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
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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
NOMA Announces New Board Trustees for 2022
In December of 2021, the Board of Trustees of the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) elected a slate of new members who joined the board in January 2022. 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
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
Video: Margaret T.G. Burroughs | Virtual Panel Discussion
Born in Saint Rose, Louisiana, Burroughs spent much of her professional career in Chicago, where she was a cofounder of the DuSable Museum of African American History, the nation’s first independent museum celebrating Black culture. Read More
Queen Nefertari’s Egypt Highlights Ancient Egyptian Masterpieces
The New Orleans Museum of Art presents Queen Nefertari’s Egypt, on view March 18–July 17, 2022. As the favorite wife of Pharaoh Ramesses II (reigned 1279–13 BCE), Queen Nefertari had significant diplomatic and religious roles before her death in c. 1250 BCE, and she is linked to some of the most magnificent monuments of ancient Egypt. Artifacts presented in Queen Nefertari’s Egypt provide an extensive look into the power and influence of women during the New Kingdom period (c. 1539-1075 BCE), when Egyptian civilization was at its height. Read More
Video: The Space Between Worlds
On view at the New Orleans Museum of Art from October 22, 2021 through January 23, 2022, Dawn DeDeaux: The Space Between Worlds is the first comprehensive museum exhibition for the pioneering multimedia artist Dawn DeDeaux. Read More
Video: Artist Talk with Dawn DeDeaux
Watch a virtual talk with artist Dawn DeDeaux, who discusses her comprehensive museum exhibition The Space Between Worlds at NOMA. The lecture, titled “Between Time” addresses the artwork currently on view at the museum, as well as her larger body of work. Read More
Souvenirs of Earth: Responses to Dawn DeDeaux at NOMA
Souvenirs of Earth invites us all to consider what object we might take with us if forced to flee the Earth. Begun in 2014 by artist Dawn DeDeaux, Souvenirs of Earth responds to the increasing urgency of climate change, by asking us to confront the growing threat of humanity’s extinction. Over time, the project has evolved into a community portrait of loss and survival including everything from seeds and raw earth to postcards of famous paintings, frayed books, models of famous monuments and historical sites, ashes, and knots of hair. 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 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
NOMA Awarded Curatorial Intern Grant from the Decorative Arts Trust
The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) has been announced as the Decorative Arts Trust’s 2022–2024 Curatorial Internship partner. The significant grant, awarded from the Decorative Arts Trust, will support a two-year Curatorial Fellow who will learn about the responsibilities of the curatorial field while working with the NOMA’s esteemed Decorative Arts and growing Design collection, focusing specifically in the area of glass. Read More
Help Keep Us All Safe
NOMA’s primary concern is the health of our visitors, staff, and community. Effective today, January 1, visitors to the museum age 12+ are required to show proof of two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine (or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine), or negative results of a Covid-19 test taken within 72 hours of your visit. Visitors ages 5–11 are required to show proof of one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine or negative results of a Covid-19 test taken within 72 hours of your visit. Read More
NOMA Celebrates Our 110th Birthday!
On December 16, 1911, the museum opened as the Isaac Delgado Museum of Art with a permanent collection of just nine works of art. Now, the museum holds over 40,000 objects, including extensive collections in French and American art, photography, glass, and African and Japanese works. Additionally, NOMA is home to the twelve-acre Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, which showcases over 90 monumental sculptures within the lush landscape of City Park. Read More
Video: Way of Tea Demonstration with Naomi Yoder
NOMA presents a virtual Way of Tea demonstration led by Naomi Yoder, Japanese Way of Tea Practitioner, Urasenke Lineage, in the museum’s Japanese art gallery. Read More
NOMA’s Teen Art Council Visits Dawn DeDeaux at Camp Abundance
On a chilly November evening, members of the Teen Art Council (TAC) gathered under string lights on the patio at Camp Abundance, an artist residency and special event compound headed by artist and most generous host Dawn DeDeaux. DeDeaux’s retrospective exhibition The Space Between Worlds, currently on view at NOMA, has served as the focus of the TAC’s year thus far, fueling explorations in the galleries, conversations with NOMA staff members, and an upcoming creative offering for New Orleans teens. Read More
Suggested Reading List | December 2021
As we approach the end of 2021, we asked our fellow staff members to share some of the books that impacted them the most this past year. Check out a handful of our picks. 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