Maples joins the museum this week and will oversee the museum’s significant collection of historic African art, which is considered one of the most important in the United States. Read More
The Institute for Learning Innovation (ILI) and a consortium of 11 museums across the United States—including the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA)—have announced the results of a new study designed to define and measure the value of museums. Read More
This morning, Susan M. Taylor, The Montine McDaniel Freeman Director of the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) announced several changes to museum admissions with an emphasis on providing additional access for local residents. Read More
We have exciting news at NOMA. As of July 1, 2023, we are updating our membership program to be more intentional and impactful in pursuit of our institutional mission to present meaningful arts experiences that inspire communities in New Orleans and beyond. Read More
This summer and fall, the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) casts a fresh eye on two centuries of innovative and distinctly American fashion in Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour. Read More
This Friday, May 5, the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) opens a new exhibition, Ring Redux: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, presenting 100 innovative rings by designers who have reinvented this enduring jewelry form with a distinctly contemporary sense of experimental craft. Read More
Public Programs Coordinator Connor Kilian discusses artworks by Twins Seven-Seven on view in Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club. Read More
In 2011, NOMA commissioned the mural Forever by artist Odili Donald Odita—on permanent view in the museum—to commemorate the 100th birthday of the museum. Read More
In conjunction with Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club, exhibition curator Ndubuisi Ezeluomba speaks with several scholars about their experiences in Nigeria in the 1960s. Read More
Tia Williams, Visitor Experience Floor Lead at NOMA, shares one of her favorite works in Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club. Read More
Jessica Johnson, NOMA’s Creative Aging and Access Coordinator, shares one of her favorite works in Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club—a painting by Gwendolyn Knight of the artist’s birthplace of Barbados. Read More
On Friday, April 14, President Joseph R. Biden announced the appointment of Mel Buchanan, RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts and Design at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) and other members to the Committee for the Preservation of the White House. Read More
Born in Edo state, Nigeria, in 1942, Colette Oluwabamise Omogbai exhibited surrealist paintings at the Mbari Club in Ibadan in 1963 at the invitation of Black Orpheus founder Ulli Beier. Read More
NOMA announced today the appointment of W. Brian Piper as the museum’s new Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings. Read More
The Crescent City Classic is an annual tradition that takes runners, walkers, and rollers from the Superdome to the front of NOMA. Read More
The influence of the Nigerian publication Black Orpheus extended far beyond the African continent. Read More
Susanne Wenger created the art featured on some of the distinctive covers of the Nigerian publication Black Orpheus. Read More
The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) announces the appointment of Dr. Redell Hearn to the newly created position of Chief Educator. On Monday, February 6, Hearn officially began her position, which leads the museum’s Learning and Engagement department, including programming, partnerships, and community engagement initiatives. Hearn brings over two decades of experience in museums and higher education with an emphasis on creating new digital and in-person learning practices—from curriculum development for internships to supporting institutional efforts to expand community engagement. Read More