Nathaniel Donnett: What's the New News Project-2018
Channel: Nathaniel Donnett
Date: 2018-06-08

Artists, writers, and community members/activists discuss The What's The New News project. 

PRH has commissioned two issues of What's the New News by artist and Dark Imaginarence Practitioner Nathaniel Donnett. What’s The New News is a collaboration among creatives and the community that speaks to the importance of the neighborhood, artists, writers, and literacy. Through this project, Donnett seeks to interrupt the everyday with the everyday by asking the community to rethink how objects, art, and information are involved in our daily lives.

Artists selected by Donnett will transform newspaper racks into public art to be placed at important valued landmarks in the Third Ward community. Issues of What's The New News available in the racks will take the form of articles, experimental writing, raps, and poetry, penned by writers active in the Third Ward and Houston arts community.

Filmed and Produced by: Brenda Cruz-Wolf and Nathaniel Donnett

Shot & Edited by: Brenda Cruz-Wolf

Additional footage: Nathaniel Donnett & Matthew Barrett

Photographed by: Cassie Skelly

WTTN Commissioned by: Project Row Houses

Curator: Ryan Dennis

Newspaper Editor: Julia Brown

Artists: Ashura Bayaan, Jeanette Degollado, Nathaniel Donnett, Marlon Foster Matt Manalo, Sofia Mekonnen, Brian Pluto, Phillip Pyle, Anthony Suber, Monica Villareal

Writers: Dr. Andrea Roberts, Dr. Michon Benson, Julia Brown, Nathaniel Donnett, Theresa Escobedo, Ciaran Finlayson, Jane Foreman, Lindsay Gary, Jeremy Johnson, Josie Pickens, Jean Sebastien, Dr. Laura A. L. Wellen, Charisse Weston, Carol Zou

Music:  Nathaniel Donnett, Kevin “Kay” Jackson, Ronnie “King” Mason

Special Guests: Ryan, Dennis, John Guess, Deloyd Parker, Ella Russell