The Ozols Collection: A Museum of American Painting and Pedagogy

06/21/2022

Happy Summer Solstice ☀️🌙

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Happy Summer and Longest Moment of Light from The Ozols Collection! “Light, that first phenomenon, reveals to us the spirit and the living soul of the world…” (Johannes Itten) Auseklis Ozols Toward the Light. Oil on Linen. Private Collection All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the ...

06/18/2022

Happy Father’s Day from the Ozols Collection ! We are taking this day to honor the artist Auseklis Ozols, President of the Ozols Collection as well as Father and Founder of the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts.

With the greatest gratitude for all that this father of the arts has created, shared, given, and taught to our community over the past five decades we offer our deepest and most heartfelt thanks.

We have listened and learned about history, about truth, beauty, the relationships of past and present, the importance of vision, of structure, proportion, relationships, observation, and perception. We have been inspired by the unique manner, means, and methods of historical painting techniques passed down from teacher to student for centuries and then translated and demonstrated for all of us.

Thank you AO for a unique vision and legacy of teaching, of sharing sacred ideologies, of patience and of giving. Thank you for your selflessness and for offering your wisdom and experience with every student invited toward the threshold of your vision.

Following are a selection of portraits of A. O. in celebration of his work as a visionary artist, teacher, and influence. There are many more waiting in the wings for discussion and unveiling: both self portraits and paintings or sculpture by other artists that admired or learned from him. We look forward to the opportunity to share them all with you !

Auseklis Ozols
Auseklis Ozols Fine Art
Saskia Ozols
Aija Gibson
Indra Ozols
Indra Botanica

Happy Father’s Day from The Ozols Collection ! Self Portrait (Head Study) by Auseklis Ozols. Oil on Canvas. Private Collection Happy Father’s Day from the Ozols Collection ! We are taking this day to honor the artist Auseklis Ozols, President of the Ozols Collection as well as Father and Founder...

05/04/2022

Thank you from all of us at the Ozols Collection for your unbridled support and good will toward our preservation efforts !!

Our first GiveNOLA day was a success thanks to your generosity and care. We are so grateful, and look forward to being in touch with each of you individually.

Sincerely, The Ozols Collection

05/03/2022

Please support our mission, developed by Auseklis Ozols in 1978. At 80 years old, he has been put in a position to compete with his own life's work by the daughter of his late business partner. The painting tells it all.

Self Portrait as a Tree Stump Auseklis Ozols. Self Portrait as Oak Tree Stump. 2021, Collection of the Ozols Family This painting created by Auseklis Ozols in 2021 represents his feelings after being extricated from the Academy he founded by the daughter of his former business partner. Tags: Ausekli...

05/03/2022

Today is the day! Thank you for your help in preserving these historical methods of teaching art!

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GiveNOLA Day, an initiative of the Greater New Orleans Foundation, is a one-day online giving event. For 24 hours, everyone who loves our region can support their favorite local causes by donating to one or more of 700+ participating nonprofit organizations.

04/25/2022

With your help, we can honor, share, and preserve this legacy of knowledge for future generations.

GiveNOLA Day (May 3rd) is a 24-hour event hosted by the Greater New Orleans Foundation to inspire people to give generously to nonprofits, making our region stronger, creating a thriving community for all. Please consider the Ozols Collection in this online fundraising event

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04/23/2022

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“The Collection was born as a result of my untoward expulsion from the school, the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, that I founded in 1978, and which I still retain the name to. It was my life’s work, 42 years maintaining aesthetic disciplines which had been abandoned by other local art schools. I was rejected as Director Emeritus by the owner of the building that housed the Academy.” (Auseklis Ozols )

Auseklis Ozols on Founding the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, Retiring, and the Ozols Collection. Founding Document of the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts provided by the Louisiana Secretary of State to Auseklis Ozols in 1978. A precious paper, listing Auseklis Ozols with his home adress as the....

04/21/2022

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   Auseklis Ozols, Self Portrait, 2003. Oil on Linen. Private collection. https://ozolscollection.org/artifact-analysis-self-portrait-by-auseklis-ozols-2003/

04/18/2022

With your help, we can honor, share, and preserve this legacy future generations. giveNOLA day starts today !!

https://www.givenola.org/ozolscollection

Make a difference by joining us for 24 hours of giving to benefit our regional nonprofits. Now in its 9th year, GiveNOLA Day is a 24-hour event hosted by the Greater New Orleans Foundation. Together, let’s inspire people to give generously so that we can make our region stronger and create a thriving community for all.

Please consider the Ozols Collection in this online fundraising event created by the Greater New Orleans Foundation ! GiveNOLA day is May 3rd.

Early giving starts today, April 18th. The above link goes directly to our donation page on the GNOF website.

We will be grateful for any help ! The tasks that lay ahead are challenging, and with your help we hope to secure a storage and exhibition space for the preservation and conservation of artwork in our collection.

The Ozols Collection is a a federally recognized 501c3 organization dedicated to preservation, research, practice, and education in historical painting techniques. At the Collection we simultaneously look to history and the future with the understanding that one can not exist without the other. Our unique and irreplaceable archive is foremost a teaching collection which documents the pedagogy of painting while inviting scholarship on the diverse language, practice, and history of visual literacy.

GiveNOLA Day, an initiative of the Greater New Orleans Foundation, is a one-day online giving event. For 24 hours, everyone who loves our region can support their favorite local causes by donating to one or more of 700+ participating nonprofit organizations.