River Rhythms Mural

Five artists painted this mural for the Canal Street Ferry Terminal: Ayo Scott, Jessica Strahan, Marcus and Ojo Akinlana, and Ayodele Owolabi. The $175,000 project was announced on February 19, 2025, by the Regional Transit Authority and the Ashe Cultural Arts Center, with GNO, Inc., Arts New Orleans, the city's Percent for Art program and the Louisiana Office of Tourism as partners. It depicts Louisiana's Indigenous tribes, Indigenous Black populations and immigrant communities along the Mississippi. The transit agency also hoped it would draw riders to the ferry and support commerce across the river.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 0.4 mi
  A National Park Service unit created in 1994 to tell where jazz came from, with free programs and a visitor center in the French Quarter and park land inside Louis Armstrong Park.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 0.5 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.
• The Cabildo — 0.6 mi
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 0.9 mi
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.

More markers nearby

• New Orleans Holocaust Memorial — steps away
• United States Customhouse — 0.3 mi
• Bienville's Plantation — 0.3 mi
• Bank's Arcade — 0.3 mi