The White Pelican Project
New Orleans–based artists and culture workers travel across Wyoming each year for free community workshops — an annual exchange between two places and two creative traditions.
A migration between two homes
The American white pelican migrates between the Gulf Coast of New Orleans and the Intermountain West every year — a long, improbable commute between two entirely different landscapes that, for one bird, are both simply home. The project that takes its name leans into that same idea: connection across distance and difference.
Each year, New Orleans–based storytellers, artists, and creatives travel across Wyoming to share their practices through free community workshops, presentations, exhibitions, and performances — bringing a distinct creative tradition into direct conversation with communities statewide.
It is built as an exchange, not a one-way visit: a standing invitation for two places, a continent apart, to keep teaching each other something new every year.