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January 2020
Yoga in the Sculpture Garden
NOMA, in collaboration with the East Jefferson Wellness Center, offers yoga and pilates classes in the galleries or the Besthoff Sculpture Garden (weather permitting) every Saturday morning. Read More
Find out more »Beyond Gee’s Bend: A Community Quilting Workshop
Join New Orleans community quiltmakers for a hand-quilting workshop inspired by The Quilts of Gee’s Bend exhibition. The program will include demonstrations and talks by textile artists and a music performance. Tulane Law School’s Dr. Elizabeth Townsend Gard will speak on copyright issues, her provenance workbook project, and her popular community podcast Just Wanna Quilt. This workshop is sold out. Read More
Find out more »Besthoff Sculpture Garden Tour
Join NOMA’s docents for a free guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Mondays, Fridays, and Saturdays, weather dependent, at noon. Sited on eleven acres adjacent to the museum, the garden contains more than ninety works by renowned sculptors placed among a picturesque mature grove of pine, magnolia, and moss-draped live oak trees bisected by a lagoon. Read More
Find out more »Museum Highlights Tour
NOMA docents guide visitors on hour-long tours of either the permanent collection or special exhibitions. Tours are free with NOMA admission. Meet in the Great Hall to join in. Read More
Find out more »Fragmented Landscapes Film Series
On four select Saturdays at 2 pm throughout the run of Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana, NOMA will screen a series of films by Deltaworkers collectively titled Fragmented Landscapes. The films present landscape as a way to communicate ideas about representation and political histories. Join us on January 18 at 2 pm. Read More
Find out more »Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Special Hours
The museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be open on January 20 for special holiday hours from noon to 5 pm. Read More
Find out more »Tai Chi/Chi Kung
NOMA, in collaboration with the East Jefferson Wellness Center, offers wellness classes every Saturday morning and Monday evening. Read More
Find out more »Museum Selfie Day at NOMA
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 is #MuseumSelfieDay! Post your selfie at NOMA for a chance to win a one-year Friends & Family membership to the museum. HOW TO PARTICIPATE • Follow NOMA on Instagram @neworleansmuseumofart • Take your selfie* at NOMA *Although selfie means a photo taken of oneself, photos taken by a friend are also allowed • Geotag “New Orleans Museum of Art” or “NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden” • Use the hashtags #explorenoma and #museumselfieday2020 • Post your selfie on… Read More
Find out more »Gallery Talk: Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana with Assistant Curator Anne Roberts
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. Join Assistant Curator Anne Roberts for a discussion about the exhibition Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana. Image: Henry Chapman Ford, Water Lilies and Spanish Moss, 1874, Oil on canvas, 30 x 48 in., Collection of Fred and Jennifer Hebee Read More
Find out more »Friday Nights at NOMA: Inventing Acadia Artist Perspective with Hannah Chalew | Gallery Talk and book signing with Southerly Gold | Conversation with Torkwase Dyson
Friday Nights at NOMA features an exciting lineup of programs in 2019: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries, the Museum Shop, and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm. 5 – 8 pm | Art on the Spot drop-in activity table 5:30 – 8:00 pm | Music by free feral 6 pm | Artist Perspective on Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place… Read More
Find out more »Torkwase Dyson in conversation with Leronn Brooks
Join artist Torkwase Dyson in conversation with art scholar LeRonn P. Brooks, proceeding an introduction by Allison Young, during Friday Nights at NOMA. Dyson will discuss her exhibition Torkwase Dyson: Black Compositional Thought | 15 Paintings for the Plantationocene. Produced for the New Orleans Museum of Art, this new series of fifteen paintings by Dyson are inspired by the design systems of architecture, water infrastructure, the oil and gas industry, and the physical impact of global warming. The exhibition also… Read More
Find out more »Studio KIDS!
Get Creative with Studio KIDS In 2020, Studio KIDS presents a dynamic series of children’s art classes exploring our southern Louisianan environments and homes: both real and imagined. Each week, participants will engage with different sources of inspiration in NOMA’s galleries or the Besthoff Sculpture Garden, starting with explorations of the landscape and its creatures, then shifting focus indoors to explore exquisite constructions in the interior. Each class features different media and techniques. Register for one class or the entire… Read More
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