/// August 3 - October 13, 2024
Ogden Museum of Southern Art first launched
Louisiana Contemporary, presented by The Helis Foundation in 2012, to establish a vehicle that would bring to the fore the work of artists living in Louisiana and highlight the dynamism of art practice throughout the state. 2024 guest juror, Lauren Haynes, Head Curator, Governors Island Arts and Vice President for Arts and Culture at the Trust for Governors Island, has selected 41 works by 37 artists from over one-thousand submissions to be featured in the exhibition.
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.
Read More/// March 19, 2024 - October 31, 2028
Pulling from Ogden Museum of Southern Art's Permanent Collection, this year-round exhibition showcases Will Henry Stevens work from Southern Landscapes to abstract improvisations.
Read More/// October 5, 2024 - February 16, 2025
Baldwin Lee will feature a selection of over 50 gelatin silver prints culled from thousands of images Lee made across the South in the 1980s. Many of these photographs will be exhibited for the first time. The exhibition will include compelling portraits of Black Americans, as well as a collection of landscape and cityscape images that visually encapsulate the Reagan-era American South.
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![Only a few days left to view “Louisiana Contemporary,” presented by The Helis Foundation!
A part of the exhibition is textile artist Cora Rose Nimtz’s “Live Bait.”
Nimtz’s work employs generational quilting, embroidery and applique skills to capture intimate still-lives and local atmospheres of her Southern upbringing. She first embarked on her
artistic journey when she began transforming the quilting skills learned from her mother
and grandmother into canvases for more dynamic self-expression.
She expanded her knowledge of composition and portraiture by adapting an embroidery technique called "thread painting" - a method combined with techniques she learned from loved ones in which she recreates familiar faces, gestures and objects using thread against
ornamental quilt blocks. A turning point for her was when she discovered the names of
block patterns could offer her pieces subliminal thematic structure: choosing them
involves a nod to their historic meanings and natural moods.
Since then, Nimtz has challenged the domestic object's functionality by transforming quilts in increasingly dynamic ways, while also paying homage to the craft's precision and tradition. Now, she is continuing to develop her projects for larger audiences.
“Live Bait” is a large, free motion embroidery of a defunct live bait vending machine, which captures the hilarity and sincerity of life hunting in the South.
“Louisiana Contemporary,” presented by The Helis Foundation, closes October 13! Swing by the O to view it one last time.
[Cora Nimtz, Live Bait, 2024, Embroidery, 33 x 21 inches, Courtesy of the artist]](https://ogdenmuseum.org/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)