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KATRINA @ 2O ART SHOW
@ CANOA
Won an ANDY WARHOLFOUNDATION Award
Through the PLATFORMS Fund
José Torres-Tama's KATRINA @ 20 Solo Art Exhibition
received a 2025-2026 PLATFORMS Fund award.
The PLATFORMS Fund is a collaborative effort of
the Antenna Gallery, the Ashé Cultural Arts Center
& Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
The Regional Regranting Program was established in 2007
to recognize and support the movement of independently organized,
public-facing, artist-centered activity that animates local and regional
art scenes but that lies beyond the reach of traditional funding sources.
The program is administered by non-profit visual art centers
across the United States that work in partnership with the Warhol Foundation
to fund artists’ experimental projects and collaborative undertakings.
This is a Visual History Project
"Documenting the (UN)documented"
Latin American Immigrants
Who Have Aided the
REBIRTH of New Orleans
Post-Katrina (2005)
KATRINA @ 20 ARTS PROJECT
CANOA has hosted the exhibition of large artworks
for the 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
This was the only KATRINA @ 20 Cultural Event that actually honored the Latin American immigrant workers
vital to the epic rebirth of post-Katrina New Orleans
CANOA
Caribbean And New Orleanian Arts
4210 Saint Claude Ave
(Bywater New Orleans)
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Tomas Montoya & Jebney Lewis
Are Founders of CANOA
Opened:
Saturday, August 9, 2025
from 6 - 10pm
through October 23, 2025
The dirtiest little secret of the post-Katrina reconstruction
is that hundreds upon hundreds of Latin America immigrants,
many undocumented, contributed to the epic rebirth of New Orleans.
The Ashé Cultutural Arts Center presented two of the oil paintings
from this series in their 30th Annual Juried MLK Social Justice Art Show
January 17 - March 31, 2026
ANTENNA GALLERY
in New Orleans Exhibited
large paintings from this series
April 12 - June 1, 2025
2025 Louisiana 2025 Group Show
Organized by
Niama Safia Sandy
(Renowned New York City Curator
Selected Artists for this Juried Louisiana Group Show)
MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART
(Augusta, GA)
Hosted a "Live Art Lecture"
on this series titled
"Pictorial Chronicles
of the Anti-Immigrant Hysteria"
April 4, 2024
Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans
Awarded 4-Month Artist-In-Residence Studio
for the Development of Large Paintings
in New Orleans
New Works Exploring A Lingering Legacy
of Anti-Immigrant Hysteria
in GrinGoLandia
These Works Have Received
a Creative Communities League Award
(CCL) in New Orleans
The exhibition consists of large paintings,
and works-on-paper, and has been developed over a dozen years
'Plans are developing for this traveling exhibition to tour
university galleries & museums in the
South for the Fall of 2026.
... More to come
