Moira Crone / New Orleans, LA
contact: moiracrone@gmail.com
Education: MA Writing, Johns Hopkins University 1977
BA, Smith College, 1974 (High Honors)
Art Education: Studied with Neo-Realist Painter Francis Cohen Gillespie at Smith.
Studied painting with Philip Sandusky and Dell Weller, New Orleans Academy of Fine Art, 1990’s.
Exhibitions
One Woman Show:
“Painting The Ghost” Second Story Gallery, New Orleans Healing Center, St. Claude Avenue, NOLA. January 8-31, 2022
Two Woman Shows:
“Faceted Figures” part of “Slivers on the River” at Second Story Gallery, with works by Photographer Leona Strassberg Steiner. New Orleans Healing Center, St. Claude Ave, Jan. 14-Feb 9, 2023
“Alchemy of Night,” with photographer Leona Strassberg Steiner, 912 Gallery, Julia Street, New Orleans, (Part of PhotoNola). December 14-28, 2019
Juried Shows:
“Train For Souls” at Artflow, Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge Arts Council, March 5-April 10, 2022.
“Next World Voyager” in the Art in the Time of Corona juried show, presented online by Dab Art Gallery, Los Angeles Fall 2020-Present
“Train for Souls” Honorable Mention, “Queens Arrival” also included in juried show “Icon” presented by D’Art Gallery Norfolk VA November 2021
“Blue Suite” in Politico Pop-Up 3, New Orleans, LA, June, 2018
“Pleased to Meet You,” in juried show, “And Now For Something New,” Lemieux Galleries, New Orleans, 2018
“Washed Day,” in Grand Isle Juried Exhibition (Honorable Mention) 2010
Group Shows:
Resuscitation, Summer, 2021 Second Story Gallery, Works on Paper, March, 2021
Perseverance, June, 2020, Second Story Gallery, New Orleans
Crescent City Brewhouse, Decatur Street, New Orleans, December 2019.
Crescent City Brewhouse, New Orleans, 2012
Gallery of Works Inspired by her novel, The Not Yet, Barrister Gallery, New Orleans April, 2011
New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts Student Show, 1998, 1999.
Retrospective, Bywater Art Market Artists, 2012.
Vermont Landscapes, 128 Main Street, Johnson, Vermont, 2002 (Vermont Studio Center)
Collaborations:
Ovala, a fairy tale set on our Gulf Coast, writing by Moira Crone, illustrations by Ursula Emery McClure, Kristi Cheramie, and Sarah Young. Performance, H20 Symposium at University of Louisiana 2017. www.emerymcclure.com/new-page-1/
In Winter, 2022, The Southern Review published a cover and interior portfolio of her paintings.
Gallery Representation:
Second Story Gallery, New Orleans Healing Center: https://www.
New Orleans Art Gallery, Online Gallery of New Orleans Artists: https://www.
Writing About Art:
Exhibition Catalog Essays: Photographs of Thomas Neff, Gallery of the College of Staten Island. September, 2009. Retrospective, Jill Bullitt, Painter: Gerard Mosse Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2012.
Writing:
Moira Crone is the author of three books of short stories and four novels, including the collections Dream State, What Gets Into Us, and novels A Period of Confinement, The Ice Garden, winner of a gold medal from the Independent Publishers Awards, and the dystopian novel The Not Yet, set in the future New Orleans Islands, which was a finalist for the international Philip K. Dick Prize for Science Fiction paperback of the year in 2012. Her stories and essays have appeared in over fifty publications among them, The Southern Review, The Oxford American, The New Yorker, Mademoiselle, and Fantasy and Science Fiction. For many years she taught in the creative writing MFA program at Louisiana State University, and she directed the program for several years.
She also gave readings and taught classes at the The Prague Summer Seminars, the UNO Creative Writing Program in Madrid, and San Miguel, Mexico, and appeared as a featured speaker at literary conferences in Singapore, Lisbon, Cork, Ireland and Almeria Spain, as well as over forty conferences and university programs in the United States. In 2011, she was awarded the Robert Penn Warren Award from the Fellowship for Southern Writers, for the body of her work.