Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans
Exhibition Schedule
Art Installations
ArtSpeak 2007-2008
CAC Publications
Exhibition Opportunities
About Visual Arts
More Visual Arts
Children's Art Gallery


Gallery Hours
11am-4pm, Thursday-Sunday.

Hours vary for concerts, performances, lectures and special events. Closed Holidays. View Calendar.

Gallery Admission
FREE through July 12




Sign up for CAC
email announcements

Main Calendar // Choose A Calendar »
On View in the Lupin Foundation Gallery: April 17 - July 12

Michael P. Smith - Twenty-Five Jazz Fests

The moments captured in Michael P. Smith music photographs are as familiar to the people of New Orleans as they are enthralling to Jazz Fest visitors. Since the first edition of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 1970 until 2005, Smith documented the annual music, culinary and crafts bonanza that has become one of the city's signature events, and his photographs annually line the Gospel, Blues, and Jazz tents, paying witness to past performances in those same tents. In fact, the visual iconography of Jazz Fest as a showcase for legendary musical performance must be at least partly credited to Smith's images, which have been captured in two full-length Jazz Fest books that helped spread the word to fans around the world.

(click for more info)
On View in the First Floor galleries: April 17 - July 12

Previously On Piety

Previously on Piety derives its name from 617 Piety Street, the Bywater address where the original exhibition took place. A raw warehouse space temporarily converted into a makeshift exhibition site, 617 Piety's impressive length and ceiling height made it possible for the artists involved to develop highly ambitious works that, while not site-specific, would have been extremely difficult to realize in a more conventional gallery setting.

(click for more info)
On View in the Entergy KidsFree Children's Art Gallery: June 6 - July 12

I AM NOT A CELEBRITY

For her first solo show, artist Monica Tyran created twelve portraits of the more than 300 Freedom Riders.

(click for more info)