Art & Advocacy

An exhibition series combining art, speakers, and topics relevant to public health

Spring 2025

"In the Quiet Drift” is an exploration of the intricate and increasingly fragile relationship between humans and the natural waterways of Louisiana. The exhibition features works by Lily Brooks and Elliott Stokes, curated by Diane Appaix-Castro.

Dean LaVeist looking at art in the gallery

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.

This series of art exhibitions throughout 2025 in the Diboll Gallery 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 Diboll Foundation.

This exhibit will be in the Diboll Gallery until March 6, 2024.

Open Monday through Friday 9am-5pm
Saturdays 10am-2pm

Completed exhibits:

  • 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