Lisa Jarrett: Beauty Supply

Lisa Jarrett is an artist and educator. She is Associate Professor of Community and Context Arts at Portland State University’s School of Art + Design. She is co-founder and co-director of KSMoCA (Dr MLK Jr School Museum of Contemporary Art) and the Harriet Tubman Middle School Center for Expanded Curatorial Practice in NE Portland, OR, and the artists collective Art 25: Art in the 25th Century. Her intersectional practice considers the politics of difference within a variety of settings including: schools, landscapes, fictions, racial imaginaries, studios, communities, museums, galleries, walls, mountains, mirrors, floors, rivers, and lenses. She exists and makes socially engaged work within the African Diaspora. She recently discovered that her primary medium is questions.

José Villalobos: Dismantling the Machista

José Villalobos was born and raised on the US/Mexico border in El Paso, TX and Ciudad Juárez Mexico. He relocated and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio. He was awarded the Artist Lab Fellowship Grant for his work De La Misma Piel at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center. Villalobos is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant Award and Residency and is also a recipient of the Tanne Foundation Award. His work has been exhibited in the nationally recognized exhibition Trans America/n: Gender, Identity, Appearance Today at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX; NARS Foundation, New York, NY; the Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX; El Paso Museum of Art, TX; El Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and The Latino Cultural Center in Dallas, TX. Phoenix Art Museum, and Xican-a.o.x. Body at The American Federation of Arts in New York curated by Marisa del Toro, Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and Gilbert Vicario.

José Villalobos’s work is included in the collection of Mexic-arte Museum, Austin, TX, the City of San Antonio Public Collection, TX, Albright College, Reading, PA, and Soho House International in Austin, TX.

Christian Dinh: On Being Lucky

Christian Dinh is a Vietnamese-American ceramic artist from Orlando, Florida. Currently, Dinh is attending the MFA program at Tulane University and will graduate in 2022. He received his BA in 2017 from the University of West Florida in Pensacola, Florida. While studying at UWF, Christian Dinh was nominated for the International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. Dinh’s ceramic and sculptural work has been in numerous exhibitions throughout the Gulf Coast, including the exhibition PHILIC / PHOBIC at the Pensacola Museum of Art and And Now For Something New Vol. 2 at LeMieux Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana. Christian Dinh’s most recent series Nail Salon redirects stigma and celebrates Vietnamese-American identity by confronting racism, stereotypes and underrepresentation. The work focuses on the Vietnamese culture that developed in the United States subsequent to the Vietnam War and the flourishing Vietnamese community established by refugees and immigrants throughout the country. Christian Dinh’s Nail Salon will be exhibited as part of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s Focus Series in June 2021 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Bethany Grabert: 1 in 10

Growing up in South Louisiana, Bethany began studying art at a young age with a local Cajun painter. She always found solace in creating something with her hands, and art has been her one constant throughout her life. Prior to pursuing her graduate degree at Georgia State University, she received a BFA with a focus in ceramic sculpture, at Nicholls State University. She is influenced by both her personal experiences and the sociopolitical history of identity, domestic spaces and reproductive health. Her artwork has been exhibited in cities across the United States including New Orleans, New York City, Rochester, Minneapolis, Atlanta and Tampa.

In her most recent work, she explores the multitude of physical reactions and emotions that result when a body lives in pain. Systematic stigmatization exists within the realm of reproductive health care for people who are born with a uterus. She draws her inspiration from her own chronic disease, endometriosis, and from all the people who are stigmatized for living with invisible chronic pain conditions. Her work shows the invisible interior experience of extreme pain that can isolate a person from the world. She is representing the everyday moments that result from the body undergoing pain or stress by exaggerating and distorting the body’s exterior, using it to communicate the interior feelings of agony, exhaustion, depression, anger, weight, fragility and disconnection caused by an invisible disease.

Jane Tardo: Thinking in 3D

Jane Tardo is a fiber and mixed media artist born and based in New Orleans. Experimenting with many visual and physical techniques, their practice is surreal, wacky and diverse- incorporating sculpture, textile art, and inventive technologies in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional works. Tardo earned their MFA in Sculpture from the University of New Orleans in 2020. Their work can currently be seen at Le Mieux Galleries in New Orleans and at La Luz de Jesus in Los Angeles. Tardo served as a digital resident at Southern Heat Exchange, was a grant recipient of Colloqate Design, and has a published Portfolio at the University of West Florida. Their work has been written about in Antigravity Magazine, The Art Newspaper, The Times-Picayune, and Pelican Bomb.

