On Saturday, October 3, 2009, Jose Torres-Tama and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, University of New Orleans released New Orleans Free People of Color & Their Legacy: The Artwork of Jose Torres-Tama. This catalogue documents the exhibition of the same name shown at The Ogden Museum and Dillard University's Fine Art Gallery in 2008. Including an introduction by the Ogden's chief curator, David Houston, essays by Torres-Tama and creole historian, Keith Weldon Medley, the catalogue focuses on eighteen pastel drawings of fifteen historical figures belonging to the New Orleans community known as the gens de coleur libres.
Photo by Cheryl Gerber
During the Art for Art's Sake events on Saturday, Torres-Tama and Medley signed copies of the catalogue in a gallery filled with Torres-Tama's pastel portraits of these influential and relevant historical figures, including Marie Laveau, Basile Barres, Edmond Dede, Rose Nicaud and others.
Bradley Sumrall, J. Richard Gruber, Jose Torres-Tama and Keith Weldon Medley
Photo by Cheryl Gerber
Jose with wife, Dr. Claudia Copeland, and two sons, Darius and Diego
Jose with wife, Dr. Claudia Copeland, and two sons, Darius and Diego
Photo by Cheryl Gerber.
New Orleans Free People of Color & Their Legacy is available at the Ogden's Museum Shop.
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