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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:Gallery Talk and Book Signing with Boyce Upholt\, Author of The Great River
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. \nJoin the NOMA Book Club in welcoming local author Boyce Upholt for two gallery talks connecting his book The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi with NOMA’s special exhibition Nicolas Floc’h: Fleuves-Océan\, Mississippi Watershed. The gallery talks will be offered at 12:30 and 6 pm this day. This program will also include a book signing with Upholt.  \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-upholt/2026-01-14/1/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
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SUMMARY:Gallery Talk and Book Signing with Boyce Upholt\, Author of The Great River
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. \nJoin the NOMA Book Club in welcoming local author Boyce Upholt for two gallery talks connecting his book The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi with NOMA’s special exhibition Nicolas Floc’h: Fleuves-Océan\, Mississippi Watershed. The gallery talks will be offered at 12:30 and 6 pm this day. This program will also include a book signing with Upholt.  \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-upholt/2026-01-14/2/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
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SUMMARY:Gallery Talk and Book Signing with Boyce Upholt\, Author of The Great River
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. \nJoin the NOMA Book Club in welcoming local author Boyce Upholt for two gallery talks connecting his book The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi with NOMA’s special exhibition Nicolas Floc’h: Fleuves-Océan\, Mississippi Watershed. The gallery talks will be offered at 12:30 and 6 pm this day. This program will also include a book signing with Upholt.  \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-upholt-2/2026-01-14/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
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SUMMARY:Book Club: The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
DESCRIPTION:NOMA’s book club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in the museum’s collection and exhibitions. \nThis month’s book club selection is The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi by Boyce Upholt\,  a landmark work of natural history in which Upholt tells the epic story of the wild and unruly Mississippi River and the centuries spent attempting to control it. \nRegister Now \nThis month’s book club will also be paired with two gallery talks where Upholt will connect his work in The Great River with the works on view in the exhibition Nicolas Floc’h: Fleuves-Océan\, Mississippi Watershed and sign copies of The Great River for attendees. \nView Upholt Gallery Talk and Book Signing Events \n\nAbout NOMA’s Book Club\nNOMA’s book club 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 to participate. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections.  \nBooks are selected in advance and planned according to the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the titles. Selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. For more information or questions\, please email programs@noma.org. \n\nAbout the Book\nThe Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi\nWinner of the 2024 Willie Morris Award for Southern Nonfiction • A Chicago Public Library Must-Read Book of 2024 • A Booklist Editors’ Choice \nThe Mississippi River lies at the heart of America\, an undeniable life force that is intertwined with the nation’s culture and history. Its watershed spans almost half the country\, Mark Twain’s travels on the river inspired our first national literature\, and jazz and blues were born in its floodplains and carried upstream. \nIn this landmark work of natural history\, Boyce Upholt tells the epic story of this wild and unruly river\, and the centuries of efforts to control it. Over thousands of years\, the Mississippi watershed was home to millions of Indigenous people who regarded “the great river” with awe and respect\, adorning its banks with astonishing spiritual earthworks. The river was ever-changing\, and Indigenous tribes embraced and even depended on its regular flooding. But the expanse of the watershed and the rich soils of its floodplain lured European settlers and American pioneers\, who had a different vision: the river was a foe to conquer. \nCenturies of human attempts to own\, contain\, and rework the Mississippi River\, from Thomas Jefferson’s expansionist land hunger through today’s era of environmental concern\, have now transformed its landscape. Upholt reveals how an ambitious and sometimes contentious program of engineering—government-built levees\, jetties\, dikes\, and dams—has not only damaged once-vibrant ecosystems but may not work much longer. Carrying readers along the river’s last remaining backchannels\, he explores how scientists are now hoping to restore what has been lost. \nRich and powerful\, The Great River delivers a startling account of what happens when we try to fight against nature instead of acknowledging and embracing its power—a lesson that is all too relevant in our rapidly changing world. \n-description from W.W. Norton & Company \nAbout Boyce Upholt\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n  \nBoyce Upholt is a journalist and essayist whose writing has appeared in the Atlantic\, National Geographic\, the Oxford American\, and Virginia Quarterly Review\, among other publications. He is the winner of a James Beard Award for investigative journalism\, and he lives in New Orleans\, Louisiana.
