Take Note: Community Creative Sketchbook Project
Express yourself and share your talent through writing, drawing, mixed media, dance, or spoken word with a new weekly prompt from NOMA. Read More
News
Enrique Alférez mural gifted to NOMA permanently installed in new auditorium complex
Created for the lobby of the New Orleans Times-Picayune building in 1967, Enrique Alférez’s plaster relief mural Symbols of Communication will find a new home in NOMA’s renovated auditorium complex. Read More
A Statement from the Board of Trustees of the New Orleans Museum of Art
The Board of Trustees of the New Orleans Museum of Art fully supports NOMA’s leadership and staff as they guide the museum through the pandemic, address resulting challenges, and further the work of advancing social justice and racial equity. Read More
Teen Art Council members serve as community ambassadors for NOMA
Youth Programs Coordinator Danielle Rives shares her thoughts and observations about NOMA’s Teen Art Council. Read More
Torkwase Dyson exhibition reviewed in ARTFORUM
The following is an excerpt from the July/August edition of ARTFORUM. Torkwase Dyson’s new series Black Compositional Thought: 15 Paintings for the Plantationocene, 2020, was organized into small groupings, with one standalone work, in her recent show of the same name. Within each piece, Dyson layered constellation-like white lines and minimalist black shapes over deep-black… Read More
Our Agenda for Change
NOMA recognizes the legitimate issues in front of us and embraces the responsibility to address them. Read more about our Agenda for Change. Read More
NOMA reopens galleries on July 8 and launches a new forum series dedicated to social justice and racial equity in the museum field
After reopening July 8, the New Orleans Museum of Art will be launching the Creative Assembly Program Series, a new monthly online forum which will bring together thought leaders, community representatives, and interdisciplinary creatives to explore the role of social justice and racial equity in the museum field. Read More
Object Lesson: The Mete of the Muse by Fred Wilson
In a new body of large-scale sculptures, painting, installations, and performances, which includes The Mete of the Muse, Fred Wilson focuses on histories of the African diaspora, and the lingering legacy of colonialism and slavery in the United States and around the world. Read More
Art-Making Activity: Word Power!
Create a positive message in your community with this Word Power activity. Read More
Four winning entries in Art Inspires short-story contest focus on works in decorative arts collection
In May 2020, NOMA’s learning and engagement department established an “Art Inspires” short story competition that asked contestants to craft a fictional tale based on selections from the museum’s permanent collection of decorative arts. Read More
Art-Making Activity: Community Quilt
Create a paper quilt square and ask your family members, friends, or neighbors to contribute to it. Read More
Object Lesson: Forever mural by Odili Donald Odita
Commissioned in honor of NOMA’s centennial, Forever is a large-scale wall painting by the Philadelphia-based, Nigerian-born artist Odili Donald Odita. Extending 150 feet, the mural contains 87 colors, calibrated to respond to the physical space and changing light of the McDermott Lobby. The title conveys the impressions of dynamism, musicality, and continuity Odita gathered from… Read More
Suggested Reading List: Besthoff Sculpture Garden
NOMA’s Museum Shop features books about the Besthoff Sculpture Garden and lavishly illustrated monographs about artists whose works are included in the Garden. Purchase a book for yourself or find a gift for the art lover in your life. Read More
Art-Making Activity: Scale It Up Grid Drawing
With inspiration from NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden, make a small drawing and then replicate it in a larger scale. Read More
Art-Making Activity: Shape Collage
Identify distinctive shapes in sculptures from NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden and create a shape collage using found household items and pictures. Read More
Object Lesson: “Saturn” punch service by Russel Wright
Taken on its own as a visual object, this punch service in NOMA’s decorative arts collection is striking. A large aluminum sphere punch bowl centers a galaxy of spherical cups riding on a ring like Saturn’s, the repeated shapes emphasized and softened by spherical birchwood handles. Read More
NOMA Cares: Checking in with our Museum Members
During the stay-at-home mandate established to flatten the curve of Covid-19, Tim Morales became part of a team of NOMA employees who made it their mission to call every NOMA Museum Member. Read More
Art-Making Activity: Self-Portrait Collage
Create a self-portrait on paper from collaged materials using your hand as a representation of your body. Read More
