The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art has faced a long road since Hurricane Katrina. Now, it is steps away from the goal it envisioned more than two decades ago.

A recent panel at Roots 101 Museum aimed to shed light on the complex reform agreement, which is still under consideration by a federal judge.

Cohen Foster crept stealthily as a jaguar in a South American rain forest. Crouching and lunging, the six-year-old boy moved close to the ground across a surface patterned to look like tropical ...