URL:https://noma.org/event/book-club-the-great-river-the-making-and-unmaking-of-the-mississippi/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Harmonia Rosales and CCH Pounder: Conversation and Book Signing Celebrating Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic
DESCRIPTION:NOMA is delighted to welcome acclaimed artist Harmonia Rosales in celebration of her new book\, Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic.  \nThe evening opens with a book signing\, followed by a moderated conversation between Rosales and actress and art collector CCH Pounder. This conversation will be moderated by Dr. Redell Hearn\, NOMA’s Chief Educator. \nThis program is free and open to the public; copies of Chronicles of Ori are available for purchase through the NOMA Museum Shop during the program. Registration is highly encouraged. Seating is limited\, but standing room will be available. Registration does not guarantee having a physical seat for the program.  \nREGISTER HERE \nThis program is in conjunction with NOMA’s Book Club. Join us on February 5th for a discussion on Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic. \nView Event Listing \n\nProgram Schedule\n5:30 PM | Book Signing with Harmonia Rosales in the Coleman Courtyard \nThe NOMA Museum Shop will have copies of Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic available for purchase. \n6:30 – 8:30 pm| Conversation with Harmonia Rosales and CCH Pounder in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts\nConversation moderated by NOMA’s Chief Educator\, Dr. Redell Hearn\, in the Lapis Center for the Arts. \n\nAbout the Speakers and Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic\nHarmonia Rosales\nHarmonia Rosales\, Artist and Author of Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nHarmonia Rosales is a Chicago-born\, Afro-Cuban American artist and author whose work centers the visibility and empowerment of Black women in Western art. Growing up visiting the Art Institute of Chicago\, Rosales was captivated by Renaissance painting – but years later\, her daughter’s simple observation that “they don’t look like me” exposed the exclusion at the heart of that tradition. That moment sparked Rosales’s artistic journey: reimagining Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces with Black protagonists and centering West African tradition.\n\nShe lives in Los Angeles\, CA.\n\nCCH Pounder\nActress and art collector CCH Pounder \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAward-winning actress CCH Pounder has been extensively involved with the arts as a patron\, collector\, gallery owner and museum founder. Ms. Pounder’s Collection consists of Caribbean and African artists and artists of the African Diaspora. The Collection\, which comprises over 500 pieces\, is heavily concentrated in the area of Contemporary Art but also includes traditional African sculptures. In 1992\, Ms. Pounder and her husband\, the late Boubacar Koné\, founded and built the Musée Boribana\, the first privately owned contemporary museum in Dakar Senegal\, which they gifted to that nation in 2014.  Numerous exhibits have been mounted featuring pieces from Ms. Pounder’s Collection including The Charles G. Wright Museum of African History in Detroit\, the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center in Chicago\, the African American Museum in Philadelphia and the African Diaspora Art Museum of Atlanta. Other loans & exhibits have included the National Portrait Gallery in London\, Xavier University in New Orleans\, Kent State Museum\, Spelman College Museum of Art and Memphis Brooks Museum of Art\, among many others. \nChronicles of Ori: An African Epic\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nIn Chronicles of Ori\, her debut book\, Harmonia Rosales retells the African myths she has long treasured\, crafting an enthralling epic that spans the birth of the universe to the modern world of colonialism and resistance. She writes of the powerful\, temperamental deities called the Orishas; of the founding of Yorubaland by the shrewd leader Oduduwa; of the young heroine Eve\, born in a time of violence and despair\, who would help her people regain their past splendor; and of shimmering serpents and monstrous shadows who stalk the lands of mortals. At the center of these linked tales is the bond\, sometimes fraying\, between the Orishas and the humans who worship them. It was the Orishas who made humans\, and who gave them their most precious resource: their Oris\, or destinies. Vividly brought to life by Rosales’s artwork\, Chronicles of Ori will enlighten and delight readers for years to come. \nNAACP IMAGE AWARDS Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work\, Fiction\nOne of Hyperallergic’s Favorite Art Books of 2025\n“[R]ichly evocative…a brilliant and beautiful volume.” —Booklist\, starred review\n“A lavish\, eye-catching rethinking of ages-old stories.” —Kirkus Reviews\, starred review
URL:https://noma.org/event/harmonia-rosales-cch-pounder-conversation-signing/
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