Educational Programming

NOLA Artist Incubator provides education that is inspired by issues surrounding our environment through our regenerative agriculture initiatives, sustainable art programming, and early education arts and literacy program. The Incubator examines areas of food sovereignty, regenerative urban agriculture, and environmental justice. Hosting field trips, site visits, alternative spring breaks, and engaging learning opportunities through restorative beautification projects, we serve a range of individuals locally and nationally.

Nonprofit Volunteer Opportunities

The Water Collaborative & Brackish Artist Cohort

Corporate Volunteer Opportunities

Hotard Employees Participating in Love the Boot

Early Education Arts, Literacy & Sustainability Programming

Budding Artists: Early Education Arts and Literacy Program Aimed at Creating the Next Generation of Environmental Stewards

Alternative Spring Break College Visits

Alternative Spring Breakers from Suffolk University Examine Environmental Equity and Art to Promote Inclusivity in the Community

Students Pose with School Mascot After Volunteering and Learning in the Garden

Notre Dame Institute for Social Concern Students and Faculty Preparing Spring Garden Beds

Site Visits to Schools & Gardens

Introducing Worm Farming to Bricolage Pre-K

Providing schools experience and expertise to build or grow their own gardens on campus, customizable curriculum and garden and sustainable practice designs are created case-by-case to meet the unique needs of schools and districts.

Art, Writing, and Gardening with Students from Young Audiences Louisiana Charter School

Magical Mobile Art Cart

The Magical Mobile Art Cart delivers a variety of educational art programs to diverse learners. Originally debuted as an interactive installation at the Jazz and Heritage Festival, the award winning Magical Mobile Art Cart comes with all the supplies needed to create engaging learning experiences for all ages.

Natural Materials for Art Making at the Jazz and Heritage Festival

Delivering programming at the NOLA Nature School

Planting with all ages at ART JAM,
hosted by KID smART

Budding Artists

Arts Integrated Early Education Programming

Our Early Childhood Education Program provides STEAM information for 2-5 year olds and their caregivers, ready made project-based tactile learning activities, and nature inspired art activities that focus on early literacy. With a focus on sustainability, we use recycled and natural materials to create art exploring themes in nature.

Budding Artist Program Objectives:
● Provide STEAM based learning opportunities that engage students in meaningful hands-on educational activities that examine the relationship between agriculture and the environment;
● Combine arts, agriculture, and literature for students to apply scientific inquiry skills and creatively solve real-world problems; and
● Collaborating with artists, students explore themes in nature, science, and the arts to apply knowledge to the community in a way that is reflective of cultural surroundings.

Offering Budding Artists programming at New Orleans Public Library in Spring and Summer!

Interested in signing up for our Budding Artists program? Entering its fourth year with the New Orleans Public Library, we encourage you to join us in the spring and summer for a month of weekly workshops specially designed for families. Registration required, follow our social media for more information @nolaartistincubator. We can’t wait to create with you!

We provide art and literacy workshops that focus on our natural surroundings. Learners and their caregivers are invited to explore themes in nature while reading a creating artwork in this humanities based program.

Environmental literacy is integral to fostering an understanding of ecological, economic, and cultural connections between humans, emphasizing that humans are part of a global community and that actions and decisions made locally by individuals or communities have effects that go well beyond local environments.

Our collaborative arts integration programming delivers meaningful experiential learning to children and their caregivers. The program is designed for participants to experience an increase in responsiveness and appreciation for art and the environment, to develop higher order thinking skills, make observations, and gain improvement in receptive vocabulary skills. Over the course of a program, students examine a topic through observing, reading, and creating sustainable art projects that go home with learners to continue the scientific inquiry beyond the classroom.

Every child is an Artist. “Terrific Trees” workshop.

Executive Director, Lissie reading with Budding Artists at the Norman Mayer Library

Sustainable Environmental Art Delivery (S.E.A.D.)

S.E.A.D. is an equity based, trauma informed enrichment program providing Socio-Emotional Learning (SEL) opportunities to schools and organizations in the greater New Orleans community.

Creating customizable engaging learning experiences for youth in collaboration with local organizations, schools, and other non-traditional educational settings, projects give learners a chance to design and build new green spaces and outdoor classrooms. Focused on holistic teaching, projects support student’s sociological and emotional development and student voice, empowering students and staff to have ownership of their learning environments.