CULTURAL TREASURES: NEW ORLEANS’ HISTORIC SOPHISTICATION IN MUSIC, DANCE, AND VISUAL ART

1 – 2:15 PM—Literary Discussion

CULTURAL TREASURES: NEW ORLEANS’ HISTORIC SOPHISTICATION IN MUSIC, DANCE, AND VISUAL ART

This panel explores New Orleans’ remarkable history as a sophisticated center of the arts in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. During this period, New Orleans was home to highly respected and internationally acclaimed musical composers, ballet dancers, and theatrical productions, as well as a superior level of painters and furniture artisans. Many of the varied and talented artists reflect New Orleans’ sizable community of Free Persons of Color, as well as the city’s ties to Latin America, the Caribbean, and France, thereby distinguishing the community’s cultural exceptionalism within the United States. The panel is led by historian Dr. Molly Mitchell of the University of New Orleans, and will feature Givonna Joseph of OperaCréole, Nina Bozak of the Historic New Orleans Collection, Katie Burlison of the Historic Hermann-Grima Gallier House, and Charles D. Chamberlain, author of New Orleans, A Concise History of an Exceptional City (LSU 2025).

Supported by the Herman and Ethel Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies.

Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom, $10 or LitPass or VIP Pass.