POSTPONED | Healing Through History with Creative Assembly Cohort Member Dianne Honoré
NOMA’s Lapis Center for the ArtsThis day-long workshop provides a space for collaborative learning about ethnic, gendered, and cultural practices that define our collective history and present reality. Led by Dianne Honoré, one of NOMA’s Creative Assembly Cohort members, program participants will explore local histories, cultures, and approaches to interpreting history and culture through talks, performances, and healing rituals.
POSTPONED | Virtual Program: Created to Create with Creative Assembly Member Simone Immanuel
The museum hosts a virtual livestream of Created to Create, a talk show hosted by Creative Assembly Cohort artist Simone Immanuel designed to foster honest conversations about creativity with Black artists in New Orleans.
Hispanic Heritage Month Gallery Talk with Museum Educator Laura Moreno
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, join Laura Moreno, NOMA Museum Educator, for a conversation on an Aztec Maize Goddess sculpture. The talk will begin on the museum’s third floor and will be offered at 12:30 pm and 6 pm.
Creative Writing Poetry Workshop With Creative Assembly Member Daniel Fitzpatrick (Off-Site)
Norman Mayer Library 3001 Gentilly Boulevard, New Orleans, LA, United StatesIn partnership with the New Orleans Public Library, NOMA Creative Assembly cohort member Daniel Fitzpatrick leads a creative writing poetry workshop. Participants will work together to bring poems into the next stage of the creative process.
Hispanic Heritage Month Gallery Talk with Museum Educator Laura Moreno
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, join Laura Moreno, NOMA Museum Educator, for a conversation on an Aztec Maize Goddess sculpture. The talk will begin on the museum’s third floor and will be offered at 12:30 pm and 6 pm.
Book Club Discussion | Letting in Air and Light
New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LAThe NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book!
Hispanic Heritage Celebration with Ecos Latinos
In partnership with Ecos Latinos, the museum is hosting a Hispanic Heritage Month celebration featuring a night of music and dance performances in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts. Doors open at 5:30 pm, and performances begin at 6 pm. Light bites and a cash bar with specialty cocktails from Café NOMA will be available.
Hispanic Heritage Month Cocktail Demonstration and Gallery Talk with Café NOMA Mixologist Virna Castillo
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, join Virna Castillo, Café NOMA Mixologist, for a cocktail demonstration and gallery talk. After the talk, guests will be invited to the café to sample the month’s specialty cocktail. This talk will be offered at 12:30 pm at Café NOMA on the first floor.
Creative Writing Poetry Workshop With Creative Assembly Member Daniel Fitzpatrick (Off-Site)
Cita Dennis Hubbell Library 725 Pelican Ave, New Orleans, United StatesIn partnership with the New Orleans Public Library, NOMA Creative Assembly cohort member Daniel Fitzpatrick leads a creative writing poetry workshop. Participants will work together to bring poems into the next stage of the creative process.
Elders Sacred Talk Series with Luther Gray and Jamilah Peters-Muhammad
NOMA 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 our city. NOMA and the Congo Square Preservation Society celebrates prolific New Orleanians Luther Gray and Jamilah Yejide Peters-Muhammad, co-founders of the Congo Square Preservation Society, during the Elders Sacred Talk Series.
NOMA’s Fall Festival
Celebrate twenty years of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, at an all-ages, outdoor festival.
Voter Registration Drive
Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LAThe New Orleans Museum of Art and the Crescent City (LA) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated, are collaborating to promote voter registration in advance of the upcoming fall elections.