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
Object Lesson: Adoration to the Christ Child and Annunciation to the Shepherds by Bernardino Luini
Bernardino Luini’s artistic style appears to have developed under various influences during the High Renaissance, but his greatest artistic debt is owed to Leonardo da Vinci. Read More
Object Lesson: Kitchen Wall in Bud Field’s Home, Hale County, Alabama by Walker Evans
In the summer of 1936, Walker Evans and James Agee, on assignment from Fortune magazine, set out to chronicle the daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the American South. In Hale County, Alabama, they found three families—including the Fields—with whom they lived for a month, with Evans photographing and Agee writing about their lives and environments, including this photograph from the family’s kitchen. Read More
Helen Gillet creates original solo concerts inspired by Mending the Sky
Helen Gillet is a singer-songwriter and surrealist- archeologist who explores synthesized sounds, textures, and rhythms using an acoustic cello. For Mending the Sky, she is creating a series of three solo performances that respond musically to the artists and ideas explored in the exhibition. Read More
Art-Making Activity: Photo-Transfer Collage
Bring your family together in a photo collage. Gather family members from across the generations in a group photo collage that will not damage your original photographs in this step-by-step art-making activity. Read More