Baby Artsplay!
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.
NOMA Book Club Discussion Group
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 April is Portrait of a Phantom: The Story of Robert Johnson's Lost Photograph by Zeke Schein.
Gallery Talk: Bondye: Between and Beyond with Curator Nic Aziz
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Join Community Outreach Curator Nic Aziz for a discussion about Vodou flags on view in Bondye: Between and Beyond.
Arts & Letters Series: Zachary Lazar and Deborah Luster
NOMA’s Arts & Letters series welcomes authors, poets, journalists, playwrights, and literary scholars to the museum for public conversations that reflect on literature at the intersection of arts and culture. In partnership with One Book One New Orleans, this segment of the series features author Zachary Lazar, photographer Deborah Luster, and actor Bobby Wallace.
NOMA Book Club Curatorial 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 May 2019 is Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson.
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.
Dickie Landry SOLO Concert
Louisiana-born saxophonist, artist, photographer, and composer Dickie Landry will perform one of his legendary site-specific SOLO concerts in tribute to the work of Keith Sonnier and Tina Girouard. In his 60-minute performance in NOMA’s Great Hall, Landry will play the tenor saxophone to explore the textures and abstract layers of sound within NOMA’s iconic architecture.
Sculpture Garden Tour
Join NOMA’s docents for a free guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Fridays, Saturdays, and Mondays, weather dependent, at noon.
Sculpture Garden Tour
Join NOMA’s docents for a free guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Fridays, Saturdays, and Mondays, weather dependent, at noon. Sited on ten acres adjacent to the museum, the garden contains more than ninety works by internationally renowned sculptors.
Sculpture Garden Tour
Join NOMA’s docents for a free guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Fridays, Saturdays, and Mondays, weather dependent, at noon. Sited on ten acres adjacent to the museum, the garden contains more than ninety works by renowned sculptors from the 19th through 21st centuries.
Gallery Talk: Curator Russell Lord and Photographer Timothy Duffy discuss Blue Muse
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Join Photography Curator Russell Lord and photographer Timothy Duffy as they discuss Duffy's series of tintype portraits of contemporary roots musicians, on view in the exhibition Blue Muse.
Blue Muse Book Signing with Timothy Duffy
Photographer Timothy Duffy, whose tintype portraits of American roots musicians are on view in the exhibition Blue Muse, will sign his companion book of the same title at the Museum Shop.