Amanda Cassingham-Bardwell, from Algiers, Louisiana, received her BFA in 2009 from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She currently hosts the 723 Louisa Street Digest pot-luck art and brunch events where artists are invited to install projects in her apartment. Amanda also hosts the 723 Louisa Street Artist in Residence Program, in which artists caper about the living room, kitchen, and far corners of the city creating collaborative and often edible or mailable projects.
Amanda spends part of the rest of her time drinking coffee on the porch while telling people she is “really busy.”

Born in 1989 in Honduras, Angel has called New Orleans home since 96. He will finish with his BA degree in Studio Art from the University of New Orleans in May 2013 with a concentration in Printmaking and Painting. In addition to his artistic endevors, he enjoys cartoons and pizza !!!!

Angela Driscoll is a visual artist who explores time and narrative while creating visual and audio work from collected data. Her body of work includes artist books, drawings, installations, video, and sound. Angela received her MFA from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and she currently teaches at Loyola University New Orleans.

Anne Gisleson teaches writing at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Louisiana’s arts conservatory for high school students.  Her writing has appeared in The Believer, Oxford American and other magazines and has been selected for inclusion in several anthologies including Best American Non-Required Reading, Best Music Writing, Life in the Wake: Fiction from Post-Katrina and Paul Chan’s Waiting for Godot in New Orleans: A Field Guide.

printmaker, illustrator, installation artist, and musician who hails from Knoxville, TN. He received his BFA from the University of Tennessee, is currently working on his MFA at Tulane, and has been living and working in New Orleans since 2010.

Bob Snead was founding director of Redux Contemporary Art Center until 2005, when he left his hometown of Charleston, SC to pursue graduate studies in Painting/Printmaking at Yale University School of Art. After his northern exposure in 2007 he helped form the artist collective Transit Antenna, and spent the next two years on the roads of North America in a vegetable oil powered bus producing various community based art projects along the way.   Bob and his family moved to New Orleans in 2010 where he continues a rigorous artistic practice utilizing a wide range of media to express his deep commitment to humor, with such projects as his telling autobiographical paintings, a stand up comedian ATM Machine, and most recently with a project called The Is Not Broke Recession Proof Wallet Company.

Jerald L. White is a New Orleans artist, crazy bicyclist and community advocate – also known as “Bottletree.”  Jerald has worked as a grass-roots organizer, attorney, and environmental policymaker in New Orleans and Washington D.C.  In 2004, he earned a MA in Media Ecology, Communications & Film at New York University, and made New Orleans his permanent home.  Jerald is the Founder and Director of the Charitable Film Network – a diverse group of media-makers, dedicated to community service.

Brad Benischek is a visual artist, educator and scenic painter. His work has appeared in numerous publications, on t-shirts, telephone poles and in galleries and art spaces across the south. He received his BFA from Parsons School of Design and MFA from Savannah College of Art and Design.

Courtney¹s video installations connect nature with human invention. She creates short films, video collages, and media assemblages that straddle the worlds of special effects and art. These pieces explore the blurring boundary between mental states, digital worlds, and consensus reality. Courtney holds an M.F.A. from Maryland Institute College of Art. She is a Media Arts faculty member at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts.

Ernest Littles is currently a junior at Dillard University, majoring in Visual Arts. He has worked as a Teaching Assistant at MLK Elementary and Joseph A. Craig Elementary. He has also worked as an artist assistant for Robert Tannen, and an art preparator at Dillard University. Ernest will be working on several initiatives at Press Street – including the New Orleans Loving Festival, Deep South by Suroeste, Beatschool, and the Art House Film Series.

Gretchen Faust is an artist and educator committed to community efforts. She has a BA from U.C. Berkeley in Art and Urban Studies. Her work with high school students on urban design and large-scale art installation projects has colored much of her own art practice in sound installations, drawings, and video. Introduced to New Orleans through a travel fellowship in 2010, Faust encountered a level of self-reliance within the community that immediately enthralled her – a place she now calls home.

b. 1986 Omaha, NE
Lives and Works in New Orleans, LA.

