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BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//New Orleans Museum of Art - ECPv6.8.2.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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:20180311T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20181104T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180727T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180727T210000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20180523T194718Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190530T124203Z UID:36016-1532710800-1532725200@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by DJ Jess | Artist Perspective with L. Kasimu Harris | Screening of Mr. Cao Goes to Washington DESCRIPTION:Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music\, movies\, children’s activities\, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm. \n\n5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table\n5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by DJ Jess\n6 pm: Artist Perspective with L. Kasimu Harris in Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories\n6 pm: Artful Palate cooking demonstration in Café NOMA\n7 pm: Picturing Us Film Series: Screening of Mr. Cao Goes to Washington\n\nABOUT DJ JESS\nAs a lover of all genres and eras of music\, New Orleans’ own DJ Jess sets an eclectic and energetic mood. \nABOUT ARTFUL PALATE COOKING DEMONSTRATIONS\nChefs of the Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group will demonstrate their own culinary masterpieces at Café NOMA’s “Artful Palate\,” the seventh annual summer cooking series featuring seven artfully inspired demonstrations at the New Orleans Museum of Art. \nIn conjunction with the launch of NOMA’s exhibition Changing Course: Reflecting on New Orleans Histories\, the talented executive chefs and sous chefs will share their culinary vision by commemorating the past and looking to the future by offering a contemporary twist on iconic New Orleans dishes. \nThis evening\, Chris Montero\, Café NOMA culinary curator and Napoleon House executive chef\, will prepare beignets. \nABOUT L. KASIMU HARRIS\nL. Kasimu Harris is a storyteller who uses writing\, photography and video to push the narrative. Images from his War on the Benighted series are a part of the group exhibition\, Changing Course: Reflection of New Orleans Histories.  War on the Benighted  is a narrative constructed reality series about New Orleans public school students who became frustrated with the inequalities in education; they rose up and began a quest to educate themselves. Their grievances include the school-to-prison pipeline\, emphasis on standardized testing\, and a diminishing arts curriculum. \nHarris is a New Orleans native who has participated in twenty group exhibitions across the US\, two abroad\, and three solo photography exhibitions. In 2015\, his work was exhibited in both The Rising and Louisiana Contemporary at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and garnered coverage in The New York Times and NPR. He also a featured artist in Dandy Lion (Re) Articulating Black Masculinity\, curated by Shantrelle P. Lewis\, a  traveling exhibition with the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago that has traveled to San Francisco\, Miami\, and London. \nABOUT MR. CAO GOES TO WASHINGTON\nMr. Cao Goes to Washington follows the journey of Rep. Joseph Cao\, the first Vietnamese American elected to the US Congress\, the only non-white House Republican of the 111th Congress\, and the only Republican to vote for President Obama’s Health Care Reform Bill. A former seminarian and an idealistic attorney from the small but well-respected Vietnamese-American neighborhood in New Orleans\, Anh “Joseph” Cao enters the political arena in  hoping to affect greater good. Having never won an election\, in 2009 Cao scores a stunning upset by unseating Rep. Bill Jefferson\, a nine-term incumbent mired in a bribery scandal\, to capture a Congressional seat in just his second run for public office. (2012 | Not rated | 1 hour\, 12 minutes) \nFriday Nights at NOMA is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust; 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. URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/friday-nights-at-noma-music-by-dj-jess-artist-perspective-with-l-kasimu-harris-screening-of-mr-cao-goes-to-washington/ CATEGORIES:NOMA at Night,Artist Perspectives ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Kasimu-Harris_War-on-the-Benighted_1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180720T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180720T203000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20180402T211309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180628T212109Z UID:33558-1532113200-1532118600@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Picturing Us Film Series: The Sons of Tennessee Williams DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with the exhibition Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories\, NOMA presents six documentary films exploring the people and places that make New Orleans home. The films will be screened as part of Friday Nights at NOMA programming. \n\nFriday\, July 6\, 7 pm: Tchoupitoulas\nFriday\, July 20\, 7 pm: The Sons of Tennessee Williams\nFriday\, July 27\, 7 pm: Mr. Cao Goes to Washington\nFriday\, August 3\, 6 pm: Prejudice and Pride\nFriday\, August 10\, 7 pm: Piano Players Rarely Ever Play Together\nFriday\, August 17\, 7 pm: By Invitation Only\n\nABOUT THE SONS OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS\nThe Sons of Tennessee Williams tells the story of New Orleans gay Mardi Gras across five decades and explores the intersection of Carnival and the gay rights movement. Starting in 1959\, groups of gay men began discreetly to charter social clubs called krewes\, transforming the momentary license and briefly relaxed laws during Mardi Gras into public explosions of an underground culture. Documentarian Tim Wolff parallels these elaborate tableaux balls with the emerging struggle for gay rights in New Orleans and the nation\, chronicling an important social history that has gone largely untold. (2011 | Not rated | 1 hour\, 20 minutes) \nWatch the trailer: \n  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/picturing-us-film-series-the-sons-of-tennessee-williams/ CATEGORIES:NOMA at Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/sons_of_tennessee_williams.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180720T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180720T210000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20180523T014255Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190530T124019Z UID:35990-1532106000-1532120400@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Abita Stumps | Screening of The Sons of Tennessee Williams DESCRIPTION:Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music\, movies\, children’s activities\, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries\, Café NOMA\, and the Museum Shop remain open till 9 pm. \n\n5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table\n5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Abita Stumps\n6 pm: Artful Palate cooking demonstration in Café NOMA\n6 pm: Docent-guided tour of Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories\n7 pm: Picturing Us Film Series: Screening of The Sons of Tennessee Williams\n\nABOUT THE ABITA STUMPS\nThe Abita Stumps bill themselves as “a band of mother-stumpin’ swampy-tonk cats.” The country-music quintet are regular fixtures at the Abita Springs Opry and festivals across Southeast