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National Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration 2025
Wed, September 17th at 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Celebrate National Hispanic American Heritage Month at NOMA, featuring gallery talks from Lapis Curator of the Art of the Americas Orlando Hernández Ying and a live performance and lecture from Marc Armitano Domingo.
This program is included with museum admission, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. Advanced registration is recommended.
Program Details
6:00 pm | Gallery Talk with Curator Orlando Hernández Ying
Join Orlando Hernández Ying, NOMA’s Lapis Curator of the Art of the Americas, for a Gallery Talk on Our Lady of Loreto in the newly reinstalled second floor mezzanine gallery. Learn more about the upcoming Great Hall installation of grand scale Peruvian Vice-Regal paintings, opening September 30th.
7:00 pm | Live Salterio (Psaltery) Performance and Lecture with Marc Armitano Domingo
Musician and researcher Marc Armitano Domingo will perform on the salterio (psaltery), a historical dulcimer instrument. The performance will be interspersed and connected with his lecture titled “The Hispanic Psaltery in the Americas.”
Beverages and Light Bites from Café NOMA
Enjoy specialty cocktails, mocktails and a light bites menu from Café NOMA leading up to Armitano Domingo’s lecture.
Additional Information
About Marc Armitano Domingo
Marc Armitano Domingo (b. 1996) is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York City, working across oil painting, porcelain, and historical music performance. His visual work delves into sacred and natural themes, rendered through shadowy, atmospheric, and whimsical compositions on copper, linen, and porcelain.
As a leading performer and researcher of the salterio—a historical dulcimer popular in 17th- and 18th-century Spain, Italy, and colonial Latin America—Armitano Domingo focuses on reconstructing both the repertoire and authentic playing techniques. He performs on a replica 18th-century salterio, using special finger rings to pluck the strings rather than hammers.
Across media, his work engages with history and memory whether through nostalgic, tenebrous landscapes, delicate porcelain forms, or the vibrant, resonant sound of the salterio. His practice confronts the cultural amnesia that allows once-important traditions to fade, reclaiming forgotten forms and questioning why they were so readily lost to history.