O-riginal Art Activities: Geometric Collage Inspired by Joey Slaughter
Español abajo Create a colorful geometric collage in this O-riginal Art Activity inspired by Joey Slaughter. Joey Slaughter earned his BFA from Memphis College of Art and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Upon graduating Cranbrook, Slaughter was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant. He has also received the Louisiana Division of the Arts… Read More about O-riginal Art Activities: Geometric Collage Inspired by Joey Slaughter
“Saint Kampos” by Ashley Pridmore Moves to Ogden Museum Terrace
Saint Kampos by Ashley Pridmore was part of the Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition, but as of November 2020, the sculpture resides at Ogden Museum on the fifth floor terrace. “In this sculpture I blur the lines between land and sea, incorporating cast branches, bones and leaves to create a talismanic sea creature for the City of… Read More about “Saint Kampos” by Ashley Pridmore Moves to Ogden Museum Terrace
Movement Mondays: Looking at Art through Rhythm
Español abajo Combine art and rhythm in this Movement Monday Activity inspired by James Flynn. James Flynn’s artwork has taken on many forms over the years. During the late 1990’s James immersed himself in the thriving London graffiti scene. Letter-based designs, and spray paint became his preferred medium. From around 2008 to 2016 James produced… Read More about Movement Mondays: Looking at Art through Rhythm
O-riginal Art Activities: Monochromatic Landscape Inspired by Abbey Kuhe
Español abajo Connect to nature in this O-riginal Art Activity inspired by Abbey Kuhe. In E.O. Wilson’s Biophilia, the author reminds the modern reader that the long evolution of homo sapien occurred within an environment we have only very recently differentiated as “nature”. Through ceramics Abbey Kuhe explores the histories of our extractive economies and the species that we… Read More about O-riginal Art Activities: Monochromatic Landscape Inspired by Abbey Kuhe
Movement Mondays: Looking at Art through Music
Español abajo Combine art and music in this Movement Monday Activity inspired by Wendo Brunoir. Wendo Brunoir was born in 1982 in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he currently lives and works. After participating in various gallery shows, he started painting murals in and around New Orleans. Soon after, he traveled to different parts of the… Read More about Movement Mondays: Looking at Art through Music
Q & A with Wendo Brunoir Winner of The Helis Foundation Art Prize for Best in Show in Louisiana Contemporary
Wendo Brunoir is one of the 56 Louisiana artists selected for the 2020 edition of Louisiana Contemporary, Presented by The Helis Foundation. Brunoir has been chosen for Best in Show and is the recipient of The Helis Foundation Art prize for his works, Don’t Catch You Slippin’ Up and Appropriation of a Masterpiece. In this interview, we’ll… Read More about Q & A with Wendo Brunoir Winner of The Helis Foundation Art Prize for Best in Show in Louisiana Contemporary
![It is with deep sadness and a great sense of loss that we share the news that artist Philip Morsberger passed away on January 3, 2021 at the age of 87 from COVID-19 complications.
Born in 1933 in Baltimore, Maryland, Morsberger was first introduced to the world of art through his grandfather’s newspaper illustrations. By the age of 14, he was taking classes at the Maryland Institute College of Art. After receiving his B.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon, Morsberger joined the Army which took him to Paris where he furthered his studies at the Academie de la Grande Chaumière. In the mid-1950s, he earned a Graduate Certificate of Art from Oxford University’s Ruskin School of Drawing. He went on to become Oxford University’s Master of Drawing from 1971-1984, an honor unheard of for an American artist. As an educator, he went on to teach at Harvard, Dartmouth, UC Berkley, California College of Arts and Crafts, Miami University and Augusta State University.
Beginning his career working in a realist style, Morsberger quickly moved toward abstraction, eventually developing a youthful but mature style that combined brightly colored abstraction with cartoonish figures. His work has been exhibited throughout Europe and the U.S., and is held in private and public collections throughout the world, including the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford and the South Hampton City Art Gallery in England; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Jose Museum of Art and Sacramento’s Crocker Art Museum in California; the Morris Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia; Dartmouth’s Hood Museum in New Hampshire; and Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
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