The Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans

CAC Announces New Executive Director

August 2, 2019: We are excited to announce that the CAC has selected George Scheer as our new Executive Director! Read the full press release

Public Programs

Past Programs

The CAC is a Blue Star Museum!

May 18, 2019 to September 2, 2019

August is Museum Month!

August 1, 2019 to August 31, 2019

CAC Summer Arts Camp 2019: Wonder Emporium!

July 29, 2019 to August 2, 2019

Patois Film Fest: "Decade of Fire"

June 15, 2019

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: 2019 Teen Open Call Exhibition

May 31, 2019

Second Thursday at the CAC

May 9, 2019

Vida in New Orleans: Art, Culture, & Politics for our Latin Community

April 20, 2019

Second Thursday at the CAC

April 11, 2019

David Roussève: Creating Socially Engaged Art

April 6, 2019

CAC 2019 OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

February 6, 2019 to March 29, 2019

Second Thursday: Celebrating the Opening of 'Hinge Pictures: Eight Women Artists Occupy the Third Dimension'

March 14, 2019

Second Thursdays at the CAC

November 8, 2018

Second Thursdays at the CAC

September 13, 2018

Second Thursdays at the CAC

May 10, 2018

Family Day at the CAC

April 22, 2018

2018 Call for Submissions: Teen Exhibition

January 29, 2018 to March 16, 2018

Second Thursdays at the CAC

March 8, 2018

2018 Call for Submissions

January 15, 2018 to March 4, 2018

Second Thursdays @ the CAC

January 11, 2018

Second Thursdays @ the CAC

December 14, 2017

P.4 Public Talk & Workshop

December 9, 2017

À Propos: A Conversation with PhotoNOLA

November 15, 2017

Second Thursdays @ the CAC

November 9, 2017

Work It Out!

November 7, 2017

P.S. Satellites | Panel Discussion

November 2, 2017

Second Thursdays @ the CAC

October 12, 2017

Bring Your Own #Objects: "The Thing Is..."

September 28, 2017

Second Thursday @ the CAC

September 14, 2017

Culture Collision 9

August 30, 2017

Second Thursdays @ the CAC

August 10, 2017

Conversation: À Propos with YEP Design Works

August 10, 2017

Conversation: À Propos with The Roots of Music

July 19, 2017

Conversation: À Propos with Pelican Bomb

June 7, 2017

Pitch Night New Orleans, in partnership with ArtPrize

June 5, 2017

Conversation: On Cecilia Vicuña

May 25, 2017

Book Signing: Emma Fick, “Snippets of New Orleans”

May 25, 2017

Film Screening: Finding Common Ground

April 20, 2017

Dance Afterparty with DJ Kid Koala

April 15, 2017

Conversation: Comics, Graphic Novels, and Inclusivity

April 13, 2017

Family Robot Dance Party

April 13, 2017

Film-Screening: MODERN TIMES

April 9, 2017

Film-Screening: CAN'T STOP THE WATER

March 26, 2017

Get Your Art On

March 25, 2017

Conversation: Rashaad Newsome with Amanda Hunt

January 21, 2017

Mélange Afterparty with DJ Jubilee and DJ MikeQ

January 20, 2017

Film & Discussion

January 15, 2017

Juke Joint Afterparty

December 10, 2016

James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

December 4, 2016

Conversation: Talking Baldwin

December 1, 2016

Workshop with Theater Mitu

November 16, 2016

Conversation: The Syrian Refugee Crisis and the Trauma of Displacement

September 27, 2016

Masterclass with zoe | juniper

September 17, 2016

Conversation: "A Building With A View"

August 25, 2016

The Resonant World

August 12, 2016 to August 14, 2016

Film-Screening with NOFS: PRESENTING PRINCESS SHAW

May 31, 2016

Birdfoot Festival 2016: Open Rehearsals

May 24, 2016 to May 26, 2016

Apply Now: CAC Teen Arts Internship

April 25, 2016 to May 23, 2016

Film-Screening with NOFS: SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL

