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Support the South at the Ogden Museum on June 2 for GiveNOLA Day! Your contribution will help support our dynamic exhibitions, educational programming and more! GiveNOLA Day is a 24 hour event hosted by the Greater New Orleans Foundation to inspire people to give generously to nonprofits making our region stronger, creating a thriving community...
Last week, we shared this Curated Conversation with Lee Deigaard, a photographer featured in our current exhibition, Revelations: Recent Photography Acquisitions. This week, we'll post part two on the O Blog. This video will feature Deigaard speaking about photographs in her series, Unbidden.
UPDATE: In respect and solidarity with the worldwide demonstrations demanding an end to systemic racism and advocating for equality and justice, Ogden After Hours at Home will not occur this evening and will be postponed to a later date. Black Lives Matter. Ogden Museum presents Ogden After Hours at Home! This weekly series features Southern...
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. CHECK BACK SOON FOR THE NEW DATE! Ogden Museum presents Ogden After Hours at Home! This weekly series features Southern musicians and DJs performing from the comfort of their own homes. Live sessions will be available on Zoom and Ogden Museum's Facebook! And every fourth Thursday of the month, our...
Join Museum Educator, Michelle Pontiff, for a series of stress free, beginner level online drawing classes designed to improve on and build your drawing skills. Participants are encouraged to tune in each week to learn a new technique and need only a pencil, eraser and paper to join in. Optional additional materials for each class...
Jeremy Novy is a contemporary artist, currently based in San Francisco, whose practice is firmly rooted in street art traditions and uses stencils as his primary medium. You may recognize the koi fish that Novy has painted on sidewalks and buildings around New Orleans. With his koi, he is honoring the traditions of Chinese art,...
In solidarity with the ongoing national and local protests responding to police brutality and systemic racial inequality in the United States, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art has chosen to pause our virtual music program, Ogden After Hours At Home, for the remainder of June 2020. We firmly believe in the power of musical performance...
The first week of June is when Ogden Museum typically hosts its annual Magnolia Ball – the social event of the summer and a celebration of Southern art and culture. Out of concern for your health and safety, we’ve made the difficult decision to forgo our usual fête. However, we are pleased to present more...
Join Museum Educator, Michelle Pontiff, for a series of stress free, beginner level online drawing classes designed to improve on and build your drawing skills. Participants are encouraged to tune in each week to learn a new technique and need only a pencil, eraser and paper to join in. Optional additional materials for each class...
The Monuments Men are known for rescuing priceless art pieces from the Nazis. Works such as the Mona Lisa, Beethoven's original manuscript of his Sixth Symphony, and the golden Bust of Charlemagne were recovered through their missions. In appreciation for artworks of all kinds, enjoy a short sketching workshop with Michelle Pontiff, Education Coordinator, from...
Hey y'all! Please join us for a series of engaging conversations about Southern art and artists! On four Thursday afternoons this summer, Museum Educator, Sara Echaniz, will lead an in-depth participatory discussion about an artwork from Ogden Museum's permanent collection and provide background information about the artist and artwork. On June 25, let's chat about...
Ogden Museum is proud to play a role in a special annual event celebrating the life of artist John T. Scott, happening this Friday, June 26 and Saturday, June 27! John T. Scott died in September 2007, and his memorial took place at Xavier University. A community of artists, Xavier alumnae, friends, colleagues and people...
A Curated Conversation with Ogden Museum's Curator of Photography, Richard McCabe, and Mississippi photographer, David McCarty. The two will discuss McCarty's photograph, Phil Campbell, Alabama 2019, included in the Online Magnolia Ball Silent Auction. This conversation will also touch on McCarty's instant photography practice, self-publishing zines, driving the back roads of the South photographing vernacular signage, on the...
Sharon Kopriva is featured in the Online Magnolia Ball Silent Auction and the exhibition, Entwined: Ritual Wrapping and Binding in Contemporary Southern Art. Curator of the Collection, Bradley Sumrall, will talk with Sharon about her work, Owls & Oleanders, included in the silent auction and her work in Entwined. . Sharon Kopriva, a Texas native, currently works...
A Curated Conversation with Curator of the Collection, Bradley Sumrall, and Entwined artist, Sonya Yong James, will publish to the O Blog this Wednesday, July 1 at noon. Sonya Yong James was born in 1971 in Knoxville, Tennessee. A lifelong Southerner, she has lived for the past forty years in Atlanta, Georgia, where she maintains...
Join Museum Educator, Michelle Pontiff, for a series of stress free, beginner level online drawing classes designed to improve on and build your drawing skills. Participants are encouraged to tune in each week to learn a new technique and need only a pencil, eraser and paper to join in. Optional additional materials for each class...
