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About The Project
About The Project
Working in collaboration with Colloqate Design, and Bvlbancha Public Access the project titled Storia Delta to connect history, present, and future of Indigenous cultural heritage through a public sculpture in New Orleans.
Colloqate Design, an architecture firm based out of New Orleans, Louisiana, is constructing a 10-foot tall, 30-foot long sculptural tunnel spanning a walking path within the Lafitte Greenway public park. The sides of the tunnel are lined with small colored tiles, and when standing inside the tunnel, you notice images on each tile. Bvlbancha Public Access, an Indigenous-led media channel interested in celebrating contemporary Indigenous art, culture, and media of the Gulf South, have collaborated with communities, organizations, and archives to collect the images for the tiles.
Our aim is to re-new this structure every three to five years, changing the content to reflect the current flow of Indigenous thoughts, research, arts, ideas, and relations in the Gulf South.
The project is in production, and aims to be installed in Fall 2025. Once up, the piece will be available on the Laffite Greenway park.
This display is not a full and whole representation of Indigenous Gulf South communities and cultures.
This display is not a full and whole representation of Indigenous Gulf South communities and cultures.
The land and water of the Mississippi River delta region cultivated relationships with the Atakapa-Ishak, Bayou Lafourche Band of Biloxi-Chitimachas, Caddo, Chitimacha, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Coushatta, Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi Chitimacha, Houma, Jean Charles Choctaw Nation, Natchez, Natchitoches, Pointe-au Chien-Indian Tribe, and Tunica-Biloxi.
This collection represents the current breadth of relations of the Bvlbancha Public Access organization. It is heavy on the Houma and Tunica representation because that is the base of what we know and who we are right now. We want to expand this, and will need your relation and contribution (plz get involved).
This collection represents a living monument to growing trust and relations. Each biennial we put out open calls for artists and thinkers to contribute to the stream in order to expand our network of collaborators and artists. We hope that each re-vision of this structure can result in a display that slowly provides a full and vibrant breadth of perspectives from the Mississippi Delta, and the larger Gulf South.
Reading the Structure
Reading the Structure
Tiles on the structure are organized by origins. Each image is affixed to a colored tile. The color indicates under what process the image was licensed to be used for the project. Each image also features a graphic band on the front of the tile above the image. The bands indicate the author or owner of the work. Band designs are inspired by the book Sun Circles and Human Hands.
Light Blue
Light Blue
These images represent one 24-hour period in the Summer 2025. The time awareness serves as a reference to the Indigenous Gulf Stream, a New Media biennial of contemporary Gulf South art formatted into a 24-hour public broadcast.
Medium Blue
Medium Blue
Photos in this band come from historic collections. These images were sourced through relationships with, and research within, archives.
Bright Blue
Bright Blue
Art, images, and photos in this band are contributions from the contemporary Indigenous voices of the Indigenous Gulf Stream. The artists and works in this band have been featured in the 2021, 2023, or 2025 streams. Contributions include pieces of art, and family photos contributed by the artists.
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