New Orleans Museum of Art

En Español: Gallery Talk on Fernando Botero
2023-10-04 12:30 - 13:00 (America/Chicago)
Únanse con nuestra educadora del museo Laura Moreno para una conversación en español sobre la obra Mother and Child de Fernando Botero el 4 de octubre a las 12:30.

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.
Join Museum Educator Laura Moreno for a conversation in Spanish about Fernando Botero’s Mother and Child at 12:30 pm on Wednesday, October 4.
No registration is required. The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free and open to the public seven days a week. When you arrive, please wait at the Besthoff Sculpture Garden office for directions.
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Elders Sacred Talk Series with Bill Summers and Nana Anoa
2023-10-04 17:30 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
NOMA’s Art Thrives initiative for adults 55 and older is proud to partner with the Congo Square Preservation Society to present the Elders Sacred Talk Series, four-panel discussions with prolific elder New Orleanians, celebrating the lives they lead while learning firsthand about the impact they’ve had on the city.
Join us on October 4, at 5:30 pm in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts for the second program featuring our second two honorees of the series: award-winning percussionist Bill Summers and Nana Anoa Nantambu, educator and community leader. Sula Janet Evans of the Congo Square Preservation Society will moderate the conversation. Doors open at 5 pm.

Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the Lapis Center for the Arts.
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About the Speakers
Bill Summers
Bill Summers is a multiple Grammy Award nominee and Billboard Music Award–winning percussionist. He has studied the rhythmic connections between Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas for more than three decades, making him a leader in the field of Afro-Cuban jazz and Latin jazz percussion. Summers performed with Herbie Hancock and worked with Quincy Jones on scores for Roots, The Wiz, and The Color Purple. His performance groups included Bill Summers & Summers Heat, which produced seven albums; Los Hombres Calientes, which produced six albums; and the Headhunters, which released nine albums.
Over the years, Summers recorded and/or toured with numerous artists including Tupac Shakur, Janet Jackson, Anita Baker, Carlos Santana, Young Jeezy, Keyshia Cole, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Malik Yoba, Kenny Loggins, Arsenio Hall, Nina Simone, Dianne Reeves, Prince, Michael Jackson, Sting, Stevie Wonder, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Kool & The Gang, Teddy Pendergrass, Barry White, The Gap Band, Jill Scott, and Earth Wind and Fire.
Bill Summers—Baba Eshubi—is an initiated Priest of Orisha Esu Elegba.
Nana Anoa Nantambu
Nana Anoa Nantambu, daughter of Roy and Mary Booker Cains, is a perpetual educator and student. After attending McDonogh #35 High School, she earned a BS in Mathematics from UNO and a PhD in Education (Research Methods and Statistics) from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She has taught in universities, community colleges, training programs, and her community-based mathematics learning center, Neighborhood Math Place. She also lectured at the University of Maiduguri in Borno State, Nigeria, for four years. As an independent consultant, she provided program evaluations and community assessments for local nonprofit organizations for nearly 18 years. Nana is an initiated Priestess of Yemaya and was crowned in Cuba.
Her present work, her life’s calling, evolved through Wholely Living Simply Living, a not-for-profit organization that she started in Durham, North Carolina, while displaced after Hurricane Katrina. With a mission to foster the well-being and conscious living of Black people, particularly women, and to help transform individuals, families and communities, this mind-body-spirit work has as its guiding principle: Be Transformed by the Perfect Power within You.

About Congo Square Preservation Society
The Congo Square Preservation Society serves as a continuing catalyst in the resurrection and continuation of activities, advocacy, and preservation of historic and sacred Congo Square in New Orleans. Learn more at https://www.congosquarepreservationsociety.org/.

NOMA’s Art Thrives programs are supported by E.A. Michelson Philanthropy.

En Español: Gallery Talk with Curatorial Fellow Laura Ochoa Rincon
2023-10-11 12:30 - 13:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Únase con Laura Ochoa Rincón, curadora de Decorative Arts Trust, para conversar en español sobre la exposición Fabricando Moda en EE. UU.: de la firmeza al glamour a las 12:30 y 6:00 p. m. el miércoles 20 de septiembre.
Gratis con la entrada a Fabricando Moda en EE. UU.: de la firmeza al glamour. Los miércoles, los residentes de Louisiana reciben entrada general gratuita al museo, cortesía de ls fundacion Helis. El acceso a Fabricando Moda en EE. UU.: de la firmeza al glamour cuesta $10 adicionales por adulto.

