Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films.

• 5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Smoke N Bones
• 5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table
• 6 pm: Artist Perspective with Teresa Cole
• 7 pm: Art in Peril Film Series, Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People

ABOUT SMOKE N BONES

Smoke N Bones brings the vintage sound and tradition of New Orleans soul, funk and R&B to new music and original compositions. Originally formed as an organ trio for a weekly residence at the storied Dragon’s Den music club in New Orleans, Smoke N Bones quickly grew into a full six-piece band. Boasting some of New Orleans most talented musicians and four lead singers, a year after it’s inception band had already completed three national tours and shared the stage with acts such as The Wailers, Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, Dark Star Orchestra Bonerama, Pimps of Joytime, and DJ Logic.

ABOUT TERESA COLE

In conjunction with the exhibition Jim Steg; New Work, Teresa Cole, who holds the Ellsworth Woodward Professorship in Art at Tulane University, will discuss her work as a printmaker. She earned a BFA in fiber arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and received much of her early print education as a working member of Peacock Printmakers in Aberdeen, Scotland. She completed an MFA in printmaking from the Cranbook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Cole has spent time as an artist-in-residence at Khoj Kolkata in India, the Frans Masereel Graphics Center in Belgium, and Hardground Printmakers in Cape Town, South Africa. She shows both nationally as well as internationally. Recent public collections include: The Frederick R. Weisman Collection, Los Angeles, California; The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Her work is represented at Callan Contemporary in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia.

ABOUT THROUGH A LENS DARKLY: BLACK PHOTOGRAPHERS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A PEOPLE

The Arts in Peril film series examines fundamental questions about the production of art and who decides what art is and can be in modern societies. The first documentary to explore the American family photo album through the eyes of black photographers, Through a Lens Darkly probes the recesses of American history to discover images that have been suppressed, forgotten, and lost. From slavery to the present, these extraordinary images unveil a world confronting the difficult edges of citizenship and what it means to be human. (2015 | 1 hour, 32 minutes | Watch the trailer)

Friday Nights at NOMA is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation; and the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council as administered by the Arts Council of New Orleans.