The Festival of New Works returns to the Contemporary Arts Center during it's 50th anniversary season as both a revival and a recalibration. Festival/New/Works gathers artist living and practicing in Louisiana working across multiple genres including: Painting, drawing, film, sculpture, and other forms that refuse easy categorization. Festival/New/Works connects audiences with a vibrant network of artist who are shaping the cultural language of the gulf south artists whose ideas are still unfolding, and in motion
The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans is a touchstone for Contemporary Art in New Orleans and the Gulf South, enhancing connections between artists and communities and providing a forum for ideas and the exploration of a just society through artistic creation, public engagement, and institutional practice.