavier University of Louisiana (1 Drexel Drive)
• Exploring the responsibility of the artist in regard to social and political environment, this panel features the P.3+ project ExhibitBE, organized by local artist Brandan Odums. ExhibitBE explores the relationship of street artists to a specific site, the abandoned Charles DeGaulle Manor housing complex in Algiers.
• Free and Open to the Public

Last Weekend of Prospect.3: Notes for Now
Ogden Museum Free Day! Presented by The Helis Foundation
• Sunday, January 25, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Ogden Museum of Southern Art (925 Camp Street)
• The museum will be open to the public and offer free admission for the last day of Basquiat and the Bayou Presented by The Helis Foundation.

Leading up to closing weekend festivities, P.3 will host a variety of community-based events in New Orleans throughout the month of January, including the inaugural Independent Curators International Curatorial Intensive: New Orleans. This weeklong training program is designed to immerse participants in a rigorous schedule of seminars, conversations and presentations that support the process of developing an idea for an exhibition or program into a full proposal. It will bring together emerging curators from across the American South and around the world for the opportunity to exchange ideas, develop curatorial projects and explore Prospect.3: Notes for Now.

Organized by Independent Curators International (ICI), in conjunction with Prospect New Orleans and the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans (CACNO), the Curatorial Intensive will be the first in the U.S. outside of New York since 2011 and will be part of an ongoing series of curatorial and artistic practice-based programming around the Gulf of Mexico.

The Curatorial Intensive will take place from January 18 - 24, 2015. Seminars, site visits, individual meetings and roundtable discussions will be led by a group of professionals that includes:
• CACNO Chief Curator of Visual Arts Andrea Andersson
• ICI Director of Public Programs and Research María del Carmen Carrión
• New York-based independent curator Tumelo Mosaka
• San Juan-based artist Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
• Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Senior Curator Valerie Cassel Oliver
• University of London (Goldsmiths) Lecturer in Visual Cultures and Curator of the 8th Edition of the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, GIBCA 2015, Dyangani Ose
• ICI Executive Director Renaud Proch
• P.3 Artistic Director and LACMA Terri and Michael Smooke Department Head and Curator of Contemporary Art Franklin Sirmans
• New Orleans-based Independent Curator Claire Tancons
• Prospect New Orleans Executive Director Brooke Davis Anderson

More information is available online.

Finally, P.3 will continue engaging with the New Orleans community through several initiatives including the stationary and mobile HUBs, as well as the P.3 app.
• The "Prospect.3: Notes for Now" Official Information HUB is located in the lobby of the Contemporary Arts Center (900 Camp Street) and is open Wednesdays through Sundays, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visitors to the HUB can pick up The Advocate's Map and Guide to Prospect.3: Notes for Now, palm cards, mini coach tour information, volunteer/docent information and general advice on getting around to the venues.
• The Mobile HUB will continue traveling throughout the city, and distributing the Map and Guides, as well as selling t-shirts, tote bags and other P.3 items. Check out our social media sites to find out the location of the Mobile Hub every week.
• The P.3 App is available for download by texting "P3NOLA" to 990-00. Prospect New Orleans has partnered with Culture Connect to produce this mobile experience app for "Prospect.3: Notes for Now." The app helps visitors navigate the many exhibitions throughout New Orleans and provides rich contextual information about the artists, their work and the participating venues. Visitors can use the app to plan their visits, share experiences while exploring a site, or dig deeper after their visit. The app will have continuous updates throughout the three-month biennial.

 

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About Prospect New Orleans
Prospect New Orleans is an International Arts Triennial. Its third iteration, "Prospect.3: Notes for Now," is on view through January 25, 2015. The exhibition presents the work of 58 artists selected by Artistic Director Franklin Sirmans, in 18 locations throughout neighborhoods across New Orleans. For more information, please visit www.prospectneworleans.org.

 

Founded on the principle that art engenders social progress, the biennial and all related events will be free and open to the public.*

The biennial is open to the public from October 25, 2014 to January 25, 2015 Wednesdays through Sundays, 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Please book your travel so as to ensure the opportunity to experience the biennial in totality. Daily information regarding open and closed venues will be posted on P.3 website calendar.