The First Blue Dog George Rodrigue's Watchdog

George Rodrigue was a Louisiana painter known for his depictions of the landscape and people of Acadiana, as well as his later Pop Art paintings featuring the figure of a blue dog. This painting, Watchdog from 1983, was the first ever painting in what would become known as the Blue Dog series.
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Artists & Sense of Place Residency Louisiana Wildlife: Where Y’at?

New Orleans based artist Jacob Reptile spent three weeks working with second through fifth graders from Young Audiences Charter School at Lawrence D. Crocker Campus to create a forest of cypress trees made from recycled fabric and paper bags. For the residency, Reptile drew inspiration from the remarkable features of the Louisiana bald cypress tree. Students learned all about the tree: how its powerful roots help to hold together Louisiana’s shoreline and absorb water reducing city flooding; how the mighty cypress can not only survive hurricane winds but also acts as a windbreak for the city; and lastly, how its canopy helps to reduce high temperatures during the hot summers.
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Southern Contemporary Selections from the Permanent Collection

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.
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Southland

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 and culture 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: Teens Take on the Crescent City

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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Louisiana Contemporary 2024 Presented by The Helis Foundation

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, will curate a selection of the works submitted, and subsequently choose three award winners to receive further recognition.
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