New Harmony students blend art with environmental history in collaboration with NOMA
The following essay was written by Nic Aziz, NOMA’s Community Engagement Curator. Land is arguably the most sought-after resource on our planet. It has been the source of everything from the impetus for wars to the foundation of oppression and a sacred fabric within spiritual practices. Unfortunately as a result of collective mistreatment and… Read More
Object Lesson: Windmill in Anglia by John Moyer Heathcote
John Moyer Heathcote was an amateur painter and photographer in Norfolk, England, where he likely took this photograph of a windmill. Heathcote documented architecture and rural scenes, compiling photographs in albums including his 1853 Anglia Illustrata. This ghostly image is not a page from that book, but rather the paper negative used to produce a… Read More
Art-making activity: Create a shadowbox
Joseph Cornell loved to visit New York and collect items he found on the streets and in secondhand stores and bookstores. He built quite a collection and created his own system for filing the objects away in the basement of the house he shared with his mother and brother. Cornell was influenced by artists associated… Read More
Suggested Reading List: Sustainability
NOMA’s Learning and Engagement staff suggests a range books for all ages related to themes of sustainability. In partnership with Octavia Books, links are provided to purchase these titles through this independent bookstore based in New Orleans. Read More
Art-Making Activity: Make a Mandala
Mandala comes from the classical Indian language Sanskrit. Loosely translated, the word means circle, but a mandala has symbolic meaning as well. The shape of a mandala is circular and has a pattern. Similar designs are seen in cultures in India and Tibet as well as Native American and Early Christian art. Circles may represent… Read More
Suggested Reading List: Belief Systems
NOMA’s Learning and Engagement staff suggests the following books related to themes of belief systems. In partnership with Octavia Books, links are provided to purchase these titles through this independent bookstore based in New Orleans. For Adults There There by Tommy Orange, Vintage, 2019, ISBN: 9780525436140 https://www.octaviabooks.com/book/9780525436140 Tommy Orange’s wondrous and shattering novel follows twelve… Read More
