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Our ABΩ Jewels shined BRIGHT in Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®️ 72nd Boule, Diamond, Pearl, Golden, and Silver Parade!!!

🩷💚Congratulations on your 50 and 25 Years of Service to Mankind!

#ABOAKA #AKA1908 #WEARESOUTHCENTRAL #ABO100 #NEWORLEANS

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⭐️ CREATIVE ASSEMBLY Exhibition at Old Ford Assembly Plant @creativeallianceofneworleans @creativeindustriesassembly

Thank you so much for visiting our exhibition today! Our exhibition will be closed for summer next couple of months and we will back open early fall with more programming! Many thanks for participating and visiting our CREATIVE ASSEMBLY

⭐️ Creative Alliance of New Orleans (CANO) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the growth and visibility of the region’s creative industries. Please consider supporting The Creative Industries Assembly presented by CANO this Give Nola Day! “The Assembly” is a 30,000 sq. ft. creative hub located in the historic Ford Assembly Plant in Arabi, Louisiana. We are currently exhibiting work by over 80 regional artists, architects and cultural producers. Curated exhibition spaces include immersive installations and light-based work, experimental spaces, media, film, photography, works exploring cultural legacy, and architectural and design showcases.

For over 18 years, CANO has worked with artists, cultural leaders, and community partners to expand opportunities across the full range of the creative sector, including visual, performing, design, media, literature, and culinary arts.

CANO provides the organizational foundation for initiatives that bring the New Orleans arts and creative industries to the forefront of economic growth.

Help us build a stronger creative economy for New Orleans.
At ‘THE ASSEMBLY’, located in the former Ford Motors Assembly Plant
7200 N. Peters St., in Arabi, Louisiana

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Right off the Mississippi, inside an old Ford assembly plant, Land of the Free. A site activation and film installation by #EdwardBucklesJr. A meditation on memory and what remains.

Part of the Lasting Legacies exhibition by @cherylsuttonaka and @creativeindustriesassembly.

This is the last weekend to experience Land of the Free before the exhibition closes for the summer. Open Saturday and Sunday, 12–4 PM.

DOP: @liminal_case
Drone by @noladroneguy

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“Yet, Land of the Free speaks to what fragments of New Orleans culture persist. There’s the distinct cadence of the people’s steps in the footage, syncopated to the 5-4-1 jazz cadence in the score. It would seem as though true continuity in the South can only be perceived against the grain of linear time. In regards to aesthetic decay, the film creates the reclamation of a failed imposed reality. Where there is infrastructural neglect or imposition, the social fabric is the foundational form of resistance. Further, in New Orleans, this social fabric would also exist even without a force to oppose. And that is a different type of timing, it’s infinite.“

✍🏾 @yashiradavalos for @burnaway
editor: @kristinakayrobinson

Land of the Free, a site activation and multimedia projection installation part of the Lasting Legacies exhibition by @cherylsuttonaka.
On view this Saturday and Sunday, 12-4PM
7200 N. Peters St.
Arabi, Louisiana.

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Truly appreciate y’all for showing up! It’s all love.

Grateful to have such legendary artists @cchpounder and @arobinsonwitherspoon come through today. Thank you @bkdottinhaley and @bidottinhaley for facilitating this link up! I truly enjoyed sharing the space with y’all.

Thank you @cherylsuttonaka and #ShanaMGriffin for curating and hosting today’s art walk. #LastingLegacies🙏🏾

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Safe Space
Land of the Free
2026

Land of the Free (2026) is a projection based installation that collapses time – bringing past and present into the same room, the same surface, the same conversation.

Curated by Edward Buckles Jr., the series weaves together moving image, still photography, and mixed formats featuring works by his mentor Eric Waters alongside Ashley Lorraine, Casey Shaw, Jamal, Denzel Barnes, and Buckles himself. Spanning decades, the installation resists linear storytelling— foregrounding how culture is held, preserved and reinterpreted across generations.

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A New Orleans native, Buckles’ practice moves between fine art, and gorilla-style documentation, creating a visual language that embraces texture, imperfection, and memory as truth, telling tools. His debut documentary Katrina Babies (coproduced with TIME Studios) was shortlisted for an Academy Award and cemented his voice as one of urgency and care.

Named to DOC NYC’s 40 under 40 and a recipient of the New Orleans Film Society’s Rising Star Award, Buckles is the founder of House of the Young Ent., a platform dedicated to New Orleans culture and community storytelling.

Land of the Free asks what does it mean to inherit culture and how do we carry it forward, together?

On view now at The Assembly.

Photos and video by @e.buckles

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Our region has talent.
Obviously.

The question is how do we fund it?

GiveNOLA Day supports spaces where artists can show work, sell work, and grow — spaces like “The Assembly.”

We’re investing in our regions future. You can too.

Link in bio

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Let the Sun Shine a light on Truth.

Video by @e.buckles

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“Thematically, the “Folie à deux Variations” are an outgrowth of explorations of relationships. The figures are intended to be in conversation with each other, while presented individually. Materially, the pieces are a continuation of a line of fabric collages I have been experimenting with for a while. Important to the works are the roles that light, transparency, and layering play in reflecting the complexity of individuality. The Monstera leaves are my nod to the themes of resilience, growth, fertility, and an homage to my grandmother, Dorothy.”
-Drék

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Rodrecas “drék” Davis is a mixed-media artist and Professor of Art at Grambling State University, where he also serves as head of Visual & Performing Arts. He holds a B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the University of Georgia. Working primarily in collage and assemblage, Davis explores the intersection of history, spirituality, and Southern identity, with an approach rooted in the aesthetics and pedagogy of Hip Hop culture. His work has appeared in Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters and ColorLines. An inaugural recipient of the Take Notice Fund Grant, Davis is a recipient of a Creative Residency Fellowship at the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences. He was most recently named a member of the inaugural cohort of the MSI Humanities Leadership Academy program (Rutgers University).

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Drék is one of 70+ artists currently exhibiting at Ceative Industries Assembly. All works are available for purchase. Contact @dee.are.period with inquiries.

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Yesterday we gathered artists, designers, creative businesses, and community inside the Ford Assembly Plant for something special.

Conversations, exhibitions and community — all in one space.

And it surpassed all of our expectations. Still taking it in.

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A quick glimpse into the Creative Assembly Art + Design Marketplace.

So many good conversations about what it means to build and support creative work in community.

Grateful for the artists, vendors, and everyone who showed up and made the space feel alive.

@survivalmodstore @heidipocheart @billiebeads @robert_tannen_artist @ebonimages @galleryofthestreets @kevinjohnokeefe @evamaierart @caitlinezellwaugh

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This month, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated’s®️ Alpha Beta Omega Chapter is celebrating our Sisters who have reached 50 and 25 Years of Service and Sisterhood.

🩷💚Congratulations to our Sister, Cheryl Sutton on becoming Golden and celebrating 50 Years of Service to All Mankind. She was initiated into the Zeta Sigma Chapter at The College of New Jersey in 1976. She is active in our Connection and Social Action Committee.

#ABOAKA #AKA1908 #WEARESOUTHCENTRAL #SOARINGWITHAKA #NEWORLEANS

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