2024 Press Releases


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The Contemporary South 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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From early innovators in oil to the contemporary vanguard of material exploration, this exhibition traces Southern abstract artists’ impact upon a critically important movement – widely considered to be America’s most significant contribution to art history. By including both 20th century and contemporary artists, academically trained and self-taught – this exhibition considers the legacy of Modernism in the American South.
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NOCCA PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE: A 50th Anniversary Exhibition includes works from Ogden Museum’s permanent collection; the private collection of the Museum's founder, Roger Ogden; works purchased by the NOCCA Foundation, NOCCA's nonprofit partner; and pieces by current and past NOCCA faculty.
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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.
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Southland examines the role photographs have played in the visualization of the natural landscape of the American South. The exhibition explores the many technical and aesthetic methods photographers have employed in approaching the subject of the Southern Landscape. Highlighting the marshlands in Louisiana, the beaches of Florida, the flatlands of the Mississippi Delta and the mountains of North Carolina and Virginia, the exhibition shows the landscape of the American South is as diverse as the people of the region. Southland not only investigates the topographical physical characteristics of the land of the American South, but the metaphysical and emotional role romanticism plays in the understanding of landscape photographs made of and about the American South.
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NOLA @ Night: Teen Takes on the Crescent City is teen-curated exhibition highlighting the work of New Orleans Teens. New Orleans Teens are encouraged to submit their work to the open-call exhibition March 29 through April 13, 2024.
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Remembering Shirley Rabé Masinter

Shirley Rabé Masinter was a hyperrealist painter that maintained an art practice for over 70 years.  Depicting the gritty patina of the inner-city neighborhoods and cemeteries of New Orleans, her carefully constructed compositions find beauty in urban decay. Masinter described her work as being focused “on a city in transition with many controversial and dynamic social forces at play.”
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