NEW ORLEANS VISUAL ARTS
Clockwise from top left: works from Proslošt Dalye, Raven Halfmoon, Making It Home, Edge of Tomorrow, Dawoud Bey, Carmen Almon & Emily Farish
New Orleans Visual Arts Round Up - September / October 2025
An occasional round up of gallery and museum exhibitions around the city. If you're an artist or a gallery, feel free to send us updates on upcoming exhibitions: outalldaynola [at] gmail [dot] [com]
September
Making It Home: From Vietnam to New Orleans (through October 5, 2025)
Historic New Orleans Collection
Built around oral history narratives, photographic portraits, and family and community heirlooms, Making It Home traces a multigenerational arc of resilience. Particular attention is paid to the bond of Catholicism shared by New Orleans and its Vietnamese population. More info / READ OUR REVIEW
Edge of Tomorrow (through October 19th, 2025)
Historic New Orleans Collection
Discover the beauty and fragility of Louisiana’s endangered wetlands through the lens of acclaimed artist and documentary photographer Ben Depp. In this newly acquired series of 11 large-format prints, Depp takes viewers on a soaring journey above the marshes and bayous, offering rare glimpses of the vibrant, imperiled ecosystems that lie just beyond Louisiana’s protective levees. More info
The Trail They Blazed (through June 7th, 2026)
Historic New Orleans Collection
Stories of social and racial justice straight from the people who lived them. The multimedia experience immerses visitors in the movement, with ambient musical recordings of songs sung by activists, more than three dozen audio excerpts from oral history interviews, archival news footage, stirring photography, an interactive voter registration test, and more. More info
Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers (through March 8th 2026)
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
This exhibition debuts Halfmoon’s largest works to date, including Flagbearer, a three-part stacked ceramic sculpture standing over twelve-feet tall. Halfmoon’s practice ranges from torso-scaled to colossal-sized glazed stoneware sculptures. Several of her recent works soar up to nine-feet high and weigh over a thousand pounds. Their enormous scale and visual power oppose existing stereotypes and biases, creating new monuments that honor the artist’s Caddo ancestors and traditions, including her elders who taught her ceramic techniques when she was a teenager. More info
13th
Proslošt Dalye | Past On: new works by Ariya Aladjem Wolf (through October 5th, 2025)
Good Children Gallery
‘"This work began during a month-long residency in Serbia in 2023, answering a call from my great-grandmother, Rakila Aladžem. Though we never met, it was because of her that I found myself in Belgrade, the city she once called home, where she raised a family, fled from, returned to, and where she later died. Through photography, writing, and performance, I offer fragments and gestures—to the dead, to the forgotten, to the mother-line that runs through me like a river.” More info
17th
National Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration
NOMA
Gallery talks from curator Orlando Hernández Ying and a live salterio performance and lecture from musician Marc Armitano Domingo. As a leading performer and researcher of the salterio—a historical dulcimer popular in 17th- and 18th-century Spain, Italy, and colonial Latin America—Armitano Domingo focuses on reconstructing both the repertoire and authentic playing techniques. This program is included with museum admission, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. Advanced registration is recommended. More info
Sept 17th
The Unending Stream: Chapter II
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
The Unending Stream highlights the work of six photographers who investigate themes similar to Laughlin’s of memory, place, time and identity while capturing the mysterious beauty of America’s most unique city. Each photographer brings a contemporary twist to the exhibition, creating work that provokes thought and conjures emotion. The Unending Stream: Chapter II features photographers (Casey Joiner, Eric Waters, Virginia Hanusik, Giancarlo D’Agostaro, Steve Pyke and Clint Maedgen) who work in both analogue and digital photography. More info
20th
Fall Festival
NOMA
Usher in the new season at a free outdoor festival hosted in NOMA’s Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Enjoy live music and performances, art making activities, guided tours featuring highlights from the Besthoff Sculpture Garden, and more. Entertainment and activities include photos by Polo Silk, a movement class with Move Ya Brass, DJ Audio Jocks, Krewe des Fleurs, and more. Free and open to all. More info
26th
Dawoud Bey: Elegy (through January 4th, 2026)
NOMA
Through the interweaving of three photographic series—"Stony the Road "(2023), "In This Here Place" (2019), and "Night Coming Tenderly, Black" (2017)—Bey offers a framework through which to conceptualize the landscapes of Virginia, Louisiana, and Ohio (respectively) not merely as sites of a troubled history, but also as places that still hold the memories of our shared American past. The exhibition also includes two films: "Evergreen" (2019) and "350,000" (2023). More info
October
4th
Carmen Almon & Emily Farish Anatomy of the Ephemeral
Octavia Gallery
