Art
Jan Gilbert
Jan Gilbert is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and educator from New Orleans.
Late-20th Century
Late-20th Century Index
Art
Janie Verret Luster
Janie Verret Luster is a master palmetto basket weaver and cultural preservationist of the United Houma Nation, a state-recognized tribe from southeast Louisiana.
Art
Jean Despujols
Settling in Shreveport after World War II, French artist Jean Despujols is best known for his paintings of Indochina and World War I.
Art
Jean Seidenberg
Although originally from New York City, artist Jean Seidenberg has lived and worked in New Orleans since his early twenties.
Art
Jeffrey Cook
New Orleans artist Jeffrey Cook toured the world in his twenties as a dancer before returning to the city to focus on creating sculpture from cast-off materials.
Peoples of Louisiana
Jena Band of Choctaw Indians
The Jena Band of Choctaw Indians is one of four Louisiana tribes recognized by the federal government and one of fifteen recognized by the state.
7.10 d.-e. Jena Band of Choctaw Indians
Ancestors of the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians avoided resettlement and remained in Louisiana following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Art
Jennifer Ellerbe
Jennifer Ellerbe is a photographer and artist who has found her visual poetry in the dark bayous and shadows along the back roads and endlessly flat landscape of Louisiana.
Art
Jennifer Shaw
New Orleans photographer Jennifer Shaw's work is based on a world observed and a world constructed, and is typically recorded through the laughably imperfect optics of toy cameras.
Music
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis was one of the founding fathers of rockabilly music.
Art
Jim Blanchard
Jim Blanchard has created a body of art that records the architectural masterpieces of Louisiana's previous centuries through pieces he calls "architectural archival watercolors."
Government, Politics & Law
Jim Crow & Segregation
In the late nineteenth century, the implementation of Jim Crow—or racial segregation—laws institutionalized white supremacy and Black inferiority throughout the South.
