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BUREAU of CHANGE, with Prospect New Orleans, presents two installations in P.S.4 at Urban Sidewalk Installation Space (US|IS), 441 Gravier Street at Magazine Street.

The exhibitions opened November 18, 2017 and continued for the duration of Prospect and beyond. Wombs Are the World closed on May 8, 2018 and BUREAU of CHANGE: Social Services is ongoing.

BUREAU of CHANGE: Social Services (P.S. Prospect)

Conceived in conversation with Prospect New Orleans, BUREAU of CHANGE will present a new installation in our evolving series Social Services.

 

Set against a backdrop of simmering international criticism of art festivals and biennials, layers of text will pose questions about the role of artists and their institutions—small to large, shoestring to rich, obscure to “famous”—as mediators or arbiters of history, culture and conflict.

 

Seen from the street, the newest version of Social Services aims to turn topsy turvy who we consider artists, art stars and prospects.

 

By design and resulting from its interactive, participatory qualities, BUREAU of CHANGE: Social Services is an ongoing project. It has exhibited at US/IS continuously since October 2014.

Nikomia Henry debuts her first solo exhibition at Prospect New Orleans

BUREAU of CHANGE delivers a fresh face to P.S.4 with Wombs Are the World.

 

New Orleans native Nikomia Henry debuts Wombs Are the World at Urban Sidewalk Installation Space (US/IS).  In her first large scale public project, Henry collaborates with BUREAU’s Paige Allyn and 010her0 to bring one of her character portraits into three dimensions set to a soundscape, “A Song for Her,” by New Orleans singer-songwriter Caren Green.

 

Like much of Henry’s painting and drawing, the project is influenced by Black women in pop culture, R&B musicians and body symbolism in Hindu deities.

 

 

Wombs Are the World is a project of BUREAU’s interdisciplinary apprenticeship program in partnership with Delgado Community College. More information on how we work here.

 

 

441 Gravier Street at Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA  70130