Talks & Tours
Elders Sacred Talk Series with Kalamu ya Salaam and Big Chief Victor Harris
Join us for a panel discussion with two prolific New Orleans elders: poet and scholar Kalamu ya Salaam and Big Chief Victor Harris, the oldest Black Masking Indian in New Orleans. Presented by the Congo Square Preservation Society and the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Artist Talk with Wang Qingsong
NOMA presents an artist talk with celebrated photographer Wang Qingsong in the museum’s Lapis Center for the Arts.
Conversation and Book Signing: Susan Grant Lewin and Thomas Beller
In conjunction with the exhibition Ring Redux: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, NOMA presents a talk with Lewin, one of the foremost collectors of 20th– and 21st-century art jewelry, and writer Thomas Beller, who is Director of Creative Writing & Associate Professor of English at Tulane University.
En Español: Gallery Talk on Fernando Botero
Join Museum Educator Laura Moreno for conversations in Spanish about Fernando Botero’s Mother and Child at 12:30 pm on Wednesday, October 4.
Elders Sacred Talk Series with Bill Summers and Nana Anoa
New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LAJoin us for a panel discussion with two prolific New Orleans elders: award winning percussionist Bill Summers and Nana Anoa Nantambu, educator and community leader. Presented by the Congo Square Preservation Society and the New Orleans Museum of Art.
En Español: Gallery Talk with Curatorial Fellow Laura Ochoa Rincon
New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LAJoin 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 us for a conversation about the exhibition Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour.
Elders Sacred Talk Series with Ronnie Moore and Doratha “Dodie” Smith Simmons
Join us on November 1, at 5:30 pm in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts for the third program in the the Elders Sacred Talk Series featuring our third two honorees of the series.
Gallery Talk on Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour
New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LAJoin 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, please join NOMA’s Museum Shop Manager, Jackie DeBlieux, for a conversation about American fashion designer Christian Siriano’s influence on the fashion industry with focus on Dress for Nicole Byer, Emmy Awards Red Carpet.
Gallery Talk on Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour with Curator Mel Buchanan
New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LAJoin 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.
Gallery Talk in Spanglish (Spanish and English): Fernando Botero’s Mother and Child
Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LAJoin 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.
Gallery Talk with Musician Joseph Darensburg
New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LAJoin 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.
Gallery Talk with Sculptor and Jeweler Thomas Mann
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.