George Rodrigue was a Louisiana painter known for his depictions of the landscape and people of Acadiana, as well as his later Pop Art paintings featuring the figure of a blue dog. This painting, Watchdog from 1983, was the first ever painting in what would become known as the Blue Dog series. Read More about The First Blue Dog George Rodrigue's Watchdog

New Orleans based artist Jacob Reptile spent three weeks working with second through fifth graders from Young Audiences Charter School at Lawrence D. Crocker Campus to create a forest of cypress trees made from recycled fabric and paper bags. For the residency, Reptile drew inspiration from the remarkable features of the Louisiana bald cypress tree. Students learned all about the tree: how its powerful roots help to hold together Louisiana’s shoreline and absorb water reducing city flooding; how the mighty cypress can not only survive hurricane winds but also acts as a windbreak for the city; and lastly, how its canopy helps to reduce high temperatures during the hot summers. Read More about Artists & Sense of Place Residency Louisiana Wildlife: Where Y’at?

Southern Contemporary is an exhibition that brings together thirteen works of art created in the past twenty years by artists working in the American South, encouraging a dynamic conversation between the excitement of recent acquisitions and the familiarity of permanent collection highlights. Emerging artistic expressions across a variety of mediums and techniques are included alongside artworks by mid-career and established artists. Read More about Southern Contemporary Selections from the Permanent Collection

Pulling from Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s Permanent Collection, this year-round exhibition showcases Will Henry Stevens work from Southern Landscapes to abstract improvisations. Read More about Will Henry Stevens

From early innovators in oil to the contemporary vanguard of material exploration, this exhibition traces Southern abstract artists’ impact upon a critically important movement – widely considered to be America’s most significant contribution to art history. By including both 20th century and contemporary artists, academically trained and self-taught – this exhibition considers the legacy of Modernism in the American South. Read More about Southern Abstraction Works from the Permanent Collection

NOLA @ Night: Teens Take on the Crescent City is teen-curated exhibition highlighting the work of New Orleans Teens. Read More about NOLA @ Night: Teens Take on the Crescent City

Southland examines the role photographs have played in the visualization of the natural landscape of the American South. The exhibition explores the many technical and aesthetic methods photographers have employed in approaching the subject of the Southern Landscape. Highlighting the marshlands in Louisiana, the beaches of Florida, the flatlands of the Mississippi Delta and the mountains of North Carolina and Virginia, the exhibition shows the landscape of the American South is as diverse as the people and culture of the region. Southland not only investigates the topographical physical characteristics of the land of the American South, but the metaphysical and emotional role romanticism plays in the understanding of landscape photographs made of and about the American South. Read More about Southland

Organized by Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought and presented in partnership with Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Tina Girouard: SIGN-IN is the first comprehensive posthumous retrospective for the Louisiana-born artist, Tina Girouard, and showcases over forty years of the artist’s practice. Known as a collaborator in artist communities in New York, New York, Lafayette, Louisiana and Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Girouard’s work tells an expansive story of American art. A vanguard artist in the fields of performance, film, textile, printmaking and community-based practices, Girouard’s animated work explores the different places she called home. Read More about Tina Girouard: SIGN-IN

Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition, presented by The Helis Foundation, is the South’s leading rotating public sculpture exhibition. Read More about Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition Presented by The Helis Foundation