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11 Things to Know (and Watch) for Jazzfest 2016

A. J. Meek

An acclaimed scholar and photographer, A.J. Meek has been documenting life in Louisiana since 1977.

Ada Thomas

Ada Thomas was one of few remaining weavers of traditional Chitimacha split-cane, double-weave baskets.

Alan Gerson

Painter and attorney Alan Gerson has achieved international recognition for his artwork, perhaps most notably as an award-winning participant in the 2000 Florence Biennial.

Albert Rieker

Albert George Rieker became one of the most notable sculptors in the United States after his membership in the New Orleans Art League provided an exhibition venue for his plaster-cast Neoclassical friezes.

Alexandre de Batz

Alexandre de Batz created the earliest known images of Native Americans in the lower Mississippi valley from sketches he rendered while surveying Louisiana in the eighteenth century.

An Ignatian Journey

Ann Hornback

Painter Ann Hornback incorporates dreamlike, surrealistic scenes of nature and animals, usually with a central female figure, into her work.

Antoine Simon Le Page du Pratz

An engineer by training, Antoine Simon Le Page du Pratz published a richly illustrated, three-volume, 1,300 page observation of life in early Louisiana, "Historie de La Louisiane."

Bousillage

Bousillage, a mixture of clay and straw or Spanish moss used for insulation, is a distinguishing feature of Louisiana's architectural past.

Bruce Brice

Bruce Brice's street murals in the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans helped him earn the first-ever artist's commission for the official poster of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.