Queen Tahj signs new Mardi Gras posters at Raising Cane’s

METAIRIE La. (WGNO) — Mardi Gras Indian Queen Tahj Williams is making a major name for herself lately, and she’s using her art to do it.

She recently designed the Super Bowl LIX logo, and now a special, limited-edition Mardi Gras poster for Raising Cane’s.

It is a Mardi Gras party at Raising Cane’s, where customers got the chance to meet Williams and get a free poster of her latest artwork.

She created a beaded art piece, which was turned into a poster.

“In the piece, we have confetti falling from the sky, and New Orleans architecture, which is a recurring theme in a lot of my work that I’ve done, and I’ve also added a second line with instruments, and we’ve got Todd Graves and his dog, Cane 3,” Williams said.

“It is just a celebratory piece and what it means to be from New Orleans,” she went on to say.

This is her second big art piece after she designed the Super Bowl LIX logo, but this one she had much less time to make.

“It took me nine days to bead and come up with the idea,” she said.

On Friday, at the Raising Cane’s in Metairie, she signed her posters for 200 lucky Cane’s customers, like Freddie Merriday and his wife.

“She’s so talented and young, so we couldn’t miss it. We are going to hang it on the wall with the other posters that we have,” Merriday said.

For Williams, she hopes her art makes others feel that “one love.”

“Honestly I want people to think about the culture and what it means to the City. It is like a gumbo pot for a poster,” Williams said.

Raising Cane’s is now selling doubloon key chains for $1 through Mardi Gras with proceeds going to the New Orleans Tourism and Cultural Fund.

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