Bridge Work: Repatriating Mardi Gras Indian Photography with the House of Dance & Feathers

On a cold winters night in 2009, Ricky Gettridge invited her into his ranch home on Tennessee Street in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. He had recently moved back after renovating his house that had been flooded in 2005 during Hurricane Katrina, and everything was new. They had not met before,...

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Published inAfrican arts Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 50 - 61
Main Author Breunlin, Rachel
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles African Studies Center 22.06.2013
Subjects
African Americans
African art
Art galleries & museums
Collaboration
Photography
Repatriation
New Orleans Louisiana
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Summary:On a cold winters night in 2009, Ricky Gettridge invited her into his ranch home on Tennessee Street in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. He had recently moved back after renovating his house that had been flooded in 2005 during Hurricane Katrina, and everything was new. They had not met before, but he welcomed her because his good friend, Ronald W. Lewis, wanted to include some of the artwork he had donated to the House of Dance & Feathers--Lewis's small, grassroots museum located in their neighborhood--for a catalogue they were creating. Here, Breunlin explores the collaboration between the House of Dance & Feathers and the Neighborhood Story Project, a collaborative ethnography organization in partnership with the University of New Orleans that she co-direct.
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ISSN:0001-9933
1937-2108
DOI:10.1162/AFAR_a_00065