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The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), founded in 1976, is New Orleans' home to numerous artists' valiant experiments in painting, theater, photography, performance art, dance, music, video, education, and sculpture. The CAC, located in a renovated warehouse in the city's famed downtown Arts District, is at the center of the New Orleans' art community.
The CAC, which occupies two floors of a donated warehouse, contains over 1000 square feet of gallery space (one large gallery and three smaller galleries), two theaters, a rehearsal hall, an arts lab, and various offices and meeting rooms. Surprisingly, in all this space, the CAC holds no permanent exhibits, yet it offers up to 250 rotating temporary exhibitions, as well as performances, classes, lectures, screenings, and concerts every year. The visual art exhibits rotate about five times per season, touching on national and local artists, and wavering between traditional and alternative art forms: sculpture, glass, photographs, paintings, conceptual works, multi-media installations, and constructions. Film and video screenings are held in conjunction with the New Orleans Film Festival. Local and national music acts, ranging from jazz to African drumming to Latin, are showcased a few times a month. There are plays by established and emerging playwrights, monthly staged readings and critiques at the Playwrights' Unit Staged Reading Series, and the yearly New Play Competition, open to regional writers. |
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