New Orleans Museum of Art

LOVE in the Garden Presented by Frischhertz
2025-11-07 19:00 - 23:00 (America/Chicago) | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
You’re Invited to
Light up the Night at
LOVE IN THE GARDEN
PRESENTED BY
FRISCHHERTZ
Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden
Patron Party | 7 pm – 8 pm
Garden Party | 8 pm – 11 pm
Honorary Chairs

Ellen and Stephen Frischhertz
Janet and Jimmy Frischhertz
Lori and Kevin Frischhertz

Join us on Friday, November 7, in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden as we celebrate LOVE in the Garden Presented by Frischhertz.
This year marks an exciting relaunch for LOVE in the Garden since the last event in 2023. We are thrilled that Frischhertz is LOVE’s presenting sponsor as we transition this event to a cooler time of year–Friday, November 7th–and plan an expanded celebration.
Funds raised during LOVE in the Garden provide critical support to NOMA’s exhibitions, programs, and educational initiatives all year round.

Tickets
Please Note: Tickets for tonight’s event are no longer available online. See below for door ticket prices.
Patron Party Tickets | $175

Grants ticket holders access to the event from 7 pm – 11 pm

Garden Party Tickets | $125

Grants ticket holders access to the event from 8 pm – 11 pm

For more information about LOVE in the Garden, please email love@noma.org or call 504.658.4121.

Music and Entertainment
Live musical performances from the New Orleans-based yacht rock outfit Where Y’acht and the Javier Olondo Trio
Where Y’acht
Javier Olondo Trio
Participating Restaurants

Aunt Sally’s Pralines
Addis NOLA
The Blue Crab Restaurant and Oyster Bar
Café Degas
Café NOMA
Highly Seasoned Catering, LLC
Magasin Kitchen / Sprout and Press
Nothing Bundt Cakes-Metairie
The Vintage
Zocalo Mexican Restaurant
LOVE Cocktail Challenge
This year’s competitors in the LOVE Cocktail Challenge are:

Challenger Name
Cocktail Theme and Name

Sho Shonna Jackson
Lust, “I Want to Lick This”

Francisco Miralda
Love-Hate, “Mi Amor Intenso / My Fierce Love”

Christina Ramirez
Forbidden Love, “Close Proximity”

Jasmin Simmons-Edmond
Unconditional Love, “Sweet Waters”

Thank You to Our Sponsors
Presenting Sponsor

Gold

Walda Besthoff
CAPTRUST
Goldring Family Foundation

Silver

Lucy Burnett and Gregory Holt
Keith Fox and Tom Keyes
Katie and Gray Stream

Bronze
Claws Out NOLA
First Lady of the New World: A Novel by Richard Robbins
Kathleen and Patrick Waring

Benefactor
Anonymous
Red River Bank
Valerie Besthoff
Melissa Dovie
Catherine and David Edwards
Gas and Supply
Julie and Ted George
Susan and James Gundlach
Sonia Gupta
Anne S. Kock
James Kock
Millie and Robert Kohn
Janet and Kevin Krane
Ray Lagasse
Lee Ledbetter & Associates
Kay McArdle
Donna and Ben Rosen
Julia and Dr. Charlves V. Sanders
Lisa and David Schlakman
Kenya and Tod Smith
Susu and Andrew Stall
Janis Van Meerveld and Charles Cerise
Elizabeth and James Williams

Contributors
Faustina A. Balthazar
Alvin R. Albe, Jr., and Virginia Boulet
Sheila O. and Hugh M. Collins
Robin and Albert Crutcher
Anthony Currera
René J. Fransen and Edward Bonin
Gary Hovind
Beverly Katz
Paul E. Knight
Georgianna and THomas May
Brenda and Michael Moffitt
Susanne and David Purvis
Mimi and Claude Schlesinger
Jackie and Bruce Shreves
Carly Smith
Jackie Sullivan
Rodger Wheaton
Marcella and Patrick Willis
Lele and Brent Wood
Ellen and Mark Yellin

Become a LOVE in the Garden Sponsor
Contributor Individual | $200

Recognition as a Contributor of the event
Reserved seating with one (1) ticket to the Patron Party and Garden Party
Sponsor recognition on table signage, printed invitations and on NOMA website

Become a Supporter
Contributor Couple | $400

Recognition as a Contributor of the event
Reserved seating with two (2) tickets to the Patron Party and Garden Party
Sponsor recognition on table signage, printed invitations and on NOMA website

Become a Supporter Couple
Benefactor | $1,200

Recognition as a Benefactor of the event
Reserved table with six (6) tickets to the Patron Party and Garden Party
Sponsor recognition on table signage, printed invitations and on NOMA website

