Join NOMA staff and fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. Our full 2017 schedule and reading list has been announced.

Organized by NOMA’s Felix J. Dreyfous Library, the Book Club is an informal group. You do not have to attend every meeting and we understand if you have to leave a discussion or program early. The book club offers several types of programs: a book discussion group that meets once a month (no reading in December), curatorial programs, field trips, and Meet the Author receptions. Most book club programs start promptly at noon, but please arrive at 11:30 a.m. if you wish to bring a sack lunch or meet beforehand. NOMA will provide water and soft drinks.

RSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space.

Some of the selections for 2017 will relate to the NOLA4WOMEN project.

NOLA4WOMEN takes action through innovative programs to celebrate women and girls, provides a forum to address the challenges they face and promotes a future where they have the opportunity to reach their full potential.

Please contact Sheila A. Cork at 504.658.4117 or scork@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club.

May 2017 Selection

Daughter of Fortune: a Novel by Isabel Allende

Harper Collins Publishers, 1999. ISBN: 978-0060194918. Any edition is fine.

“The alluring tale begins in Valparaiso, Chile, with young Eliza Sommers,
who was left as a baby on the doorstep of wealthy British importers Miss 
Rose Sommers and her prim brother, Jeremy. Now a 16-year-old, and newly pregnant, Eliza decides to follow her lover, fiery clerk Joaquin Andieta, when he leaves for California to make his fortune in the gold rush. Enlisting the unlikely aid of Tao Chi’en, a Chinese shipboard cook, she stows away on a ship bound for San Francisco.” – Publishers Weekly

This month’s selection celebrates the planned reinstallation of the early Latin American art gallery.

Friday May 12 | Field Trip. Meet at Noon at The Latin American Library in the Howard Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University. Our host is Hortensia Calvo, director of the Latin American Library. This will be followed by lunch (payment required) at the faculty club, 1834 Room, located in the Lavin- Bernick Center for University Life.

There will also be a separate discussion of the May selection:

Tuesday, May 23 | Book Discussion Group