Final Days of Katrina: Five Years of Reflection

Please join us this Saturday, September 11 at 12:00 for a presentation by artists Norman DeShong and Douglas Adams.

Mr. DeShong and Mr. Adams have been returning to New Orleans every year to film their experience since Hurricane Katrina. This footage can be seen in their work The Katrina Project: A Photographers View of New Orleans After the Storm included in the exhibition Katrina: Five Years of Reflection.

"After coming back home, we decided to make this a project. We had to go back again. On Nov. 4-6 we went back. The message that we received from the residents of New Orleans was "Show The World These Images." They also wanted us to encourage people to visit their City, and help the economy..."

from The Katrina Project: A Photographers View of New Orleans After the Storm

Also, Atlanta artist Elyse Defoor will be discussing her work, X.U.ME. A Today Show clip spotlights Defoor's work and provides an overview of the significance and controversy surrounding the "X" symbol.

Katrina exhibits featured in Creative Loafing and AJC

Neil Alexander

Take a look at Cinque Hicks' column on the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the art world, and how that is playing out in three Atlanta exhibits, including Spruill Gallery, this month.

In late August 2005, the levees on the canals south of Lake Pontchartrain gave way and plunged New Orleans into the contemporary art world. If that sounds like a creepy thing to say, it's not my idea. New Orleans gallery owner Arthur Roger and others told the Christian Science Monitor last year how the storm yanked New Orleans artists into a conversation with the world outside the Mississippi Delta as never before, prompting new art that was less insular and somehow more globally relevant. Brad Pitt showed up with his pink houses, and curator Dan Cameron launched Prospect.1, a citywide art biennial cut from the cloth of the Venice Biennale. Nearly overnight, the city joined the list of nationally significant art destinations.

Read more here.

You can see Howard Pousner's story about four Katrina related shows at the AJC.