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Ana María Agüero Jahannes

New Orleans, Louisiana

The Djoser Sconces (Candle and Bulb Lights) are made up of two pairs installed here with one set over the other. Above, dark, turquoise-green sconces have narrow arched backs above a shallow cup with stepped sides. These hold white candles. Below, milky white bulbs are framed by cobalt-blue shades that radiate out from the wall like halos. These bowl-shaped fixtures also have stepped profiles.

Djoser Sconces (Candle and Bulb Lights)

2024

Titled Traces of What Was (Pendant Lamp), this piece has a wide, flaring shade over a bare, round bulb. The golden-brown stoneware shade has raised lines that create diagonal hatching along the underside. The lamp hangs in a room with a blue ceiling and walls.

Traces of What Was (Pendant Lamp)

2024

This armless, earth-red rocking chair, a work titled Donut, has a woven seat. The wide rail across the back is carved out to create two irregular, rounded holes. The form on the left is shallow and rounded, and the longer cut-out to the right reaches halfway across the seat back. Five round forms with tiny holes at their centers are spaced above and below.

Donut

2024

Ten people, some carrying flags, jog around the bend of an indoor track. On a mat in the center of the track, a bare-chested man holds a lantern up high, the other hand behind his back. Two people jog or move near him. All the people on or in the track have dark-toned skin. A few dozen audience members sit in pairs or small groups on the far side of the track.

Field Day (Opening Ceremony)

2021

Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.

About Ana María Agüero Jahannes

Ana María Agüero Johannes is a Black Hispanic artist with shoulder-length, curly black hair. They wear a wide, beaded choker and an umber-brown blouse, and they look out and smile at us against a canary-yellow background.

Ana María Agüero Jahannes is a Colombian-American interdisciplinary artist based in New Orleans. She bridges contemporary design with traditional craft to create functional objects, furniture, and immersive environments using wood, clay, fibers, and performance. Jahannes investigates how everyday objects and spaces are made, by whom, and why their histories of craftsmanship are often erased. Rooted in her identity as a Black Mestiza with dual citizenship, she reclaims Black and Indigenous traditions of the Americas to redefine home. Each work becomes a vessel for storytelling, linking personal experience to collective memory and challenging dominant design narratives through craft, care and cultural continuity. Jahannes has presented commissioned work at The Shed NYC, held residencies at Penland School of Crafts, and received support from Haystack Mountain School of Craft and the City of Oakland’s Cultural Fund. She is a professor at Louisiana State University’s College of Art and Design.

Program Participation

Joan Mitchell Center Residency, 2026

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“ My forms are infused with narratives specifically representing my own mixed identity and heritage that link to greater cultural narratives. My goal is to create future heirlooms that carry forward a nuanced legacy, connecting generations through craftsmanship and care.”