BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//New Orleans Museum of Art - ECPv6.15.15//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:New Orleans Museum of Art X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://nomastaging.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for New Orleans Museum of Art REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20190310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20191103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20200308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20201101T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20210314T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20211107T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20220313T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20221106T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20230312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20231105T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220127T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220127T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20211221T173930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220124T221458Z UID:73963-1643284800-1643284800@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Virtual Book Club Discussion: Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book! In addition to monthly virtual book discussions\, the Book Club meets periodically in person for curatorial programs related to the book selections. \nBooks are selected in advance and planned for the entire year according to the exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the selected titles. Most of the titles are available for purchase in store at the NOMA Museum Shop. \nFor more information on the NOMA Book Club please contact NOMA’s Curator of Education\, Tracy Kennan\, at tkennan@noma.org or (504) 658-4113. \nRegister Now \nJanuary 2022\nVirtual Book Discussion Group | Thursday\, January 27\, 12 PM\nStephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics by Leonard Mlodinow\nPantheon\, 2020\, ISBN: 978-1524748685\n \nOne of the most influential physicists of our time\, Stephen Hawking touched the lives of millions. Recalling his nearly two decades as Hawking’s collaborator and friend\, Leonard Mlodinow brings this complex man into focus in a unique and deeply personal portrayal. We meet Hawking the genius\, who pours his mind into uncovering the mysteries of the universe—ultimately formulating a pathbreaking theory of black holes that reignites the discipline of cosmology and paves the way for physicists to investigate the origins of the universe in completely new ways. We meet Hawking the colleague\, a man whose illness leaves him able to communicate at only six words per minute but who expends the effort to punctuate his conversations with humor. And we meet Hawking the friend\, who can convey volumes with a frown\, a smile\, or simply a raised eyebrow. Mlodinow captures the indomitable spirit of his friend\, offering us insights from one of physics’ greatest practitioners about life\, the universe\, and the ability to overcome daunting obstacles. \n\n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-stephen-hawking-a-memoir-of-friendship-and-physics/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/leonard-mlodinow_stephen-hawking.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220118T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220118T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20211221T174042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220104T220043Z UID:73968-1642507200-1642507200@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Virtual Book Club: Curatorial Program with Katie Pfohl DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book! In addition to monthly discussions\, the Book Club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. \nBooks are selected in advance and planned for the entire year according to the exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the selected titles. Most of the titles are available for purchase in store at the NOMA Museum Shop. \nFor more information on the NOMA Book Club please contact NOMA’s Curator of Education\, Tracy Kennan\, at tkennan@noma.org or (504) 658-4113. \nREGISTER NOW \nJanuary 2022\nVirtual Curatorial Program | Tuesday\, January 18\, 12 pm\nwith Katie Pfohl\, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art \nStephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics by Leonard Mlodinow\nPantheon\, 2020\, ISBN: 978-1524748685\n \nOne of the most influential physicists of our time\, Stephen Hawking touched the lives of millions. Recalling his nearly two decades as Hawking’s collaborator and friend\, Leonard Mlodinow brings this complex man into focus in a unique and deeply personal portrayal. We meet Hawking the genius\, who pours his mind into uncovering the mysteries of the universe—ultimately formulating a pathbreaking theory of black holes that reignites the discipline of cosmology and paves the way for physicists to investigate the origins of the universe in completely new ways. We meet Hawking the colleague\, a man whose illness leaves him able to communicate at only six words per minute but who expends the effort to punctuate his conversations with humor. And we meet Hawking the friend\, who can convey volumes with a frown\, a smile\, or simply a raised eyebrow. Mlodinow captures the indomitable spirit of his friend\, offering us insights from one of physics’ greatest practitioners about life\, the universe\, and the ability to overcome daunting obstacles. \n\n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-curatorial-program-with-katie-pfohl/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/leonard-mlodinow_stephen-hawking.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211130T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211130T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20210916T211629Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210916T211629Z UID:70023-1638273600-1638273600@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Group Discussion DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book! In addition to monthly book discussions\, the Book Club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. Books are selected in advance and planned for the entire year according to the exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the selected titles. Meetings are held in person or via Zoom\, determined at the beginning of each month. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor more information on the NOMA Book Club please contact NOMA’s Curator of Education\, Tracy Kennan\, at tkennan@noma.org or (504) 658-4113. \nREGISTER NOW \nNOVEMBER\nThe Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World’s Most Expensive Painting by Ben Lewis\nBallantine Books\, 2019\, ISBN: 1984819259\n \nIn 2017\, Leonardo da Vinci’s small oil painting the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction. In the words of its discoverer\, the image of Christ as savior of the world is “the rarest thing on the planet.” Its $450 million sale price also makes it the world’s most expensive painting. \nFor two centuries\, art dealers had searched in vain for the Holy Grail of art history: a portrait of Christ as the Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci. Many similar paintings of greatly varying quality had been executed by Leonardo’s assistants in the early 16th century. But where was the original by the master himself? In November 2017\, Christie’s auction house announced they had it. But did they? \nThe Last Leonardo tells a thrilling tale of a spellbinding icon invested with the power to make or break the reputations of scholars\, billionaires\, kings\, and sheikhs. Ben Lewis takes us to Leonardo’s studio in Renaissance Italy; to the court of Charles I and the English Civil War; to Amsterdam\, Moscow\, and New Orleans; to the galleries\, salerooms\, and restorer’s workshop as the painting slowly\, painstakingly emerged from obscurity. The vicissitudes of the highly secretive art market are charted across six centuries. It is a twisting tale of geniuses and oligarchs\, double-crossings and disappearances\, in which we’re never quite certain what to believe. Above all\, it is an adventure story about the search for lost treasure\, and a quest for the truth. \nBOOK DISCUSSION GROUP | FRIDAY\, NOVEMBER 30\, 12 pm \n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-group-discussion-6/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-18-at-6.45.46-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211028T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211028T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20210916T211709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210916T211709Z UID:70021-1635422400-1635422400@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Group Discussion DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book! In addition to monthly book discussions\, the Book Club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. Books are selected in advance and planned for the entire year according to the exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the selected titles. Meetings are held in person or via Zoom\, determined at the beginning of each month. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor more information on the NOMA Book Club please contact NOMA’s Curator of Education\, Tracy Kennan\, at tkennan@noma.org or (504) 658-4113. \nREGISTER NOW \nOCTOBER\nSontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser\nEcco\, 2021\, ISBN: 0062896407\n \nNo writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood\, lauded and loathed\, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism\, Sontag left a legacy of writing on art and politics\, feminism and homosexuality\, celebrity and style\, medicine and drugs\, radicalism and Fascism and Freudianism and Communism and Americanism\, that forms an indispensable key to modern culture. She was there when the Cuban Revolution began\, and when the Berlin Wall came down; in Vietnam under American bombardment\, in wartime Israel\, in besieged Sarajevo. She was in New York when artists tried to resist the tug of money—and when many gave in. No writer negotiated as many worlds; no serious writer had as many glamorous lovers. Sontag tells these stories and examines the work upon which her reputation was based. It explores the agonizing insecurity behind the formidable public face: the broken relationships\, the struggles with her sexuality\, that animated—and undermined—her writing. \nBOOK DISCUSSION GROUP | THURSDAY\, OCTOBER 28\, 12 pm \n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-group-discussion-7/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-18-at-6.44.05-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210928T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210928T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20210916T211713Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210916T211713Z UID:70018-1632830400-1632830400@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Group Discussion DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book! In addition to monthly book discussions\, the Book Club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. Books are selected in advance and planned for the entire year according to the exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the selected titles. Meetings are held in person or via Zoom\, determined at the beginning of each month. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor more information on the NOMA Book Club please contact NOMA’s Curator of Education\, Tracy Kennan\, at tkennan@noma.org or (504) 658-4113. \nREGISTER NOW \nSEPTEMBER\nThe Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes\nKnopf\, 2021\, ISBN: 0525658777\n \nIn the summer of 1885\, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days’ intellectual shopping: a prince\, a count\, and a commoner with an Italian name. In time\, each of these men would achieve a certain level of renown\, but who were they then and what was the significance of their sojourn to England? Answering these questions\, Julian Barnes unfurls the stories of their lives which play out against the backdrop of the Belle Époque in Paris. \nOur guide through this world is Samuel Pozzi\, the society doctor\, free-thinker and man of science with a famously complicated private life who was the subject of one of John Singer Sargent’s greatest portraits. In this vivid tapestry of people (Henry James\, Sarah Bernhardt\, Oscar Wilde\, Proust\, James Whistler\, among many others)\, place\, and time\, we see not merely an epoch of glamour and pleasure\, but\, surprisingly\, one of violence\, prejudice\, and nativism—with more parallels to our own age than we might imagine. \nBOOK DISCUSSION GROUP | TUESDAY\, SEPTEMBER 28\, 12 pm \n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-group-discussion-8/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/The-Man-in-the-Red-Coat.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210827T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210827T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20210503T232042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210609T183555Z UID:70016-1630065600-1630065600@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Group Discussion DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book! In addition to monthly book discussions\, the Book Club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. Books are selected in advance and planned for the entire year according to the exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the selected titles. Meetings are held in person or via Zoom\, determined at the beginning of each month. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor more information on the NOMA Book Club please contact NOMA’s Curator of Education\, Tracy Kennan\, at tkennan@noma.org or (504) 658-4113. \nREGISTER NOW \nAUGUST\nThere There by Tommy Orange\nVingate\, 2019\, ISBN: 0525436146\n \nTommy Orange’s wondrous and shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow\, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize. Among them is Jacquie Red Feather\, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene\, pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil\, coming to perform traditional dance for the very first time. Together\, this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American—grappling with a complex and painful history\, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality\, with communion and sacrifice and heroism. Hailed as an instant classic\, There There is at once poignant and unflinching\, utterly contemporary and truly unforgettable. \nBOOK DISCUSSION GROUP | FRIDAY\, AUGUST 27\, 12 pm \n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-group-discussion-4/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/there-there.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210722T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210722T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20210503T231647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210609T183604Z UID:70012-1626955200-1626955200@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Group Discussion DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book! In addition to monthly book discussions\, the Book Club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. Books are selected in advance and planned for the entire year according to the exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the selected titles. Meetings are held in person or via Zoom\, determined at the beginning of each month. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor more information on the NOMA Book Club please contact NOMA’s Curator of Education\, Tracy Kennan\, at tkennan@noma.org or (504) 658-4113. \nREGISTER NOW \nJULY\nEstelle: A Novel by Linda Stewart Henley\nShe Writes Press\, 2021\, ISBN: 1631527916 \nEstelle\, named for Edgar Degas’s cousin and sister-in-law\, tells the story of the French Impressionist’s five-month visit with his Creole relatives in New Orleans in 1872-73. The artist arrives without paints or ambition and Estelle is worried. Despite problems of her own\, she encourages him and he eventually paints several family portraits\, one of which assures his fame. A century later\, Anne Gautier struggles to start a career as an artist in New Orleans while restoring an old house she inherited. From an old journal she learns about Estelle\, Edgar\, and her Creole ancestors. A portrait of Estelle causes trouble\, and Anne is forced to confront truths about people she knows as she establishes her life in the 1970s. This historical fiction novel includes history\, romance\, family saga\, mystery\, art\, and a touch of humor as events unfold. \nMEET THE AUTHOR | THURSDAY\, JULY 8\, 12 pm with Linda Stewart Henley\n \nBOOK DISCUSSION GROUP | THURSDAY\, JULY 22\, 12 pm \n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-group-discussion-5/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-18-at-6.36.28-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210708T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210708T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20210609T183452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210609T183452Z UID:70014-1625745600-1625745600@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Meet-the-Author: Linda Stewart Henley DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book! In addition to monthly book discussions\, the Book Club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. Books are selected in advance and planned for the entire year according to the exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the selected titles. Meetings are held in person or via Zoom\, determined at the beginning of each month. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor more information on the NOMA Book Club please contact NOMA’s Curator of Education\, Tracy Kennan\, at tkennan@noma.org or (504) 658-4113. \nREGISTER NOW \nJULY\nEstelle: A Novel by Linda Stewart Henley\nShe Writes Press\, 2021\, ISBN: 1631527916 \nEstelle\, named for Edgar Degas’s cousin and sister-in-law\, tells the story of the French Impressionist’s five-month visit with his Creole relatives in New Orleans in 1872-73. The artist arrives without paints or ambition and Estelle is worried. Despite problems of her own\, she encourages him and he eventually paints several family portraits\, one of which assures his fame. A century later\, Anne Gautier struggles to start a career as an artist in New Orleans while restoring an old house she inherited. From an old journal she learns about Estelle\, Edgar\, and her Creole ancestors. A portrait of Estelle causes trouble\, and Anne is forced to confront truths about people she knows as she establishes her life in the 1970s. This historical fiction novel includes history\, romance\, family saga\, mystery\, art\, and a touch of humor as events unfold. \nMEET THE AUTHOR | THURSDAY\, JULY 8\, 12 pm with Linda Stewart Henley\n \nBOOK DISCUSSION GROUP | THURSDAY\, JULY 22\, 12 pm \n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-meet-the-author-linda-stewart-henley/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-18-at-6.36.28-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210629T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210629T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20210503T233842Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210503T233842Z UID:70007-1624968000-1624968000@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Group Discussion DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book! In addition to monthly book discussions\, the Book Club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. Books are selected in advance and planned for the entire year according to the exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the selected titles. Meetings are held in person or via Zoom\, determined at the beginning of each month. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor more information on the NOMA Book Club please contact NOMA’s Curator of Education\, Tracy Kennan\, at tkennan@noma.org or (504) 658-4113. \nREGISTER NOW \nJUNE\nThe Famished Road by Ben Okri\nAnkor\, 1993\, ISBN: 0385425139 \nAzaro\, is an abiku\, a spirit child\, who in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists between life and death. The life he foresees for himself and the tale he tells is full of sadness and tragedy\, but inexplicably he is born with a smile on his face. Nearly called back to the land of the dead\, he is resurrected. But in their efforts to save their child\, Azaro’s loving parents are made destitute. The tension between the land of the living\, with its violence and political struggles\, and the temptations of the carefree kingdom of the spirits propels this latter-day Lazarus’s story. \nCURATORIAL PROGRAM | TUESDAY\, JUNE 15\, 12 pm with Ndubuisi Ezeluomba\, Françoise Billion Richardson Curator of Africa \nBOOK DISCUSSION GROUP | TUESDAY\, JUNE 29\, 12 pm \n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-group-discussion-3/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-18-at-6.33.45-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210615T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210615T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20210503T233735Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210503T233735Z UID:70010-1623758400-1623758400@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Curatorial Program DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book! In addition to monthly book discussions\, the Book Club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. Books are selected in advance and planned for the entire year according to the exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the selected titles. Meetings are held in person or via Zoom\, determined at the beginning of each month. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor more information on the NOMA Book Club please contact NOMA’s Curator of Education\, Tracy Kennan\, at tkennan@noma.org or (504) 658-4113. \nREGISTER NOW \nJUNE\nThe Famished Road by Ben Okri\nAnkor\, 1993\, ISBN: 0385425139 \nAzaro\, is an abiku\, a spirit child\, who in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists between life and death. The life he foresees for himself and the tale he tells is full of sadness and tragedy\, but inexplicably he is born with a smile on his face. Nearly called back to the land of the dead\, he is resurrected. But in their efforts to save their child\, Azaro’s loving parents are made destitute. The tension between the land of the living\, with its violence and political struggles\, and the temptations of the carefree kingdom of the spirits propels this latter-day Lazarus’s story. \nCURATORIAL PROGRAM | TUESDAY\, JUNE 15\, 12 pm with Ndubuisi Ezeluomba\, Françoise Billion Richardson Curator of Africa \nBOOK DISCUSSION GROUP | TUESDAY\, JUNE 29\, 12 pm \n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-curatorial-program-4/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-18-at-6.33.45-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210527T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210527T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20210503T233630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210503T233630Z UID:70004-1622116800-1622116800@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Group Discussion DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book! In addition to monthly book discussions\, the Book Club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. Books are selected in advance and planned for the entire year according to the exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the selected titles. Meetings are held in person or via Zoom\, determined at the beginning of each month. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor more information on the NOMA Book Club please contact NOMA’s Curator of Education\, Tracy Kennan\, at tkennan@noma.org or (504) 658-4113. \nREGISTER NOW \nMAY\nApeirogan: A Novel by Colum McCann\nRandom House\, 2021\, ISBN: 1400069602 \nBassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of conflict that colors every aspect of their lives\, from the roads they are allowed to drive on to the schools their children attend to the checkpoints\, both physical and emotional\, they must negotiate. But their lives\, however circumscribed\, are upended one after the other: first\, Rami’s 13-year-old daughter\, Smadar\, becomes the victim of suicide bombers; a decade later\, Bassam’s ten-year-old daughter\, Abir\, is killed by a rubber bullet. Rami and Bassam had been raised to hate one another. And yet\, when they learn of each other’s stories\, they recognize the loss that connects them. Together they attempt to use their grief as a weapon for peace—and with their one small act\, start to permeate what has for generations seemed an impermeable conflict. This extraordinary novel is the fruit of a seed planted when the novelist Colum McCann met the real Bassam and Rami on a trip with the non-profit organization Narrative 4. McCann was moved by their willingness to share their stories with the world\, by their hope that if they could see themselves in one another\, perhaps others could too. \nBOOK DISCUSSION GROUP | THURSDAY\, MAY 27\, 12 pm \n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-group-discussion-2/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-18-at-6.30.06-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210427T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210427T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20201213T232008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210223T235232Z UID:66562-1619524800-1619524800@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Group Discussion DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book! In addition to monthly book discussions\, the Book Club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. Books are selected in advance and planned for the entire year according to the exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the selected titles. Meetings are held in person or via Zoom\, determined at the beginning of each month. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor more information on the NOMA Book Club please contact NOMA’s Curator of Education\, Tracy Kennan\, at tkennan@noma.org or (504) 658-4113. \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nAPRIL\nLouis Armstrong\, In His Own Words: Selected Writings by Louis Armstrong\, edited and introduction by Thomas Brothers \nOxford University Press\, 2001\, ISBN: 019514046X \nThis unparalleled collection of Louis Armstrong’s candid writings reveals a side of the jazz artist not widely known to his fans. With idiosyncratic language and punctuation that recalls his musical virtuosity\, Armstrong presents his thoughts on his life and career—from abject poverty in New Orleans to playing in the famous cafes\, cabarets\, and saloons of Storyville; from his big break in 1922 with the King Oliver band\, to his storming of New York; from his breaking of color barriers in Hollywood to the infamous King of the Zulus incident in 1949; and finally\, to his last days in Queens\, New York. \nBOOK DISCUSSION GROUP | TUESDAY\, APRIL 27\, 12 pm URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-group-discussion/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Louis-Armstrong.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210413T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210413T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20201213T231632Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210329T234237Z UID:66560-1618315200-1618315200@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Curatorial Program DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book! In addition to monthly book discussions\, the Book Club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. Books are selected in advance and planned for the entire year according to the exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the selected titles. Meetings are held in person or via Zoom\, determined at the beginning of each month. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor more information on the NOMA Book Club please contact NOMA’s Curator of Education\, Tracy Kennan\, at tkennan@noma.org or (504) 658-4113. \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nAPRIL\nLouis Armstrong\, In His Own Words: Selected Writings by Louis Armstrong\, edited and introduction by Thomas Brothers \nOxford University Press\, 2001\, ISBN: 019514046X \nThis unparalleled collection of Louis Armstrong’s candid writings reveals a side of the jazz artist not widely known to his fans. With idiosyncratic language and punctuation that recalls his musical virtuosity\, Armstrong presents his thoughts on his life and career—from abject poverty in New Orleans to playing in the famous cafes\, cabarets\, and saloons of Storyville; from his big break in 1922 with the King Oliver band\, to his storming of New York; from his breaking of color barriers in Hollywood to the infamous King of the Zulus incident in 1949; and finally\, to his last days in Queens\, New York. \nCURATORIAL PROGRAM | TUESDAY\, APRIL 13\, 12 pm with David Kunian\, Music Curator at the New Orleans Jazz Museum \nBOOK DISCUSSION GROUP | TUESDAY\, APRIL 27\, 12 pm URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-curatorial-program-3/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Louis-Armstrong.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210330T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210330T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20201213T230444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210210T175334Z UID:66552-1617105600-1617105600@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Group Discussion DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book! In addition to monthly book discussions\, the Book Club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. Books are selected in advance and planned for the entire year according to the exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the selected titles. Meetings are held in person or via Zoom\, determined at the beginning of each month. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor more information on the NOMA Book Club please contact NOMA’s Curator of Education\, Tracy Kennan\, at tkennan@noma.org or (504) 658-4113.\n \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nMARCH\nMidnight Blue: A Novel by Simone van der Vlugt\nWilliam Morrow Paperback\, 2018\, ISBN: 0062686860 \nFollowing the sudden death of her husband\, 25-year old Catrin leaves her small village and takes a job as a housekeeper to the successful Van Nulandt merchant family. Amsterdam is a city at the peak of its powers: science and art are flourishing in the Golden Age and Dutch ships bring back exotic riches from the Far East. Madam Van Nulandt passes her time taking expensive painting lessons from a local master\, Rembrandt van Rijn\, and when Catrin takes up a brush to finish some of her mistress’s work\, Rembrandt realizes the maid has genuine talent\, and encourages her to continue. When a figure from her past threatens her new life\, Catrin flees to the smaller city of Delft. There\, her gift as a painter earns her a chance to earn a living painting pottery at a local workshop. Her talent revolutionizes the industry\, but when tragedy strikes\, Catrin must decide whether to defend her newfound independence\, or return to the village that she’d fled. \nBOOK DISCUSSION with a short CURATORIAL PROGRAM led by Mel Buchanan\, RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts and Design | TUESDAY\, MARCH 30\, 12 pm URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-discussion-program/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-18-at-6.22.04-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210226T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210226T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20201201T194302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210210T175319Z UID:66290-1614340800-1614340800@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Group Discussion DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book! In addition to monthly book discussions\, the Book Club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. Books are selected in advance and planned for the entire year according to the exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the selected titles. Meetings are held in person or via Zoom\, determined at the beginning of each month. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor more information on the NOMA Book Club please contact NOMA’s Curator of Education\, Tracy Kennan\, at tkennan@noma.org or (504) 658-4113.\n \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nFEBRUARY\nThe Learning Tree by Gordon Parks\nFaucett\, 1987\, ISBN: 0449215040 \nPhotographer\, writer\, and composer\, Gordon Parks wrote this moving\, true-to-life novel of growing up as a Black man in twenieth-century America. Hailed by critics and readers alike\, The Learning Tree tells the extraordinary journey of a family as they struggle to understand the world around them and leave their mark a world that is better for their having been in it. \nCURATORIAL PROGRAM | FRIDAY\, FEBRUARY 19\, 12 pm with Russell Lord\, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs\, Prints\, and Drawings \nBOOK DISCUSSION | FRIDAY\, FEBRUARY 26\, 12 pm URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-group-discussion-6/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/The-Learning-Tree.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210219T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210219T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20201201T193910Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210210T174534Z UID:66288-1613736000-1613736000@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Curatorial Program DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book! In addition to monthly book discussions\, the Book Club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. Books are selected in advance and planned for the entire year according to the exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the selected titles. Meetings are held in person or via Zoom\, determined at the beginning of each month. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor more information on the NOMA Book Club please contact NOMA’s Curator of Education\, Tracy Kennan\, at tkennan@noma.org or (504) 658-4113. \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nFEBRUARY\nThe Learning Tree by Gordon Parks\nFaucett\, 1987\, ISBN: 0449215040 \nPhotographer\, writer\, and composer\, Gordon Parks wrote this moving\, true-to-life novel of growing up as a Black man in twenieth-century America. Hailed by critics and readers alike\, The Learning Tree tells the extraordinary journey of a family as they struggle to understand the world around them and leave their mark a world that is better for their having been in it. \nCURATORIAL PROGRAM | FRIDAY\, FEBRUARY 19\, 12 pm with Russell Lord\, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs\, Prints\, and Drawings \nBOOK DISCUSSION | FRIDAY\, FEBRUARY 26\, 12 pm URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-curatorial-program-10/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/The-Learning-Tree.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210129T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210129T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20201201T193233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210123T033022Z UID:66285-1611921600-1611921600@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Group Discussion DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book! In addition to monthly book discussions\, the Book Club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. Books are selected in advance and planned for the entire year according to the exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the selected titles. Meetings are held in person or via Zoom\, determined at the beginning of each month. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor more information on the NOMA Book Club please contact NOMA’s Curator of Education\, Tracy Kennan\, at tkennan@noma.org or (504) 658-4113. \nJANUARY\nNinth Street Women: Lee Krasner\, Elaine de Kooning\, Grace Hartigan\, Joan Mitchell\, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art by Mary Gabriel\nBack Bay Books\, 2019\, ISBN: 9780316226172 \nSet amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times\, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned\, wild\, sometimes tragic\, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting—not as muses but as artists. From their cold-water lofts\, where they worked\, drank\, fought\, and loved\, these pioneers burst open the door to the art world for themselves and countless others to come. Lee Krasner\, Elaine de Kooning\, Grace Hartigan\, Joan Mitchell\, and Helen Frankenthaler changed American art and society\, tearing up the prevailing social code and replacing it with a doctrine of liberation. In Ninth Street Women\, acclaimed author Mary Gabriel tells a remarkable and inspiring story of the power of art and artists in shaping not just postwar America but the future. \nCURATORIAL PROGRAM | FRIDAY\, JANUARY 15\, 12 pm with Katie Pfohl\, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art \nBOOK DISCUSSION | FRIDAY\, JANUARY 29\, 12 pm URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-group-discussion-5/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Ninth-Street-Women.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210115T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210115T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20201201T192857Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210210T174718Z UID:66282-1610712000-1610712000@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Curatorial Program DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book! In addition to monthly book discussions\, the Book Club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. Books are selected in advance and planned for the entire year according to the exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the selected titles. Meetings are held in person or via Zoom\, determined at the beginning of each month. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor more information on the NOMA Book Club please contact NOMA’s Curator of Education\, Tracy Kennan\, at tkennan@noma.org or (504) 658-4113.\n \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nJANUARY\nNinth Street Women: Lee Krasner\, Elaine de Kooning\, Grace Hartigan\, Joan Mitchell\, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art by Mary Gabriel\nBack Bay Books\, 2019\, ISBN: 9780316226172 \nSet amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times\, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned\, wild\, sometimes tragic\, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting—not as muses but as artists. From their cold-water lofts\, where they worked\, drank\, fought\, and loved\, these pioneers burst open the door to the art world for themselves and countless others to come. Lee Krasner\, Elaine de Kooning\, Grace Hartigan\, Joan Mitchell\, and Helen Frankenthaler changed American art and society\, tearing up the prevailing social code and replacing it with a doctrine of liberation. In Ninth Street Women\, acclaimed author Mary Gabriel tells a remarkable and inspiring story of the power of art and artists in shaping not just postwar America but the future. \nCURATORIAL PROGRAM | FRIDAY\, JANUARY 15\, 12 pm with Katie Pfohl\, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art \nBOOK DISCUSSION | FRIDAY\, JANUARY 29\, 12 pm URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-curatorial-program-9/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Ninth-Street-Women.