Talks & Tours
Gallery Talk: Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana with Jeffery Darensbourg
allery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Join writer Jeffery Darensbourg as he discusses works on view in Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana.
Waterlogue: A Performance by Megan Easley | Gallery Talk with Regina Agu for Passage
Performance artist Megan Easley will deliver a water-based audio performance in the Great Hall in tribute to Passage, a panoramic installation by Regina Agu. The performance will be followed by a Gallery Talk with Agu at 1:30 pm.
Gallery Talk: Curator Mel Buchanan on the Greenwood Plantation parlor
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Join Mel Buchanan, RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, for a discussion about the recent installation of mid-nineteenth-century parlor furniture and furnishings from Greenwood Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana, and the lives of the property owners and the enslaved.
Besthoff Sculpture Garden Tour
Join NOMA’s docents for a free guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Mondays, Fridays, and Saturdays, weather dependent, at noon. Sited on twelve acres adjacent to the museum, the garden contains more than ninety works by renowned sculptors placed among a picturesque mature grove of pine, magnolia, and moss-draped live oak trees bisected by a lagoon. Meet at the gates to the garden, which offers free admission year-round.
Museum Highlights Tour
NOMA docents guide visitors on hour-long tours of either the permanent collection or special exhibitions. Tours are free with NOMA admission. Meet in the Great Hall to join in.
Sculpture Garden Tour
NOTE: The Besthoff Sculpture Garden tour on Monday, February 3, has been rescheduled for 1 pm. Join NOMA’s docents for in informative walk through the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Mondays, Fridays, and Saturdays. The eleven-acre outdoor art environment contains 90 works by world-renowned sculptors set within a scenic Louisiana landscape of live oaks, magnolias, and pines surrounding a reflective lagoon.
Artist’s Perspective: Photographer Ben Depp discusses Tina Freeman: Lamentations
Throughout the exhibition of photographs in Tina Freeman: Lamentations, a seven-year photo-documentation of Louisiana’s wetlands and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic by Tina Freeman, fellow artists, including Ben Depp, will offer their perspective on the subject matter.
Gallery Talk: Lamentations with artist Tina Freeman
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Photographer Tina Freeman will discuss her exhibition Tina Freeman: Lamentations, a seven-year photo-documentation of Louisiana’s wetlands and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic.
Gallery Talk: Curator Nic Aziz on Torkwase Dyson: Black Compositional Thought | Fifteen Paintings for the Plantationocene
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Community Engagement Curator Nic Aziz will discuss the exhibition Torkwase Dyson: Black Compositional Thought | 15 Paintings for the Plantationocene.
Gallery Talk: Allison Young on Torkwase Dyson: Black Compositional Thought | 15 Paintings for the Plantationocene
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Allison Young, assistant professor of contemporary art history at Louisiana State University, will discuss the exhibition Torkwase Dyson: Black Compositional Thought | 15 Paintings for the Plantationocene.
Museum Highlights Tour – CANCELED
All organized tours are temporarily canceled as NOMA joins other cultural institutions in closing during the outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Sculpture Garden Tour – CANCELED
All tours are temporarily canceled as the museum and sculpture garden remain closed during the advisory period for novel coronavirus (COVID-19).