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SUMMARY:Public Tours in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Sunday
DESCRIPTION:NOMA provides guided tours of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden every Saturday. During these tours\, you’ll learn about a selection of the 100 large-scale works installed in the garden. \nNo registration is required. NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free and open to all\, seven days a week. Tours start at the main entrance gate to the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Dueling Oaks Drive.
URL:https://noma.org/event/sculpture-garden-tours-2024/2025-09-21/
LOCATION:Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans \, LA\, 70124
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SUMMARY:Gallery Talk with Curator Mel Buchanan
DESCRIPTION:Every week\, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators\, artists\, and other special guests. These lively\, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view. \nThis week\, join Mel Buchanan\, NOMA’s RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts & Design\, for a gallery talk on New Acquisitions in Contemporary Craft in the Elise M. Besthoff Foundation Gallery on the second floor of the museum. This talk will be offered at 12:30 and 6:00 pm the same day. \nIncluded with museum admission\, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA\, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.
URL:https://noma.org/event/gallery-talk-with-curator-mel-buchanan-2/2025-09-24/1/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
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SUMMARY:Gallery Talk with Curator Mel Buchanan
DESCRIPTION:Every week\, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators\, artists\, and other special guests. These lively\, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view. \nThis week\, join Mel Buchanan\, NOMA’s RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts & Design\, for a gallery talk on New Acquisitions in Contemporary Craft in the Elise M. Besthoff Foundation Gallery on the second floor of the museum. This talk will be offered at 12:30 and 6:00 pm the same day. \nIncluded with museum admission\, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA\, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.
URL:https://noma.org/event/gallery-talk-with-curator-mel-buchanan-2/2025-09-24/2/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
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SUMMARY:Public Tours in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Sunday
DESCRIPTION:NOMA provides guided tours of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden every Saturday. During these tours\, you’ll learn about a selection of the 100 large-scale works installed in the garden. \nNo registration is required. NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free and open to all\, seven days a week. Tours start at the main entrance gate to the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Dueling Oaks Drive.
URL:https://noma.org/event/sculpture-garden-tours-2024/2025-09-28/
LOCATION:Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans \, LA\, 70124
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SUMMARY:Gallery Talk with Curator Brian Piper
DESCRIPTION:Every week\, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators\, artists\, and other special guests. These lively\, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view. \nIn celebration of the opening of the special exhibition Dawoud Bey: Elegy\, join Brian Piper; NOMA’s Freeman Family Curator of Photographs\, Prints\, and Drawings; for a conversation about works on view in the exhibition. The gallery talk will be offered at 12:30 and 6:00 pm this day. \nIncluded with museum admission\, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA\, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.
URL:https://noma.org/event/gallery-talk-with-curator-brian-piper-2/2025-10-01/1/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
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SUMMARY:Gallery Talk with Curator Orlando Hernández Ying
DESCRIPTION:Every week\, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators\, artists\, and other special guests. These lively\, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view. \nIn celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month and the opening of the new special installation of Cuzco paintings in the Great Hall\, join NOMA’s Lapis Curator of the Arts of the Americas Orlando Hernández Ying  for a conversation about these works on view. This talk will be offered at 12:30 pm and 6:00 pm the same day. \nIncluded with museum admission\, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA\, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.
URL:https://noma.org/event/gallery-talk-with-curator-orlando-hernandez-ying-2/2025-10-01/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
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SUMMARY:Gallery Talk with Curator Orlando Hernández Ying
DESCRIPTION:Every week\, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators\, artists\, and other special guests. These lively\, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view. \nIn celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month and the opening of the new special installation of Cuzco paintings in the Great Hall\, join NOMA’s Lapis Curator of the Arts of the Americas Orlando Hernández Ying  for a conversation about these works on view. This talk will be offered at 12:30 pm and 6:00 pm the same day. \nIncluded with museum admission\, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA\, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.
URL:https://noma.org/event/gallery-talk-with-curator-orlando-hernandez-ying-3/2025-10-01/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
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SUMMARY:Elders Sacred Talk Series: Martin Payton and Eric Waters
