With so much to do in New Orleans, many forget that the city’s art scene is just as vibrant as the food and music. Check out the highlighted exhibits below and search our calendar to find even more art in New Orleans. 

"Homecoming: La Porte du Retour" 

The 2025 Maafa exhibition "Homecoming: La Porte du Retour" (The Door of Return) is a salute to African lineage. By amalgamating the elements of ancient customs, foods, crops, and music that are linked to our ancestral DNA, we decrypt primordial messages that give us the blueprint to prevail over adversarial tyranny. With encryptions of Ogun found throughout the exhibition, our artists tell a prophetic story of distributive justice. Catch the exhibit at Ashé Cultural Arts Center from June 28 - October 20. The annual MAAFA commemoration presented by Ashé Cultural Arts Center is on Saturday, July 5 at 7 a.m., beginning at Congo Square (701 N Rampart St.). All white attire is preferred. 

Camryn Brown, Untitled, 2024, Collage, Xavier University of Louisiana
Camryn Brown, Untitled, 2024, Collage, Xavier University of Louisiana
11th Annual HBCU Art Showcase (2024)

12th Annual HBCU Art Showcase 

On view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art from May 24 – October 25, the 12th Annual HBCU Art Showcase Presented by The New Orleans Chapter of The Links, Incorporated, spotlights student artists at Dillard University and Xavier University of Louisiana. Featuring paintings, metal casting, ceramics, and mixed media, this exhibit provides a platform for young students of color to share their voice and offer commentary on the impactful times in which we all live.   

“Nicolas Floc’h: Fleuves-Océan, Mississippi Watershed”  

Now at the New Orleans Museum of Art, this exhibition pairs vibrant monochromatic photographs of the color of water made under the surface with dramatic black-and-white landscape photographs made along the banks of the Mississippi and its tributaries—from Louisiana and across the country. See it from April 30, 2025 through February 22, 2026.