Become a Benefactor
Bronze | $2,500

Recognition as Bronze Sponsor of the event
Reserved tables with twelve (12) tickets to the Patron Party and Garden Party
Single use of NOMA Woldenberg Foundation Board Room for a private event within one year
Invitations to VIP museum member openings during 2025/2026 season
Sponsor recognition on event promotion: including 2,500 printed invitations, event table signage, email communication and a link to your corporate event webpage on the NOMA website and is promoted via email, Instagram, and Facebook
Sponsor recognition and logo placement at the event entrance
Sponsor recognition on NOMA website with link to corporate site
Sponsor mention in all post-event communications with attendees

Become a Bronze Sponsor
Silver | $5,000

Recognition as Silver Sponsor of the event
Reserved tables with twenty (20) tickets to the Patron Party and Garden Party
Single use of NOMA Woldenberg Foundation Board Room for a private event within one year
Invitations to VIP museum member openings during 2025/2026 season
Sponsor recognition on event promotion: including 2,500 printed invitations, event table signage, email communication and a link to your corporate event webpage on the NOMA website and is promoted via email, Instagram, and Facebook
Sponsor recognition and logo placement at the event entrance
Sponsor recognition on NOMA website with link to corporate site
Sponsor mention in all post-event communications with attendees

Become a Silver Sponsor
Gold | $10,000

Recognition as Gold Sponsor of the event
Reserved tables with thirty (30) tickets to the Patron Party and Garden Party
Single use of NOMA Woldenberg Foundation Board Room for a private event within one year
Invitations to VIP museum member openings during 2025/2026 season
Sponsor recognition on event promotion: including 2,500 printed invitations, event table signage, email communication and a link to your corporate event webpage on the NOMA website and is promoted via email, Instagram, and Facebook
Sponsor recognition and logo placement at the event entrance
Sponsor recognition on NOMA website with link to corporate site
Sponsor mention in all post-event communications with attendees

Become a Gold Sponsor
Lead Sponsor | $25,000

Recognition as Lead Sponsor of the event
Reserved tables with forty (40) tickets to the Patron Party and Garden Party
Single use of NOMA Woldenberg Foundation Board Room for a private event within one year
Invitations to VIP museum member openings during 2025/2026 season
Sponsor recognition on event promotion: including 2,500 printed invitations, event table signage, email communication and a link to your corporate event webpage on the NOMA website and is promoted via email, Instagram, and Facebook
Sponsor recognition and logo placement at the event entrance
Sponsor recognition on NOMA website with link to corporate site
Sponsor mention in all post-event communications with attendees

Become a Lead Sponsor

Public Tours Every Wednesday and Saturday
2025-11-08 14:00, 2025-11-12 14:00, 2025-11-15 14:00, 2025-11-19 14:00, 2025-11-22 14:00, 2025-11-26 14:00, 2025-11-29 14:00, 2025-12-03 14:00 and 1 more date | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
NOMA provides guided tours of the galleries with museum docents and staff every Wednesday and Saturday. During these tours, you’ll explore the museum’s permanent collection of nearly 50,000 works of art and exhibitions currently on view.
Included with museum admission, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.

Public Tours in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Sunday
2025-11-09 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.

Music in the Garden: Kr3wcial and Khiry Bey
2025-11-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
NOMA presents Music in the Garden, a seasonal outdoor music series hosted in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden.
Encounter the sounds of local New Orleans musicians while strolling through the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on select Sunday afternoons throughout the year. Performances will take place alongside sculptures across the garden.
This installment of Music in the Garden will feature acoustic sets from Kr3wcial and saxophonist Khiry Bey.
Attendance for this event is free. Registration is recommended.
Register Here
Performance Schedule

Performer
Time and Location

Khiry Bey
2:00 – 3:00 pm

Kr3wcial
3:00 – 4:00 pm

About the Performers
Khiry Bey

Born and raised in New Orleans, saxophonist Kirsten Theodore (Khiry Bey) began showing an interest in music at the tender age of five. As Theodore matured as a musician, she fell in love with the alto saxophone. Since middle school, she has played the alto sax in performances with everyone from Jon Batiste to Herbie Hancock, won multiple awards for her solos, and composed original music that debuted at the New
Orleans House of Blues Music Forward Foundation. Kirsten has earned numerous awards at competitions and festivals, starting in middle school, when she won first place in the Louisiana District VI Honor Band
for three years. At age thirteen, she was awarded “outstanding soloist” at Orlando’s Disney Music Festival and also “best soloist” at The Loyola University Jazz
Festival. In 2017, she was selected as a finalist for the House of Blues’s Music Forward: Bringing Down the House showcase, where she headlined her first show.

