October 25, 2024: The COOL Cooperative joins the Blanchard House Institute and the New Orleans Film Society to launch a “Heritage Documentary Film Project,” bringing 300 New Orleans area students for a day of activations surrounding the intersection of culture and film, including a special screening of the new documentary, “BLUE: The Life & ArtContinue reading “New Orleans Film Festival Inspires COOL Collaboration for Kids: Wendy Rodrigue & Sean O’Malley”
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Film Trailer, BLUE: The Life & Art of George Rodrigue
Premiering October 21, 2024 at the Orpheum Theatre as part of the New Orleans Film Festival. Streaming nationwide on PBS, Spring 2025.
Florida Panhandle
October 7-12, 2024
Outreach in Partnership with the Mattie Kelly Arts Foundation What a joy to partner again with the Mattie Kelly Arts Foundation for a week of George Rodrigue-inspired ‘ArtsReach’ in the Florida Panhandle! Enjoy a collection of photos from this special week, including seven schools, and eleven presentations, in Walton and Okaloosa Counties. The week endedContinue reading “Florida Panhandle
October 7-12, 2024″
The River is the Road: Paintings by George Rodrigue
Travels to Museums in
Alabama, Tennessee and Louisiana
2024-2025
This first of its kind exhibition traces 45 years of the river in Rodrigue’s paintings, exploring the unique ways Rodrigue used the river as a reference to his Cajun heritage, and ultimately as a metaphor for the journey of life. LEARN MORE This unprecedented exhibition of rarely seen George Rodrigue paintings tours for 2 1/2Continue reading “The River is the Road: Paintings by George Rodrigue
Travels to Museums in
Alabama, Tennessee and Louisiana
2024-2025″
BLUE
The Life and Art of George Rodrigue
It’s movie time!Visit pbs.org for streaming and broadcasting. Enjoy this fascinating and sensitive documentary about a down-to-earth, kind and generous man who pursued his artistic passions despite challenges and criticism, and left a legacy that inspires, delights, and amazes. George’s art impacts lives through artistic statements that are poignant and philosophical, yet relatable, while teamingContinue reading “BLUE
The Life and Art of George Rodrigue”
Masur Museum Hosts Rodrigue Exhibition
Join Wendy Rodrigue for a tour of The River is the Road: Paintings by George Rodrigue on view through October 19, 2024 at the Masur Museum of Art in Monroe, Louisiana. Exhibition organized by the Life & Legacy Foundation. Upcoming events: Wednesday, October 16, 2024 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.Continue reading “Masur Museum Hosts Rodrigue Exhibition”
Dream BIG! Paintings by George Rodrigue
September 26, 2024: Enjoy a brief tour with Wendy Rodrigue of the exhibition, “Dream BIG! Paintings by George Rodrigue,” on view at the Santa Fe Community College Visual Arts Gallery through October 2, 2024. “Every great artist has taken a common thing and made people see it in a different way.” G.R. From the exhibition’sContinue reading “Dream BIG! Paintings by George Rodrigue”
Santa Fe Community College
September 2024
After several false starts in Santa Fe, we’re excited to announce that finally this wonderful Rodrigue-inspired Life & Legacy programming is up and running for local schools! Thank you, Santa Fe Community College, and thank you especially to the delightful, curious, engaged students of Santa Fe area schools! Wendy is sharing George Rodrigue’s life andContinue reading “Santa Fe Community College
September 2024″
Colors of My Mind (2008)
by George Rodrigue
Aug 31, 2024 SANTA FE Join Wendy Rodrigue for the story behind one of George Rodrigue’s greatest artistic accomplishments, and a treasure within American public art. On view at Santa Fe Community College, coinciding with “Dream BIG! The Art of George Rodrigue,” a collection of 42 original Rodrigue paintings and sculptures at the SFCC VisualContinue reading “Colors of My Mind (2008)
by George Rodrigue”
We Will Rise Again
Aug 28, 2024: With Wendy Rodrigue at the Louisiana Art and Science Museum Thank you to the Louisiana Art and Science Museum for this short film highlighting George Rodrigue’s artwork, We Will Rise Again, and his efforts following the recovery. He was a hero to many. And he will always be mine.