New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Art Collection

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation will be opening our new George & Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center this December. With the generous support of the Helis Foundation, artworks that reflect the music and culture of Louisiana will be purchased and commissioned to be on exhibition in the Center. Artworks selected will be displayed on the walls throughout the Center and must be created by artists living and working in Louisiana.

Interested artists are invited to submit existing work and/or a proposal of work(s) they would create for the project. The deadline for submitting work is Friday October 10, 2014.

Eligibility: Open to professional artists living in Louisiana.

Medium: painting, photography, printmaking, sculptural work suitable for wall installation.

Application deadline: October 10 by 5 pm. Questions: dmarshall@jazzandheritage.org

The Helis Foundation is a Louisiana private foundation funded by the William Helis Family. Enriching the cultural life of New Orleans, the Diana Helis Henry and Adrienne Helis Malvin Art Funds of The Helis Foundation sustain, provide free admission to, and acquire works of art for institutions throughout the Greater New Orleans region. The foundation also underwrites and invests in major exhibitions and projects including the Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition, Prospect.3’s “Basquiat and the Bayou” scheduled for late 2014, the Enrique Alferez Sculpture Garden in City Park’s Botanical Gardens scheduled for 2015, and the Contemporary Art Center's "Thirty Americans” exhibition in 2014.

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation, Inc. is the nonprofit organization that owns the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell, proceeds from which support the foundation's year-round community development activities in the areas of education, economic development and cultural programming. Programs and assets of the foundation include: radio station WWOZ 90.7-FM; the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation Archive; the Don Jamison Heritage School of Music; the Tom Dent Congo Square Lecture Series; the Jazz Journey concert series; and the Community Partnership Grants program. The Foundation also produces community events such as the Crescent City Blues Festival, the Congo Square Rhythms Festival, the Louisiana Cajun Zydeco Festival and the Treme Creole Gumbo Festival.

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