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. Join Assistant Curator Anne Roberts for a discussion about the exhibition Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana.
Friday Nights at NOMA: Inventing Acadia Artist Perspective with Hannah Chalew | Gallery Talk and book signing with Southerly Gold
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 until 9 pm.
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.
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. This workshop is sold out.
Gallery Talk: Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana with Jeffery Darensbourg
allery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Join writer Jeffery Darensbourg as he discusses works on view in Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana.
Waterlogue: A Performance by Megan Easley | Gallery Talk with Regina Agu for Passage
Performance artist Megan Easley will deliver a water-based audio performance in the Great Hall in tribute to Passage, a panoramic installation by Regina Agu. The performance will be followed by a Gallery Talk with Agu at 1:30 pm.
Les Cenelles presents Nèj Nwa, a closing concert for Inventing Acadia
As the exhibition Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana comes to a close, the band Les Cenelles will perform in the Great Hall in a concert titled Nèj Nwa. Les Cenelles is contemporary string ensemble who explore the Creole diaspora through melody and memory to honor our cultural ancestors and preserve the plurality of their experiences through a prismatic and contemporary lens. Tickets may be purchased in advance.
Gallery Talk: Curator Mel Buchanan on the Greenwood Plantation parlor
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Join Mel Buchanan, RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, for a discussion about the recent installation of mid-nineteenth-century parlor furniture and furnishings from Greenwood Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana, and the lives of the property owners and the enslaved.
NOMA Book Club Discussion Program
Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. The selection for January is The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert Picador.
Friday Nights at NOMA: Robert Burns Night
Friday Nights at NOMA features an exciting lineup of programs in 2020: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. All galleries, the Museum Shop, and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm. In partnership with The NOLA Project theater company, NOMA will present a fun and nontraditional Scottish celebration of poetry, music, food, and drink for the entire New Orleans community. Pull out your kilt and tartan and come be a Scotsman for the night we celebrate the life, times, and poetry of one of the world’s greatest wordsmiths, Robert Burns.
Studio KIDS!
Studio KIDS presents a dynamic series of children’s art classes exploring our southern Louisianian 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. Advance registration required.
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 twelve 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. Meet at the gates to the garden, which offers free admission year-round.