Theodore has performed and worked with many artists such as Herbie Hancock, Jon Batiste, Trombone Shorty, Wendell Brunious, Roderick Paulin, Jessie McBride, Clarence Johnson, Irvin Mayfield, Glen David Andrews, Jeffrey “Jellybean” Alexander, Delfeayo Marsalis, and more. Theodore attended the Berklee College of Music Women in Jazz summer program and studied under Terri Lynne Carrington and Tia Fuller. Theodore is a graduate of the New Orleans Center For Creative Arts. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Jazz Studies at University of New Orleans and will be pursing a master’s degrees at Tulane University. While furthering her education, she has launched a For NOLA by NOLA project with all local musicians to pay homage to the great city that created her.
Kr3wcial

In the vibrant tapestry of New Orleans’ rich musical heritage, Kr3wcial emerges as a dynamic figure, transcending the boundaries of traditional hip-hop. Born and raised in the heart of the Crescent City, Kr3wcial’s music is a sonic journey through the soul of New Orleans itself. With lyrics that delve deep into the city’s intricate layers—from the gritty streets to the transcendent spirit of its people—he weaves a narrative that is both raw and poetic, reminiscent of the city’s jazz and blues roots. Kr3wcial’s tracks, often enlivened with the pulse of brass and the rhythm of New Orleans, serve as a compelling commentary on the city’s multifaceted nature. Through his verses, he explores themes of resilience, identity, and social consciousness. Beyond the studio, Kr3wcial is a community advocate, using his platform to inspire positive change. Collaborating with local nonprofits, he harnesses the unifying power of music to uplift the very city that fuels his creativity. Kr3wcial is also an alumnus of NOMA’s Creative Assembly residency program.

Tai Chi in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden
2025-11-10 18:00 - 19:00 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
Explore movement and meditation during outdoor tai chi classes in NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden every Monday evening.
Class is $10; $5 for NOMA members. Registration remains open until 3 pm the day before class. Please bring a digital or printed version of your ticket to class. Enter at the main entrance gate to the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Dueling Oaks Drive.
Today’s (11/10/2025) tai chi class has been cancelled due to cold weather. Refunds will be issued to all ticket buyers.
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.

Producer's Choice: Pollock (2000) and Conversation with Meryl Poster and Lead Actor and Director Ed Harris
2025-11-12 19:00 - 22:00 | NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts
Films build community through shared experiences.
NOMA presents a series of films—selected by award-winning producer and filmmaker Meryl Poster—followed by insightful special guests. Don’t miss your chance to revisit or discover modern classics on the big screen and gain behind-the-scenes insight into the film industry from leading figures.
Discussions will draw connections to art more broadly and celebrate cinema as an essential art form.
NOMA will screen Pollock (2000) for this program. Doors open at 6:30 pm, and the screening will begin at 7:00 pm. At 9:10 pm, the conversation between Poster and the film’s lead actor and director Ed Harris (joining via Zoom) will begin.
The NOMA Museum Shop will be present at the screening from 6:30-9:30 pm with merchandise related to the series’s theme “Artists on Film.”
View all events in the Producer’s Choice Film Series

Tickets
Tickets are $10 for NOMA members and $15 for general admission.
Buy Tickets for “Pollock”
*Please note: NOMA members must log into their my.noma account in order to see their ticket options at the link above.
Ticket Waitlist Policy

If tickets are sold out for a screening, there will be a first come, first served policy to fill any unoccupied seats:

At 6:30 pm, the waitlist will open at the Front Desk.
At 7:00 pm, we will count the number of vacant seats and begin to fill them with waitlisted individuals, who will be invited to purchase a ticket and be seated.
NOTE: There are no additional tickets available at the door. Waitlisted individuals will only be able to claim seats left open by no-show attendants. We cannot guarantee that individuals on the waitlist will be able to sit together.
The museum is open until 7:00 pm on Wednesday evenings. While waiting, waitlisted individuals are welcome to view NOMA exhibitions.

About the Film
Pollock (2000, 2h 2m)
Pollock is a look back into the life of the artist, who engaged in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out across his career.
About Meryl Poster
Meryl Poster is an award-winning producer and filmmaker. Starting as the second ever female trainee in the William Morris Agency mailroom, she has since led and developed a slate of groundbreaking, critically acclaimed films, including the Oscar-winning Chicago, Chocolat, Cider House Rules, Cop Land, Beautiful Girls, Bounce, Kate and Leopold, and An Unfinished Life.
About Ed Harris
Actor and Director Ed Harris. Photo by O’Shane Howard.

Ed Harris has an acclaimed film career spanning five decades. He is a four-time Academy Award nominee and a two-time Golden Globe winner for his brilliant performances in The Hours, The Truman Show, Apollo 13, Game Change (HBO), Empire Falls (HBO) and Pollock – his feature film directing debut.

Harris has a prolific and diverse filmography of leading roles with acclaimed filmmakers, including Alamo Bay (Louis Malle), The Abyss (James Cameron), The Firm (Sydney Pollack), Nixon (Oliver Stone), The Rock (Michael Bay), Absolute Power (Clint Eastwood), A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard), Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho), Mother! (Darren Aronofsky), and three films with veteran filmmaker Agnieszka Holland. Harris starred in blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick and in Netflix’s The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s award-winning film adaptation of the Elena Ferrante novel.

