Family Field Day
A free family festival will be held in the expansion of the Besthoff Sculpture Garden with programs that focus on the body, physical play, and the environment as it relates to art making.
Gallery Talk: Portrait Miniatures with Curator Mel Buchanan
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Join Curator Mel Buchanan for a discussion about the Latter-Schlesinger Collection of Portrait Miniatures dating from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries.
Closed for Thanksgiving
NOMA and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be closed on Thursday, November 28, in observance of Thanksgiving.
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.
Film Screening and Conversation: World AIDS Day
The New Orleans Museum of Art is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for the thirtieth annual Day With(out) Art by presenting STILL BEGINNING, a program of seven newly commissioned videos responding to the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic, followed by a panel discussion.
Gallery Talk: The Quilts of Gee’s Bend with Conservator Howard Sutcliffe
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Join textile conservator Howard Sutcliffe as he discusses his work within the exhibition The Quilts of Gee's Bend.
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. Represented sculptors include Pierre Auguste Renoir, Rene Magritte, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, George Rodrigue, and Robert Indiana, among others. Meet at the gates to the garden, which offers free admission year-round.
Studio KIDS!
This fall, Studio KIDS presents “Text and Textures” art classes for kids on select Saturday mornings from 10 am to noon. Perfect for students ages 5-10 who want to get creative and learn art-making techniques. Studio KIDS explore art in NOMA’s galleries or the Besthoff Sculpture Garden as inspiration for an art project they complete in each session. Advance registration required.
Gallery Talk on Inventing Acadia with Kelly Presutti
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Join Kelly Presutti, an art scholar who contributed to the catalog for Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana, as she describes her research into the exhibition.
Fragmented Landscapes Film Series
On four select Saturdays at 2 pm throughout the run of Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana, NOMA will screen a series of films by Deltaworkers collectively titled Fragmented Landscapes. The films present landscape as a way to communicate ideas about representation and political histories. Join us on January 18 at 2 pm.
Gallery Talk: Ancestors in Stone with Curator Ndubuisi Ezeluomba
Join Curator Ndubuisi Ezeluomba for a discussion about Ancestors in Stone, an exhibition centered upon a recently acquired akwanshi stone monolith from the Cross River region of Nigeria.
Artist’s Perspective: Photographer Lily Brooks discusses Tina Freeman: Lamentations
Throughout the exhibition of photographs in Tina Freeman: Lamentations, a seven-year photo-documentation of Louisiana’s wetlands and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic by Tina Freeman, fellow artists, including photographer Lily Brooks, will offer their perspective on the subject matter.