On August 1, the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) launches Reverb: Past, Present, and Future, a curated exhibition of various artists’ works that examines creative practices in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina. A reception will take place opening night as featured part of the CAC’s White Linen Night, the annual food/drinks/art celebration sponsored by Whitney Bank.

The multimedia showing will include diverse artistic mediums: photography, interactive video, painting, large-scale installation art, textile, and much more.

Select works by 34 artists will be on display, curated by Isolde Brielmaier (the Westfield World Trade Center’s Director of the Contemporary Art Initiative) to exemplify the rebirth, regrowth, evolution, and creative inspiration that came out of the “physical breach” of Katrina’s devastation.

Photographer Leona Strassberg Steiner, one of the featured artists, will showcase three pieces from her “Dream Trees” series.

“These are photographs that I took at night of the oak trees on Bank Street,” said Steiner. “For me, I chose these trees because they’re so immense, and so gorgeous, and just so–they just bring strength to anyone that looks at them. And just realizing that Mid City ten years ago was totally underwater and these amazing trees have withstood so much… They’re magical.”

The exhibition will run from August 1 through November 1.

The Ogden Museum of Southern Art also opens the “Louisiana Contemporary” exhibit that evening.

Photo by Leona Strassberg Steiner