Public Opening for Dawn DeDeaux: The Space Between Worlds
Join us for an evening of music, activities, and exploration to celebrate the opening of the new exhibition Dawn DeDeaux: The Space Between Worlds, on view October 22, 2021–January 23, 2022. This is the first comprehensive museum exhibition for the New Orleans–based multimedia artist whose work often investigates past and present to imagine possible futures....
Book Club Group Discussion
The 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! In addition to monthly book discussions, the Book Club meets periodically...
The NOLA Project presents Tell It to Me Sweet
Wander through tales from spooky to strange in this brand-new look at some very old fables written by NOLA Project ensemble member Brittany N. Williams. Meet magical aunties, too-clever wolves, wicked stepmothers, foolish devils, and determined ghosts on a winding tour of five stories pulled from European and African American fairy tales and folklore.
SOLD OUT — Artist Lecture with Dawn DeDeaux: “Between Time”
In conjunction with her comprehensive museum exhibition Dawn DeDeaux: The Space Between Worlds, the artist gives a public lecture addressing the artwork currently on view at NOMA, as well as her larger body of work.
Odyssey 2021 Presented by IBERIABANK | First Horizon
New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LAOdyssey celebrates and enhances the New Orleans Museum of Art in an evening of unparalleled elegance. Critically important to the museum and the wide community it serves, Odyssey raises the funds necessary to support NOMA’s nationally-recognized exhibitions and educational programs.
Virtual Baby Artsplay!
Young Audiences of Louisiana’s Baby Artsplay! is offered as a series of six free 30-minute workshops held weekly to engage young children ages 12-24 months and their caregivers in research-based experiences that support their cognitive, physical, and social development. Take inspiration from a different NOMA artwork each week as you and your child enjoy creative...
TRUST by Kelly Love Jones
The New Orleans Museum of Art in collaboration with PowerHouse Productions is excited to present TRUST, a concept and performance by singer/songwriter Kelly Love Jones. Join us in the Lapis Center for the Arts for an evening of music, visual art, dance, and theater. Jones brings to the stage a star-studded cast: Lakeba Angelle, Tiffany Morris, Jamal Batiste, and Drew Mosby.
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.
Book Club Group Discussion
The 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! In addition to monthly book discussions, the Book Club meets periodically...
Day With(out) Art 2021: Enduring Care
The New Orleans Museum of Art is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2021 by presenting ENDURING CARE, a video program highlighting strategies of community care within the ongoing HIV epidemic. The program features newly commissioned work by Katherine Cheairs, Cristóbal Guerra, Danny Kilbride, Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad and Uriah Bussey, Beto Pérez, Steed Taylor, and J Triangular and the Women’s Video Support Project.
The Brooklyn Rail Presents The New Social Environment #448: The Space Between Worlds
Artist Dawn DeDeaux joins Brooklyn Rail Editor-at-Large Dan Cameron and artist and arts administrator Joseph S. Lewis III for a conversation. The program concludes with a poetry reading by Cliff Fyman.
Pop-Up Performance: The Nutcracker in New Orleans
Enjoy a special preview of everyone's favorite holiday classic with a New Orleans twist. In this special pop-up performance at NOMA, students from New Orleans School of Ballet will perform excerpts of the original production The Nutcracker in New Orleans. Set to Tchaikovsky's iconic score, the localized production includes a Flight of the Pelicans, a...