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.
Join Decorative Arts Trust Curatorial Fellow Laura Ochoa Rincon for conversations in Spanish about the exhibition Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour at 12:30 and 6:00 pm on Wednesday, September 20.
Free with admission to Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour. On Wednesdays, Louisiana residents receive free general admission to the museum, courtesy of The Helis Foundation. Access to Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour is an additional $10 per adult.
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Elders Sacred Talk Series with Ronnie Moore and Doratha “Dodie” Smith Simmons
2023-11-01 17:30 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
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.
On November 1, 5:30 pm, in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts, the program will highlight Civil Rights activists Ronnie Moore and Doratha “Dodie” Smith Simmons. Doors open at 5 pm.
Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the Lapis Center for the Arts.
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About the Speakers

Ronnie Moore
Ronnie Moore is a veteran civil rights activist, community developer, and photographer. At the age of 15, he and his peers attempted to integrate a public park in his hometown of New Orleans. In 1961, while a student at Southern University in Baton Rouge, he led a group of 2,500 students to the state capitol to protest the city's hiring policies and segregated lunch counters. That activism led to his arrest and expulsion from the university and prompted his full-time commitment to CORE (the Congress of Racial Equality). Moore worked as a field secretary for CORE from 1961 to 1965, which included establishing voter registration initiatives in parts of Louisiana. From 1965 – 1973, he worked as the executive director of the Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality, Inc. Moore also served as the director of the Institute for Resident Initiatives at Tulane University from 1996 to 2005 and the director of the African American Youth Congress from 1982 to 1994. During his lifetime of activism, Moore was arrested over 17 times and held in solitary confinement for 56 days for advocating for voting rights in Louisiana.

Doratha “Dodie” Smith-Simmons
Doratha “Dodie” Smith-Simmons joined New Orleans chapter of CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) in 1961 when she was 14 or 15 years old. It was one of the most active chapters in the region and she became a very active member participating in sit-ins and picketing. Her participation resulted in police arresting her several times. Her dedication led her to become a Freedom Rider and test the law that made segregation on public buses unconstitutional. She and other members of the New Orleans CORE rode a bus from New Orleans to McComb, MS where they were met with severe violence and some of them suffered life-threatening injuries. “After the rides, Smith-Simmons trained freedom riders and taught members how to participate in nonviolent protests. In the ‘60s, she also worked to integrate hotels and Florida beaches and participated in the March on Washington.

About Congo Square Preservation Society
The Congo Square Preservation Society serves as a continuing catalyst in the resurrection and continuation of activities, advocacy, and preservation of historic and sacred Congo Square in New Orleans. Learn more at https://www.congosquarepreservationsociety.org/.

NOMA’s Art Thrives programs are supported by E.A. Michelson Philanthropy.

Gallery Talk on Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour
2023-11-08 12:30 - 13:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
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, 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.
Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour admission is required. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the front desk for directions to the appropriate gallery.
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Gallery Talk on Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour with Curator Mel Buchanan
2023-11-15 12:30 - 13:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
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.

Fashioning America admission required. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the front desk for directions to the appropriate gallery.
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Gallery Talk in Spanglish (Spanish and English): Fernando Botero’s Mother and Child
2023-11-22 12:30 - 13:00 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
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. This talk will be presented in Spanglish—a mix of Spanish and English.

No registration is required. The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free and open to the public seven days a week. When you arrive, please wait at the Besthoff Sculpture Garden office for directions.

Gallery Talk with Musician Joseph Darensburg
2023-11-29 12:30 - 13:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
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 Creole & Indigenous Heritage Month, musician Joseph Darensbourg will sing a few Kouri-Vini (Louisiana Creole) songs and read Atakapa Ishak poetry in the Great Hall.
Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the front desk for directions to the appropriate gallery.
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About Joseph Darensbourg
Joseph is a native of Bulbancha (Choctaw for “place of many tongues,” aka New Orleans) from the Faubourg Treme, the oldest free people of color neighborhood in the country (predating the US itself). This neighborhood of Gens de Couleur Libres is a tri-racial ethnic blend comprised of Native Americans, Europeans, and African ethnic Creoles who speak a lingua franca known as Kouri Vini as well as Colonial Louisiana French.
A performer of ethnic folk musics, Joseph is a singer, violinist, and percussionist member of Les Cenelles ensemble, which specializes in music inspired by resistance and protest poetry and Les Cenelles Gens de Couleur Libres, civil rights activists opposing the Code Noir during US Reconstruction. Joseph focuses on the Bayou Ballads plantation songs (1840s–80s).
A bookbinder by trade—trained at the oldest bookbindery in the US (Harcourt, Boston)—Joseph is also a visual art alum of NOCCA, as well as a member of the oldest early music ensemble in the America, New Orleans Musica da Camera (founded in 1965, as was Joseph).

Gallery Talk with Sculptor and Jeweler Thomas Mann
2023-11-29 18:00
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.
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.
Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the front desk for directions to the appropriate gallery.
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About the Speaker
Thomas Mann has been a professional self-employed artist for 53 years. He describes himself as a sculptor working in the medium of jewelry for which he is known internationally.
Originally from Pennsylvania, the artist exhibited his work at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in 1977 and has called New Orleans home ever since. Mann spends much of his time on the road exhibiting at as many as 15 nationally juried craft and art events each year, in addition to teaching workshops and public speaking.
Over the last 10 years, he has moved away from his signature “Techno-Romantic” design vocabulary toward a new jewelry vocabulary he has identified as “Techno-Natura,” and making scale models for large-scale sculpture. He has also begun a re-entry into painting which he studied in college as a performing arts major with a focus on set design and lighting. His first solo painting show opened at Sullivan Gallery in New Orleans in April 2022.