DESCRIPTION:NOMA and the Congo Square Preservation Society present the Elders Sacred Talk Series with prolific elder New Orleanians\, celebrating the lives they lead while providing the opportunity for visitors to learn firsthand about the impact they’ve had on our city. This conversation between Martin Payton and Eric Waters will be moderated by Ron Bechet.\n\n\nThis program is included with museum admission\, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative.\n\n\nAbout the Speakers\nMartin Payton\n \nMartin Payton\, a native of New Orleans\, has sustained a distinguished career as both artist and educator for more than five decades. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Xavier University of Louisiana and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. Following his return to New Orleans\, Payton embarked on an academic career that included appointments at Southern University at New Orleans\, Southern University in Baton Rouge\, and Xavier University\, where he played a formative role in shaping successive generations of artists.\n\n\nPayton’s artistic practice is most closely identified with his monumental public sculptures and monochromatic constructions\, created through the welding of salvaged industrial steel. By reconfiguring discarded materials\, Payton engages in a process that is simultaneously aesthetic and cultural\, transforming the remnants of industrial production into abstract forms resonant with historical\, spiritual\, and communal associations. His collaborative work Spirit House with John Scott stands as a significant intervention in the visual and cultural landscape of New Orleans.\n\n\nPeyton’s work is represented in major institutional collections\, including the Ogden Museum of Southern Art\, the New Orleans Museum of Art\, the Amistad Research Center at Tulane University\, the William King Museum of Art in Virginia\, and the Rosekrans Runnymede Sculpture Garden in California. Payton’s work is recognized not only for its formal innovation but also for its critical engagement with African American cultural memory and the material legacies of labor and industry.\n\nEric Waters\n \nFor more than four decades\, photographer Eric Waters has served as a central documentarian of Black social life and cultural traditions in New Orleans. A graduate of Dillard University\, he studied photography under the late Marion J. Porter\, whose mentorship shaped his early artistic development. While Waters has been widely sought after as an event photographer\, his enduring reputation rests on his incisive visual record of Second Line parades and the ceremonial pageantry of the Mardi Gras Indian tradition—cultural expressions that lie at the heart of New Orleans’s African American community. \n  \nWaters’s photography captures the dynamism\, movement\, and layered symbolism of Black vernacular performance. His images serve as vital historical archives\, preserving traditions that both affirm and continually reinvent communal identity. His work has been featured in international\, national\, and local media outlets and publications\, including Ties That Bind and Freedom’s Dance: Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs in New Orleans (co-authored with Karen Celestan). He also co-edited SEEING BLACK: Black Photography in New Orleans\, 1840 and Beyond with Kalamu ya Salaam and Shana M. Griffin\, a landmark volume that situates Black photographers within a broader historical and cultural continuum. \n  \nWaters received the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities’ Documentary Photographer of the Year award in 2018 and was named a Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist-in-Residence in 2019. His body of work continues to be regarded as both an artistic achievement and a crucial intervention in the visual historiography of New Orleans’s Black cultural practices. \n  \n\n\n\nAbout Elders Sacred Talks and Art Thrives\nNOMA’s Art Thrives initiative presents creative aging programs designed to support visitors ages 55 and up. In addition to art-making workshops\, courses\, and opportunities for hands-on art-making\, the Elders Sacred Talk Series provides a platform for older adults in New Orleans to share their experiences with audiences of all ages. \nThe Elders Sacred Talk Series is presented in partnership between NOMA and the Congo Square Preservation Society. Art Thrives is supported by E.A. Michelson Philanthropy.
URL:https://noma.org/event/elders-sacred-talk-series-martin-payton-and-eric-waters/
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SUMMARY:Gallery Talk with Curator Brian Piper
DESCRIPTION:Every week\, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators\, artists\, and other special guests. These lively\, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view. \nIn celebration of the opening of the special exhibition Dawoud Bey: Elegy\, join Brian Piper; NOMA’s Freeman Family Curator of Photographs\, Prints\, and Drawings; for a conversation about works on view in the exhibition. The gallery talk will be offered at 12:30 and 6:00 pm this day. \nIncluded with museum admission\, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA\, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.
URL:https://noma.org/event/gallery-talk-with-curator-brian-piper-2/2025-10-01/2/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
CATEGORIES:Talks & Tours,Gallery Talks
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SUMMARY:Public Tours in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Sunday
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URL:https://noma.org/event/sculpture-garden-tours-2024/2025-10-05/
LOCATION:Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans \, LA\, 70124
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SUMMARY:Gallery Talk with Curator Orlando Hernández Ying
DESCRIPTION:Every week\, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators\, artists\, and other special guests. These lively\, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view. \nIn celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month and the opening of the new special installation of Cuzco paintings in the Great Hall\, join NOMA’s Lapis Curator of the Arts of the Americas Orlando Hernández Ying  for a conversation about these works on view. This talk will be offered at 12:30 pm and 6:00 pm the same day. \nIncluded with museum admission\, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA\, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.
URL:https://noma.org/event/gallery-talk-with-curator-orlando-hernandez-ying-3/2025-10-09/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
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SUMMARY:Gallery Talk with Curator Orlando Hernández Ying
DESCRIPTION:Every week\, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators\, artists\, and other special guests. These lively\, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view. \nIn celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month and the opening of the new special installation of Cuzco paintings in the Great Hall\, join NOMA’s Lapis Curator of the Arts of the Americas Orlando Hernández Ying  for a conversation about these works on view. This talk will be offered at 12:30 pm and 6:00 pm the same day. \nIncluded with museum admission\, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA\, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.
URL:https://noma.org/event/gallery-talk-with-curator-orlando-hernandez-ying-2/2025-10-09/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
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SUMMARY:Japan Fest
