Ogden Museum calls for entries in Louisiana Contemporary juried exhibition
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art has opened the call for entries for the Museum’s annual juried exhibition,
Louisiana Contemporary, now in its tenth year. The exhibition is once again presented by The Helis Foundation, who is also sponsoring the annual Helis Foundation Art Prize, a $5,000 award, chosen by the juror and given to an artist in the exhibition in support of their studio and artistic practice. Cash prizes will also be awarded to first, second and third place winners.
Louisiana Contemporary is open to all artists 18 years and older residing in the state of Louisiana. All work must be original and completed within the last two years (2019-2021).
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A live Zoom conversation will focus on “Palm Oil, Rum, Honey, Yellow Flowers,” the first solo museum exhibition of Kenny Rivero, a Dominican-American artist and musician, now on view at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.
On Thursday, April 29, at 7 p.m., the museum will present a conversation with Rivero, Charles Moffett, director of Charles Moffett Gallery, and Michael Jevon Demps, an artist and assistant professor at The Rhode Island School of Design. Registration is at brattleboromuseum.org.
The three will discuss Rivero’s exhibition, on view through June 13, as well as the commonalities between Rivero’s and Demps’ work. Rivero describes his drawings as autobiographical, with themes including masculinity, love, depression, sexuality, Afro-Caribbean faith, Anglo-Caribbean sensibilities and Afro-Futurism.
Shattering the Glass Ceiling: Curator Lauren Haynes on Working to Forge a Fuller Story of American Art
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April 23, 2021
Lauren Haynes, the Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher senior curator of contemporary art at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Photo by Rana Young.
Welcome to Shattering the Glass Ceiling, a podcast from the team at the Art Angle where we speak to boundary-breaking women in the art world and beyond about how art has shaped their lives and careers.
In the first episode of this four-part podcast mini series, Artnet News executive editor Julia Halperin spoke to Lauren Haynes, the director of artist initiatives and curator of contemporary art at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Momentary in Arkansas. In June, she will take on the role of Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasser senior curator of contemporary art at the Nasher Museum of