Current Exhibitions
Gallery 600 Julia features talented Louisiana artists in curated monthly shows in the front room. With a superior and varied selection of artistic style and technique, the gallery always has an impressive and changing inventory of fine paintings. Art Walk is hosted by all the galleries in the Arts District in the evening on the first Saturday of each month. Gallery 600 Julia hosts the artist reception with refreshments on the First Saturday from 6:00pm – 8:00pm, unless otherwise noted.
The Gallery will be open from 9:30am – 4:00 pm and odd hours by appointment.
Please see Visiting Artists for the ultra realistic food art of Ralph Songy and the plein-air landscape paintings of Peg Usner. Also two New Orleans passions, Food and Mardi Gras, each have a special CURRENT EXHIBITION page. (2 & 3)
ART WALK 2026: First Saturday 6:00-8:00 PM unless otherwise noted
2026: JAN 3 Peg Usner, Dreams and Water FEB 7 No Art Walk (Feb 17 Mardi Gras) Group Show: Hi Steppin’ MAR 7 Marne Meynig, Coastal Marshlands APR 4 Thomas Lofton MAY 2 Mickey Asche JUN 6 Elayne Kuehler JULY 4 No Art Walk Group Show Louisiana Country AUG 1 Carol Hallock SEPT 3 Larry Kip Hayes OCT 3 Steve Bourgeois NOV 7 Tim Vaught DEC 5 Camille Barnes
FEBRUARY 2026 with Linda Lesperance, Malia Pettit, Stephanie Reed, Carol Scott, Will Smith, Jr., Ralph Songy, Peg Usner, Jason van Pelt
Mardi Gras is an important aspect of our New Orleans heritage and one of the reasons our city is so unique and special. To show our enduing love of the season, the month of February is devoted to Hi Steppin’, a group show, which captures favorite memories of Carnival past and present. Carnival has as many meanings as there are people who participate. Whether seen from the top of a float or from the neutral ground, or celebrated at a lavish ball.
One of my contributing artists, Linda Lesperance, describes her love of the celebration: Everybody has his favorite aspects of Mardi Gras and I’m no different. For some people there are the floats, the marching bands, the roving Elvis impersonators or the steppers and twirlers but as a spectator, I have to love the flambeaux the most. They are the heart and soul of the night parades and I always go to watch them line up at the beginning of the parade route, getting their torches lit one by one, flames dripping as the kerosene sputters all around them. It is no easy job but they hoist those flaming torches with humor and grace. There is so much history there, too. Without the flambeaux to light the way for the carnival wagons and mules, there probably would never have been any night parades at all. The second best thing to watching Mardi Gras is becoming a part of it so I myself enjoy dressing as a skeleton and marching with the bone gangs on Carnival Day. Our skeleton krewe eventually merges with the St. Ann Parade in the Bywater and I can’t imagine spending Mardi Gras Day any other way.
