French Quarter Festival Releases Limited Edition 30th Anniversary Posters
February 28, 2013 – French Quarter Festivals, Inc. unveils three 30th Anniversary French Quarter Festival Posters by artists Tami Curtis, Philip Bascle, and Simon Hardeveld. Each year, the festival’s Merchandise Committee selects a painting that portrays the fun, festive, atmosphere of French Quarter Festival. Consideration is given only to local artists. To keep the festival free and open to the public, French Quarter Festival relies heavily on merchandise and poster sales, sponsorships, and beverage sales to generate its operating budget.
Tami Curtis
For the 2013 poster, renowned local mixed-media artist, Tami Curtis draws inspiration from legendary New Orleans singer/trumpet player, Kermit Ruffins. Tami brings the food, music and culture alive by including elements that personify New Orleans and the French Quarter through her use of rich color, multi-dimensional paint application and spontaneous brush stroke technique.
Tami attended Louisiana Tech University in Ruston where she received her BA in art education and a BFA in graphic design. She taught art in the public school system and in private institutions, served as education coordinator for the New Orleans Museum of Art, and has owned art based businesses involving pottery, hand-painted fabric items, art licensing and two dimensional art. Tami created posters for the 2012 Blues Music Awards, 2011 French Quarter Festival, 2008 Satchmo SummerFest poster, the 2009 Bayou Boogaloo, the 2007 Coastal Wine Tour (Southern Breeze magazine), and was the featured artist for the Louisiana Lt. Governor’s Global Economic Forum.
Editions:
1000 Artist-signed & numbered prints, $45
200 Artist Proofs & numbered prints, $65
Poster Size 18″ x 24
Philip Bascle
Jazz and the French Quarter have always gone hand in hand, especially at French Quarter Festival. Celebrating traditional and contemporary jazz and the 30th Anniversary of French Quarter Festival, Philip Bascle creates a beautiful, intricate collage of jazz instruments including the trumpet, piano, clarinet and trombone set on a background map of the French Quarter.
Over three decades Philip Bascle has been designing T-shirts and posters for almost all the major Louisiana festivals. In 2003 started his own poster company, Artifacts, which sells his work exclusively to local New Orleans galleries, and online. Along with his business partner, Pat Searcy, Philip has designed pieces for French Quarter Festival, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, and Lagniappe on the Bayou. Bascle is a seasoned poster artist for French Quarter Festival and has experienced great success with his works for several years.
Editions:
1000 Artist-signed & numbered prints, $45
200 Artist Proofs & numbered prints, $65
Poster Size: 16” x 25
Simon Hardeveld
For the 30th Anniversary, French Quarter Festival features a special limited edition poster created by New Orleans most well-known original painter, Simon Hardeveld. The first festival poster ever created by Simon displays Hardeveld’s characteristic, signature stylealong with a three-tiered birthday cake, vibrant sun and stars, and candled French Flags to commence the springtime celebration.
Since the early 2000s, Simon Hareveld has entertained many with his jovially phrased paintings that hang around New Orleansrestaurants like Chickie Wah Wah, Lola’s, and Joey K’s. Born in France and later moving to the United States to start three of his own restaurants, with wife Maria Hardeveld, Simon found his true calling to be a painter at his brasserie in Metairie when customers always wanted to buy his signs behind the counter. Most well-known for his set design work on New Orleans evening news, WGNO News with a Twist, Simon has been commissioned by restaurants, stores, locals, and tourists to create special original paintings for anniversaries, birthdays, or just home décor that captures the spirit of New Orleans. Overall, Simon’s pieces whimsically embody the unique culture of
this spectacular city.
Editions:
350 Artist Proofs & numbered prints, $65
Poster Size: 18” x 30”
Visit www.fqfi.org/shop to purchase for the limited edition 2013 French Quarter Festival posters and other official festival merchandise.
French Quarter Festival is produced by French Quarter Festivals, Inc. (www.fqfi.org), the 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization, which also produces Satchmo Summer Fest in August and Christmas New Orleans Style in December. French Quarter Festivals, Inc. promotes the Vieux Carré and the City of New Orleans through high quality special events and activities that showcase the culture and heritage of this unique city, contribute to the economic well-being of the community, and instill increased pride in the people of New Orleans.
Tami Curtis
Philip Bascle
Simon Hardeveld