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Japanese culture through art\, performances\, food\, and more at Japan Fest\, organized by NOMA\, the Japan Club in New Orleans\, and the Consulate General of Japan in Nashville.   \nSample Japanese cuisine\, enjoy traditional dance groups\, martial arts demonstrations\, and tours throughout the day. Shop a variety of vendors offering unique goods in a festive atmosphere. Costumes are welcome\, please see costume guidelines below. \nPlease note: The expansion of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden is not included in the Japan Fest festivities but will be open to the general public.  \nTickets for Japan Fest are $10 General Admission\, $5 for NOMA members\, and free for attendees 19 years old and under \nPurchase Tickets \nPre-purchasing Japan Fest tickets online is strongly recommended. Tickets are also available for purchase at the admissions desk in the Great Hall\, as well as in front of the main gate of the Besthoff Sculpture Garden. \n\nFestival Schedule\nAll Day Activities\nPlay Go with Crane’s Nest Go Club (Samuel H. Kress Galleries\, first floor) \nBuddha Board demonstration (NOMA Museum Shop\, first floor) \nSamurai Suit Fitting with Japan Society of New Orleans (Second floor elevator lobby) \nSchedule of Events\n\n\n\n\nStart Time \n\n\nEvent and Location \n\n\n\n\n10:00 am \n\n\n\nKaminari Taiko of Houston drum performance (Portico\, front of museum)\nOpen Origami (Art Studio\, second floor)\n\n\n\n\n\n10:30 am \n\n\n\nBaton Rouge Eishin-Ryu Iaido Swordsmanship Demonstration (Sculpture Garden\, Oak Grove stage)\nMinyo Dance Group Performance (Lapis Center for the Arts\, first floor)\n\n\n\n\n\n11:00 am \n\n\n\nNew Orleans Kendo Club demonstration (Sculpture Garden\, Oak Grove)\nYouth Japanese language workshop (Art Studio\, second floor)\nIntro to Zazen Meditation with New Orleans Zen Temple (second floor hallway)\nGallery tour (Kurt A. Gitter\, M.D. and Alice Yelen Gitter Gallery\, third floor)\n\n\n\n\n\n11:30 am \n\n\n\nJapan Fest Welcome and Opening Remarks (Portico stage\, front of museum)\nCandy5 demonstration (Lapis Center for the Arts\, first floor)\n“Intro to Go: The Game Japan Revolutionized for 1300 Years” workshop (Samuel H. Kress Galleries\, first floor)\nTeen Japanese language workshop (Art Studio\, second floor)\n\n\n\n\n\n12:00 pm \n\n\n\nJ-pop Kaigai Idol Showcase (Sculpture Garden\, Oak Grove)\nOpen Origami (Art Studio\, second floor)\nYouth-focused Gallery Tour (Kurt A. Gitter\, M.D. and Alice Yelen Gitter Gallery\, third floor)\n\n\n\n\n\n12:30 pm \n\n\n\nKaminari Taiko of Houston drum performance (Portico\, front of museum)\n\n\n\n\n\n1:00 pm \n\n\n\nJapanese Weekend School (Portico\, front of museum)\nLA Karate Association Shotokan Karate workshop & demonstration (Sculpture Garden\, Oak Grove stage)\nMiki Fuji band performance (Lapis Center for the Arts\, first floor)\nGallery tour (Kurt A. Gitter\, M.D. and Alice Yelen Gitter Gallery\, third floor)\n\n\n\n\n\n1:30 pm \n\n\n\nAdult Japanese language workshop (Art Studio\, second floor)\n\n\n\n\n\n2:00 pm \n\n\n\nNew Orleans Rufflebutts Fashion Show (Portico\, front of museum)\nAikido of New Orleans and NOLA Aikido workshop and demonstration (Sculpture Garden\, Oak Grove)\n“Intro to Go: The Game Japan Revolutionized for 1300 Years” workshop (Samuel H. Kress Galleries\, first floor)\nYouth-focused Gallery Tour (Kurt A. Gitter\, M.D. and Alice Yelen Gitter Gallery\, third floor)\n\n\n\n\n\n2:30 pm \n\n\n\nCosplay Costume Contest (Portico\, front of museum)\nZen Temple closing ceremony (Lapis Center for the Arts\, first floor)\nTaiko Drumming workshop (Art Studio\, second floor)\n\n\n\n\n\n3:00 pm \n\n\n\nGallery tour (Kurt A. Gitter\, M.D. and Alice Yelen Gitter Gallery\, third floor)\nJapan America Society of North West Florida Folk Dance performance (Lapis Center for the Arts\, first floor)\n\n\n\n\n\n3:30 pm \n\n\n\nKaminari Taiko of Houston drum performance (Portico\, front of museum)\n\n\n\n\n\n4:00 pm \n\n\n\nEnd of Japan Fest\, museum closed\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nParticipants\n\nPlease note: some vendors for Japan Fest accept cash only. Cash is recommended for making purchases at the festival.\n\nFood Vendors\n\n\n\nAjun Cajun\n\n\nOni 225\n\n\nNori Guys \n\n\nViolet Sprinkles\n\n\nEM’s Bakery\n\n\nNola Cane Juice & More\n\n\nCandy5 Traditional Candy Art\n\n\nObservatory 11\n\n\nCafé NOMA\n\n\n\n\nMerchandise Vendors\n\n\n\nKawaii NOLA\n\n\nShowtime Sweeti\n\n\nNOLA Kimekomi\n\n\nSofinaCo\n\n\nMinty Mix\n\n\nTwootieTarte\n\n\nShiratori’s Cove\n\n\nB.sweetLA\n\n\nMadame Butterfly Nagasaki\n\n\nDonn Davis\n\n\nArt by Artemis Solas\n\n\nNOLA Rufflebuts\n\n\nShattered Rose Jewelry\n\n\nJapanese Weekend School\n\n\n\n\nPerformers\, Tours\, and Workshop Hosts\n\n\n\nAikido of New Orleans and NOLA Aikido\n\n\nLouisiana Karate Association\n\n\nMinoyo Dance Group\n\n\nJapan America Society of NW Florida Folk Dance\n\n\nJapanese Weekend School of New Orleans\n\n\nKaminari Taiko of Houston\n\n\nKaigai Idol Showcase\n\n\nJapanese Fashion Club (NOLA RuffleButts Costume Contest & Fashion Show)\n\n\nJapanese Language Workshop\n\n\nNew Orleans Taiko Drum Workshop\n\n\nGitter Gallery of Japanese Art tours\n\n\nCandy5 Traditional Candy Art\n\n\nNew Orleans Zen Temple\n\n\n\n\nTablers\n\n\n\nJapan Club of New Orleans\n\n\nJapan Society of New Orleans\n\n\nJapanese Consulate of Nashville\n\n\nAPAS (Asian Pacific American Society)\n\n\nJust Another Con\n\n\nCranes Nest GO Club\n\n\nAikido of New Orleans and NOLA Aikido\n\n\nLouisiana Karate Association\n\n\nJefferson Parish Library Anime Club\n\n\n\n\nCOSTUME GUIDELINES\nFor the safety and comfort of all guests\, as well as the artwork at NOMA: \n\nCostume masks that obstruct or cover the wearer’s face are prohibited. Face masks covering the nose and mouth for health reasons are welcomed but not required.\nAccessories or toy weapons\, such as swords\, greater than 2 feet in length are not permitted.\nNo sharp objects are allowed.\nCostume components cannot extend more than 2 feet in length from the body.\nPlease keep all costumes family friendly.\n\nOther restrictions may apply at NOMA’s discretion. A check room will be available for any items not in compliance. For questions regarding costumes\, please call 504.658.4100. Please note that admission is required for fashion show participants. \n\n\n\n\n\nSponsors\n\n\n\nCornerstone Chemical Company\, LLC\n\n\nGray Construction\n\n\nUBE C1 Chemicals America\, Inc.\n\n\nConsulate General of Japan Nashville\n\n\nJapan Foundation of New York\n\n\nJapan Society of New Orleans\n\n\nJapan Club of New Orleans\n\n\nDenka Performance Elastomers\n\n\nZen Noh Grain Corporation\n\n\nCGB Enterprises\n\n\nObservatory 11\n\n\nSMBC Bank
URL:https://noma.org/event/japan-fest-2025/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
CATEGORIES:Performances,Special,Kids & Families,Workshops & Classes,Talks & Tours,Festivals
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SUMMARY:Public Tours in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Sunday
DESCRIPTION:NOMA provides guided tours of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden every Saturday. During these tours\, you’ll learn about a selection of the 100 large-scale works installed in the garden. \nNo registration is required. NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free and open to all\, seven days a week. Tours start at the main entrance gate to the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Dueling Oaks Drive.
URL:https://noma.org/event/sculpture-garden-tours-2024/2025-10-12/
LOCATION:Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans \, LA\, 70124
CATEGORIES:Talks & Tours
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SUMMARY:Public Tours in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Sunday
DESCRIPTION:NOMA provides guided tours of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden every Saturday. During these tours\, you’ll learn about a selection of the 100 large-scale works installed in the garden. \nNo registration is required. NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free and open to all\, seven days a week. Tours start at the main entrance gate to the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Dueling Oaks Drive.
URL:https://noma.org/event/sculpture-garden-tours-2024/2025-10-19/
LOCATION:Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans \, LA\, 70124
CATEGORIES:Talks & Tours
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SUMMARY:Public Tours in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Sunday
DESCRIPTION:NOMA provides guided tours of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden every Saturday. During these tours\, you’ll learn about a selection of the 100 large-scale works installed in the garden. \nNo registration is required. NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free and open to all\, seven days a week. Tours start at the main entrance gate to the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Dueling Oaks Drive.
URL:https://noma.org/event/sculpture-garden-tours-2024/2025-10-26/
LOCATION:Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans \, LA\, 70124
CATEGORIES:Talks & Tours
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SUMMARY:Gallery Talk with Associate Educator Jasmine Griffin
DESCRIPTION:Every week\, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators\, artists\, and other special guests. These lively\, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view. \nThis week\, join NOMA’s Associate Educator Jasmine Griffin for a gallery talk intertwining writing with the exhibition Dawoud Bey: Elegy. This gallery talk will only be offered at 12:30 pm. \nIncluded with museum admission\, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA\, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.
URL:https://noma.org/event/gallery-talk-with-associate-educator-jasmine-griffin/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
CATEGORIES:Talks & Tours,Gallery Talks
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SUMMARY:Producer's Choice: Frida (2002) and Conversation with Julie Taymor and Meryl Poster
DESCRIPTION:Films build community through shared experiences. \nNOMA presents a series of films—selected by award-winning producer and filmmaker Meryl Poster—followed by insightful special guests. Don’t miss your chance to revisit or discover modern classics on the big screen and gain behind-the-scenes insight into the film industry from leading figures. \nDiscussions will draw connections to art more broadly and celebrate cinema as an essential art form. \nNOMA will screen Frida (2002) for this program\, followed by a conversation with director Julie Taymor and Poster. Doors open at 6:30 pm\, and the film screening starts at 7:00 pm.  \nThe NOMA Museum Shop will be present at the screening from 6:30-9:30 pm with merchandise related to the series’s theme “Artists on Film.”  \nView all events in the Producer’s Choice Film Series \n\nTickets\nTickets are $10 for NOMA members and $15 for general admission. \nBuy Tickets for “Frida” \nTicket Waitlist Policy\n\nIf tickets are sold out for a screening\, there will be a first come\, first served policy to fill any unoccupied seats: \n\nAt 6:30 pm\, the waitlist will open at the Front Desk.\nAt 7:00 pm\, we will count the number of vacant seats and begin to fill them with waitlisted individuals\, who will be invited to purchase a ticket and be seated.\nNOTE: There are no additional tickets available at the door. Waitlisted individuals will only be able to claim seats left open by no-show attendants. We cannot guarantee that individuals on the waitlist will be able to sit together.\nThe museum is open until 7:00 pm on Wednesday evenings. While waiting\, waitlisted individuals are welcome to view NOMA exhibitions.\n\n\n\nAbout the Film\nFrida (2002\, 2h 3m)\nA biography of artist Frida Kahlo\, who channeled the pain of a life-altering injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work. \nAbout Meryl Poster\nMeryl Poster is an award-winning producer and filmmaker. Starting as the second ever female trainee in the William Morris Agency mailroom\, she has since led and developed a slate of groundbreaking\, critically acclaimed films\, including the Oscar-winning Chicago\, Chocolat\, Cider House Rules\, Cop Land\, Beautiful Girls\, Bounce\, Kate and Leopold\, and An Unfinished Life.
URL:https://noma.org/event/producers-choice-frida/
LOCATION:NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts
CATEGORIES:Films,Talks & Tours
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SUMMARY:Public Tours in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Sunday
DESCRIPTION:NOMA provides guided tours of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden every Saturday. During these tours\, you’ll learn about a selection of the 100 large-scale works installed in the garden. \nNo registration is required. NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free and open to all\, seven days a week. Tours start at the main entrance gate to the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Dueling Oaks Drive.
URL:https://noma.org/event/sculpture-garden-tours-2024/2025-11-02/
LOCATION:Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans \, LA\, 70124
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SUMMARY:Gallery Talk with Curator Brian Piper
DESCRIPTION:Every week\, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators\, artists\, and other special guests. These lively\, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view. \nIn celebration of the opening of the special exhibition Dawoud Bey: Elegy\, join Brian Piper; NOMA’s Freeman Family Curator of Photographs\, Prints\, and Drawings; for a conversation about works on view in the exhibition. The gallery talk will be offered at 12:30 and 6:00 pm this day. \nIncluded with museum admission\, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA\, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.
URL:https://noma.org/event/gallery-talk-with-curator-brian-piper-3/2025-11-05/1/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
CATEGORIES:Talks & Tours,Gallery Talks
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SUMMARY:Gallery Talk with Curator Brian Piper
DESCRIPTION:Every week\, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators\, artists\, and other special guests. These lively\, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view. \nIn celebration of the opening of the special exhibition Dawoud Bey: Elegy\, join Brian Piper; NOMA’s Freeman Family Curator of Photographs\, Prints\, and Drawings; for a conversation about works on view in the exhibition. The gallery talk will be offered at 12:30 and 6:00 pm this day. \nIncluded with museum admission\, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA\, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.
URL:https://noma.org/event/gallery-talk-with-curator-brian-piper-4/2025-11-05/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
CATEGORIES:Talks & Tours,Gallery Talks
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SUMMARY:Gallery Talk with Curator Brian Piper
DESCRIPTION:Every week\, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators\, artists\, and other special guests. These lively\, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view. \nIn celebration of the opening of the special exhibition Dawoud Bey: Elegy\, join Brian Piper; NOMA’s Freeman Family Curator of Photographs\, Prints\, and Drawings; for a conversation about works on view in the exhibition. The gallery talk will be offered at 12:30 and 6:00 pm this day. \nIncluded with museum admission\, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA\, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.
URL:https://noma.org/event/gallery-talk-with-curator-brian-piper-3/2025-11-05/2/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
CATEGORIES:Talks & Tours,Gallery Talks
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SUMMARY:Public Tours in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Sunday
DESCRIPTION:NOMA provides guided tours of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden every Saturday. During these tours\, you’ll learn about a selection of the 100 large-scale works installed in the garden. \nNo registration is required. NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free and open to all\, seven days a week. Tours start at the main entrance gate to the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Dueling Oaks Drive.
URL:https://noma.org/event/sculpture-garden-tours-2024/2025-11-09/
LOCATION:Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans \, LA\, 70124
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SUMMARY:Producer's Choice: Pollock (2000) and Conversation with Meryl Poster and Lead Actor and Director Ed Harris
DESCRIPTION:Films build community through shared experiences. \nNOMA presents a series of films—selected by award-winning producer and filmmaker Meryl Poster—followed by insightful special guests. Don’t miss your chance to revisit or discover modern classics on the big screen and gain behind-the-scenes insight into the film industry from leading figures. \nDiscussions will draw connections to art more broadly and celebrate cinema as an essential art form. \nNOMA will screen Pollock (2000) for this program. Doors open at 6:30 pm\, and the screening will begin at 7:00 pm. At 9:10 pm\, the conversation between Poster and the film’s lead actor and director Ed Harris (joining via Zoom) will begin.  \nThe NOMA Museum Shop will be present at the screening from 6:30-9:30 pm with merchandise related to the series’s theme “Artists on Film.” \nView all events in the Producer’s Choice Film Series \n\nTickets\nTickets are $10 for NOMA members and $15 for general admission. \nBuy Tickets for “Pollock” \n*Please note: NOMA members must log into their my.noma account in order to see their ticket options at the link above.  \nTicket Waitlist Policy\n\nIf tickets are sold out for a screening\, there will be a first come\, first served policy to fill any unoccupied seats: \n\nAt 6:30 pm\, the waitlist will open at the Front Desk.\nAt 7:00 pm\, we will count the number of vacant seats and begin to fill them with waitlisted individuals\, who will be invited to purchase a ticket and be seated.\nNOTE: There are no additional tickets available at the door. Waitlisted individuals will only be able to claim seats left open by no-show attendants. We cannot guarantee that individuals on the waitlist will be able to sit together.\nThe museum is open until 7:00 pm on Wednesday evenings. While waiting\, waitlisted individuals are welcome to view NOMA exhibitions.\n\n\n\nAbout the Film\nPollock (2000\, 2h 2m)\nPollock is a look back into the life of the artist\, who engaged in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out across his career. \nAbout Meryl Poster\nMeryl Poster is an award-winning producer and filmmaker. Starting as the second ever female trainee in the William Morris Agency mailroom\, she has since led and developed a slate of groundbreaking\, critically acclaimed films\, including the Oscar-winning Chicago\, Chocolat\, Cider House Rules\, Cop Land\, Beautiful Girls\, Bounce\, Kate and Leopold\, and An Unfinished Life. \nAbout Ed Harris\nActor and Director Ed Harris. Photo by O’Shane Howard. \n\nEd Harris has an acclaimed film career spanning five decades. He is a four-time Academy Award nominee and a two-time Golden Globe winner for his brilliant performances in The Hours\, The Truman Show\, Apollo 13\, Game Change (HBO)\, Empire Falls (HBO) and Pollock – his feature film directing debut.