Louisiana. Their foot-stomping tunes include “Liquored Up and Lacquered Down\,” “Mississippi Mud\,” “Highway Patrol\,” and “All You Ever Do is Bring Me Down.” \nABOUT ARTFUL PALATE COOKING DEMONSTRATIONS\nChefs of the Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group will demonstrate their own culinary masterpieces at Café NOMA’s “Artful Palate\,” the seventh annual summer cooking series featuring seven artfully inspired demonstrations at the New Orleans Museum of Art. \nIn conjunction with the launch of NOMA’s exhibition Changing Course: Reflecting on New Orleans Histories\, the talented executive chefs and sous chefs will share their culinary vision by commemorating the past and looking to the future by offering a contemporary twist on iconic New Orleans dishes. \nThis evening\, Knut Mjelde\, sous chef of Ralph’s on the Park\, will prepare shrimp remoulade. \nABOUT THE SONS OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS\nThe Sons of Tennessee Williams tells the story of New Orleans gay Mardi Gras across five decades and explores the intersection of Carnival and the gay rights movement. Starting in 1959\, groups of gay men began discreetly to charter social clubs called krewes\, transforming the momentary license and briefly relaxed laws during Mardi Gras into public explosions of an underground culture. Documentarian Tim Wolff parallels these elaborate tableaux balls with the emerging struggle for gay rights in New Orleans and the nation\, chronicling an important social history that has gone largely untold. (2011 | Not rated | 1 hour\, 20 minutes) \nFriday Nights at NOMA is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust; 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. URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/friday-nights-at-noma-music-by-abita-stumps-artist-perspective-with-skylar-fein-screening-of-the-sons-of-tennessee-williams/ CATEGORIES:NOMA at Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Armenius-Ball.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180713T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180713T210000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20180523T011621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180703T214453Z UID:35988-1531504800-1531515600@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Bastille Day Fête 2018 DESCRIPTION:Now in its seventh year\, the Bastille Day Fête features live music and dancing with Bon Bon Vivant\, cooking demonstrations\, guided tours\, French film screenings\, a puppet show\, family art-making activities\, a roaming magician\, and more! Presented by the Alliance Française of New Orleans\, Consulate General of France in Louisiana\, French-American Chamber of Commerce-Gulf Coast Chapter\, New Orleans Museum of Art\, and New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation\, the celebration provides an opportunity for French and American families to celebrate France’s national holiday and Louisiana’s French heritage. \nThe celebration also includes a pop up shop by The French Library; food by Café NOMA\, Boucherie\, Café Dégas\, Crêpes à la Cart\, and Frencheez; and cash bars featuring wines from across France! \nGeneral Admission $5 | Free for NOMA Members\, teens\, and children 6 and under \nProgramme de la soirée\nGrande Salle (Great Hall) \n\n6–9 pm Music by Bon Bon Vivant\n7 pm Welcome remarks\n8 pm Performance by Roux La La\n\n  \nAuditorium Stern (Stern Auditorium) \n\n6–7 pm Café NOMA by Ralph Brennan presents “A Creole Take on Classic French Cuisine” with Chris Montero\, Executive Chef and Culinary Curator of Café NOMA and Napoleon House\n8–9 pm Screening of family-friendly French short films presented by the New Orleans Film Society\n\n  \nRez-de-chaussée (First floor) \n\n5–8 pm Art on the Spot à la française (Elevator lobby)\n5–9 pm The French Library pop-up shop (Elevator lobby)\n5–9 pm Café NOMA open for dinner service\n7 pm Guided tour of the exhibition Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories (Meet in the elevator lobby)\n7:15 pm Presentation and book signing with Cheryl Wakerhauser\, pastry chef and author of Modern French Pastry (Museum Shop)\n8 pm Guided tour of the exhibition Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories (Meet in the elevator lobby)\n\n  \n1er Étage (Second Floor) \n\n6:30–7:15 pm “Porta-Puppets on Parade” presented by the Porta-Puppet Players (Contemporary Galleries)\n6:30 pm: Guided tour of NOMA’s Impressionist collections (Meet in 2nd floor elevator lobby)\n7:30 pm Guided tour of NOMA’s modern art collections (Meet in 2nd floor elevator lobby)\n\n  \nÀ l’Extérieur (Outside) \n\n5:30–9 pm Food from Boucherie\, Café Dégas\, Crêpes à la Cart\, and Frencheez\n\n  \nHashtag: #BastilleDayNOLA \n  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/bastille-day-fete-2018/ CATEGORIES:NOMA at Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/BastilleDay2018.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180706T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180706T203000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20180402T205202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180628T211910Z UID:33552-1530903600-1530909000@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Picturing Us Film Series: Tchoupitoulas DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with the exhibition Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories\, NOMA presents six documentary films exploring the people and places that make New Orleans home. The films will be screened as part of Friday Nights at NOMA programming. \n\nFriday\, July 6\, 7 pm: Tchoupitoulas\nFriday\, July 20\, 7 pm: The Sons of Tennessee Williams\nFriday\, July 27\, 7 pm: Mr. Cao Goes to Washington\nFriday\, August 3\, 6 pm: Prejudice and Pride\nFriday\, August 10\, 7 pm: Piano Players Rarely Ever Play Together\nFriday\, August 17\, 7 pm: By Invitation Only\n\nABOUT TCHOUPITOULAS\nTchoupitoulas is a story of the New Orleans night. It is a visually exhilirating and aurally immersive record of one night in the many lives of a thriving nocturnal populace. Three young boys act as our wide-eyed conduits to a parade of entertainers and revelers as they dance through the lamp-lit streets and doorways of the Crescent City. From dusk to dawn\, viewers explore the lives and locales of one of the world’s most unique cities. In moments\, vignettes\, performances\, and exchanges\,Tchoupitoulas is a kaleidoscopic odyssey into another side of New Orleans. Described by The New York Times as “a heady hybrid of documentary and dream” the film is “alive with the risk and curiosity of youth\, and unapologetic in insisting that the pursuit of fun can be a profound and transformative experience.” (2012 | Not rated | 1 hour\, 20 minutes) \nWatch the trailer: \n \n  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/picturing-us-film-series-tchoupitoulas/ CATEGORIES:NOMA at Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/tchou-jumbo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180706T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180706T210000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20180521T001950Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190530T123818Z UID:35806-1530896400-1530910800@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Baron Ahmon | Lee Friedlander Gallery Talk | Screening of Tchoupitoulas DESCRIPTION:Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music\, movies\, children’s activities\, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm. \n\n5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table\n5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Baron Ahmon\n6 pm: Lee Friedlander in Louisiana Gallery Talk with Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper\n7 – 8:30 pm: Picturing Us Film Series: Tchoupitoulas\n\nABOUT BARON AHMON\nRap artist Baron Ahmon has been described by The Conscious Tip as possessing a musical style “somewhere between Mos Def and Nas\, fusing in southern verbiage popularized by Outkast and Goodie Mob.” \nABOUT LEE FRIEDLANDER IN LOUISIANA\nOne of the most famous living American photographers\, Lee Friedlander has been visiting Louisiana since 1957 to document New Orleans jazz and to make artful street photographs. Lee Friedlander in Louisiana is the first major exhibition in any institution to examine the full scope and influence of Friedlander’s work in the region on the history of photography. \nABOUT TCHOUPITOULAS\nIn conjunction with the exhibition Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories\, NOMA presents six documentary films exploring the people and places that make New Orleans home. The first screening is Tchoupitoulas\, a story of the New Orleans night. It is a visually exhilirating and aurally immersive record of one night in the many lives of a thriving nocturnal populace. Three young boys act as our wide-eyed conduits to a parade of entertainers and revelers as they dance through the lamp-lit streets and doorways of the Crescent City. From dusk to dawn\, viewers explore the lives and locales of one of the world’s most unique cities. (2012 | Not rated | 1 hour\, 20 minutes) \nFriday Nights at NOMA is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust; 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.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/friday-nights-at-noma-music-by-baron-ahmon-lee-friedlander-gallery-talk-screening-of-tchoupitoulas/ CATEGORIES:NOMA at Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/75-84_o3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180629T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180629T210000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20180510T215152Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180628T161543Z UID:35102-1530291600-1530306000@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Friday Nights at NOMA: Opening of Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories | Music by Alfred Banks DESCRIPTION:Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music\, movies\, children’s activities\, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries\, Café NOMA\, and the Museum Shop remain open till 9 pm. \n\n5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table\n5 pm: Drumming by Luther Gray in the Ella West Freeman Galleries\n5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Alfred Banks in the Great Hall\n\nSmall Talks with artists represented in Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories: \n\n6 pm: L. Kasimu Harris\n6:30 pm: Skylar Fein\n7 pm: Willie Birch\n\nABOUT ALFRED BANKS\nThe emergent New Orleans rapper Alfred Banks has garnered critical acclaim from some of rap’s most esteemed publications. In addition to being named one of Complex.com’s 10 upcoming New Orleans MCs\, Banks has been featured prominently on HipHopDx\, Okayplayer & on DJBooth’s list of top indie rappers from Louisiana. Having played at Voodoo Festival\, Buku Festival\, Atlanta’s A3C Festival\, and Austin’s SXSW\, Banks has also made headway in Europe\, starring in a Volkswagen ad campaign featuring his song “HomeComing.” Most Recently\, Alfred’s Song “UnderDogCentral” can be heard in the Netflix Movie Burning Sands. Banks recently released his third LP\, The Beautiful. \nABOUT L. KASIMU HARRIS\nL. Kasimu Harris is a storyteller who uses writing\, photography and video to push the narrative. Images from his War on the Benighted series are a part of the group exhibition\, Changing Course: Reflection of New Orleans Histories.  War on the Benighted  is a narrative constructed reality series about New Orleans public school students who became frustrated with the inequalities in education; they rose up and began a quest to educate themselves. Their grievances include the school-to-prison pipeline\, emphasis on standardized testing\, and a diminishing arts curriculum. \nHarris is a New Orleans native who has participated in twenty group exhibitions across the US\, two abroad\, and three solo photography exhibitions. In 2015\, his work was exhibited in both The Rising and Louisiana Contemporary at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and garnered coverage in The New York Times and NPR. He also a featured artist in Dandy Lion (Re) Articulating Black Masculinity\, curated by Shantrelle P. Lewis\, a  traveling exhibition with the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago that has traveled to San Francisco\, Miami\, and London. \nABOUT SKYLAR FEIN\nSkylar Fein was born in Greenwich Village and raised in the Bronx. He has had many careers including teaching nonviolent resistance under the umbrella of the Quakers\, working for a gay film festival in Seattle\, stringing for The New York Times and as pre-med student at University of New Orleans where he moved one week before Hurricane Katrina hit. In the wreckage of New Orleans\, Fein found his new calling as an artist\, experimenting with color and composition of the detritus of Katrina. His work soon became known for its pop sensibility as well as its hard-nosed politics. After a few starring roles in group shows\, he had his first solo show in May 2008 at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans. \nIn the fall of 2008\, his Prospect.1: Biennial installation\, Remember the Upstairs Lounge\, shined a spotlight on an overlooked piece of New Orleans history: a fire that swept through a French Quarter bar in 1973\, killing everyone inside. The worst fire in New Orleans history has never been solved. His installation walked visitors right through the swinging bar doors\, and offered visual riffs on politics and sexuality circa 1973. The piece was praised in ArtForum\, Art In America\, The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker\, among others. \nABOUT WILLIE BIRCH\nWillie Birch is a New Orleans-based artist who draws inspiration from this city and the complexity of its diverse traditions and histories. Working in a variety of mediums\, from paper mache to acrylic and charcoal on paper\, he renders second lines\, street musicians and the architecture of New Orleans with a nuanced eye towards intimate details—power lines and chain linked fences\, discarded sneakers and wood-paneled shot-gun houses that bear traces of their histories. Birch’s recent work questions the role that history plays in determining our present and future. His installation for Changing Course will present new works that focus on roots and bones\, the largely invisible structures that both sustain and support what we see above and around them. At the same time\, his work will refer museum visitors to associated artwork and performances staged offsite at a community-driven arts space that Birch is creating in New Orleans’ Seventh Ward. URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/friday-nights-at-noma-opening-of-changing-course-reflections-on-new-orleans-histories-music-by-alfred-banks/ CATEGORIES:NOMA at Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Kasimu-Harris_War-on-the-Benighted_1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180622T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180622T210000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20180510T193932Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180622T135600Z UID:34895-1529686800-1529701200@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Jayna