NOMA Egg Hunt and Family Festival 2019
Join us on Saturday, April 13th for the NOMA Egg Hunt and Family Festival in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Bring your family for a fun-filled day featuring egg hunts, a petting zoo, face painting, spacewalks, painting, crafts, activities and more! Tickets will sold at the door.
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. Saturdays at 10:30 am This...
Noontime Talk: Ear to the Ground with Curator Katie Pfohl
Noontime 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 Ear to the Ground: Earth and Element in Contemporary Art.
Small Talk: Madonna and Child with Saints
Small Talks are ten-to-fifteen-minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about works of art in NOMA’s permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions.
NOMA 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.
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.