Through sculpture and drawing, both artists explore the delicate and transient nature of botanical life—its vulnerability, impermanence, and quiet resilience. More info
An occasional round up of gallery and museum exhibitions around the city. If you're an artist or a gallery, feel free to send us updates on upcoming exhibitions: outalldaynola [at] gmail [dot] [com]
September
Making It Home: From Vietnam to New Orleans (through October 5, 2025)
Historic New Orleans Collection
Built around oral history narratives, photographic portraits, and family and community heirlooms, Making It Home traces a multigenerational arc of resilience. Particular attention is paid to the bond of Catholicism shared by New Orleans and its Vietnamese population. More info / READ OUR REVIEW
Edge of Tomorrow (through October 19th, 2025)
Historic New Orleans Collection
Discover the beauty and fragility of Louisiana’s endangered wetlands through the lens of acclaimed artist and documentary photographer Ben Depp. In this newly acquired series of 11 large-format prints, Depp takes viewers on a soaring journey above the marshes and bayous, offering rare glimpses of the vibrant, imperiled ecosystems that lie just beyond Louisiana’s protective levees. More info
The Trail They Blazed (through June 7th, 2026)
Historic New Orleans Collection
Stories of social and racial justice straight from the people who lived them. The multimedia experience immerses visitors in the movement, with ambient musical recordings of songs sung by activists, more than three dozen audio excerpts from oral history interviews, archival news footage, stirring photography, an interactive voter registration test, and more. More info
Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers (through March 8th 2026)
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
This exhibition debuts Halfmoon’s largest works to date, including Flagbearer, a three-part stacked ceramic sculpture standing over twelve-feet tall. Halfmoon’s practice ranges from torso-scaled to colossal-sized glazed stoneware sculptures. Several of her recent works soar up to nine-feet high and weigh over a thousand pounds. Their enormous scale and visual power oppose existing stereotypes and biases, creating new monuments that honor the artist’s Caddo ancestors and traditions, including her elders who taught her ceramic techniques when she was a teenager. More info
13th
Proslošt Dalye | Past On: new works by Ariya Aladjem Wolf (through October 5th, 2025)
Good Children Gallery
‘"This work began during a month-long residency in Serbia in 2023, answering a call from my great-grandmother, Rakila Aladžem. Though we never met, it was because of her that I found myself in Belgrade, the city she once called home, where she raised a family, fled from, returned to, and where she later died. Through photography, writing, and performance, I offer fragments and gestures—to the dead, to the forgotten, to the mother-line that runs through me like a river.” More info
17th
National Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration
NOMA
Gallery talks from curator Orlando Hernández Ying and a live salterio performance and lecture from musician Marc Armitano Domingo. As a leading performer and researcher of the salterio—a historical dulcimer popular in 17th- and 18th-century Spain, Italy, and colonial Latin America—Armitano Domingo focuses on reconstructing both the repertoire and authentic playing techniques. This program is included with museum admission, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. Advanced registration is recommended. More info
Sept 17th
The Unending Stream: Chapter II
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
The Unending Stream highlights the work of six photographers who investigate themes similar to Laughlin’s of memory, place, time and identity while capturing the mysterious beauty of America’s most unique city. Each photographer brings a contemporary twist to the exhibition, creating work that provokes thought and conjures emotion. The Unending Stream: Chapter II features photographers (Casey Joiner, Eric Waters, Virginia Hanusik, Giancarlo D’Agostaro, Steve Pyke and Clint Maedgen) who work in both analogue and digital photography. More info
20th
Fall Festival
NOMA
Usher in the new season at a free outdoor festival hosted in NOMA’s Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Enjoy live music and performances, art making activities, guided tours featuring highlights from the Besthoff Sculpture Garden, and more. Entertainment and activities include photos by Polo Silk, a movement class with Move Ya Brass, DJ Audio Jocks, Krewe des Fleurs, and more. Free and open to all. More info
26th
Dawoud Bey: Elegy (through January 4th, 2026)
NOMA
Through the interweaving of three photographic series—"Stony the Road "(2023), "In This Here Place" (2019), and "Night Coming Tenderly, Black" (2017)—Bey offers a framework through which to conceptualize the landscapes of Virginia, Louisiana, and Ohio (respectively) not merely as sites of a troubled history, but also as places that still hold the memories of our shared American past. The exhibition also includes two films: "Evergreen" (2019) and "350,000" (2023). More info
October
4th
Carmen Almon & Emily Farish Anatomy of the Ephemeral
Octavia Gallery
Through sculpture and drawing, both artists explore the delicate and transient nature of botanical life—its vulnerability, impermanence, and quiet resilience. More info