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.
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.
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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”.
Platforms Fund awards $60,000 in direct artist support
The Platforms Fund, developed by Antenna, Ashé Cultural Arts Center, and Pelican Bomb, with generous support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, is excited to announce the third round of grant awards! This year we received 106 applications and we were extremely impressed by the strength, breadth, and creativity of the projects…
The animating grief is unfixable: A review of Elizabeth Gross’ Dear Escape Artist
Dear Escape Artist Elizabeth Gross Press Street Press/Antenna, 2016 “Figures take shape,” Roland Barthes writes in A Lover’s Discourse, “insofar as we can recognize, in passing discourse, something that has been read, heard, felt.” Dear Escape Artist, an epistolary sequence poem by Elizabeth Gross joined with book artist Sara White’s ink drawings, assembles its addressee…
Platforms Fund Artist Grants 2017
The Platforms Fund, a collaborative effort of Antenna, Ashé Cultural Arts Center, and Pelican Bomb in partnership with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, is excited to announce an expansion of awards for the 2017-18 cycle. The Fund will distribute a total of $60,000 in grants to a diverse array of artist-driven projects…
Gift from the Bywater CDC helps expand Draw-A-Thon
Antenna is thrilled to announce that at our recent board meeting, representatives from the Bywater Community Development Corporation, Skip Henderson and John Guarnieri, delivered a check to establish an educational partnership between Antenna’s 24 hour Draw-a-thon and the Homer A. Plessy Community School. Draw-a-thon, one of New Orleans’ most successful community art events is developed and…
Platforms Fund 2016 Grantees
11 ARTIST DRIVEN PROJECTS RECEIVE A TOTAL OF $45,000 IN GRANT AWARDS! The Platforms Fund, developed by Antenna / Press Street, Ashé Cultural Arts Center, and Pelican Bomb with generous support by both the Andy Warhol Foundation and the Joan Mitchell Foundation, is excited to announce the 2016 second round of grant awards! This year we received 83 applications and we were…
NOLA MIX – DJ & Music Production
Have Fun! Learn basic DJ skills and produce your own recorded mix! Sign up for NOLA Mix Youth DJ Classes and learn how to mix, scratch, and perform music with new technology, and hands-on training. Wednesdays from 6:00pm – 8:00pm / January 11th to February 15th (6 classes). Course Highlights: DJ History The Ins & Outs…
Press Street Book Sale @ Avant Garden
Purchase limited edition Press Street publications for the holidays! Join us at AVANT GARDEN – a new semi-annual curated arts market hosted by Constance, a local arts organization. Avant Garden features artists, designers, makers and taste-makers from the New Orleans community, as well as PECHA KUCHA – a place for young artists and thinkers to…
Live Prose and Poetry: PANK Magazine Invades New Orleans
Room 220 is pleased to host a group of writers brought to New Orleans by PANK Magazine at 7 p.m., on Friday, Nov. 18, at the Antenna Gallery. PANK is an literary undertaking that includes periodicals both print and online, as well as a chapbook imprint. Its editors occasionally muster PANK‘s national network of writers…
PACHA MAMA: earth realm
SLIDE SHOW / ARTIST TALK & BOOK SIGNING Friday, October 7th, 6:00pm at Antenna Artist Lynda Frese will give an artist talk followed by a book signing for her new publication Pacha Mama: earth realm. The artist will share recent images from the Peruvian Amazon and other off-the-grid experiences that helped shape the environmental themes of her work.…
Drunken Spelling Bee
Please join Press Street in supporting T-Lot’s fundraiser for their upcoming show “Range” which opens this October and will be on view until January 2012. Funds raised will help the group cover the costs of printing, installation staples, such as extension cords, lights, projector, etc… Special thanks to The Lost Love Lounge for providing the…