Laura Gipson, a native of Maryland, has lived in New Orleans since 1980. She holds an MFA from the University of New Orleans. Her works are included in the collections of the Virlane Foundation, the City of New Orleans, Tulane Medical Center and private collections. Laura has taught at the University of New Orleans and she currently teaches Talented in Visual Art in the Jefferson Parish Public School System.

Natalie McLaurin grew up in Knoxville, TN. She has a Bachelors in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute. Hired for a 2 month stint as an art preparator for Prospect 1 in 2008, McLaurin fell victim to the charm of New Orleans. She moved permanently to the city in Fall 2009 and soon after joined Antenna.  She is an active artist and curator, and founding member of the artist group T-lot.

Nathan C. Martin is the editor of Room 220: New Orleans Book and Literary News. He is a former associate publisher of Stop Smiling: The Magazine for High-Minded Lowlifes, based in Chicago and New York. His writing has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Time Out Chicago, BOMB, Stop Smiling, Vice, Pelican Bomb, Gigantic, The Black Warrior Review, Edible New Orleans, and other places. He was born and raised in Wyoming, and is at work on a book of essays about the state. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite.

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Robin Levy is a sculptor and installation artist. She received her BFA from Louisiana State University in 1982 and earned her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 1990. Levy’s artistic practice explores collective consciousness by visually recording what she refers to as “fragments of the everyday”. She has had solo exhibitions and participated in juried and invitational group shows. Her work is included in museum and private collections throughout the United States including New Orleans Museum of Art and Frederick R. Weisman Foundation.

Robin Wallis Atkinson is an independent curator based in New Orleans, Louisiana. She curates for the nonprofit collective Antenna Gallery in the New Orleans St. Claude Arts District. In 2008, Atkinson served as the Curatorial Coordinator for Prospect.1 New Orleans, the largest-ever contemporary art biennial to be held in the United States. During Prospect.1, she oversaw production of the critically acclaimed installations in the Lower Ninth Ward as well as several other sites throughout the city. During the summer of 2010 Atkinson began curating the 16 artist exhibition CATALYST – Artists of Southern Louisiana in Response to the Gulf Coast Oil Crisis, which is set to open in July 2011 at Space 301 in Mobile, AL. Atkinson will be leaving New Orleans during the summer of 2011 to enter into the 2013 class at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. She hopes to return to New Orleans after graduation to pursue her curatorial focus of socially engaged art practice.

Shawn Hall is a founding artist member of Antenna Gallery who has been living and working in New Orleans since 1997.  Shawn received her MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art where she was a Patricia Harris Fellow. She has been in residence at School 33 in Baltimore, in NY through the LMCC, and in Los Angeles at 18th Street Art Center. Exhibitions include the Contemporary Art Center, Isaac Delgado Gallery, Barrister’s, Bassetti, and Antenna in New Orleans, Wolfson Gallery at Miami Dade, N.A.M.E. and Christopher Stokes in Chicago, The Hewitt Gallery and Bronx River Art Center in NYC, Van Brunt Gallery in Beacon, NY, Wagner-Sousa in Galveston, TX, and Chateau de La Napoule, in Mandelieu, France. Her work has been reviewed nationally in Art Papers, New Art Examiner, and dialogue. She is a part of the permanent collection of Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, Linklater Corporate collection in NYC, and private collections throughout the United States and Europe..

Susan Gisleson is a founding member of Press Street and Antenna. A costume designer by nature, she curated “stitch” at the gallery in 2008 to explore the ways a needle and thread can interact with different materials. In 2010, she had a one woman multi-media exhibition called “Junkfish Caviar” in which she created precious effigies out of found and repurposed materials. She is an organizer of Press Street’s 24 Hour Draw-a-thon, one of many insane ideas by Brad Benischek that has come to life. Gisleson graduated from San Francisco State University and teaches art full time to middle and high school students. She is also one hell of an arm wrestler.

Yuka works in a wide range of media, including but not limited to handmade paper, book arts, and physical computing. She received her MFA in Book Arts/Printmaking at University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and her BFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. Yuka studied papermaking at the Awagami Factory in Japan and at Dieu Donne Papermill. She has taught book arts in Japan and in the U.S., spent several weeks binding books in the Argentinian hills, and served on the Board of Directors at Seattle Center for Book Arts. Her work has been exhibited in the U.S. and internationally, and her books are in the permanent collections of several public library and university special collections.