May 17, 2016

Teen Open Stage Night

April 29, 2016

Conversation: Visualizing the Panthers

April 21, 2016

Teen Workshop: Creating Your Personal Brand

April 16, 2016

To Live in the South, One Has To Be a Scar Lover

April 14, 2016

Walking the Tornado Line

March 17, 2016

Happy Hour Jam Session

March 10, 2016

Happy Hour: Southern Comfort Listening Session

March 3, 2016

Coffee Hour at the CAC

February 12, 2016

Roundtable Discussion: 1960's Abstraction

January 21, 2016

Film-Screening: Soundtrack for a Revolution

January 10, 2016

Conversation: The Social Responsibility of Art

January 7, 2016

In Print: Photobook Panel & Signing

December 13, 2015

Opening Reception with James Hoff and Jacqueline Humphries

November 19, 2015

Film-screening with NOFS: DESPERATE LIVING

November 11, 2015

Master Class: Auditioning with Cosmin Chivu

November 7, 2015

Conversation: Trees Talk

October 28, 2015

Conversation: Forest and Water in Dialogue

October 27, 2015

Film-screening: PAINTER

October 24, 2015

Singing for Movement Building Workshop

October 9, 2015

Conversation: GEOGRAPHIES

September 17, 2015

REVERB: Past, Present, Future | Conversation

August 3, 2015

ArtShops: A New Orleans Sculpture Project

June 12, 2015

In Conversation with Nicolás Dumit Estévez

June 4, 2015

Birdfoot Festival 2015: Waterlines–Poetry and Spoken Word

May 29, 2015

Birdfoot Festival 2015: Open Rehearsals

May 26, 2015 to May 28, 2015

Birdfoot Festival 2015: Lunchtime Concert

May 26, 2015

Curatorial Walkthrough with Claire Tancons

May 16, 2015

Deconstructing Radcliffe Bailey

April 19, 2015

In Conversation: Radcliffe Bailey with Nicholas Payton

April 9, 2015

Film-Screening with NOFS: BROTHERS OF THE BLACK LIST

March 26, 2015

Film-Screening with NOFS: TOOTIE'S LAST SUIT

March 11, 2015

ArtSpeak with P.3 Artist Andrea Fraser

January 22, 2015

RESERVATIONS CLOSED Walkthrough with Brooke Davis Anderson

January 17, 2015

Family Workshop in Photographic Portraiture with Gus Bennett & Jennifer Zdon

November 15, 2014

Conversation with P.3 Artistic Director Franklin Sirmans & Andrea Andersson, PhD

November 13, 2014

Curatorial Walkthrough and Reception with Regine Basha

September 27, 2014

Teen Arts Internship Program

July 14, 2014 to July 25, 2014

The New Orleans Teaching Artist Institute 2014

June 16, 2014 to June 18, 2014

A Conversation with Joy Reid and Hank Willis Thomas

June 14, 2014

‘30 Americans’ Education and Public Programs

February 6, 2014 to June 13, 2014

The Art of Collecting: An Evening with Don and Mera Rubell

May 29, 2014

‘Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman: A Portrait of My Mother’

May 21, 2014

In the Name of Street Art

May 17, 2014

Teen Open Stage Night

May 2, 2014

Literally Speaking: Do You Feel Me?

April 18, 2014

The Art of Collecting, Part I: New Orleans Collectors

April 9, 2014

ArtSpeak: Concepts of Human Experience

January 22, 2014

Literally Speaking: Photography Books

December 15, 2013

Artist Walkthrough: The Great Picture

December 14, 2013

Visual Artists Network 2013 Annual Meeting Exhibition Community Engagement Panel

December 11, 2013

Family Cyanotypes Workshop

November 9, 2013

New Orleans Teaching Artists Reception

November 5, 2013

ARTSPEAK

October 9, 2013

ArtSpeak—Behind the Mask: Artists and Curators discuss Brilliant Disguise: Masks and Other Transformations

May 21, 2013

CAC Announces New Executive Director

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