Gallery Talk on Debbie Fleming Caffery: In Light of Everything with Curator Brian Piper
2023-12-06 12:30 - 13:00, 2023-12-13 12:30 - 13:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
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, 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.
Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the front desk for directions to the appropriate gallery.
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Elders Sacred Talk Series with Merline Kimble and Hearreast J. Harrison
2023-12-06 17:30
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.
On December 6, 5:30 pm, in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts, the program will highlight Merline Kimble of the Gold Digger Baby Dolls and Herreast J. Harrison, artist and educator. Doors open at 5 pm.
Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the Lapis Center for the Arts.
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About the Speakers

Herreast J. Harrison
Herreast J. Harrison is an educator, artist, and founder of the Guardians Institute, which is the home of the Donald Harrison, Sr. Museum. Located in the Ninth Ward, the museum honors her late husband, Big Chief Donald Harrison, Sr., founder of the Guardians of the Flame Masking Indian group. Harrison’s work through the institute includes promoting Masking Indian culture and youth literacy. She has traveled extensively to speak at schools and colleges locally, across the country and abroad. Her reading program has placed over 40,000 new books in the hands of children.
As an artist, she creates beaded story narratives and quilted wall hangings embellished with beads reflecting Masking Indian and African American traditions. Harrison, who holds a Master of Arts in Museum Studies from Southern University at New Orleans, was recognized as the Grand Griot of Maafa 2021 and received the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Light Up for Literacy Award, among many others. At 86 years young, Harrison continues her passion-driven work to make her community a better place.

Merline Kimble
Merline Kimble is a cultural activist and lifelong resident of the Tremé neighborhood. She is frequently called upon to provide interviews for documentaries, films, and recordings, including with the Claiborne Avenue History Project, Southern University at New Orleans, and WWOZ. With inspiration from her grandmother Louise Recasner Phillips, Kimble played a major role in reviving the New Orleans Baby Doll masking tradition in the 1970s and again in the ’80s. She named her new group the Gold Diggers after her grandparents’ social aid and pleasure club. Her grandmother lived to see the younger women, dressed in colorful satin Baby Doll dresses, premiere their group on Mardi Gras Day at her home on Ursuline Avenue.
The revival of the Baby Doll tradition increased momentum in the early 2000s. Today, with over 25 groups, the tradition is cemented in the cultural identity of New Orleans with key women regarded as preservationists including Merline Kimble. The People United for Armstrong Park honored her in 2016 and placed her photo on New Orleans city buses.

ABOUT CONGO SQUARE PRESERVATION SOCIETY
The Congo Square Preservation Society serves as a continuing catalyst in the resurrection and continuation of activities, advocacy, and preservation of historic and sacred Congo Square in New Orleans. Learn more at https://www.congosquarepreservationsociety.org/.

NOMA’s Art Thrives programs are supported by E.A. Michelson Philanthropy.

Gallery Talk on Alison Saar’s Travelin’ Light
2023-12-20 12:30 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
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 please join Eric Blanchard, NOMA Museum Shop Associate, for a conversation about Alison Saar’s Travelin’ Light in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden.
No registration is required. The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free and open to the public seven days a week. When you arrive, please wait at the Besthoff Sculpture Garden office for directions.
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HOPE: The Invisible Thread That Binds | An Interactive Fashion Experience with odAOMO (SOLD OUT)
2023-12-20 17:00 - 21:00
Join odAOMO and NOMA to connect local and global communities using fashion as a language. We kick our journey off with an interactive avant-garde evening of couture, during which we invite you to dress to impress and join us in discussion, refreshments, and a runway presentation like no other.
The evening begins with a panel discussion in the Great Hall. The discussion will address the nuances of what we wear, why we wear, internal and external drives for what we wear, and the origins, foundations, and pillars of fashion and clothing.
Dr. Sophia Omoro and Brand Director Quentin Alexander will be leading the hour-long discussion in the Great Hall. Panelists for the evening are Big Chief Demond Melancon of the Young Seminole Hunters, City Council Member Lesli Harris, Mariah Celeste from the New Orleans Opera, and fashion influencer Tiffany Lashaé.
Guests will then be immersed in the interactive fashion experience with live music, dance, spoken word, and fashion.
Visit the NOMA Museum Shop during regular museum hours to browse through exclusive odAOMO shop pop-up items.
Tickets for this event are sold out.

Schedule
5:00–6:00 pm | Panel Discussion
7:15–8:45 pm | Fashion Show

This program is supported by New Orleans Fashion Week.

Gallery Talk with Creative Assembly Cohort Member Daniel Fitzpatrick
2023-12-27 12:30 - 13:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
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 Creative Assembly Cohort member Daniel Fitzpatrick for a poetic journey through NOMA’s permanent collection. Danny’s poems bring the museum and its galleries into dialogue with New Orleans culture and communities as well as with the poetic tradition. He hopes to encourage viewers to join the artistic conversation and to see their own lives and traditions reflected in NOMA’s paintings, sculptures, and spaces.
Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the front desk for directions to the appropriate gallery.
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About Daniel Fitzpatrick
Daniel Fitzpatrick is the author of the novel Only the Lover Sings. Born in New Orleans, he studied Philosophy at the University of Dallas, and he holds an MA in Philosophy from Holy Apostles College and an MPhil in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin. His translation of the Divine Comedy was published in 2021 for the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death. His poetry and essays have appeared in places like Dappled Things, New Oxford Review, and Ocean State Review. He is the editor of Joie de Vivre, a journal of art, culture, and letters for South Louisiana, and he teaches English at Jesuit High School in New Orleans.

