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.
JUNE 2nd Sat RECEPTION @ Antenna:3718 & Antenna:6330 – Saturday June 13th 6-10pm: Join us this 2nd Saturday for an opening exhibition reception at BOTH Antenna locations!
Antenna:3718 exhibitions: The Art Farm & FREE FORM
Antenna:6330 exhibition: 21 Katrina Cranes: ALCHEMY OF THE FALLING ACORN
– You can visit the exhibition at Antenna:3718 during gallery hours (Thursdays 12-7pm, Fridays & Saturdays 12-5pm at 3718 St. Claude Ave. from May 12th-June 27th).
– You can visit the exhibition at Antenna:6330 during regular operating hours for Paper Machine (Tuesdays-Friday 10am-6pm from May 12th-June 27th)
2nd Sat RECEPTION @ Antenna:3718 & Antenna:6330 – Saturday May 12th 6-10pm: Join us this 2nd Saturday for an opening exhibition reception at BOTH Antenna locations!
Antenna:3718 exhibitions: The Art Farm & FREE FORM
Antenna:6330 exhibition: 21 Katrina Cranes: ALCHEMY OF THE FALLING ACORN
– You can visit the exhibition at Antenna:3718 during gallery hours (Thursdays 12-7pm, Fridays & Saturdays 12-5pm at 3718 St. Claude Ave. from May 12th-June 27th).
– You can visit the exhibition at Antenna:6330 during regular operating hours for Paper Machine (Tuesdays-Friday 10am-6pm from May 12th-June 27th)
APPLY TO BE AN ANTENNA BOARD MEMBER HERE BY JUNE 1st, 2026
In 2026, Antenna is seeking local and national community members for a three year term on the Antenna board. We are seeking folx with knowledge in marketing, philanthropy, real estate, builder, architect, publishing, and community members who are interested in supporting the arts ecosystem. Board members support Antenna’s mission; participate in developing policies and procedures to govern the organization, and advise the team. Applications are due June 1, followed by an interview and approval of the board by early July and August and if accepted onboarding in September – November with your first meeting in December.
May 5th, 2026 from 6-8pm::
GiveNOLA Day Community Vibe Dinner!
GiveNOLA Day is Tuesday May 5th – This year Antenna is raising $5,000 for our Emergency Grants for Artists and we’d love to see you all on 5.5.26 from 6-8pm at our Vibes Dinner – an evening of conversation, community, and celebration of artists as workers. Featuring a light dinner as well as a creative sharing by Pink Slipper (recipient of the Antenna Press Award), this event is hosted by our wonderful board to celebrate and uplift the New Orleans creative community during this local fundraising holiday. All donations from the Give NOLA Day platform and this event supports Antenna’s Artist Emergency Fund, helping sustain artists and cultural workers during times of need. Scaled donations of $25–$150 are asked for those wishing to attend the dinner, with donations of $50 or more receiving a copy of the Pink Slipper book!
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”.
LEH presents Louisiana Poet Laureate Jack Bedell
The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities presents Louisiana Poet Laureate Jack Bedell at 6 p.m. on Thursday, October 26, at 938 Lafayette Street.
Octavia Books presents Nicole Cooley
Octavia Books hosts Nicole Cooley at 6 p.m. on Thursday, October 26, at their storefront (513 Octavia). Celebrate the latest title from the Barataria Poetry Series (LSU Press) with “Girl After Girl After Girl” author Nicole Cooley, series editor Ava Leavell Haymon, and Martha Serpas. Nicole Cooley is the author of “Breach,” ” Milk Dress,” “The…
The 2-2-7 Salon presents Laura Mattingly and Dahlia El-Shafei
The 2-2-7 Salon will present Laura Mattingly and Dahlia El-Shafei at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, October 24, at 227 S. Cortez Street. At this month’s salon, guests will be dazzled by the works of Laura Mattingly and Dahlia El-Shafei! After each writer presents her work, the audience will have the pleasure to discuss it and…
David Fulmer at Octavia Books
Octavia Books hosts David Fulmer at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, October 24, at their storefront (513 Octavia). Fulmer will be reading from his latest, Eclipse Alley, the much anticipated new installment in the award-winning and critically acclaimed Valentin St. Cyr Mystery series. In the darkness of a May night in 1916, two “sporting girls” walking home through…
Dogfish presents John Pope and Jon Padgett
Dogfish Reading Series hosts John Pope and Jon Padgett at 7 p.m. on Thursday, October 19, at 2448 N. Villere St. JON PADGETT’s first short story collection, The Secret of Ventriloquism, was named the Best Fiction Book of 2016 by Rue Morgue Magazine. He has work out or forthcoming in PseudoPod, Lovecraft eZine, A Walk…
Jade Hurter and Andrew Ketcham at Blood Jet
Blood Jet Poetry Series hosts Jade Hurter and Andrew Ketcham at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, October 11, at BJs in the Bywater (4301 Burgundy). Jade Hurter is the author of the chapbook Slut Songs (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2017). She was a finalist in the 2016 Tennessee Williams Poetry Contest, judged by Yusef Komunyakaa, and her…
Fiction Night: Neil Ranu and Alex B. Johnson
Blood Jet Poetry Series hosts fiction night with Neil Ranu and Alex B. Johnson at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, October 18, at BJs in the Bywater (4301 Burgundy). Neil Ranu grew up in Fresno, California, and lived there until he moved to New Orleans to attend the MFA program at UNO in 2010. He got…
C. Morgan Babst at Garden District Book Shop
Garden District Book Shop hosts C. Morgan Babst to celebrate the launch of her book The Floating World at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, October 17, at their storefront (2727 Prytania Street). The Floating World tells the story of the Boisdorés, a Creole family whose roots stretch back nearly to the foundation of New Orleans, as they…
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,…