Morgan and the Sazerac Sunrise Jazz Band | Gallery Talk on Lee Friedlander | Documentary: 'Til the Butcher Cuts Him Down DESCRIPTION:Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music\, movies\, children’s activities\, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries\, the Museum Shop\, and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm. \n\n5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table\n5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Jayna Morgan and the Sazerac Sunrise Jazz Band\n6 pm: Gallery Talk with John Klingman on Reflections of Plaza Tower in Lee Friedlander in Louisiana\n7 pm: Screening of ‘Til the Butcher Cuts Him Down with an introduction by Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper\n\nABOUT JAYNA MORGAN AND THE SAZERAC SUNRISE JAZZ BAND\nJazz vocalist Jayna Morgan knows how to light up a room and charm an audience. Her singing style invites listeners of every age to remember the days when jazz was king. Her choice of songs and brilliant renditions of standards make her shows refreshing and classy. Combine this with her divine appearance onstage and welcoming demeanor\, which creates a uniquely personal entertaining experience\, for both large and more intimate audiences. Perhaps her greatest feature\, however\, is her New Orleans style\, bringing the listener back to the bayous of Louisiana she calls home. Her shows are fun\, sultry\, old-fashioned\, sexy\, and sometimes silly — a musical journey to the Crescent City. \nABOUT JOHN KLINGMAN\nJohn P. Klingman holds a Favrot Professorship in Architecture at Tulane University where he has been a faculty member since 1983. As an architect\, he has been engaged in consulting on projects in the city\, including the US Customhouse with Waggonner and Ball Architects and on Tulane’s Uptown Campus. He has served as a member of the Architectural Review Committee of the New Orleans Historic Districts Landmarks Commission since 1995.Frequently called upon by local and national media to discuss architecture in New Orleans\, he is a regular architecture critic in the city\, writing an annual “Best of New New Orleans Architecture” article since 1997 for New Orleans Magazine.  His 2012 book\, New in New Orleans Architecture\, highlights eighty outstanding contemporary projects. He will discuss a building familiar to many New Orleanians\, the Plaza Tower (1969)\,  a modern high-rise in the Central Business District that appears frequently in photographs on view in the exhibition Lee Friedlander in Louisiana. \nABOUT ‘TIL THE BUTCHER CUTS HIM DOWN\n‘Til the Butcher Cuts Him Down\, a 1972 documentary by Philip Spalding with narration by jazz historian William Russell\, studies New Orleans’ earliest generation of jazz musicians with primary focus on Punch Miller (1894–1971)\, a trumpeter in his twilight years whose career included playing alongside Kid Ory and Louis Armstrong. Miller led one of the first bands at Preservation Hall after it opened in 1961. The film includes footage of Miller’s last performance\, at the 1971 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival\, along with second line parades and jam sessions in the early 1970s. The film’s title derives from the lyrics in a popular jazz song written in 1902\, “Didn’t He Ramble.” (Not rated | 1972 | 53 minutes). \nWatch the trailer: URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/friday-nights-at-noma-music-by-jayna-morgan-and-the-sazerac-sunrise-jazz-band-gallery-talk-on-lee-friedlander-documentary-till-the-butcher-cut-him-down/ CATEGORIES:NOMA at Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Butcher.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180615T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180615T210000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20180507T201727Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180608T180633Z UID:34751-1529085600-1529096400@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Mykia Jovan | Artist Perspective with Carlos Rolón DESCRIPTION:Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music\, movies\, children’s activities\, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries\, the Museum Shop\, and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm. \n\n5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table\n5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Mykia Jovan\n6 pm: Gallery tour of Carlos Rolón: Outside/In with Curator Katie Pfohl\n6:30 pm: Create Late (Advance registration required)\n7 pm: Dreaming About America and Color TVs: A Lecture by Artist Carlos Rolón\n\nABOUT MYKIA JOVAN\nMykia Jovan is a vocalist and songwriter from New Orleans\, Louisiana. Her unique voice has drawn natural comparisons to the great Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu\, while her original compositions and live performances have established her as a singular voice in the modern progressive soul scene. Mykia was recently nominated for Best Emerging Artist in 2017 by Offbeat Magazine while her debut album\, Elliyahu\, was named a Top 50 Album of the Year by the publication. The lead single 16 Shots quickly received over 100\,000 streams on Spotify and was included on one of the platform’s official playlists alongside artists Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah and Kamasi Washington among others. \nABOUT CARLOS ROLóN\nArtist Carlos Rolón (b. 1970)\, previously known as Dzine\, is the American-born son of Puerto Rican immigrants. His works question the concept of luxury and craft while exploring questions of identity\, integration\, and aspiration. NOMA is hosting his solo exhibition\, Carlos Rolón: Outside/In through August 26\, 2018. He attended Columbia College\, Chicago\, with a concentration in painting and drawing. Rolón has been recognized for his elaborately crafted paintings\, ornate sculptures and works that come out of American\, Latino\, and uniquely based subcultures. The work often addresses his biography by melding memory and the imaginary with carefully crafted\, hybrid works that are playfully situated between the contradictory worlds of conspicuous consumption and urban artifact. Rolón illuminates how the masculine can become delicate and the how the baroque can be minimal. The artist often channels this approach with site-specific installation work\, vivid large-scale paintings and ornate sculptures in various materials expanding on ideas of self-reflection and imagined luxury. The works ultimately produce a hybrid language of social practice\, painting and sculpture inviting the viewer to engage in discourse and discussion. URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/friday-nights-at-noma-music-by-mykia-jovan-guided-tour-and-artist-perspective-with-carlos-rolon/ CATEGORIES:NOMA at Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Unknown-2-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180608T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180608T210000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20180420T011602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180602T012530Z UID:34431-1528477200-1528491600@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Carmela Rappazzo | Artist Perspective: Metalworker Darryl Reeves in Conversation with Jonn Hankins | Film: Always for Pleasure DESCRIPTION:Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music\, movies\, children’s activities\, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm. \n\n5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table\n5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Carmela Rappozzo\n6 pm: Artist Perspective: Master Metalworker Darryl Reeves in Conversation