Film Screening and Panel Discussion: The Black Indians of New Orleans
2024-01-07 13:00 - 15:00
Join us on Sunday, January 7, in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts for a screening of The Black Indians of New Orleans, directed by Dr. Maurice Martinez.
A panel discussion with Big Chief Darryl Montana, Big Chief Tyrone “Pie” Stevenson, and artist Ron Bechet follows the documentary.
This program is free and open to the public. When you arrive at the museum, check-in at the admissions desk.
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About the Film
The Black Indians of New Orleans (1976, dir. Maurice M. Martinez, 33 min.)
The Black Indians of New Orleans is the first internationally acclaimed film to explore the origins and rituals of the Black Masking Indians of New Orleans. The film documents the cultural history of the Black Masking Indians, their artful suit creation, music, call and response chants, dance movements, and gatherings for Sunday practices. The film includes sunrise-to-sunset coverage of the Black Indians in their suits on Mardi Gras in the 1970s. The film was produced by Dr. Maurice M. Martinez, a New Orleans–born poet, photographer, musician, filmmaker, and scholar steeped in African American culture through both his heritage and academic endeavors.
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About the Panelists
Big Chief Tyrone “Pie” Stevenson
In 1972, Big Chief Tootie introduced the world to the newest member of his tribe, 12 year-old Spy Boy Tyrone “Pie” Stevenson. Stevenson was mentored by Melvin Reed and Jerome Smith, who started the influential Tambourine and Fan. He masked 23 years as Spy Boy and Gang Flag. In the ’90s, Stevenson decided to start his own tribe. To pay tribute to Yellow Pocahontas and his neighborhood, he requested the Monogram Hunter tribe from Big Chief Tootie and his brother Second Chief Edward Montana, and they gave him their father’s tribe name.
On Mardi Gras Day 1992, Stevenson presented his first suit as Monogram Hunter Big Chief. Stevenson brought many friends and family into the tradition including his young son Jeremy. The tribe thrived in the ’90s under his leadership, but in the early 2000s Stevenson had to step away from actively masking to deal with the realities of the day.
In 2014, Big Chief Pie returned to the needle and thread to inspire the next generation of Black Indians. Big Chief Pie and the tribe’s first Big Queen Denice Smith wore black in memory of everybody lost during and after Hurricane Katrina. They were joined by many of their original members over the following years.
Artist Ron Bechet
Ron Bechet is an abstract painter from New Orleans and a relative of the early jazz pioneer Sidney Bechet. He began drawing in the fourth grade, studied art at the University of New Orleans, and went on to earn a graduate degree from Yale University. He returned to New Orleans in 1982, and soon began a career in teaching art, first at Delgado Community College, then at Southern University in New Orleans, and since 1998, at Xavier University. For many years Bechet shared a studio with renowned sculptor, John Scott. Ron Bechet is currently the Victor H. Labat Endowed Professor of the Arts at Xavier University in New Orleans and is a member of NOMA’s Board of Trustees.
Big Chief Darryl Montana
Big Chief Darryl Montana celebrated his 50th year masking as a Black Masking Indian at Mardi Gras 2023. His Seventh Ward Creole family has masked for several generations, beginning in the late 1800s with his great-great uncle “Becate” Baptiste Eugene of the first known tribe, the Creole Wild West. Darryl’s father, Big Chief Allison “Tootie” Montana (1922–2005), was known as the “Chief of Chiefs” and remains a legend within the Black Masking Indian community.
Darryl Montana’s intricate designs and superb beading work have earned him widespread recognition. He received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant in 2012 and a United States Artist Fellowship in 2015. He has exhibited around the world, including at SITE Santa Fe’s Fourth International Biennial, Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism, and at Reg Vardy Gallery at the University of Sunderland in England. Recently, the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac in Paris acquired Montana’s 2015 suit for its collection and featured it in the exhibition Black Indians de la Nouvelle-Orléans.
Montana passes along the tradition of Black Masking Indians and his artistry through various classes. He has taught children in workshops and summer programs through Xavier University of Louisiana’s Community Arts Program; and since 2019, he has conducted a series of older adult beading classes at the Louisiana State Museum. Darryl was recognized this year by the Louisiana Folklife Commission as a tradition bearer for carrying on the Black Masking Indian tradition for over 50 years.

Gallery Talk on Portrait Miniatures from the Latter-Schlesinger Collection
2024-01-17 12:30 - 13:00, 2024-01-17 18:00 - 18:30 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
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 please join Lance Voxel, Museum Floor Lead, for a conversation about Portrait Miniatures from the Latter-Schlesinger Collection on the second-floor Decorative Arts wing. The talk will delve into the fascinating history of miniature portraiture, unraveling the techniques behind their creation, and examining their contemporary counterparts.⁠ This talk will be offered at 12:30 pm and 6 pm.

Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the front desk for directions to the appropriate gallery.
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Gallery Talk with Curatorial Fellow Laura Ochoa Rincon
2024-01-24 12:30 - 13:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
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 Laura Ochoa Rincon, Decorative Arts Trust Curatorial Fellow for a conversation about the exhibition Ring Redux: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection. This talk will be offered at 12:30 pm and 6 pm.

Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the front desk for directions to the appropriate gallery.
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Film Screening and Panel Discussion: The Black Indians of New Orleans
2024-01-24 18:00
Join us on Wednesday, January 24, in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts for a screening of The Black Indians of New Orleans, directed by Dr. Maurice Martinez. Following a sold-out program on January 7, the museum looks forward to presenting an encore screening of this important film.
A panel discussion follows the documentary. Panelists are Big Chief Darryl Montana, Bruce Sunpie Barnes, and Kamau Wesley Phillips.
This program is free and open to the public. Admission and seating are first come, first served. No registration is required. When you arrive at the museum, check-in at the admissions desk.

This program is organized by Creative Assembly Cohort member Diane Honoré, who is Big Queen of the Yellow Pocahontas.
About the Film
The Black Indians of New Orleans (1976, dir. Maurice M. Martinez, 33 min.)
The Black Indians of New Orleans is the first internationally acclaimed film to explore the origins and rituals of the Black Masking Indians of New Orleans. The film documents the cultural history of the Black Masking Indians, their artful suit creation, music, call and response chants, dance movements, and gatherings for Sunday practices. The film includes sunrise-to-sunset coverage of the Black Indians in their suits on Mardi Gras in the 1970s. The film was produced by Dr. Maurice M. Martinez, a New Orleans–born poet, photographer, musician, filmmaker, and scholar steeped in African American culture through both his heritage and academic endeavors.
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ABOUT THE PANELISTS

Big Chief Darryl Montana
Big Chief Darryl Montana celebrated his 50th year masking as a Black Masking Indian at Mardi Gras 2023. His Seventh Ward Creole family has masked for several generations, beginning in the late 1800s with his great-great uncle “Becate” Baptiste Eugene of the first known tribe, the Creole Wild West. Darryl’s father, Big Chief Allison “Tootie” Montana (1922–2005), was known as the “Chief of Chiefs” and remains a legend within the Black Masking Indian community.
Darryl Montana’s intricate designs and superb beading work have earned him widespread recognition. He received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant in 2012 and a United States Artist Fellowship in 2015. He has exhibited around the world, including at SITE Santa Fe’s Fourth International Biennial, Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism, and at Reg Vardy Gallery at the University of Sunderland in England. Recently, the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac in Paris acquired Montana’s 2015 suit for its collection and featured it in the exhibition Black Indians de la Nouvelle-Orléans.
Montana passes along the tradition of Black Masking Indians and his artistry through various classes. He has taught children in workshops and summer programs through Xavier University of Louisiana’s Community Arts Program; and since 2019, he has conducted a series of older adult beading classes at the Louisiana State Museum. Darryl was recognized this year by the Louisiana Folklife Commission as a tradition bearer for carrying on the Black Masking Indian tradition for over 50 years.

Bruce Sunpie Barnes—Bruce Sunpie Barnes
Is a veteran musician, park ranger, actor, former high school biology teacher, former college football All-American, and former NFL player for the Kansas City Chiefs. Barnes’s career has taken him far and wide and he has traveled to over 35 countries playing his own style of blues, zydeco, and Afro-Louisiana music incorporating Caribbean and African-influenced rhythms and melodies. He is a multi-instrumentalist playing piano, percussion, harmonica, and he learned to play accordion from some of the best, including Fernest Arceneaux, John Delafose, and Clayton Sampy. With his musical group Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots, he has played festivals and concerts internationally, and has recorded critically acclaimed CDs. Barnes is deeply involved in New Orleans parade culture and takes his music to the streets. He is Second Chief of the North Side Skull and Bone Gang, one of the oldest existing carnival groups in New Orleans and a member of the Black Men of Labor Social Aid and Pleasure Club.
Kamau Wesley Phillips—KAMAU & Spirit of the Drums
A highly regarded drummer and educator, Kamau Wesley Phillips regularly teaches about African rhythms, the musical connections between New Orleans and western African, and the joy of playing drums. He masks Black Indian and plays drums forthe Spirit of FiYaYa and the Mandingo Warriors for several decades.