\n\n\n\n\nHarris has a prolific and diverse filmography of leading roles with acclaimed filmmakers\, including Alamo Bay (Louis Malle)\, The Abyss (James Cameron)\, The Firm (Sydney Pollack)\, Nixon (Oliver Stone)\, The Rock (Michael Bay)\, Absolute Power (Clint Eastwood)\, A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard)\, Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho)\, Mother! (Darren Aronofsky)\, and three films with veteran filmmaker Agnieszka Holland. Harris starred in blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick and in Netflix’s The Lost Daughter\, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s award-winning film adaptation of the Elena Ferrante novel.\n\n\n\n\nUpcoming\, Harris will star in the highly anticipated Yellowstone spin-off The Dutton Ranch from creator Taylor Sheridan. He most recently starred alongside Jessica Lange in MGM’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night\, a screen adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play.\n\n\n\n\nHarris’s recent work includes crime thriller feature Riff Raff\, alongside Jennifer Coolidge\, Dustin Hoffman\, and Pete Davidson. He also starred in the comedy-drama film My Dead Friend Zoe\, which had its debut at SXSW\, winning the Audience Award\, and alongside Kristen Stewart in the A24 film Love Lies Bleeding\, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January of 2024.\n\n\n\n\nIn addition to directing Pollock\, his second film\, as director\, screenwriter\, and actor\, was Appaloosa\, co-starring Viggo Mortensen. His television credits include Empire Falls (HBO) and Riders of the Purple Sage (TNT)\, co-starring and co-produced with his wife Amy Madigan. Harris also starred as the enigmatic “Man in Black’ for four seasons of the critically acclaimed HBO series Westworld\, which earned him an Emmy nomination.\n\n\n\n\nHarris’ theatre credits include: Ronald Harwood’s Taking Sides\, Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love (Obie)\, and Simpatico (Lucille Lortel Award for “Best Actor”)\, George Furth’s Precious Sons (Drama Desk Award\, Tony Nomination)\, Prairie Avenue\, Scar\, A Streetcar Named Desire\, The Grapes of Wrath\, and Sweet Bird of Youth\, Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird\, and Shephard’s Buried Child\, in which Harris and Madigan made their London West End debut and for which he received an Olivier nomination.
URL:https://noma.org/event/producers-choice-pollock/
LOCATION:NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts
CATEGORIES:Films,Talks & Tours
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SUMMARY:Producer's Choice: Basquiat (1996) and Conversation with Meryl Poster and Director Julian Schnabel
DESCRIPTION:NOMA presents a series of films—selected by award-winning producer and filmmaker Meryl Poster—followed by insightful special guests. Don’t miss your chance to revisit or discover modern classics on the big screen and gain behind-the-scenes insight into the film industry from leading figures. Discussions will draw connections to art more broadly and celebrate cinema as an essential art form. \nNOMA will screen a 2024 black-and-white restoration of Basquiat (1996) for this program. Doors open at 6:30 pm\, and the screening will begin at 7:00 pm. At 9:20 pm\, conversation between Poster and the film’s director Julian Schnabel (joining via Zoom) will begin. The NOMA Museum Shop will be present at the screening from 6:30-9:30 pm with merchandise related to the series’s theme “Artists on Film.”  \nFor this screening of Basquiat\, guests will also have the option of purchasing an additional ticket for a seated dinner at Café NOMA before the film. \nPlease note: seating for the dinner begins at 5:30 pm\, and food is served between 6:00-7:00 pm. Dinner tickets are available for purchase in the “Tickets” section below. \nView all events in the Producer’s Choice Film Series \n\nTickets\nTickets for the screening and pre-screening conversation are $10 for NOMA members and $15 for general admission. \nBuy Tickets for “Basquiat” \n*Please note: NOMA members must log into their my.noma account in order to see their ticket options at the link above.  \nSeated Dinner with Cafe NOMA\nFor this final screening of the Producer’s Choice Fall 2025 season\, NOMA has collaborated with Café NOMA on a pre-screening dinner option\, available with separate purchase. Enjoy watching the stars come out under the skylights of NOMA’s Coleman Courtyard while sharing a table\, a meal\, and a conversation with fellow film enthusiasts.  \nSeating for the dinner begins at 5:30 pm\, and food is served between 6:00-7:00 pm. \nBuy Tickets and View the Menu for the pre-film dinner \n\nWaitlist Policy\n\nIf tickets are sold out for a screening\, there will be a first come\, first served policy to fill any unoccupied seats: \n\nAt 6:30 pm\, the waitlist will open at the Front Desk.\nAt 7:00 pm\, we will count the number of vacant seats and begin to fill them with waitlisted individuals\, who will be invited to purchase a ticket and be seated.\nNOTE: There are no additional tickets available at the door. Waitlisted individuals will only be able to claim seats left open by no-show attendants. We cannot guarantee that individuals on the waitlist will be able to sit together.\nThe museum is open until 7:00 pm on Wednesday evenings. While waiting\, waitlisted individuals are welcome to view NOMA exhibitions.\n\n\n\nAbout the Film and Pre-Screening Conversation\nBasquiat (1996\, 1h 50m)\nAn exploration of the brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat\, a world-renowned New York street artist struggling with fame\, drug use\, and his identity. \nAbout Meryl Poster\nMeryl Poster is an award-winning producer and filmmaker. Starting as the second ever female trainee in the William Morris Agency mailroom\, she has since led and developed a slate of groundbreaking\, critically acclaimed films\, including the Oscar-winning Chicago\, Chocolat\, Cider House Rules\, Cop Land\, Beautiful Girls\, Bounce\, Kate and Leopold\, and An Unfinished Life.
