12th Annual HBCU Art Showcase Presented by The New Orleans (LA) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated

Featuring artwork by students from Dillard University and Xavier University of Louisiana.
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The Unending Stream: Chapter I

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

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.
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Louisiana Contemporary 2025 Presented by The Helis Foundation

Ogden Museum of Southern Art first launched Louisiana Contemporary, presented by The Helis Foundation in 2012, as an annual survey exhibition 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 art communities across Louisiana.
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Raven Halfmoon Flags of Our Mothers

Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers features new and recent works made over the last five years. Commissioned by The Aldrich and Bemis Center, the exhibition debuts Halfmoon’s largest works to date, including a three-part stacked ceramic sculpture standing over twelve-feet tall. The title of the exhibition is a tribute to the matriarchs in her life and all the Indigenous women, who over many centuries have created and endured, keeping their stories and traditions present, active and alive.
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The Unending Stream: Chapter II

This exhibition focuses on contemporary photographers who are visually defining the Crescent City in the twenty-first century. The Unending Stream celebrates 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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