Photography by Tim Hursley
Joan Mitchell Center
New Orleans, Louisiana
Commissioned after Hurricane Katrina, the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans features an 8,000-square-foot, LEED Gold–certified studio building for a visiting artists’ residency program. Designed in an L-shaped configuration that frames a central green space, the building respects the scale and character of the historic Esplanade Ridge neighborhood with its sloped roofs and clapboard siding. It houses ten double-height studios, a common room, and a digital lab. Sustainable features—including skylights, louvered screens, a bioswale, and native landscaping—enhance artists’ work environments while supporting the city’s drainage and ecological systems.
“From the polished concrete floors to the slatted plywood ceilings in the halls, the ecologically efficient studio building is an industrial chic gem… It’s safe to predict that as word spreads, a residency at the alluring center will become one of the country’s most prized career plums for artists from coast to coast.”
Doug MacCash, “Art House: Retreat is Painter’s Gift to the City”, The Times Picayune
Joan Mitchell Center
New Orleans, Louisiana
Commissioned after Hurricane Katrina, the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans features an 8,000-square-foot, LEED Gold–certified studio building for a visiting artists’ residency program. Designed in an L-shaped configuration that frames a central green space, the building respects the scale and character of the historic Esplanade Ridge neighborhood with its sloped roofs and clapboard siding. It houses ten double-height studios, a common room, and a digital lab. Sustainable features—including skylights, louvered screens, a bioswale, and native landscaping—enhance artists’ work environments while supporting the city’s drainage and ecological systems.
“From the polished concrete floors to the slatted plywood ceilings in the halls, the ecologically efficient studio building is an industrial chic gem… It’s safe to predict that as word spreads, a residency at the alluring center will become one of the country’s most prized career plums for artists from coast to coast.”
Doug MacCash, The Times Picayune
