Creative Capital Seminar

Join Creative Capital for an Information Session in New Orleans on Saturday, Feb 28, 2026 at 2pm generously hosted at CAC New Orleans!

‍Creative Capital is a NY-based foundation that supports innovative artists across the country with grants and professional development to foster thriving careers. During this information session, Creative Capital will share details and take questions on Creative Capital’s upcoming funding opportunities through the 2027 Open Call application process. Also learn about Creative Capital’s Artist Lab, our free, online professional development courses.

The seminar is free, but with limited capacity so make sure to RSVP below!

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Current Programming

In Undertow

February 28, 2026 - May 3, 2026

IN UNDERTOW a visual art exhibition that discusses interpretations of water. Emerging artists were invited to reflect on their relationship to water and community, in disciplines of painting, mixed media and video installation. Water is a universal substance: essential, mutable, and connective. Water is capable of holding contradictions: nourishment and destruction, stillness and movement, memory and erosion. Artists of varied backgrounds and practices, us the theme as a shared current, linking distinctly different voices under a common song. All participating artists are based in Louisiana, a region deeply shaped by water. As a major port city, New Orleans exists in constant dialogue with rivers, canals, levees, and coastlines. This exhibition traces how a single element can binds us all to one element that we all need to survive, yet try to destroy: Water.

FESTIVAL/NEW/WORKS

April 4 - July 6, 2026

The Festival of New Works returns to the Contemporary Arts Center during it's 50th anniversary season as both a revival and a recalibration. Festival/New/Works gathers artist living and practicing in Louisiana working across multiple genres including: Painting, drawing, film, sculpture, and other forms that refuse easy categorization. Festival/New/Works connects audiences with a vibrant network of artist who are shaping the cultural language of the gulf south artists whose ideas are still unfolding, and in motion

Kitchen Lithography

Learn to use everyday household materials to create striking prints

In this workshop, hosted by The Helis Foundation John Scott Center, participants will learn the fundamentals of kitchen lithography, an inventive printmaking process that uses everyday household materials to create striking prints. This workshop offers an introduction to the principles of lithography while encouraging experimentation and creativity in a relaxed studio setting.

Instructor: Lauren Cardenas

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Foster the Future at the CACNO

To learn from the past is one of the surest ways to shape a more generous future for art, artists, and audiences. With care, curiosity, and support in its many forms, the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans can continue to grow as a place of learning, a welcoming home for artists of all backgrounds, and a site of discovery and delight for its community. To work with, play within, or invest in the CACNO, is to ensure that this organization will be one filled with possibility, imagination, and shared purpose. Come join us!

Foster the Future with Us!

Welcome and Updates

‍Welcome to the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans. My name is Raelle Myrick-Hodges, and it is a profound honor to serve as the newly appointed Executive Director of this vital, artist-founded institution. To step into stewardship of the CAC at this moment—poised between a rich history and an expansive future—is both humbling and exhilarating...