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Inside The Arts: Festival PiaNOLA, Rodrigue Foundation Art Contest, Bringing Fantasy To Carnival

Xiaohui Yang, Festival PiaNOLA guest artist and 2016 New Orleans International Piano Competition Gold Medalist

This week on Inside the Arts, Festival PiaNOLA presented by the Musical Arts Society of New Orleans and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra kicks off with guest artist Xiaohui Yang, a 2016 New Orleans International Piano Competition Gold Medalist. MASNO executive director, Cara McCool Woolf drops by for a chat.

Then, the George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts is holding its annual statewide art contest for high school students. Jacques Rodrigue is the executive director of the foundation and joins us by phone.

And, a new exhibit at NOMA highlights turn of the century Carnival art.

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"This is NPR's Morning Edition, at 89.9 WWNO. Good Morning, I'm Diane Mack."