IN CONVERSATION: DON MARSHALL: ‘CURATING WITH A TO-DO LIST’
"How do we increase grants to visual arts in this community? We have a musicians' clinic, but not an artists' clinic. Can we broaden their scope so that artists can get that type of help? How can we look at affordable housing and rents?"
"This is a history lesson," Don Marshall says of Refreshing America, his recent exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans. "Our city and our country is built on immigrants," he explains while surveying the exhibition space teeming with art made by approximately eighty-five local artists born outside of the United States. "I wanted to say something positive about how important immigrants are to the future of this country."
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Street Date: Tuesday December 9th 2025
Shemsi Frezel
Shemsi Frezel received an MA in Museum Studies from New York University and attended Vanderbilt University where she studied art history and sociology. She writes a newsletter about art called See Level.