Creative Assembly
Food as Medicine: New Orleans Cuisine with Healthy Alternatives
Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LAAs one of the culinary capitals of the world, New Orleans’s cuisine is one of the city’s most notable attributes. While many of these dishes are world renowned, their nutrition and healthiness is sometimes compromised during their creation. Lower 9th Ward native Courtney Clark has dedicated much of her multidisciplinary creative practice to community food justice organizing in an attempt to combat many of the diet-related diseases that exist within many of New Orleans’ communities.
Steve Lands: Rearranging the Planets
New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LACreative Assembly Cohort member Steve Lands presents Rearranging the Planets, a musical performance reinterpreting composer Gustav Holst’s influential orchestral suite <em.The Planets.
Performance and Record Release: People Museum
Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LANew Orleans–based pop art band People Museum present a special one-night-only performance in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden responding to the work of artist Louise Bourgeois.
Adam Davis’s Black Magic
In conjunction with Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers, Los Angeles–based photographer Adam Davis is bringing his ongoing Black Magic project to NOMA.
Free Screening: People Museum
Want to revisit People Museum’s Louise Bourgeois–inspired performance in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden? Join for a free screening of the full performance on Saturday, January 7, 1 pm, in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts.
Field Drawing Workshop at Algiers Point With Alyssa Lizzini feat. Paige DeVries
Barracuda Taco Stand 446 Pelican Ave, New Orleans, LA, United StatesField Drawings is a series of free on-location drawing workshops taking place in multiple cities and neighborhoods throughout the United States led by Cleveland-based visual artist Alyssa Lizzini.
Field Drawing Workshop in MidCity With Alyssa Lizzini feat. Daniel Fitzpatrick
Second Line Brewing 433 N Bernadotte St, New Orleans, LA, United StatesField Drawings is a series of free on-location drawing workshops taking place in multiple cities and neighborhoods throughout the United States led by Cleveland-based visual artist Alyssa Lizzini.
Poetry Workshops with Creative Assembly Cohort Member Daniel Fitzpatrick
This three-week series of workshops hosted by Creative Assembly Cohort member Daniel Fitzpatrick aims to give poets of all ages and experience levels the space to write. In NOMA's permanent collection galleries, participants will explore a few techniques that can help to cultivate a habit of poetry and jumpstart new writing. Participants will also discuss ways that visual art can help to understand different approaches to poetry, and how the space between images and words can open windows into the self.
Poetry Workshops with Creative Assembly Cohort Member Daniel Fitzpatrick
This three-week series of workshops hosted by Creative Assembly Cohort member Daniel Fitzpatrick aims to give poets of all ages and experience levels the space to write. In NOMA's permanent collection galleries, participants will explore a few techniques that can help to cultivate a habit of poetry and jumpstart new writing. Participants will also discuss ways that visual art can help to understand different approaches to poetry, and how the space between images and words can open windows into the self.
Poetry Workshops with Creative Assembly Cohort Member Daniel Fitzpatrick
This three-week series of workshops hosted by Creative Assembly Cohort member Daniel Fitzpatrick aims to give poets of all ages and experience levels the space to write. In NOMA's permanent collection galleries, participants will explore a few techniques that can help to cultivate a habit of poetry and jumpstart new writing. Participants will also discuss ways that visual art can help to understand different approaches to poetry, and how the space between images and words can open windows into the self.
Film Screening and Panel Discussion: The Black Indians of New Orleans
Join us on Wednesday, January 24, in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts for a screening of The Black Indians of New Orleans, directed by Dr. Maurice Martinez.
Gallery Talk and Performance Inspired by Wangechi Mutu’s Crocodylus with Creative Assembly Cohort Member Lauren Messina and Javier Banks
Inspired by Wangechi Mutu’s Crocodylus sculpture in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden, Creative Assembly Cohort member Lauren Messina has choreographed a dance that embodies her interpretation of the work's transformative nature.