Upcoming, Harris will star in the highly anticipated Yellowstone spin-off The Dutton Ranch from creator Taylor Sheridan. He most recently starred alongside Jessica Lange in MGM’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, a screen adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

Harris’s recent work includes crime thriller feature Riff Raff, alongside Jennifer Coolidge, Dustin Hoffman, and Pete Davidson. He also starred in the comedy-drama film My Dead Friend Zoe, which had its debut at SXSW, winning the Audience Award, and alongside Kristen Stewart in the A24 film Love Lies Bleeding, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January of 2024.

In addition to directing Pollock, his second film, as director, screenwriter, and actor, was Appaloosa, co-starring Viggo Mortensen. His television credits include Empire Falls (HBO) and Riders of the Purple Sage (TNT), co-starring and co-produced with his wife Amy Madigan. Harris also starred as the enigmatic “Man in Black’ for four seasons of the critically acclaimed HBO series Westworld, which earned him an Emmy nomination.

Harris’ theatre credits include: Ronald Harwood’s Taking Sides, Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love (Obie), and Simpatico (Lucille Lortel Award for “Best Actor”), George Furth’s Precious Sons (Drama Desk Award, Tony Nomination), Prairie Avenue, Scar, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Grapes of Wrath, and Sweet Bird of Youth, Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, and Shephard’s Buried Child, in which Harris and Madigan made their London West End debut and for which he received an Olivier nomination.

Book Club: How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America with author Clint Smith
2025-11-13 12:00 - 13:00 | 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. At this month’s book club meeting, author Clint Smith will join via Zoom to discuss his book How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America and the recently-released youth edition of the book.
This book club meeting will be available in-person and via Zoom. Register by 9:00 am on Thursday, November 13, to receive your Zoom link.
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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
About Clint Smith
Author and Journalist Clint Smith, photo by Calvin Gavion
Clint Smith is the author of the narrative nonfiction book, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, which was a #1 New York Times bestseller, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism, the Stowe Prize, and selected by the New York Times as one of the 10 best books of 2021. How the Word Is Passed (Adapted for Young Readers), with Sonja Cherry-Paul, will be published in September 2025 (Little, Brown). He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling poetry collection Above Ground and the award-winning poetry collection Counting Descent. His writing has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Clint received his B.A. in English from Davidson College and a Ph.D. in Education from Harvard University. He is a staff writer at The Atlantic.
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
by Clint Smith

Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation’s collective history, and ourselves.It is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving more than four hundred people. It is the story of the Whitney Plantation, one of the only former plantations devoted to preserving the experience of the enslaved people whose lives and work sustained it. It is the story of Angola, a former plantation-turned-maximum-security prison in Louisiana that is filled with Black men who work across the 18,000-acre land for virtually no pay. And it is the story of Blandford Cemetery, the final resting place of tens of thousands of Confederate soldiers.A deeply researched and transporting exploration of the legacy of slavery and its imprint on centuries of American history, How the Word Is Passed illustrates how some of our country’s most essential stories are hidden in plain view—whether in places we might drive by on our way to work, holidays such as Juneteenth, or entire neighborhoods like downtown Manhattan, where the brutal history of the trade in enslaved men, women, and children has been deeply imprinted.
Informed by scholarship and brought to life by the story of people living today, Smith’s debut work of nonfiction is a landmark of reflection and insight that offers a new understanding of the hopeful role that memory and history can play in making sense of our country and how it has come to be.

Producer's Choice: Basquiat (1996) and Conversation with Meryl Poster and Director Julian Schnabel
2025-11-14 19:00 - 22:00 | NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts
NOMA presents a series of films—selected by award-winning producer and filmmaker Meryl Poster—followed by insightful special guests. Don’t miss your chance to revisit or discover modern classics on the big screen and gain behind-the-scenes insight into the film industry from leading figures. Discussions will draw connections to art more broadly and celebrate cinema as an essential art form.
NOMA will screen a 2024 black-and-white restoration of Basquiat (1996) for this program. Doors open at 6:30 pm, and the screening will begin at 7:00 pm. At 9:20 pm, conversation between Poster and the film’s director Julian Schnabel (joining via Zoom) will begin. The NOMA Museum Shop will be present at the screening from 6:30-9:30 pm with merchandise related to the series’s theme “Artists on Film.”
For this screening of Basquiat, guests will also have the option of purchasing an additional ticket for a seated dinner at Café NOMA before the film.
Please note: seating for the dinner begins at 5:30 pm, and food is served between 6:00-7:00 pm. Dinner tickets are available for purchase in the “Tickets” section below.
View all events in the Producer’s Choice Film Series

Tickets
Tickets for the screening and pre-screening conversation are $10 for NOMA members and $15 for general admission.
Buy Tickets for “Basquiat”
*Please note: NOMA members must log into their my.noma account in order to see their ticket options at the link above.
Seated Dinner with Cafe NOMA
For this final screening of the Producer’s Choice Fall 2025 season, NOMA has collaborated with Café NOMA on a pre-screening dinner option, available with separate purchase. Enjoy watching the stars come out under the skylights of NOMA’s Coleman Courtyard while sharing a table, a meal, and a conversation with fellow film enthusiasts.
Seating for the dinner begins at 5:30 pm, and food is served between 6:00-7:00 pm.
Buy Tickets and View the Menu for the pre-film dinner

Waitlist Policy

If tickets are sold out for a screening, there will be a first come, first served policy to fill any unoccupied seats:

At 6:30 pm, the waitlist will open at the Front Desk.
At 7:00 pm, we will count the number of vacant seats and begin to fill them with waitlisted individuals, who will be invited to purchase a ticket and be seated.
NOTE: There are no additional tickets available at the door. Waitlisted individuals will only be able to claim seats left open by no-show attendants. We cannot guarantee that individuals on the waitlist will be able to sit together.
The museum is open until 7:00 pm on Wednesday evenings. While waiting, waitlisted individuals are welcome to view NOMA exhibitions.

About the Film and Pre-Screening Conversation
Basquiat (1996, 1h 50m)
An exploration of the brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world-renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drug use, and his identity.
About Meryl Poster
Meryl Poster is an award-winning producer and filmmaker. Starting as the second ever female trainee in the William Morris Agency mailroom, she has since led and developed a slate of groundbreaking, critically acclaimed films, including the Oscar-winning Chicago, Chocolat, Cider House Rules, Cop Land, Beautiful Girls, Bounce, Kate and Leopold, and An Unfinished Life.

Public Tours in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Saturday
2025-11-16 10:30, 2025-11-23 10:30, 2025-11-30 10:30 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124

Butterfly Music Series: Henrietta Alves
2025-11-16 14:00 - 15:00 | NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts
Experience part of Super Bowl LIX history and enjoy music played on Suleika Jaouad and Jon Batiste’s custom Yamaha piano on view at NOMA. Batiste performed his moving rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner on this instrument in the Caesars Superdome during the Super Bowl pregame show.
This series celebrates the piano’s residency at NOMA and pays homage to the musical history of New Orleans by inviting New Orleans–based musicians to offer intimate sets in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts, which also features bas-relief murals by Enrique Alférez.
This installment of the Butterfly Music Series will feature pianist Henrietta Alves. Previous performers have included Amina Figarova, David Torkanowsky, Tonya Boyd Cannon, Sam Kuslan, and others.
Attendance is included with museum admission. Preregistration for this event is recommended. Seating is limited and not guaranteed with attendance.
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About Henrietta Alves
Henrietta Alves—called “a New Orleans legend” by WWOZ, “the Amazing Henrietta” by AntiGravity Magazine, and introduced by Quint Davis as “a New Orleans institution”—has been a beloved local musician and songwriter for more than 40 years. Her popular Mardi Gras song was recorded with Smokey Johnson (Fats Domino’s drummer) and George French (Fats’ bassist and Cosimo Matassa studio musician). She began recording in the early 1970s in Memphis with producer Willie Mitchell and has contributed to numerous New Orleans projects, including a jazz album with Flora Purim and a WEZB compilation of the city’s top pop acts.
A versatile, ageless singer now in her 80s, Henrietta performs weekly at Holy Diver in Tremé and has maintained a strong presence across the region for 45 years with regular appearances at Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro, Pat O’Brien’s Piano Bar, and Morgan Freeman’s Ground Zero Blues Club in Biloxi. She’s performed Brazilian jazz at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — she and bandleader Edu were famously the first couple married at Jazz Fest in 1982 — and has sung the National Anthem at Saints games on multiple occasions.

On television she’s frequently cast as the quintessential “older New Orleans–style singing pianist,” appearing in series such as HBO’s Togetherness and TNT’s Claws. Nationally she’s performed at iconic venues including the Troubadour, Chateau Marmont, the Roosevelt Hotel (L.A.), Catch a Rising Star and Mimi’s Piano Bar (NYC). Internationally she has brought her New Orleans–inflected music to audiences in Japan, Italy and Brazil, and she has played private events for corporations and celebrities. Renowned for her warm, intimate connection with audiences, Henrietta continues to captivate crowds of any size.
About the Work
For a limited time, NOMA visitors have the unique opportunity to see the custom piano played by acclaimed musical artist Jon Batiste during the Super Bowl LIX pregame show. On view in the museum’s Lapis Center for the Arts, the vibrant and colorful grand piano features a design by artist and bestselling author Suleika Jaouad, who is Batiste’s wife.
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"Hurricanes Katrina and Rita at 20: Poets Remember" with Creative Assembly Resident Andy Young and Louisiana Poet Laureate (2021-2023) Mona Lisa Saloy
2025-11-18 17:30 - 19:30 | NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts
Join NOMA Creative Assembly resident Andy Young and former Louisiana Poet Laureate Mona Lisa Saloy for a conversation about poetry and art in connection with the new anthology Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: An Anthology of Louisiana Poetry with Art. This program commemorates Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and celebrates the new anthology edited by Louisiana Poets Laureate Mona Lisa Saloy and John Warner Smith. Dr. Saloy will be featured along with contributing poet Andy Young, who is a member of the 2025 NOMA Creative Assembly Cohort.
This conversation will be followed by a book signing where guests can purchase copies of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: An Anthology of Louisiana Poetry with Art and have them signed.
This program is free and open to the public. Advance registration is recommended.
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About Andy Young

Andy Young‘s second full-length collection, Museum of the Soon to Depart, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press (2025). She is also the author of All Night It Is Morning (Diálogos Press, 2014) and four chapbooks. She grew up in West Virginia and has lived most of her adult life in New Orleans, where she teaches at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. Her work has recently appeared in Prairie Schooner and Blue Mountain Review, and her short film, “Pharmacy Museum Tour Guide, New Orleans” was recently screened at New Orleans Film Festival, the Ó Bhéal Poetry Film Festival, and has won awards from the Berlin Indie Film Awards, London Women Film Festival and others. She is a graduate of the Warren Wilson Program for Writers.
About Mona Lisa Saloy
Louisiana Poet Laureate (2021-2023) Mona Lisa Saloy
Mona Lisa Saloy, Ph.D., Louisiana Poet Laureate (2021-2023), is an author, folklorist, Louisiana Folklife Commissioner, educator, and scholar of Creole culture in articles, documentaries, and poems about Black New Orleans before and after Katrina. Saloy is currently Conrad N. Hilton Endowed Professor of English, Dillard University. Mona Lisa Saloy writes for those who don’t or can’t tell Black Creole cultural stories. Learn more at www.monalisasaloy.com
Books: Red Beans & Ricely Yours (has a banned poem “The N Word”), won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award. Second Line Home, on New Orleans Black Creole culture.

Recent publications: The Chicago Quarterly Review, Vol 33; “Introduction” to Black Fire!!! This Time II; Southern Voices: Fifty Contemporary Poets (Tom Mack & Andrew Geyer eds.) Literary Press, Lamar University, Fall 2024. LMNL Poetry Anthology, Fall 2024. Black Creole Chronicles: Poems (UNO Press 2023), choice for ONE BOOK ONE NEW ORLEANS 2024, & Book of the Month, The Whitney Plantation Museum.

Saloy was named Louisianian of the Year in Literature: 2024 in Louisiana Life Magazine. Mentioned in “Read your Way through New Orleans,” by Maurice Carlos Ruffin, NYT Book Review, Oct. 2024

About Creative Assembly
Launched in 2021, NOMA’s Creative Assembly residency promotes community engagement by welcoming artists to collaborate throughout the year with the museum’s permanent collection, special exhibitions, and programs. Creative Assembly Cohort members are provided funds and museum support to develop artistic projects and public offerings, like programs and workshops.
Learn more at noma.org/learn/creative-assembly/.

Weekly Gallery Talk: Curator Mel Buchanan, Automaton Musical Clock
2025-11-19 12:30 - 13:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Every week, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators, artists, and other special guests. These lively, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view.
This week, join NOMA’s RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts and Design Mel Buchanan for a gallery talk on Automaton Musical Clock. This iconic work of art and machinery in the museum’s permanent collection precise clockwork that activates chiming bells and spins bejeweled ornaments on the hour. Still dazzling today, this clock was a mechanical marvel when it was made in London around 1800. In this Gallery Talk guests will learn more about this clock and its restoration. This gallery talk will only be offered at 12:30 PM.
Included with museum admission, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.

Elders Sacred Talk Series: Big Chief Tyrone Casby and Beverly Stanton McKenna
2025-11-19 17:30 - 19:00
NOMA and the Congo Square Preservation Society present the Elders Sacred Talk Series with prolific elder New Orleanians, celebrating the lives they lead while providing the opportunity for visitors to learn firsthand about the impact they’ve had on our city.
This conversation between Big Chief Tyrone Casby and Beverly Stanton McKenna will be moderated by Big Chief Dow Edwards.

This program is included with museum admission, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative.

About the Speakers
Big Chief Tyrone Casby

Tyrone Casby is the legendary Big Chief of the Mohawk Hunters Mardi Gras Indian Tribe and a distinguished high school principal, coach and mentor. He is lauded for perpetuating cultural pride in classrooms and communities on the Westbank of New Orleans. Casby became a part of the masking culture at the age of six following his older brother, Wildman Ralph “Tickleman” Casby, of the Mohawk Hunters, through Algiers on Mardi Gras Day. He first masked with the tribe (whose first Big Chief was his uncle, Frank Casby, Sr) in 1966 as 2nd Spy Boy. He was appointed 1st Chief in 1979 and the next year, he became the Big Chief.

Today, averaging 30 members, the Mohawk Hunters is one of the largest tribes in New Orleans and the only one on the West Bank. Members have performed in Sri Lanka, Guatemala and Honduras. Local programs include sewing and beading patches with prison inmates. Casby has masked for 58 years lifting the spirits of people in Algiers, perpetuating the culture, promoting positive family and community values, and inspiring those who cross his path.

