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If Jazz Was a Color, What Color Would it Be?
By Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney©97

 

 

Blue as in 'mo better?
Cobalt, azure teal,
Sapphired, indigoed midnight sky?

If jazz was a color..it'll fire up red hot!
Cinnamon salsa, mustard tinged lavender lace.
Improvising multiple patterned hues & blues..

RHYTHMS!!

Effortless blacks & whites!
Shading elegant brocades in smoky velvet
Coltraned…

Billie, Sarah, Duke.
Fly a way Bird!
Groove on Wash- ing- ton!
(No Kenny G here)!

Miles awake,
Miles high!
Miles wide

Colors erupting like a Cannonball!
If jazz was a color, the color would be what the eyes see...
Blue! As in mo betta…
Yeah
All rights reservedJHM ©97

Hark! Where Goeth Thou?

 

 

 

 



1501 Canal Senior Apts (front view)~JHM©14

 

 



1501 Canal Street. The historic Texaco building now the 1501 Canal Senior Apts & home of the pop up gallery Galerie 1501.

Folks have been asking me where is my art in Seasoned en Vieux.

 

 

Look around, better yet, come on down and you'll see me everywhere. My joy being the curator is seen in the 29 artists.  I will have a small piece or too maybe before the closing celebration on January 10th.

 

This whole venue was done out of love and was borne so my neighbors and the Treme/Canal Street community could have something to look at in this space while we await the future home of Dunkin Donuts.  When the idea that popped up in my head now 4 weeks ago, how little did I know that Galerie 1501 would emerge.

 

With limited time and resoures but a whole lot of heart here we glowed. Anything done with heart and love will have a good effect.

 

 

I always warn people that the faster I speak, my mind is flowing faster when on a creative roll.  We've gotten so much positive feedback on Canal Street! And you can, at least I have plus others who have experience it first hand, see the rhythms change in this so called "dead zone".

 

Artists have an innate sense of creating a happening where they are just simply by being.  Pedastrians who I've watched over the last several months since the 1501 Canal Senior Apts opened now are slowing down, to look.  We've seen many doing double takes.  We have visitors from many places come in to see.

 

Even some whom have never been in a gallery before have cruised through.

 

Michele Lambert with 1920 Downtown Canal Street


 

 

 

Visitors from Montreal & Quebec, Canada plus a local visitor.

 Maureen Rice visiting from NYC with Slyvia Robinson,artist & mother of Terrence Osborne

Dr. Ed Dees (l)

 

 Debra Del Rio, Florida


 

 

 

 

"Three Lions & Singing to the King"~Ransom McCormick

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"The Bird"~ Jesse Freeman (top)

 

 

 

"Blue in the Face" (top)

 

Violetta Femme (bottom)

 

 

 

Violetta Femme~Jesse Freeman

 

 

 

"The Blues Club"~Jeff Todd

 

 

  

 

 

"Vieux Carre"~Jeff Todd 

 

 

Susan Charles (l) Karen Douglas (C) Marietta Johnson (r)

"Surrounded by Friends" ~Slyvia Simpson

 

 



 

 

 

Marietta Johnson, artist

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

So...pray tell where am I?  You see me in the gallerie:

 



 

and in my 15th floor Vieux of downtown Canal Street:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And in Chalmette...

 

 

 



Encore! Encore! Seasoned en Vieux exhibition opens December 16th

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!

GALERIE 1504 PRESENTS “SEASONED EN VIEUX” WITH AN INVITATION-ONLY RECEPTION FOR SPECIAL GUESTS AND MEDIA



1920s Downtown New Orleans~Michele Lambert, artist

 

Ocena Cocoon II~Silk River Garden

 

 

 

 

 

Pop-up Gallery Launching a Talented Cross-Section of Unique Artists’ Works at Dec. 19 Opening Event!

 

 Terrence Osbourne, artist

Galerie 1501 at 1501 Canal Street, New Orleans, La

"Dancers"~Michele Lambert, artist

NEW ORLEANS, LA - December 12, 2014

– Galerie 1501 is pleased to present a group ex

hibition of new works featuring all Gallery artists. The “Seasoned en Vieux” exhibit will run from December 16, 2014 – January 10, 2015 with an invitation-only, opening reception on Friday, December 19th from 12:30 - 2:30 p.m. This exhibit is a part of the Galerie 1504 pop-up

series, that spotlights various collections of art for a limited time in alternative spaces.

 

 

“Seasoned en Vieux" or “A Seasoned View” is a multi-faceted exhibit with a number of thought provoking themes that are meant to dispel the common thought of our society as a whole. One of the most prevalent of these themes being that individual talent does not simply dissipate with age, but rather it grows in wisdom and perspective as time passes. Just as this theme is meant to dispel these specific misconceptions in both the creative realm and general society, it is also intended as a caveat of positive change for senior citizens & their allies, to dispel the myth about the ones who are entering their encore yearswith panache!

 

 

 

This Galerie 1504 pop-up showcase will be located at 1501 Canal Street. HRI Properties has kindly donated this temporary exhibit space as a part of their mission to enhance the lives and sensibilities of their tenants, as well as, creatively enhance the current Canal Street

Renaissance process.

