Wetlands Art Project

Photographs by: KARIN EBERHARDT

Foreward by: DENNIS SIPIORSKI and PAUL JAMES

Introduction by: DEBORAH CIBELLI, PhD.

BOOK AVAILABLE AT LULU.COM

saturday, september 20

2:00 pm - 3:45 pm
festival planning meeting
(open to old and NEW Friends of CSG)

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
book release reception

All proceeds from your purchase of “heartoffact” benefit the ongoing preservation and celebration of the Chauvin Sculpture Garden.

This creation of this book was supported by a grant awarded to the Friends of the Chauvin Sculpture Garden from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council as administered by the Houma Regional Arts Council.

The mission of the Friends of the Chauvin Sculpture Garden is to educate the public on the value of folk art and its importance to the culture of south Louisiana and the world of visual arts. We will fulfill this mission by preserving and protecting the creative works of visionary folk artist Kenny Hill and supporting the work of other contemporary artists through educational, artistic, and celebratory events.

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Read More at HoumaToday.com

By Jeremy Alford
Capitol Correspondent

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 11:23 a.m.

Along Bayou Lafourche, Cajun communities watched their land and livelihood sink into salt waters.

Watch the video

A listserv I belong to (as I’m sure some others here do as well) recently posted some aerial flyover photographs of the Louisiana barrier islands, from Grand Isle across all the ones we visited all the way to Raccoon Island.  Be prepared!  The photo of Wine Island is hard to interpret upon first viewing, and overwhelmingly depressing once you recognize what it is you’re looking at.  Still, one can clearly see that much of the trash we were all bummed over is now gone somewhere else.  Surely new trash will come, but just because the beaches are (at least temporarily) now mostly free of man-made debris, I propose that we all skip out of work or school and take another trip out there!  :)  What about it, Gary?  [were you in St. Tammany parish recently?].

Michael (maddog)

Post Hurricane Gustav aerial photographs of Grand Isle, Louisiana, are
available for viewing and downloading from the USGS National Wetlands
Research Center website. To read the Hurricane Gustav Update, September 4, 2008, click on http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/index.html. Photographs of the Chandeleur Islands and adjacent areas will be posted in the near future as they become available. To go directly to the Grand Isle photos,
click on: http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/hurricane/gustav/aerial_photos.htm.