New Orleans Airlift / Music Box Village

New Orleans Airlift is an artist-led nonprofit whose mission is to forge connections between people, ideas, and cultures through collaborative artworks.

The Music Box Village is a place where play, imagination, experimentation, collaboration, community and hard work come together as a whimsical village of artist-made interactive "musical houses." Each installation is inspired by the unique musical and architectural culture of our home city of New Orleans, and represents a collaborative process between artists based here and abroad. Our one-of-a-kind art site hosts intensive artist residencies, performances, panels, and welcomes visitors for exploration and play.

Music Box Village is the flagship project of New Orleans Airlift, an artist-driven non-profit organization whose mission is to collaborate to inspire wonder, connect communities, and foster opportunities through arts education and the creation of experimental public artworks. Our work in the Music Box Village pushes artistic boundaries, but more importantly it brings together people of all stripes for heartwarming, creative experiences that have equal appeal for a musical giant such as Norah Jones, an experimental legend like Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) or a gaggle of 5-year-olds! Music Box Village is the channel through which Airlift does all of its mission related work.

Testimonials

"The Music Box's central idea-
that music is something in which
you can live-turns out to be the
fundamental tenet of the city where
it has thrived, and which it's inspired.
High concept and nontraditional as it
may be, [The Music Box Village] has
found a place in the long history of
New Orleans music."
- Ann Powers, NPR Music