Beverly Stanton McKenna

Beverly Stanton McKenna is a publisher, cultural preservationist, community leader and business investor. She and her life partner (Dr. Dwight McKenna) have spent decades building institutions that make New Orleans more informed, just, and deeply connected to its own history. Together they revived The New Orleans Tribune, a storied Black newspaper; created two museums (The Le Musée de f.p.c. and The George & Lean McKenna Museum of African American Art); and played a pivotal role in the revitalization of Bayou Road business district.

McKenna, a trained journalist and cultural historian, earned a degree in English from Tennessee State University before teaching in Washington, D.C. and working as a public information officer for the U.S. Virgin Islands. In New Orleans, she has mentored emerging writers and editors, and has helped position the Tribune as a trusted voice on policy, politics, education, and the daily lives of Black New Orleanians.

About Elders Sacred Talks and Art Thrives
NOMA’s Art Thrives initiative presents creative aging programs designed to support visitors ages 55 and up. In addition to art-making workshops, courses, and opportunities for hands-on art-making, the Elders Sacred Talk Series provides a platform for older adults in New Orleans to share their experiences with audiences of all ages.
The Elders Sacred Talk Series is presented in partnership between NOMA and the Congo Square Preservation Society. Art Thrives is supported by E.A. Michelson Philanthropy.

Lecture | "Here in This Place": Developing Place-Based Awareness through Land and Labor Acknowledgements
2025-11-20 17:00 - 19:00
Join us in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts for a conversation on the importance of Land and Labor acknowledgments with Sherry Parfait & Solomon Matthews, moderated by Queen Mother Sula.
Recognizing our connections to the land and to one another is essential in fostering a sense of community, allowing us to navigate a shared awareness of place. The land bridges our imagined past with our experiences in the present. Much of the success of Louisiana today is founded not only on the forced labor of enslaved people, but also on the generations of experience and knowledge of indigenous nations and communities in this area. The practice of developing and using a Land Acknowledgment statement is to meaningfully recognize the original inhabitants of a location, their experiences of forced removal, and the dispossession of their ancestral homelands. Similarly, a Labor Acknowledgment statement reminds us that much of the economic progress and development we see today has often been built upon the unpaid labor and forced servitude of enslaved people.
This featured lecture inspired by the current special exhibitions Dawoud Bey: Elegy & Nicolas Floc’h: Fleuves-Océan, Mississippi Watershed will explore how acknowledgment fosters community, accountability, and a shared awareness of place.
Doors open at 5:00 pm. The lecture starts at 5:30 pm, followed by a Q&A.
This program is free and open to all. Seating is first come first served, advance registration is suggested.
REGISTER HERE

About the Speakers and Moderator
Sherry Parfait

Sherry Parfait is an enrolled citizen of the United Houma Nation (UHN), Louisiana’s largest Indigenous Tribe, and she has been a New Orleans resident for seven years. She provides public relations and marketing services to the UHN and serves as the Editor of the UHN Quarterly, the Nation’s newspaper. She also works for Gordon Arata Montgomery Barnett, a full-service law firm in downtown New Orleans, where she provides administrative and marketing support and serves as Co-Chair of the firm’s Diversity Committee. Sherry is a Chips Quinn Scholar and a member of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), and she is Vice President of the New Orleans Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). She is also working on a Master’s degree in Marketing & Communications at Loyola University.

Solomon Matthews

Born in Mid-City New Orleans at Charity Hospital and raised in Kenner, Louisiana, Solomon Matthews is a dedicated educator, advisor, and cultural advocate. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Work from Northwestern State University of Louisiana and a master’s degree in Education from the University of Southern California.
Solomon’s professional career spans academic and career advising, as well as leadership in new student and family programs within higher education settings. After returning home to New Orleans, he transitioned into community-based arts and cultural work, first serving as the Community Programs Director at Ashé Cultural Arts Center and now as its Program Officer. He also teaches as an adjunct faculty member in Delgado Community College’s Adult Education program. In all his roles, Solomon is committed to strengthening community engagement, expanding creative programming, and uplifting the cultural legacy of the city.

Queen Mother Sula

Queen Mother Sula’s bio will be available soon. Please check this page for updates.

Studio KIDS!: Painting Like Matisse (Ages 6-10)
2025-11-22 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. We’ll take inspiration from artwork in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden and make our own creations with a teaching artist.
Studio KIDS!: Painting Like Matisse
In this hands-on workshop, participants will explore Fauvism, a style of painting known for its use of saturated colors and bold brushstrokes. Taking inspiration from colorful paintings by French artists such as Georges Braque and Raoul Dufy (both on view at NOMA), as well as Henri Matisse, participants will explore techniques for painting like les Fauves, using stencils, drawing pens, acrylic paint, and more.
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!: Painting Like Matisse
Please note that there will be 1 session of this workshop offered on November 22:
Artists ages 6-10 will be welcomed from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm

Register for the Ages 6-10 Workshop

The 11/22 Studio KIDS! Workshop for artists ages 11-14 has been cancelled.

