Entrance to Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories

Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories marked the 2018 New Orleans Tricentennial by bringing together a group of seven contemporary art projects that focused on forgotten or marginalized histories of the city. Projects by artists Katrina Andry, Willie Birch, Lesley Dill, Skylar Fein, L. Kasimu Harris, The Everyday Projects and The Propeller Group each explore the ways in which defining moments in New Orleans’ past continue to frame art and life in the city today. Reflecting on how these histories have shaped our responses to present-day concerns, the exhibition considered how the act of commemoration can also be a form of forward thinking: a rejoinder to the present that might also change the course of things to come.