{"id":18662,"date":"2025-05-01T22:21:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T03:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/?page_id=18662"},"modified":"2025-05-03T11:25:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T16:25:46","slug":"timeline-text","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/bio\/timeline-text\/","title":{"rendered":"Timeline (Text)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18664\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18664\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18664\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Baby-George-with-his-parents-300x226.webp\" alt=\"George Rodrigue Blue Dog\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Baby-George-with-his-parents-300x226.webp 300w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Baby-George-with-his-parents-600x451.webp 600w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Baby-George-with-his-parents.webp 638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Baby George with his parents<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>1944<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Born on March 13 in New Iberia, Louisiana, to George Rodrigue, a brick-layer, and Marie Rodrigue<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>1950 \u2013 1970<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Begins to paint and sculpt during a four-month bout of polio<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Enters University of Southwest Louisiana in Lafayette as an Art Major<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Attends Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles as a Graphic Arts Major<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Marries Veronica Hidalgo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>1970 &#8211; 1980<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Exhibition of 69 Rodrigue landscapes at the Old State Capitol Building<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16620\" style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16620\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16620\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Photo99-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Photo99-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Photo99-768x901.jpg 768w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Photo99-600x704.jpg 600w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Photo99.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>George Rodrigue in his Lafayette, Louisiana studio c. 1971<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>\u2022 The Aioli Dinner, <\/em>Rodrigue\u2019s first painting with people, displayed at the Iberia Parish Library<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 First public exhibition in New Orleans at Reilly Gallery<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Honorable mention with <em>The Class<\/em> in Le Salon des Artistes, Paris<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Gold medal from the Academy of Literature, Arts, and Science of Rome<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022 Jolie Blonde<\/em> exhibited at Le Salon des Artistes, Paris<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022 <\/em>Son Andre born<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Art in America reviews Rodrigue&#8217;s Cajun works<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Produces first silkscreen (<em>Jolie Blonde<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Book <em>The Cajuns of George Rodrigue<\/em> published by Oxmoor House, Birmingham, Alabama<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>1980 \u2013 1990<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Exhibition at Galerie Antenia in Paris features <em>The Kingfish<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16561\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16561\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16561\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/310918646_625286015671369_3102285261541661316_n-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/310918646_625286015671369_3102285261541661316_n-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/310918646_625286015671369_3102285261541661316_n-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/310918646_625286015671369_3102285261541661316_n-600x397.jpg 600w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/310918646_625286015671369_3102285261541661316_n.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16561\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Rodrigue in his Lafayette, Louisiana gallery c. 1980<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u2022 Rodrigue dubbed \u201cThe Louisiana Rousseau\u201d by <em>Le Figaro<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022 <\/em>Son Jacques born<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Monument<\/em>, a 12-foot-tall bronze sculpture, dedicated in Lafayette, Louisiana<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <em>Bayou<\/em>\u00a0(Inkwell), a book of forty ghost stories by Chris Segura, includes\u00a0first Blue Dog painting\u00a0<em>(loup-garou),\u00a0<\/em>titled <em>Watchdog<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022 <\/em>Commissioned by The Republican Party to paint President Ronald Reagan (Reagan later donated painting to Louisiana State University)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Commissioned by The Republican Party to paint Vice President George Bush and ten grandchildren<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16127\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16127\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16127\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Rodrigue-in-Butte-la-Rose-300x237.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Rodrigue-in-Butte-la-Rose-300x237.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Rodrigue-in-Butte-la-Rose-768x606.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Rodrigue-in-Butte-la-Rose-600x473.