Collection: SALON gallery + artist studios
Arts New Orleans has partnered with Canal Place Shopping Center to offer free studio and exhibition space in a retail storefront within the center. Over the course of six-month residencies, SALON artists will use their creative practices to activate the studio space, as well as other areas throughout the Center, through open studio tours, exhibitions, performances, workshops, and more. SALON promises exciting programming, exhibitions, and performances.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
In 17th-century France, the salon was conceived for elite society as a site for royally sanctioned painting and sculpture exhibitions. By the 19th century, radical and censored artists challenged these established spaces with their own counter-salons, favoring rebellion, experimentation, and modernity. As a nod to the past positioned in the future, SALON is a space for ideas and instincts to run wild, for relinquishing our minds to creative visitation and possibility, and for the curious and the questioning to gather earnestly in common intrigue.
SALON features six clean, white-walled studios of varied sizes, a communal workshop space, and a gallery for exhibitions, all free of charge to artists. This unusual collaboration comes at a time when affordable studio space is becoming harder and harder to find in New Orleans. Through dedicated, comfortable work space, SALON seeks to provide a sanctuary for resident artists to create and grow. As a new and unconventional residency model, SALON hopes to promote collaborative practice through multidisciplinary artist practices and by offering programmatic opportunities in a space that by its nature is experimental.
View current and previous SALON gallery + artist studios participants below.