New Orleans Museum of Art

Book Club: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2026-04-02 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
NOMA’s book club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in the museum’s collection and exhibitions.
This month’s book club selection is Half of a Yellow Sun, a tremendously evocative novel of the promise, hope, and disappointment of the Biafran war.
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About NOMA’s Book Club
NOMA’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.
Books 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.
Meetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. For more information or questions, please email programs@noma.org.

About the Book
Half of a Yellow Sun
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • From the award-winning, bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—a haunting story of love and war. • Recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Winner of Winners” award.
With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works for Odenigbo, a university professor full of revolutionary zeal; Olanna, the professor’s beautiful young mistress who has abandoned her life in Lagos for a dusty town and her lover’s charm; and Richard, a shy young Englishman infatuated with Olanna’s willful twin sister Kainene.
Half of a Yellow Sun is a tremendously evocative novel of the promise, hope, and disappointment of the Biafran war.
-description from Alfred A. Knopf

Public Tours in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Sunday
2026-04-05 10:30, 2026-04-12 10:30, 2026-04-19 10:30, 2026-04-26 10:30 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
NOMA provides guided tours of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden every Saturday. During these tours, you’ll learn about a selection of the 100 large-scale works installed in the garden.
No registration is required. NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free and open to all, seven days a week. Tours start at the main entrance gate to the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Dueling Oaks Drive.

Tai Chi in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Monday
2026-04-06 18:00 - 19:00, 2026-04-13 18:00 - 19:00, 2026-04-20 18:00 - 19:00, 2026-04-27 18:00 - 19:00 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
Experience wellness at NOMA with beginner-friendly, outdoor tai chi classes in the serene Besthoff Sculpture Garden. The first 30 minutes of class focus on simple celestial elemental Qigong forms, a gentle and accessible style of movement suitable for anyone. The second part of class explores progressive sequential movements from the “Tai Chi Easy” form developed by Roger Jahnke, O.M.D., director of Integral Institute of Tai Chi and Qigong Center.
In many martial, exercise, healing, and meditative traditions, attainment is the central aim. Our invitation is something different: to release, through the spirit of play, any obstruction that separates us from well being and harmony.
Class is $5 for members and $10 for the general public. Tai chi participants meet at the garden entrance on the corner of Collins Diboll Circle and Enrique Alferez Drive, across the street from Café NOMA. Please bring a digital or printed version of your ticket to class. Walk-ins are welcome and can pay with cash. If you are a member paying in cash, please also bring your membership card or member number.
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For Monday classes: register online by 3pm the day of class.
For Wednesday classes: register online by 3pm on the Tuesday before class.
These classes are outside and will be canceled for severe weather. Registrants will be notified of cancellation via email by 5 pm the day before class. Call 504.658.4128 or email education@noma.org with any questions.

Tai Chi in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Wednesday
2026-04-08 09:00 - 10:00, 2026-04-15 09:00 - 10:00, 2026-04-22 09:00 - 10:00, 2026-04-29 09:00 - 10:00 | Louisiana

Gallery Talks Every Wednesday
2026-04-08 12:30 - 13:00, 2026-04-08 18:00 - 18:30, 2026-04-15 12:30 - 13:00, 2026-04-15 18:00 - 18:30, 2026-04-22 12:30 - 13:00, 2026-04-22 18:00 - 18:30 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Join us for weekly gallery talks every Wednesday at NOMA, featuring curators, artists, and other special guests. Talks take place at 12:30 pm & 6 pm and last 15-30 minutes. Talks in the Sculpture Garden are only offered at 12:30 pm. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the front desk for directions to the appropriate gallery.
Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA every Wednesday, courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative.

Yoga in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Wednesday
2026-04-08 17:00 - 18:00 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
Experience wellness at NOMA with beginner-friendly, outdoor yoga classes in the serene Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Classes take place every Saturday morning and (beginning in late February 2026) every Wednesday evening. The instructor for this course is Donna Roubal.
Class is $5 for members and $10 for the general public. Enter at the main entrance gate to the Sculpture Garden on Dueling Oaks Drive. Please bring your own mat and a digital or printed version of your ticket to class. Walk-ins are welcome and can pay with cash. If you are a member paying in cash, please bring your membership card or member number.
REGISTER NOW
For Saturday Classes: register online by 3 pm the Friday before class.
For Wednesday Classes: register online by 3 pm the Tuesday before class.
These classes are outside and will be canceled for severe weather. Registrants will be notified of cancellation via email by 5 pm the day before class. Call 504.658.4128 or email education@noma.org with any questions.

