New Orleans, LA
Where jazz spills from every open door and second lines wind through streets soaked in Mardi Gras history, New Orleans has always lived on its walls. From Tremé jazz portraits to the emerging outdoor galleries of Bywater and Marigny, the Crescent City's mural scene is as layered, loud, and irreplaceable as the culture that created it — grief and joy painted with equal force.
Featured Artists
All artists →Jérôme Bautista
Bautista's large-scale works map the intersection of displacement, memory, and Crescent City resilience. His Bywater piece "Before the Storm" — painted on the anniversary of Katrina — layers ghosted architecture, water line marks, and portraits of neighborhood elders into a meditation that has become a permanent fixture of the city's outdoor art canon.
Ayo Fontenot
Tremé-born visual artist and second line participant whose murals document jazz culture from the inside. Fontenot grew up in the neighborhood he paints, and his works on N Rampart Street carry the authority of firsthand memory — vibrant brass band portraits layered over hand-painted music notation and parade footage stills.
Sophia Désir
Haitian-American artist whose Marigny murals weave Afro-Creole identity with Haitian Vodou symbolism and the everyday visual culture of Frenchmen Street. Désir's "Creole Continuum" traces the Black cultural through-line from Saint-Domingue to New Orleans — a six-panel epic that has drawn scholars and street art tourists alike.