Young Artist Movement (YAM) is the Arts Council’s arts education and workforce development program for youth ages 14-22. It is is New Orleans’ first citywide youth public art program, founded in 2016 by a collective of youth advocates, artists, and educators to provide transformative job and educational opportunities for local… Read More
This 3-year, $40,000 per year grant will support four annual cycles of programming (winter, spring, summer, fall), including at least one at the Juvenile Justice Intervention Center (JJIC). On average, each program is 6-10 weeks, 100-hours total, and serves around 20 youth. Young Artist Movement (YAM) is Arts New Orleans’… Read More
Public Invited to Attend June 23 National Council on the Arts Meeting In Person or Watch Online New Orleans, LA—The National Council on the Arts, the advisory body for the National Endowment for the Arts, will gather in New Orleans, Louisiana, for its summer meeting, June 21-23, 2023—only the third… Read More
Washington, DC—The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is pleased to announce the first round of recommended awards for fiscal year 2023, with more than $34 million in funding to support the arts nationwide. This is the first of the NEA’s two major grant announcements each fiscal year and includes… Read More
NEW ORLEANS — The City of New Orleans today unveiled a new public art mural completed in partnership with the Canadian government and Arts New Orleans. Canadian artist Chantelle Trainor-Matties designed the mural and local New Orleans artist JoLean Barkley recreated it at the corner of Ursulines Avenue and N.… Read More
