Xavier University of Louisiana Art Gallery
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1 Drexel Drive, New Orleans, Louisiana
Gallery is located in the center of the Administrative Building. Enter through side doors.
www.xulagallery.com | (504) 520-7706 | artgallery@xula.edu
Venue hours
Wednesday–Sunday, 11 AM–4 PM
Parking & accessibility
On-campus parking: All motor vehicles regularly, occasionally or temporarily using University parking facilities must be registered with the Office of University Police and properly display a parking permit. Failure to do so constitutes a violation of these regulations and subjects the offender to the penalties herein. It is emphasized that any type of motor vehicle operated on campus by students, university personnel, or visitors, whether owned or not by the operator, is required to properly display a current parking permit. (Motorcycles included.) Guest passes are required Monday–Friday, 6 AM–5:30 PM.
Off-campus parking: Street parking is free and available both on and adjacent to University campus. Visit the campus map for more information.
The building is wheelchair accessible.
COVID safety protocol
All visitors and staff are required to wear masks at all times.
Prospect.5 Artists
Prospect.5 locations in venue
First floor art gallery
About the new Orleans lakefront airport
The Art Collections and Gallery’s primary mission is to increase the knowledge and understanding of diverse global contemporary Black culture through the micro-lens of the vast visual histories and cosmologies of the descendant communities of Louisiana. The Xavier Art Collection was the brainchild of Xavier President emeritus Dr. Norman C. Francis, who with his son, collector Timothy Francis and celebrated artist and professor John T. Scott, envisioned surrounding the students with the fine art and material culture of Africa and its diaspora. Today, the Collection is a major repository of work by teachers, such as Sister Lurana Neely and MacArthur Genius award recipient John T. Scott. Xavier’s major fine art and art-related collections are currently housed throughout the University, including more than 3,000 objects of art and a sizeable collection of books, artists’ papers and archival materials that reference a global history of art with a particular focus on works by and about African American, Caribbean and Latin American artists. The Xavier Archive’s holdings also reflect a unique focus on late twentieth-century Louisiana-based artists.
