Join us in the galleries each Wednesday for weekly talks with artists, curators, and other special guests. During these casual conversations, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA. This week join Mel Buchanan, RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, for a conversation about the exhibition Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour.

Join us in the galleries each Wednesday for weekly talks with artists, curators, and other special guests. During these casual conversations, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA. This week, join Museum Educator, Laura Moreno, for conversations about Fernando Botero's influence on the Colombian canon with a focus on Mother and Child in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden.

Join us in the galleries each Wednesday for weekly talks with artists, curators, and other special guests. During these casual conversations, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA. In celebration of National American Indian Heritage Month and Creole heritage, Joseph Darensbourg will sing a few Kouri-Vini (Louisiana Creole) songs and read Atakapa Ishak poetry in the Great Hall.

Join sculptor and jeweler Thomas Mann for a conversation on Ring Redux: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection. Mann is featured in Lewin’s 1994 book One of a Kind: American Art Jewelry Today. In his talk, Mann will address the American and International Craft movements, makers, and issues of wearability in art jewelry among other topics.