Join us EVERY 2nd Saturday of the month from 6-10pm at Antenna:3718 for Second Saturday receptions in honor of our current exhibitions! Check this page to find out about 2nd Saturday events at Antenna:6330 which happen periodically throughout the year.
PLATFORMS FUND IS OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS MAY 1st-31st, 2026
Project grants of $10,000 and research grants of $1500 are awarded annually to New Orleans based individuals,collectives, and collaborative art groups in support of new and innovative artistic commissions that take place outside the museum or gallery walls, within the public realm, or in a non-traditional exhibition environment. Grants are awarded to projects that best exemplify an attention to the histories, communities, and ecologies of the region and their (trans)national implications, while reimagining visual artmaking for social change. The Platforms Fund is a collaborative effort of Antenna, Ashé Cultural Art Center, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
4.14.26::PLATFORMS FUND PUBLIC INFO SESSION ABOUT PUBLIC INFORMATION SESSIONS: come learn more about The Platforms Fund and how to apply from local partners Antenna & The Ashé C.A.C. If you are unable to make these information sessions, drop in sessions with Antenna staff are available on Thursdays and Fridays in May from 1-5pm upon request. Email egidirector@antenna.works to schedule an appointment.
Ashé Info Session @ Ashé Cultural Arts Center:
Tuesday April 30, 6-7:30 pm
2nd Sat RECEPTION @ Antenna:3718 – April 11th: Join us this 2nd Saturday for another reception for “0UR M0NSTERS”, a group exhibition curated by The Antenna Collective, led by Flora Cabili.
You can visit the exhibition at Antenna:3718 during gallery hours Thursdays 12-7pm, Fridays & Saturdays 12-5pm at 3718 St. Claude Ave. from March 14th-April 25th.
OPENING RECEPTION @ Antenna:3718 – March 14th: Join us this 2nd Saturday for the opening reception for “0UR M0NSTERS”, a group exhibition curated by The Antenna Collective, led by Flora Cabili.
You can visit the exhibition at Antenna:3718 during gallery hours Thursdays 12-7pm, Fridays & Saturdays 12-5pm at 3718 St. Claude Ave. from March 14th-April 25th.
CLOSING RECEPTION @ Antenna:3718 – Feb 21st: Join us this 3rd Saturday of the month for a community reception to celebrate our current exhibitions (moved from 2nd Saturday due to Mardi Gras). This Saturday Feb 10th will serve as the Closing Reception for our current exhibitions “I Thought About Killing A Man” by Gurleen Rai & “A Problem of State” by Frank Robinson. You can also visit Antenna:3718 during gallery hours Thursdays 12-7pm, Fridays & Saturdays 12-5pm at 3718 St. Claude Ave.
SECOND SATURDAY OPENING RECEPTION @ Antenna:3718 – Jan 10th: Join us every 2nd Saturday of the month for a community reception to celebrate our current exhibitions. This Saturday Jan 10th will serve as the Closing Reception for our new exhibitions “I Thought About Killing A Man” by Gurleen Rai & “A Problem of State” by Frank Robinson. You can also visit Antenna:3718 during gallery hours Thursdays 12-7pm, Fridays & Saturdays 12-5pm at 3718 St. Claude Ave.
Join us on Saturday Nov. 8 from 6:30-9:30 PM to celebrate Second Saturday by taking the Art Bus to the open galleries across St. Roch, St. Claude, and Arabi! Hosted by Antenna Board Member Rahsaana Ison, the Art Bus is FREE to ride and will stop at each gallery for approximately 20-25 minutes. Drinks and snacks will be provided. Suggested donations of $15 to $20 are appreciated, but not expected. No one turned away for lack of funds and there is no reservation required. Please email info@antenna.works with questions.
SECOND SATURDAY OPENING RECEPTION @ Antenna:3718 – Nov 8th: Join us every 2nd Saturday of the month for a community reception to celebrate our current exhibitions. This Saturday Nov 8th will serve as the Opening Reception for our new exhibitions “Da Dung Roi” by Horatio Nguyễn & “Porch to Pulse” by Patrick Davis. You can also visit Antenna:3718 during gallery hours Thursdays 12-7pm, Fridays & Saturdays 12-5pm at 3718 St. Claude Ave.
SECOND SATURDAY OPENING RECEPTION @ Antenna:6330 – Nov 8th: This Saturday Sept 13th will serve as the Opening Reception for our new exhibition “Words of the Redeemed: Hurricane Katrina through the Eyes of Danita Bright” by Danita Bright. You can also visit Antenna:6330 during regular hours Tues-Friday 10am-6pm at 6330 St. Claude Ave.
More News @ Antenna
The Lay of the Lack of the Land
This work investigates ecological change in Gulf Coast ecosystems and along the Mississippi River, juxtaposing repeat patterns of troubling plant species with the architecture of fossil fuel extraction. Large scale tapestries of hand-printed textiles suspend in translucent layers, accompanied by works on paper. Learn more about and view more of Nicole’s work on their website.
Intertwined
Intertwined by Flora Cabili is an immersive, mixed media exhibition that reflects on space, carving, permanence, and expansion. The paintings, collages, sculptures, videoed movement story, and soundscape are entangled in metaphysical environments that are both confined and liberated. IIntertwined invites us to consider how we experience these patterns, at times entangled, to find the release in the spaces in between.
UPCYCLING: The Creative ReUse of Waste Materials :: April12th-June 1st, 2025:
This Antenna collective member exhibition, curated by collective member Kerry Punzo, highlights works that utilize discarded items and trash. A range of thematic and aesthetic choices made by the artists explore and celebrate unique paths opened by the inherent potentials of repurposing
FROM WHERE WE STAND:: April12th-June 1st, 2025
From Where We Stand” Exhibition Statement: “As a disparate group of artists selected by renowned New York-based curator, Niama Safia Sandy, our works explore a variety of issues in different visual mediums: the Indigenous people of Bvlbancha; spirituality and the subconscious, memory and nostalgia, love, place, and the anti-immigrant hysteria. The 2025 Louisiana Group Show asks each visitor to consider – to witness – FROM WHERE WE STAND”.
Jesmyn Ward at Garden District Book Shop
Garden District Book Shop will host Jesmyn Ward to celebrate the release of her latest novel Sing, Unburied, Sing at 6 p.m. on Thursday, October 12, at their storefront (2727 Prytania Street). Ward will be in conversation with Nathaniel Rich. Sing, Unburied, Sing grapples with the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the…
Jesmyn Ward at Octavia Books
Octavia Books will host Jesmyn Ward for the release of her new novel Sing, Unburied, Sing at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, October 10, at their storefront (513 Octavia Street). In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner,…
Poetry Buffet: Karen Maciera, Valentine Pierce, Trisha Rezende
The Poetry Buffet will host poets Karen Maceira, Valentine Pierce, and Trisha Rezende at 3 p.m. on Saturday, October 7, at Latter Library (5120 St. Charles Avenue).
WNBA of NOLA presents Words & Society: Women Poets Resist
WNBA of New Orleans hosts an event for National Reading Group Month. Words & Society: Women Poets Resist will take place at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, October 7, at the Mid-City Library (4140 Canal Street). The event’s lineup includes Louisiana’s former state poet laureate Julie Kane and Chapter members Stacey Balkun, Gina Ferrara, Melinda Palacio, Andrea…
Music & Poetry at Bar Redux
Bar Redux will host Music & Poetry at 6 p.m. on Sunday, October 22, at 801 Poland Avenue. This month features music with Guest Host Jonathan Brown. Spoken word & poetry readings by Christopher Hefferman, Briana Augustus, Amanda Emily Smith, Toby O’Brien, Simon Taylor, and Russ Mercado. There is a signup sheet for poets wishing…
Jorie Graham at Tulane University
Newcomb College Institute hosts Jorie Graham at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 9, at Tulane’s Freeman Auditorium. Jorie Graham is the 2017 Florie Gale Arons Poet. She has published more than a dozen books of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994 (1996) and Fast (2017). She has…
Slave Trail of Tears: The Forgotten Journey of a Million
A Studio in the Woods and the New Orleans Center for the Gulf (Nola Gulf South) will host Edward Ball’s discussion of his book Slave Trail of Tears: The Forgotten Journey of a Million at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, October 10, at Tulane’s Freeman Auditorium. Ball tells the story of a migration twice as large as…
An Evening with Isabel Allende at Academy of the Sacred Heart
Garden District Book Shop hosts Isabel Allende in conversation with Anne Gisleson at 7 p.m. on Friday, November 17, at the Academy of the Sacred Heart (4521 Saint Charles Avenue). Tickets are available here, and each ticket includes one signed copy of In the Midst of Winter, Allende’s new book. Books will be distributed to ticket…
Mary Ann Caws at Crescent City Books
Crescent City Books hosts Mary Ann Caws at 7 p.m. on Thursday, October 5, at their storefront (124 Baronne Street). Caws will read and discuss the Poetry of Surrealism. She will be touching on the works of Andre Breton, Paul Eduard, Rene Char, and others. Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, English,…
A Dark and Stormy Night 2017
Big Class and DJ Soul Sister host the annual event, A Dark and Stormy Night, at 6 p.m. on Thursday, October 5, at Felicity Church (1220 Felicity Street). Sip spirits during a cocktail contest featuring eight critically-acclaimed mixologists, enjoy small bites from top culinary local talent, shop a pop-up Haunting Supply Company, and bid on…
