Join us this Friday night for the first screening in our Design Film Series curated by UNO professor Laszlo Fulop. Before the film, enjoy live music, free art activities, and a free cooking demonstration in Cafe NOMA.

• 5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot
• 5:30 – 8:30 pm: Phil the Tremolo King
• 6:30 pm: Artful Palate in Café NOMA: “Craft Mixologist Secrets Revealed… When to shake, stir and how to impress your guests” with Lu Brow, Brennan’s lead bartender
• 7:30 pm: Film: Helvetica by Gary Huswit with an introduction by Laszlo Fulop

About Phil the Tremolo King

Phil the Tremolo King is a Belgian-born musician and singer-songwriter living in New Orleans. With his backup band “The Uptown Downtown Orchestra” he has been entertaining audiences in New Orleans and elsewhere with his “Tremophonic’ sound, a musical gumbo of trad jazz, indiefolk, country, gypsy swing and more.

About the Design Film Series

The film series will showcase three distinct facets of design through the “Design Trilogy” of documentary filmmaker Gary Hustwit: Helvetica (2007, 80 min.), Objectified (2009, 75 min.), and Urbanized (2011, 85 min.). This series is curated by Laszlo Fulop, UNO Associate Professor (Documentary, Video Writing).

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about their work, the creative process, and the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type.

About Laszlo Fulop

Laszlo Fulop teaches Documentary Production, Script Analysis, Spring Film Production, Video Writing, and Screenwriting. He received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans in 2000.

In the past few years, Fulop has been credited as director, producer, videographer, and editor in various film and television projects, including documentaries, feature films, TV pilots, and short films. His credentials include an Addy Award and several film festival appearances. His recent work includes Tim’s Island, a documentary about Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans co-directed, co-produced, and edited by Fulop. The film is available from IndiePix.

The Sunken City: Rebuilding Post-Katrina New Orleans, his documentary co-directed and co-produced with Marline Otte (Associate Professor, History Department, Tulane University), has been screened at film festivals and various college campuses nationwide and internationally. The documentary is available from Sky Merchants and from Amazon.

About Café NOMA’s 2016 Artful Palate Summer Cooking Series

Chefs of the Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group will soon demonstrate their own culinary masterpieces at Café NOMA’s Artful Palate, the fifth annual summer cooking series featuring nine artfully inspired demonstrations at the historic New Orleans Museum of Art. Friday evenings are FREE for all café guests and patrons to partake in the presentation, and savor samples as each artful dish is created.

In conjunction with the launch of NOMA’s exhibition The Essence of Things: Design and the Art of Reduction, the talented executive chefs, sous chefs and mixologists of Café NOMA, Ralph’s on the Park, Red Fish Grill, Brennan’s, and Napoleon House will share their culinary vision inspired by the exhibition’s focus on the art and practice of minimalism. Artful Palate demonstrations will take a minimalist approach to cooking; featuring local seafood, meats, fruits and vegetables with simplistic recipes highlighting the core of their natural essence.