Dawn DeDeaux is a New Orleans-based multi-media, conceptual and visual artist . Her PROJECT MUTANTS is a collaboration with the Tulane / Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research, and will install a series of illuminated, cell-like sculptures into the rivers and marshes affected by the BP oil spill disaster . The sculptures will also function as water sensors to assess water quality, accompanied by a public engagement and participatory education campaign . DeDeaux’s latest project, The Goddess Fortuna and her Dunces, in an Effort to Makes Sense of It All, is a multimedia project inspired by John Kennedy Toole’s novel A Confederacy of Dunces. For more information, visit www.dawndedeaux.com/files/MUTANT.pdf and A Call to Spread Enlightenment.
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Dawn DeDeaux
Patterned after NPN's model performing arts program, the Visual Artists Network was launched in 2007 as a pilot, and in 2009 the program was formally established through the induction of the VAN Partners, fifteen leading contemporary arts organizations from across the United States.
The boundaries between the performing and visual arts are more than blurred: "Performance art" on the stage and "installations" in a gallery. Using the residency model of a touring performing artist, VAN is a way for the visual artist to engage in community.