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New Orleans Magazine: “People to Watch Class of 2015: Jessie Schott Haynes”

Deputy to the President, The Helis Foundation

Jessie Schott Haynes has been able to combine some of her many varying passions with her professional life, a feat sure to leave many creative ­at-­home types envious.

“I’ve been given the incredibly unique opportunity to marry my Art History background, which is and always has been my first, life­long passion, with my training as an attorney and my nonprofit staff and board experience,” she says. “I know how lucky I am to work in an extremely unique field that allows me to balance my skills and interests while presenting interesting new challenges on a daily basis.”

The key to Haynes’ success lies in understanding as much as possible about the landscape of the New Orleans arts community from a grant making perspective, particularly as it fits within the context of the national and international community…

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Art21: “Lynda Benglis: ‘The Wave of the World'”

Artist Lynda Benglis reunites with her first fountain, “The Wave of the World” (1983–84), which went missing in the years following the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition where the work was originally installed. Shown being repaired at the Modern Art Foundry in Queens, NY—the site where the work was originally cast—the large bronze cantilever was created after Benglis was awarded a commission to produce a fountain for the Louisiana World Exposition, a World’s Fair that took place in New Orleans…

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Gambit: “New Orleans City Park does ‘The Wave'”

A once-lost Lynda Benglis sculpture from the 1984 World’s Fair finds its way back to New Orleans

Sculptor Lynda Benglis is — finally — having a moment.

Or, to put it more precisely, the Lake Charles-born, Newcomb College-trained artist is having another moment. At 73, more than three decades after her monumental bronze sculpture The Wave of the World debuted at the 1984 World’s Fair in New Orleans, Benglis is once again the toast of the contemporary art scene…

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Nola.com: “First look at the ‘Funnel Tunnel’ Poydras St. sculpture”

On Monday (June 22), Poydras Street commuters will find Houston artist Patrick Renner and his construction crew putting the finishing touches on his 180-foot “Funnel Tunnel” abstract sculpture. The colorful wood and steel creation, near the corner of S. Claiborne Ave., was originally installed in Houston in 2013 and was moved to New Orleans and rebuilt with local volunteers over the past two weeks. During a Sunday (June 21) afternoon visit, Renner said the piece was already 95 percent finished…

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WWNO-FM: “Sculpture Getting New Home in City Park”

Sometimes, just sometimes, communities can actually get together to do something that transcends politics.

The greater New Orleans area will soon see such an event. Through a collaboration of the City of Kenner, New Orleans City Park and the folks at the Helis Foundation, the public good is going to be served in the most artistic of ways: with the installation of a very special, long-missing bronze sculpture. Created for the 1984 World’s Fair in New Orleans, The Wave is getting a new home in City Park…

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