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201120T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201120T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20191115T173005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201117T221034Z UID:51384-1605873600-1605877200@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Discussion Program DESCRIPTION:Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art\, artists\, art museums\, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. Our full 2020 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nThe Book Club is an informal group that currently meets by way of Zoom video conferencing. Please contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about participating in the Book Club. \nNovember 2020\nA Dream and a Chisel: Louisiana Sculptor Angela Gregory in Paris\, 1925 – 1928 by Angela Gregory and Nancy Penrose\nUniversity of South Carolina Press\, 2019\, ISBN: 1611179777 \nThis memoir is based on Nancy Penrose’s oral-history interviews with Louisiana sculptor Angela Gregory\, as well as letters and diaries compiled before Gregory’s death in 1990. The book offers a glimpse into the realities of an artist’s life and studio\, and captures the vital early years of an extraordinary woman who carved a place for herself in Louisiana’s history. Through sheer grit and persistence\, Gregory achieved her dream of studying with French artist Antoine Bourdelle. In Bourdelle’s Paris studio\, Gregory learned not only sculpting techniques but also how to live life as an artist. Her experiences in Paris inspired a prolific sixty-year career in a field dominated by men. \nFRIDAY\, NOVEMBER 20\, 12 – 1 pm | BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/51384/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/november.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201112T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201112T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20201106T215902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201106T220200Z UID:65291-1605182400-1605182400@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Special Event: Guest Speaker Susan Hymel DESCRIPTION:Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art\, artists\, art museums\, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. \nOrganized by NOMA’s Felix J. Dreyfous Library\, the Book Club is an informal group that currently meets by way of Zoom video conferencing. RSVP for the meetings you wish to attend. \nIn conjunction with November’s reading selection\, A Dream and a Chisel: Louisiana Sculptor Angela Gregory in Paris\, 1925–1928 by Angela Gregory and Nancy Penrose\, the Book Club has invited Susan Hymel\, the Gregory family historian\, to share her insights into the renowned artist. \nBorn in New Orleans in 1903\, through sheer grit and persistence\, Angela Gregory achieved her dream of studying with French artist Antoine Bourdelle. In Bourdelle’s Paris studio\, Gregory learned not only sculpting techniques but also how to live life as an artist. Her experiences in Paris inspired a prolific sixty-year career in a field dominated by men with many commissions in her home state of Louisiana. \nTo join this Zoom event\, contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org. \nA book discussion will be held on Friday\, November 20\, at 12 pm. URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-special-event-guest-speaker-susan-hymel/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/559cd59581c0c6fad1b4063a3f1c80a1-786x1024-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201029T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201029T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20191115T172828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201002T000859Z UID:51382-1603972800-1603976400@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Discussion Program DESCRIPTION:Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art\, artists\, art museums\, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. Our full 2020 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized by NOMA’s Felix J. Dreyfous Library\, the Book Club is an informal group. You do not have to attend every meeting and we understand if you have to leave a discussion or program early. The book club offers several types of programs: a book discussion group that meets once a month (no reading in December)\, curatorial programs\, field trips\, and Meet the Author receptions. Most book club programs start promptly at noon\, but please arrive at 11:30 a.m. if you wish to bring a sack lunch or meet beforehand. NOMA will provide water and soft drinks. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nOctober 2020\nSeven Days in the Art World by by Sarah Thornton\nW. W. Norton and Company\, 2009\, ISBN: 039333712X \nSarah Thornton’s vivid ethnography reveals the inner workings of the sophisticated subcultures that make up the contemporary art world. In a series of day-in-the-life narratives set in New York\, Los Angeles\, London\, Basel\, Venice\, and Tokyo\, Seven Days in the Art World explores the dynamics of creativity\, taste\, status\, money\, and the search for meaning in life. \nTHURSDAY\, OCTOBER 29\, 12 – 1 pm | BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-discussion-program-8/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/october.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200929T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200929T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20191115T172624Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191115T172624Z UID:51380-1601380800-1601384400@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Discussion Program DESCRIPTION:Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art\, artists\, art museums\, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. Our full 2020 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized by NOMA’s Felix J. Dreyfous Library\, the Book Club is an informal group. You do not have to attend every meeting and we understand if you have to leave a discussion or program early. The book club offers several types of programs: a book discussion group that meets once a month (no reading in December)\, curatorial programs\, field trips\, and Meet the Author receptions. Most book club programs start promptly at noon\, but please arrive at 11:30 a.m. if you wish to bring a sack lunch or meet beforehand. NOMA will provide water and soft drinks. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nSeptember 2020\nThe Forgotten Room by Karen White\, Beatriz Williams\, and Lauren Willig\nBerkley\, 2016\, ISBN: 0451474635 \nWhen critically wounded Captain Cooper Ravenel is brought to a private hospital on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in 1945\, young Dr. Kate Schuyler is drawn into a complex mystery that connects three generations of women in her family to a single extraordinary room in a Gilded Age mansion. The portrait miniature belonging to Captain Ravenel depicts a young woman who looks remarkably like Kate. This collaborative novel presents stories from three generations written by three authors. \nTHURSDAY\, SEPTEMBER 17\, 12 – 1 pm | CURATORIAL PROGRAM \nTUESDAY\, SEPTEMBER 29\, 12 – 1 pm | BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-discussion-program-7/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/september.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200917T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200917T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20191115T172520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210210T174657Z UID:51378-1600344000-1600347600@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Curatorial Program DESCRIPTION:Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art\, artists\, art museums\, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. Our full 2020 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized by NOMA’s Felix J. Dreyfous Library\, the Book Club is an informal group. You do not have to attend every meeting and we understand if you have to leave a discussion or program early. The book club offers several types of programs: a book discussion group that meets once a month (no reading in December)\, curatorial programs\, field trips\, and Meet the Author receptions. Most book club programs start promptly at noon\, but please arrive at 11:30 a.m. if you wish to bring a sack lunch or meet beforehand. NOMA will provide water and soft drinks. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club.\n \nREGISTER NOW \n  \nSeptember 2020\nThe Forgotten Room by Karen White\, Beatriz Williams\, and Lauren Willig\nBerkley\, 2016\, ISBN: 0451474635 \nWhen critically wounded Captain Cooper Ravenel is brought to a private hospital on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in 1945\, young Dr. Kate Schuyler is drawn into a complex mystery that connects three generations of women in her family to a single extraordinary room in a Gilded Age mansion. The portrait miniature belonging to Captain Ravenel depicts a young woman who looks remarkably like Kate. This collaborative novel presents stories from three generations written by three authors. \nTHURSDAY\, SEPTEMBER 17\, 12 – 1 pm | CURATORIAL PROGRAM \nTUESDAY\, SEPTEMBER 29\, 12 – 1 pm | BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-curatorial-program-8/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/september.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200903T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200903T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20191115T172230Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200825T174034Z UID:51376-1599134400-1599138000@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Discussion Group DESCRIPTION:UPDATE: Due to the threat of hurricane activity in South Louisiana\, this session has been rescheduled for Thursday\, September 3. \nJoin fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art\, artists\, art museums\, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. Our full 2020 schedule and reading list has been announced. Book Club discussions are conducted on Zoom during Phase 2 of Covid-19 precautions.  \nOrganized by NOMA’s Felix J. Dreyfous Library\, the Book Club is an informal group. You do not have to attend every meeting and we understand if you have to leave a discussion or program early. The book club offers several types of programs: a book discussion group that meets once a month (no reading in December)\, curatorial programs\, field trips\, and Meet the Author receptions. Most book club programs start promptly at noon\, but please arrive at 11:30 a.m. if you wish to bring a sack lunch or meet beforehand. NOMA will provide water and soft drinks. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nAugust 2020\nThe Queen’s Embroiderer: A True Story of Paris\, Lovers\, Swindlers\, and the First Stock Market Crisis by Joan DeJean\nBloomsbury Publishing\, 2018\, ISBN: 9781632864741 \nFollowing two families from 1600 through the French Revolution of 1789\, Joan DeJean recreates the larger-than-life personalities of Versailles\, where displaying wealth was a power game; the sordid cells of the Bastille; the Louisiana territory\, where Frenchwomen were forcibly sent to marry colonists; and the legendary Rue Quincampoix the “Wall Street of Paris.” The Queen’s Embroiderer is both a story of star-crossed love in the most beautiful city in the world and a cautionary tale of greed and the dangerous lure of windfall profits. And every bit of it is true. \nTHURSDAY\, AUGUST 27\, 12 – 1 pm | BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-discussion-group-46/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/august.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200728T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200728T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20191115T171932Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191115T171954Z UID:51373-1595937600-1595941200@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Discussion Group DESCRIPTION:Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art\, artists\, art museums\, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. Our full 2020 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized by NOMA’s Felix J. Dreyfous Library\, the Book Club is an informal group. You do not have to attend every meeting and we understand if you have to leave a discussion or program early. The book club offers several types of programs: a book discussion group that meets once a month (no reading in December)\, curatorial programs\, field trips\, and Meet the Author receptions. Most book club programs start promptly at noon\, but please arrive at 11:30 a.m. if you wish to bring a sack lunch or meet beforehand. NOMA will provide water and soft drinks. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nJuly 2020\nThe Sympathizer: A Novel by by Viet Than Nyguen\nGrove Press\, 2016\, ISBN: 0802124941 \nThe narrator of this sweeping epic of love and betrayal\, is a man of two minds. Half-French\, half-Vietnamese\, the army captain arranges to come to America after the Fall of Saigon\, and while building a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles is secretly reporting back to his communist superiors in Vietnam. The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity and America\, a gripping espionage novel\, and a powerful story of love and friendship. \nTUESDAY\, JULY 28\, 12 – 1 pm | BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/51373/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/july.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200626T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200626T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20191115T171606Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191115T171711Z UID:51369-1593172800-1593176400@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Discussion Group DESCRIPTION:Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art\, artists\, art museums\, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. Our full 2020 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized by NOMA’s Felix J. Dreyfous Library\, the Book Club is an informal group. You do not have to attend every meeting and we understand if you have to leave a discussion or program early. The book club offers several types of programs: a book discussion group that meets once a month (no reading in December)\, curatorial programs\, field trips\, and Meet the Author receptions. Most book club programs start promptly at noon\, but please arrive at 11:30 a.m. if you wish to bring a sack lunch or meet beforehand. NOMA will provide water and soft drinks. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nJune 2020\nAn Orchestra of Minorities by Obioma Chigozie\nLittle\, Brown and Company\, 2019\, ISBN: 0316412392 \nSet on the outskirts of Umuahia\, Nigeria\, and narrated by a chi\, or guardian spirit\, this novel tells the love story of Chinonso\, a young poultry farmer\, and Ndali\, who is from a wealthy family. When Ndali’s family objects to their union\, Chinonso sells his possessions to attend a college in Cyprus. Spanning multiple continents\, traversing the earth and cosmic spaces\, and told by a narrator who has lived for hundreds of years\, the novel is a contemporary twist of Homer’s Odyssey. Written in the mythic style of the Igbo literary tradition\, Chigozie Obioma weaves a heart-wrenching epic about destiny and determination. \nFRIDAY\, JUNE 26\, 12 – 1 pm | BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-discussion-group-45/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/june.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200528T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200528T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20191115T171215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191115T171215Z UID:51365-1590667200-1590670800@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Discussion Program DESCRIPTION:Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art\, artists\, art museums\, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. Our full 2020 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized by NOMA’s Felix J. Dreyfous Library\, the Book Club is an informal group. You do not have to attend every meeting and we understand if you have to leave a discussion or program early. The book club offers several types of programs: a book discussion group that meets once a month (no reading in December)\, curatorial programs\, field trips\, and Meet the Author receptions. Most book club programs start promptly at noon\, but please arrive at 11:30 a.m. if you wish to bring a sack lunch or meet beforehand. NOMA will provide water and soft drinks. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nMay 2020\nThe Badass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer\nSimon and Schuster\, 2017\, ISBN: 9781476777412 \nIn the 1980s\, a young adventurer and collector for a government library\, Abdel Kader Haidara\, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River\, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscripts that had fallen into obscurity. In 2012\, as thousands of Al Qaeda militants seized control of most of Mali\, Haidara organized a dangerous operation to sneak all 350\,000 volumes out of Timbuktu to the safety of southern Mali. Journalist Joshua Hammer tells the story of Haidara’s heroic and ultimately successful effort to outwit Al Qaeda and preserve Mali’s—and the world’s—literary patrimony. \nTHURSDAY\, MAY 28\, 12 – 1 pm | BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-discussion-program-5/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/may.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200428T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200428T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20191115T171427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200406T212252Z UID:51367-1588075200-1588078800@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Discussion Program – CANCELED DESCRIPTION:Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art\, artists\, art museums\, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. Our full 2020 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized by NOMA’s Felix J. Dreyfous Library\, the Book Club is an informal group. You do not have to attend every meeting and we understand if you have to leave a discussion or program early. The book club offers several types of programs: a book discussion group that meets once a month (no reading in December)\, curatorial programs\, field trips\, and Meet the Author receptions. Most book club programs start promptly at noon\, but please arrive at 11:30 a.m. if you wish to bring a sack lunch or meet beforehand. NOMA will provide water and soft drinks. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nApril 2020\nForeign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Treasures of Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk\nJohn Murray Publishers\, 2006\, ISBN: 0719564484 \nThe Silk Road\, which linked imperial Rome and distant China\, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it traveled precious cargoes of silk\, gold\, and ivory\, as well as revolutionary new ideas. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centers of Buddhist art and learning. In time it began to decline. Traffic slowed\, merchants left\, and towns vanished beneath the desert sands to be forgotten for a thousand years. Legends grew of lost cities filled with treasures and in the early years of the last century foreign explorers began to investigate these stories. Art and manuscripts were carried away and today are scattered through museums of a dozen countries. Peter Hopkirk tells the story of the intrepid men who\, at great personal risk\, led these long-range archaeological raids. \nTUESDAY\, APRIL 14\, 12 – 1 pm | CURATORIAL PROGRAM \nTUESDAY\, APRIL 28\, 12 – 1 pm | BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-discussion-program-6/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/april.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200414T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200414T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20191115T170833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200317T235912Z UID:51361-1586865600-1586869200@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Curatorial Program – CANCELED DESCRIPTION:Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art\, artists\, art museums\, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. Our full 2020 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized by NOMA’s Felix J. Dreyfous Library\, the Book Club is an informal group. You do not have to attend every meeting and we understand if you have to leave a discussion or program early. The book club offers several types of programs: a book discussion group that meets once a month (no reading in December)\, curatorial programs\, field trips\, and Meet the Author receptions. Most book club programs start promptly at noon\, but please arrive at 11:30 a.m. if you wish to bring a sack lunch or meet beforehand. NOMA will provide water and soft drinks. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nApril 2020\nForeign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Treasures of Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk\nJohn Murray Publishers\, 2006\, ISBN: 0719564484 \nThe Silk Road\, which linked imperial Rome and distant China\, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it traveled precious cargoes of silk\, gold\, and ivory\, as well as revolutionary new ideas. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centers of Buddhist art and learning. In time it began to decline. Traffic slowed\, merchants left\, and towns vanished beneath the desert sands to be forgotten for a thousand years. Legends grew of lost cities filled with treasures and in the early years of the last century foreign explorers began to investigate these stories. Art and manuscripts were carried away and today are scattered through museums of a dozen countries. Peter Hopkirk tells the story of the intrepid men who\, at great personal risk\, led these long-range archaeological raids. \nTUESDAY\, APRIL 14\, 12 – 1 pm | CURATORIAL PROGRAM \nTUESDAY\, APRIL 28\, 12 – 1 pm | BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-discussion-program-4/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/april.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200324T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200324T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T063957 CREATED:20191115T170602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200316T233206Z UID:51357-1585051200-1585054800@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Discussion Program – CANCELED DESCRIPTION:Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art\, artists\, art museums\, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. Our full 2020 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized by NOMA’s Felix J. Dreyfous Library\, the Book Club is an informal group. You do not have to attend every meeting and we understand if you have to leave a discussion or program early. The book club offers several types of programs: a book discussion group that meets once a month (no reading in December)\, curatorial programs\, field trips\, and Meet the Author receptions. Most book club programs start promptly at noon\, but please arrive at 11:30 a.m. if you wish to bring a sack lunch or meet beforehand. NOMA will provide water and soft drinks. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nMarch 2020\nHidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad  by Jacqueline Tobin and Raymond Dobard\nAnchor\, 2000\, ISBN: 0385497679  \nIn 1993\, historian Jacqueline Tobin met African American quilter Ozella Williams amid piles of beautiful handmade quilts in the Old Market Building of Charleston\, South Carolina. With the admonition to “write this down\,” Williams began to describe how slaves made coded quilts and used them to navigate their escape on the Underground Railroad. During the three years it took for Williams’s narrative to unfold—and as the friendship and trust between the two women grew—Tobin enlisted New Orleans native Raymond Dobard\, Ph.D.\, an art history professor and well-known African American quilter\, to help unravel the mystery.  \nTUESDAY\, MARCH 24\, 12 – 1 pm | BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-discussion-program-3/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/march.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR