New Orleans native Frederick “Wood” Delahoussaye is an artist, curator, and community servant working at the intersection of radical hope and righteous eruption. His work as a poet, producer, performer, director, emcee, arts administrator, community leader, and activist fuels the purpose and passion of artistic expression, cultural preservation, civil rights, and the liberation of Black people across the globe.

He serves as Director for the City of New Orleans’ Office of Cultural Economy as well as Lead Artist for Junebug Productions’ Homecoming Project. He is a member of the National Advisory Board of Imagining America, is a John O’Neal Cultural Arts Fellow, and a Tulane University Mellon Graduate Program in Community-Engaged Scholarship Community Leader.

He is a featured performer in KM Dance Project’s Distorted Images and Taken, Junebug Productions’ Homecoming Project, and Ashé Cultural Arts Center’s Big Easy Award-winning the Origin of Life on Earth.

He is the recipient of the Asante Foundation’s Cultural Ambassador Award for Performance Art, National Performance Network’s Mentorship and Leadership Award, and the Archdiocese of New Orleans’ Servant Leader Award, to name a few.