The Ogden Museum of Southern Art opened a Backstreet Exhibit on White Linen Night Saturday:
Mardi Gras Indians, Jazz Funerals and Second Line Parades: works from the Backstreet Cultural Museum
August 5, 2006 - September 24, 2006

Art in the Contemporary South Gallery, 5th Floor
Exhibition explores the importance of the Backstreet Cultural Museum as a repository of New Orleans African-American culture documenting the Mardi Gras Indian tradition, Second Line Parades, and Jazz Funerals.

For more information, contact: Libra LaGrone,
504.539.9600
llagrone@ogdenmuseum.org
http://www.ogdenmuseum.org/exhibitions/index.html

The Backstreet Cultural Museum is proud to announce it has been chosen as a recipent for the National Endowment for the Arts (“NEA”) Challenge America Grant for the program “Growing Up Indian.” The program will be presented as a three part series including an oral history program featuring Mardi Gras Indian Chiefs, a Mardi Gras Indian folk craft workshop for children, and a cultural exchange program between Mardi Gras Indians and Native Americans of the Hopi, Navajo, and Apache Nations.
Click here to read the whole press release.

The Backstreet Cultural Museum (BSCM) is proud to announce its accomplishments over the 2006 Carnival Season. Much of the focus of BSCM is related to the rituals, traditions and artifacts of Carnival. In this first post- Katrina Carnival, in an effort to spread the message of BSCM and help preserve our cherished culture, BSCM hosted or participated in several important events, including the following:

• Mardi Gras Indian Suit Exhibition at the International House - (February 16 – February 28, 2006)
• Mardi Gras Indian Suit Exhibition for New Orleans Marketing and Tourism at the Downtown Sheraton Hotel (February 17 – February 28, 2006)
• A live painting by Lionel Milton

• International House Installment Celebration on February 16, 2006
• The world premiere of BSCM’s newly created website
• BSCM 2006 Mardi Gras Open House (6th annual)