The tradition of Dia de Los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is celebrated in Mexico, the southwestern U.S. and parts of Latin America. During this celebration, families come together to pay respect to relatives who have died and celebrate their life and rebirth to another world. During this celebration, families make altars where ofrendas (offerings) are placed. Read More about Traditional Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Altar

Featuring artwork by students from Dillard University and Xavier University of Louisiana. Read More about 12th Annual HBCU Art Showcase Presented by The New Orleans (LA) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated

Aspiring young photographers of all levels participated in a hands-on, weeklong program led by teaching artist, Ariya Aladjem Wolf. Throughout the week, campers developed both technical and aesthetic skills to craft personal and expressive photographs. Read More about Photography Camp 2025 Exhibition Featuring artwork by Photography Camp Students

To mark the 20th anniversary of this historic event, Ogden Museum of Southern Art presents the work of six artists that directly address the storm, its devastation and the resiliency of the people impacted. Through their practice, these artists bore witness to both the physical and psychological damage wrought by the storm. They crafted complex narratives, built monuments to resiliency and offered prayers for recovery.  Through their work, they attempted to process this event, and as a result offer that same opportunity for healing to the viewer. Read More about FOCUS: Looking Back Hurricane Katrina at 20

Ogden Museum of Southern Art commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon with Hoa Tay (Flower Hands), an exhibition which centers emerging and established Vietnamese-American artists working throughout the American South. These artists use diverse media and styles to forge their own distinctive vision, conveying narratives of the Vietnamese Diaspora, both personal and universal. Read More about Hoa Tay (Flower Hands) Southern Artists of the Vietnamese Diaspora

The Unending Stream is a two-part exhibition that showcases the thriving community of photographers in New Orleans. The title of the exhibition pays homage to a Clarence John Laughlin photograph of the same title, which is a part of the permanent collection at Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Laughlin’s seminal work, created between the 1930s and 1950s, is an important chapter in the long-storied relationship between New Orleans and photography. Following in his visionary footsteps, this exhibition focuses on emerging and underrepresented photographers who continue to focus on the South through poetic imagery.The Unending Stream celebrates New Orleans’ continuing role as one of America’s most important cultural capitals while also highlighting the role that the arts have played in revitalizing the region for the past twenty years since Hurricane Katrina. Read More about The Unending Stream: Chapter I

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 about Keith Duncan: Battle of the Bands The HBCU Marching Bands Series

Since its beginning, the City of New Orleans has been both a subject and a muse to generations of artists. This exhibition will draw primarily from the permanent collection of Ogden Museum of Southern Art to show how artists have portrayed the Crescent City through drawings, paintings, photographs and prints. From 19th century street scenes to contemporary abstractions, these works show the deep and lasting influence of the built environment and natural light of New Orleans upon the visual arts. Read More about Crescent Cityscapes Images of New Orleans from the Permanent Collection

Scobey creates works, installations and furniture that invite curious interaction. Responsive to public space and everyday materials, Scobey’s work experiments with how to frame the encounter in projects that range from sculptural interventions in a grocery store or a cardboard living room where museum goers can relax from social media to high design objects reconceived with Arte Povera materials. His studio practice often results in stacked  culptural work – in concrete, stone, wood, cast acrylic, neodymium magnets and cast earth – that transmit and reflect natural light dependent on where the sun is located in relation to the viewer and the work. His work explores material energy, transmission, site, form and scale. Read More about Matt Scobey: Case Study Selected Works 2018-2025