Jana Napoli’s (American, b. 1946) career began through her study of painting and mixed media. She established herself as a professional artist in the 1970s with painting residencies and exhibits in Guatemala City, Paris, and London.

My life’s preoccupation has been to give voice to the unspoken and unseen. My artist practice found its first engagement with this in the Altiplano (Highlands) region of Guatemala in the early 1970’s. Below is some of the work available from that …

Jana Napoli is a lifelong New Orleans resident and a mixed-media artist and creative entrepreneur concerned with civic and community engagement. Her career began through her study of painting and she established herself as a professional artist in the 1970s with painting residencies and exhibits in Berlin, Guatemala City, Paris, Wroclaw, and ...

Composed of 380 drawers that artist Jana Napoli rescued from the debris of Hurricane Katrina, this exhibition will be presented in Berlin from September 10th to October 15th. Installed on the 1920s Kurier, moored at several locations on the Spree, the exhibition will visit different neighborhoods across the city.

2007年1月4日 · In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans artist Jana Napoli collected hundreds of drawers from destroyed furniture abandoned by Big Easy residents. Starting today, she installed them as...

2013年7月17日 · The 700+ abandoned drawers she collected became the building blocks for Floodwall, an art installation and memorial to the city and to the families who lost so much. Out of Floodwall grew the DrawerSpeaks program, where school children were invited to tour the Floodwall installation in New Orleans, Germany and Poland, and were invited to make ...

Jana Napoli was born and raised in New Orleans and continues to live there. Originally trained as a painter, Napoli is a mixed-media artist and a creative entrepreneur deeply concerned with civic and community engagement.

These boxes traditionally house the Black Christ of Esquipulas, a shrine that is in many houses. I have replaced the Black Christ with a landscape of the village of Nahualá. Acrylic and enamel on wood, 36 x 18 inches. Exhibited: London 1974.

Trained as a painter, Napoli is a mixed-media artist and a creative entrepreneur deeply concerned with civic and community engagement. In 1988, she founded the internationally acclaimed non-profit arts and social service organization, YA/YA inc. Young Aspirations/Young Artists, whose mission it is to empower creative young people to become ...