Sandra Berry Joshua Walker

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Join The Neighborhood Gallery in our 20/20 celebration this year. We will have 20 events in 2008 to commemorate each year that we’ve been in the Business of Art. Events will be posted to our myspace calendar as they are confirmed so please come check our page often. Thank you all for your continued support!

THE NEIGHBORHOOD GALLERY IS a network of creative entrepreneurs. In 1988, THE NEIGHBORHOOD GALLERY was established in the home of Joshua Walker and Sandra Berry on Soniat Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, when the entrepreneurship of African-American arts in this uptown neighborhood was merely a notion. Our mission is to promote, showcase and market underexposed artists and to celebrate the different and varied facets of New Orleans neighborhoods, talents and creativity. Despite a number of moves over the Gallery's lifetime from Soniat Street to North Broad (with the Community Book Center) to Jena Street and Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard, and most recently to Chippewa Stree, THE NEIGHBORHOOD GALLERY has continued to grow and thrive. We have proven that collective work and responsibility are vital principles for economic empowerment in the business of art. After Hurricane Katrina, The Neighborhood Gallery has become something of a 'gallery without walls'. We are looking to expand and re-establish ourselves in a permanent space so as to resume our tradition of local arts activism. We have traveled multiple continents representing New Orleans and we are the first arts business to represent New Orleans visual and performing artists in Liverpool, England and Nice, France. We have also done shows with many prominent American organizations, such as, Oakdale Federal Prison, Texaco, Inc., U.S. Navy, New Orleans universities, New Orleans schools & the Board of Education. .. ..

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