NEW ORLEANS, LA – The “Rights and Revival” Exhibition at the Myrtle Banks Building (1307 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard, Erato Street Entrance) is closing this Wednesday, July 29th, having been on display since its Prospect.3 New Orleans opening event in October. There will be food, refreshments, and mingling in the 3rd floor gallery space to celebrate its successful run from 5:00 – 7:00 pm. This is the last chance to come and see the show before the new “The People’s Murals” exhibition opens on August 5th! 

The “Rights and Revival” Exhibition at the Myrtle Banks Building was the opening event for Prospect.3 New Orleans last October and celebrates the earliest days of the Civil Rights Movement in New Orleans and modern revival through local arts. The show later welcomed a conversation between the original and new Civil Rights activists, and provided the venue for Civil Rights leader Rudi Lombard’s memorial. The show has been on display for longer than originally planned in the Myrtle Banks Building Creative Space, created and managed by the Creative Alliance of New Orleans (CANO), in partnership with the building’s owner, Alembic Community Development.

“We staged this show to honor the many heroes and heroines of our city, especially those who had a part in the original Civil Rights Movement, as well as the difficult struggle to bring back life to what was once a thriving shopping corridor. The street [Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard] had lost its appeal after a historic boycott that called attention to the lack of African-American employees in the stores that largely served the black community,” said Jeanne Nathan, CANO Executive Director, who curated the show with the help of participating artists. 

In attendance will be some of the artists, whose works are on exhibit, such as Bruce Davenport Jr., Keith Duncan, Kasimu Harris, Alan LeFort, Robert Tannen, Willie White, Carl Joe Williams, and Cleavon Williams. Also attending will be the organizers of the photo exhibit, “Through The Civil Rights Lens: A New Orleans Photographic Retrospective,” Dionne Butler and Danae Columbus. This exhibit includes images of key moments in the New Orleans Civil Rights Movement which indicated the broader movement throughout the South.

On August 5th, the gallery will open a new exhibit anticipating the 10th Anniversary of Katrina: “The People’s Murals,” a massive exhibition of murals painted by hundreds of people, many of whom had never had a paint brush in hand before, will be on exhibit and will herald a donation of the murals to community facilities throughout the city.
CANO and Alembic Community Development invite the public to a closing party to honor the inaugural exhibition of the Creative Space, a gallery in the heart of the building’s joint co-working spaces on the third floor.

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