Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year.

Join Kelly Presutti, an art scholar who contributed to the catalog for Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana, as she describes her research into the exhibition.

Image: Joseph Rusling Meeker, The Acadians in the Atchafalaya, “Evangeline,” 1871, Oil on canvas, 32 1/8 x 42 3/16 in., A. Augustus Healy Fund, The Brooklyn Museum, 50.118