Announcement: Due to Covid-19, the majority of teen programs and events for the 2020-2021 school year are being held virtually to continue to protect the safety and well-being of our participants, staff, and volunteers. In-person gatherings will comply with mask and social distancing guidelines.
TEEN PASS | Teens are admitted to the museum for FREE year-round, courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Teen programs at NOMA are supported in part by Women For a Better Louisiana and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Teen Art Council
The NOMA Teen Art Council is a diverse group of creative teens that serve as leaders and ambassadors of the museum. Teen Art Council members meet on a weekly basis throughout the school year to engage in arts immersion programming of all kinds: interviews with contemporary artists, meetings and tours with museum staff, art-making workshops, planning and hosting teen events at the museum, and more! Follow NOMA teens on Instagram @noma_teens to keep up with the TAC’s latest projects.
photograph by Kayla Andrus
Teen Photo Challenge
The NOMA Teen Art Council presents the Teen Photo Challenge: Captured in Quarantine. Teens in New Orleans and beyond were invited to reflect on their experience of current events through the medium of photography. All submissions were reviewed by members of the Teen Art Council and Brian Piper, the Mellon Foundation Assistant Curator of Photography.
Check out the committees’ selected featured photos on NOMA’s Instagram account.
Teen Day in the Garden
The Teen Art Council is excited to present TOGETHER MMXXI: Teen Day in the Garden on May 22, 2021 | 12-4 PM in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Expansion (SGII).
Teen Day is an afternoon of art-making, wellness activities, and socially-distanced togetherness designed by teens, for teens. Click above to learn more and pre-register for this FREE event.
!["There are endless lessons that can be gleaned from this pandemic — and one of the most prominent could be regarding the importance of the ways that we show love to those we cherish.
As beings with an innate desire to connect with others, our ability to do this through acts such as hugging or sharing intimate space has been severely compromised during the past 16 months.
In many instances, this new reality and its restrictions have prompted deeper bonds with family members — whether as a part of your 'bubble' or 'pod' or alternative means such as Zoom family calls.
As a part of 'New at NOMA: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art,' Gabrielle Garcia Steib’s 'The Past is a Foreign Country' illuminates the importance of personal histories and their relationship to our collective experiences.
Through her combination of personal and archival video footage, along with photographs, letters and other immigration-related documents from her relatives, Steib creates a mirror that prompts us all to acknowledge the beauty that exists within our families while re-imagining the ways and spaces in which we can honor these legacies."
Tap the link in our bio to read the full story from Nic Brierre Aziz, Community Engagement Curator.
In this weekly series, NOMA partners with @nolanews to present a different work each week from the museum’s collection, with commentary from a curator.
"New at NOMA: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art" is now on view at NOMA.
[Gabrielle Garcia Steib (American, Mexican, b. 1994, New Orleans, Louisiana), The Past is a Foreign Country, 2020 [still], Super 8 film and archival photographs, 5:26 (Ed. 1/3), Proposed Museum Purchase, Image courtesy of the artist © Gabrielle Garcia Steib]](https://noma.org/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
