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Title:	Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers
Date:	9/13/2025 - 3/8/2026
Address:	Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
Location:	New Orleans, LA
Hours:	10:00am - 5:00pm
Cost/Cover:	free - $15
Web Page:	https://ogdenmuseum.org/exhibition/raven-halfmoon/
Contact Info:	504.539.9650

Details:

Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers features new and recent works made over the last five years. Commissioned by The Aldrich and Bemis Center, the exhibition debuts Halfmoon’s largest works to date, including Flagbearer, a three-part stacked ceramic sculpture standing over twelve-feet tall. Halfmoon’s practice ranges from torso-scaled to colossal-sized glazed stoneware sculptures. Several of her recent works soar up to nine-feet high and weigh over a thousand pounds. Their enormous scale and visual power oppose existing stereotypes and biases, creating new monuments that honor the artist’s Caddo ancestors and traditions, including her elders who taught her ceramic techniques when she was a teenager. Halfmoon’s inspirations orbit centuries—from ancient Indigenous pottery, specifically Caddo pottery traditions, to the colossal Olmec stone heads in Mexico, the Moai statues on Easter Island and the major earth mounds constructed by the artist’s ancestors for a variety of purposes, including ceremonial. Fusing Caddo pottery traditions, a history of making mostly done by women, with populist gestures—often tagging her work (a reference also to Caddo tattooing and ancient pottery motifs), her works reference stories of the Caddo Nation, specifically her feminist lineage and the power of its complexities.