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As we enter into Phase 1 of reopening the city of New Orleans, NOMA is finalizing plans to ensure the health and safety of our guests, staff, and collection. The Besthoff Sculpture Garden is now open. Join us on Tuesday, June 2, from 9:30 am to 6 pm. Visit our website, sign up for our weekly enews, or join us on social media for continual updates.

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Summer Art Kits

Summer Art Kits

Receive a 20% discount now on remaining  Hot Art, Cool Kids: Summer Art Kits, featuring online lessons and art supplies for at-home art-making activities.

Q&A

Q&A

Dawn DeDeaux’s work addresses apocalyptic themes. She discusses her forthcoming retrospective in 2021.

OBJECT LESSON

OBJECT LESSON

Often focusing on the confines of her own home, Dorothea Tanning transformed ordinary furniture into painted scenes where magical experiences might unfold.

Baby ArtsPlay! at Home

Baby ArtsPlay! at Home

Engage children ages 1 to 2 with free Facebook Live workshops on Saturday mornings through June 20.

YouTube Video

YouTube Video

Curator Nic Aziz discusses a future collaboration between NOMA+, a mobile pop-up museum, and The Black School, an experimental art academy focusing on radical Black history.

Web-Exclusive Feature

Web-Exclusive Feature

Russel Wright’s “Saturn” punch service is an innovative example of the use of aluminum in mid-century modern design.

Virtual Tour

Virtual Tour

You Are Here embraces photography’s success as a faithful record but also questions the medium’s effectiveness in depicting and sharing fragments of our world.

Studio KIDS!

Studio KIDS!

Join Saturday morning family-oriented virtual workshops with a NOMA teaching artist. Limited enrollment remains for January 16. Advance registration required.

Suggested Reading List

Suggested Reading List

NOMA staff, in partnership with independent New Orleans bookseller Octavia Books, offer a list of titles centered upon themes of home.

Focus on Photography

Focus on Photography

Photographers make choices within the singularity of a home-space and whether to expand or explode the domestic myths they have been invited to turn into a picture.

Art-Making Activity

Art-Making Activity

Create a colorful neighborhood using printmaking techniques at home.

Art-Making Activity

Art-Making Activity

Create a self-portrait on paper from collaged materials using your hand as a representation of your body.

Focus on Photography

Focus on Photography

Like all pictures of windows, Leslie Gill’s Studio Window, West 56th Street, New York is an example of “photographing photography.”

NOMA Cares

NOMA Cares

During the stay-at-home order, a team of NOMA employees are making an ongoing effort to call every Museum Member.

Instagram Photo Challenge

Instagram Photo Challenge

Teens are invited to submit photographs to NOMA’s Instagram account in a “Captured in Quarantine” photo challenge.

YouTube Video

YouTube Video

Kathleen Tunnell Handel discusses her ongoing project photographing residential mobile homes and manufactured housing communities. Photo: ©2020 Kathleen Dreier

 

Virtual Visit

 

NOMA on YouTube


Curator Brian Piper in conversation with
photographer Kathleen Tunnell Handel

 


Curator Nic Aziz in conversation with Shani Peters and Joseph Cuillier of The Black School, an experimental art school teaching radical Black history

 

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Did you know that this beloved painting by Edgar Degas was purchased with contributions from residents across New Orleans? 🖼️ In advance of GiveNOLA Day, New Orleans’s citywide day of community giving, Senior Development and Membership Associate Molly Queal discusses the history of the work.

👉 GiveNOLA Day is Tuesday, May 7. Schedule your gift today at givenola.org/noma

🎨: Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917), “Portrait of Mme René De Gas, née Estelle Musson,” 1872-73.
Oil on canvas. Museum purchase through public subscription, 65.1.
📍: Second floor, Blumenthal Stich Jepsen Gallery
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This year`s theme for @InternationalDesignDay asks creative thinkers to consider kindness as a design principle. According to the International Council on Design, developing a "kindness standard" starts with asking a few questions about how an object is developed, produced, and used.⁠

NOMA`s decorative arts and design galleries include objects created around the world across centuries, in many different contexts. We encourage you to look at the guiding questions below on your next visit to begin considering how kindness might be embedded throughout the material world. 👇⁠

1️⃣ Who is being considered by this object`s design, and who is left out?⁠
2️⃣ Whose future was/will be affected by this object, and how?⁠
3️⃣ How much harmony did this design in the past? What about now and in future?⁠
4️⃣ What kind of world does this design uphold or imagine anew?⁠

#IsItKind #IDD2024 #InternationalDesignDay @theicod⁠
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📸: @ghost_inthecity
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#FlashbackFriday to when @blinkybillmusic helped up kick off the opening of “Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined” at NOMA with a performance featuring @auroranealand and other special guests 🎶 @wangechistudio ...

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A few of our favorite @jazzfest 2024 musicians who have performed at the museum 🎶 @mahmoudchouki @folkrockdiva @peoplemuseumband @brucesunpiebarnes @rebirthbrassband @yps_brass_band @helengillet @tremebrassband ...

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