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Rodrigue-in-Butte-la-Rose.jpeg 951w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Rodrigue in his Butte la Rose, Louisiana studio c. 1991<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u2022 The Rodrigue Gallery of New Orleans opens in French Quarter<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>1990 &#8211; 2000<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Grand Opening of Galerie Blue Dog in Carmel, California<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Michel Roux of Carillon Importers commissions <em>Absolut Louisiana<\/em> for USA Today<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Documentary, <em>Rodrigue: A Man and His Dog<\/em>, filmed with Whoopi Goldberg<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Michel Roux commissions <em>Absolut Rodrigue<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The book <em>Blue Dog<\/em> (Rodrigue, Freundlich) published by Viking Press with 35-city artist tour<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Wall Street Journal features Rodrigue&#8217;s Blue Dog on the its cover<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Commissioned by New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival to paint Louis Armstrong<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18679\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18679\" class=\"wp-image-18679 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Whoopi-300x208.png\" alt=\"George Rodrigue with Whoopi\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Whoopi-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Whoopi-1024x711.png 1024w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Whoopi-768x533.png 768w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Whoopi-600x417.png 600w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Whoopi.png 1388w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Rodrigue with Whoopi Goldberg, c. 1993<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u2022 Exhibition at Union Station, Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The New York Times features Rodrigue&#8217;s Blue Dog series<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Commissioned by New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival to paint Pete Fountain<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Commissioned by Neiman Marcus to design catalogue cover for <em>The Book<\/em>\u00a0(<em>Butterflies are Free<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Exhibition at the Gwinett County Arts Museum, Atlanta, Georgia<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Commissioned by the Democratic Inaugural Committee to paint President-elect Bill Clinton and Vice-President-elect Al Gore<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Marries Wendy Wolfe<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Commissioned by Neiman Marcus to design catalogue cover for <em>The Book (Hawaiian Blues)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 People Magazine article on Rodrigue<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18745\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18745\" class=\"wp-image-18745 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Neiman-Marcus-The-Book-1998-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"George Rodrigue Blue Dog Neiman Marcus\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Neiman-Marcus-The-Book-1998-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Neiman-Marcus-The-Book-1998.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Book, October, 1998<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u2022 Book,<em>\u00a0Blue Dog Man<\/em> (Rodrigue, Brokaw), published by Stewart, Tabori &amp; Chang, NYC and 45-city artist tour<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Rodrigue art and books featured on <em>Friends<\/em> in Central Perk<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Neiman Marcus, Michigan Avenue, sponsors three fiberglass Rodrigue cows during the Chicago Cow Parade<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>2000 \u2013 2010<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Commissioned by Young &amp; Rubicam to create paintings for advertisements promoting Xerox Color Inkjet Printers<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Painting <em>Me, Myself, &amp; I in Louisiana<\/em> fronts contemporary art wing at New Orleans Museum of Art<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Commissioned by the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival to paint Al Hirt<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18766\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18766\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18766\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/193977640_317659943100646_6201757412708899045_n-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/193977640_317659943100646_6201757412708899045_n-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/193977640_317659943100646_6201757412708899045_n.jpg 418w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rodrigue art on the set of Friends in Central Perk for several seasons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u2022 Paints <em>God Bless America<\/em> in response to 9\/11<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Children\u2019s book <em>Why is Blue Dog Blue?<\/em> (Rodrigue) published by Stewart, Tabori &amp; Chang<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Receives CHILD Magazine Best Children\u2019s Book of the Year Award<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Joins children from 100 countries and 50 states to create a peace mural on the National Mall in Washington D.C. on September 11 during the International Child Art Festival<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022 The Art of George Rodrigue<\/em> (Danto, Lewis), a 40-year retrospective, published by Harry N. Abrams, NYC<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Paints official Louisiana Governor\u2019s portrait for the Inauguration of Governor Kathleen Blanco<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Retrospective exhibitions at Louisiana State Exhibit Museum in Shreveport, Louisiana and at Pensacola Museum of Art in Pensacola, Florida<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The <em>Aioli Dinner\u00a0<\/em>and twelve paintings from the Rodrigue Xerox campaign join the permanent collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Exhibition, <em>Blue Dog Bodies<\/em>, at McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Creates <em>We Will Rise Again\u00a0<\/em>to benefit the Red Cross in response to Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18711\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18711\" class=\"wp-image-18711 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ICAF-George-with-pyramid-capital-behind-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"George Rodrigue Blue Dog\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ICAF-George-with-pyramid-capital-behind-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ICAF-George-with-pyramid-capital-behind.