Art!

 

Mardiclaw is our resident artist and art curator.  She is featured in two local documentaries, "On A Wing And A Prayer" (Voodoo, Spiritualism & Art in the Bywater, post Katrina) and "Women Of Nola Parades" - both currently filming and about to wrap.  Mardiclaw is also a featured artist in the HBO series "Treme". You can find her in several galleries throughout the New Orleans area, and at her current website.

Mardiclaw is also our resident chalkboard artist, and works in many spots throughout the New Orleans area.  Signs, paper mache, paintings and ya ya.  "Post K Dia De Muerte", architecture, jazz musicians, and portraits.

Current in house is art includes Lance "Varg" Vargas.  Lance is the creative mind behind Leveeland Creations - the art is mostly created using found wood and objects from around New Orleans. Plywood, picture frames, machine parts and other salvaged items make up much of it. The wood comes from gutted houses around New Orleans and from the great work of The Green Project and Habitat Restore. Varg can often be found at the Artist's Walk along Jackson Square.

Varg's inspiration comes from old ballads, trickster tales, area colloquialisms, "neo voodoo," flora and fauna, languages, figures and spirits. Some are just there to make a short, simple statement about what's important in life. Some are more diffuse and abstract in meaning. A certain phrase, a local character, a strange tale, a fleeting thought / these are the subjects of his art.