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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT | New Mutations\, Old Traditions: Stop Action Animation Workshop with Creative Assembly Resident LaVonna Varnado Brown and Artist Emily Denlinger
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the New Orleans Museum of Art for a workshop co-facilitated by Artists LaVonna Varnado Brown and Emily Denlinger. \nParticipants will explore collage & animation as a socio-emotional tool to process new beginnings and purge to create space in the new year. Social Awareness is an important aspect of socio emotional intelligence. Heightened awareness supports in understanding the perspectives and emotions of others\, including those from diverse backgrounds. We will also discuss the ways that creating a character through collage can help us move through the world around us with a heightened sense of awareness. \nCharacters developed in this workshop will incorporate symbolism and body language to highlight traits we intend to embody in the new year. We will then photograph each character and\, through the photography process\, explore elements of stop motion film making together while co-creating an intergenerational space to process ideas around releasing\, receiving\, stop motion\, and collage making. \nThis program is for all ages. Anyone under 16 years of age should be accompanied by an adult who will also be participating in the workshop. Space is limited and prior registration is required. \nPLEASE NOTE: This workshop has sold out. To receive updates about upcoming workshops at NOMA\, please view our events calendar or join our newsletter mailing list.  \n\nAbout the Workshop Facilitators\nLaVonna Varnado Brown\nLaVonna Varnado-Brown is a resident of the 2024-2025 New Orleans Museum of Art Creative Assembly cohort. Varnado-Brown has worked as an installation artist\, artist advocate\, teaching artist\, and tutor in and around New Orleans and with Beginning with Children\, a Brooklyn–based college and career preparatory program). Varnado-Brown creates mixed-media visual art engaging with Afrofuturism\, history\, the divine feminine\, and floral motifs. Varnado-Brown explores Afrofuturism as a cultural aesthetic to navigate the intersection of art and history and inspire action in the now by creating space for joy. Varnado-Brown finds inspiration in the community through facilitating workshops that create intentional space to engage in creative grounding practices that raise our spatial awareness and kinesthetic responses to one another and our environment. \nEmily Denlinger\nEmily Denlinger has worked as Professor of Digital Arts and Photography at Southeast Missouri State University since 2009. Originally from Ohio\, she holds BFA in 2D Art with a Concentration in Photography from Bowling Green State University\, and an MA in Digital Art and an MFA in Photography and Digital Imaging from Maryland Institute College of Art. Her collages have been exhibited across the USA and are held in collections internationally. In addition to her gallery practice\, Denlinger creates accessible wearable art that is created for commissions or sold in the local community at boutiques and fundraising sales. In her free time\, she works with the Cape Girardeau County Clerk’s office to promote voting and voter registration and as an election judge.
URL:https://noma.org/event/stop-action-animation-workshop/
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SUMMARY:"Hurricanes Katrina and Rita at 20: Poets Remember" with Creative Assembly Resident Andy Young and Louisiana Poet Laureate (2021-2023) Mona Lisa Saloy
DESCRIPTION:Join NOMA Creative Assembly resident Andy Young and former Louisiana Poet Laureate Mona Lisa Saloy for a conversation about poetry and art in connection with the new anthology Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: An Anthology of Louisiana Poetry with Art. This program commemorates Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and celebrates the new anthology edited by Louisiana Poets Laureate Mona Lisa Saloy and John Warner Smith. Dr. Saloy will be featured along with contributing poet Andy Young\, who is a member of the 2025 NOMA Creative Assembly Cohort. \nThis conversation will be followed by a book signing where guests can purchase copies of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: An Anthology of Louisiana Poetry with Art and have them signed.  \nThis program is free and open to the public. Advance registration is recommended. \nRegister Now \n\n\nAbout Andy Young\n \nAndy Young‘s second full-length collection\, Museum of the Soon to Depart\, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press (2025). She is also the author of All Night It Is Morning (Diálogos Press\, 2014) and four chapbooks. She grew up in West Virginia and has lived most of her adult life in New Orleans\, where she teaches at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. Her work has recently appeared in Prairie Schooner and Blue Mountain Review\, and her short film\, “Pharmacy Museum Tour Guide\, New Orleans” was recently screened at New Orleans Film Festival\, the Ó Bhéal Poetry Film Festival\, and has won awards from the Berlin Indie Film Awards\, London Women Film Festival and others. She is a graduate of the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. \nAbout Mona Lisa Saloy\nLouisiana Poet Laureate (2021-2023) Mona Lisa Saloy \nMona Lisa Saloy\, Ph.D.