CANOA (Caribbean and New Orleanian Arts) is an artist-led initiative and project space located in the Upper 9th Ward of New Orleans. CANOA is also a resource center, a gathering place, a workshop space, and a lecture and performance venue.

CANOA supports arts practitioners from the local Caribbean diaspora and facilitates exchanges among New Orleanian and Caribbean artists and community members to foster new cultural and artistic connections between New Orleans and the wider Caribbean, both locally and internationally.  Born from the recognition that New Orleans is in fact a Caribbean city, CANOA brings New Orleanian and Caribbean artists and culture workers together in solidarity around our mutual histories and cultural practices.