FAQ: How can I become an artist on Jackson Square? Do I need a permit?

ANSWER: Yes, you must have a permit to be an artist on Jackson Square. Only 200 permits are issued annually and there is currently a waiting list. The permits are renewable in January and those not renewed become available to new artists. Interested persons must contact the Bureau of Revenue, Permits Department, about getting on a waiting list for a permit. The required mayoralty permit and occupational license cost $175 per year. The application fee is $20. These permits allow original hand painted or drawn on a plain surface works only. Reproductions of any sort are not permitted.

Lee TuckerVisual artist / photography Lee Tucker has exhibited in Galleries in the U.S. and England. He has had numerous one-man shows, including at Chicago's prestigious Steppenwolf theater in tandem with a production of A Streetcar Named Desire.

Tucker's art graces internation collections such as those of Freeport-Indonesia, and the Omni, Wyndham, Holiday Inn, Westin and the Ritz Carlton hotel groups.

Ann deLorge"I enjoy looking at a painting that takes me on a trip while giving me something to discover and think about with each visit. The interaction and tensions between the various compositional elements is what I love about jazz music and painting."

A native Southerner. Ann moved to New Orleans, LA in 1971 where she began a painting career in watercolors. She began producing limited edition serigraphs and painted several sets of prints for New Orleans Images gallery in the French Quarter to reproduce exclusively.

Ann started experimenting with acrylics on canvas as her painting gradually evolved while listening to contemporary jazz . The two interests melded into what she calls "Jazz Art."

Jack McCann New Orleans artist Jack McCann is known widely for his watercolor originals and New Orleans Art prints, New Orleans art scene, original watercolor painting by New Orleans artist Jack McCannscenes of colorful New Orleans French Quarter, and Jazz Art Scenes of famous Bourbon Street.

Jack was educated at the prestigious Cooper Union Institute of Art in New York City. He’s been the recipient of many awards for his watercolors including the Alabama Watercolor Society "Cotton" Show and Birmingham Watercolor Society Exhibits. He also served his country in the U.S. Navy, 7th Fleet, stationed in the Philippines.

Jack has been creating original watercolor New Orleans Art scenes for nearly thirty years, and his paintings have long been popular among visitors the French Quarter. Now some of his watercolor paintings have been made into quality art prints available for you to order online.

James Hussey

Jim Hussey is a native of New Orleans who has become one of the country's artists of note.
Born in 1936 Jim was educated in New Orleans, and upon completion of his academic training he began a
career in the world of business. Later in the summer of 1970 he decided to leave this career.

Equipped only with the paints and brushes his mother had left him, an interest in art from early childhood, and inspired by his surroundings, his family, his friends, and prominent artists, he decided to leave his successful career as a salesman and merchant to pursue his love for art on a full-time basis.

His paintings reflect personal feelings in the nostalgic and romantic moods, settings, and history of the South as seen through the eyes of numerous novelists and historians.

 

Cath Wilson

Born and raised in the heart of New Orleans, Cath creates watercolor and acrylic paintings of the buildings and scenes of New Orleans that she has come to know and love. As a licensed artist on Jackson Square, she sells her originals at Jackson Square and also does commissioned paintings from photographs. She can be contacted at www.neworleansartbycath.com.

Natasha Mylius

Gustavo Trujillo

Gregory Giegucz"My work is a personal journal of illustrated characters and symbols guided by memory and intuition. These signs depict monsters, machines, nature, and different notions of home and self-reflection. Like roots growing from a tree, my pictures evolve and branch from one another. Their energy captures the muted inner path of the human spirit. I embrace life's coincidences and the endless overlapping of metaphors embedded in reality. The French poet Antoin Artaud (1896-1946) once said "Art is not the imitation of life, but life is the imitation of a transcendent principal with which art can put us back in communication."

Miriam RaganMiriam Ragan has been painting in the New Orleans French Quarter for over 30 years, and has been available to her painting customers and art lovers on Jackson Square. Her paintings are of varied subjects, but the bulk of her art work is of Louisiana swamps, New Orleans and French Quarter scenes, and paintings of floral still lifes and southern flowers, such as the Magnolia.

Although she has tried painting in acrylics, the medium doesn't suite her style, and she returned to the oil and watercolor mediums that she loves so much. In recent years, she has been making some of her work available in the form of printed reproductions.

Sam Infiniti HurwitchA native of New England, Sam Infiniti Hurwitch came to New Orleans in 1970 where he fell in love with Jackson Square. Sam began painting in 1977 and, in 1983, he began a three-year study in art at U.N.O.

Jeffrey Passage

Karla Hunt

MOUSIE

John Perret

Mohamadou SaniSani Moved to New Orleans where the Inspiration and opportinuty to paint abound.He has been featured artist for many years at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival were he won the Award of best display in 2003 .He took part at public art project Restore the Oaks inititated by the African American Museum of Art,Culture and History and Mayor Marc Morial in 2002.He showed his work in different part of the States

His rich culture, people, serve as well as subjects to his works,some important themes such as spiritual influence of religions, tribal ceremonies, and music are present in his works, as they use to call him and he still the "lord of the dance" you feel that on jazz musicians. He have been forced to close his gallery in New Orleans after Katrina hurricane but haven't give up.

Stanley BeckStanley Beck was born and raised in New Orleans. He attended elementary school in New Orleans and Metairie, and graduated from De La Salle High School in 1961. Within weeks of his graduation, he enlisted into the U. S. Air Force, and served on active duty for four years, most of that time as an electronics instructor.

Upon his discharge, he, his wife and their young daughter moved back to New Orleans. After working for a few years, he began to take art classes at night, at the John McCrady Art School on Bourbon Street. It was here that he developed his life-long relationship with the French Quarter culture and architecture, which set the tone for his paintings for years to come.

Artists Commemorate your New Orleans experience by having a local artist paint your portrait, or walk around the square and explore the open gallery spaces of dozens of New Orleans artists. View Artist Listings