\, Louisiana Poet Laureate (2021-2023)\, is an author\, folklorist\, Louisiana Folklife Commissioner\, educator\, and scholar of Creole culture in articles\, documentaries\, and poems about Black New Orleans before and after Katrina. Saloy is currently Conrad N. Hilton Endowed Professor of English\, Dillard University.  Mona Lisa Saloy writes for those who don’t or can’t tell Black Creole cultural stories. Learn more at www.monalisasaloy.com \nBooks: Red Beans & Ricely Yours (has a banned poem “The N Word”)\, won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award. Second Line Home\, on New Orleans Black Creole culture.\n\n\nRecent publications: The Chicago Quarterly Review\, Vol 33; “Introduction” to Black Fire!!! This Time II; Southern Voices: Fifty Contemporary Poets (Tom Mack & Andrew Geyer eds.) Literary Press\, Lamar University\, Fall 2024.  LMNL Poetry Anthology\, Fall 2024. Black Creole Chronicles: Poems (UNO Press 2023)\, choice for ONE BOOK ONE NEW ORLEANS 2024\, & Book of the Month\, The Whitney Plantation Museum.\n\n\nSaloy was named Louisianian of the Year in Literature: 2024 in Louisiana Life Magazine. Mentioned in “Read your Way through New Orleans\,” by Maurice Carlos Ruffin\, NYT Book Review\, Oct. 2024\n\n\n\n\nAbout Creative Assembly\nLaunched in 2021\, NOMA’s Creative Assembly residency promotes community engagement by welcoming artists to collaborate throughout the year with the museum’s permanent collection\, special exhibitions\, and programs. Creative Assembly Cohort members are provided funds and museum support to develop artistic projects and public offerings\, like programs and workshops. \nLearn more at noma.org/learn/creative-assembly/.
URL:https://noma.org/event/katrina-and-rita-poets-remember/
LOCATION:NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts
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SUMMARY:Music in the Garden: Kr3wcial and Khiry Bey
DESCRIPTION:NOMA presents Music in the Garden\, a seasonal outdoor music series hosted in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden.  \nEncounter the sounds of local New Orleans musicians while strolling through the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on select Sunday afternoons throughout the year. Performances will take place alongside sculptures across the garden. \nThis installment of Music in the Garden will feature acoustic sets from Kr3wcial and saxophonist Khiry Bey. \nAttendance for this event is free. Registration is recommended. \nRegister Here \nPerformance Schedule\n\n\n\nPerformer\nTime and Location\n\n\nKhiry Bey\n2:00 – 3:00 pm\n\n\nKr3wcial\n3:00 – 4:00 pm\n\n\n\n  \n\nAbout the Performers\nKhiry Bey\n \nBorn and raised in New Orleans\, saxophonist Kirsten Theodore (Khiry Bey) began showing an interest in music at the tender age of five. As Theodore matured as a musician\, she fell in love with the alto saxophone. Since middle school\, she has played the alto sax in performances with everyone from Jon Batiste to Herbie Hancock\, won multiple awards for her solos\, and composed original music that debuted at the New\nOrleans House of Blues Music Forward Foundation. Kirsten has earned numerous awards at competitions and festivals\, starting in middle school\, when she won first place in the Louisiana District VI Honor Band\nfor three years. At age thirteen\, she was awarded “outstanding soloist” at Orlando’s Disney Music Festival and also “best soloist” at The Loyola University Jazz\nFestival. In 2017\, she was selected as a finalist for the House of Blues’s Music Forward: Bringing Down the House showcase\, where she headlined her first show.\n\nTheodore has performed and worked with many artists such as Herbie Hancock\, Jon Batiste\, Trombone Shorty\, Wendell Brunious\, Roderick Paulin\, Jessie McBride\, Clarence Johnson\, Irvin Mayfield\, Glen David Andrews\, Jeffrey “Jellybean” Alexander\, Delfeayo Marsalis\, and more. Theodore attended the Berklee College of Music Women in Jazz summer program and studied under Terri Lynne Carrington and Tia Fuller. Theodore is a graduate of the New Orleans Center For Creative Arts. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Jazz Studies at University of New Orleans and will be pursing a master’s degrees at Tulane University. While furthering her education\, she has launched a For NOLA by NOLA project with all local musicians to pay homage to the great city that created her.\nKr3wcial\n \nIn the vibrant tapestry of New Orleans’ rich musical heritage\, Kr3wcial emerges as a dynamic figure\, transcending the boundaries of traditional hip-hop. Born and raised in the heart of the Crescent City\, Kr3wcial’s music is a sonic journey through the soul of New Orleans itself. With lyrics that delve deep into the city’s intricate layers—from the gritty streets to the transcendent spirit of its people—he weaves a narrative that is both raw and poetic\, reminiscent of the city’s jazz and blues roots. Kr3wcial’s tracks\, often enlivened with the pulse of brass and the rhythm of New Orleans\, serve as a compelling commentary on the city’s multifaceted nature. Through his verses\, he explores themes of resilience\, identity\, and social consciousness. Beyond the studio\, Kr3wcial is a community advocate\, using his platform to inspire positive change. Collaborating with local nonprofits\, he harnesses the unifying power of music to uplift the very city that fuels his creativity. Kr3wcial is also an alumnus of NOMA’s Creative Assembly residency program.
