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An Ogden Museum of Southern Art Docent is a volunteer who leads tours, helping visitors to See the South. Prospective docents should have an interest in art and Southern culture and a desire to interact with adults and children. The training process will cover museum techniques and education strategies for engaging visitors in meaningful explorations of...
Sabine McCalla & The Dew Drops is a New Orleans based R&B band featuring doo wop, blues and soul. The name is attributed to the famous New Orleans hotel, The Dew Drop Inn. The hotel was open for several decades as a speakeasy that featured black and white musicians and audiences. This matches with the...
Local tape artist, Justin Lundgren, will conduct a workshop on the basic techniques of creating art with tape. The session will feature a brief presentation of the artist's own work, as featured in Louisiana Contemporary, Presented by The Helis Foundation, a review of the different styles and techniques being used around the world to create...
Join us as we celebrate the opening of the Ogden Museum’s latest exhibitions Newton Howard: Painter of the Sportsman’s Paradise and New Southern Photography.
An Ogden Museum of Southern Art Docent is a volunteer who leads tours, helping visitors to See the South. Prospective docents should have an interest in art and Southern culture and a desire to interact with adults and children. The training process will cover museum techniques and education strategies for engaging visitors in meaningful explorations of...
New Southern Photography highlights the exciting and diverse breadth of photography being practiced in the American South today. The largest photography exhibition at the Ogden Museum to date, this exhibition will feature the work of twenty-five emerging, mid-career and established photographers. All types of lens-formed imagery will be included from traditional analogue and digital still...
Celebrate the release of Helen's latest album release, Helkiase, featuring the singles, "Slow Drag Pavageau" and "You Found Me," available now on CD and digitally through bandcamp, spotify, pandora. Vinyl release available October 2018! Belgian-born Helen Gillet is both a singer-songwriter and surrealist-archeologist focused on the worlds of synthesized sound and acoustic cello. Though Gillet...
An Ogden Museum of Southern Art Docent is a volunteer who leads tours, helping visitors to See the South. Prospective docents should have an interest in art and Southern culture and a desire to interact with adults and children. The training process will cover museum techniques and education strategies for engaging visitors in meaningful explorations of...
"From the very beginning, their goal was to see to it that the band and it's listeners had a smoking hot time." - Steve Steinburg, Offbeat Magazine Smoking Time Jazz Club is a New Orleans based traditional jazz band, reviving and refreshing the music of the 1920s and 30s for todays listeners, swing dancers and...
The Museum will close at 3 p.m. today for the O What a Night! gala. The last admission to the Museum will be at 2:30 p.m. Admission is free on this day.
Join the Ogden Museum of Southern Art for its annual O What A Night! Gala. Dubbed “the Met Ball of the South,” O What A Night! is an unparalleled celebration of Southern art, culture and cuisine. The glamorous black-tie event celebrates the important mission of the Ogden Museum: to broaden the knowledge, understanding, interpretation and...
The 29th annual New Orleans Film Festival is October 17 - 25 and celebrates Tuesday, October 23 as Ogden Day at #NOFF2018! Museum members get a special discount for all screenings on Ogden Day, and a free special screening at the Contemporary Arts Center of the film, Bending Lines: The Sculpture of Robert Wiggs. After...
A new FREE series for grad students in Arts Admin. and Museum Studies on select Thursdays before Ogden After Hours. This Gathering presents an exploration of New Southern Photography with Richard McCabe, Curator of Photography. This program is free, but registration is required.
Ever More Nest is a new project from New Orleans-based songwriter, Kelcy Mae. A band with an unmistakable Americana tilt, Ever More Nest pairs Kelcy’s signature poetic lyricism with a musical style that can set you simultaneously on a rural dirt road and a gritty, big-city street. The name ‘Ever More Nest’ was drawn from a...
Wear a costume on Halloween and get free admission to the Museum on Oct. 31 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Come See the South!
Based in Louisiana, yet rooted in Balkan traditions, New Orleans’ Blato Zlato features dreamy three-part vocal harmonies over hard-hitting instrumentals inspired by both the ancient traditions of their heritage and the musical influences of their lives today. With many band members raised in Eastern Europe and having ancestry there, the band’s music aims to explore and preserve...