When I Get Home by Solange Knowles: Two Film Screenings

Visual artist and singer/songwriter Solange Knowles presents an extended director’s cut of her interdisciplinary performance art film When I Get Home. The 41-minute film will be shown at two times: 6:30 pm and 7:45 pm. Both screenings are sold out. Those who have tickets will be asked to check in at the RSVP table in front of the museum and given a wristband only for the screen time they reserved. A standby line will be set up for unclaimed seats.

Free

Baby Artsplay! (Ages 0-3)

Instill a love of art at a young age through a guided, hands-on gallery experience. Young Audiences Wolf Trap teaching artists will present a series of six workshops for caregivers and children ages 0-3. Learn how to integrate music, movement, and drama into everyday playtime to foster children’s developmental growth. Advance registration required.

Baby Artsplay – Tiny Explorers Series (Ages 3-4)

Instill a love of art at a young age through a guided, hands-on gallery experience. Young Audiences Wolf Trap teaching artists will present a series of six workshops for caregivers and children ages 3-4. Learn how to integrate music, movement, and drama into everyday playtime to foster children’s developmental growth. Advance registration required.

Gallery Talk: Decorative arts with Curator Mel Buchanan

Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. Join Curator Mel Buchanan for a discussion about NOMA's decorative arts collection.

Recurring

Museum Highlights Tour

NOMA docents guide visitors on hour-long tours of either the permanent collection or special exhibitions. Tours are free with NOMA admission. Meet in the Great Hall to join in.

Recurring

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.

Gallery Talk: You Are Here: A Brief History of Photography and Place with Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper

As the photography exhibition You Are Here: A Brief History of Photography and Place concludes, Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper will discuss the themes evident in the selection of images from NOMA’s permanent collection. The exhibition explores photography’s complicated relationship to the places it represents, the places in which it is created, and the places in which we experience it.

Gallery Talk: Bodies of Knowledge with Curator Katie Pfohl

Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Join Curator Katie Pfohl for a discussion about the exhibition Bodies of Knowledge.

Gallery Talk about Wafaa Bilal’s 168:01

NOMA curators will be present to discuss artist Wafaa Bilal’s interactive installation 168:01 on view in the exhibition Bodies of Knowledge. The work is comprised of a large bookshelf filled with blank, white books which symbolizes the burning and looting of libraries in Baghdad during the 2003 American invasion of Iraq. Museum visitors are invited to transform the shelves from austere white to color by donating a book that will ultimately be shipped to Baghdad.