Studio KIDS!: Painting Like Matisse (Ages 11-14)
2025-11-22 12:30 - 14:00 | 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. We’ll take inspiration from artwork in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden and make our own creations with a teaching artist.
Studio KIDS!: Painting Like Matisse
In this hands-on workshop, participants will explore Fauvism, a style of painting known for its use of saturated colors and bold brushstrokes. Taking inspiration from colorful paintings by French artists such as Georges Braque and Raoul Dufy (both on view at NOMA), as well as Henri Matisse, participants will explore techniques for painting like les Fauves, using stencils, drawing pens, acrylic paint, and more.
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!: Painting Like Matisse
Please note that there will be 1 session of this workshop offered on November 22:
Artists ages 6-10 will be welcomed from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm

Register for the Ages 6-10 Workshop

The 11/22 Studio KIDS! workshop for artists aged 11-14 has been cancelled.

NOMA Museum Shop: Cyber Week Sale
2025-11-26 08:00 - 2025-12-01 17:00 | NOMA Museum Shop
This Wednesday, November 26 – Monday, December 1, Cyber Week 2025 is happening on the NOMA Museum Shop’s site.
During this online-only sale, shoppers can save 15% off site-wide on shop.noma.org, including custom NOMA permanent collection prints, and can receive free shipping on purchases of $100 or more.
Looking for some holiday-shopping inspiration? Check out the NOMA Museum Shop’s 2025 Gift Guide.
(Note: For holiday purchases, online orders must be placed by Thursday, December 18, to receive your gifts by Wednesday, December 24.)

NOMA Museum Shop: Museum Store Sunday Sale
2025-11-30 10:00 - 2025-12-05 17:00 | NOMA Museum Shop
On Sunday, November 30, NOMA Museum Shop is offering special Museum Store Sunday deals for in-person shoppers.
Get 15% off of in-store purchases* this day and receive a FREE tote bag with purchases of $100+. NOMA Members can save even more this day with 20% off their entire purchase.
BECOME A NOMA MEMBER
*Please note: Discount is only valid on regular-priced merchandise. Items on sale or consignment are excluded. All purchases from the NOMA Museum Shop help fund museum programs and initiatives.
Looking for some holiday-shopping inspiration? Check out the NOMA Museum Shop’s 2025 Gift Guide before you stop by.

Gallery Talk with Curator Brian Piper
2025-12-03 12:30 - 13:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Every week, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators, artists, and other special guests. These lively, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view.
This week, join NOMA’s Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings Brian Piper for a conversation on The View from Here: Women Photographers of the American Landscape. This talk will be offered at 12:30 pm. The gallery talk will be offered at 12:30 pm this day.
Included with museum admission, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.

Elders Sacred Talk Series: Spyboy Ricky Getteridge
2025-12-03 17:30 - 19:00
NOMA and the Congo Square Preservation Society present the Elders Sacred Talk Series with prolific elder New Orleanians, celebrating the lives they lead while providing the opportunity for visitors to learn firsthand about the impact they’ve had on our city. This conversation with Spyboy Ricky Getteridge will be moderated by Nana Sula Evans.
Come out to celebrate Spyboy Ricky and the Black Masking Indian Tradition for the last installment of the Elders Sacred Talk Series for 2025. Please bring your tambourines and a spirit of celebration as we gather to honor our elders.

This program is included with museum admission, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative.

About the Speakers
Spyboy Ricky Getteridge

Spyboy Ricky Getteridge is a prominent figure in the New Orleans Black Masking Indian community and an active voice in preserving and sharing the history of the New Orleans Black Masking tradition. Getteridge first masked with his father, and later with the Yellow Pocahontas tribe under Big Chief Tootie Montana and with The Spirit of Fi-Yi-Yi – Mandingo Warriors under Big Chief Victor Harris. As “Spyboy,” he was traditionally responsible for forging ahead of the tribe to scout out the path and look for other tribes, which is a significant role within the tribe and community. He is also an original member of the Bucket Men Social Aid and Pleasure Club. Getteridge is a well-known and highly respected community member whose image has been captured and exhibited worldwide by local, national, and international photographers. He has been interviewed across local media channels to discuss the evolution of his suits from spangles and bells in the 1960s and 70s to the modern, complex beadwork and African-centered motifs he wears today

About Elders Sacred Talks and Art Thrives
NOMA’s Art Thrives initiative presents creative aging programs designed to support visitors ages 55 and up. In addition to art-making workshops, courses, and opportunities for hands-on art-making, the Elders Sacred Talk Series provides a platform for older adults in New Orleans to share their experiences with audiences of all ages.
The Elders Sacred Talk Series is presented in partnership between NOMA and the Congo Square Preservation Society. Art Thrives is supported by E.A. Michelson Philanthropy.