with Jonn Hankins in conjunction with Carlos Rolón: Outside/In\n7:30 pm: Screening of Always for Pleasure\n\nABOUT CARMELA RAPPAZZO\nCarmela Rappazzo grew up in upstate New York with a love for the Great American Songbooks at an early age. In New York City she attended ‘Theatrium’ and became involved in off-off Broadway Theater and appeared in a few independent films\, later training with Eric Morris. Rappazzo moved to Los Angeles in 1992\, working with such notable film directors as Rob Reiner\, Wolfgang Petersen\, Jonathan Lynn and Ken Kwapis. She performed in the Los. Angeles jazz scene with the Jon Mayer trio and recorded “Black and White”\, a straight ahead standards record with them. After appearing in many of the local clubs she recorded her second album with Paul Smith\, Jim DeJulio and Joe LaBarbera. This project\, “Regarding Frank\,” was a tribute record to Sinatra and his Capitol years of the 1950s. \nABOUT DARRYL REEVES AND JONN HANKINS\nDarryl Reeves is a third generation metalworker and owner of Andrew’s Welding and Blacksmith Shop in New Orleans’ Seventh Ward. He is a master trainer for the New Orleans Master Crafts Guild\, training apprentices in advanced ironwork\, including welding and blacksmithing. Reeves\, who apprenticed under noted master blacksmith and furrier William “Buddy” Leonard\, is well known for his creative contemporary steel and brass staircase railings and furniture\, and is revered for his restorations of antique ironwork at historic sites. His public commissions include the restoration of the ornate fence at the Presbytère in Jackson Square\, fabrication of a new identical fence for its sister building\, the Cabildo\, and the disassembly and reconstruction of the massive gate at the Chalmette National Cemetery\, which dates to 1872. \nJonn Ethan Hankins is the founding director of the New Orleans Master Crafts Guild. He previously served as Executive Director of the New Orleans African American Museum\, Development Director of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Foundation\, and Principal Development Officer for Corporate and Community Affairs at the New Orleans Museum of Art. At NOMA\, he directed\, “Raised to the Trade: Creole Building Arts of New Orleans\,” an award-winning exhibition and oral history research project that documented two centuries of families of master craftsmen who built and still maintain New Orleans’ unique architecture. \nABOUT ALWAYS FOR PLEASURE\nAlways for Pleasure is a 1978 documentary film by Les Blank about social traditions in New Orleans. The film has footage of musical events\, Mardi Gras Indians\, a jazz funeral\, various second line parades\, cooking and eating red beans and rice and a crawfish boil. Mardi Gras and St. Patrick’s Day 1977 are captured\, and local musicians perform and are interviewed\, including Kid Thomas Valentine\, Allen Toussaint\, Danny Barker\, Blue Lu Barker\, Irma Thomas\, the Neville Brothers and Professor Longhair. (Not rated | 1978 | 58 minutes) \nWatch the trailer: URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/friday-nights-at-noma-music-by-carmela-rappozzo-artist-perspective-metalworker-darryl-reeves-in-conversation-with-jonn-hankins-film-always-for-pleasure/ CATEGORIES:NOMA at Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Unknown-2.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180601T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180601T210000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20180420T003357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180531T231608Z UID:34421-1527872400-1527886800@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by the Dirty Rain Revelers | Artist Perspective with Cristina Molina and Jonathan Traviesa DESCRIPTION:Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music\, movies\, children’s activities\, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm. \n\n5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table\n5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by the Dirty Rain Revelers\n6:30 pm: Artist Perspective with Cristina Molina and Jonathan Traviesa in conjunction with the exhibition Carlos Rolón: Outside/In\n\n\nABOUT DIRTY RAIN REVELERS\nBased in New Orleans\, the Dirty Rain Revelers are the unified\, musical expression of husband-and-wife team\, Matthew and Melissa DeOrazio. Their music is a blend of Roots-Rock\, Americana\, and Blues. To date\, they’ve recorded three albums\, performed at regional  festivals\, toured annually from the Southwest to the East Coast to the Midwest\, built a home recording studio\, established their own music publishing company\, and performed 3 times on CBS’s NCIS: New Orleans. \nMelissa and Matthew are regular volunteers and members at the local community-based/supported radio station\, WWOZ\, believing in being a part of the grassroots process of supporting music that they and their peers make in Louisiana. They also have their own radio show on local community-based/supported radio station WHIV\, (We Honor Independent Voices).  Their show\, Surya Revelers Medicine Music\, airs Wednesday nights\, 10pm-midnight. \nABOUT CRISTINA MOLINA AND JONATHAN TRAVIESA\nCristina Molina is a visual artist who creates video installations that include still imagery and sculptural forms. Molina’s nonlinear\, hypnotic works centralize female protagonists within historical\, mythical\, and autobiographical narratives. Her work has won national awards for its immersive quality and inventive use of technology including the National Association for Latino Arts and Culture project grant funded in part by the Ford Foundation and Surdna Foundation. She is employed as an assistant professor of new media and animation at Southeastern Louisiana University. \nJonathan Traviesa is a photographer and artist who has been living in New Orleans since the late 1990s. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in New Orleans\, Chicago\, New York\, Madrid\, and Tokyo. Traviesa is a founding member of The Front gallery and released his first book\, Portraits\, with a concurrent exhibition at The Front during October and November of 2009. Traviesa received the New Orleans Photo Alliance’s inaugural Michael P. Smith Grant Award\, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art exhibited a selection of his portraits from the book. URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/friday-nights-at-noma-music-by-the-dirty-rain-revelers-artist-perspective-with-cristina-molina-and-jonathan-travis/ CATEGORIES:NOMA at Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Unknown-2-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180525T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180525T210000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20180419T022447Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180524T215356Z UID:34282-1527267600-1527282000@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Extended | Arts & Letters: Author Yuri Herrera in Conversation with Rosana Cruz DESCRIPTION:Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music\, movies\, children’s activities\, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm. \n\n5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table\n5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Extended\n7 pm: Arts & Letters: Author Yuri Herrara in Conversation with Rosana Cruz\n\nABOUT EXTENDED\nExtended—Oscar Rossignoli on piano\, Matt Booth on bass\, and Brad Webb on drums—have all the attributes of a clever New Orleans piano-bass-drums trio. The three have been part of the New Orleans scene for years in various configurations. Their debut LP from the spring of 2017\, released on Breakfast 4 Dinner