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Gestures of Refusal: Black Photography and Visual Culture is an exercise in the unconventional and the splendid—bringing attention to the ways that contemporary photographers wield the visual power of the camera to discern, behold, celebrate, and document people, places, events, collective memories, encounters, and other ever-present moments of blackness that refuse erasure.

From the invisible to the obvious, the mundane to the spectacular, the overlooked to the known, the erased to the remembered—the artists in this exhibition explore a range of photographic frequencies, styles, tenses, punctuation, and rhythmic scores creating new visual vocabularies for futurity.

Curated by Shana M. griffin, Gestures of Refusal will feature five immersive installations and over 180 photographs and objects covering a spectrum of narrative styles, compositions, techniques, and approaches, showcasing the photographs of nearly one hundred contemporary Black photographers with ties to New Orleans from the 1950s to the present.

French Composer/Trumpeter Yohan Giaume presents Whisper of a Shadow, a sonic celebration that traces the musical lineage between Europe, Africa and America through the eyes of Romantic composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

Whisper of a Shadow (Opus 1) is a cross cultural project featuring Evan Christopher, Herlin Riley, Nicholas Payton, Roland Guerin, Aaron Diehl, and More.

French Composer/Trumpeter Yohan Giaume presents Whisper of a Shadow, a sonic celebration that traces the musical lineage between Europe, Africa and America through the eyes of Romantic composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

Whisper of a Shadow (Opus 1) is a cross cultural project featuring Evan Christopher, Herlin Riley, Nicholas Payton, Roland Guerin, Aaron Diehl, and More.

The Marcus Roberts Trio is known for its virtuosic style and entirely new approach to jazz trio performance. While most jazz trios have the piano front and center, all members of the Marcus Roberts Trio share equally in shaping the direction of the music by changing its tempo, mood, texture, or form at any time, and they do this with lightning quick musical reflexes and creative imagination. The Trio is known for having almost telepathic communication on the stage. More than a few concert goers have been heard to say that it sounds like a lot more than three people up there on the stage!