Creative Assembly Questionnaire: Kathleen Currie
In a new series of questionnaires, we’re learning more about the members of this year’s Creative Assembly Cohort. Keep reading to get to know musician and composer Steve Lands. Read More
Interviews
Creative Assembly Questionnaire: Steve Lands
In a new series of questionnaires, we’re learning more about the members of this year’s Creative Assembly Cohort. Keep reading to get to know musician and composer Steve Lands. Read More
Q&A with Objects Conservator Ingrid Seyb in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden
It’s springtime and that means we’re trying to spend as much time in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden as possible. We stopped to talk with NOMA’s Object Conservator Ingrid Seyb, who was also working outside, taking care of artworks in the garden. Read More
Creative Assembly Questionnaire: Tiana Nobile
In a new series of questionnaires, we’re learning more about the members of this year’s 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, we’re learning more about the members of this year’s 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, we’re learning more about the members of this year’s Creative Assembly Cohort. Keep reading to get to know Claire Givens, songwriter and vocalist of pop-art band People Museum. Read More
Q&A: Singer-Songwriter Kelly Love Jones
Singer-songwriter Kelly Love Jones brings a star-studded cast to NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts on Thursday, November 18, for an evening of music, visual art, dance, and theater. Presented in collaboration with PowerHouse Productions, TRUST invites us to let our guard down and believe in our own power. In advance of the performance, Jones sat down with Gabrielle Wyrick, NOMA’s Deputy Director of Learning and Engagement, to give a sneek peek behind the stage of the brand new work. Read More
Q&A: Brittany N. Williams and A. J. Allegra of The NOLA Project
The NOLA Project is back in residence at NOMA with Tell It To Me Sweet, their first in person production since winter 2020. The company commissioned Brittany N. Williams to write a “trail of tales” inspired by folk and fairy tales and set outdoors in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Beginning in January, Brittany will take on a new position within the company, becoming a Co-Artistic Director with company founder and longtime Artistic Director A.J. Allegra. NOMA Curator of Education Tracy Kennan chatted with Brittany and A.J. about the merits of performing in public spaces and the importance of telling stories. Read More
New Photography Talk: Guanyu Xu in conversation with Curator Russell Lord
In conjunction with New Photography: Create, Collect, Compile, one of the four represented artists in the exhibition, Guanyu Xu, spoke with Russell Lord, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings. Read More
Q&A: Dawn DeDeaux discusses her forthcoming retrospective
Dawn DeDeaux: The Space Between Worlds is the first comprehensive museum exhibition for pioneering multimedia artist Dawn DeDeaux. Since the 1970s, DeDeaux has spanned video, performance, photography and installation to… Read More
Q&A: Umana Nnochiri discusses Nigerian akwanshi-inspired batik patterns
Umana Nnochiri is a textile artist and art educator at the Cross Rivers University of Technology in southeastern Nigeria. She adapts motifs from akwanshi (stone sculpture) of the Ejagham people… Read More
‘Oskar’ play uses humor to challenge gender stereotypes | Q&A with A.J. Allegra, Artistic Director of The NOLA Project
The NOLA Project stages Oskar and the Countless Costume Changes on every Saturday in March 2017. Artistic Director A.J. Allegra discussed the play’s theme. Read More
Former White House florist Laura Dowling describes work at America’s most famous address
For six years Laura Dowling was responsible for floral arrangements in the Obama White House. She will discuss her career as part of Art in Bloom on March 16. Read More
Remembering Enzo Ferrari at New Orleans’ first Concorso d’Eleganza: An Interview with Giuseppe Risi
Giuseppe Risi, Ferrari dealer and race car driver, discusses the appeal of Itally’s most iconic sports car as NOMA hosts the Concorso d’Eleganza. Read More
McArthur Binion chosen for Venice Biennale and NEW at NOMA exhibition
Mississippi-born artist McArthur Binion speaks with NOMA curator Katie A. Pfohl about what influences his abstract art. Read More
Diedrick Brackens weaves NOMA and New Orleans into his artistic fabric
NOMA and Joan Mitchell Center collaborate to showcase textile artist Diedrick Brackens in New Orleans. Read More
Taking Direction: An Interview with Tina Barney
BY DREW SAWYER | PELICAN BOMB Article originally appeared here EDITOR’S NOTE Over the last four decades, photographer Tina Barney has captured her family and friends on film, recording moments… Read More
Flower Power
By Lauren Laborde | myneworleans.com This article originally appeared here Every spring, the art at New Orleans Museum of Art isn’t just on the walls – it’s in the form of… Read More