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Category: 2024 Archives - Gibbes Museum of Art
Demond Melancon
Big Chief Demond Melancon is a contemporary artist based in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. As a Big Chief, he is the leader of the Young Seminole Hunters, a tribe of the Black Masking Culture of New Orleans, a hidden culture that dates back to the 18th century. Melancon creates elaborate beaded suits […]
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Carlie Trosclair
Carlie Trosclair (b. New Orleans, LA) is a sculptor and installation artist who records and reimagines the genealogy of home and its relationship to the natural world. Her work creates new topographies and narratives that highlight structural and decorative shifts evolving over a building’s lifespan. Trosclair earned an M.F.A from the Sam Fox School of […]
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Ato Ribeiro
Ato Ribeiro (b. 1989)?is a multidisciplinary?artist?working in a variety of media including sculptural installation, drawing and printmaking. He was born in Philadelphia, PA. and spent the formative years of his life in Accra, Ghana before relocating to Atlanta, Georgia, where he recently served as a 2022/2023 MOCA GA WAP Fellow. He was a 2024?artist?in residence […]
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