The Master of Fine Arts (MFA) thesis exhibition of NOPA member Maria Levitsky, ‘Uncanny Mirror of Available Darkness,” will open this weekend at the UNO St. Claude Gallery, located in the Crescent City’s Bywater area. An opening reception will be held at the gallery on Saturday, May 12, from 6 to 9 p.m. Levitsky noted… Read More »NOPA member Levitsky’s MFA thesis exhibit opens May 12

Congratulations to the eleven finalists of NOPA’s Michael P. Smith Fund for Documentary Photography 2012 Grant. A big thanks to our prestigious jurors: Ellen Fleurov, Paul Moakley and Glenn Ruga for their hard work on making this selection. Brett Abbott, the Curator of Photography at the High Museum in Atlanta, GA, will select this year’s… Read More »MPS Grant Finalists Announced

NOPA members Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien will have collaborative works from a series based on iconic imagery from paintings, photography, film and literature–and meant to spark discussion about stereotypes and prejudice–exhibited this summer at the Dutch national Zomerexpo 2012 art festival of the Municipal Museum of The Hague, Netherlands (Gemeentemuseum Den Hague). According to the Octavia Art… Read More »NOPA members’ ‘E2’ works to be exhibited at Netherlands festival

My Louisiana Love Trailer from Sharon Linezo Hong on Vimeo. A sneak preview of “My Louisiana Love,” a documentary film by NOPA member Monique Verdin, will be screened on the evening of Monday, April 23 at Nunemaker Auditorium on the campus of Loyola University New Orleans. The showing will begin at 7:30 p.m. The film, produced… Read More »NOPA member’s ‘My Louisiana Love’ preview showing at Loyola

The trailer for a documentary film about the history of school desegregation and civil rights in Yazoo City by NOPA member David Rae Morris–a project partially funded by a Mississippi Humanities Council grant applied for via the Photo Alliance–premiered last Saturday, April 13, at the Jackson, Miss. area’s Crossroads Film Festival. Morris is now seeking… Read More »Trailer for ‘Yazoo Revisited’ by NOPA’s Morris premieres in Miss.

NOPA member Richard Sexton will be hosting an open studio on the evening of Thursday, April 12, from 4:30 to 8 p.m.. His temporary studio and site of the event is 113 Lavergne Street in the Crescent City’s Algiers Point area, three short blocks from the Algiers Ferry’s West Bank landing. Sexton noted that he is… Read More »Richard Sexton open studio set for evening of Thursday, April 12

The first exhibition of a Southerly Gold, a collective of four photographers who live in New Orleans photographers and also happen to be female, will open on Monday, April 9 at the Crescent City’s May Gallery. An opening reception, combined with a celebration of the group’s website launch, will be held from 6 to 9… Read More »NOLA female photographer collective’s first exhibit opens April 9

A reminder: The deadline for application for the 2012 grant of the Michael P. Smith Fund for Documentary Photography, established by NOPA, is midnight tonight (Friday, March 30). This is a $5,000 grant, open to emerging, as well as established, photographers in the Gulf South states of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama or Florida. The subject… Read More »Reminder: Deadline for MPS Fund grant application is March 30