 

"Seasoned en Vieux” is made up of various artistic disciplines; ranging from photography, studio art quilts, sculptures, muralists, and wearable art. Seventy-five percent of the 31 artists featured are over the age of 60. This impressive representation of senior artists only exemplifies the thought that true artists never retire…they become more seasoned!

 

 

 

The exhibit will also feature pieces by New Orleans’ own, Terrence Osburne,  Michele Lambert, fiber artist Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney and renown artist Sheila Phipps. Many of these works are city inspired pieces that reflect the extraordinary history and traditions that have set the city of New Orleans apartfrom anywhere else in the world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Seasoned en Vieux” will run through January 10, 2015.

 

The artists will be present at the

opening reception Friday, December 19th from 12:30 – 2:30 p.m. Gallery hours are Monday – Friday 1:00 – 4:00 p.m., and by appointment.

 

 For additional information please

contact Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney,curator at  504.645.6168 or rhythmnhues@gmail.com

New Orleans' Artists...Show Your Stuff! Call for Artists for Seasoned en Vieux Exhibition invitation

 

 "Luck is no more then preparation meeting opportunity"

 

Well here it is:

Call for Artists: 1501 Canal Apartments’ Seasoned en Vieux exhibition

 

  VISUAL ARTISTS in Orleans Parish & adjacent parishes inclusive of Southern Louisiana are invited to "show your stuff" at:

 
 

"Seasoned En Vieux" (A Seasoned in View) exhibition opening Dec 8, 2015 to January 25th, 2015

 

 

1501 Canal  (converted  senior apartments~formerly the corporate headquarters for Texaco.) 

 

Opening reception TBA. 

 

Art accepted includes but is not exclusive to:  Painting, photography, fiber, mixed medias, quilts, sculpture, wearable art.  All mediums are welcome as long as it is of good quality and tastefully rendered.  Participation is limited.  This is not a vendors' showing.  Artists do not have to be present as this exhibition will be up for roughly 6 weeks.

 

The art does not have to be exclusively about that 3rd stage nor does the artist have to be seasoned, but as the exhibition space is the converted senior apartments, formerly the corporate headquarters for Texaco, the desire is for neighbors and the general public to see all that beauty in the grey-hairness. We do, however, want to give priority to "seasoned" artists over 60 but it will not exclude anyone who has not yet reach that encore stage.

 

Canal Street is the main artery leading to the French Quarter, Faubourg TREME, Central Business District and the Art Warehouse Districts; a ripe opportunity to showcase local art and local artists to huge number of out of town visitors.

 

Submissions:

 

The work must be ready for hanging.  2D pieces (paintings, photographs, fiber, etc.)  must be no bigger than 6'x6'.   However there is a considerable amount of floor space for sculpture and art that is free standing.  Preferably, submit  most recent works.  Art can be for sale.  Interested party(s) will be put in contact with the artists for whatever negotiations with the understanding the work will not be removed until the close of show January 25th, 2015.

 

All art images must be submitted electronically.  Please e-mail submissions as jpegs to rhythmnhues@gmail.com no later than Nov 30th, 2015 for review.  All selected works must be delivered to 1501 Canal Apartments between 9-am-4:00pm by December 3rd, 2014.

 

Art can be picked up between January 26-31st, 2015 from 9am-12pm and 2:00pm-4:30pm only. 

 

For questions and any other additional information, please contact Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney at:  rhythmnhues@gmail.com

Street view where the Seasoned Vieux will be held.  !501 Canal is between Marais and Villere Streets. Paid parking next door as well as limited street parking.  Scroll down for additional pictures of the interior space.

 

 

 We have been given a wonderful opportunity, by the generousity of HRI Properties, to show case local artists on Canal Street in the months of December 2014 and January 2015 in a commercial space.  Please feel free to forward info to your contacts and/or share on whatever social mediums you utilize. 

 

Since this fabulous opportunity being bestowed has a restricted timeline for submission, I hope some of you will be kind enough to share or take  advantage of the opportunity.  It is my hope that if you know artists over 60 or your work depicts that of senior life showing the vibrancy, the wisdom and the irreverance of that encore stage, please let me know or share.

 

We want to re-direct the cliches and stereotypes while we revisit the 60s & 70s!

 

The art does not have to be exclusively about that 3rd stage nor does the artist have to be seasoned, but this is the converted senior apartments formerly the corporate headquarters for Texaco.  I would want my neighbors and the general public to see all that beauty in the grey-hairness.

 

The 1501 Canal Street (formerly Texaco Corporate Offices)

 

 

 

 The Ground Floor Commercial Space on Canal Street at Marais








 

 

 The Canal Street Car lets you off right in front of the 1501

 

 



 1501 Canal Srtreet.  The front of the old Texaco corporate headquarters where the exhibition will be.

 

 

 As you can tell you can look out from the gallery space onto Canal.  The Canal Street Streetcar stops right in front!

 

 



 Another side of the commercial space

Some of the wall space that can accomodate several large pieces although we are asking to restrict to no more then 60'x60'.




Adjacent to the interior elevators






View from interior by elevators

 

 

 You can tell we can accomodate a few large pieces no more then 60"x60"