Get creative and explore the museum after hours during NOMA at Night.

For this edition of NOMA at Night, we’re celebrating the new exhibition New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations with an evening featuring live music; gallery talks with the curator; specialty cocktails, mocktails, and a happy hour menu at Café NOMA inspired by the exhibition; all-ages art making inspired by the masquerades on view, and more. Plus, the exhibition catalogue is available at the NOMA Museum Shop, which is open all night.

$15 for members
$30 general admission
Free admission for ages 19 and under

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Program Details

Sets from C’est Funk and DJ Ojay

Throughout the evening in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts

Dance the night away to celebrate the opening of New African Masquerades.

Tours by Curators, Artists, and Collaborators

6:30 and 7:30 pm in English, 7:00 pm in French in the first-floor Ella West Freeman Galleries

Take advantage of the opportunity to learn about the exhibition directly from the artists, curators, and other experts.

Artmaking Activity: Ribbon Wands

6–9 pm

All ages are invited to participate in hands-on artmaking inspired by the works on view. Explore the exhibition and then make your own creation.

Specialty Cocktail from Café NOMA

6–9 pm in Café NOMA

Enjoy a Mango Masquerade and a special happy hour menu available from Café NOMA all night long.

About the Exhibition

New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations spotlights the work of four contemporary artists working in cities across West Africa: Chief Ekpenyong Bassey Nsa, Sheku “Goldenfinger” Fofanah, David Sanou, and Hervé Youmbi.

The first presentation of its kind, New African Masquerades offers a rare look into contemporary West African masquerade by contextualizing the works of individual artists within a range of social, economic, and religious practices and examining their networks of viewership and exchange.

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Thank You to Our Supporters

New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations is made possible by support from National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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.