King Tides Exhibit

by | Dec 9, 2019 | News

KING TIDES Good Children Gallery Opening: Saturday Dec. 14th, 6-9 PM Artist Talk: Thursday, Dec. 12th, 10-11 AM   King Tides, a photographic exhibition by Michel Varisco, describes a future where sea level rise has overtaken the land.  King Tides are the...

Cyclical Migrations and Border Crossings

by | Dec 5, 2019 | News

I share a curatorial and design project entitled “Return to the Yakni Chitto: Houma Migrations” where I worked with Monique Michelle Verdin (photographs) and Ray Moose Jackson (poems) to create a transportable exhibition. Sponsored by...

S. Louisiana Landscapes: Art of Racial and Environmental Justice

by | Nov 20, 2019 | News

Francis Pavy, Monique Verdin, Bruce Barnes, Moose Ray Jackson and Michel Varisco present their artwork and inspirations at the the Words and Music Festival: A Literary Feast in New Orleans, November 21, 2:30 at the Ace...

Art as a catalyst: Can art help save the planet?

by | Nov 15, 2019 | News

November 16th at 2:30 PM during Forestival Join Miro Hoffman, Michel Varisco, Hannah Chalew and Anne Blenker for a lively discussion with moderator Alexandra Mora. Sponsored by the Swiss Touch Initiative at A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Road, New Orleans,...

Battlegrounds: New Orleans

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...

GoNola Artist Spotlight written by Hope Mills

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...

Canvas Magazine Interview

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...

“Between Worlds” published in Orion Magazine

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....

Roots in the Water: Remembering Manilla Village

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...

Just Below the Surface Exhibition at the Art House

by | Feb 1, 2019 | AerialPhotography, Climate Change, Contemporary Art, Environment, EnvironmentalPhotography, Events, Exhibitions, Gallery, Installation Shots, Lectures, Louisiana, Media, Michel Varisco Artist, New Orleans Artist, Newspaper, PortraitPhotography, Reviews, Shifting, Solo Exhibitions, UnderwaterPhotography

Opening Saturday February 9, 2019. Saturday, February 9, 2019 through Saturday, March 30, 2019 St. Tammany Art Association Art House 320 N. Columbia St. Covington United States Reviews and articles about the show:...