Video: Susanne Wenger and the New Sacred Art Movement
Susanne Wenger created the art featured on some of the distinctive covers of the Nigerian publication Black Orpheus. Read More
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NOMA Announces the Appointment of Redell Hearn as Chief Educator
The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) announces the appointment of Dr. Redell Hearn to the newly created position of Chief Educator. On Monday, February 6, Hearn officially began her position, which leads the museum’s Learning and Engagement department, including programming, partnerships, and community engagement initiatives. Hearn brings over two decades of experience in museums and higher education with an emphasis on creating new digital and in-person learning practices—from curriculum development for internships to supporting institutional efforts to expand community engagement. Read More
Video: The Founding of Black Orpheus in 1950s Nigeria
In 1957, Ulli Beier created the journal Black Orpheus to circulate and celebrate the creativity of artists, writers, and thinkers in Anglophone Africa. In this short video, Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club, co-curator Ndubuisi Ezeluomba discusses the creation of this important publication in Nigeria. Read More
Video: Jacob Lawrence Visits Nigeria
Jacob Lawrence’s two visits to Nigeria in 1962 and 1964 influenced an entire body of work, now on view in Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club. In this short video, Curator of Education Tracy Kennan shares a little about how those trips impacted the celebrated artist’s vision. Read More
Educator Guide for Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club
This Educator Guide accompanies the exhibition Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club, on view at NOMA February 10 – May 7, 2023. In it you will find an exhibition overview with major themes, biographical information about Jacob Lawrence and his contemporary artists affiliated with the Black Orpheus publication, select works of art, classroom lessons for before and after your museum visit, and directions for scheduling a visit to NOMA. Lessons and tours can be adapted across grade levels and used with any in-person visit or with provided digital images. Read More
Showstopping Floral Displays Arrive at NOMA During Art in Bloom Presented by First Horizon
A springtime staple in New Orleans, Art in Bloom Presented by First Horizon returns to the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) this month, with innovative floral displays on view to the public Thursday, March 23–Sunday, March 26, during regular museum hours (10 am–5 pm). Read More
Drinking, Dining, and Developing Community: a Study of 10 Objects at NOMA
A dramatic installation in Café NOMA displays over 90 objects from the museum’s collection related to food and dining cultures around the world. Read More
Video: People Museum in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden
New Orleans–based pop art band People Museum presents a special performance in NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden responding to the work of artist Louise Bourgeois. Read More
A New Partnership Between NOMA and Blue Bikes
Blue Bikes—New Orleans’ community run bikeshare—is a great way to get to NOMA! Lock up at the two conveniently located hubs near the museum at City Park and Esplanade Avenues or at Café du Monde. For a limited time, use the promo code NOMA23 for a free 30-minute ride on Blue Bikes to or from NOMA. Read More
Announcing the 2023 NOMA Book Club Picks
The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. Read More
NOMA Announces New Trustees for 2023
During their December 2022 meeting, the Board of Trustees of the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) elected ten new members, who joined the board on January 1, 2023. The Board of Trustees works together to support NOMA’s mission of uniting, inspiring, and engaging diverse communities and cultures through the arts. Read More
Video: Called to the Camera: Black Studio Photographers
From photography’s beginnings in the United States, Black studio photographers operated on the developing edge of the medium to produce beautiful portraits for their clients, while also making a variety of other photographic work in keeping with important movements like pictorialism, modernism, and abstraction. Read More
Video: Curator Clare Davies on Louise Bourgeois
In conjunction with the exhibition Louise Bourgeois: Paintings, the New Orleans Museum of Art presents a special lecture with Clare Davies, Associate Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Read More
Major Exhibition Exploring Creative Exchange Between Jacob Lawrence and Artists from West Africa Opens at the New Orleans Museum of Art in February 2023
In February, the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) will present Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club, an exhibition exploring the creative exchange between artist Jacob Lawrence and the members of the Mbari Artists & Writers Club, a Nigerian arts collective founded in 1961. Read More
Video: Interview with People Museum’s Claire Givens and Jeremy Phipps
People Museum’s EP “Destruction of, Vol. 1” is inspired by Bourgeois’s life and work, and the group will perform underneath the artist’s monumental “Spider” sculpture in NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Sunday, December 4. Read More
Video: Claire Givens of People Museum on the Life and Art of Louise Bourgeois
Claire Givens of New Orleans–based pop art band People Museum discusses her affinity for artist Louise Bourgeois with Community Engagement Curator Nic Brierre Aziz. Read More
Save at the NOMA Museum Shop This Holiday Season
On Sunday, November 27, pick up a museum store passport from the NOMA Museum Shop. Your passport gives you 20% off one in-store purchase at the NOMA Museum Shop and at all participating museum stores in New Orleans (see the full list below) between November 27 and December 23, 2022. Read More
Scavenger Hunt: Robert Polidori in the Great Hall
Photographer Robert Polidori is renowned for his large-format images of architecture, interiors, and urban environments around the world. Test your attention to detail with a family-friendly scavenger hunt to find these objects, people, and places in Polidori’s photographs. Read More