Outreach Programs
Early Childhood Enrichment Program and Tours
Created in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institute, The Ogden Museum's Early Childhood Enrichment Program serves pre-K, kindergarten and first-grade children with the goal of making art  approachable-teaching art in a way in which students can easily relate and understand-as well as introducing children a museum.
This program also strives to increase literacy through the use of art. Prior to a visit to the
Ogden Museum,  students read and discuss a suggested book in class. During the students' visit to
the Ogden Museum, they view artwork related to the book and their conversations and participate in
in-gallery activities reinforcing newly learned concepts and vocabulary.
Suggested books for pre-K:
Matthew's Dream by Leo Leonni (introduction to a museum)
My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss (colors)
Suggested books for Kindergarten:
Frederick by Leo Lionni (seasons)
The Room of Wonders by Sergio Ruzzier (found objects)
Suggested books for 1st grade:
Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold (neighborhood)
Art from her Heart by Kathy Whitehead (memories/Clementine Hunter)
For information on how your students can participate in this program, please contact Ellen Balkin, Education Coordinator at ebalkin@ogdenmuseum.org or 504.539.9608.
Artist and Sense of Place
Artist-in-Residency Program, Ogden Museum of Southern Art - UNO
Since 2001, the education department of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art has focused on bringing artists from the museum’s collection to New Orleans area schools. Artists and Sense of Place pairs public elementary schools with artists to explore the influence of situation and geography on their lives.
Responding to their own surroundings, artists often incorporate a sense of place in their work. This is particularly true of Southern artists such as those featured in the collections of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Instructed by the artist in the medium he or she prefers, the students create a work or works of art that reflect their world. At the end of a three- to four-week residency, the students’ creations are displayed in the museum, where they are brought to see their work and recognize themselves as Southern artists. Ultimately, the resulting works of art are installed at the school site, while one piece enters the museum’s education collection.
What separates this program from other artist residencies is the museum component. Bringing children to the museum is key because so many have had little or no museum experiences. Students, no matter what their expectations, become engaged and leave with significant memories of working with our artists and visiting the museum to see their own work and that of other artists.
For information on how your students can participate in this program, please contact Ellen Balkin, Education Coordinator at ebalkin@ogdenmuseum.org or 504.539.9608.
Year One: Pilot
Jose Torres Tama
McDonogh #15 City-wide access (French Quarter)
Free People of Color — Download PDF | help
Jose Torres Tama and the students at McDonogh 15 explored the history of the French Quarter through visual arts, poetry and performance. They researched historic free people of color such as Marie Laveau and Edmund Dede who lived in the French Quarter and incorporated their stories into the collaborations with the artist.Younger artists produced artwork that reflected the sense of place of the neighborhood by looking at what made the French Quarter unique.
Elizabeth Shannon
Craig Elementary (Treme)
Sign of the Times — Download PDF | help
The focus of the residency with Elizabeth Shannon at Joseph E. Craig Elementary was on the history of Treme, exploring street names and signs. Students researched, photographed, and created works of art based on neighborhood signs and area history. Using historical renderings of houses dating back to the early 1800s from the Historic New Orleans Collection, the students recreated their surroundings as they appeared in the 19th century.
Jeffrey Cook
Guste Elementary (Central City)
Magic in Our Neighborhood — Download PDF | help
During the four-week residency, each student worked directly with the artist. Asmaller, in-depth group further collaborated with the artist to create site-specific works for the school and the museum's study collection. Students from Kindergarten to 6th grade participated in a collaborative project with the artist. By adding layers of multiple media to line drawings of actual buildings in the neighborhood, students worked with Jeffrey Cook to make a seriesof collages touched by every student in the school. Mr. Cook also worked with students on Saturdays through the KIDsmART Program to create site-specific works of art.
Year Two
Jeffrey Cook
Mahalia Jackson Elementary (Central City)
Broken Window Silhouettes — Download PDF | help
This relationship between artist and school was significant in the development of the design for the program at Mahalia Jackson. The artist's own sense of place at the school and in the neighborhood is reflected in the artwork he does with the students. He shares his keen eye for design and beauty with the students as they discover the magic of their neighborhood beyond the broken windows and abandoned buildings. Through a transformation of color and pattern, dark photocopies of broken windows become majestic silhouettes of animals, figures, shapes and objects. A selection of the students' artwork was incorporated into two larger pieces on a window frame foundation designed and producedby Mr. Cook. One "window" will remain at Mahalia Jackson and one will be part of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art education study collection.
Gina Phillips
Andrew Jackson Elementary (Lower Garden)
Neighborhood Fabrication — Download PDF | help
The artist-in-residence at Andrew Jackson Elementary School was Gina Phillips, an artist who works with fabric. The students created neighborhoods by using paper and fabric to make houses, warehouses, churches, and storefronts. The artist works with the students and adds her own personal touch to the neighborhoods. The students also learned about house types and Lower Garden District history from the Preservation Resource Center where the "neighborhoods" were exhibited at the end of the residency. Artwork will be chosen from the completed neighborhoods to be given to the school and for the Ogden Museum of Southern Art for display in the education collection.
Elizabeth Shannon
Craig Elementary (Treme)
Catch the Colors of Our Neighborhood — Download PDF | help
The artist-in-residence at Joseph A. Craig Elementary School was Elizabeth Shannon who brought her talents as artist, art educator and art activist to the school. Ms. Shannon provided developmentally appropriate art experiences for each class in pre-kindergarten through second grade and special education classes.The activities focused on the basic elements of art -color, line, shape and form. Influenced by the strong Mardi Gras traditions in the Treme neighborhood, Ms. Shannon created a carnival parade from the students' work. She also documented the process through a photographic journal. The "parade" was exhibited at the Uphill Gallery in the Treme Neighborhood.
Day with an Artist
Day with An Artist brings 20 middle or high-school students to the museum to spend time discussing and making art with an artist represented in the museum's collection.  The artist selects three to four works in the museum for study, including one of his or her own pieces. After a tour of
these works, students participate in a "press conference" lunch with the artist, asking questions prepared in advance or developed during the tour. The day concludes with an art-making workshop conducted by the artist focusing on a particular technique discussed during the day.
For information on how your students can participate in this program, please contact Ellen Balkin, Education Coordinator at ebalkin@ogdenmuseum.org or 504.539.9608.
The Ogden Museum's S.T.E.M. Collaboration Program
This spring, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art partnered with Warren Easton High School's STEM Academy to create a program examining the connections between science and the arts. The STEM Academy integrates the academic disciplines of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) focusing on inquiry-based, problem solving, and project-based learning according to student interests and industry needs. The Academy provides students an understanding of the impact STEM has on their world as they prepare to participate, contribute, and compete in the global workforce.
After viewing "Mark Hewitt: Big-Hearted Pots," (Jan.-April 2011) an exhibition of ceramic art on view at the Ogden, students had the chance to put new-found artistic inspiration and scientific knowledge together, creating their own works of ceramic art. Over the course of four after-school visits to the Ogden, Warren Easton students worked with local ceramic artist Rashida Ferdinand discussing the science of ceramics, from the chemical changes that clay and glazes go through as they are fired to the chemical makeup of different ceramic materials.
This semester's STEM collaboration is inspired by the Ogden's exhibition "A Technological Terrarium" (Aug.-Sept. 2011), in which artists and hackers from New Orleans, Houma, and Austin presented work that disturbs lines between the traditions of mechanics, technology and art. Most participants in the exhibition are also part of Automata, an annual exhibition in New Orleans of mechanical, kinetic, electronic, and biological sculpture. The art and creative concepts demonstrated in this exhibition correspond to the theories that the collaborative program explores: how art and science are inarguably intertwined and the study of one can only enhance and support the understanding of the other. During the 2011 fall semester project, students will work with kinetic sculpture artists to create their own movable pieces of art using basic engineering principles and design. The artwork created will be on view at the Ogden Museum beginning December 1, 2011.
For information on how your students can participate in this program, please contact Ellen Balkin, Education Coordinator at ebalkin@ogdenmuseum.org or 504.539.9608.
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