Get creative and explore the museum after hours during NOMA at Night.

Celebrate the public opening of special exhibition Dawoud Bey: Elegy at NOMA with an evening of live music from the Dr. Michael White Quartet; a light bites menu from Café NOMA; a 3-Dimensional landscape art-making station; extended hours and discounts on Elegy exhibition catalogues in the NOMA Museum Shop; gallery talks by exhibition curator Valerie Cassel Oliver, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and Brian Piper, NOMA’s Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings; and much more.

$15 for members
$30 general admission
Free admission for attendees ages 19 and under

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Program Details

Live Music from the Dr. Michael White Quartet

Enjoy a live musical performance from the evening’s headlining performers the Dr. Michael White Quartet, featuring famed New Orleanian clarinetist and band leader Dr. Michael White.

DJ Set from Jer’Lisa Devezin

Join artist, professor, and Creative Assembly resident artist Jer’Lisa Devezin for a DJ set and dance the night away.

NOMA Museum Shop

Check out the exhibition catalogue at the NOMA Museum Shop, which will be open throughout the evening. NOMA Members receive 20% off Dawoud Bey: Elegy exhibition catalogues, and other attendees will receive 10% off. 

Food and Drinks from Café NOMA

Cocktails, mocktails, and light bites will be available at Café NOMA throughout the evening.

And More!

More details about this event to be announced soon. Please check this page for updates.

About the Performers

Dr. Michael White Quartet

Dr. Michael White

Dr. Michael White is among the most visible and important New Orleans musicians today. He is one of only a few of today’s native New Orleans born artists to continue the authentic traditional jazz style. Dr. White is noted for his classic New Orleans jazz clarinet sound, for leading several popular bands, and for his many efforts to preserve and extend the early jazz tradition. Dr. White is a relative of early generation jazz musicians, including bassist Papa John Joseph, clarinetist Willie Joseph, and saxophonist and clarinetist Earl Fouche.

White is also a jazz historian, producer, lecturer, and consultant. He has developed and performed many jazz history themed programs. He has written and published numerous essays in books, journals, and other publications. For several years he served as a guest coach at the Juilliard Music School (Juilliard Jazz). He was the musical director for numerous Jazz at Lincoln Center concerts. He has been the traditional jazz consultant and coordinator for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival since 1995. White has also had a long association of performing and recording with acclaimed trumpeter Wynton Marsalis.

About Dawoud Bey: Elegy

Dawoud Bey: Elegy draws upon the factual and imagined realities of the early African American presence in the United States. Including forty-five black-and-white photographs and two film installations, the exhibition elucidates the deeply profound historical memory still embedded in geography at historically significant sites in Virginia, Louisiana and Ohio. Through the interweaving of three photographic series—”Stony the Road “(2023), “In This Here Place” (2019), and “Night Coming Tenderly, Black” (2017)—Bey offers a framework through which to conceptualize the landscapes of Virginia, Louisiana, and Ohio (respectively) through images that convey the memories of our shared American past.

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Thank You to Our Supporters

NOMA at Night is supported in part by grant funds from Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation; and the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council.