Book Club A Night of Southern Poets

A Night of Southern Poets: Night Bus to the Afterlife by Peter Cooley and Reflections of a Mississippi Magnolia: A Life in Poems by Patricia Neely Dorsey. Join Ogden Museum docent and former teacher Maureen O’Dwyer for a lively discussion about Southern art, literature and culture. This club will meet approximately every 6 weeks. Members...

Magnolia Ball Kickoff Party at Urban South Brewery

The Ogden Museum of Southern Art with Urban South Brewery invites you to the Magnolia Ball 2017 Kickoff Party! Join us for complimentary beer and purchase discounted Magnolia Ball Patron Tickets - $100 (regularly $250). About the Magnolia Ball: Each June the Ogden hosts the Magnolia Ball which celebrates and benefits the Center for Southern Craft and Design. The...

Jolie & Elizabeth Trunk Show at Ogden After Hours

Join us for a Jolie & Elizabeth Trunk Show in preparation for the Ogden's annual "Sippin' in Seersucker" event at the Shops at Canal Place. Stop by during Ogden After Hours from 6 to 8pm on April 13th to see and shop the latest in Southern fashion and pick up your tickets for "Sippin' in Seersucker"...

Helen Gillet at Ogden After Hours

Helen Gillet sings French chansons with special guests Luke Brechtelsbauer on harp, Alex McMurray on guitar, and Daron Douglas on violin. Helen Gillet is a jazz based cellist, singer, composer, and improviser. Raised in Belgium, Singapore, Chicago and Wisconsin, Gillet has lived in New Orleans for the past 15 years performing her own eclectic mix...

Craft Happy Hour Oxalis Apothecary

Erin Wexstten of Oxalis Apothecary will be leading a "blending" workshop and participants will leave with their own customized roll-on perfume! $25 nonmembers $20 members Fee includes all materials, beer and wine.  

Spencer Bohren at Ogden After Hours

Born into a gospel-singing family in Wyoming in 1950, Spencer Bohren began singing and playing music as youngster. At 14, inspired by the folk music he heard on the radio, Spencer picked up a guitar and within a few weeks started performing in public. He immediately delved deeply into America’s treasure of blues, country, gospel...

Book Signing at Ogden After Hours

Talented illustrator, Emma Fick, will be joining us during Ogden After Hours to sign copies of her new book, Snippets of New Orleans. She will also have prints available for sale. Stop by the Museum Store during Ogden After Hours.

Sippin’ in Seersucker

The Shops at Canal Place 333 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA, United States

Join us on April 21st at our annual Sippin' in Seersucker at The Shops at Canal Place, benefitting the Ogden Museum! Put on your best seersucker and celebrate the start of the summer social season in style. Sippin' in Seersucker is an evening of Southern art, cuisine, cocktails, entertainment, fashion and more. The evening will...

International Sculpture Day

On Monday, April 24th, International Sculpture Day, The Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition presented by The Helis Foundation will unveil Tara Conley’s Bravegirl as the newest addition to the largest rotating exhibit of public sculpture in the South. Bravegirl, an empowering text piece perched above ground rendered in hollow constructed aluminum and painted with fluorescent pink auto paint, will be installed on the neutral ground of Poydras Street and S. Peters Street.At 5:30pm, Conley will be joined by artists Rachel David and Ashley Pridmore to speak about their art and the role art and artists plays in empowering communities in a conversation moderated by the Joan Mitchell Center Director Gia Hamilton. Rachel David’s steel piece, Weft, was installed on the Poydras Corridor in 2015. Ashley Pridmore, a Texas-based sculptor will have a new work joining the Poydras Corridor in the fall of 2017. This talk, located in the Patrick F. Taylor library is free and open to the public with a wine reception to follow.In addition, The Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition presented by The Helis Foundation will be running an International Sculpture Day social media contest – follow along at Facebook.com/SculptureForNewOrleansand Instagram.com/poydrascorridor/ for more details and chances to win Bravegirl T-Shirts.