Drink and Draw: Interior Life

Thursday July 15, 6-8 PM

For many, our relationship to our most familiar spaces has come into focus over the past year and a half. Take part in a collective reflection upon our interior spaces and the quarantine experience of being within them through this observational drawing session. Participants are encouraged to bring objects from their homes or spaces to build a collaborative still life in the Lapis Center for the Arts at NOMA.

Participants are free to explore personal interests to create vignettes of their quarantine interior experience with a focus on select objects, pattern or texture studies, or figurative drawings of live models within the group-sourced ‘interior’.

About the Program

As a part of this pilot series, we’re proud to place NOMA and its collection in conversation with contemporary practices and local talent. This program features:

Sounds by Mary Scott (@dulceveeta)

Poses by Daylight Rodriguez and Cate Alber

Facilitation by Danielle Rives, NOMA’s Youth Programs Coordinator

Danielle Rives is an artist and educator. Her art-making practice involves mining both family history and present experience to construct painted, drawn and mixed-media compositions. She uses objects and patterns from domestic interiors as a visual framework to explore relationships between color, mark, and form, as well as her relationships with family, herself, and her surroundings. You can learn more about her work here.

Mary Scott (DJ Dulce Veeta) has been a radio DJ since 2013 at Radio K (Minneapolis) and WTUL New Orleans. A lover of experimental electronic music of all types and also the youtube channel “lofi hip hop radio” by Lofi Girl, you can expect chill vibes only with a hint of the unexpected during their set.

Virtual Tip Jar: @dulceveeta on Venmo

Cate Alber is a clinical herbalist, medicine maker, gardener, baker, sometimes waitress, and proud dog parent. Cate sees herbal clients through her clinical practice, Homebody Herbs, and creates custom herbal formulas to suit her clients’ health goals. She also manages the garden and apothecary for Solitary Gardens, bakes for her loved ones, and occasionally brings folks their first cup of coffee in the morning as a breakfast waitress. Cate is passionate about accessible healthcare, community care, abolition, and cooking as a radical act.

Virtual Tip Jar: @Cate-Alber on Venmo

Daylight Rodriguez is a multifaceted recording artist from New Orleans using creative direction, music, graphic design, and more to create a worldly experience for his art to live in. He’s currently working on an album due to drop later this year.

Virtual Tip Jar: $imdaylight on Cash App or DaylightR on Venmo

In the Galleries

Elisabeth Louise Vigeé Le Brun, Portrait of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, circa 1788, The New Orleans Museum of Art: Museum purchase, Women’s Volunteer Committee and Carrie Heiderich Fund, 85.90

Take a Closer Look at Marie Antionette through Google Arts and Culture

Heidi Hahn, Burnout in Shredded Heaven, 2018–2019, Oil on canvas, 80 x 74 in., Museum purchase with funds provided by Kevie Yang, 2019.60, © Heidi Hahn

New at NOMA: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art

Monika Mulder, designer (Dutch, b. 1972), IKEA, manufacturer and retailer (Sweden, founded 1943), Vållö Watering Can, designed 2002. Polypropylene plastic. 15 x 13 x 5 inches. Gift from the George R. Kravis II Collection. © Monika Mulder.

Object Lesson by Mel Buchanan, RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts and Design

Unidentified photographer, Untitled, c. 1890. Gelatin silver print from Kodak #1, mounted on board. Gift of Peter Cohen, E-2021-34.55.

A Brief History of Photography and Transmission

Edgar Degas (French, 1834 – 1917), Portrait of Mme René De Gas, née Estelle Musson, 1872-73, Oil on canvas, Museum purchase through public subscription, 65.1

Object Lesson. by Russell Lord, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973), Still Life With Candle, 1937, Oil on canvas

Lee Krasner, (American, 1908–1984), Breath, 1959, Oil on canvas, Gift of Mrs. P. Roussel Norman, 87.270

Object Lesson by Tariana Smith, former NOMA Curatorial Intern

Robert Mapplethorpe (American, 1946-1989), New Orleans Interior, 1982, Gelatin silver print, Bequest of H. Russell Albright, M.D., 2020.1.38

Selections from the Collection of Dr. H. Russell Albright

Radcliffe Bailey, Covered, 2008, Found fabric, 70 x 72 ½ inches, Promised Gift of Arthur Roger, EL.2016.132.3, © Radcliffe Bailey

New at NOMA: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art

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