LUNA Fête 2018 | New Orleans Tricentennial Celebration
Above photo by Matthew Hinton, Photos below by Bryce Ell
Through Time, LUNA Fête 2018
Presented by The City of New Orleans, LUNA Fête 2018 marked a major milestone for both the city and Arts Council New Orleans, who created LUNA Fête as a five-year initiative leading up to New Orleans Tricentennial.
As a Signature New Orleans Tricentennial Event, LUNA Fête 2018 highlighted the local arts community along with New Orleans historic urban landscape. For the first time local artists work was featured on Gallier Hall and the newly re-opened Piazza d’Italia, one of the most significant architectural sites in the city. Additionally, LUNA Fête-inspired permanent LED lighting was unveiled at New Orleans’ Jazz Museum the newest satellite site for the festival, offering year-round illumination of this historic site.
With the success of the 2018 celebration, LUNA Fête will continue to showcase the Arts Council New Orleans’ mission to demonstrate the power of art to transform communities and highlight the impact of #ArtinEverything.
“ Winter brings one last anniversary hurrah with a bigger-and-brighter-than-ever Luna Fête... Think: Lafayette Street covered in swirling laser beams, and colorful shafts and waves of light dancing across the old city hall, a stately nineteenth-century building on St. Charles Avenue. ”
“The City of New Orleans has grown to be a point of pride for Americans everywhere... At the end of the year buildings all over New Orleans will be bathed in luminous art for the mesmerizing LUNA Fête”
