NOMA is excited to present a lecture on the Mbari Artists and Writers Club with Obi Nwakanma, Professor of English and the Black Diaspora, at the University of Central Florida in conjunction with the exhibition Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence & the Mbari Club. Following the lecture, attendees will be invited to explore the exhibition until 8:30 pm.

Join us for a lecture and conversation with photographer, activist, educator, and historian Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe. Presented as part of the programming schedule for Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers, Moutoussamy-Ashe will speak about her career as an image-maker, including what motivates her own practice as a photographer. Deeply invested in issues of representation and photography’s potential to create social change, Moutoussamy-Ashe will also consider the relationship between photographs and the fight for civil rights, including important historical work by Black female photographers.

In conjunction with the exhibition Louise Bourgeois: Paintings, NOMA presents a special lecture with Clare Davies, Associate Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

In this lecture, Dr. Kara Cooney, author of When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt, addresses questions of ancient social inequalities and how women negotiated their limited leadership roles. How was their power expressed when regularly cloaked by a man’s dominance? Were they able to rule “behind the throne”? How much of this ancient reality still touches us today?