Gallery Talk and Performance Inspired by Wangechi Mutu’s Crocodylus with Creative Assembly Cohort Member Lauren Messina and Javier Banks
2024-01-31 12:30
Expand your experience of Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined with monthly gallery talks inside the museum or in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on select Wednesdays: January 31, February 7, March 6, April 3, May 1, June 5, July 10.
Inspired by Wangechi Mutu’s Crocodylus sculpture in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden, Creative Assembly Cohort member Lauren Messina has choreographed a dance that embodies her interpretation of the work’s transformative nature, “being—not woman, not animal,” and “depicting power and deep scrutiny of human relations between the body and nature.” The event begins with a short talk by Messina about the sculpture and creating the dance, followed by a performance from Javier Banks alongside the sculpture.
Gallery talks are free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
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About the Exhibition
This major solo exhibition of work by Wangechi Mutu brings together nearly one hundred sculptures, paintings, collages, drawings, and films to present the breadth of the Kenyan–American artists’ multidisciplinary practice from the mid-1990s to today. On view January 31–July 14, 2024, Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined traces connections between recent developments in Mutu’s sculptures and her decades-long exploration of the legacies of colonialism, globalization, and African and diasporic cultural traditions. The exhibition travels to NOMA from the New Museum, New York.
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About the Performers
Lauren Messina
Lauren Ashlee Messina, M.F.A. (she/her) is a Big Easy Award-winning dance choreographer with a heart for community engagement. Born in Springfield, Illinois, Lauren has developed her career in the Greater New Orleans area in collaboration with the Marigny Opera Ballet, KM Dance Project, the New Orleans Opera, ELLEvate Dance Company, Dow-Dance Company’s Binge Dance Festival, and the CAC New Orleans as a 2022 Performing Artist-in-Residence. Her choreography has been performed at the New York Jazz Choreography Project, the 92nd Street Y, the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, and the Mississippi Museum of Art. Lauren received the Ailey School’s Oprah Winfrey Foundation Scholarship and participated in the Moving Toward Justice Open Workshop pilot program at Gibney Dance. She is a 2023 Platforms Fund grant recipient, founder of My Free Dance Class, and host of The Parent Artist Podcast on YouTube. In addition to dance, Lauren participated as a video editor for NOVAC’s 2022-2023 Community Documentary Cohort and published the creativity journal and college editions of ChatGPT Prompts for Dancers (available on Amazon). Lauren aims to create meaningful movement experiences that inspire empathy and transformation by collaborating with artists across disciplines in a thriving collective environment that prioritizes mutual respect, trust, and care.
Javier Banks
Javier Banks was born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and began dancing at the age of fourteen. They studied at Dancers’ Workshop, under Sharon Mathews and Susan Perlis. With awarded scholarships, Banks also studied at the American Ballet Theatre and Dance Theatre of Harlem. As a freelance dancer, they have performed works with the Alaya Dance Company, Kennedy Dancers, Brooklyn Ballet, Marigny Opera Ballet, and Ballet Hysell.

Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined is organized by the New Museum, New York. Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation. Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Ed Bradley Family Foundation, Agnes Gund, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by The Robert Lehman Foundation. Support for the accompanying publication has been provided by the A4 Arts Foundation.
The presentation in New Orleans is sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Additional support is provided by Delta Airlines, Gladstone Gallery, Walda Besthoff, Victoria Miro Gallery, The Windsor Court, Keith Fox and Tom Keyes, Aimée Farnet Siegel and Mike Siegel, Robin Rankin, Elizabeth Boh, Pat Mitchell and Scott Seydel, Harvey and Marie Orth, and Jeff Childers and Onay Gutierrez.

Gallery Talk with Kristina Kay Robinson | Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined
2024-02-07 12:30 - 13:00
Expand your experience of Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined with monthly gallery talks inside the museum or in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on select Wednesdays: January 31, February 7, March 6, April 3, May 1, June 5, and July 10.
Join Kristina Kay Robinson, whose writing is featured in the exhibition’s Creative Concept Studio located in the 1st-floor elevator lobby, for a conversation about Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined.
Gallery talks are free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
About the Exhibition
This major solo exhibition of work by Wangechi Mutu brings together nearly one hundred sculptures, paintings, collages, drawings, and films to present the breadth of the Kenyan-American artists’ multidisciplinary practice from the mid-1990s to today. On view January 31–July 14, 2024, Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined traces connections between recent developments in Mutu’s sculptures and her decades-long exploration of the legacies of colonialism, globalization, and African and diasporic cultural traditions. The exhibition travels to NOMA from the New Museum, New York.
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About Kristina Kay Robinson
Kristina Kay Robinson is an artist, writer, and scholar born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her writing in various genres has appeared in Art in America, Guernica, The Baffler, The Nation, The Massachusetts Review and Elle among other outlets. Robinson is a 2019 recipient of the Rabkin Prize for Visual Arts Journalism. Currently, she serves as the New Orleans editor-at-large for the Atlanta-based Burnaway magazine.

Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined is organized by the New Museum, New York. Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation. Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Ed Bradley Family Foundation, Agnes Gund, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by The Robert Lehman Foundation. Support for the accompanying publication has been provided by the A4 Arts Foundation.
The presentation in New Orleans is sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Additional support is provided by Delta Airlines, Gladstone Gallery, Walda Besthoff, Victoria Miro Gallery, The Windsor Court, Keith Fox and Tom Keyes, Aimée Farnet Siegel and Mike Siegel, Robin Rankin, Elizabeth Boh, Pat Mitchell and Scott Seydel, Harvey and Marie Orth, and Jeff Childers and Onay Gutierrez.

