Hours: Weds. To Sun. 11 a.m. To 4 p.m.; plus Thurs. 6 p.m. To 8 p.m. For Ogden After Hours
Admission: $10 adults; $8 seniors (65 +) and students (18 +) with id; $5 children age 5 to 17; and Free to children under 5, and University of New Orleans students, faculty and staff with university id.
Mission Statement: The Ogden Museum of Southern Art/University of New Orleans, is home to the largest and most comprehensive collection of Southern art in the world. Here you will find the story of the South—the old as well as the new, as told through its art, music and education programs.
Exhibitions:
Oct. 4 through December 2008
(check Website for exact closing dates)
“Sally Mann: What Remains”
Haunting images from renowned photographer Sally Mann’s book, “What Remains,” a five-part meditation on mortality. Challenging the notions of love, death and memory, Mann photographs are of the Antietam Battlefield, her children, and the process of decomposition, rendered in a 19th-century photographic process.
“Silver Bullets and Holy Water: Paintings by Margaret Evangeline”
Baton Rouge-native Margaret Evangeline’s paintings are striking, conceptual, complex and layered. Evangeline often shoots at her painted work with guns, which allows the piece to become less static, creating a three-dimensionality.
Lisa Silvestri “The New Orleans Portrait Project: The Series”
These black and white portraits of students at John McDonogh High School in New Orleans are just a portion of Lisa Silvestri’s series of photographs taken after Hurricane Katrina. Silvestri, a New York City resident, returned to her native New Orleans after the storm to record the “invisible part of the population; to make them visible and celebrate them.” These photographs of McDonogh High School students are stark and revealing.
Through January 2009
New Orleans Art Pioneers: Charles and Ethel Hutson
Charles Hutson and his daughter Ethel Hutson were at the forefront of the New Orleans’ developing art community in the early 20th century. Centered around the highly influential Woodward Brothers—Ellsworth and William—Newcomb College and Delgado Museum (now the New Orleans Museum of Art), its burgeoning community fostered the Hutsons’ art interests in painting, sketching and writing. While Charles Hutson is considered a “self-taught “ artist, Ethel Hutson’s creations reflect her training at Newcomb College and an Arts and Craft aesthetic.
Opening on October 23
Louisiana Masters: Douglas Bourgeois
Recent works by Douglas Bourgeois from premier Southern collectors
(Image attached: "Pop Star" by Douglas Bourgeois)
Louisiana Masters: Martin Payton
Martin Payton, a New Orleans native, focuses on works of welded steel.
Benny Andrews and George Andrews
This exhibition brings together iconic images and objects from this
father/son duo
YA/YA & New Orleans: 20 Years
Paintings, mixed media "and other items" created by YA/YA (Young
Aspirations/Young Artists) incuding Ogden Museum collaborations.
SPECIAL EVENTS:
O The Art of Giving: Dec. 5
Find the perfect gift at this special members only event. Members enjoy a 15% discount on all purchases on this night only.
The Center for Southern Craft and Design offers the finest pottery, jewelry, textiles, glass, metal, wood and basketry from more than 40 outstanding Southern artists. The Museum store stocks music CDs, books, Ogden T-shirts and hats.
Give a gift of Southern culture!
O What a Night Gala: October 18
Wine will be flowing at this evening of art, music and good company! Architect Arthur Q. Davis will also be honored with the Opus Award, given to a member of the arts community whose work constitutes a major contribution to the cultural landscape. The silent and live auctions will feature works by major Southern artists, and the auctioneer will be Sotheby’s Jamie Niven. Food from the award-winning chef Sue Zemanick of Gautreau’s and Stephen Stryjewski of Cochon, as well as others.
O The Art of Giving: Dec. 5
Find the perfect gift at this special members only event. Members enjoy a 15% discount on all purchases on this night only.
The Center for Southern Craft and Design offers the finest pottery, jewelry, textiles, glass, metal, wood and basketry from more than 40 outstanding Southern artists. The Museum store stocks music CDs, books, Ogden T-shirts and hats.
Give a gift of Southern culture!
Ogden After Hours:
Live music every Thursday, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Featuring Southern musicians in a number of genres—blues, jazz, Latin, rythmn and blues, country, rockabilly and funk