records\, has received praise for its distinctive compositions and dynamic group interplay. \nABOUT YURI HERRERA AND ROSANA CRUZ\nBorn in Actopan\, Mexico\, in 1970\, Yuri Herrera studied politics in Mexico\, creative writing in El Paso and took his PhD in literature at Berkeley. His first novel to appear in English\, Signs Preceding the End of the World\, was published to great critical acclaim in 2015 and included in many Best-of-Year lists\, including The Guardian‘s Best Fiction and NBC News’s Ten Great Latino Books\, going on to win the 2016 Best Translated Book Award. He is currently teaching at Tulane University. \nRosana Cruz is a writer\, parent\, social justice movement leader and intersectional feminist. They (Cruz’s singular pronoun) have lived in New Orleans for over 20 years and in that time\, worked closely with numerous organizations in the struggle for racial justice\, LGBTQ liberation and immigrant rights. They currently serve as the Vice President of Movement and Capacity Building at Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation. Born in the US to Cuban parents\, Cruz identifies as a pre-natal exile\, remaining close to the grandparents\, aunts\, uncles and cousins who stayed behind in Cuba. They were raised by a single mother in a multi-racial community in North Miami in the 1970s and 80s. Cruz draws deeply from this experience\, as well as their close ties to the Caribbean\, in their writing. They hold an MA in Latin American Studies from the Stone Center at Tulane University. Essays by Cruz have been published in hipMama\, Bridge the Gulf Project\, Colorlines.com and the anthology Mamaphonic. Cruz is a 2018 VONA Voices Fellow. Their writing practice is now centered on speculative fiction and Afro-Futurist influenced magical realism. \nThis program\, part of NOMA’s Arts and Letters Series\, is free with museum admission thanks to support from the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. \n \n  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/friday-nights-at-noma-music-by-extended-arts-letters-author-yuri-herrara-gutierrez-in-conversation-with-rosana-cruz/ CATEGORIES:NOMA at Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/HerreraYuri-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180518T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180519T000000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20180417T235439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180518T150834Z UID:34133-1526666400-1526688000@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Hot Couture Late Night DESCRIPTION:In celebration of its first ever fashion exhibition\, A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes\, the New Orleans Museum of Art opens its doors until midnight on Friday\, May 18. The evening kicks off at 6 p.m. with live music\, performances\, guided tours\, a film screening\, and a public conversation with Vogue creative digital director Sally Singer and New Yorker contributor Thomas Beller. \nAdvance tickets are no longer for sale online. Please purchase at the door: $20 for nonmembers | Free to NOMA members \n  \nSCHEDULE OF EVENTS\n\n6 – 10 pm: Art on the Spot: Make Your Own Fascinator (1st Floor Elevator Lobby) Create a fabulous fascinator headpiece in your own unique style.\n6 – 10:30 pm: Food by Café NOMA\, Bonafried\, Crêpes à la Cart\, and Diva Dawg\n6 –7:45 pm: Music by Joy Clark (Great Hall)\n\nJoy Clark’s musical artistry feels like a warm\, fresh twist on the fervently familiar. Her music embodies the bliss that comes with creating melodies and rhythms to celebrate peace and the undeniable power of love. Backed by an all-star cast of incredible performers\, including Jazmine Butler (drums)\, phenomenal singer/songwriter Kelly Love Jones (vocals and percussion)\, and BassMonsterTiff (bass)\, Joy and her band create a unique blend of funk\, soul\, and folk. \n\n6 – 11 pm: Tarot Readings with Valeria Ruelas (2nd Floor\, Contemporary Galleries\, at the Hustleman cart in the exhibition Carlos Rolón: Outside/In)\n7 pm: Guided tour of A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes with Curator Mel Buchanan (Meet 1st Floor Elevator Lobby)\n\nJoin NOMA’s Decorative Arts Curator Mel Buchanan as she leads visitors through A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes\, NOMA’s first-ever exhibition devoted to fashion. Experimental gowns\, headpieces\, and jewelry by avant-garde fashion designers Alexander McQueen\, Gucci\, Gypsy Sport\, and Iris van Herpen investigate symbols of womanhood and challenge conventional notions of beauty. \n\n7:45 pm: Performance by the Lady Buckjumpers Social Aid & Pleasure Club (Great Hall)\n\nNamed for a traditional second line dance known as buckjumping\, the Lady Buckjumpers are an all-female social aid and pleasure club. Famous not only for their dance moves\, but also for their fabulous sense of style\, the Lady Buckjumpers have been active since 1984. \n\n8 pm: Music by Joy Clark (Great Hall)\n8 pm: Vogue Creative Digital Director Sally J. Singer in conversation with writer Thomas Beller (Stern Auditorium)\n\nSally Singer is the creative digital director of Vogue\, where she oversees the magazine’s website\, video program\, and social channels. Previously\, she was the editor in chief of T: The New York Times Style Magazine\, the fashion news/features director of Vogue\, and the fashion director of New York Magazine. She has written for the Guardian\, the Economist\, the Atlantic Monthly\, among other publications. Singer is a trustee of the Fashion Institute of Technology. \nThomas Beller is a writer and associate professor of English at Tulane University. He is a longtime contributor to the New Yorker and also writes for the New York Times\, Vogue\, and Town and Country\, among other magazines. A founder and editor of Open City Magazine (1990–2010)\, his books include The Sleep-Over Artist (2000)\, How to Be a Man: Scenes from a Protracted Boyhood (2005)\, and J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist\, which won the New York City Book Award for Biography/Memoir in 2015. \n\n9:30 pm: Screening of The September Issue  (Stern Auditorium)\n\nDocumentary chronicling Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour’s preparation for the fall season’s most important fashion issue. (PG-13 | 2009 | 1 hour\, 30 minutes | Watch the trailer) The screening is sponsored by Mignon Faget. \n \n\n9:45 pm: Performance by the New Orleans Drag Workshop All Stars (Great Hall)\n\nThe New Orleans Drag Workshop\, guided by drag legend Vinsantos\, is a ten-week crash course that takes folks from all walks of life and turns them into original and memorable drag performers. The program goes well beyond just hair and makeup to teach students history\, the ethics of working in the business\, and how to be a diva without being a DIVA! At the end of the workshop\, students take the stage to showcase the piece of performance they developed throughout the course. The Workshop has just completed its seventh cycle and has had over 70 members complete their journeys over the last four years. The Workshop is honored to present a collection of its finest performers from various cycles at NOMA’s Hot Couture Late Night. On the bill will be the Workshop’s Head Mister-ess and everybody’s favorite drag grandma\, Vinsantos; Miss Pageant 2016 Neon Burgundy; Miss Runner Up 2016 Tarah Cards; Miss Pageant 2017 Franky; and one of the most recent draguates from cycle seven\, Izzy Femme. \n\n10 pm: Guided tour of A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes with Curator Mel Buchanan (Meet 1st Floor Elevator Lobby)\n10:15 pm – Midnight: Music by DJ Ann Glaviano of HEATWAVE! Dance Party (Great Hall)\n\nAnn Glaviano is a writer\, dancer\, DJ\, and native New Orleanian. She runs the HEATWAVE! Dance Party bimonthly at a friendly neighborhood bar near you. She was featured in ELLE’s September issue in 2016\, in their first “Style Across America” spread\, where she shouted out Red\, White\, and Blue Thrift as her primary fashion resource. \n\nAll night: Roaming fashions by Tabitha Bethune with the Wildlife Reserve\n\nSt. Charles Avenue Magazine is the media sponsor for Hot Couture Late Night. \n \n  \n  \n  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/hot-couture-late-night/ CATEGORIES:Tours,Performances,NOMA at Night,Special ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180219_A_Queen_Within_Installation_RAlokhin_0017-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180511T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180511T210000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20180309T220720Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180509T142757Z UID:32944-1526058000-1526072400@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Friday Nights at NOMA: Fashion Unbound\, A Lecture by Francesca Granata | Lee Friedlander Gallery Talk | Music by Adam Schrubbe and Graffiti Sounds DESCRIPTION:Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music\, movies\, children’s activities\, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries\, Café NOMA\, and the Museum Shop remain open till 9 pm. \n\n5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table\n5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Adam Schrubbe and Graffiti Sounds\n6 pm: Gallery Talk with Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper on Lee Friedlander in Louisiana\n6:30 – 8 pm: Create Late (Advance registration required)\n7 pm: Fashion Unbound: A Lecture by Francesca Granata\n\nABOUT ADAM SCHRUBBE AND GRAFFITI SOUNDS\nAdam Schrubbe \nAdam Schrubbe and the Graffiti Sounds is a jazz fusion duo featuring Schrubbe on piano and vocals and Luke Runels on drums. Schrubbe was born and raised in Fairhope\, Alabama\, where he began studying piano at age 9 and playing jazz at local restaurants by age 15. He moved to New Orleans to attend Loyola University for piano and has continued to play in a variety of bands while developing his own sound as an artist and a singer. His debut album Analog Dreamer is set to release in summer 2018\, and the lead single “The Wasteland” has been released on Spotify\, Apple Music\, and other streaming platforms. The album is a story of personal discovery told in a series of songs that draw from classical\, jazz\, hip-hop\, electronic music\, and movie and game soundtracks. \nAside from the album\, Adam Schrubbe and a group of fellow musicians\, including the math rock band Melonaut and guitarist/songwriter Mickey Hayes\, have built a small community of young creative individuals around a series of interactive\, multimedia showcases of local talent in visual art\, music\, poetry\, and other forms of expression. They are slowly bringing these DIY events to cities outside of New Orleans as they connect with like-minded artists in other scenes. \nABOUT LEE FRIEDLANDER IN LOUISIANA\nJoin Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper for a Gallery Talk on Lee Friedlander in Louisiana. One of the most famous living American photographers\, Lee Friedlander has been visiting Louisiana since 1957 to document New Orleans jazz and to make artful street photographs. NOMA’s presentation marks the first major exhibition in any institution to examine the full scope and influence of Friedlander’s work in the region on the history of photography. \nABOUT FRANCESCA GRANATA\nExperimental fashion from designers like Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons and Martin Margiela has challenged Western beauty canons\, particularly as they relate to female body ideals. This talk will explore the ways experimental designers at the juncture of the twenty-first century have questioned what is grotesque and what is alluring in contemporary fashion. The lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes. \nFrancesca Granata is Director of the MA Fashion Studies and Assistant Professor in the School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons School of Design. She is founder and editor of the nonprofit journal Fashion Projects: On Art\, Fashion\, and Visual Culture. She is the author of Experimental Fashion: Carnival\, Performance Art\, and the Grotesque Body and has written about art and fashion for a number of journals and magazines\, such as Fashion Theory and The Atlantic. URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/friday-nights-noma-fashion-unbound-lecture-frances-granata-lee-friedlander-gallery-talk/ CATEGORIES:NOMA at Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/A-Queen-Within-Maison-Martin-Margiela-courtesy-of-Maison-Margiela-Cloud-ensemble-Defile-Collection-AW-2009-Photo-Giovanni-Giannoni-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180504T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180504T210000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20180219T213035Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180504T170528Z UID:32168-1525453200-1525467600@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Movies in the Garden: Alice in Wonderland DESCRIPTION:Movies in the Garden returns this spring with with Walt Disney’s 1951 classic Alice in Wonderland. The film marked Disney Studios’ thirteenth animated feature and is based on the children’s book by Lewis Carroll\, first published in 1865. Follow young Alice as she chases the March Hare down a rabbit hole into a surrealistic land where she encounters the brash Mad Hatter and guests of his “unbirthday” tea party\, the twins  Tweedledum and Tweedledee\, the grinning Cheshire Cat\, and the tyrannical Queen of Hearts. (Rated G | 1 hour\, 15 minutes | Watch the trailer below) \n\n5 – 7:30 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table\n6 – 7:30 pm: Music by Shawn Williams\n7:30 – 8:30 pm: Alice in Wonderland\n\nFREE to NOMA members | $12.00 adults | $10.00 seniors | $6.00 children (7-12) \n• Children 6 and under are free\n• University students with valid ID receive $8.00 admission \nFood trucks will be parked outside the garden gates and a bar will be set up near the screen in the oak grove. \nABOUT SHAWN WILLIAMS\nNew Orleans’ pioneering voice in “alt-rocka countrybilly serial killer blues\,” Shawn Williams describes her sound as “like the result of a dirtier-minded Elvis deciding to get it on in the back of some roadhouse saloon with one of those sad-eyed cowboy types that would rather be drinking alone.” Aside from her own music\, she is also the founder of the all-female Elvis tribute band\, Pelvis Breastlies. URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/movies-garden-alice-wonderland/ CATEGORIES:NOMA at Night,Kids & Families ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/maxresdefault.