NEW ORLEANS, LA (August 3, 2017) – Allison Reid, Deputy Director for Interpretation and Audience Engagement at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), has announced Erin M. Greenwald as Curator of Programs.
As the first person to serve in this new position at NOMA, Greenwald will primarily be responsible for advancing the museum’s role as a cultural convener within the community and a catalyst for critical discourse surrounding the arts and society. Greenwald will curate learning opportunities and engagement with visitors throughout the museum through meaningful programs, events, and collaborations on the local, national and international level.
“As Curator of Programs at the New Orleans Museum of Art, I look forward to working with NOMA staff and community collaborators to develop dynamic, interdisciplinary programs that celebrate arts and culture and embrace the rich diversity of our collections and region’s inhabitants,” said Greenwald.
Prior to joining NOMA, Greenwald was senior curator and historian at The Historic New Orleans Collection (THNOC), where she served as project director of the National Endowment for the Humanities–funded traveling exhibition Purchased Lives: The American Slave Trade from 1808 to 1865. She holds a Ph.D. in History from Ohio State University and is the author of Marc-Antoine Caillot and the Company of the Indies in Louisiana: Trade in the French Atlantic World (LSU Press, 2016). She is also the editor of A Company Man: The Remarkable French-Atlantic Journey of a Clerk for the Company of the Indies (THNOC, 2013). Greenwald has lectured widely in the United States, Canada, and France, and has been an active proponent of increasing public awareness of marginalized histories through community engagement. She serves as chair of the city of New Orleans Tricentennial Commission’s subcommittee on erecting markers designating sites of the domestic slave trade.
About NOMA and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden
The New Orleans Museum of Art, founded in 1910 by Isaac Delgado, houses nearly 40,000 art objects encompassing 5,000 years of world art. Works from the permanent collection, along with continuously changing special exhibitions, are on view in the museum’s 46 galleries Fridays from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The adjoining Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden features work by over 60 artists, including several of the 20th century’s master sculptors. The Sculpture Garden is open seven days a week: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The New Orleans Museum of Art and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden are fully accessible to handicapped visitors and wheelchairs are available from the front desk. For more information about NOMA, call (504) 658-4100 or visit www.noma.org. Wednesdays are free admission days for Louisiana residents, courtesy of The Helis Foundation. (May not include special exhibitions.) Teenagers (ages 13-19) receive free admission every day through the end of the year, courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Contact Margaux Krane, Communications and Marketing Manager, for additional information and hi-res images: mkrane@noma.org, 504.658.4016.
Erin M. Greenwald, Ph.D.