Join us for weekly gallery talks every Wednesday at NOMA, featuring curators, artists, and other special guests. Talks take place at 12:30 pm & 6 pm and last 15-30 minutes. Talks in the Sculpture Garden are only offered at 12:30 pm. Read More
This week, join NOMA’s RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts and Design Mel Buchanan for a gallery talk on “Automaton Musical Clock” from NOMA’s permanent collection. Read More
Join Mel Buchanan, NOMA’s RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts & Design, for a gallery talk on New Acquisitions in Contemporary Craft in the Elise M. Besthoff Foundation Gallery on the second floor of the museum. 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
Decorative Arts Curator Mel Buchanan discusses the exhibition The Quilts of Gee’s Bend, on view at NOMA through March 8, 2019. Read More
NEW ORLEANS, LA- Susan M. Taylor, the Montine McDaniel Freeman Director of NOMA, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mel Buchanan as the RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts and… Read More
Join Mel Buchanan, the New Orleans Museum of Art’s RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, for a gallery talk about Joyce Lin’s Ghostwood Chair and Table. Read More
On December 8, dynamic ceramicist, social activist, poet, and educator Roberto Lugo joined NOMA’s Nic Aziz, Community Engagement Curator, and Mel Buchanan, RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, to discuss working as an artist in 2020, pottery, and hip hop legend Lil Wayne. Read More
WGNO, the ABC affiliate in metro New Orleans, featured a news segment about the installation of the “Stunting” Garniture Set on September 28, 2020. Mel Buchanan, the RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, explained how this commission came to arrive at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Read More
Upcoming programs at NOMA include a museum-wide festival celebrating Japanese art and culture; a program offering after-hours access to Sand, Ash, Heat: Glass at the New Orleans Museum of Art; and a poetry showcase in partnership with the New Orleans Public Library. Read More
Beginning this month, the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) presents the first ever comprehensive look at the institution’s extensive collection of glass objects ranging from tiny ancient Egyptian amulets to large-scale works of contemporary sculpture. Opening Friday, August 30, Sand, Ash, Heat: Glass at the New Orleans Museum of Art explores how a common material has inspired innovation in the arts and sciences for millennia. The exhibition is on view in NOMA’s Ella West Freeman Galleries through February 10, 2025. Read More
Senior Staff The Montine McDaniel Freeman Director Susan M. Taylor Deputy Director/Curator of Asian Art Lisa Rotondo-McCord Chief Curator Anne Collins Smith Chief Educator Dr. Redell Hearn Chief Financial Officer… Read More
In January 2024, Laura Ochoa Rincon, NOMA’s Decorative Arts Trust Curatorial Fellow, gave a presentation at the Decorative Arts Trust’s eighth annual Emerging Scholars Colloquium in New York, New York. Read More
Sand, Ash, Heat: Glass at the New Orleans Museum of Art looks at the more than 4,000-year history of glass around the world and how it intersects with scientific discoveries, foodways, and artistic innovations. 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
From photography’s beginnings in the United States, Black studio photographers operated on the developing edge of the medium to produce beautiful portraits for their clients, while also making a variety of other photographic work in keeping with important movements like pictorialism, modernism, and abstraction. Read More
A powerful new voice in contemporary craft, Joyce Lin makes work that is both conceptual and beautifully crafted. For her Ghostwood Chair and Table, commissioned by NOMA, Lin collected driftwood nearby in Louisiana’s Bayou Bienvenue Wetlands. The work’s title references a “ghost forest,” the geographical term for marshes where salty water has encroached into once-verdant swamp forests, leaving a landscape of poisoned trees. Read More