Antenna

Antenna is a 501(c)(3) non-profit multidisciplinary cultural institution presenting exhibitions, public programs, publishing, and regranting located in New Orleans. We provide financial, curatorial, professional, residential support for BIPOC, LGBTQ-GNC+, women, immigrant, and other abled cultural contributors and cultural bearers who produce visual and performance art; digitally printed book arts; participatory and socially engaged projects in public space.

Give NOLA Funds will go into Antennas Emergency Fund, supporting artists in extreme times of need.

Antenna has Positioned itself as a bridge builder, arts service organization, and responding to the needs of the community, Antenna is forming a vision for the kind of world we want to engage in. New Orleans has a vibrant and resourceful arts ecosystem consisting of commercial galleries, museums, arts education programs, residencies, artist run spaces, performative events, and collectives. Antenna operates by: paying the team and contracted partners an honorable wage. We look to WAGE for guidance in creating our pay scales. Engaging in Non-Hierarchical organizational structure. We work collaboratively in all aspects of the work; we take an equity based approach to operations, programs and public engagement; we honor the environment by maximizing our resources, both material and fiscal; and we support artists who are exploring innovative ways to contextualize contemporary life, create cultural capital and societal change through their work.

Testimonials

a few comments on Antenna's exhibitions from the IG: Such a great show! What a sweet night? Thanks y'all. Such a beautiful show!