Gallery Talk with Kristina Kay Robinson | Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined
2024-02-07 18:00
Expand your experience of Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined with monthly gallery talks inside the museum or in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on select Wednesdays: January 31, February 7, March 6, April 3, May 1, June 5, and July 10.
Join Kristina Kay Robinson, whose writing is featured in the exhibition’s Creative Concept Studio located in the 1st-floor elevator lobby, for a conversation about Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined.
Gallery talks are free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
About the Exhibition
This major solo exhibition of work by Wangechi Mutu brings together nearly one hundred sculptures, paintings, collages, drawings, and films to present the breadth of the Kenyan-American artists’ multidisciplinary practice from the mid-1990s to today. On view January 31–July 14, 2024, Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined traces connections between recent developments in Mutu’s sculptures and her decades-long exploration of the legacies of colonialism, globalization, and African and diasporic cultural traditions. The exhibition travels to NOMA from the New Museum, New York.
Learn More
About Kristina Kay Robinson
Kristina Kay Robinson is an artist, writer, and scholar born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her writing in various genres has appeared in Art in America, Guernica, The Baffler, The Nation, The Massachusetts Review and Elle among other outlets. Robinson is a 2019 recipient of the Rabkin Prize for Visual Arts Journalism. Currently, she serves as the New Orleans editor-at-large for the Atlanta-based Burnaway magazine.

Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined is organized by the New Museum, New York. Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation. Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Ed Bradley Family Foundation, Agnes Gund, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by The Robert Lehman Foundation. Support for the accompanying publication has been provided by the A4 Arts Foundation.
The presentation in New Orleans is sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Additional support is provided by Delta Airlines, Gladstone Gallery, Walda Besthoff, Victoria Miro Gallery, The Windsor Court, Keith Fox and Tom Keyes, Aimée Farnet Siegel and Mike Siegel, Robin Rankin, Elizabeth Boh, Pat Mitchell and Scott Seydel, Harvey and Marie Orth, and Jeff Childers and Onay Gutierrez

Gallery Talk on Self-Portrait by Margaret Taylor Burroughs
2024-02-21 12:30 - 13:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
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 Dr. Redell Hearn, NOMA’s Chief Educator, for a conversation about Margaret Taylor Burroughs’ Self-Portrait. This talk will be offered at 12:30 pm and 6 pm.

Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the front desk for directions to the appropriate gallery.
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Gallery Talk with Self-Portrait by Margaret Taylor Burroughs
2024-02-21 18:00 - 18:30 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119

Gallery Talk on Roberto Lugo’s "Stunting" Garniture Set
2024-02-28 12:30 - 13:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
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 Kr3wcial, NOMA Creative Assembly Cohort member, for a conversation about Roberto Lugo’s “Stunting” Garniture Set. This talk will be offered at 12:30 pm.
Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the front desk for directions to the appropriate gallery.
GET TICKETS
To book your ticket in advance, click the link above and select the day for the gallery talk you’d like to attend.

Fi Yi Yi Forever: A Retirement Celebration Honoring The Life and Legacy of Big Chief Victor Harris
2024-02-28 18:00 - 20:00
Join us to celebrate the retirement of Big Chief Victor Harris after 59 years as a Black Masking Indian with a short film presentation, words of thanks from community leaders, and African drumming. This program is presented by the Retirement Committee to Honor Big Chief Victor Harris and the New Orleans Museum of Art.
The celebration begins at 6:00 pm in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts. Doors open at 5:30 pm.
Free and open to the public. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the Lapis Center for the Arts.

About the Big Chief Victor Harris
Big Chief Victor Harris began his journey as a Black Masking Indian at the age of fifteen with the Yellow Pocahontas Tribe and Chief of Chiefs Tootie Montana. He later became chief of his own tribe, The Mandingo Warriors – Spirit of Fi Yi Yi. Today, Big Chief Fi-Yi-Yi is the longest continuously masking Indian in the history of New Orleans with 58 years of service to the Indigenous culture. Harris created his first suit with the color black and for 2024, Big Chief will close the chapter of this journey with another historic Black suit. Big Chief Fi-Yi-Yi is one of the most recognized chiefs in the city of New Orleans. In addition to being a Big Chief, Victor Harris is a community leader, proud husband, father, and grandfather—plus an inspiration to all!

NOMA’s Art Thrives programs are supported by E.A. Michelson Philanthropy.

Gallery Talk on In Two Canoe | Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined
2024-03-06 12:30
Expand your experience of Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined with monthly gallery talks inside the museum or in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on select Wednesdays: January 31, February 7, March 6, April 3, May 1, June 5, and July 10.
Join Ra’Jae’ Wolf, NOMA’s Marketing and Communications Associate, for a conversation about Wangechi Mutu’s In Two Canoe, located outside of the Besthoff Sculpture Garden’s pavilion.
No registration is required. The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free and open to the public seven days a week. When you arrive, please wait at the Besthoff Sculpture Garden office for directions.
About the Exhibition
This major solo exhibition of work by Wangechi Mutu brings together nearly one hundred sculptures, paintings, collages, drawings, and films to present the breadth of the Kenyan-American artists’ multidisciplinary practice from the mid-1990s to today. On view January 31–July 14, 2024, Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined traces connections between recent developments in Mutu’s sculptures and her decades-long exploration of the legacies of colonialism, globalization, and African and diasporic cultural traditions. The exhibition travels to NOMA from the New Museum, New York.
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Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined is organized by the New Museum, New York. Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation. Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Ed Bradley Family Foundation, Agnes Gund, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by The Robert Lehman Foundation. Support for the accompanying publication has been provided by the A4 Arts Foundation.
The presentation in New Orleans is sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Additional support is provided by Delta Airlines, Gladstone Gallery, Walda Besthoff, Victoria Miro Gallery, The Windsor Court, Keith Fox and Tom Keyes, Aimée Farnet Siegel and Mike Siegel, Robin Rankin, Elizabeth Boh, Pat Mitchell and Scott Seydel, Harvey and Marie Orth, and Jeff Childers and Onay Gutierrez.

