ArtSpot Productions is a New Orleans-based
nonprofit organization dedicated to the creation and production
of original multidisciplinary performance works for local, national
and international presentation. We seek to build a culture in New
Orleans that supports and participates in the creation and execution
of live original performances through audience development and performing
arts education for artists of all ages, backgrounds and levels of
experience.
Founded in 1995 by Kathy
Randels to produce her solo performance work, ArtSpot Productions
has since expanded to include collaborative works with artists of
different disciplines. The company was incorporated in December 2000 and received its 501(c)3 status in
October 2002.
At this time, ArtSpot fosters the
work of two primary projects: our ensemble, a physically-based performance company that trains
together regularly, was founded in 2002 by Lucas Cox, J
Hammons and Kathy
Randels; and The
LCIW Drama Club, a theatre company comprised of inmates at The
Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women, founded by Kathy Randels
in 1996, and currently co-directed by Ausettua Amor Amenkum.
In addition to creating performances in New Orleans
that tour nationally and internationally, ArtSpot is dedicated to
bringing nationally and internationally acclaimed performance work
to New Orleans and the U.S., and to fostering opportunities for
collaboration with those artists. Our strongest international partner
is Dah
Teatar of Belgrade, Serbia, with whom we have collaborated
since 1997.
We believe that all stories and voices within
a community need to be expressed, and that performance is an essential
element of collective healing for all communities, especially those
whose voices are not often heard. ArtSpot is trying to revive and
foster this belief through an emphasis on the process of creation,
and through the celebration of the moment of performance when artists
and audience come together to witness and share their collective
dreams, sorrows, joys and lives.
Website designed by
Denny Juge
All photographs by Libby Nevinger unless otherwise noted
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