Creative Industries Assembly supports the full range of creative work in New Orleans and surrounding regions.
Through gatherings, exhibitions, and our Art + Design Marketplace (to name a few), we create opportunities for connection, visibility, and economic growth.
Follow along as we build what’s next.
Thank you Jeanne Nathan for inviting me to show sister art works in the CANO space at her BRILLIANT (long awaited ) unique Exhibition Space Masterpiece ,…..
the CREATIVE INDUSTRIES ASSEMBLY.
These painted and stitched wood pieces comment on Louisiana’s salty , oily water mix up ( see vials), expanding dead zones and rapid land loss issues. How can “we” bind/tether/ stitch Louisiana into our place of the “United States” ? Our connection is slipping away,.. under the waterline unable to stay afloat.
And yet all this swampy water and excitable weather is just so beautiful.
~JG
A quick walkthrough of the poetic LIGHT ROOM at @creativeindustriesassembly curated by @caitlinezellwaugh
The list of all artists and map at the end of the video
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Art doesn’t exist in isolation—it exists because people choose to support it.
Yesterday, 33 donors raised over $5K for Creative Industries Assembly.
That support becomes space, opportunity, visibility, and momentum for artists.
Thank you for being part of that.
🎨 New Orleans is culture. New Orleans is art. New Orleans is OUR artists.
This #GiveNOLADay, we’re shining a light on the creatives who shape our city’s soul—from painters and performers to storytellers and visionaries. Too often, the same artists who inspire us daily go unseen, unsupported, and underfunded.
We’re changing that.
By supporting this campaign, you’re not just donating—you’re investing in dreams, preserving culture, and empowering the next generation of creators right here in New Orleans.
Donate. Share. Show love.
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If you’ve ever been moved by the work, the energy, the possibilities of spaces like The Assembly, today is the last day to show up for GiveNOLA.
Your support keeps exhibitions like this alive. It keeps artists paid. It keeps experimental, community, rooted spaces, open, and evolving.
Invest in the future we’re trying to build.
Give today: https://mtyc.co/cx0vhg
📷 Thom Bennett
Safe Space
Land of the Free
2026
Land of the Free (2026) is a projection based installation that collapses time – bringing past and present into the same room, the same surface, the same conversation.
Curated by Edward Buckles Jr., the series weaves together moving image, still photography, and mixed formats featuring works by his mentor Eric Waters alongside Ashley Lorraine, Casey Shaw, Jamal, Denzel Barnes, and Buckles himself. Spanning decades, the installation resists linear storytelling— foregrounding how culture is held, preserved and reinterpreted across generations.
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A New Orleans native, Buckles’ practice moves between fine art, and gorilla-style documentation, creating a visual language that embraces texture, imperfection, and memory as truth, telling tools. His debut documentary Katrina Babies (coproduced with TIME Studios) was shortlisted for an Academy Award and cemented his voice as one of urgency and care.
Named to DOC NYC’s 40 under 40 and a recipient of the New Orleans Film Society’s Rising Star Award, Buckles is the founder of House of the Young Ent., a platform dedicated to New Orleans culture and community storytelling.
Land of the Free asks what does it mean to inherit culture and how do we carry it forward, together?
On view now at The Assembly.
Photos and video by @e.buckles
Architecture as ecosystem, not object.
That’s exactly what students from Tulane School of Architecture and Built Environment are challenging us to think about in a piece that reimagines domestic space as something alive, shared, layered, and in constant negotiation.
This model by Ben Corbett (‘25) and collaborator explores how performative 3D-printed ceramic structures can create new sites of interaction between human and nonhuman inhabitants of domestic spaces.
“The form came from looking at how to bring the “wild” conditions underneath New Orleans shotguns … vertically to promote interaction between these human and nonhuman spaces.”
Cone shaped vertical columns expand and contract into interior pockets to create spaces that feel both architectural and organic, intimate and communal.
This is design as translation.
This is architecture that listens.
On view now at The Assembly.
- Ben Cornett
Tulane ‘25
GIVE NOLA DAY ⭐️ The Creative Alliance of New Orleans ⭐️ /organization/cano
PLEASE SUPPORT OUR CREATIVE ASSEMBLY Exhibition at Old Ford Assembly Plant @creativeallianceofneworleans@creativeindustriesassembly
Creative Alliance of New Orleans (CANO) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the growth and visibility of the region’s creative industries. Please consider supporting The Creative Industries Assembly presented by CANO this Give Nola Day! “The Assembly” is a 30,000 sq. ft. creative hub located in the historic Ford Assembly Plant in Arabi, Louisiana. We are currently exhibiting work by over 80 regional artists, architects and cultural producers. Curated exhibition spaces include immersive installations and light-based work, experimental spaces, media, film, photography, works exploring cultural legacy, and architectural and design showcases.
For over 18 years, CANO has worked with artists, cultural leaders, and community partners to expand opportunities across the full range of the creative sector, including visual, performing, design, media, literature, and culinary arts.
CANO provides the organizational foundation for initiatives that bring the New Orleans arts and creative industries to the forefront of economic growth.
Help us build a stronger creative economy for New Orleans.
At ‘THE ASSEMBLY’, located in the former Ford Motors Assembly Plant
7200 N. Peters St., in Arabi, Louisiana
With GiveNOLA Day less than 24 hours away, there’s still time to invest in local artists and creative spaces that shape the culture of our city— not just today, but every day.
Support the work. Support the people. Give now: https://mtyc.co/cx0vhg
Reminiscing on these moments front the opening of THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES ASSEMBLY -
Hard to believe that it’s been 3 weeks.
Thanks to all who came through and made it possible! @creativeallianceofneworleans@creativeindustriesassembly@hekaraoglu@heidipocheart@sschmidtartist
Could not have made it without the help and support of my dear husband !!!
We are closed today for Jazz Fest and will reopen next Saturday and Sunday.
#ALVEAREfluente_flowingHIVE #AsTheRiverFlows #lubazygarewicz #LAart #kineticsculpture suspendedsculpture
