Nic Brierre Aziz: The Biggest Saints Fan

Nic Brierre Aziz is a Haitian-New Orleanian interdisciplinary artist and curator born and raised in New Orleans, LA. His current practice is deeply community focused and rooted around the utilization of underdiscussed personal and collective histories to reimagine the future. His work is also very centered around the Caribbean Diaspora and he is very interested in Blackness as an experience, construct and capitalist tool. In addition to his personal artistic practice, he currently serves as the Community Engagement Curator for the New Orleans Museum of Art. He has contributed to publications such as HuffPost, Terremoto and Hyperallergic and his work has been featured by The Oxford American, The Associated Press and The Alternative UK. He is also the recipient of several artist residencies and fellowships and most recently was selected as a 2020 Andy Warhol Foundation Curatorial Fellow and a 2021 Joan Mitchell Center Artist-in-Residence. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Morehouse College and a Master of Science degree from The University of Manchester (UK).

Manon Bellet: The Consequnce of Smell

Manon Bellet is an interdisciplinary artist and native of Switzerland. She has lived and worked in New Orleans since 2016. In 2019 she started her olfactory project, entitled “Golden Waste,” Bellet focused on this idea of scent as it relates to memories, place and change. By extracting scents from strategically chosen historic areas in Louisiana affected by coastal erosion. She works especially in close collaboration with the fishing communities. Her works were shown at the The New Orleans Museum of Art, Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans, Good Children Gallery and in many Art institutions In France, Germany and Switzerland.

Bellet is a recipient of several artist residencies and fellowships in New Orleans. Joan Mitchell Center, Monroe Fellowship from Tulane University, A Studio in the Woods. She has been awarded for many international residencies at Citée des Arts, Paris, Residency Program, Berlin, Residency Program, Warsaw, Poland. She obtained a BA/MFA from the University of the Arts, ECAV, CH.