URL:https://noma.org/event/producers-choice-basquiat/
LOCATION:NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts
CATEGORIES:Films,Talks & Tours
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SUMMARY:Public Tours in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Sunday
DESCRIPTION:NOMA provides guided tours of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden every Saturday. During these tours\, you’ll learn about a selection of the 100 large-scale works installed in the garden. \nNo registration is required. NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free and open to all\, seven days a week. Tours start at the main entrance gate to the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Dueling Oaks Drive.
URL:https://noma.org/event/sculpture-garden-tours-2024/2025-11-16/
LOCATION:Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans \, LA\, 70124
CATEGORIES:Talks & Tours
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SUMMARY:"Hurricanes Katrina and Rita at 20: Poets Remember" with Creative Assembly Resident Andy Young and Louisiana Poet Laureate (2021-2023) Mona Lisa Saloy
DESCRIPTION:Join NOMA Creative Assembly resident Andy Young and former Louisiana Poet Laureate Mona Lisa Saloy for a conversation about poetry and art in connection with the new anthology Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: An Anthology of Louisiana Poetry with Art. This program commemorates Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and celebrates the new anthology edited by Louisiana Poets Laureate Mona Lisa Saloy and John Warner Smith. Dr. Saloy will be featured along with contributing poet Andy Young\, who is a member of the 2025 NOMA Creative Assembly Cohort. \nThis conversation will be followed by a book signing where guests can purchase copies of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: An Anthology of Louisiana Poetry with Art and have them signed.  \nThis program is free and open to the public. Advance registration is recommended. \nRegister Now \n\n\nAbout Andy Young\n \nAndy Young‘s second full-length collection\, Museum of the Soon to Depart\, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press (2025). She is also the author of All Night It Is Morning (Diálogos Press\, 2014) and four chapbooks. She grew up in West Virginia and has lived most of her adult life in New Orleans\, where she teaches at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. Her work has recently appeared in Prairie Schooner and Blue Mountain Review\, and her short film\, “Pharmacy Museum Tour Guide\, New Orleans” was recently screened at New Orleans Film Festival\, the Ó Bhéal Poetry Film Festival\, and has won awards from the Berlin Indie Film Awards\, London Women Film Festival and others. She is a graduate of the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. \nAbout Mona Lisa Saloy\nLouisiana Poet Laureate (2021-2023) Mona Lisa Saloy \nMona Lisa Saloy\, Ph.D.\, Louisiana Poet Laureate (2021-2023)\, is an author\, folklorist\, Louisiana Folklife Commissioner\, educator\, and scholar of Creole culture in articles\, documentaries\, and poems about Black New Orleans before and after Katrina. Saloy is currently Conrad N. Hilton Endowed Professor of English\, Dillard University.  Mona Lisa Saloy writes for those who don’t or can’t tell Black Creole cultural stories. Learn more at www.monalisasaloy.com \nBooks: Red Beans & Ricely Yours (has a banned poem “The N Word”)\, won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award. Second Line Home\, on New Orleans Black Creole culture.\n\n\nRecent publications: The Chicago Quarterly Review\, Vol 33; “Introduction” to Black Fire!!! This Time II; Southern Voices: Fifty Contemporary Poets (Tom Mack & Andrew Geyer eds.) Literary Press\, Lamar University\, Fall 2024.  LMNL Poetry Anthology\, Fall 2024. Black Creole Chronicles: Poems (UNO Press 2023)\, choice for ONE BOOK ONE NEW ORLEANS 2024\, & Book of the Month\, The Whitney Plantation Museum.\n\n\nSaloy was named Louisianian of the Year in Literature: 2024 in Louisiana Life Magazine. Mentioned in “Read your Way through New Orleans\,” by Maurice Carlos Ruffin\, NYT Book Review\, Oct. 2024\n\n\n\n\nAbout Creative Assembly\nLaunched in 2021\, NOMA’s Creative Assembly residency promotes community engagement by welcoming artists to collaborate throughout the year with the museum’s permanent collection\, special exhibitions\, and programs. Creative Assembly Cohort members are provided funds and museum support to develop artistic projects and public offerings\, like programs and workshops. \nLearn more at noma.org/learn/creative-assembly/.
URL:https://noma.org/event/katrina-and-rita-poets-remember/
LOCATION:NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts
CATEGORIES:Talks & Tours,Creative Assembly
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SUMMARY:Weekly Gallery Talk: Curator Mel Buchanan\, Automaton Musical Clock
DESCRIPTION:Every week\, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators\, artists\, and other special guests. These lively\, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view. \nThis week\, join NOMA’s RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts and Design Mel Buchanan for a gallery talk on Automaton Musical Clock. This iconic work of art and machinery in the museum’s permanent collection precise clockwork that activates chiming bells and spins bejeweled ornaments on the hour. Still dazzling today\, this clock was a mechanical marvel when it was made in London around 1800. In this Gallery Talk guests will  learn more about this clock and its restoration. This gallery talk will only be offered at 12:30 PM. \nIncluded with museum admission\, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA\, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.