MARI Presents “Beyond the Beautiful Map: Toward Large-Scale Modeling and Community-Engaged Settlement Pattern Research”
2024-03-08 18:00 - 20:00
In celebration of the centennial of the Middle American Research Institute (MARI), director Dr. Marcello A. Canuto gives a lecture in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts: “Beyond the Beautiful Map: Toward Large-Scale Modeling and Community-engaged Settlement Pattern Research.”
Please register in advance to guarantee a seat. Free and open to the public.
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About the Lecture
Despite the long-standing interest in Maya settlement patterns in archaeology, the tropical forest has imposed practical and methodological constraints that have led academics toward local-scale analysis. Ambitious efforts to scale up local models using remote sensing have been continually thwarted by the regionalism and heterogeneity of the Maya Forest.
The use of airborne laser scanning (lidar) as a direct-discovery technique, capable of mapping enormous areas in minute detail, has given the discipline’s macro-scale objectives new life. Lidar provides new approaches to reconstruct Maya settlement patterns at previously unreachable scales by simultaneously recording topography, archaeological settlement, anthropogenic landscape modification, and vegetation.
Here, we use lidar-derived settlement and topographic data to develop a settlement suitability model that identifies constraints on settlement patterning and historical contingencies in the growth of individual cities. We also demonstrate how this approach might give significant information for local modern communities to better manage and steward the natural and cultural resources of locations where the Maya Forest still exists.

About Marcello A. Canuto
Marcello A. Canuto is currently the Director of the Middle American Research Institute and Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University. He received his BA from Harvard University in 1991 and his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002. Before coming to Tulane in 2009, he was an Assistant Professor at Yale University.
He has undertaken archaeological excavations in the Maya region, South America, India, North Africa, and the northeast US. His primary research interest in the Maya area has been on the integrative mechanisms that the ancient Maya used to build and maintain a socio-politically complex society throughout both the Preclassic and Classic periods. More broadly, his interests include household and community dynamics, the development of socio-political complexity in ancient societies, the definition of identity through material culture, and the modern social contexts of archaeology in Mesoamerica. His past research in Honduras investigated the nature of ethnic diversity at Copan.
He now co-directs a project in the understudied Northwest Peten, Guatemala where he investigates the construction of social categories and the mechanisms by which complex socio-political organizations develop and were maintained.
About the Middle American Research Institute
Founded in 1924, the Middle American Research Institute (MARI) at Tulane University strives to promote greater understanding of the vibrant and diverse cultures of Middle America. It stewards an extensive collection of textiles, artifacts, and an archive of letters, field notes, maps, and photographs from the scores of field projects it has sponsored and continues to sponsor. We strive to make these accessible to researchers and the general public through a variety of exhibitions, workshops, and symposia.
Furthermore, MARI continues to support anthropological, archaeological, ethnohistorical, linguistic, and ethnographic research projects throughout Mexico and Central America.
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Public Tours of Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined
2024-03-14 14:00
After you see the spectacular floral installations during Art in Bloom Presented by First Horizon, explore Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined, which includes nearly one hundred sculptures, paintings, collages, drawings, and films by one of the leading figures in contemporary art. NOMA docents and staff will lead guided tours of the exhibition at 2 pm each day Wednesday, March 14–Sunday, March 17.
Admission to Art in Bloom Presented by First Horizon is required. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the front desk for directions to the appropriate gallery.
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About Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined
This major solo exhibition of work by Wangechi Mutu brings together nearly one hundred sculptures, paintings, collages, drawings, and films to present the breadth of the Kenyan-American artists’ multidisciplinary practice from the mid-1990s to today. On view through July 14, 2024, Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined traces connections between recent developments in Mutu’s sculptures and her decades-long exploration of the legacies of colonialism, globalization, and African and diasporic cultural traditions. The exhibition travels to NOMA from the New Museum, New York.
Learn More

Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined is organized by the New Museum, New York. Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation. Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Ed Bradley Family Foundation, Agnes Gund, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by The Robert Lehman Foundation. Support for the accompanying publication has been provided by the A4 Arts Foundation.
The presentation in New Orleans is sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Additional support is provided by Delta Airlines, Gladstone Gallery, Walda Besthoff, Victoria Miro Gallery, The Windsor Court, The Azby Fund, Keith Fox and Tom Keyes, Aimée Farnet Siegel and Mike Siegel, Robin Rankin, Elizabeth Boh, Pat Mitchell and Scott Seydel, Harvey and Marie Orth, and Jeff Childers and Onay Gutierrez.
