C& Critical Writing Workshop in collaboration with Newcomb Art Museum in New Orleans

Contemporary And (C&) in collaboration with Newcomb Art Museum invites New Orleans-based Black writers to participate in a three-day C& Critical Writing Workshop led by tutors Nohora Arrieta Fernández, and Sherae Rimpsey. The workshop will take place at Tulane University from March 27 – 29, 2025 in New Orleans.

The C& Critical Writing Workshop aims to

• contribute to expanding narratives within the contemporary art world, by discussing critical art writing practices and the challenges in their respective contexts in New Orleans and beyond.
• provide increased support and visibility in the field for emerging editors, art writers and professionals.
• connect local and global writers in mentorship, fostering local and global diasporic networks.
• provide a platform for emerging writers through which they can network amongst each other as well as to give local readership a unique glimpse into the creative variety of critical writing and contemporary art.
• give insights into the processes of editing.
• provide practical tools on topics such as pitching, writing reviews, comments and essays within a given timeframe.

Workshop Tutors 

Nohora Arrieta Fernández is a writer, researcher, and scholar. She is an Assistant Professor of Afro-Latin American studies at UCLA. Her current research focuses on the aesthetics and intellectual traditions of the African Diaspora in the Americas. She has published essays and articles on Latin American literature and visual arts, comics, and the Afro-Latin American Diaspora, and has collaborated with art magazines Contemporary And, Artishock, and Terremoto. Her scholarly publications have appeared in Transition, Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, in the United States, and multiple journals in Brazil and Colombia. Her first co-translation project, Semantic of the World: the Poetry of Romulo Bustos Aguirre, was published by the University of New Mexico Press in 2022. Her research has been supported by Fulbright, the Brazilian Studies Association, The American Council for Learned Societies, and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She was the editor-in-chief of BLUE/AZUL, a reader on visual arts in the African Diaspora, and is co-founder of the art criticism collective Dual.

Sherae Rimpsey is an artist and writer. She is the Arts Writer and Editor for the Newcomb Art Museum. She has exhibited her work in the U.S. and internationally, most notably at the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland; the Zentral Bibliothek in Zurich, Switzerland and the National Library of Buenos Aires, Argentina as a contributing artist in Luis Camnitzer’s El Último Libro – The Last Book; and the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany where she was awarded the prestigious Solitude Fellowship. She is the recipient of a Philadelphia Foundation Grant as a Flaherty Fellow, Atlantic Center for the Arts and Vermont Studio Center Residencies. Her drawing, writing, film, performance, and sound work has been shown at Kentler International Drawing Space, Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn, NY; Usdan Gallery at Bennington College, Bennington, VT; Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA; Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland in Cleveland, OH; Elastic Arts, Constellation, Sector 2337 in Chicago, IL as part of the Poets Theatre Festival; Lithium Gallery, Comfort Station, South Side Community Art Center, Film Front, Experimental Sound Studio, and Harold Washington Library in Chicago. She has contributed sound and writing for musician Matt Mehlan’s SLOW DANCES project  SLOWER DANCES, and was a guest performer with Every House Has A Door performance group in Carnival of the Animals. She is a featured artist along with Clifford Owens on Kamau Amu Patton’s  Second Mind / Alto Age, a limited edition artwork and recording commissioned by the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, in conjunction with their exhibition Terry Adkins: Resounding. She has published her poetry in the Oyez Review, Collected, and Homonym Journal and her critical essays on art and film with ART PAPERS. Her first full-length book of poetry, neon  neon is out now and published by indie record label Shinkoyo_Artist Pool. She holds a BFA in Technology & Integrated Media with an emphasis in Visual Culture from the Cleveland Institute of Art and an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should submit the following documents to info@contemporaryand.com:

• A CV
• A one-page letter of motivation
• A writing sample (1000 words max.)

In addition, participants should:

• Have journalistic or writing experiences in the cultural field, which can include creative writing, poetry, or writing for social media, etc.
• Be interested in visual art practices and/or related fields.

The workshop’s language of instruction is English. Applicants who write in languages such as Brazilian Portuguese, French and Spanish are encouraged to apply.

A maximum of 12 applicants will be accepted. All materials should be submitted together in a single PDF document to info@contemporaryand.com

Deadline for submission: March 6, 2025

Please send application inquiries to info@contemporaryand.com with “C& Critical Writing Workshop with Newcomb Art Museum” as the subject line.

About Newcomb Art Museum

The Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University builds on the Newcomb College legacy of education, social enterprise, and artistic experience. Presenting inspiring exhibitions and programs that engage communities both on and off campus, the Museum fosters the creative exchange of ideas and cross-disciplinary collaborations around innovative art and design. The Museum preserves and advances scholarship on the Newcomb and Tulane art collections.

About Contemporary And

Contemporary And (C&) is a dynamic platform for reflecting and connecting ideas and discourses on contemporary visual arts. Next to C& Education, C& Print Projects and the C& Center of Unfinished Business, are the platform’s two magazines. C& Magazine publishes weekly features, columns, reviews, and interviews in English and French. C&AL Magazine focuses on Afro and Indigenous perspectives that connect Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa. Texts on this platform are published in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, and English.

Support for the C& Critical Workshop and Mentoring program are generously provided by Terra Foundation for American Art.

About Terra Foundation for American Art

The Terra Foundation for American Art, established in 1978 and having offices in Chicago and Paris, supports organizations and individuals locally and globally with the aim of fostering intercultural dialogues and encouraging transformative practices that expand narratives of American art, through the foundation’s grant program, collection, and initiatives.