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Critters!
November 5, 2021 – November 21, 2021NOPA is bringing back Critters!, an exhibition celebrating the personalities of non-human creatures. Critters! will be digitally projected at the NOPA Recourse Center & Gallery, 7800 Oaks St., November 5-21. This exhibition’s call-for-entry was part of NOPA’s annual GiveNOLA day fundraiser. During this year’s campaign, 120 donors raised nearly $14,000 for artist grants and local creative resources. Artist featured in this exhibition include Jan Arrigo, Anne Berry, Karen Boudreaux,…
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Summer 2021 Juried Exhibition: Remember the Darkroom?
July 24, 2021 – October 29, 2021 “This exhibition is in conjunction with the inaugural opening of NOPA’s darkroom. I wanted to remind our photographic community of what is creatively possible in darkrooms like the one now available for use at the NOPA Resource Center. Collectively, these photographers have achieved just that. The photographs presented in this exhibition make up a variety of subject matter, from documentary to experimental, some work created decades ago and…
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What Is Harmony?
Featured image: New Harmony Sophomore Kayln Jackson talking about her working during the opening reception for What is Harmony. Photo by Nic Aziz As part of our on going collaboration with New Harmony High School and the New Orleans Museum of Art, NOPA coordinated a project to with local students to explore the fundamentals of photography and curating with some of the city’s foremost artists. The culmination of this project, What Is Harmony?, will be on…
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Sunshine Prints
April 17, 2021 – July 16, 2021 Sunshine Prints, our 2021 Spring juried exhibition, features photographic work created through processes involving exposure to direct sunlight. This exhibition was juried by Benjamin Hickey, the current Curator of Exhibitions at the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum in Lafayette, LA. It includes work by Renee Allie, Virginia Carr, Daniel Hojnacki, Claudia Hollister, Kei Ito, and Stephanie Paine. Featured Image: Kei Ito, Recovery to Normal Existence, 2021 Juror’s StatementSunshine represents an opportunity to…
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CURRENTS 2020
December 12, 2020 – January 31, 2021 On View at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art CURRENTS is an annual exhibition that highlights the diverse photographic work being created by New Orleans Photo Alliance members. It is a showcase exhibition designed to give an overview of contemporary photographic practices and projects. CURRENTS 2020 was curated by Kilolo Luckett, an art historian, curator, and writer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She created By Any Means, an art series…
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What is French in Louisiana?
July 14, 2020 – September 30, 2020 French cultural influence is rooted in Louisiana and the vast Cajun and Creole population has greatly contributed to its preservation through food, language and music. In celebration of this heritage, the New Orleans Photo Alliance, the French Chamber of Commerce, the Alliance Française, the French Consulate of New Orleans and The Historic New Orleans Collection present the exhibit “What is French in Louisiana.” The exhibit explores photographers’ different…
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On the Line
June 30 – September 30, 2020 Featured image: Karen Bullock, Robing Room (Mobile, Alabama), 2019 Juror’s statementIn February, the New Orleans Photo Alliance approached me about participating in an exhibition, and together we came up with a concept that reflected an interest in photography’s capacity to represent moments-in-between, to explore the notions of liminal states or movement across thresholds. NOPA members responded to the call with a number of photographic formats and a wider array…
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Kimberly Witham: The Accidental Naturalist
March 20, 2020 – May 31, 2020 This exhibition includes images from several bodies of work. They are a very personal meditation on beauty, fecundity, fragility and the inevitable march of time. The visual language of these images is borrowed from classical Dutch still life painting. In these paintings flowers, fruit and flesh are represented in varying states of ripeness and decay. These paintings serve as both a celebration of beauty and a reminder of…