Object Lesson: Self-Care and American Studio Pottery
Pottery has a long history as a tool for self-expression and a method of self-care. Whether your relationship to ceramics is placing your muddy hands around a spinning mound of clay, or your clean hands around a mug of tea, you’ve experienced the therapeutic qualities of pottery. Read More
Suggested Reading List: Home
NOMA’s Learning and Engagement staff suggests the following books related to themes of homeplace. In partnership with Octavia Books, links are provided to purchase these titles through this independent bookstore based in New Orleans. Read More
Object Lesson: Guardian Angels by Dorothea Tanning
Dorothea Tanning painted Guardian Angels the same year she left Manhattan to live in solitude with her partner Max Ernst in a small desert town in the American Southwest. Fleeing… Read More
Q&A: Dawn DeDeaux discusses her forthcoming retrospective
Dawn DeDeaux: The Space Between Worlds is the first comprehensive museum exhibition for pioneering multimedia artist Dawn DeDeaux. Since the 1970s, DeDeaux has spanned video, performance, photography and installation to… Read More
Art-Making Activity: Gratitude Reflection Painting
Louisiana artist Lin Emery creates kinetic sculptures from reflective materials. Wave, installed in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, relies on forces of nature—wind and gravity—to go with the… Read More
Object Lesson: Reflective works in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden
Since its opening in 2003, the Besthoff Sculpture Garden has been a place of reflection for visitors—and in the case of works with mirrored surfaces by Lin Emery, Anish Kapoor, and Jeppe Hein that quality is quite literal. Read More