Video: People Museum in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden
New Orleansâbased pop art band People Museum presents a special performance in NOMAâs Besthoff Sculpture Garden responding to the work of artist Louise Bourgeois. Read More
Creative Assembly
Video: Cooking with Courtney Clark
Learn to cook blackened chicken and blackened portobello mushrooms with artist, food justice activist, and Creative Assembly Cohort member Courtney Clark Read More
Creative Assembly Questionnaire: Kathleen Currie
In a new series of questionnaires, weâre learning more about the members of this yearâs Creative Assembly Cohort. Keep reading to get to know musician and composer Steve Lands. Read More
Creative Assembly Questionnaire: Steve Lands
In a new series of questionnaires, weâre learning more about the members of this yearâs Creative Assembly Cohort. Keep reading to get to know musician and composer Steve Lands. Read More
Creative Assembly Questionnaire: Tiana Nobile
In a new series of questionnaires, weâre learning more about the members of this yearâs Creative Assembly Cohort. Keep reading to get to know poet, writer, and educator Tiana Nobile. Read More
Creative Assembly Questionnaire: Joseph Darensbourg
In a new series of questionnaires, weâre learning more about the members of this yearâs Creative Assembly Cohort. Keep reading to get to know singer, violinist, and bookbinder Joseph Darensbourg. Read More
Creative Assembly Questionnaire: Claire Givens of People Museum
In a new series of questionnaires, weâre learning more about the members of this yearâs Creative Assembly Cohort. Keep reading to get to know Claire Givens, songwriter and vocalist of pop-art band People Museum. Read More
Meet the Creative Assembly Cohort
With the generous support of the Wagner Foundation, NOMA recently announced the 2021â22 Creative Assembly Cohort, a multidisciplinary group of New Orleans-based creators selected to engage with the institution in a year-long exchange of ideas and inspiration. The disciplines of cohort members range from musicians, dancers, and poets to mixologists, activists, and educators. Cohort members will symbiotically use the museum as a space for inspiration and collaboration, and work with the museum and its staff to develop and implement programs that speak to a diversity of perspectives. Read More
NOMA Announces First Inaugural Creative Assembly Cohort
The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), with the generous support of the Wagner Foundation, announces the 2021â2022 Creative Assembly Cohort, a multidisciplinary group of New Orleans-based creators selected to engage with the institution in a year-long exchange of ideas and inspiration. The Creative Assembly Cohort is comprised of a selection of creative minds who will immerse themselves within the museumâs collection and use the institution as a catalyst for their own work and creativity. Read More
GIRLS NOLA Spends the Day at NOMA and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden
After several quiet months, the museum is slowly and safely welcoming small groups of young visitors back into our spaces, sprinkling chatter and laughter back into the sounds and rhythms of the galleries. Lit in hot pink on a Saturday in May, NOMAâs new Lapis Center for the Arts became home-for-a-day to GIRLS NOLAâthe Girls Initiative for Reproducing Leaders in Societyâfor an incredibly special reunion and retreat. Read More
New Harmony High Students Use Photography to Imagine the Future
Building on an ongoing collaboration between New Harmony and the New Orleans Photo Alliance, this spring NOMA collaborated with local students to explore the fundamentals of photography and curating with some of the cityâs foremost artists. The culmination of this project, What Is Harmony?, is on view to the public on an exterior fence to the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden starting June 19. Read More
A Choice of Weapons: Photography, Surveillance, and Ethicsâ
Gordon Parks famously stated that photography was his âchoice of weaponsâ against racism, intolerance, and poverty. While photographs have certainly been used to document and advance social justice causes in the past, the use of photography in recent protest movements has demonstrated one of the dangers of the medium. While protest photographs have amplified these movementsâ messages and visibility, those very same photographs have been used against their makers by other authorities. This panel explored the new emerging chapter in the ethics of photography, considering how the digital, social world has made photography an instantaneous and global âweaponâ that can slip easily from one hand to another, and offering guidance on ethical and inclusive approaches to protest photography.â â Read More
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
NOMA+ workshop engages incarcerated students at the Travis Hill School
NOMA+, a mobile pop-up museum that debuted in 2018, continues to serve audiences and communities who have historically not been engaged with the New Orleans Museum of Art. For two days in June, Community Engagement Curator Nic Aziz led an art worskhop with students at the Travis Hill School within Orleans Parish Prison. Read More
Q&A: Garrett Bradley reimagines a lost trove of African American silent films
Filmmaker Garrett Bradley created an installation at NOMA that presents scenes that might have been from the lost trove of African American silent movies in the early twentieth century. Her immersive, multi-channel film America reimagines this vanished archive through a corpus of new films cast primarily with New Orleanians. Read More
Q&A: Edward Spots brings Black Magic dance performance to NOMA
New Orleans native Edward Spots, an internationally renowned dancer, choreographer, and actor, will lead a group of youth dancers in a site-specific work of dance at NOMA titled Black Magic that will mark the opening of the exhibition Bodies of Knowledge. Read More
Blog: NOMA+ connects with the Rebuild Center
Nic Brierre Aziz joined the staff at NOMA in early 2018 to serve as community outreach coordinator for NOMA+, a new âpop-up museumâ that debuted in March. He will write a blog for NOMAâs digital magazine about his observations as this innovative âmuseum without wallsâ travels to schools, community centers, libraries, festivals, and other community… Read More
Realizing the full potential of the NOMA+ “pop-up museum”
Nic Brierre Aziz, NOMA’s Community Engagement Curator, came to the museum to spearhead NOMA+, a “pop-up museum” that debuted in March of 2018. Aziz writes about his observations as this innovative “museum without walls” traveled to schools, community centers, libraries, festivals, and other community gatherings. Despite the endless number of cultural contributions that minority… Read More