URL:https://noma.org/event/music-in-the-garden-november/
LOCATION:Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans \, LA\, 70124
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SUMMARY:"Gathering in the Grief: Visualizing\, Healing\, Living With\, and Honoring the Lost" Workshop with Creative Assembly Resident Artist Horton Humble
DESCRIPTION:Grief is both personal and shared; it comforts yet isolates\, silences yet speaks. Through art\, ritual\, and remembrance\, grief declares: this mattered\, this hurts\, this was loved. \nOn Thursday\, October 16\, from 5 to 7 pm\, join us in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts for a workshop led by Creative Assembly resident and visual artist Horton Humble\, moderator Robin Pharo\, visual artist Veronica Caseras Lee\, musician Ruben Watts\, and licensed marriage and family therapist Khara Scott-Bey. Participants will collaboratively create a large-scale cereal box artwork using materials linked to the five stages of grief\, illuminating how grief shapes creative expression and lived experience. \nWorkshop leaders will also share perspectives on how grief influences art—through a painter’s palette\, a musician’s notes\, and New Orleans’ cultural traditions such as the funeral procession and Second Line. \nThe mission of this workshop is to share our experiences with loss and to collectively memorialize our loved ones. Additional elements\, including an altar of names and a grief activity map\, will be available to all participants to bring these goals to life. We hope to see you there. \nThis program is free and open to all. No registration is required for this workshop.  \n\n\nAbout the Workshop Leaders\nHorton Humble\n\nHorton Humble (b. 1970\, New Orleans) is a self-taught painter and sculptor whose work explores themes of resilience\, identity\, and cultural memory. His debut series Debris (2007) used wood from Hurricane Katrina’s wreckage\, followed by Transit Urban (2008)\, created during travels across Africa. \nTime in Lisbon (2012–2015) inspired The Lisbon Series and his first work in ceramics. Returning home\, he co-founded Level Artist Collective and later completed The Guardian (2017)\, a public sculpture for the Helis Foundation’s Poydras Corridor project. His work has been exhibited internationally\, including the Outsider Art Fair in Paris and solo shows in Marseille\, and regionally at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Humble continues to create large-scale\, expressive canvases while leading workshops and community projects in New Orleans. Horton has permanent pieces at the Ogden Museum and Luciano’s Benetton Imago Mundi Collection in Italy. \n\n\nRobin Pharo\nModerator Robin Pharo is a serial entrepreneur with multiple diverse businesses including Treysta Group\, a multi–faceted firm that specializes in hospitality-based businesses. Her other businesses include the Grumpy Troll Brew Pub in Mt Horeb\, WI and Camp&Common\, and a special event space in New Orleans. Pharo is also a nationally recognized speaker and moderator who has worked with many national organizations including the National Association of Home Builders\, Wisconsin Environmental Initiate\, US Green Building Council\, the Department of Energy\, the Department of Housing and Urban Development\, and more. Ms. Pharo is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and a publisher.\n\nVeronica Casares Lee\nVeronica Casares Lee\, born in Michoacán\, Mexico in 1974\, is a multidisciplinary artist. She studied at the High School for Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA) and earned a scholarship to attend Pratt Institute. From 2000 to 2008\, Veronica was a resident artist at Haven Art in Port Washington\, New York\, contributing significantly to the creative community. In 2008\, she and her family relocated to Michoacán\, Mexico\, where she shifted her focus to working primarily with ceramics and painting\, infusing her work with the cultural richness of her homeland. In 2016\, Veronica moved to New Orleans\, where she currently resides and passionately pursues her art as a full-time artist\, capturing the essence of the city in her diverse and evolving body of work. \n\nRuben Watts\nRuben Watts is a New Orleans-based percussionist known for a style of drumming played in New Orleans usually associated with the Black Masking Indian tradition. Over the years\, he has expanded this style to include other percussion and hand crafted instruments. \nRuben plays with a group called Public Relations and New Orleans Folkloric\, which pays tribute to the ancestral Heroes and Sheroes of our culture. He has played with groups including the Creole Osceola Mardi Gras Indians\, Big Chief Donald Harrison Sr.\, Percussion Inc.