A handbill for Second Saturday openings, from St. Roch to Arabi.
Every second Saturday, the galleries and art spaces along St. Claude Avenue open their doors together — no tickets, no dress code, just a river of people drifting down the avenue.
This page is the Rag's whole job: what's where, in what order to walk it, and when the Art Bus is running. Hours and lineups shift month to month — the openings are the reliable part. Pick three stops, start upriver, follow the crowd downhill toward Arabi.
Schematic — in crawl order, not to scale. Numbers match the list below. C = Chemical 14 (4315 Royal St.), S = StudioBE (2941 Royal St.) — Royal Street side trips toward the river.
Artist cooperative and keepers of the district's own Second Saturday map (see the real map below). The upriver trailhead — good place to park and start.
A revived vintage storefront near the Marigny end with rotating contemporary shows. Small room, serious hanging.
Artists' cooperative with monthly member shows and juried group exhibitions. A Second Saturday fixture.
The University of New Orleans' avenue gallery — MFA thesis exhibitions and student shows, often the most experimental free hour on the corridor.
Collective gallery and studio building a block off the avenue; a new artist or group takes the walls each month.
Nonprofit gallery and literary-arts hub run by the Antenna Collective — exhibitions, the Paper Machine press, residencies. The Rag's home base and the Art Bus pickup.
Scrappy co-op space: installations, video, oddball group shows. Two minutes on foot from Antenna — do them as a pair.
Artist-run collective, four rooms, monthly rotations. The clearest window onto what younger New Orleans is actually making.
Antenna's print shop, press, and second gallery — books, posters, and editions you can actually afford. Worth the drive down-avenue.
The far-downriver anchor, just over the parish line flavor-wise if not literally. If the crowd is here, stay here a while.
Not a white cube — a legendary dive with a stage and a crowd. End the crawl here. You have earned it.
Chemical 14 Gallery, 4315 Royal St. (Sat–Sun, 1–6) — a delightfully quirky Bywater room for local artists. Pair it with StudioBE up Royal.
StudioBE, 2941 Royal St. (Wed–Sun, ticketed) — Brandan “BMike” Odums' warehouse of large-scale portraiture and murals. Book ahead; more monument than gallery.
Live map and venue list, kept by Staple Goods — same 11 rooms as above, with their hours. When in doubt, trust theirs over ours.
Prefer paper? Download the 2026 PDF map from Staple Goods.
Once a year Antenna's board puts a bus on the avenue: three evening loops hitting Staple Goods, Antenna, Paper Machine, the Arabi end, and back — free to all, donations keep it rolling. Next run: November 2026 (per Antenna — details posted on their Art Bus page closer to the date).
St. Claude prices are the friendliest in the city — small works, editions, and prints under a few hundred dollars are normal. Most rooms take cards. If you love something at an opening, say so that night; small editions walk.