If you couldn’t get down to New Orleans to celebrate Mardi Gras properly, look no further than Warehouse. The gallery is currently hosting Arty Gras, an exhibition to celebrate artists displaced by Hurricane Katrina and raise funds for the Habitat for Humanity Gulf Coast recovery efforts.

The exhibition was organized by independent curator Beth Baldwin, who grabbed onto the idea after seeing offers of gallery space for artists whose shows were canceled after the storm. Baldwin immediately thought, “Why isn’t everyone doing this? I’m going to make this happen in D.C.!”

She got the ball rolling by contacting Ben Claasson, a Louisiana-raised artist, whose provocative cartoons you have probably seen in the Washington City Paper. He contributed some appropriately biting Katrina-response drawings to the exhibit, and assisted Baldwin in tracking down other NOLA artists. She hoped to have at least ten artists to showcase, but ending up finding nearly a hundred; forty-four of whom were finally picked to squeeze their work into the Warehouse space.