/// April 10 - July 29, 2024
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/// April 6 - June 8, 2024
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/// March 4 - October 13, 2024
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/// March 19, 2024 - October 31, 2028
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.
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![Opening next Saturday, April 20 at Ogden Museum of Southern Art is “Southland.”
“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.
“Southland” is curated by Richard McCabe, Curator of Photography at Ogden Museum, and will be on view at Ogden Museum April 20 through September 22, 2024.
[Elemore Morgan, Sr., “Mississippi River from the Bluffs (Near Port Hudson, LA.),” 1962, Gelatin silver print, 16 x 20 inches, Gift of the Roger Houston Ogden Collection, 2003.1.385]](https://ogdenmuseum.org/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)