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18711\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Rodrigue with peace mural created with children at the International Child Art Festival, 2003<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u2022 Rodrigue visits Tokyo for an exhibition of new works at the Blue Dog Gallery, celebrating ten years in Minato-ku<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Receives the Humanitarian Award from the Southeast Louisiana Chapter of the Red Cross for money donated from sales of <em>We Will Rise Again<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Rodrigue\u2019s 10-foot steel and aluminum 3-sided sculpture becomes a permanent part of the Besthoff Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Receives the Lifetime Achievement Arts Award from the State of Louisiana at the Governor\u2019s Arts Awards in Baton Rouge<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Presents a lecture series at the Phoenix Art Museum<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Exhibition at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens Museum Memphis TN, titled \u00a0<em>Blue Dog: The Art of George Rodrigue,<\/em> featuring more than one hundred paintings and sculpture works spanning forty years<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Donations from Blue Dog Relief surpass $2 million<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Retrospective exhibition New Orleans Museum of Art, George Rodrigue\u2019s Louisiana: Forty Years of Cajuns, Blue Dogs, and Beyond Katrina<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 CBS Sunday Morning News presents feature segment on Rodrigue entitled &#8220;A Dog&#8217;s Life&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Publication of George Rodrigue Prints (Harry N. Abrams, New York), a catalogue raisonne<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18714\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18714\" class=\"wp-image-18714 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_4721_2-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"George Rodrigue Blue Dog\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_4721_2-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_4721_2-600x472.jpg 600w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_4721_2.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Rodrigue at North American Leader Summit, 2008<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u2022 Presents artwork to U.S. President George W. Bush, Mexican President Felipe Calderone, and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper during the North American Leaders Summit in New Orleans<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Appointed to Artist Laureate of the State of Louisiana by Governor Bobby Jindal<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 22-city book tour for Blue Dog Speaks (Sterling Press, October 2008)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Lafayette, LA celebrates <em><u>Rodrigue\u2019s Acadiana<\/u><\/em>, a city-wide tribute to George Rodrigue, including museum exhibitions, and the SPARKS Lifetime Achievement Award for the UL Lafayette College of Arts<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Receives an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022 Victory on Bayou St. John<\/em>, 14-foot portrait of Eisenhower and Higgins, unveiled at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>2010 &#8211; 2013<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 24-foot Blue Dog sculpture of steel, aluminum, and chrome installed on Veterans Blvd in Metairie, Louisiana<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u201cRodrigue\u2019s New Orleans\u201d celebrates the grand opening of the new Rodrigue Gallery at 730 Royal Street<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8516\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8516\" class=\"wp-image-8516 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/georgewithsculpture-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"George Rodrigue Blue Dog\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/georgewithsculpture-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/georgewithsculpture.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Rodrigue with 24 foot sculpture, Veterans Blvd, Metarie, LA, 2010<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u2022 Forms George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts (GRFA) to support arts in education and hosts first Scholarship Awards Art Contest<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Creates the Louisiana State Tree Ornaments for the National Christmas Tree Lighting on the National Mall in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Receives Distinguished Eagle Award from the National Boy Scouts of America<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Exhibition \u201cBlue Dogs and Cajuns on the River\u201d opens at the LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Receives the 2011 James William Rivers Prize from the Center for Louisiana Studies, a division of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Receives the top national award from the National Arts Educators Association for \u201cOutstanding Service Outside of the Profession,\u201d during their annual convention in NYC<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Rodrigue reappointed Artist Laureate of the State of Louisiana by Governor Bobby Jindal<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Exhibition, \u201cBlue Dogs in Texas,\u201d at the Amarillo Museum of Art<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Honored by the Arts Council of New Orleans during their 36th Annual Community Arts Awards for Rodrigue\u2019s outstanding contributions to the visual arts<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Unveils Rodrigue Steinway piano in partnership with LSU School of Music and GRFA<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Official Artist of the Carmel Art and Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Receives the Opus Award from the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 George Rodrigue passed away on December 14, 2013, at age sixty-nine after battling cancer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1944 \u2022 Born on March 13 in New Iberia, Louisiana, to George Rodrigue, a brick-layer, and Marie Rodrigue &nbsp; 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