About the Instructor
Donna Roubal is a dynamic multidisciplined instructor of many genres of fitness including yoga, mat pilates, reformer pilates, yogalates, personal training, zumba, bodypump, cycle, rpm, aerobics, step aerobics, kickboxing, as well as aquatics and numerous avenues of fitness through multiple sports. Roubal enjoys teaching a combination of Vinyasa flow and Hatha yoga. She loves finding the freedom of movement that yoga provides for the ultimate mind/body experience.

Yoga in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Saturday
2026-04-11 08:00 - 09:00 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
Experience wellness at NOMA with beginner friendly, outdoor yoga classes in the serene Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Classes take place every Saturday morning and (beginning in late February 2026) every Wednesday evening.
Class is $5 for members and $10 for the general public. Enter at the main entrance gate to the Sculpture Garden on Dueling Oaks Drive. Please bring your own mat and a digital or printed version of your ticket to class. Walk-ins are welcome and can pay with cash. If you are a member paying in cash, please bring your membership card or member number.
REGISTER NOW
For Saturday Classes: register online by 3pm the Friday before class.
For Wednesday Classes: register online by 3pm the Tuesday before class.
These classes are outside and will be canceled for severe weather. Registrants will be notified of cancellation via email by 5 pm the day before class. Call 504.658.4128 or email education@noma.org with any questions.

Little Learners: Bright Blooms
2026-04-11 09:30 - 10:15 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Join us at the museum on select Saturday mornings for Studio KIDS!: Little Learners art-making workshops for artists ages 4-5 and their adult caregiver. Together with a NOMA teaching artist, studio participants and their caregivers will explore artworks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden before practicing their art-making skills in the studio.
About Little Learners: Bright Blooms
Celebrate Spring at NOMA! Young artists will explore what’s blooming in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden before creating their own botanical textures in clay.
This Little Learners session will be led by teaching artist Krystyna.
Registration is $15 for members and $20 for other participants. Advance registration is required and includes all art-making materials. Registration includes admission for children and one accompanying caregiver.
Studio KIDS! participants receive a 10% discount on purchases made at the NOMA Museum Shop. The discount is valid only for the day of their workshop attendance. Participants must show proof of attendance to receive the discount. Markdown and consignment merchandise is excluded from the discount.

Register for Studio KIDS!: Bright Blooms
One Little Learners (ages 4-5) session of this workshop will take place on April 11 from 9:45 to 10:15 am.
Register for Little Learners: Bright Blooms
The Studio KIDS! sessions will take place from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm and 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm.

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*Please note: capacity for each Studio KIDS! session is 12 participants, and capacity for each Little Learners session is 10 participants. Registration will close at 12 pm the day before the workshop. Refunds will not be issued for cancellations made after 12 pm the Thursday before the workshop.

Spring into NOMA
2026-04-11 10:00 - 2026-04-12 17:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
In celebration of the season, the museum is hosting a weekend of indoor and outdoor programming for visitors of all ages. Offerings include a free Music in the Garden concert, art-making workshops for kids and adults, and more!
Spring into NOMA events will be available to view online soon. Please check this page for updates.

Spring into NOMA at the NOMA Museum Shop
Select merchandise in the NOMA Museum Shop will be 25% off in-store and online from April 11-12.
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Studio KIDS!: Bright Blooms (AM session)
2026-04-11 10:30 - 12:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Join us at the museum on select Saturday mornings for Studio KIDS! youth art-making workshops. In this workshop series designed for artists ages 6-12, we’ll take inspiration from works on view across the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden and make our own creations with a teaching artist.
About Studio KIDS!: Bright Blooms
Celebrate Spring at NOMA! Young artists will create floral artworks to celebrate the beginning of the spring season. Participants will explore what’s blooming in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden before creating their own botanical candle holders out of clay.
The Studio KIDS! sessions will be led by teaching artist Krystyna.
Registration is $25 for members and $30 for other participants. Advance registration is required and includes the price of all art-making materials.
Studio KIDS! participants receive a 10% discount on purchases made at the NOMA Museum Shop. The discount is valid only for the day of their workshop attendance. Participants must show proof of attendance to receive the discount. Markdown and consignment merchandise is excluded from the discount.

Register for Studio KIDS!: Bright Blooms
There will be 2 Studio KIDS! (ages 6-12) sessions of this workshop offered on April 11:
The Studio KIDS! AM session will take place from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

Register for the AM session
The Studio KIDS! PM session will take place from 12:30 PM to 2:00 pm.

Register for the PM session
*Please note: capacity for each Studio KIDS! session is 12 participants, and capacity for each Little Learners session is 10 participants. Registration will close at 12 pm the day before the workshop. Refunds will not be issued for cancellations made after 12 pm the Thursday before the workshop.

Studio KIDS!: Bright Blooms (PM session)
2026-04-11 12:30 - 14:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119

The Embodied Magic of Nature Journaling: Illustrating, Observing, and Recording the World Around You
2026-04-12 10:00 - 12:00 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
Beau Romero hosts a springtime journaling workshop series at NOMA. In this beginner-friendly course, participants will be guided in journaling with their preferred medium through each session’s focus—Observing, Illustrating, Inquiry, and Embodiment—letting their creativity support them in this exploration.
Through each session, participants will tune into the seasonal plant life of NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden. These exercises in curiosity, observation, and recording can be applied to one’s own home and the natural world around us in New Orleans and beyond.
This workshop series will be hosted on March 22, April 12, May 10, and May 17. Each date in this series is a unique, stand alone class, so you can attend just one or all four to build on your skills.
Workshop registration is $25 for NOMA members and $30 for General Admission (materials not included). Advance registration is required to receive relevant prep materials. In case of inclement weather sessions will be rescheduled.
Register for March 22’s Observation workshop
Register for April 12’s Illustration workshop
Register for May 10’s Inquiry workshop
Register for May 17’s Embodiment workshop

About the Sessions and Required Materials
Class 1 – Observation: Participants will orient themselves to the plants and landscape of the sculpture garden. There we will develop and explore the practice of having a sit spot. Tapping into our sensory awareness, we start to build the internal framework that guides how we choose to record the worlds around us. We will learn basic introductory botany so as to more deeply familiarize ourselves with what we are recording.
Class 2 – Illustration: Participants will develop a language of illustration and/or visual representation (watercoloring, markers, pencils, etc.) for their journals. They will learn the basics of drawing from life, botanical illustration, and more importantly be encouraged to find the path of least resistance in order to gain confidence in the pursuit. All skill levels encouraged and all mediums, demonstrations will be in watercolors.
Class 3 – Inquiry: Now that some participants have spent some time in the garden, we are seeing seasonal shifts take place. As new cycles of life emerge before us, we fine tune our natural curiosities into scientific inquiries of our garden observations. We build a practice of story telling to convey what we are seeing, feeling, observing over a period of time.
Class 4 – Embodiment: Drawing from the skills we’ve learned in previous classes, (and introducing them for our first time students) – we will incorporate our new practices. What is it to be embodied and present in a place, how do we use a journal to capture this? Participants will become cartographers as they make a map that is relevant to their journalistic practice throughout the series.
Materials requirements:
Journaling should be affordable and accessible. If you already have a journal that’s been languishing in your closet for years or colored pencils getting dusty in the bottom of a drawer, by all means bring them to share with your fellow students for the duration of the class. Markers, materials for collage, whatever gets you excited. The only requirement is to bring a journal (or spare paper), pencil, and eraser. The NOMA Museum Shop will have supplies available for purchase with a discount for registered attendees.
Registrants will receive an email with suggested materials and where to purchase them as well as readings ahead of the class date. Each session in this four part Embodied Magic of Nature Journaling series can be a stand alone class, but participation in all four is encouraged to get the most out of this journaling practice and observe the change of the seasons. This is an outdoor class, so dress appropriately to spend the full class time outdoors.

About Beau Romero
Beau Romero is a botanical illustrator, naturalist, field botanist, and farmer living between New Orleans and Mississippi where they co-run Rotglow Research Farm and Nursery. They are passionate about the living world and want to inspire people of all ages to get out in it. They believe in demystifying and opening up scientific fields to be accessible to people of all skill levels and backgrounds. They can be found canoeing through the swamps to collect seeds for their nursery, organizing classes at Rotglow Farm, or drawing for the new edition of the Earthbound Farmers Almanac.
Instagram: @rotglowfarm
Email: rattlesnakeorchid@gmail.com

Music in the Garden: Spring into NOMA
2026-04-12 14:00 - 16:00 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
This year, experience the seasons change at NOMA with Music in the Garden! Enjoy local musicians performing alongside artworks new and old in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Sunday afternoons February 22nd, April 12th, October 25th, and November 15th.
Sunday, April 12’s Music in the Garden will take place during Spring into NOMA, a full weekend of all-ages programming to welcome in the new season. Additional performer information to come.
This program is free and open to the public, with registration recommended. Individuals who register will receive notifications of weather-related location changes.
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Performance Schedule
Schedule and Locations
More information about the schedule for this Music in the Garden performance incoming. Please check this page for updates.
Download a Besthoff Sculpture Garden Map Here

Yoga in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Wednesday
2026-04-15 17:00 - 18:00 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
Experience wellness at NOMA with beginner-friendly, outdoor yoga classes in the serene Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Classes take place every Saturday morning and (beginning in late February 2026) every Wednesday evening. The instructor for this class is Sara Lyon.
Class is $5 for members and $10 for the general public. Enter at the main entrance gate to the Sculpture Garden on Dueling Oaks Drive. Please bring your own mat and a digital or printed version of your ticket to class. Walk-ins are welcome and can pay with cash. If you are a member paying in cash, please bring your membership card or member number.
REGISTER NOW
For Saturday Classes: register online by 3 pm the Friday before class.
For Wednesday Classes: register online by 3 pm the Tuesday before class.
These classes are outside and will be canceled for severe weather. Registrants will be notified of cancellation via email by 5 pm the day before class. Call 504.658.4128 or email education@noma.org with any questions.

About the Instructor
Sara Lyon, LPC-S RYT ‘03, teaches an eclectic “slow flow” integrating dynamics in breath work, mindfulness, balance, strength and flexibility. Lyon pulls from various teaching styles to create predictable sequencing that allows for attunement; practicing discomfort with alignment and breath for increased capacity.

Yoga in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Saturday
2026-04-18 08:00 - 09:00 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
Experience wellness at NOMA with beginner friendly, outdoor yoga classes in the serene Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Classes take place every Saturday morning and (beginning in late February 2026) every Wednesday evening. The instructor for this class is Claiborne Davis.
Class is $5 for members and $10 for the general public. Enter at the main entrance gate to the Sculpture Garden on Dueling Oaks Drive. Please bring your own mat and a digital or printed version of your ticket to class. Walk-ins are welcome and can pay with cash. If you are a member paying in cash, please bring your membership card or member number.
REGISTER NOW
For Saturday Classes: register online by 3pm the Friday before class.
For Wednesday Classes: register online by 3pm the Tuesday before class.
These classes are outside and will be canceled for severe weather. Registrants will be notified of cancellation via email by 5 pm the day before class. Call 504.658.4128 or email education@noma.org with any questions.

About the Instructor
Claiborne Davis wants to help you create and maintain a body that can withstand the test of time, so you can always feel fantastic, elastic, stronger, longer, tough, buff, agile but not fragile, more upright and less uptight. A NASM-Certified Personal Trainer, Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT 200) and Integrated Yoga Tune Up® Teacher (YTU-I), Claiborne also is a longtime tennis player, language-learner, corny joke-teller, traveller and a former television news producer.
Davis’s classes are all Levels, with options to increase or decrease challenge levels.

Yoga in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Wednesday
2026-04-22 17:00 - 18:00 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
Experience wellness at NOMA with beginner-friendly, outdoor yoga classes in the serene Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Classes take place every Saturday morning and (beginning in late February 2026) every Wednesday evening. The instructor for this class is Donna Roubal.
Class is $5 for members and $10 for the general public. Enter at the main entrance gate to the Sculpture Garden on Dueling Oaks Drive. Please bring your own mat and a digital or printed version of your ticket to class. Walk-ins are welcome and can pay with cash. If you are a member paying in cash, please bring your membership card or member number.
REGISTER NOW
For Saturday Classes: register online by 3 pm the Friday before class.
For Wednesday Classes: register online by 3 pm the Tuesday before class.
These classes are outside and will be canceled for severe weather. Registrants will be notified of cancellation via email by 5 pm the day before class. Call 504.658.4128 or email education@noma.org with any questions.

About the Instructor
Donna Roubal is a dynamic multidisciplined instructor of many genres of fitness including yoga, mat pilates, reformer pilates, yogalates, personal training, zumba, bodypump, cycle, rpm, aerobics, step aerobics, kickboxing, as well as aquatics and numerous avenues of fitness through multiple sports. Roubal enjoys teaching a combination of Vinyasa flow and Hatha yoga. She loves finding the freedom of movement that yoga provides for the ultimate mind/body experience.
