✂️Upcoming Exhibition - Come to Me, Here Beside the River - New Orleans Jazz Museum, 400 Esplanade, New Orleans, LA 70116, USA.✂️

⚡️✂️Upcoming Exhibition: Come to Me, Here Beside the River✂️⚡️
⏰When: Tuesday the 8th - 22nd of September 2026
📍Where: NEW ORLEANS JAZZ MUSEUM,
400 Esplanade,
New Orleans,
LA 70116,
USA.

I am delighted be taking part in the forthcoming “Come to me, here beside the River” Exhibition to be held during the NOLA Riverfest at the New Orleans Jazz Museum and organised by the Kolaj Institute. In Celtic Mythology many of our main rivers were considered to be Goddesses, full of power and mystery, and fonts of folklore in their own right. It was interesting to me the to consider the Mississippi in a similar vein.

About the Exhibition:
“Come to me, here beside the River” brings together nine International Collage Artists, each of whom offers a unique take on the Mississippi River as a dynamic force of culture. The exhibition will take place on the iron fence of the U.S. Mint, home of the New Orleans Jazz Museum.

Participating Artists include:
Anthony D Kelly (Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland), LaVonna Varnado Brown (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA), Marta Janik (Warsaw, Poland), Lilya Chavaga (Brussels, Belgium), Matthew Hendricks (Cape Town, South Africa), Allison Spence (Tallahassee, Florida, USA), Seth Ter Haar (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA), Jeanna Penn (Oakland, California, USA) Ric Kasini Kadour (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA & Montreal, Quebec, Canada).

This exhibition is also part of the Kolaj Institutes overarching “The River Bends, So Must We” project.

”The River Bends, So Must We” Project:
“The River Bends and So Must We” is a project of Kolaj Institute that reflects on the Mississippi River as a dynamic force of culture. In 2026 and 2027, we will bring together artists from the International Collage Community to make artwork that imagines and speaks to what lessons the River can teach us about our own humanity. We will consider the history of the River in New Orleans from primordial times, pre-Columbian civilization, and to the present moment. We will examine how the River is an economic force, a tool of power, a natural wonder, and source of magic. We will take up Maya Angelou’s (1928–2014) invitation in her poem, “On the Pulse of Morning”, and “Speak to humankind today. Come to me, here beside the River.”

For more about the Kolaj Institute and “The River Bends, So Must We” project CLICK HERE.

For more about the New Orleans Jazz Museum CLICK HERE.