Workshops & Classes
SOLD OUT — Studio KIDS!: Confetti Postcards
On Saturday, December 18, explore works from the exhibition A Brief History of Photography and Transmission to think about the ways people shared photos with loved ones in the past, then make your own photographic confetti postcard to send in the mail!
Studio KIDS!: Paper Places
Studio KIDS! youth art-making workshops are back. Join us at the museum on select Saturday mornings to take a look at artworks in the galleries and practice your own art-making skills with a NOMA teaching artist. Registration includes all art-making materials. Masks are required.
Studio KIDS!: I See Symbols
Studio KIDS! youth art-making workshops are back. Join us at the museum on select Saturday mornings to take a look at artworks in the galleries and practice your own art-making skills with a NOMA teaching artist. Registration includes all art-making materials. Masks are required.
Studio KIDS!: Trash to Time Travel
Studio KIDS! youth art-making workshops are back. Join us at the museum on select Saturday mornings to take a look at artworks in the galleries and practice your own art-making skills with a NOMA teaching artist. Registration includes all art-making materials. Masks are required.
Food as Medicine: New Orleans Cuisine with Healthy Alternatives
Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LAAs one of the culinary capitals of the world, New Orleans’s cuisine is one of the city’s most notable attributes. While many of these dishes are world renowned, their nutrition and healthiness is sometimes compromised during their creation. Lower 9th Ward native Courtney Clark has dedicated much of her multidisciplinary creative practice to community food justice organizing in an attempt to combat many of the diet-related diseases that exist within many of New Orleans’ communities.
Studio KIDS! (Ages 6–10)
Join us this fall for Studio KIDS! art-making workshops for youth ages 6–10. Meet at the museum on select Saturday mornings to take a look at artworks in the galleries and practice your own art-making skills with a NOMA teaching artist. Registration includes all art-making materials.
Archival Preservation: Family Photographs Workshop
Join experts from New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans Photo Alliance, Louisiana State University, and the Historic New Orleans Collection to learn about best practices for preservation of family photograph collections. Following presentations, participants will have the opportunity to bring a limited number of family photographs, in a variety of formats, to be digitized and brought home that day. NOMA will not keep any copies of digitized photographs.
Art Thrives: Digital Photography (Ages 55 and Up)
NOMA’s Art Thrives program aims to create opportunities exclusively for adults ages 55 and up to learn new creative skills while building community and having fun in the process. In conjunction with Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers, on view through January 8, we invite you to join us for an eight-session photography workshop.
POSTPONED | Art Thrives Digital Photography Showcase
NOMA’s Art Thrives program aims to create opportunities exclusively for adults ages 55 and up to learn new creative skills while building community and having fun in the process. Over four weeks, participants worked with professional teaching artists and museum staff to explore a diverse range of photographic processes as a catalyst for inspiration.
Archival Preservation: Family Photographs Workshop
Join experts from New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans Photo Alliance, Louisiana State University, and the Historic New Orleans Collection to learn about best practices for preservation of family photograph collections. Following presentations, participants will have the opportunity to bring a limited number of family photographs, in a variety of formats, to be digitized and brought home that day. NOMA will not keep any copies of digitized photographs.
Art Thrives: Ceramics (Ages 55 and Up)
NOMA’s Art Thrives program aims to create opportunities exclusively for adults ages 55 and up to learn new creative skills while building community and having fun in the process. In conjunction with Katherine Choy: Radical Potter in 1950s New Orleans, on view through April 16, we invite you to join us for an eight-session ceramics course.
Art Thrives Ceramics Showcase
NOMA’s Art Thrives program aims to create opportunities exclusively for adults ages 55 and up to learn new creative skills while building community and having fun in the process. Over four weeks, participants worked with teaching artists and museum staff to learn hand-building techniques while exploring the progression of ceramics over the past 200 years.