New Orleans Visual Artists

Visual artists are responding to the aftermath of New Orleans' flooding in a variety of ways. The group and individual work within this collection represents some of the creativity developing in the months and years following Katrina.

• Neighborhoods
  Beginning in 2006, multimedia installations in gutted homes were presented by a coalition of New Orleans artists. The "Neighborhoods" project, originated by Robert Vicknair, is a series of one-night-only site-specific art and sound installations in...[more]
• Maxx Sizeler
  The Katrina-themed work of New Orleans artist Maxx Sizeler. Maxx Sizeler's website:

  http://www.maxxsizeler.com/index.htm

• Courtney Egan
  The Katrina-themed work of New Orleans artist Courtney Egan. Courtney Egan's website:

  http://www.chaoshag.com/

• Lorraine Monseu
  Post-Katrina photographs by Lorraine Monseu. Monseu is a visual artist who also worked as a circus sign painter, actress, clown, and stiltwalker in New Orleans from 1995 to 2006. She was forced to relocate because of high post-Katrina housing costs....[more]
• New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Media Arts
  Students in the Media Arts program of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts created video interpretations of their return to the city in spring 2006.
  http://www.nocca.com/home.html
• Helen Hill
  Shortly after filmmaker Helen Hill was murdered on January 4, 2007 in her New Orleans home, artists and friends worldwide began to memorialize Helen.
  http://www.helenhill.org/news/