Ashé Cultural Art Center creates innovative programming designed to utilize culture to foster human development and civic engagement in New Orleans. As ecosystem builders, Ashé Cultural Art Center delivers programming and direct services that support, leverage, and celebrate the people, places, and philosophies of the African Diaspora. Ashé maintains a high-value, high-profile real estate portfolio in Central City, a neighborhood where historic residents are displaced. They hold 10,000 square feet of gallery space and 20,000 square feet of performance space to create and preserve opportunities for the curation, exhibition, and commission of fine folk and fine-folk art.