Louisiana Children’s Museum’s Artist in Residence (AiR) program offers an opportunity for locally based visual artists, musicians, and performers to showcase their talents while inviting children and their families and caregivers to explore, create, and collaborate on creative and collaborative projects.
Throughout their stay, residents create and facilitate collaborative experiences with museum visitors that weave together their own artistic vision with the our learning framework.
Movement Artist in Residence Aminisha Ferdinand
Aminisha Ferdinand is an educator, performing artist and child of New Orleans. For two decades, she taught children and adults how to access their inherent creativity within the confines of public school systems. Before entering the field of arts education, she performed in theater and film in New York, Los Angeles and New Orleans. She enjoys moving with artists in KM Dance Project and Dancing Grounds and facilitates gatherings for artists, educators, and organizations to build within and beyond their communities.
Aminisha will guide children and families in recreating the details of life around the museum with their bodies and voices. Adults and children get an opportunity to access their creative imagination as we make stories and choreograph dances of what we see and hear in the museum.
Artist in Residence Sara Hardin
Sara Hardin is a New Orleans-based artist and art teacher who loves helping people explore their feelings and stories through art. She has taught in schools and led art workshops across Louisiana, and her paintings have been shown in galleries throughout the state. Sara earned her Master of Fine Arts with a concentration in painting in 2023. Whether in the classroom or the studio, she’s passionate about making art fun, meaningful, and open to everyone.
As an LCM Artist in Residence, Sari will facilitate musical exploration and produce an emergent collection of songs. Their programming spans many topics, including sampling & experimentation, movement, voice, lyrics as poetry, the blues, and improvisation. Sari is looking forward to connecting with museum visitors, exploring music at and around the museum, and co-creating the sounds and ideas that will come together in the first ever LCM album!
