The Gallery hosts contemporary exhibitions every month, focusing on Louisiana landscape, architecture, her people and unique customs. We feature a much anticipated annual group exhibition of miniature paintings, Smalls for the Walls in late winter and a local Fall favorite, Calling out The Wards! about the seventeen neighborhoods of New Orleans.
Art Walks are hosted by all the galleries in the Arts District in the evenings on the first Saturday of each month. Jean Bragg Gallery participates in the District’s special events, such as Whitney White Linen Night in August, Art for Art’s Sake in October, and April’s Jammin’ on Julia sponsored by the Downtown Development District. Anchored by Julia Street, these annual street parties are held in true New Orleans fashion with art, music, and food and fun!
ART WALK SCHEDULE 2012: January 7: Adam Hall, New Work February 4: Linda Lesperance, Fantasy Days & Flambeaux Nights March 3: Smalls for the Walls with Michelle Conques April 7: Jammin’ on Julia with Ann Strub, Run up The Colors! May 5: Charles Smith, Close to Home June 2: Group Show, Cries of New Orleans with Carol Hallock July 7: David Dillard August 4: Whitney White Linen Night with Chuck Broussard September 1: Oscar Quesada October 6: Art for Art’s Sake with Thomas Sully, Jr. November 3: Calling Out The Wards with Terry Kenney December 1: Will Smith, Jr., IcoNOLAgy
JANUARY 2012: begins an exciting year of art with Adam Klein Hall. His urban scenes eclipse the Fauves in color palette and still may be viewed on Gallery Artists/Adam Hall.
FEBRUARY 2012 Linda Lesperance Fantasy Days & Flambeaux Nights! Mardi Gras is Tuesday, February 21! Lesperance’s oil paintings catch all the excitement and diversity of the celebration. Everybody has his favorite aspects of Mardi Gras and I’m no different. For some people there are the floats, the marching bands, the roving Elvis impersonators or the steppers and twirlers but as a spectator, I have to love the flambeaux the most. They are the heart and soul of the night parades and I always go to watch them line up at the beginning of the parade route, getting their torches lit one by one, flames dripping as the kerosene sputters all around them. It is no easy job but they hoist those flaming torches with humor and grace. There is so much history there, too. Without the flambeaux to light the way for the carnival wagons and mules, there probably would never have been any night parades at all. The second best thing to watching Mardi Gras is becoming a part of it so I myself enjoy dressing as a skeleton and marching with the bone gangs on Carnival Day. Our skeleton krewe eventually merges with the St. Ann Parade in the Bywater and I can’t imagine spending Mardi Gras Day any other way.
Sample Our Small Plates! Miniature Paintings of Favorite New Orleans Food by Our Gallery Artists
PREVIEW: The Southern Graphics Council Conference in March, 2012 An Eye for “Patios, Stairways and Iron Lace Balconies” Etchings and Woodblocks of Old New Orleans 1900-1940
Artists drawn to old New Orleans found an environment that evoked all the picturesque qualities of a French town and of a tropical courtyard in Moorish Spain. Many did comprehensive etchings of the urban architecture, from Robert Bledsoe Mayfield in 1905, to William Woodward, George Castleden, and Morris Henry Hobbs in the 1930’s. They made their art accessible to the public, often producing souvenir postcards of their compositions. Most significantly, their visual record gave impetus to the Historic Preservation Movement and secured the future of this landmark city’s heart.
