Curatorial Category: Open Call

The Lay of the Lack of the Land by Nicole Sara Simpkins

The Lay of the Lack of the Land 2025Nicole Sara Simpkins6×9, 68 pagesPerfect bound $23 Nicole Sara Simpkins is the recipient of Antenna’s 2025 Solo National Exhibition. This collection of prose poems integrates research about the predicaments of engineering, extraction, and changing ecosystems in the Mississippi River. Featuring photos, drawings, prints, notes and references, this publication was produced in tandem with an exhibition of … The Lay of the Lack of the Land by Nicole Sara Simpkins

FROM WHERE WE STAND

The 2025 Louisiana Group Show “From Where We Stand” opens Saturday, April 12, 2025 from 6-10 at Antenna, 3718 St. Claude! As a disparate group of artists selected by renowned New York-based curator, Niama Safia Sandy @___niama___ , our works explore a variety of issues in different visual mediums: the Indigenous people of Bvlbancha; spirituality and the … FROM WHERE WE STAND

Antenna Press book release

Antenna Press is proud to release Leviathans: Queer Mischief in an Amphibious Ecology a book by Devon Pardue @dparduefilm winner of the Antenna Press Award. 5” x 2.75”, 100 pages, $11 Available for purchase in our online bookstore www.antenna.works Leviathans is an artist book and flipbook hybrid investigating queer becoming in the ecology of the Gulf South. … Antenna Press book release

Antenna Press book release

Antenna Press is proud to release Super Max a book by Page Comeaux @po_meaux winner of the Antenna Press Open Call Award. 5″ x 7″, 56 pages, $22 Available for purchase in our online bookstore www.antenna.works. In essays and archival photographs, Super Max unravels the interwoven legacies of two career-defining projects by New Orleans-based architects Curtis … Antenna Press book release

Antenna Press book release

Antenna Press is proud to release The Fifolay a graphic novel by Ana Vincent @anagrammies winner of the Antenna Press Open Call Award. 8” x 10”, 78 pages, $17 Available for purchase in our online bookstore www.antenna.works. The Fifolay is a dystopian tale of environmental magical realism in the fictional gulf-coast city Slingo. Strange Things Happen … Antenna Press book release

Dear Tulane & Broad

An exhibition by Melody Chang Dear Tulane & Broad is a walk through the emotional geography of a courthouse located at a busy New Orleans intersection. The exhibit interweaves atmospheric installations and sounds with archival material. Intimately told to a visitor of one, audio narration guides you through space, inviting reflection on design and architecture, … Dear Tulane & Broad

Finished Art School, Now What?

Finished Art School, Now What? is a how to build your career quick guide for recently graduated bachelor of arts students and early self taught artist. The author covers advice on everything from community building, studio practice structure outside of academia, and choosing whether to pursue advance art degrees. Jasmine Best is a mixed media … Finished Art School, Now What?

Screened In

Screened In celebrates the nostalgia of the porched childhood, it reconciles the sun and the mosquitoes of the homecoming, and remembers the matriarch of the porch with all of her complexities. Despite its rightful place as a true southern icon, the Southern front porch has found itself disappearing for years. The porch as a public … Screened In

No Home for you Here

“No Home for You Here/No hay hogar para ti” is a collection of work that explores the notion of loss and conflict by examining one’s hybrid identity – especially that of Latin Americans and how that has become defined by U.S. borders. Lauren is the recipient of the 2024 Louisiana Call for Exhibitions.

No Home for You Here

“No Home for You Here/No hay hogar para ti” is a collection of work that explores the notion of loss and conflict by examining one’s hybrid identity – especially that of Latin Americans and how that has become defined by U.S. borders. In the politically divided, nationalist, and insular U. S., many blame the country’s … No Home for You Here

No Weak and Ordinary Voice

No Weak and Ordinary Voice links speeches by Reverdy C. Ransom, a pivotal civil rights activist and founding member of the Niagara Movement, to sites across America through sculptural forms. This exhibition presents the metaphorical act of putting a flower in the barrel of the continued assault on equal rights. By connecting plants to historical … No Weak and Ordinary Voice

Proximity and Touch

Proximity and Touch: Louisiana Group Show Exhibition 2023Vernell Dunams, Ryan Leitner, Kelsey Scult, and Jill StollSeptember 9 – October 29, 2023 Louisiana Group Show  Annually, Antenna Collective orchestrates the ‘Louisiana Call for Exhibitions’, which offers Louisiana artists the opportunity to have their artwork evaluated by a distinguished guest juror, who meticulously selects exhibiting artists from … Proximity and Touch

Aesthetics of Accumulation Workshop 

Workshop with Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo  – 2023 National Call for Exhibition SelecteeJuly 29th, 12:00 to 3:00 PMPaper Machine, 6330 St Claude Ave  Interested in creating a sculpture with found objects? Join us for a one-day workshop lead by Memphis based artist, Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo.  Participants in the workshop will explore the significance and charged nature … Aesthetics of Accumulation Workshop