Emily Alesandrini will write a series of articles spotlighting New Orleans artists who, twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, are grappling with issues of climate change; government neglect; and memory, loss, and transformation.
Emily Alesandrini is a writer, curator, and art historian. Her writing on contemporary representations of race and gender is particularly focused on aesthetics of opacity, ornament, and the diasporic body. She has published in Burnaway, ARTnews, and BOMB. She is the founding editor of the New Orleans–based magazine Slip.