Workshops & Classes
Teen Summer Series workshop with Christian “Cubs the Poet” Davenport
The Teen Summer Series aims to create a virtual space for teens to learn about artists' practices and to create together. Christian "Cubs the Poet" Davenport will lead a workshop on the five senses as they relate to personal identity. Advance registration is required for this free workshop.
Teen Summer Series workshop with Dorothy Ray
The Teen Summer Series aims to create a virtual space for teen to learn about artists’ practices and to create together.
join teaching artist Dorothy Ray to learn more about sharpening creative thinking skills. Advance registration is required for this free workshop.
NOMA Reset: Enso Painting Workshop
In Zen, ensō is a circle that is hand-drawn to express a moment when the mind is free to let the body create. Join us for a workshop led by Rose Bratcher, an ensō painter and a monk at the New Orleans Zen Temple.
Virtual Way of Tea Demonstration
In conjunction with the exhibition Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society, NOMA is excited to present a pair of virtual Way of Tea demonstrations led by Naomi Yoder (they/them), Japanese Way of Tea Practitioner, Urasenke Lineage. This program will occur on...
Virtual Studio KIDS! at Home
Bring the New Orleans Museum of Art into your home and get creative together through Virtual Studio KIDS! family art-making workshops.
Drink and Draw
Join us for Drink and Draw, a new art-making series at NOMA. Seeing is an active process of focusing, negotiating, and making meaning at once. Attune your eyes, mind, and body through an exploratory approach to observational drawing—with drinks in hand! Warm up with sketching and looking in the galleries, participate in a drawing session facilitated by a teaching artist, and enjoy sounds by local DJs.
Drink and Draw
Join us for Drink and Draw, an art-making series at NOMA. Seeing is an active process of focusing, negotiating, and making meaning at once. Attune your eyes, mind, and body through an exploratory approach to observational drawing—with drinks in hand! Warm up with sketching and looking in the galleries, participate in a drawing session facilitated by a teaching artist, and enjoy sounds by local DJs.
Virtual Way of Tea Demonstration
NOMA is excited to present a virtual Way of Tea demonstration led by Naomi Yoder (they/them), Japanese Way of Tea Practitioner, Urasenke Lineage. This program will occur on Friday, October 15, at 6:30 pm. Advance registration is required, and registration is free for all!
Studio KIDS!: Ironwork Doorways
On Saturday, November 20, take inspiration from the work of New Orleans–based artist Dawn DeDeaux and the unique ironwork found all around us in our city’s architecture to create your own doorway-inspired drawing using light and shadow.
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.