Inside New Orleans Isabelle Jacopin’s NOLA Top 10 1 St. Augustine Catholic Church 2 Mid City Lanes Rock ‘n’ Bowl 3 Frenchmen Street music venues 4 Besthoff Sculpture Garden in New Orleans City Park 5 Rebirth Brass Band at the Maple Leaf Bar (Tuesday nights) 6 Backstreet Cultural Museum 7 Preservation Hall 8 Algiers Point/Canal Street Ferry 9 Shopping on Magazine Street 10 French Quarter Fest (in April) Many of your paintings are of outdoors scenes like second line parades and festivals. Why do you gravitate towards those subjects? Because it’s New Orleans life. I like doing paintings of crowds to make contrasts between all of the colors. Like, all of the people at Jazz Fest, you can recognize the stage but not the people in my paintings — they’re just a sea of colors and shapes. I also love painting scenes from my balcony, of people and street scenes. I have a different perspective. Most of the street musicians who play in front of my apartment know me by now. Where can people see your work? I do a lot of festival posters that people have seen. I did the official poster for the 2016 French Quarter Fest, and have done others for the Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo and Jazz in the Park, in Armstrong Park. If people want to stop by my studio where I have about 200 of my paintings, they can contact me directly. I love having people come to my place and showing them how I work. To see more of Isabelle Jacopin’s paintings or set up a showing, visit stratoweb.com/isabellejacopin. PHOTOS: ©Isabelle Jacopin V I S I T O U R W E B S I T E A T NE W O R L E A N S I NF O . C O M 15
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