An exhibition series combining art, speakers, and topics relevant to public health
Summer 2026: "Silver Roll Migrations"
Inspired by Caribbean poet and scholar Edouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation, especially the concept of errantry, which can be understood as living in motion, wandering as an act of resistance, and opposing rootedness to challenge the boundaries of border and exile in a postcolonial society. Featuring personal photographs taken in Barbados and Panama over a five-year period, sound, and sculpture to explore errantry as a form of refusal, culminating in acts of worldbuilding and imagination within the African Diaspora.
Felicia Felli Maynard is an interdisciplinary artist and community archivist from Brooklyn, NYC. Maynard works across analog and alternative-process photography, sculpture, sound, and installation. Their work explores the rituals and practices of survival and prosperity among descendants of the African Diaspora. Maynard works between New Orleans and New York City. ---
This exhibition is part of the arts & public health programming at the Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. This series is presented with generous support from the Collins C. Diboll Foundation.
Open Monday through Friday 9am-5pm
Saturdays 10am-2pm
Completed exhibits:
- Exhibition #9: Musings, by artist Luba Zygarewicz. Drawing from various lines of inquiry, “Musings” captured moments from daily practice – meditative explorations of time, place, and presence. In a world filled with noise, creativity offers a way to exhale, reconnect with ourselves, and find meaning the simple acts of making, noticing, and being. Luba Zygarewicz is a Chilean-Ukrainian artist and educator whose work delves into the essence and history of objects and places, addressing personal, cultural, and environmental concerns.
- Exhibition #8: Operation Dream: A Futurespective for New Orleans, 20 Years Post-Katrina was a heartfelt endeavor embodying the community’s vision for New Orleans over the next 20 years and marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
- Exhibition #7: I Gotta Tell You Something About Me was a group exhibition of portraits by 15+ young local artists of the Center for Youth Equity. This show centered youth experiences in our society, how they define themselves, what gives them strength, and what they need to thrive. This show was curated by Diane Appaix-Castro.
- Exhibition # 6: In the Quiet Drift featured work by Lily Brooks and Elliott Stokes, curated by Diane Appaix-Castro. The exhibition explored the intricate and increasingly fragile relationship between humans and the natural waterways of Louisiana. The artists delve into the profound grief embodied in the erasure of the state's coastline, capturing the slow, irreversible decay of a landscape that once nurtured both the land and the people who called it home.
- Exhibition 5: Echoes from the Hive, a multimedia exhibit by Carl Harrison Jr. and Kelsey Scult, curated by Diane Appaix-Castro, explored the profound and intricate relationships between bees, nature, and the systems of food production upon which we all depend. In this exhibition, beekeeper and urban farmer Carl Harrison Jr. collaborates with multidisciplinary artist Kelsey Scult to use the hive as both a metaphor and a symbol for resilience, community, and survival.
- Exhibition #4: We Bear the Tide, We Brace the Ocean, by artist Angela Tucker. Curated by Diane Appaix-Castro.
In her first solo exhibition at The Diboll Gallery at Tulane University’s School of Public Health, Emmy Award-winning Director/Producer Angela Tucker is now exploring the realms of Black women’s reproductive health. We Bear the Tide, We Brace the Ocean centers on the embodied experiences of Black uterus-havers, unearthing the intricate dance between pain and reproductive health. In this installation, we traverse diverse reproductive journeys, a convergence of literal and figurative imagery that creates a powerful narrative, a visual dialogue transcending the boundaries of conventional representation. March 22, 2024-April 25, 2024, completed - Exhibition #3: Leprosy: The Separating Sickness, October 26, 2023-March 8, 2024, completed.
- Exhibition #2: The Art of Birthing, September 29-October 18, 2023, completed
- Exhibition #1: Feels like 120o, September 8-23, 2023 - completed
