Since its beginning, the City of New Orleans has been both a subject and a muse to generations of artists. This exhibition will draw primarily from the permanent collection of Ogden Museum of Southern Art to show how artists have portrayed the Crescent City through drawings, paintings, photographs and prints. From 19th century street scenes to contemporary abstractions, these works show the deep and lasting influence of the built environment and natural light of New Orleans upon the visual arts. Read More about Crescent Cityscapes Images of New Orleans from the Permanent Collection

Scobey creates works, installations and furniture that invite curious interaction. Responsive to public space and everyday materials, Scobey’s work experiments with how to frame the encounter in projects that range from sculptural interventions in a grocery store or a cardboard living room where museum goers can relax from social media to high design objects reconceived with Arte Povera materials. His studio practice often results in stacked  culptural work – in concrete, stone, wood, cast acrylic, neodymium magnets and cast earth – that transmit and reflect natural light dependent on where the sun is located in relation to the viewer and the work. His work explores material energy, transmission, site, form and scale. Read More about Matt Scobey: Case Study Selected Works 2018-2025

Teaching artist Jamar Pierre spent four weeks with 1st – 5th graders from Young Audiences Charter School at Lawrence D. Crocker and Kate Middleton Campus to explore the history of jazz in the city of New Orleans. During the residency, Pierre discusses historical influence of African music to what would become New Orleans jazz. Together, they contributed to a vibrant mural featuring jazz legends and cultural imagery. Read More about Artists & Sense of Place Residency Contemporary Congo: African Rhythms in Jazz

Ogden Museum’s Youth Climate Action Project (led by Ogden Museum HBCU Intern Kennedy Timmons and Ogden Museum Teen Interns) uses the City of New Orleans Climate Action Plan as a catalyst for the initiative. The project consists of a collaborative art installation between Milagros Collective, Ogden Museum Interns and the community. The goal of the project is to spark conversation on the Circular Economy and Waste Reduction. Read More about Youth Climate Action Fund Crud Joy: From Waste to Wonder

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

CURRENTS is an annual juried exhibition of photographic works by members of New Orleans Photo Alliance. Each year, Ogden Museum of Southern Art hosts this exhibition, which also coincides with the PhotoNOLA Festival. Read More about Currents 2024 A New Orleans Photo Alliance Members Showcase

Baldwin Lee features a selection of over 50 gelatin silver prints culled from thousands of images Lee made across the South in the 1980s, many being exhibited for the first time. The exhibition includes compelling portraits of Black Americans, as well as a collection of landscape and cityscape images that visually encapsulate the Reagan-era American South. Read More about Baldwin Lee

A harbinger can be foreboding. The origins of this word, however, point towards a host, a harbor, or a scout who makes a safe space for others. Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home looks to New Orleans as a signal of the future, in conversation with regions of the world that have long experienced the effects of climate change, labor migration and histories of colonialism. Together these places offer sanctuaries and indicators of the yearnings and tensions that will define our collective future.  Read More about P.6 – Prospect New Orleans The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home

Working with first through fourth graders from KIPP: Leadership & KIPP: Morial, teaching artist Cori Ander explored biodiversity through biological illustration and watercolor painting. Cori Ander posed the question, “What is our place in our environment?” Students were encouraged to ponder how and when they interact with nature in their city and discussed how animals impact them and their culture. Read More about Artists & Sense of Place Residency Exploring BiodiverCity