1,800 people visited the Ogden Saturday night during White Linen Night. Attendees donned their summer whites and danced to the music of Lightnin’ Malcom while they viewed the five new openings and took a break from the heat in the A.C. Saturday marked the official opening of the Education Gallery’s new exhibition Looking to Learn featuring the work of students
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Style ruled at the Ogden from July 18 through the 22nd, as aspiring young designers conceived, created, and put on an entire runway show in just a week. Working with New York-trained, New Orleans-based designer Veronica Cho, students aged 12 to 15 learned about the history of American fashion design before settling down to sketch out their own ideas. After
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Our second session of Southern Play Time art and drama camp at the Ogden just ended, and it went out with a bang — and a whole lot of confetti! This session, the campers worked with art teacher Gina Phillips and director Mikko to create a play showcasing children’s folk tales from Haiti. There was a magic fish, a competitive
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This spring, thanks to a grant from the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Program, Warren Easton High School approached the Ogden about developing a way to combine science and art education. Our solution? Ceramics. Over the course of four after school visits to the Ogden, Warren Easton students worked with local ceramic artist Rashida Ferdinand, discussing the science of
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Our Teenage Docent program this summer includes five local high school students, all of whom receive a stipend provided by United Summer Grants to work at the Ogden through June and July. In addition to leading summer tours of the Ogden’s collection, Kayla, Drea, Kinmont, Alvin and Lionell are providing invaluable help as counselors at Summer Play Time this month.
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The Ogden’s second annual Summer Puppet Theater is out on the road, as our 2011 Teen Docents travel to libraries, schools and camps with a puppet show all about some of the Ogden’s most notable artwork. Working with local artist and puppeteer Karen Konnerth, the Teen Docents each chose a favorite painting from the museum and created a story —
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The first session of our third annual Summer Play Time camp at the Ogden was full of creativity and craftsmanship! Local elementary school students worked with actor/director Mikko and artist Gina Phillips to create their own play, sets, and costumes based on a Southern theme. The current exhibition One World, Two Artists: John Alexander and Walter Anderson served as the
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September 2010By Ogden EducationOn August 22, 2010 the Ogden Museum hosted its third annual Family Fair welcoming more than 600 friends, both old and young, out of the heat and humidity of the New Orleans summer for a Coastal Celebration. In honor of the remarkable environment that contributes so much to our local community and culture, children were invited to
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When the kids from Black Love Summer Camp entered the Ogden’s “Where Y’At” exhibition, they saw a host of familiar faces. In Aubrey Edwards’ edgy yet nuanced portraits of local Bounce musicians, the children found their uncles, aunts, family friends, and even their camp counselor, Sess 4-5. Edwards explained the concept of portraiture, then invited the campers to photograph one
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Bestcollegesonline.com recently featured the Ogden’s education blog in its article about art museum blogs. Blogs like Education at the O are “fantastic resources for those who want to get more out of their local art outlets.” Check it out!http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2010/06/23/50-awesome-art-museum-blogs/… Continue reading