Shelly McCoy & Mario Rodriguez: We're Fucked

Shelley McCoy’s work in general is experimental in nature, ranging from mixed media relief to three-dimensional objects, and comprises a wide range of materials from the traditional color pencils to the non-traditional asphalt, as in her most recent work. Shelly’s interest in construction and remodeling have influenced her choice of materials in her art. Industrial supplies, such as rubber, tar, cement, thin-set, roofing shingles, resin, grout, wax, ceramic tile, and spray insulation have been used in her work. Exploring these materials out of context has always held a fascination for her.

Mario Rodriguez is a self-titled “jack of all trades” within The CAMP Gallery; be it artist relations, submissions for new projects, curation, or social media, he has had a hand in one way or another on most facets of the gallery. Pulling from his undergraduate education at Tulane University, Mario hopes to provide a perspective that honors the academic underpinnings of The CAMP Gallery’s curation style, while also applying a business mindset to the gallery’s development and wellbeing. Ultimately, he finds that any opportunity he gets within his role at The CAMP to better both the gallery and the artists that it serves to be fulfilling and worthwhile.

Elizabeth Peak: Your Belly Is Beautiful

German-American photographer Elizabeth Peak began her photographic studies in 1991 when she took her first lesson from Felicia Leggio Braud. She graduated from Louisiana State University in 1986, and later studied photography with Dr. Terry Kennedy at Southern University. She takes her camera everywhere — from backyard adventures to international destinations. More recently, she became inspired by the #MeToo movement, the 2016 protests of Alton Sterling's murder, Equal Rights Amendment rallies, as well as the attacks on women's sexual and reproductive freedoms. Politically ignited, her current project is My Core: Our Bellies, Our Power, Our Choice!, photographs of individual women that reveal strength, self-determination, and sexual and reproductive freedom and justice. Elizabeth Peak lives in Baton Rouge.

Sara Madandar: Living In Between

Sara Madandar is an Iranian multi-disciplinary artist and educator based in New Orleans. She received her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin and her BA in painting from Azad University of Art and Architecture in Tehran. Through a range of media such as painting, video, installation, and performance, Madandar explores migration and the human experience of living between cultures, using the aesthetics of language, clothing, and bodies to study the complexities of cross-cultural experiences. Most recently, she was in residency at Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans.

Camille Lenain: Made of Smokeless Fire

Camille Farrah Lenain is a French-Algerian documentary and portrait photographer who grew up in Paris, studied Photography at l’ESA in Brussels and at ICP in New York City (virtual). She relocated to New Orleans in 2013, where she teaches photography at Tulane University and works on long-term projects with a focus on empathetic portraiture, exploring the notions of representation, collective memory and plural identities.

Antonia Zennaro: Tell Your Truth

Antonia Zennaro is a documentary photographer and social artist who explores the human spirit around the world. She has been developing her own printing method for the last five years, using a serigraph based technique in which she uses an exposure unit to burn her large format negatives onto fabrics such as satin and organza. Using a light sensitive chemical glue between the two surfaces she creates a contact print, and the negative image is burned into the fabric. This innovative process creates stunning monocolor pieces that are waterproof, pliant, and form beautiful silhouettes when light passes through them. Her work is an intimate examination of the social and political constructs that co-create the world around us.

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.

Emily Barganza: While in My Room

Since 2010, Em Bergie has explored different mediums within her art. Amongst her creative hobbies is a passion for hula hooping and within the community, they use different deco tapes to personalize their hula hoops. What started as an interest into up-cycling the leftover scrap tapes, quickly flourished into an homage to the vulva with resin, radical body acceptance and celebration of our anatomy.

José Torres-Tama: Fighting Amnesia in America

Jose Torres-Tama has been nominated for a prestigious 2022 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts in Theatre, and is director of ArteFuturo Productions, the only Latin performance art producer in New Orleans. 

He is a performance and visual artist, published poet and playwright, arts educator and photographer, and the subject of the award-winning documentary titled "This Taco Truck Kills Fascists" that chronicles his radical "Taco Truck Theater" ensemble and dinner theater on wheels. His acclaimed solo performances have sold-out in theaters in Houston, Minneapolis, New Orleans, and Los Angeles.

J Knoblach: Taking Up Space

J Knoblach lives and works in New Orleans but was born in Slidell near Honey Island Swamp. The combination of running cross country and track and studying feminist body art led to an interdisciplinary practice rooted in performance. Byproducts of a physical action may become sculpture, photography, video, or text. In some instances, the audience is invited to interact directly with the work, such as the installation Dial Zero. Solo exhibitions include Magenta Alert at Staple Goods (2017) and Welcome to the #socialartwork at Good Children Gallery (2014). Knoblach has also had artwork exhibited at Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, The Ogden Museum, The Louisiana State Museum, UNO St. Claude Gallery, and Antenna Gallery, among others. Knoblach is a new member of Staple Goods.