Our mission in visual arts practice and preservation spans 5 decades in New Orleans. Established by Auseklis Ozols in 1978, our mission will live on with your help. Through preservation and education efforts we strive to offer opportunities for community empowerment and growth through the promotion of visual literacy and hands on practice. Preservation, conservation, and maintainance of Auseklis Ozols' life's work is our immediate task; his paintings, drawings, demonstrations, lecture notes, carvings, cartoons, correspondence, and personal collections are in desperate need of care and conservation. These archives include art work and notes on classes and lectures he developed for color theory, drawing, painting, sculpture, figure drawing, anatomy, portrait painting, plein air landscape, still life, and more. Ozols' life's work offers a unique window into these techniques as they inters