Last Updated: Thursday, June 27, 2024 1:27 PM by Lauren Saizan
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.
On view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art from May 29 - September 29, the 11th 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.
Louisiana’s present-day distinction as the world’s incarceration capital is rooted in three centuries of history. Throughout this history, people in power have used systems of enslavement and incarceration to hold others captive for punishment, control, and exploitation. Black Louisianians have suffered disproportionately under these systems. Through historical objects, textual interpretation, multimedia, and data visualization, the Historic New Orleans Collection's newest exhibit, Captive State: Louisiana and the Making of Mass Incarceration, investigates these throughlines and arrives at an irrefutable truth: that the institutions of slavery and mass incarceration are historically linked. See it at The Historic New Orleans Collection from July 19, 2024, through January 19, 2025.
This major solo exhibition of work by Wangechi Mutu brings together nearly one hundred sculptures, paintings, collages, drawings, and films to present the breadth of the Kenyan American artist’s multidisciplinary practice from the mid-1990s to today. Catch it on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art through July 14, 2024.
"Our War Too: Women in Service" is a groundbreaking special exhibit honoring the nearly 350,000 American women who answered the call to serve their country during World War II. On display in the Senator John Alario, Jr. Special Exhibition Hall from November 11, 2023, through July 21, 2024, this exhibit recognizes servicewomen’s wartime efforts and celebrates their accomplishments, the impacts of which extend into the present day. After its initial run at The National WWII Museum, the exhibit will be available for travel to other host venues.
Lauren Saizan is a New Orleans native raised in the Gentilly neighborhood. In addition to being the editorial and online content manager for New Orleans & Company, she is also a member of Mélange Dance Company. Lauren has performed professionally in many venues across the city, including the Sydney & Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, the New Orleans Museum of Art, Longue Vue House & Gardens, and Marigny Opera House. When not writing or dancing, she can be spotted sipping the Blue Eyes tea at French Truck, attending a concert downtown, or visiting a local library.
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