An exhibition series combining art, speakers, and topics relevant to public health
Spring 2025
“Operation Dream: A Futurespective for New Orleans, 20 Years Post-Katrina”
This exhibition is a heartfelt endeavor embodying the community’s vision for New Orleans over the next 20 years and marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. A united assembly of artists, community members, organizations, and cultural leaders have come together to share their collective aspirations for the future of this vibrant city while reflecting on its past. What sets this exhibition apart is its remarkable potential to transform our dreams into reality through the power of collaboration among local artists, advocates, and organizers. Tulane University Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine proudly hosts “Operation Dream” embracing the community of New Orleans’ vision.
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. The exhibition is curated by Deja Jones and Diane Appaix-Castro.
The exhibition will be in the Diboll Gallery until November 7.
Open Monday through Friday 9am-5pm
Saturdays 10am-2pm
Completed exhibits:
- 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
