In 1987, Ida Kohlmeyer received a commission to design a major installation for the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas located in Woldenberg Park near the Mississippi River in downtown New Orleans. The installation, Aquatic Colonnade, was completed in 1990 and consisted of 20 brightly-colored abstracted sculptures representing sea creatures. While designing the installation, Kohlmeyer created small maquettes from soda cans, using these diminutive sculptures as preliminary sketches for the larger installation. These maquettes, now on view at Ogden Museum, were used as reference material in that process. Read More about Aquatic Colonnade Maquettes The Sculptures of Ida Kohlmeyer

Featuring artwork by students from Dillard University, Southern University at New Orleans and Xavier University of Louisiana. Read More about 9th Annual HBCU Art Showcase Presented by The New Orleans (LA) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated

These photographs and letters are part of a larger body of work that was first exhibited at Ogden Museum of Southern Art in the Fall of 2007. With the publication of the book version of the project last month, Ogden Museum has offered to highlight selections of the work again. Read More about David Rae Morris Love, Daddy: Letters from My Father

Featuring portraits and abstract works, Be Your Wonderful Self: The Portraits of Beauford Delaney explores the preeminent status portraiture held in the artist’s life and work, following the trajectory of his career from his “Greene Street” period in New York through his ardent embrace of pure abstraction after his relocation to Paris in 1953. Be Your Wonderful Self: The Portraits of Beauford Delaney is organized by Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, New York. Read More about Be Your Wonderful Self: The Portraits of Beauford Delaney Organized by Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY

Read More about Home Is… A Sense of Place, A Sense of Self An exhibition of work created in KID smART classrooms across New Orleans

Part of Ogden Museum’s Artists and Sense of Place Residency Program, Second Time, Second Line Recycling Project features mixed media artist Jacqueline Ehle-Inglefield working with Young Audience Charter School students to introduce new art-making techniques, explore their region and raise awareness about why recycling is important to the environment. This exhibition highlights the work Ehle-Inglefield and the students completed throughout the three-week residency. Read More about Artists and Sense of Place Residency: Second Time, Second Line Recycling Project PRESENTED BY COX COMMUNICATIONS

The Casebearer: Recent Work by Dave Greber features a selection of immersive video art works, projections and 2-D objects from New Orleans artist, Dave Greber. Read More about The Casebearer Recent work by Dave Greber

Luis Cruz Azaceta: What a Wonderful World brings together painting, drawing, collage and sculptural works spanning over 4 decades to illustrate the prolific career of Luis Cruz Azaceta, a Cuban American visual artist based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Often working in large scale, his artworks are known for their highly-charged color and narrative depth. Read More about What a Wonderful World Luis Cruz Azaceta

This exhibition, created in collaboration with the African American Resource Collection and the City Archives & Special Collections of the New Orleans Public Library, celebrates community members who paved the way for future generations by being the first people of color in their fields, alongside videos of current community activists and posters created by students from New Orleans Charter Science and Mathematics High School illustrating current social justice issues. The exhibition also showcases work from the Permanent Collection of Ogden Museum depicting historic moments and important individuals in the Civil Rights Movement. Read More about Passing the Torch: Southern Art and Social Justice Organized in collaboration with the African American Resource Collection and the City Archives & Special Collections of the New Orleans Public Library