July 11th - August 2nd, 2026
Gallery open hours are Saturdays and Sundays, 12-5pm & by appointment (reach out to an artist)
Programming This Month
Saturday July 11th, 6-10pm
Opening Reception, Second Saturday
Sunday, July 26th, 2pm
Memory Collection Event (Community Gathering) at The Front. A community invitation for residents to contribute photographs, stories, and personal objects to the ongoing archive of "You Had to Be There." These contributions will inform future artworks, a carnival float, and a permanent archival collection.
Sunday August 2nd, 12-5pm
Closing: farewell for now and liftoff with Satori Nightshade
Room 1
You Had to Be There
Carl Harrison Jr.
I transform familiar objects, landscapes, and symbols into contemporary artifacts that carry collective memory across generations. My work explores the relationship between place, memory, and Black life in New Orleans. Through prints, assemblage, and community-based practice, I draw from the histories and everyday material culture of neighborhoods that continue to shape the city’s identity.
"You Had to Be There" centers Lake Forest Plaza, once the social and commercial heart of New Orleans East. More than a shopping mall, it was where the East gathered. Though the building is gone, its stories remain. The exhibition brings these stories forward through memories, photographs, objects, and community contributions. Through an open call, visitors are invited to share photographs, stories, and personal objects that expand the work into a living archive. What is collected here will continue beyond the gallery, taking shape as new artworks, a carnival float, and a permanent archive that will carry these stories forward for future generations. For me, remembering is a way of carrying memory forward, honoring what endures, and imagining the future of New Orleans East.
Carl Harrison Jr. is a multidisciplinary artist from New Orleans whose work explores memory, place, and Black cultural life in the Gulf South. Through printmaking, assemblage, film, and community-based practice, he transforms everyday objects and local histories into contemporary artifacts that carry collective memory forward. His work engages archival research and public participation to preserve and reimagine the cultural landscapes of New Orleans East and the broader Gulf South.
Room 2
Zaire Love, AINT, digital media, 2026.
AINT: Interrupting Your Programming
Zaire Love
AINT: am not, is not, are not. This work that I’ve been called to do calls you to remember your aint. It is a pleasure to know who you are. It is unflinchingly necessary to know who you are not and what you will not stand for. Through film and mixed media, I tell the stories of the ain’ts of the Black South.
Zaire Love [azairelovejunt] is an award-winning filmmaker, film festival founder, music maker, writer, and educator whose mission is to honor, amplify, and immortalize the stories and voices of the Black South, focusing most of her work in Memphis, TN, and Mississippi. While Zaire’s work extends beyond the Black South, bringing honor to it, its people, its traditions, and its cultures in the past, present, and future is her life’s work.
She is a graduate of Spelman College [BA], Houston Baptist University [M. Ed], and the University of Mississippi [MFA]. She directs the Southern Foodways Alliance film program, serves as the Executive Director of Creative at Scalawag Magazine, and is the proud founder of AINT Film Festival.
Room 3
Up the Spiral Ladder
Danielle Fauth
Danielle Fauth is an interdisciplinary sculptor born and raised in Long Island, New York. She received an MFA in Sculpture from Tulane University in 2022. Fauth was a 2022 RedLine CAC Satellite Studio Artist in Denver, Colorado, a 2023 Volland Foundation Artist in Residence in Volland, Kansas, and currently lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana. Using personal effects, found objects & patterns in the landscape as points of departure, Fauth’s work surfaces poetics of material by reinterpreting the ordinary & inanimate as resonant beings that constellate a map of human experience.
room 4
Satori Nightshade, Untitled color, Digital rendering, (archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 16x20) 2026
LIFTOFF
SATORI NIGHTSHADE
Close encounters with feelings that can’t be accounted for & A farewell to New Orleans for now.
Satori Nightshade creates gateways into the unseen — sentient landscapes, visceral narratives — through a multidisciplinary approach. Her work spans the mediums of immersive theater, 3D-printed sculptural fashion, and still and moving image, and has been shown and published nationally and internationally. In short, she’s a world builder.