How You Doin' New Orleans

What is the essence of New Orleans as our people and landscape adapt and evolve? Who are we within our local imagination? Who can we become as we continually adapt and change, while still preserving the history and memories that define New Orleans? Can we peel back the layers of New Orleans and express the complex truths that define our way of life? How do you experience and envision New Orleans today and in the future?

Arts New Orleans is pleased to announce our 2024 Call for Artwork for the City of New Orleans’ Percent for Art Program: “How You Doin’ New Orleans?” This call is for artwork that addresses the complexity of a great city maintaining and adapting its unique culture for relevance and sustainability in the 21st century. We are seeking artwork that reflects both the triumphs and challenges of living in and loving New Orleans as we look toward its future.

Whether you call New Orleans "The Crescent City,” "The Big Easy,” “The Birthplace of Jazz,” “The Most African City in the U.S.,” "The City That Care Forgot,” "NOLA,” "The City of Yes,” "Hollywood South,” "The Creole City," “The Northernmost Caribbean City,” “The Paris of the South,” or some combination (or derivation) of the above, it’s no secret that New Orleans holds a singular position in the global imagination as a world-class city like no other.