Digital sculptures and video-mapping projections on Lafayette Square and a nearby street also will be part of the city’s fourth Light Up NOLA Arts Fete, or LUNA Fete for short. The fifth LUNA Fete will come at the tricentennial’s end. The festival was conceived as a five-year series ending next year, but the Arts Council New Orleans — a non-profit organization and the city’s official arts agency — is now thinking longer. “We felt New Orleans had this growing technology sector and growing contemporary arts field, but nothing that really united the two,” Stillman said. This year, a sponsor underwrote a 13-weekend workshop in which girls aged 9-14 designed and built an installation for LUNA Fete, and the work they created.

Source: National Post December 02, 2017 13:04 UTC