URL:https://noma.org/event/gallery-talk-automaton-musical-clock/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
CATEGORIES:Talks & Tours,Gallery Talks
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SUMMARY:Elders Sacred Talk Series: Big Chief Tyrone Casby and Beverly Stanton McKenna
DESCRIPTION:NOMA and the Congo Square Preservation Society present the Elders Sacred Talk Series with prolific elder New Orleanians\, celebrating the lives they lead while providing the opportunity for visitors to learn firsthand about the impact they’ve had on our city. \nThis conversation between Big Chief Tyrone Casby and Beverly Stanton McKenna will be moderated by Big Chief Dow Edwards. \n\nThis program is included with museum admission\, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative.\n\n\nAbout the Speakers\nBig Chief Tyrone Casby\n \n\nTyrone Casby is the legendary Big Chief of the Mohawk Hunters Mardi Gras Indian Tribe and a distinguished high school principal\, coach and mentor. He is lauded for perpetuating cultural pride in classrooms and communities on the Westbank of New Orleans. Casby became a part of the masking culture at the age of six following his older brother\, Wildman Ralph “Tickleman” Casby\, of the Mohawk Hunters\, through Algiers on Mardi Gras Day. He first masked with the tribe (whose first Big Chief was his uncle\, Frank Casby\, Sr) in 1966 as 2nd Spy Boy. He was appointed 1st Chief in 1979 and the next year\, he became the Big Chief. \n\nToday\, averaging 30 members\, the Mohawk Hunters is one of the largest tribes in New Orleans and the only one on the West Bank. Members have performed in Sri Lanka\, Guatemala and Honduras. Local programs include sewing and beading patches with prison inmates. Casby has masked for 58 years lifting the spirits of people in Algiers\, perpetuating the culture\, promoting positive family and community values\, and inspiring those who cross his path. \n\n\nBeverly Stanton McKenna\n \nBeverly Stanton McKenna is a publisher\, cultural preservationist\, community leader and business investor. She and her life partner (Dr. Dwight McKenna) have spent decades building institutions that make New Orleans more informed\, just\, and deeply connected to its own history. Together they revived The New Orleans Tribune\, a storied Black newspaper; created two museums (The Le Musée de f.p.c. and The George & Lean McKenna Museum of African American Art); and played a pivotal role in the revitalization of Bayou Road business district. \n\nMcKenna\, a trained journalist and cultural historian\, earned a degree in English from Tennessee State University before teaching in Washington\, D.C. and working as a public information officer for the U.S. Virgin Islands. In New Orleans\, she has mentored emerging writers and editors\, and has helped position the Tribune as a trusted voice on policy\, politics\, education\, and the daily lives of Black New Orleanians. \n  \n\n\n\nAbout Elders Sacred Talks and Art Thrives\nNOMA’s Art Thrives initiative presents creative aging programs designed to support visitors ages 55 and up. In addition to art-making workshops\, courses\, and opportunities for hands-on art-making\, the Elders Sacred Talk Series provides a platform for older adults in New Orleans to share their experiences with audiences of all ages. \nThe Elders Sacred Talk Series is presented in partnership between NOMA and the Congo Square Preservation Society. Art Thrives is supported by E.A. Michelson Philanthropy.
URL:https://noma.org/event/elders-sacred-talk-series-big-chief-tyrone-casby-and-beverly-stanton-mckenna/
CATEGORIES:Talks & Tours,Art Thrives
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SUMMARY:Lecture | "Here in This Place": Developing Place-Based Awareness through Land and Labor Acknowledgements
DESCRIPTION:Join us in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts for a conversation on the importance of Land and Labor acknowledgments with Sherry Parfait & Solomon Matthews\, moderated by Queen Mother Sula. \nRecognizing our connections to the land and to one another is essential in fostering a sense of community\, allowing us to navigate a shared awareness of place. The land bridges our imagined past with our experiences in the present. Much of the success of Louisiana today is founded not only on the forced labor of enslaved people\, but also on the generations of experience and knowledge of indigenous nations and communities in this area. The practice of developing and using a Land Acknowledgment statement is to meaningfully recognize the original inhabitants of a location\, their experiences of forced removal\, and the dispossession of their ancestral homelands. Similarly\, a Labor Acknowledgment statement reminds us that much of the economic progress and development we see today has often been built upon the unpaid labor and forced servitude of enslaved people.  \nThis featured lecture inspired by the current special exhibitions Dawoud Bey: Elegy & Nicolas Floc’h: Fleuves-Océan\, Mississippi Watershed will explore how acknowledgment fosters community\, accountability\, and a shared awareness of place.  \nDoors open at 5:00 pm. The lecture starts at 5:30 pm\, followed by a Q&A. \nThis program is free and open to all. Seating is first come first served\, advance registration is suggested. \nREGISTER HERE \n\nAbout the Speakers and Moderator\nSherry Parfait\n \nSherry Parfait is an enrolled citizen of the United Houma Nation (UHN)\, Louisiana’s largest Indigenous Tribe\, and she has been a New Orleans resident for seven years. She provides public relations and marketing services to the UHN and serves as the Editor of the UHN Quarterly\, the Nation’s newspaper. She also works for Gordon Arata Montgomery Barnett\, a full-service law firm in downtown New Orleans\, where she provides administrative and marketing support and serves as Co-Chair of the firm’s Diversity Committee. Sherry is a Chips Quinn Scholar and a member of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI)\, and she is Vice President of the New Orleans Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). She is also working on a Master’s degree in Marketing & Communications at Loyola University. \n  \nSolomon Matthews\n \nBorn in Mid-City New Orleans at Charity Hospital and raised in Kenner\, Louisiana\, Solomon Matthews is a dedicated educator\, advisor\, and cultural advocate. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Work from Northwestern State University of Louisiana and a master’s degree in Education from the University of Southern California. \nSolomon’s professional career spans academic and career advising\, as well as leadership in new student and family programs within higher education settings. After returning home to New Orleans\, he transitioned into community-based arts and cultural work\, first serving as the Community Programs Director at Ashé Cultural Arts Center and now as its Program Officer. He also teaches as an adjunct faculty member in Delgado Community College’s Adult Education program. In all his roles\, Solomon is committed to strengthening community engagement\, expanding creative programming\, and uplifting the cultural legacy of the city. \n  \nQueen Mother Sula\n \nQueen Mother Sula’s bio will be available soon. Please check this page for updates.
URL:https://noma.org/event/land-and-labor-acknowledgements-lecture/
CATEGORIES:Workshops & Classes,Talks & Tours
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