Ogden Museum

Traveling Exhibitions

Available begining January 2009

Mission to Travel

The Ogden Museum is pleased to announce that now offers several of our exhibitions for travel. these diverse exhibitions range from the captivating imgaes and stories of Katrina surviors by Thomas Neff tothe vibrant, colorful and exotic work of Hunt Slonem. Our exhinitions contain artwork checklists, wall labels and text, educational packets and artist biographies. Many of the artists are available to give lectures and gallery tours focusing on their work and the exhibition. The Ogden hopes, in traveling these exhibitions, to offer visitors the opportunity to rediscover the visual treasures of the South.

Thomas Neff: Come Hell and High Water

Thomas Neff is a photographer and professor of art at Louisiana State University. Hell and High Water, his most recent work, stemmed from his personal experiences and relationships with nearly 200 people in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf South. As a volunteer in the city in the early days after the flood, Neff had the opportunity to photograph and compile the stories of the resolute people who survived the onslaught of the storm. Just as striking as the portraits themselves are the stories that accompany each one. This exhibition was one of the most popular post-Katrina shows at the Ogden when it ran from March-April of 2006. The accompanying book is currently one of the top four best-selling books on the Focus magazine publications list.

Richard Sexton: Terra Incognita - Photographs of America's Third Coast

Richard Sexton is a noted commercial and fine art photographer whose work has been published and exhibited worldwide. For over 15 years, Sexton has traveled the Gulf Coast from the Mississippi River to the Florida Panhandle photographing the marshy coastal landscape. Until recent catastrophic hurricanes struck the area, the American Gulf Coast- a dynamic region of marshes, swamps, bayous, beaches and hardwood forests- has tended to evade national consciousness. In Terra Incognita, Sexton reveals this oft-overlooked landscape in a series of dramatic duotone photographs.

Hunt Slonem: Feathers and Fur

Hunt Slonem is best known for his paintings of tropical birds, based on a personal aviary in which he keeps about one hundred live birds of various species. His fascination with exotica can be traced to Slonem’s experiences as a child in Hawaii and as a foreign exchange student in Managua, Nicaragua. This major exhibition offers a glimpse into this famous painter’s life- including his two Louisiana plantations and his New York loft and studio. For those who have followed Hunt Slonem’s career- and much has been reported- the exhibition will be familiar as well as new. A comprehensive range of his paintings, some in vintage frames, make up this exciting exhibit.

Hunt Slonem: Deluxe Exhibition

This extended version of Feathers and Fur transforms this exhibition into a complete Slonem experience, incorporating an environmental installation inspired by Slonem's homes and studios and tailored to your space. The exhibition will be for the needs of each individual site. This show will feature even more works from Slonem’s collection, selected highlights of his American antiques, unique objects and historic artifacts. Even his specially formulated wall colors will be incorporated into this exhibit. In true Hunt Slonem style, too much is not enough for this exhibition.

David Rae Morris: Letters from My Father

David Rae Morris is a photojournalist and documentary photographer who lives and works in New Orleans. His photographs have appeared in such diverse publications as Time Magazine, Newsweek, USA Today, The New York Times, and Love and Rage, a national anarchist weekly, as well as being a contributing photographer for the Associated Press and Reuters. From 1976 through 1999, Willie Morris, author of North Toward Home and the youngest editor of Harper's Magazine, wrote more than a hundred letters to his son, David Rae. This long series, begun when his son was 16, talked about complex emotions Willie found difficult to communicate in person. In this exhibit, David Rae Morris couples his portraits of his father alongside the letters he has received over the years, creating a thoughtful exhibit that explores the complexities of father-son relationships.

David Rae Morris: Do You Know What It Means? (To Miss New Orleans)

Nationally known photographer David Rae Morris was in the city of New Orleans and along the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the days and weeks immediately following Hurricane Katrina's landfall. The Ogden Museum presents a series of photographs taken by Morris documenting this unprecedented time in history, including people who stayed, neighborhoods destroyed, and search and rescue efforts by teams from across the nation. This was the first new art exhibition to open in New Orleans post-Katrina in November of 2005, truly capturing the scope of this man-made tragedy; the storm, the flooding and the human aftermath.

Fred R. Conrad: New Orleans Public Housing

This exhibition, in response to the mounting housing crisis, grew out of the reportage of New York Times photographer Fred Conrad with architectural writer Nicolai Ouroussoff. The article, All Fall Down, originally published in November of 2006, addressed the unfortunate barring of public housing residents from returning home and the controversial demolition plans of many projects. With the cooperation of Mr. Conrad and the New York Times, the 45 prints in this exhibition were culled from over 3000 by the Ogden’s chief curator David Houston and are now part of the museum’s permanent collection.

Jose Torres Tama: New Orleans' Free People of Color and Their Legacy

Jose Torres Tama, born in Ecuador in 1961, has lived in his self-described “spiritual home” of New Orleans since 1984. Torres Toma works in the literary, performance, installation and visual disciplines of the arts. He has also been dedicated to working with youth in inner-city neighborhoods through his “Youth Performance Projects” that introduce poetry, performance and visual arts as tools for self-empowerment. Torres Tama participated in a month long residency at McDonogh #15 School in New Orleans’ French Quarter, where he worked with students focusing on prominent 18th and 19th century “free people of color” of New Orleans’ Faubourg Marigny and Treme neighborhoods. This series of expressionistic pastels were the result of the program, which is part of the museum’s education and community outreach, and the artists’ five-year research on the “free people of color”. Includes an interpretive essay by historian Keith Weldon Medley.

For More Information Contact:

Lauren Castle
Traveling Exhibitions Coordinator
lacastle@ogdenmuseum.org
504.539.9617