The Arthur Roger Gallery at 432 Julia Street will host a panel discussion titled “New Orleans Culture in a Post-Katrina Environment” on Friday, January 27th from 7:00 – 8:30 pm. The discussion is part of a series of events sponsored by the New Orleans Arts District Association designed to focus the attention of the general public on the crucial importance of the revitalization of the unique cultural life that has historically characterized New Orleans. The event is open to the public.

Jonn Hankins, Chief Operating Officer of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra and former Principal Development Associate for Corporate and Community Affairs, New Orleans Museum of Art, will moderate the panel discussion to be conducted by three outstanding panelists: Douglas Brinkley, PhD, Director, Theodore Roosevelt Center for American Civilization, Tulane University; Dan Cameron, Senior Curator at Large, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; and Richard J. Powell, PhD, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History, Duke University.

Douglas Brinkley is Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Center for American Civilization and Professor of History at Tulane University. An award-winning historian and author, Dr. Brinkley also appears regularly on radio and television as a political and historical consultant and commentator. He is a regular contributor to journals such as Foreign Affairs, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Time, and American Heritage. Dr. Brinkley is currently working on a book tentatively titled The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast scheduled to be published early this year, which will include oral histories as well as an analysis and narrative of the events of Hurricane Katrina in historical context.

Dan Cameron is Senior Curator at Large at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, a position he has held since 1995. As an independent curator he has organized retrospective exhibitions of many internationally renowned artists as well as a range of internationally curated events including the 8th International Istanbul Biennial in 2003. Long interested in New Orleans art and culture, Mr. Cameron was the curator for the 1995 New Orleans Triennial exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art. He has written extensively on contemporary art since 1981, including as contributor to Arts Magazine, Art & Auction, Artforum and Flash Art. He has published many museum exhibition catalogues and monographic texts on numerous artists, and has lectured widely in museums and universities worldwide.

Richard J. Powell is the John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University. Author of such books as Black Art: A Cultural History and The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism, Dr. Powell has researched and lectured extensively in the areas of American art, African-American art, and theories of race and representation in the African diaspora. He is also interested in the media arts and conceptualizations of the "folk" in world art and culture. Dr. Powell has helped organize several critically acclaimed art exhibitions, most notably “Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance” (1997), “To Conserve A Legacy: American Art at Historically Black Colleges and Universities” (1999), and was the guest curator for the 2005 exhibition “Circle Dance: The Art of John T. Scott” at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

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