\, Casa Samba\, and cousin John Boutte\, to name a few. \n\nKhara Scott-Bey\nKhara Scott-Bey EXA\, LMFT (she/they) is a licensed marriage and family therapist with a focus in art therapy based in New Orleans. Scott-Bey is also a liberatory life coach\, an artist\, and a community organizer. With over 20 years of experience in mental health and art therapy\, Khara’s work blends African theology\, social justice and embodied practices to support people in cultivating liberation\, authenticity\, and wholeness. She is the founder of Live to Become Art!\, a healing and creative platform rooted in the belief that through the act of creating\, we transform. Learn more at www.livetobecome.com. \n  \n\n\n\nAbout Creative Assembly\nLaunched in 2021\, NOMA’s Creative Assembly residency promotes community engagement by welcoming artists to collaborate throughout the year with the museum’s permanent collection\, special exhibitions\, and programs. Creative Assembly Cohort members are provided funds and museum support to develop artistic projects and public offerings\, like programs and workshops. \nLearn more at noma.org/learn/creative-assembly/.
URL:https://noma.org/event/gathering-in-the-grief-workshop/
LOCATION:NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts
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SUMMARY:The Role of Warrior Women in the Republic of Benin\, Haiti\, and New Orleans with Creative Assembly Artist Caleb Dowden and Her Royal Majesty Queen Mother Dr. Dowti Desir
DESCRIPTION:This is a multi-part program organized by Creative Assembly resident artist Caleb Dowden beginning with a lecture by Her Royal Majesty Queen Mother Dr. Dowti Desir\, who will discuss the intersections of spirituality and cultural traditions in Haiti\, the Benin Republic\, and New Orleans. \nGuests will engage in a light body movement rooted in the warrior dance practice of the Agoojee\, an all-female army of the Dahomey Kingdom\, formerly the Benin Republic\, which symbolizes strength and resilience. \nClosing with a conversation with Her Royal Majesty Queen Mother Dr. Dowti Desir\, moderated by Creative Assembly artist Caleb Dowden. \nDiscussion of the vital roles women of African descent have carried in the spiritual and cultural traditions of New Orleans\, reinforcing the interconnectedness of these rich histories and highlighting the ongoing influence of the leadership of women in contemporary society. \nThis event is part of the series “Nana Benz: Reimagining the Black Feminist Future\,” which seeks to deepen the understanding of Black women’s contributions and the cultural legacies they continue to uphold. \nIncluded with museum admission\, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. \nAbout Creative Assembly Artist Caleb Dowden\nCaleb Dowden is a choreographer and researcher from New Orleans\, Louisiana. In 2021\, she graduated from the State University of New York at Purchase with her BFA in dance. As a 2021 recipient of a Fulbright Independent research award from the U.S. Department of State and a Fulbright Hay’s fellowship with SUNY Purchase \, Caleb’s choreographic work and research has been supported locally and internationally by the French Alliance of New Orleans\, Le Centre ( Benin Republic)\, Borna Soglo gallery ( Benin Republic)\, University of New Orleans\, Ogden Museum of Southern Art\, International Dance Festival of New Orleans\, The New Ohio Theatre \, and the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University. As the Director of Dow-Dance Company\, Caleb Dowden produces choreographic work at the intersection of African history and culture with a unique vision of (re)connecting the African Diaspora with the African continent. \nAbout Her Royal Majesty Queen Mother Dr. Dòwòti Désir\nHer Royal Majesty Queen Mother Dr. Dòwòti Désir\, Sêmévo 1st of the Royal Palace of the African Diaspora\, has been a prominent figure since her enthronement in 2022 as Queen Mother of the African Diaspora in the Benin Republic. Born in Haiti\, she is the first Haitian to hold this title on the African continent and is recognized for her dedication to African spirituality\, repatriation\, and dual citizenship for members of the African Diaspora. An accomplished scholar with degrees from Barnard College\, Bard College\, and The New Seminary\, her work includes founding the Imperial Corps Agoodjié\, advocating for children’s rights\, and engaging in various international initiatives. Dr. Désir has participated in notable events such as the Festival of the Diaspora in Colombia and has collaborated with organizations to foster connections between Africa and its Diaspora. As an educator at Dutchess Community College\, she empowers youth through the Imperial Corps Agoodjié and its Youth Warriors program. Her commitment to reconnecting the African Diaspora with their ancestral roots and addressing critical issues has made her a recognized thought leader on a global scale.
URL:https://noma.org/event/warrior-women/
LOCATION:NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts
CATEGORIES:Workshops & Classes,Talks & Tours,Creative Assembly
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SUMMARY:Sacred Mothers Collage Workshop with Creative Assembly Artist LaVonna Varnado-Brown
DESCRIPTION:In this program organized by Creative Assembly Cohort member LaVonna Varnado-Brown\, join for for a gallery walk with curators Lisa Rotondo-McCord and Amanda M. Maples highlighting works on view at the intersection of Afrodiaspora and the Divine Feminine—followed by a collage-making workshop facilitated by Varnado-Brown and and a showcase of her work on the second floor of the museum. \nFrom the artist: To take seriously each other’s vulnerability\, fragility\, and precarity with clear socio-emotional boundaries according to each one’s needs. To see one another with big\, world absorbing eyes. To both honor and allow space for each one to show up as they are. To enact community with an intersectional lens and practice interdependency to empower each one to another. That is Afrofuturist kinship. That can open the path to enter the sacred mother space. \nThis program is free\, but advance registration is required. \nRegister Now \n\nLaVonna Varnado-Brown has worked as an installation artist\, artist advocate\, teaching artist\, and tutor in and around New Orleans and with Beginning with Children\, a Brooklyn–based college and career preparatory program). Varnado-Brown creates mixed-media visual art engaging with Afrofuturism\, history\, the divine feminine\, and floral motifs. Varnado-Brown explores Afrofuturism as a cultural aesthetic to navigate the intersection of art and history and inspire action in the now by creating space for joy. Varnado-Brown finds inspiration in the community through facilitating workshops that create intentional space to engage in creative grounding practices that raise our spatial awareness and kinesthetic responses to one another and our environment.
URL:https://noma.org/event/sacred-mothers-collage/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
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SUMMARY:Bookbinding Workshop with LaVonna Varnado-Brown and Jennella Young
DESCRIPTION:Join Creative Assembly member LaVonna Varnado-Brown and Brooklyn based artist Jennella Young for a creative experience with bookbinding. Explore how women have stitched together culture and community across time and space. \nThis program for adults ages 18 and up threads together concepts of bookbinding\, using needle and raffia\, taking inspiration from works currently on view in New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations. \nThis program is free\, but advance registration is required. \nRegister Now \n\nLaVonna Varnado-Brown has worked as an installation artist\, artist advocate\, teaching artist\, and tutor in and around New Orleans and with Beginning with Children\, a Brooklyn–based college and career preparatory program). Varnado-Brown creates mixed-media visual art engaging with Afrofuturism\, history\, the divine feminine\, and floral motifs. Varnado-Brown explores Afrofuturism as a cultural aesthetic to navigate the intersection of art and history and inspire action in the now by creating space for joy. Varnado-Brown finds inspiration in the community through facilitating workshops that create intentional space to engage in creative grounding practices that raise our spatial awareness and kinesthetic responses to one another and our environment. \nJennella Young is a Brooklyn-based painter and mixed-media artist. Her work elevates the voices and lost stories of women of color and draws from magical realism’s tradition of complex\, beautifully operatic tellings of the history of the Atlantic Slave Trade and colonization. Her practice includes an emphasis on portraiture—primarily of Black and Brown women from archival photos—and incorporates watercolor\, acrylic\, ink\, pastel\, bookmaking\, and journaling. Young holds a BA in Psychology from Lehigh University\, an MA in Counseling Psychology from New York University\, and has completed advanced graduate coursework in art history and library and information science at Pratt Institute. Over the years\, she has merged her academic background with a vibrant creative practice\, enriched by continued study at the School of Visual Arts\, Educational Alliance Art School\, Center for Book Arts\, and Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia. Young has developed city-wide initiatives that expand access to arts\, mentorship\, and youth programming across New York City. She is a 2024 Create Change Fellow with The Laundromat Project and has collaborated with institutions including the Apollo Theater Oral History Project\, Weeksville Heritage Center\, the Guggenheim Museum\, and the New York Historical Society.
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LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
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