5 Southern Films You Can Watch At Home
We’re excited to announce that we’ll be rolling out Ogden After Hours Live at Home in the coming weeks! In the meantime, did you know there are some fantastic Southern films available to you through various streaming platforms? Southern art and Southern film go hand in hand in exhibiting the very essence of Southern culture and… Read More about 5 Southern Films You Can Watch At Home
Museum Staff Collections: Melissa Kenyon, Director of Marketing & Experience Sharing the Work of Bonnie Maygarden and Christa Blackwood
Get a glimpse into the personal art collection of Ogden Museum Director of Marketing & Experience, Melissa Kenyon! This is the fourth post in a fun Saturday series looking at the art collections belonging to Ogden Museum staff. Since joining the Ogden team, I’ve been fortunate to meet many incredibly kind and talented Southern artists…. Read More about Museum Staff Collections: Melissa Kenyon, Director of Marketing & Experience Sharing the Work of Bonnie Maygarden and Christa Blackwood
O-riginal Art Activities: 3D Assemblage Inspired by Melvin Edwards
Español abajo Inspired by Melvin Edwards’ metal work, build an aluminum assemblage. Melvin Edwards is known for his dense, metal assemblages that honor the connection between African and African American art. Edward’s great-great-great grandfather was a West African blacksmith and the African continent has, in his words, “always been there for me in one way… Read More about O-riginal Art Activities: 3D Assemblage Inspired by Melvin Edwards
Ogden Kids Art Break Inspired by Artist Benny Andrews
Select CC for closed captioning. Experience the art of the American South with the O from home! Every other Thursday at 2 p.m., visit the O Blog for a pre-recorded “Ogden Kids Art Break” inspired by a work of Southern art. Use everyday household items to create your own masterpiece! This online video series is… Read More about Ogden Kids Art Break Inspired by Artist Benny Andrews
“Revelations” Gallery Talk with Richard McCabe "The New Normal"
Select CC for closed captioning. Ogden Museum Curator of Photography, Richard McCabe, explores three photographs in the exhibition, Revelations: Recent Photography Acquisitions, that speak to our “new normal” through the concepts of isolation and the reevaluation of one’s life and work as seen through the prism of time. Revelations features a selection of photographs made from… Read More about “Revelations” Gallery Talk with Richard McCabe "The New Normal"
Ogden Museum Online Lessons For the Classroom: Untitled | Minnie Evans
Español abajo Students will create an abstracted self-portrait using symmetry and inspirations from nature that reflects decorative patterns as well as an understanding of value changes in color. This is a great exercise to teach students about the use of their left and right brain hemispheres. Creating the image in one side of the paper… Read More about Ogden Museum Online Lessons For the Classroom: Untitled | Minnie Evans
![Featured in our current exhibition, “What Music is Within: Black Abstraction from the Permanent Collection,” is the artist, Clifton Webb.
Using a “visual alphabet” developed over the course of his career, New Orleans-based artist Clifton Webb creates works imbued with reverence and dignity. Though the symbols he has developed may not be immediately familiar, they are unmistakably noble, and that is the intent. Webb set out to create works that would say to the world, “This is me and all the people around me who don’t get to see themselves, who don’t get to see the royalty and sacredness of who the African American is.”
Webb grew up in the Jim Crow South surrounded by a loving, nurturing and caring community. However, he came to realize the people who made up that community were vastly under-represented in the artworks that were available to them. He asked himself, “What makes me unique? How do I make a mark that would suggest something about me, the African American? How do you know it when you see it in a gallery? What makes you say, ‘Oh, that’s African American?’”
A co-founder of the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center, Webb’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art and Dooky Chase Restaurant. He has also exhibited at the Stella Jones Gallery, The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum, the African American Museum of Dallas, the Chattanooga Museum of Afro-American Culture and History, the Alternatives Museum, the Atlanta Arts Festival, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the Arthur Roger Gallery and Max Hutchinson Gallery in New York. He is also an arts educator with a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. in sculpture from Louisiana State University.
Come see Clifton Webb’s work on the 5th floor at the O!
[Clifton Webb, ”Totem,” Steel, granite, stainless steel and wood, Promised Gift of The Michael Brown and Lina Green Collection, 2000.2.25] Artist bio source: www.artistcliftonwebb.com/about #WhatMusicisWithin #BlackAbstraction
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