December 13, 2025-January 4, 2026

Opening reception on Second Saturday, December 13th 6-10pm
Gallery open hours are Saturdays and Sundays, 12-5pm. & by appointment (reach out to a member-artist)

Programming This Month

Room 1

LOOK FOR HEAVEN IN MY MOUTH (the spectacular gamble of elderly intimacy)

Kelsey Scult featuring Barbara Scott

I have so much reverence for the elderly, but find we do not create enough spaces to explore the nuances of their interior worlds, or continue to perceive them as sensual beings. Bodies are remarkable, and queer elderly bodies in particular have experienced so much love, loss, sex, intimacy, illness, vitality, grief, ecstasy and more. LOOK FOR HEAVEN IN MY MOUTH is a multimedia installation and exhibition that is my love letter to queer elders. As they are in the final chapter of their lives, what does it mean for them to look for heaven here - in their own bodies - within each other’s bodies? Playing with the motif of poker and risk, this work celebrates the spectacular gamble of being naked, powerful, romantic, embodied, bold, and sensual in your final chapter.

The show also features the sculptures of my brilliant muse and collaborator, Barbara Scott, from her Goddess Sculpture series. Sculpting the goddesses is a fundamental facet of Barbara’s relationship to her own body, sexuality, and divinity. 

This work was made with support from the Platforms Fund.

Kelsey Scult is a New Orleans-based multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker. Her work explores inherited memory, experimental community archiving, and the physical intersection of desire and decay. Food and grief are her muses. Scult is a member of The Front Gallery, an alumna of the New Orleans Film Society's Southern Producers Lab, and a 2025 Artist in Residence at the Joan Mitchell Center. Films Kelsey has produced have played at Sundance, SXSW, Prospect.6 and more. She is very co-dependent with her deaf-blind pug Frankie, and identifies with Barack Obama’s description of his college classmate as an “ethereal bisexual who [wears] mostly black.” www.kelseyscult.com @madame_kelso

Dr. Barbara Foreman Scott has spent over five decades as a pioneering advocate for the advancement of women's rights and the rights of all oppressed people. As a former State Representative candidate and lesbian who ran in the early ‘70s, Dr. Scott took on the prejudice surrounding the male dominant political atmosphere in a controversial time. She demanded pardons for women inmates who had been unjustly incarcerated. Her ultimate goal was to abolish sales tax on food and medicine, legalize marijuana and end rampant discrimination against the Black community, gays, and women in New Orleans. As a private citizen, Barbara founded The Distaff, the longest-running woman-centric newspaper in America. She also ran The New Orleans Hotel in Eureka Springs, AK, and the gay bar The Talisman on Bourbon Street. In her youth, Barbara Scott lived in Tokyo Japan studying with Hiroshi Kado, an internationally acknowledged artist. Today, Dr. Scott has shifted her active efforts into promoting a peaceful, matrifocal society through sculptures called “Goddesses,” which have appeared in a number of galleries in Arkansas and Mississippi. These depictions are inspired by the concept of the divine feminine as represented by ancient cultures throughout history and rediscovered by a meeting of modern artistry and archaeology. They shed light on and serve as a visual retelling of the lost history of women with a focus on the spiritual and artistic worlds of our ancestors through recreating ancient iconography into new conceptualizations. Barbara has been honored for her work in art and historical restoration. A Tulane alumnus, she holds a Ph.D. in gerontology, and four Masters Degrees. 

Room 2

How the light gets in

Riley Teahan

"Ring the bells that still can ring / Forget your perfect offering / There is a crack, a crack in everything / That's how the light gets in.” (Anthem, Leonard Cohen)

Before I found out I was pregnant I dropped an egg on the ground and it broke.

There are things in life that break you open. Sudden change. What is inside and what is outside will inevitably meet. This can be violent and beautiful. 

After my abortion I began collecting eggshells. Precious armor, holder of worlds. I've done this for years now. Compulsion is an expression of my grief. 

I mourn for all women who have been in any way broken open by life.

I mourn and I celebrate. For a break is a beginning.  

When I first moved to New Orleans a friend gave me a jar of cascarilla – a protective powder made of pulverized eggshells birthed from west african and afro-caribbean healing traditions. Eggshells symbolize new life, rebirth, and regeneration. 

I am fortified by the idea that what is broken can eventually return us to wholeness. 

To break, break down, and eventually begin again

Riley Teahan is an interdisciplinary artist based in New Orleans. She creates rituals to inspire presence and healing, working intimately with the body and nature. She is the co-director of Mortal Self; a multimedia production company to inspire healing with the land. Their project 6: An Unbirth won first place at the Ogden Museum’s Louisiana Contemporary show and their latest feature film Winter in Pluto, an experimental love myth, premiered in November 2022. Riley enjoys experimenting with different materials; she especially loves to make clothes, ceramics and jewelry. She is a member of the Front.  www.rileyteahan.com @rileyteahan

room 3

Sean G. Clark, Grinding, Acrylic on canvas, 75x55in, 2025

Gettin’ Some Rest

Sean G. Clark

Gettin’ Some Rest is a curation of oil and acrylic paintings by Sean G. Clark that focuses on the necessity of rest and its unseen possibilities. 

Sean Gerard Clark is a native of Chattanooga, Tennessee who has lived and worked in New Orleans for over a decade. Sean graduated from Morehouse College with a Bachelors of Science in Biology with a concentration in Public Health and African-American Studies. Sean has always found art as a tool for navigating life throughout his work and academic career. He began his artistic practice as a landscape painter and over the years has transitioned into a variety of subjects that investigate the human condition. At the center of his creative practice are abstract and figurative works that capture internal narratives, specifically of Black lives, Black bodies and Black family histories.His most recent works explore rest as repair, blending painting and quilting to fill the literal and historical cracks of the past, and create a softness in technique, process and product. Sean has completed multiple artist residencies which include the Joan Mitchell Center, The Santa Fe Art Institute and Stoveworks. Sean recently received his MFA  from Tulane University and is currently an instructor in painting, drawing, and printmaking at Dillard University.

www.sgclarkart.com @sgclarkart https://whereyartworks.com/artist/sean-clark/891

ROOM 4

1. Josiah Bolth, Ghosts Hanging Laundry, Oil on canvas, 52x72in, 2024, $3500

2. Josiah Bolth, The Dark Sacred Night, Oil on canvas, 60x60in, 2024, $3000

3. Josiah Bolth, Hellfire Club, Oil on canvas, 56x48in, 2025, $3000

4. Josiah Bolth, I Think of Him, Oil on canvas, 50x50in, 2025, $2000v

the Enchanted Grotto

Josiah Bolth

In the Enchanted Grotto, there are hidden treasures- 

and trapdoors

As we sleepwalk into the Grotto, mysterious energies imprint themselves upon our psyches, warping the contours of our consciousness as their voices radiate from the depths. Broadcasting subliminal signals cloaked in languages of memory, history, propaganda, allegory, and fantasy.

The paranormal, parapolitical and paranoid coagulate, creating a psychic discharge that trickles down from the surface world and into the nethermost recesses of the Grotto, becoming the bubbling ferment where ethereal beings take form.

As we slip deeper into the subterrain, at the edges of our vision we catch glimpses of the spirits who gestate within its bowels…

I seek the creation of a figurative space resonating with transmissions that arise from the Enchanted Grotto, echoes murmuring in the tongues of unearthly forms that remain concealed among us, longing to be found…

Josiah Bolth is from the desert.

His life has been a party

and a tragedy

and a joke

thesecularcowboy.com @the_secular_cowboy /thesecularcowboy