Creative Assembly

NOMA Announces First Inaugural Creative Assembly Cohort

January 13, 2022News, Press Releases, Creative Assembly

The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), with the generous support of the Wagner Foundation, announces the 2021–2022 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 museum’s 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

July 13, 2021News, Education, Creative Assembly

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, NOMA’s new Lapis Center for the Arts became home-for-a-day to GIRLS NOLA—the Girls Initiative for Reproducing Leaders in Society—for an incredibly special reunion and retreat. Read More

New Harmony High Students Use Photography to Imagine the Future

June 8, 2021News, Education, Creative Assembly

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 city’s 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 Ethics⁠

April 30, 2021Videos, Photography, Creative Assembly

Gordon Parks famously stated that photography was his “choice of weapons” 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 movements’ 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 “weapon” that can slip easily from one hand to another, and offering guidance on ethical and inclusive approaches to protest photography.⁠ ⁠ Read More

New Harmony students blend art with environmental history in collaboration with NOMA

April 8, 2020News, Magazine, Creative Assembly, Blog

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

August 21, 2019Magazine, Creative Assembly, Blog

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

July 29, 2019News, Magazine, Creative Assembly, Q&A

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

June 18, 2019News, Magazine, Creative Assembly, Q&A

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

August 1, 2018Magazine, Creative Assembly, Blog

Nic Brierre Aziz joined the staff at NOMA in early 2018 to serve as community outreach coordinator for NOMA+, a new “pop-up museum” that debuted in March. He will write a blog for NOMA’s digital magazine about his observations as this innovative “museum without walls” travels to schools, community centers, libraries, festivals, and other community… Read More

Realizing the full potential of the NOMA+ “pop-up museum”

May 3, 2018Magazine, Creative Assembly, Blog

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

NOMA+ brings a “pop-up museum” to the community

May 3, 2018News, Magazine, Creative Assembly, Learn

After years of planning, NOMA+, a pop-up museum without walls, has launched. The mobile museum will visit schools, community centers, libraries, festivals, and other gatherings across metro New Orleans. Read More

Helpful Links

Main Menu

New Orleans Museum of Art

Menu