ArtSpot Mission

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.

Background Information

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

Supported in part by a Community Arts Grant made possible by the City of New Orleans as administered by the Arts Council of New Orleans, and by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council. Funding has also been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal agency.