Art & Identity in New Orleans

$uicideboy$ is hip hop/ horrorcore  duo group created by Aristos “Ruby da Cherry” Petrou and Scott “Slick Sloth” Arcenaux Jr. The group was created in 2014 and both members were born and raised New Orleans. Members $lick $loth and Ruby da Cherry are actually cousins and grew up  close with each other. Before the duo […]

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For my final project I wanted to make both a playlist and a vision board (even though I mainly focused on the playlist here) for scenes I thought were important to the development of the story and Edna’s awakening. I chose to do this because music is personally really important to me and I think […]

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[posted on behalf of a student] For my final project, I ended up with two essays. The first one, which is linked here, is comprised of the three essays I submitted in workshop. I took those three essays and turned them into a braided essay. I literally cut up the three essays and pieced them together, […]

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The Moviegoer, in my opinion, is a softly tragic story that demonstrates the unfulfillment of society’s focus on the arbitrary and the lack of intrinsic value that comes with the constraints of falsity. John “Binx” Bolling is a character who rejects these notions and has seen beyond the illusions of living for the mundane. He prefers […]

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I’ve finished the poetry sequence for my final project, you can view it here.

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Hello everyone! I decided to take the advice that was given to me and utilize a story map to display my pictures alongside journal entries for my final project.   The writings are split into seven different short entries which talk about my thoughts as I use to wander through the desert.  My first entry is […]

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Natasha Trethewey uses the figure of Ophelia to create a story that reflects on the dynamics of power and agency for prostitutes in the early 1900s. The opening poem in the sequence begins with the viewer reading a description of both versions of Ophelia; in a way, this transcribes the voyeuristic behavior of the artist […]

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Leah Chase Leah Chase, New Orlean’s Queen of Cuisine.  A beloved figure throughout the community for all her contributions.  She played a major, but almost secret, role in the Civil Rights movement when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his Freedom Riders came to New Orleans to meet with the Baton Rouge civil rights members […]

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    Summary of Final Project: In these sets of fictional letters, I have sought to tell Adrien De Pauger’s story through his own lens. This is not possible to do so completely or accurately, but I have strived to try to show what his life was like and what his thoughts might have been […]

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So I decided to scratch the Sweet Briar poem, I haven’t been here long enough and I couldn’t make it depressing. With the other three, I (attempted to) added more place or tried to make them more visual on the place at least. My poems 🙂

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The National Leprosarium started in 1894 at the Indian Camp Plantation. The Plantation house had been left in disrepair after the end of the civil war, and the bank had repossessed the title in 1874. When the bank gave it to the state of Louisiana to be used as a Leprosarium, seven lepers within New […]

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One of the many unique cultural staples of New Orleans lies within the fundamentals of their funerals. A jazz funeral is a tradition originally reserved for the important people of a community but has since then become more inclusive. These funerals, unlike traditional American funerals, are full of colors and music. A band (traditionally brass) and […]

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Voodoo-catholicism is another unique part of New Orleans culture. Voodoo is a religion that finds its origins in West Africa and was part of the culture of black slaves that ended up in New Orleans. This religion was originally practiced in secret that served as a way for these people to cling to their culture, […]

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For the final draft of this project, I decided on the villanelle poem based on its form and style. After fiddling around with multiple types of poems and their forms, I found that the villanelle style worked best for me. The rhyme scheme adds a level of difficulty that makes the end process more rewarding. […]

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After the publication of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the name Ophelia has coincided with the idea of both tragedy and despair throughout, arguably, all media platforms. The acknowledged significance and premise behind the name compels any reader to assume that the protagonist will, like their predecessor, have a life filled with obstacles, turmoil, and strife. Bellocaq’s Ophelia presents […]

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Here is my finished Final Project. This Project is basically fitting characters from the stories we read over the semester into archetypes. I’m rather proud of all the cards, especially the ones where I had to take creative license with the designs of some of the characters. What we have in the final project is: […]

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This project is about place and religion. But it also about belonging. And community. And spirituality. About how I experience place in the context of the sacraments. About the physical places and sensory experiences of Catholicism. It’s about feeling like you’re the only one trying and like you’re failing at the same time. It comes […]

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Here is the link to the story. If there are any problems, let me know.

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For my final draft, I spent a long time going over and thinking about the poems that I wrote. I played around with line breaks, stanza breaks, and added and replaced words here and there. I kept thinking back to the workshop where I remember being told that some of the poems felt as though […]

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Kate as ‘The Sun’ and Binx as ‘Death’ are the first two I have inked. I took some creative license in both of their designs but Kate is coming along to be one of my favorite cards tied with Edna.

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