Musicians from Home: The Swamp Buds
NOMA presents a series of virtual concerts featuring a range of music’s best and brightest performing from their homes. Watch the Swamp Buds perform songs of Creole and Cajun origin. Read More
Object Lesson: Pommery Champagne Bottles, Reims by Ilse Bing
In 1933, as the company approached its 100-year anniversary, Pommery Champagne hired Ilse Bing to produce a series of photos documenting its production facilities in Reims, France. Even though she was ostensibly hired to sell more champagne Bing approached the job with the same creativity and avant-garde approach found in her personal work. Read More
Preschooler C. C. Zainey visits “Uncle NOMA” during weekly excursions
For C. C. Zainey, weekly visits to NOMA are a must. The Museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden are a wonderland for the preschool-age visitor who finds herself gazing up at the works of art and offering imaginative interpretations of all that she beholds. Her mother Casey shared her observations. Read More
Q&A: Paige Valente finds an educational lifeline in NOMA’s Virtual Visits
For Paige Valente, and millions of fellow teachers across the nation, the 2020 school year has redefined education as schools closed due to the pandemic and instruction moved online. NOMA’s Virtual Visits became a valuable teaching tool. Read More
Camp Able stages Christmas play in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden amphitheater, led by former NOMA theater camp participant
Fourteen-year-old volunteer counselor Kaleigh Bourque shares her thoughts about directing a holiday play in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden amphitheater for Camp Able, an outreach program for neurodiverse individuals. Read More
NOMA announces seven new members of Board of Trustees for 2021
In December 2020, the Board of Trustees of the New Orleans Museum of Art elected a slate of new members who will join the board in January 2021. The Board of Trustees works together to support NOMA’s mission of uniting, inspiring, and engaging diverse communities and cultures through the arts. Read More