Q&A: Joe Earle discusses Japan’s enduring ceramics tradition
Joe Earle is considered one of the preeminent experts on contemporary Japanese art. As guest curator of NOMA’s current exhibition, New Forms, New Voices: Contemporary Japanese Pottery from the Gitter-Yelen… Read More
De-enigmatizing David Lynch: 10 Facts About the Filmmaker
Movie buffs are invited to settle into NOMA’s Stern Auditorium over the course of five select Saturdays in November and December to visit the strange, dream/nightmare-like worlds of filmmaker David Lynch. Though he is best known for his works on the big screen and the quirky television series Twin Peaks, Lynch’s interests and inspirations extend far beyond Hollywood studios. Read More
Bullard Ceramics Collection spans the American Studio Movement
American potters did not invent the idea that a chunk of dirt could be transformed into a glorious piece of art, but in the twentieth century, American ceramists expanded clay’s… Read More
Q&A: Environmental scientist Elizabeth Chamberlain studies Louisiana’s fragile terrain and its resilient people
In conjunction with the exhibition East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography, enviromental scientist Elizabeth Chamberlain of Tulane University will speak at NOMA on Friday, November 10, at 7 pm about her research tracing the history of human settlement in south Louisiana’s deltaic terrain. Read More
Remembering the 1980s in Sixteen Candles
Nostalgic and wannabe Gen-Xers will recognize many touchstones of the 1980s in the coming-of-age movie Sixteen Candles, screening on Friday, November 3rd. Read More
Ceramics “craftivist” Garth Johnson breaks the rules—and plates
Garth Johnson is a self-described “craft activist” who serves as the curator of ceramics at the ASU Art Museum in Tempe, Arizona. He will speak at NOMA on Thursday, November 2, at 6 pm in advance of the opening of the exhibition Personalities in Clay: American Studio Ceramics from the E. John Bullard Collection. Read More