/// December 13, 2024 - February 23, 2025
Ogden Museum’s Youth Climate Action Project (led by Ogden Museum HBCU Intern Kennedy Timmons and Ogden Museum Teen Interns) uses the City of New Orleans Climate Action Plan as a catalyst for the initiative. The project consists of a collaborative art installation between Milagros Collective, Ogden Museum Interns and the community. The goal of the project is to spark conversation on the Circular Economy and Waste Reduction.
Read More/// December 13, 2024 - February 23, 2025
CURRENTS is an annual juried exhibition of photographic works by members of New Orleans Photo Alliance. Each year, Ogden Museum of Southern Art hosts this exhibition, which also coincides with the PhotoNOLA Festival.
Read More/// February 15 - August 10, 2025
Ogden Museum of Southern Art is proud to present
Battle of the Bands, Keith Duncan’s most recent body of work that celebrates the vibrant tradition of Historically Black College and Universities (HBCUs) marching bands. The exhibition includes large-scale fabric paintings of fifteen Southern HBCU bands, along with human-scale fabric paintings and smaller works on paper depicting each band’s drum major.
Read More/// March 4, 2024 - February 23, 2025
Southern Contemporary is an exhibition that brings together thirteen works of art created in the past twenty years by artists working in the American South, encouraging a dynamic conversation between the excitement of recent acquisitions and the familiarity of permanent collection highlights. Emerging artistic expressions across a variety of mediums and techniques are included alongside artworks by mid-career and established artists.
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![Featured in Ogden Museum of Southern Art Permanent Collection are several abstract paintings by the late artist, Dorothy Hood.
Hood (1919-2000) is a notable figure of Southern Abstraction, Surrealism and Modernism. Her work often consists of collages or oil on large canvases, where geometry, color and spatial depth mix.
Coined as Texas’ “greatest 20th-century painter,” Grace Edquist for @voguemagzine shares in a recent article, “It’s not hard to see why. Her massive canvases burst with contorted shapes pulled from nature and her own psyche. She intersperses rich fields of color with plunging canyons, jagged-edge orbs and tender drips of paint. She’d reference Freud, Jung, Kafka and Borges, the work tinged with both Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism, the styles of the day. But really, Hood, a fiercely independent woman, followed a school all her own.”
Read the full article by visiting the link in our bio. Hood’s large-scale painting “Untitled” is currently on view in the Museum’s first floor atrium.
[Dorothy Hood, “Untitled,” c. 1982, Oil on canvas, 90 x 70 inches, Roger Houston Ogden Collection]](https://ogdenmuseum.org/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)