Letter from the Editor
There’s nothing like art that sparks conversation, art that is accessible, art that is welcoming and filled with wonder. We warmly invite you to get to know new and traditional artforms and artists with us.
As locals, transplants, hybrids, visitors, observers, enjoyers: feel embraced, fall in love, be curious
Come to New Orleans! Here’s a small offering of what we have to say, to sing, to paint, to build, to inspire. Add your spark to the symphony of sounds and sights.
Our Editor in Chief, Sabrina Stone, accepting the ‘22-’23
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation
Media Documentation Grant
Cover Girls Meschiya Lake and Robin Barnes with our Editor in Chief, Sabrina Stone
Dear Readers,
It has been a pleasure and an honor to have intimate conversations and playful photo shoots with over a dozen Louisiana-based artists who have created such extraordinary bodies of work.
These people are inventors, as much as they are painters, poets, and performers. Each of them, our gifted writers, and the long line of contributors who opened up their schedules and their homes to us, wore their best suits and sat on bathroom floors with me, met up at endless bars and coffee shops, hired babysitters, got glammed up before noon, did edits and critiques past midnight, offered food, advice, inspiration, and paint brushes, gave support and encouragement, let me learn lessons from their mistakes and their triumphs… Those people, and so many more, made this first edition of our new arts publication possible.
As a lifelong reader, writer, artist, concert-goer, and musician, this is the culmination of, pretty much, all of my passions and hopes and dreams and interests.
I hope you get un peu de jouissance out of it too.
Sabrina Stone, Editor in Chief