NOMA is staying open until midnight tonight to celebrate The Essence of Things – Design and the Art of Reduction: An Exhibition of the Vitra Design Museum. We’ll have live music, cooking demonstrations, 3D printing demonstrations, gallery talks, film screenings, and more!

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NOMA has joined the Mayor of New Orleans and the Greater New Orleans Foundation to support the NOLA Pay It Forward Fund. Proceeds from Friday Nights at NOMA and your gifts all day August 19, 2016 to our donation boxes, located in the museum and the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, will support nonprofit organizations who are working tirelessly to provide immediate relief for the victims of the historic floods in Louisiana. Your generosity will provide assistance and care for residents with emergency needs. Thank you for your support of NOMA and for those in need in Southeast Louisiana.

• 5 pm: Art on the Spot
• 6 – 8 pm: Music by DJs Lingerie and Suzy Q
• 6 – 10 pm: Playbuild Activities
• 6:30 pm: Artful Palate in Cafe NOMA: “Backyard BBQ Cooking in Reverse” with Austin Kirzner, Red Fish Grill executive chef
• 7 pm: 3D Printing lecture with IDIYA: “Hit Enter: How Mass Production Is Becoming Mass Customization”
• 8 – 10 pm: 3D Printing demonstrations by IDIYA (1st floor lobby)
• 8 pm: Gallery Talk with curator Mel Buchanan on The Essence of Things
• 8:30 – 11:30 pm: Music by Quintron
• 8:30 pm: Film: IRIS
• 10 pm: Film: Dior & I

Cafe NOMA will be open until 11 pm, and starting at 8 pm La Cocinita will begin serving in front of NOMA.

About IDIYA

IDIYA is a makerspace, workshop and design studio that provides members access to education, tools, and a creative community in the interest of fostering innovation in fabricators, hobbyists, artists, entrepreneurs and DIY’ers. IDIYA features the latest in professional grade advanced manufacturing and prototyping equipment accessible by becoming a member.

IDIYA founder and CEO Domenic Giunta will present an exploration of 21st-century manufacturing. Discover how mass production is morphing into mass customization through the advent of processes that make it easy to put an individual spin on mass-produced items. Quick, easy prototyping and flexible, iterative design mean that the market has more say than ever on which designs get set in stone (or plastic, or acrylic, or wood, or metal…)!

About IRIS

IRIS pairs legendary 87-year-old documentarian Albert Maysles with Iris Apfel, the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven who has had an outsized presence on the New York fashion scene for decades. More than a fashion film, the documentary is a story about creativity and how, even in Iris’ dotage, a soaring free spirit continues to inspire. IRIS portrays a singular woman whose enthusiasm for fashion, art and people are life’s sustenance and reminds us that dressing, and indeed life, is nothing but an experiment. Despite the abundance of glamour in her current life, she continues to embrace the values and work ethic established during a middle-class Queens upbringing during the Great Depression. “I feel lucky to be working. If you’re lucky enough to do something you love, everything else follows.” (83 minutes)

About Dior & I

A behind-the-scenes look at the fashion house Christian Dior as new artistic director Raf Simons launches his first couture collection for the brand. The film also profiles the many seamstresses who help make Simons’ vision a reality. (89 minutes)

About Suzy Q and Lingerie

The Candy Shack is a DJ night in New Orleans with Suzy Q (Suzy Moran) and Lingerie (Jeanne Stallworth) featuring vinyl gems of 60’s – 70’s bubblegum pop, soul, rock-n-roll, garage, and psychedelia. Suzy Q hails from Atlanta, GA. Her Peruvian roots influenced her to spin vinyl 60’s Peruvian garage to British psychedelia. Suzy Q has DJ’d radio and clubs in the last ten years, and continues to develop her style and collection. Lingerie, a local New Orleanian, started as a club DJ playing cued cassette tapes in Natchitoches during college. Now, years later, she DJs around New Orleans and is currently doing a Dark Wave monthly event at the Circle Bar.

About Café NOMA’s 2016 Artful Palate Summer Cooking Series

Chefs of the Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group will soon demonstrate their own culinary masterpieces at Café NOMA’s Artful Palate, the fifth annual summer cooking series featuring nine artfully inspired demonstrations at the historic New Orleans Museum of Art. Friday evenings are FREE for all café guests and patrons to partake in the presentation, and savor samples as each artful dish is created.

In conjunction with the launch of NOMA’s exhibition The Essence of Things: Design and the Art of Reduction, the talented executive chefs, sous chefs and mixologists of Café NOMA, Ralph’s on the Park, Red Fish Grill, Brennan’s, and Napoleon House will share their culinary vision inspired by the exhibition’s focus on the art and practice of minimalism. Artful Palate demonstrations will take a minimalist approach to cooking; featuring local seafood, meats, fruits and vegetables with simplistic recipes highlighting the core of their natural essence.