Contemporary Arts Center
900 Camp St.
www.cacno.org

ArtSpeak 2008! The ArtSpeak series is back at the CAC! One Wednesday a month, enjoy moderated discussions and slide presentations with visual artists from the New Orleans community. Everyone is invited to attend. Free admission. Sponsored by National Art & Hobby. ArtSpeak is organized by the CAC’s Visual Arts Committee. This advisory committee is composed of leading New Orleans artists and is appointed by the CAC Board of Trustees. Held once a month throughout each season, ArtSpeak provides a forum for area artists to discuss their art with one another. At each program, three artists offer twenty-minute slide presentations on their work, followed by one hour of discussion.

The Ogden Museum of Southern Art
925 Camp Street
www.ogdenmuseum.org

This summer, find relief from the heat while listening to fabulous southern music in the atrium of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Every Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m., the Ogden features live musical performances by southern artists at Ogden After Hours. Musical styles on the lineup this summer range from jazz to Afro-Caribbean to Bayouland Country Punk and more. Schedule listed below:

Thursday, June 12

Todd Cerney

Singer, Songwriter, Engineer and Producer

Thursday, June 19

Alfred “Uganda” Roberts

Jazz Percussionist

Thursday, June 26

The Stringbeans

Acoustic String Band

Thursday, July 3

Bill Davis

Bayouland Country Punk

Thursday, July 10

Linnzi Zaorski

Indie Jazz Singer and Songwriter

Thursday, July 17

Judith Owen

Folk-Jazz Singer

Thursday, July 24

Jimmy Robinson

Acoustic Guitar

Thursday, July 31

Michael Skinkus and Moyuba

Afro-Caribbean and Jazz

The museum is home to the largest and most comprehensive collection of Southern art in the world, and a unique and innovative destination to "See the South." The Ogden Museum is dedicated to the rebuilding of the culture, landscape and communities of New Orleans, the Gulf Coast region and those areas effected by the hurricanes of 2005.

Year Long Changing Special Exhibition
in Collaboration with Ed McGowin Name Change Project

Each month for a year, the museum will exhibit works corresponding chronologically to Ed McGowin's name change and subsequent persona. He continues to make work under the guise of all these personas except Nathan Ellis McDuff, whom, we believe, met an untimely and mysterious death.

Continuing Special Exhibitions:

Benny Andrews, Lin Emery, Jesus Morales and various works from self-taught artists in the Museum's Permanent Collection

Benny Andrews: A Memorial Exhibition
The exhibition featuring the work Georgia born artist Benny Andrews is drawn from the permanent collection of the Ogden Museum. It reflects the range of Benny's work including narrative pieces about his Southern upbringing, his experiences in the New York art world and his ongoing concerns for the subjects of family social justice and equality. The initial installation of this exhibition is from Benny's well known narrative collage work. Subsequent other installations will follow featuring drawings from early years and more recent work. Benny passed away in November of 2006. He was a leading figure in American art and his influence as an artist, arts administrator, advocate and teacher continues to touch the lives of many. Benny was one of the members of the founding Board of Trustees of the Ogden Museum. The Andrews Humphrey Family Gallery will maintain a presence of the work of Benny, his father George and his wife Nene in perpetuity.

New Aquisitions: Lin Emery and Jesus Morales from the Pat and Denver Gray Collection
Highlights new aquisitions to the Museum's permenant collection made by a donation from the Gray Collection.

George Ohr Pottery
From the collections of Robert Tannen and Jeanne Nathan and Roger Houston Ogden. Self-proclaimed as "The Mad Potter of Biloxi," George Ohr is nationally recognized as one of America's greatest art potters. This exhibition features a range of early red clay vessels, to his later works, such as his signature pinched vessels. The works from Tannen and NathanÃ‚Â are paired with vessels from the Roger H. Ogden Collection forming a small survey of Ohr's work from 1886 to 1915.

Native Shrimp Man, Grand Isle, Louisiana
Fonville Winans, the son of a highway engineer who took his family to construction sites across the Southwest, was raised primarily in Fort Worth, Texas. As a young man he learned to play the saxophone and also brought himself a Kodak camera and taught himself photography. He worked for a short time on one of his father's road-building projects near Grand Isle, Louisiana, and became curious about the bayou country.
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William Christenberry
William Christenberry began as a painter, achieved renown as a photographer, and has moved on to create collages and sculptures. An accident when he was fourteen life him blind in one eye, but he nonetheless when on to study art at the University of Alabama in his native Tuscaloosa and to teach there and at Memphis State University in Memphis, Tennessee.
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July 7th-July 11th
Ages 5-7
Morning Session
10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Afternoon Session
1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Session 4: Go Mod!
Using the Museum's collection, students will explore modern still life, portraiture, landscape, and sculpture while working in the galleries, the Besthoff Sculpture Garden and the art classroom. Students will develop new skills in drawing, painting and sculpture using a variety of wet and dry media, and elements such as line, color, shape, background/foreground and form will be introduced.

July 21st-July 25th
Ages 8-12
Morning Session
10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Afternoon Session
1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Session 5: Collage, Paper and Print
Students will learn the art forms of collage, assemblage and paper construction, and they will investigate basic printmaking techniques. They will explore their creativity as they combine paper with art materials including acrylic paint, watercolor, oil pastel, chalk and natural materials. This camp is perfect for students who love to experiment and invent!

Cajun Dance Lessons and Blue Dog Fais Do-Do
Saturday, June 7, 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
$10 Admission (non-members; free for NOMA members) includes Museum entrance.

Join us as we make "Love in the Garden" the best ever...delectable dining, open bar, and dancing under the stars and the oaks in the most romantic setting in New Orleans... NOMA's Bestoff Sculpture Garden.

Other great events to enjoy!!

The Warehouse Arts District
Gallery hop along the mall on Julia Street and tour the art — from classic to contemporary art to outstanding photography, sculpture and more. Cash bars are located outside many galleries.

Magazine Street
With many of the art galleries, gift shops, antique and jewelry stores on Magazine Street open for business, what could be more exciting? Wander from shop to shop, sip a glass of wine, and view the exquisite art, gifts, jewelry, fashion and antiques.

Dozens of restaurants along the Warehouse Arts District and Magazine Street are open for the evening, but reservations are a must! Dress is casual to chic, and comfortable walking shoes are advised. Galleries are open from 6-9 p.m.