Talks & Tours
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.
Gallery Talk on Debbie Fleming Caffery: In Light of Everything with Curator Brian Piper
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 Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings, Brian Piper, for a conversation about Debbie Fleming Caffery: In Light of Everything.
Elders Sacred Talk Series with Merline Kimble and Hearreast J. Harrison
NOMA’s Art Thrives initiative and the Congo Square Preservation Society present the Elders Sacred Talk Series with prolific elder New Orleanians, celebrating the lives they lead while learning firsthand about the impact they’ve had on the city.
Gallery Talk on Debbie Fleming Caffery: In Light of Everything with Curator Brian Piper
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 Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings, Brian Piper, for a conversation about Debbie Fleming Caffery: In Light of Everything.
Gallery Talk on Alison Saar’s Travelin’ Light
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 please join Eric Blanchard, NOMA Museum Shop Associate, for a conversation about Alison Saar’s Travelin’ Light in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden.
HOPE: The Invisible Thread That Binds | An Interactive Fashion Experience with odAOMO (SOLD OUT)
Join odAOMO and NOMA to connect local and global communities using fashion as a language with an interactive avant-garde evening of couture, discussions, refreshments, and a runway presentation like no other.
Gallery Talk with Creative Assembly Cohort Member Daniel Fitzpatrick
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 Creative Assembly Cohort member Daniel Fitzpatrick for a poetic journey through NOMA’s permanent collection.
Public Tours Every Wednesday and Saturday
New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LAJoin us in the galleries each Wednesday and Saturday for guided public tours with museum docents and staff.
Public Tours in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Sunday
Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LAJoin us in the garden each Sunday for guided public tours with museum docents and staff. During these casual tours, we’ll take a close look at different sculptures currently on view in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden.