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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...

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. 

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...

Opera on Tap

The New Orleans Opera presents a special holiday edition of Opera on Tap. Visit the museum after hours for a musical treat in the Lapis Center for the Arts. The Opera on Tap holiday concert will include both sacred and secular music of the season, with familiar carols and songs from many lands.

SOLD OUT — Studio KIDS!: Confetti Postcards

On Saturday, December 18, explore works from the exhibition A Brief History of Photography and Transmission to think about the ways people shared photos with loved ones in the past, then make your own photographic confetti postcard to send in the mail!

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Tai Chi in the Sculpture Garden

NOMA, in collaboration with the East Jefferson Wellness Center, presents Tai Chi classes on Saturday mornings. Join East Jefferson Wellness Center instructor Terry Rappold, as he leads participants through relaxing Tai Chi exercises in NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden.