Kids & Families
Studio KIDS!: I See Symbols
Studio KIDS! youth art-making workshops are back. Join us at the museum on select Saturday mornings to take a look at artworks in the galleries and practice your own art-making skills with a NOMA teaching artist. Registration includes all art-making materials. Masks are required.
Teen Night: Timeless Flight
Up, up, and away with NOMA’s Teen Art Council! Embark on a journey of your own at Teen Night, hosted by the TAC.
NOMA Egg Hunt and Family Festival
The NOMA Egg Hunt and Family Festival is a fun and festive event for families featuring arts & crafts, games, face painting, a petting zoo, food, drinks, sweets, music, and more.
Studio KIDS!: Trash to Time Travel
Studio KIDS! youth art-making workshops are back. Join us at the museum on select Saturday mornings to take a look at artworks in the galleries and practice your own art-making skills with a NOMA teaching artist. Registration includes all art-making materials. Masks are required.
The NOLA Project’s Treasure Island
The classic pirate adventure tale comes to life in NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture in an all-new production by the NOLA Project.
Family Festival: The Mighty Mississippi
Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LAYouth and grown-ups are invited to enjoy a day of family-friendly activities and art-making inspired by the Mississippi River and its ties to New Orleans.
Young Audiences of Louisiana Baby Artsplay! at NOMA
New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LAYoung Audiences of Louisiana (YALA) presents a free six-part workshop series for children ages 12–24 months and their caregivers—inspired by works on view at NOMA!
Mini Masters at the Library
Norman Mayer Library 3001 Gentilly Boulevard, New Orleans, LA, United StatesMini Masters at the Library brings together art and early literacy activities for children ages 2–5 and their caregivers. Each program takes place at the Norman Mayer Library.
Summer Camp Session 1: Sensing Is Knowing (Ages 5–7)
What can our five senses tell us about our world? Explore how sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing can be a part of experiencing and making art.
Summer Camp Session 2: Remember When? (Ages 8–10)
Walking through the galleries at NOMA is like a walk through time. In this session, explore the depths of your memory and make parallels between the past and present through some of NOMA’s oldest artworks and artifacts.
Summer Camp Session 3: Think Beyond (Ages 5–7)
Artists have a way of opening up doors to different worlds and possibilities. Take inspiration from art works as varied as glimmering Fairyland Lusterware bowls and vases and the larger-than-life snail of Hank Willis Thomas’ History of the Conquest in the Sculpture Garden to imagine mind-expanding creations of your own.
Summer Camp Session 4: If/Then (Ages 8–10)
Curious minds and busy hands are encouraged to reason and experiment through art and art-making in this awe-inspiring session. Record and document the world around you and test the cause and effects of different art-making techniques and processes.