NOMA at Night: Celebrate Robert Gordy: Outside the Mainstream
Get creative and explore the museum after hours! Featuring live music, specialty cocktails and mocktails by Café NOMA, art making, gallery talks, and more, NOMA at Night invites you to see the museum in a brand new light.
For this NOMA at Night, come out and celebrate the works of Louisiana-born artist Robert Gordy, whose work is now on view in the exhibition Robert Gordy: Outside the Mainstream.
Support for this NOMA at Night is provided by the John Burton Harter Foundation. Additional support is provided by the LGBTQ+ Chamber of Commerce.
$15 for members
$30 general admission
Free admission for attendees ages 19 and under
Program Details
Monotype Printmaking
6 to 9 pm | Art Studio
Get creative with a hands-on monotype printmaking station in the museum’s second floor Art Studio
DJ Sets from DJ Nehaya
6 to 9 pm | Great Hall
Dance the night away with an all-evening set in the Great Hall from DJ Nehaya
Exhibition-Inspired Raffle with the NOMA Museum Shop
6 to 9 pm
Your ticket to NOMA at Night automatically enters you into a raffle for a chance to win an exhibition-inspired bundle curated by the NOMA Museum Shop
Food, Drinks, and Libations
6 to 9 pm | Café NOMA
Enjoy specialty cocktails and a Happy Hour menu from Café NOMA
Conversation with Arthur Roger and John Bullard
6:30
Gain insights about artist Robert Gordy in a conversation between John Bullard, former director of the New Orleans Museum of Art, and Arthur Roger, owner of Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans.
Live Music from Labia Menorah
7:30 to 8:30 pm | Lapis Center for the Arts
Tune into the night’s headlining music performance from Labia Menorah in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts
About the Exhibition
Louisiana native Robert Gordy (1933–86) achieved national recognition for masterly compositions that revealed a sophisticated and disciplined interplay of space, line, and color. Although best known today for his prints and late monotypes, Gordy worked in a range of media throughout his career. This exhibition, the first in-depth presentation of the artist’s work at NOMA in over four decades, shares selections from Gordy’s career from the 1950s until his premature death from AIDS in 1986.
About the Performers
DJ Nehaya
Labia Menorah
Labia Menorah is a New Orleans based irreverent, party rock klezmer-expansive band. Led by bassist and arranger Klezlie Feinberg, her rotating group of performers take klezmer classics and spin them into danceable queer bangers. With a distinctly modern and characteristically New Orleans syncretic sound, the group blends jazz, noise, street groove, jewish mysticism, & funk in an ever-evolving fusion. The group’s interpretations of traditional yiddish songs, often centuries old, situate Klezmer as a living, breathing practice. Labia Menorah asserts the value of diasporic Jewish culture and embraces the long history of cross-cultural collaboration which has often been sidelined in favor of placing jewish music in a single, static box. As members of the Palestine Solidarity Network, the group takes a strong stance in opposition to zionism and the genocide in Palestine, and rejects the notion of a monolithic ethnonationalist jewish culture. Labia Menorah co-organizes events centered around jewish holidays with chef Sam Yampolsky dedicated to bringing together like-minded people to build community outside of existing hegemonic structures.
Thank You to Our Supporters
John Burton Harter Foundation
The John Burton Harter Foundation is a nonprofit organization that promotes John Burton Harter’s art and the interests he cared about. JBHF provides resources to nonprofit organizations that advance the arts by featuring Harter’s work.
John Burton Harter (1940-2002) established the foundation through a charitable trust to ensure the visibility of his art and fulfill his creative vision. In keeping with his wishes, JBHF has supported exhibitions, catalogues, publications, and initiatives with funding or gifts of original Harter works since 2002.In addition, JBHF preserves Harter’s art, facilitates loans, and places works in important museums to expand Harter’s legacy and creative impact.
Additional Support provided by the LGBTQ+ Chamber of Commerce
The Gulf South LGBTQ+ Chamber of Commerce invites you to join us in advancing a society where individuals and businesses have equal rights, equal representation, and equal opportunities. As the region’s official National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce affiliate, membership in the Gulf South Chamber gives businesses a fast-track access to NGLCC business certification along with diversity contracting opportunities, training and networking events, and support.
NOMA at Night is supported in part by grant funds from Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; 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.
