Artists & Sense of Place Residency Contemporary Congo: African Rhythms in Jazz

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

Youth Climate Action Fund Crud Joy: From Waste to Wonder

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 Selections from the Permanent Collection

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

Baldwin Lee

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

P.6 – Prospect New Orleans The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home

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

Artists & Sense of Place Residency Exploring BiodiverCity

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

Louisiana Contemporary 2024 Presented by The Helis Foundation

Ogden Museum of Southern Art first launched Louisiana Contemporary, presented by The Helis Foundation in 2012, to establish a vehicle that would bring to the fore the work of artists living in Louisiana and highlight the dynamism of art practice throughout the state. 2024 guest juror, Lauren Haynes, Head Curator, Governors Island Arts and Vice President for Arts and Culture at the Trust for Governors Island, has selected 41 works by 37 artists from over one-thousand submissions to be featured in the exhibition. Read More about Louisiana Contemporary 2024 Presented by The Helis Foundation