by | Mar 11, 2020 | Exhibitions, Jazzfest
Diminishing States: Exhibits For Ecological and Cultural Equity Michel Varisco and The Neighborhood Story Projects From April 2rd-May 3rd 2020, I will be exhibiting with The Neighborhood Story Projects at the Clubhouse at the New Orleans Jazzfest These Last Days of...
by | Oct 8, 2019 | AR artwork, Public Art, Site Specific Installation
The site, is the Hibernia National Bank where, according to John Barry’s book Rising Tide, a handful of powerful business men made the fateful decision in 1927 to blow up the levee downriver in St. Bernard Parish at the expense of the residents there, with...
by | Aug 4, 2019 | Contemporary Art, Environment, Interview, News
Wonderful article by Hope Mills: Some Excerpts from the article: On a breezy Louisiana day, the spinning Tibetan prayer wheels at a corner of the Lafitte Greenway near St John’s Bayou will mesmerize you. The nine-foot-high stainless steel cylinders, etched with...
by | Aug 4, 2019 | Interview, News
Thanks to Erin McNutt and Pamela Reed for the detailed story on my artwork in Canvas Magazine. Excerpts from the article: Michel Varisco lives in a charming little cottage in Faubourg St. John along with her protective chihuahua, Rocket. Her home, as well as the...
by | Aug 4, 2019 | Climate Change, ClimateChangePhotography, Environment, Magazine, Photography
In “Between Worlds” (Spring 2019 issue), Anya Groner and Michel Varisco travel to the vanishing island of Isle De Jean Charles to learn more about the land and the people living there, and the challenges of resettlement....
by | Aug 3, 2019 | Below Sea Level, Contemporary Art
Michel Varisco photographed Shelbey Leco underwater with her grandfather’s homemade trawling net. Shelbey’s artwork and the oral histories of her grandfather are featured in “Roots in the Water,” a traveling exhibition. Up from May through...
