Movement Mondays: Winter Scavenger Hunt
Español abajo Create an assemblage inspired by winter. Instructions Step 1: What are your favorite things about winter? Step 2: Explore your house for objects that remind you of the winter season. Be sure to ask a parent or guardian permission to use the objects that you collected in your artwork. Step 3: Find a… Read More about Movement Mondays: Winter Scavenger Hunt
Stronger Together: Ogden Museum Builds Community Partnerships in 2020
Throughout the years, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art Education Department has fostered a number of partnerships with a variety of community organizations. This year our belief that we’re stronger together was confirmed and strengthened as we were faced with the challenge of inventing new ways to engage the community during this time of social… Read More about Stronger Together: Ogden Museum Builds Community Partnerships in 2020
O-riginal Art Activities: Color Pencil Doodle Inspired by Isabella Scott
Create a colorful plant-inspired doodle in this week’s O-riginal Art Activity. Supplies Paper, Color Pencils, Pen Instructions Step 1: Look at Isabella Scott’s artwork, Utopia 1. What colors and patterns do you notice? Does it remind you of something you see in real life? Step 2: What is your favorite plant? Does this plant’s flowers… Read More about O-riginal Art Activities: Color Pencil Doodle Inspired by Isabella Scott
7th Annual HBCU Art Showcase Now On View
In collaboration with the New Orleans Chapter of The Links, Incorporated, Ogden Museum of Southern Art is pleased to present the 7th annual HBCU Art Showcase, a curated show of works from students attending Xavier University of Louisiana, one of the state’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The 2020 artists are Kennedi Andrus, Allana Barefield,… Read More about 7th Annual HBCU Art Showcase Now On View
Movement Mondays: Geometric Scavenger Hunt
Español abajo Explore your home for objects to create a geometric assemblage. Instructions Step 1: Name some shapes. Which shape is your favorite? Search your home for found objects that are various shapes. Be sure to ask a parent or guardian’s permission to use the objects you find. Step 2: Once you have collected some… Read More about Movement Mondays: Geometric Scavenger Hunt
O-riginal Art Activities: Giving Thanks and Remembering the History of the Americas
Español abajo Learn about the first people that lived in the Americas and create artwork inspired by this history. New Orleans is referred to as Bulbancha by the Choctaw meaning “the place of many languages” or “the place of many tongues”. The city occupies the territory and traditional homelands of the Chahta Yakni (Choctaw) and Chitimacha.*… Read More about O-riginal Art Activities: Giving Thanks and Remembering the History of the Americas
![Featured in Ogden Museum’s current exhibition, “Entwined: Ritual Wrapping and Binding in Contemporary Southern Art,” is “Re-seeking Horizons” by Elizabeth Shannon.
Elizabeth Shannon is a mixed-media and installation artist who has been active in the New Orleans art dialogue for over 50 years. Born in 1948 in Morgan City, Louisiana, Shannon grew up on the Atchafalaya River. Her work often addresses the codependent relationship between local industry and the ecosystem. Much of her practice engages the medium of assemblage and installation utilizing found objects to comment on social, ecological, political and philosophical concerns.
Explore Shannon’s work in the exhibition “Entwined,” on view through February 28!
[Elizabeth Shannon, “Re-seeking Horizons,” 1983 and 2020, Cotton mill ends, paint, glue, wooden dowels and found objects, Collection of the artist] #Entwined #OgdenMuseum #ArtsDistrictNewOrleans #SeetheSouth #SouthernArt #ElizabethShannon](https://ogdenmuseum.org/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)