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Glassblowing
Flameworking
Pate de verre
Kiln Casting
Furnace Casting
Beadmaking
Engraving
Kiln Forming
Cold Working
Intensive one- and two-week
summer and winter sessions.
Weekly classes, weekend
workshops, and one-day
sessions during spring
and fall.
Scholarships and Residency
Programs.
Bottom: Many New
Orleans locals realize
the importance of
keeping the Mardi
Gras craft traditions
alive. Masks, cos-
tumes and head-
dresses are on dis-
play at places such
as the Contcmpory
Arts Center.
really key to our recovery,” says Jan Katz,
curator of the Center for Southern Craft
and Design at New Orleans’s Ogden Mu-
seum of Southern Art. And they aren’t just
necessary to bring in tourists. Geriod Bar-
onne, volunteer director—or “den mother,”
as she likes to call herself—at the New
Orleans School of GlassWorks and Print-
making Studio, emphasizes that the city
needs skilled craft artists for the architec-
tural and interior restoration work that’s
so essential to its recovery. “ They won’t
be able to restore things, particularly after
Katrina, unless there are artists with some
sort of a background in stained glass, kiln
firing, the blowing of chandelier parts,”
Baronne says. “You’re not going to get
a machine making some of these things
around here.”
While Katrina may have left destruc-
tion and heartbreak in its wake, a strong
sense of hope is rising. This is partially due
to the new influx of young—and artistic-
residents eager to be part of the city’s
comeback. “It’s kind of like the 60s,” says
Katz. “A lot of artists have fallen in love
with the city—which is a siren song—and
are going to stay.” *
“I realize that i f M ardi Gras costume-making
is not taught to kids, there’s a possibility that
we could lose the tradition.
— Darryl Montana
