Performance and Record Release: People Museum
Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LANew Orleans–based pop art band People Museum present a special one-night-only performance in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden responding to the work of artist Louise Bourgeois.
Gallery Talk
Join us in the galleries each Wednesday for weekly talks with artists, curators, and other special guests. During these casual conversations, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA.
See Me: Teen Art & Poetry Lounge
Teens are invited to experience the exhibition Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers and enjoy a space devoted to rest and self-representation, designed by NOMA’s Teen Art Council. See Me explores themes from the exhibition like self-portraiture, identity, and the uses of photography in the past and today.
Art Thrives: Digital Photography (Ages 55 and Up)
NOMA’s Art Thrives program aims to create opportunities exclusively for adults ages 55 and up to learn new creative skills while building community and having fun in the process. In conjunction with Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers, on view through January 8, we invite you to join us for an eight-session photography workshop.
Canceled | Free Lecture: Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
NOMA’s Lapis Center for the ArtsJoin us for a lecture and conversation with photographer, activist, educator, and historian Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe. Presented as part of the programming schedule for Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers, Moutoussamy-Ashe will speak about her career as an image-maker, including what motivates her own practice as a photographer. Deeply invested in issues of representation and photography’s potential to create social change, Moutoussamy-Ashe will also consider the relationship between photographs and the fight for civil rights, including important historical work by Black female photographers.
POSTPONED | Art Thrives Digital Photography Showcase
NOMA’s Art Thrives program aims to create opportunities exclusively for adults ages 55 and up to learn new creative skills while building community and having fun in the process. Over four weeks, participants worked with professional teaching artists and museum staff to explore a diverse range of photographic processes as a catalyst for inspiration.
POSTPONED | Gallery Talk with Ellene “Joi” Whiley
Join us in the galleries each Wednesday for weekly talks with artists, curators, and other special guests. During these casual conversations, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA.
Archival Preservation: Family Photographs Workshop
Join experts from New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans Photo Alliance, Louisiana State University, and the Historic New Orleans Collection to learn about best practices for preservation of family photograph collections. Following presentations, participants will have the opportunity to bring a limited number of family photographs, in a variety of formats, to be digitized and brought home that day. NOMA will not keep any copies of digitized photographs.
Gallery Talk with Ellene “Joi” Whiley
Join us in the galleries each Wednesday for weekly talks with artists, curators, and other special guests. During these casual conversations, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA.
Adam Davis’s Black Magic
In conjunction with Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers, Los Angeles–based photographer Adam Davis is bringing his ongoing Black Magic project to NOMA.
Gallery Talk with Delaney George
Join us in the galleries each Wednesday for weekly talks with artists, curators, and other special guests. During these casual conversations, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA.
Gallery Talk with Curator Brian Piper
Join us in the galleries each Wednesday for weekly talks with artists, curators, and other special guests. During these casual conversations, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA.