2025 Press Releases


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GOMAG (May 6): Bourbon, Beignets, And Babes: A Queer Girl’s Guide To New Orleans

My New Orleans (May 1): Ogden Museum of Southern Art O What a Night Gala Patron Party

My New Orleans (May 1): Registry of Charitable Events: May-July 2025

Washington Spectator (May 1): Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the End of the Việt Nam War

BBC News (May 1): April 30th incident: wounds are hard to heal but there is still hope

FOX8 News (May 1): Events Coming up at Ogden Museum

FOX8 News (Apr. 30): Fall of Saigon, Part 3: End of Vietnam War ripples through New Orleans’ politics, food and art

nola.com (Apr. 30): ‘Photography and Glass,’ women’s Carnival designs and more at New Orleans-area museums

nola.com (Apr. 30): Vietnamese-American experience is explored with love at the Ogden Museum’s ‘Flower Hands

Houston Chronicle (Apr. 30): How Houston became one of America’s biggest Vietnamese hubs, 50 years after the fall of Saigon

My New Orleans (Apr. 29): Craft Happy Hour at the Ogden Museum in May

See Great Art (Apr. 27): Dusti Bongé from Ogden Museum of Southern Art

Forbes (Apr. 26): Ogden Museum Of Southern Art In New Orleans Commemorates 50th Anniversary Of Fall Of Saigon

My New Orleans (Apr. 25): Ogden Museum Hosts Adult Art Class in May

My New Orleans (Apr. 25): What To Do This Weekend in New Orleans

The Pearl (Apr. 18): Live Your Fest Life with These 34 Items

The Museum Goer (WWNO) (Apr. 15): Hoa Tay (Flower Hands) at the Ogden

My New Orleans (Apr. 11): Ogden Museum Taking Student Intern Applications

OffBeat Magazine (Apr. 8): Ogden Museum Opens Call For 2025 Louisiana Contemporary Juried Exhibition

WWLTV (Apr. 3): Ogden Museum to host Free Family Day to celebrate the Battle of the Bands HBCU Exhibit

My New Orleans (Mar. 26): Free Family Day at the Ogden Museum this April

WAFB 9 (Mar. 23): HEART OF LOUISIANA: Louisiana Landscape

Houstonia (Mar. 21): This Year, You Can Find Us in New Orleans

New Orleans City Business (Mar. 21): Free Family DayFeaturing Free Admission + Crafts + Music + Community

My New Orleans (Mar. 17): Ogden Museum’s Ogden After Hours Featuring Blind Texas Marlin

My New Orleans (Feb. 28): Arts Calendar: March Events 2025

The Advocate (Feb. 27): HBCU marching bands seem to float off the canvas in Keith Duncan’s paintings at the Ogden

My New Orleans (Feb. 27): Design Diary: Chocolate Color Palettes, Photography Exhibits and More

nola.com (Feb. 27): HBCU marching bands seem to float off the canvas in Keith Duncan’s paintings at the Ogden

nola.com (Feb. 25): A changing coastline, contemporary photography and more spotlighted at New Orleans museums

My New Orleans (Feb. 20): Ogden Museum Summer Camp Registration Now Open

nola.com (Feb. 19): Horses, Hops and Cops, Family Gras, and more community news

nola.com (Feb.13): What’s happening at the New Orleans museums Feb. 16-23, 2025

nola.com (Feb.13): Ready for the weekend? Here are New Orleans events for Feb. 14-16

My New Orleans ( Feb. 11): Ogden Museum Hosts Mardi Gras Market

gambit (Feb. 8): See Keith Duncan’s paintings of HBCU marching bands at the Ogden Museum in New Orleans

nola.com (Feb. 7): Learn to make Mardi Gras decorations, and more community news

Livingect (Feb. 6): Never Mind the Super Bowl — The 30 Best Things to Do in New Orleans Right Now, as Recommended by Local Culture Insiders

Meer (Feb. 6): Hoa tay (flower hands)

Meer (Feb. 6): Battle of the bands

Travel and Tour World (Feb. 5): Travelers from Mexico, Canada, UK, India, and Brazil Flock to New Orleans as Mardi Gras 2025 Approaches, Expecting Over a Million Visitors

CULTURED (Feb. 4): Where to Eat, Wander, and See Art in New Orleans, According to City Native Lisa P. Jackson

nola.com (Jan. 31): Carnival kickoff, tax help and more community news

WSOC-TV (Jan. 31): Take it from locals: Super experience in New Orleans entails more than just the French Quarter

My New Orleans (Jan. 31): Super Bowl Events Around New Orleans

My New Orleans (Jan. 31): Arts Calendar: February Events 2025

KSL.com (Jan. 31): Take it from locals: Super experience in New Orleans entails more than just the French Quarter

Lens Scratch (Jan. 31): PHOTO NOLA RECAP FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE

My New Orleans (Jan. 29): Artwork of Southern Artists of the Vietnamese Diaspora Coming to Ogden Museum of Southern Art

nola.com (Jan. 27): Algiers Mardi Gras Fest, Metairie Carnival kick-off and more community news

The Art Newspaper (Jan. 25): New Orleans triennial positions the city as a model for a precarious, adaptive future

Art Review (Jan. 23): Prospect 6 Review: What Is an Exhibition’s Duty to Its Locality

Hotels Above Par (Jan. 17): The Ultimate New Orleans Destination Guide

WWNO (Jan. 17): Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Celebrate with these events in New Orleans

nola.com (Jan. 17): The best art in all of the Prospect.6 international exhibition is upstairs in a local museum

nola.com (Jan. 16): Martin Luther King Jr. Day events on Monday, and more happenings at New Orleans museums

nola.com (Jan. 10): Cigar Box Guitar fest, MLK events, and more community news

Fox8 News (Jan. 8): Ogden Adult Art Class

nola.com (Jan. 7): Reaching for joy through sorrow: After New Orleans attack, may we remember the losses and heal

nola.com (Jan. 7): New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts pays tribute to Newcomb art instructor Will Henry Stevens

The Wall Street Journal (Jan. 6): ‘Baldwin Lee’ Review: A Photographer’s Empathetic Eye

My New Orleans (Jan. 1): Arts Calendar: January Events 2025

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Teaching artist Jamar Pierre spent four weeks with 1st - 5th graders from Young Audiences Charter School at Lawrence D. Crocker and Kate Middleton Campus to explore the history of jazz in the city of New Orleans. During the residency, Pierre discusses historical influence of African music to what would become New Orleans jazz. Together, they contributed to a vibrant mural featuring jazz legends and cultural imagery.
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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.
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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.
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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. Since the inaugural exhibition fourteen years ago, Ogden Museum has shown works by over 600 artists, making Louisiana Contemporary an important moment in the national arts calendar to recognize and experience the spectrum and vitality of artistic voices emanating from New Orleans and in art communities across Louisiana.
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This exhibition focuses on contemporary photographers who are visually defining the Crescent City in the twenty-first century. The Unending Stream celebrates of the city of New Orleans’ continuing role as one of America’s most important cultural capitals while also highlighting the role the arts have played in revitalizing the region over the past twenty years since Hurricane Katrina.
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This exhibition draws its title from an often-repeated phrase from artist and Xavier professor John T. Scott. Scott guided his students with the mantra "Each one teach one," instilling a practice of giving and mentorship alongside developing artistic skills. John T. Scott was both a graduate of Xavier and a professor, beginning his teaching career there in 1965. After his death in 2007, former Xavier president Norman C. Francis recalled, “He had a very famous admonition that all of us remember. He didn’t want thanks. Just pass it on. Pass it on to others.” His legacy of excellence in his practice and of giving back to the community was transformational in Xavier's Department of Fine Arts and the lives and work of his students. That legacy continues under the stewardship of Ron Bechet, current department head and co-curator of this exhibition. Each One Teach One is a celebration and illustration of those founding and cultivated principles of excellence and community that define Xavier University of Louisiana.
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