Founded in 1973, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts is a regional, pre-professional arts training center that offers students intensive instruction in culinary arts, dance, media arts: filmmaking & audio production, music (classical, jazz, vocal), theatre arts (drama, musical theatre, theatre design), visual arts, and creative writing, while demanding simultaneous academic excellence.

NOCCA's campus sits on the site where, on June 7, 1892, a 30-year-old African-American man named Homer Plessy attempted to board a segregated train car at Press and Royal Streets in New Orleans. Louisiana’s Separate Car Act, passed in 1890, required that rail passengers be segregated. A group of New Orleanians called the Comite’ des Citoyens had selected Plessy to build a case to challenge the law, but the US Supreme Court upheld Louisiana's segregation law. Plessy v. Ferguson ultimately became known as the ""separate but equal law"" that was overturned in 1954 with Brown v. Board of Education.

Free and Open to the Public

Street parking is free and available along Homer Plessy Way, Royal St, and the surrouning neighborhood.

This venue is outdoors.

Abigail DeVille's installation is on the grass lot near the Plessy v. Ferguson Historical Marker, and Stephanie Syjuco's work is across the street on the side of Press St Station on Royal St.