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Benjamin Morris visits Isidore Newman School and introduces us to a student-driven mural project about Louisiana’s wetlands.

With its plight an ongoing source of news, Louisiana’s wetlands have rallied a range of defenders over the years, from policymakers to attorneys to coastal restoration experts. With a new exhibition opening at Isidore Newman School next week, however, advocates can add one more group to their list: area secondary students. Over the past few months, middle and high school students at Newman have designed and constructed two full-size murals that are intended both to draw attention to the issues surrounding the wetlands and to enter into the city’s catalogue of public art.

Designed under the tutelage of New Orleans-based muralist Max Bernardi, currently the Friedler Family Artist-in-Residence at Newman, the murals grew out of a series of trips into the wetlands over the course of the past year. These trips, curated by Lost Lands Tours and guided by coastal restoration experts such as journalist Bob Marshall, brought middle and upper school art students directly into the affected areas to witness their beauty and their degradation firsthand. Documenting the decline due to coastal erosion and petrochemical development, stu

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The Newman Experience
Isidore Newman School offers a challenging, supportive, and balanced educational experience from early childhood to 12th grade. Whether in the classroom, on the playing field, or in the art studio, students rise to the challenges set for them by caring teachers and coaches. Every child is known and supported at Newman, and students engage meaningfully with peers and teachers to forge relationships that can last a lifetime. A local school with a national reputation, Newman benchmarks against the leading schools in the country, preparing students for a lifetime of intellectual engagement and leadership in their professions and communities. The Newman experience remains a part of you wherever you go.
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Located in the heart of Uptown New Orleans, Newman is the only NAIS-accredited, co-educational, non-sectarian, independent day school in the city of New Orleans. Newman enjoys a national reputation for excellence in academics, athletics, and the arts, with our students matriculating to the most selective colleges in the country. Strong relationships and high expectations provide the foundation for teaching and learning at Newman.
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