Virtual Tour | Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument
In 2013, NOMA and The Gordon Parks Foundation organized Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument. This exhibition explored the making of Parks’s first photographic essay for Life magazine in… Read More
Object Lesson: Francis Nakai and Family by Laura Gilpin
Through the course of the nineteenth century, white photographers making portraits of Native American sitters generally framed their subjects in stereotypical ways that exoticized their culture. Many of these photographs… Read More
Art-Making Activity: Shape Your World
Reimagine your neighborhood. Promote thinking about fundamentals elements of social justice: community, empathy, equity, activism, and advocacy by honing your observation of immediate surroundings within your community. Use a found-object… Read More
Art-Making Activity: Photo-editing lesson
American photographers Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, and Latoya Ruby Frazier turned their cameras on individuals and communities whose stories were less known to expose their daily trials, struggles, and celebrations…. Read More
Object Lesson: Frontlet Headdress of the Bella Coola Peoples
The Bella Coola Peoples of Canada’s Pacific Northwest, also known as the Nuxalk are renowned as carvers, with a mask-making tradition that includes physical representations of supernatural beings with animal-like features of species common to the tribe’s home region, including owls, killer whales, ravens, and wolves. This headdress in NOMA’s Native American art collection depicts an predatory bird. Read More
Object Lesson: Teapot by Sargent Johnson
With a body like a polished stone and a handle reminiscent of indigenous Mexican animal figures, a recently acquired teapot seems to be of both nature and man, both ancient and modern. This elegant 1941 teapot by the prominent African American Modernist sculptor Sargent Claude Johnson is an extraordinary new addition to NOMA’s decorative arts collection. Read More