The New Orleans Jazz Museum is proud to announce a new exhibit, Exit Stage Right: Zack Smith’s Festival Portraits, opening to the public on Friday, December 3, 2021, at 5:30 p.m.

As both a musician and photographer, Zack Smith believes the world gets smaller as we celebrate our similarities and connect through our traditions and stories. Smith’s mostly large-format film photographs have the ability to bring subject and viewer closer together, and his custom environments foster intimacy. These portraits include the late ChazFest in the Ninth Ward, HIP Fest, Festivals Acadiens et Créoles, the Ponderosa Stomp, and the Voodoo Music + Arts Experience, where he worked with Preservation Hall. The photographs show musicians, music fans, backstage workers, and assorted hangers-on in quiet moments amid the festival chaos.

The opening of the exhibit coincides with Sound Collage, an annual event celebrating the intersection of visual art and music through a mixture of music, illuminated installations, digital sculptures and dance. Featured performers include  Jonathan Freilich, Joshua Starkman, Sasha Masakowski, Bon Bon Vivant, T-Ray and the international Rebel Babel Ensemble as well as iconic Crescent City culture bearers, the Mardi Gras Indians and N'awlins D’awlins Baby Dolls.

Sound Collage culminates with the Jazz Museum’s Improvisations Gala on Saturday, December 4.