Our Mission:

To Transform School and Community, Landscapes from the mundane, to ones of color, art and imagination!

Over the next 2 years……….

we will engage community groups, other nonprofits, local and visiting businesses; while pulling in the incredible artisans of New Orleans.

 Without individuals like you our mission, vision and progress would have remained a dream. The images painted by CCAP volunteers are sketched before the project. This is the key that unlocks the artist in everyone!

All paintings from CCAP Projects go to New Orleans Schools and Community Spaces.

D. Banfield

Known simply as “D”, he donned a hazmat suit and began to gut, de-mold and renovate homes in some of the most devastated areas of the city.

D. has developed projects for:

Target Inc.

Starbucks

Kaiser Permanente

Guiding Light Soap Opera

Travelocity

Outback Steakhouse

New Orleans Saints

Tavis Smiley The State of the Black Union

Congress of Day Laborers

Hands On Network

STAND, a group of homeless and formerly homeless New Orleanians

D. has been featured On:

Fox News

WVUE - Fox 8 New Orleans

 Times Picayune Articles

NBC's "The Guiding Light" Volunteer Webcast

Oprah & Friends Radio Show on XM Radio

“Still Rising” documentary

As part of the revitalization, D. was asked to produce a mural for Central City Head Start. This mural was the birth of his “Paint the change” showcase of some 2100 murals, located throughout the city.

“Working with the community on mural projects was a new experience for me, says D about his first project.”

Seeing the children respond to the murals is always very rewarding.

He engaged a number of other volunteers to assist with the community project and everything has snowballed from that effort.

Educators in the schools where some of the murals are located have noted that students are now requesting and checking out more books on the arts. I think that shows that art is a creative tool that also impact and influence.

Perhaps one of the best uses to date of CCAP artwork can be seen at Fannie C. Williams Elementary School in eastern New Orleans, where they help to transform the stark landscape of the school's modular buildings in an area heavily damaged during Hurricane Katrina.

D. came to New Orleans in September 2006 from New York City where he worked as a publishing consultant.  After seeing the Spike Lee documentary, “When the Levees Broke” he was motivated by the slow recovery rate in the Gulf, to volunteer a month of his time.

With his passion for art fueling his volunteerism, D. stayed long past his one-month commitment, and has been serving the Crescent City to bring beauty and hope to the city for nearly 2 years.

Crescent City Art Project, a collaborative partnership with The Art Miles Mural Project