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180427T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180427T210000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20180216T213321Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180216T213617Z UID:32023-1524848400-1524862800@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Sasha Maskowski | Gallery Talk: Lee Friedlander in Louisiana with Curator Russell Lord DESCRIPTION:Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music\, movies\, children’s activities\, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries\, the Museum Shop\, and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm. \n\n5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table\n5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Sasha Masakowski\n6:30 – 7:30 pm: Gallery Talk: Lee Friedlander in Louisiana with Curator Russell Lord\n\nABOUT SASHA MASAKOWSKI\nSasha Masakowski was born into a family of musicians in New Orleans and has been a leading voice in the city’s music scene since 2009\, when she was awarded “Best Emerging Artist” by the Big Easy Association. She has performed at major music festivals across the United States and abroad and leads three bands of her own that range from traditional jazz (Sidewalk Strutters) to contemporary jazz and world music (Musical Playground) to experimental art-rock (Hildegard\, Tra$h Magnolia). Vanity Fair magazine listed Masakowski as one of the top jazz musicians in the world\, and the December 2015 edition of Downbeat Magazine named her one of the most innovative musicians coming out of New Orleans to date. \n ABOUT LEE FRIEDLANDER IN LOUISIANA\nJoin Russell Lord\, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs\, Prints\, and Drawings\, for a Gallery Talk about the exhibition Lee Friedlander in Louisiana. One of the most famous living American photographers\, Lee Friedlander has been visiting Louisiana since 1957 to document New Orleans jazz and to make artful street photographs. This marks the first major exhibition in any institution to examine the full scope and influence of Friedlander’s work in the region on the history of photography. URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/friday-nights-noma-music-sasha-maskowski-gallery-talk-lee-friedlander-louisiana/ CATEGORIES:NOMA at Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/75-28_o3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180420T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180420T210000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20180216T163413Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180326T162813Z UID:31985-1524243600-1524258000@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Neptune Steel Drum Orchestra | Fashion on Film Screening: The First Monday in May DESCRIPTION:Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music\, movies\, children’s activities\, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries\, the Museum Shop\, and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm. \n\n5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table\n5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Neptune Steel Orchestra of Louisiana\n6 pm: Docent-guided tour of A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes\n6:30 – 8 pm: Create Late (advance registration required)\n7:30 – 9 pm: Fashion on Film screening of The First Monday in May\n\nABOUT NEPTUNE STEEL ORCHESTRA OF LOUISIANA\nThe distinctive percussive sounds of the Caribbean will fill NOMA’s Great Hall with a performance by the Neptune Steel Orchestra of Louisiana\, a steelpan musical group initially comprised of expats from the islands of Trinidad and Tobago\, the birthplace of steelpan. The mission of NSOL is to provide and promote cultural diversity by offering the opportunity to learn\, perform\, and appreciate symphonic steelpan music. \nABOUT CREATE LATE\nExclusively for adults\, kick off your weekend with a glass of wine and a paint brush! Unwind with a teaching artist-led art project while enjoying Friday Nights at NOMA programming. Participants in the April 20th workshop will create stationery prints. Register now! The cost for the session is $25 for NOMA members\, $35 for nonmembers. \nABOUT THE FIRST MONDAY IN MAY\nNOMA’s Fashion in Film series includes five documentaries screened in conjunction with the exhibition A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes. The First Monday in May chronicles a year’s worth of preparations for the Chinese-inspired fashion exhibition China: Through the Looking Glass at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and the gala which accompanied the exhibition in 2015. The exhibition featured 150 garments from 40 designers. Andrew Bolton\, the chief curator at the Costume Institute\, conceptualizes and designs the multimillion dollar fundraising gala with Anna Winter\, editor of Vogue magazine. The film also depicts Wintour’s daily life and questions fashion as art. (2016 | 1 hour\, 30 minutes) URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/friday-nights-noma-music-neptune-steel-drum-orchestra-fashion-film-screening/ CATEGORIES:NOMA at Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/NeptuneSteel.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180413T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180413T210000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20180126T220444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180413T215049Z UID:31471-1523638800-1523653200@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Movies in the Garden: Marie Antoinette DESCRIPTION:Movies in the Garden returns this spring with with the 2006 biopic Marie Antoinette\, written and directed by Sofia Coppola. The film is an impressionistic retelling of Marie Antoinette’s life as a young queen in the opulent and eccentric court at Versailles. Starring Kirsten Dunst as the ill-fated French monarch\, the film chronicles Marie Antoinette from her betrothal and marriage at age 15 to Louis XVI (Jason Schwartzman) to her coronation at 19 through the end of her reign and ultimately the fall of Versailles. The film won an Academy Award for Best Costume Design. The soundtrack includes songs by New Wave and Punk bands\, ranging from New Order and the Cure to Siouxsie and the Banshees and Bow Wow Wow. (Rated PG-13 | 2 hours\, 3 minutes | Watch the trailer below) \n\n5 – 7 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table\n6 – 7:30 pm: Music by DJ Swamp Boogie and a performance by Trixie Minx Productions in advance of the screening\n7:30 – 9:30 pm: Marie Antoinette\n\nFREE to NOMA members | $12.00 adults | $10.00 seniors | $6.00 children (7-12) \n• Children 6 and under are free\n• University students with valid ID receive $8.00 admission \nFood trucks by Diva Dawgs and La Cocinita will be parked outside the garden gates and a bar will be set up near the screen in the oak grove. URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/movies-garden-marie-antoinette/ CATEGORIES:NOMA at Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/marie_antoinette_movie_poster_by_dilancreroyalty.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180406T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180406T210000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20180119T224552Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180405T001953Z UID:31131-1523034000-1523048400@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Friday Nights at NOMA: NOMA-Tulane Design Symposium | Carlos Rolón Tour | Music by Josh Paxton | Taco Truck Theater DESCRIPTION:Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music\, movies\, children’s activities\, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm. \n\n5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table\n6 – 8 pm: Tulane-NOMA Design Symposium | “Photography and Fashion: Capturing and Creating Costumes and Couture” (in Stern Auditorium)\n5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Josh Paxton\n6 – 7 pm: Gallery Tour of Carlos Rolón: Outside/In\n7 – 8:30 pm: Taco Truck Theater (In the meadow outside the Besthoff Sculpture Garden; separate admission fees apply)\n\nABOUT NOMA-TULANE DESIGN SYMPOSIUM\nSpring 2018 NOMA-Tulane School of Professional Advancement (SoPA) Design Symposium is themed “Photography and Fashion: Capturing and Creating Costumes and Couture.” Panelists include Susu Kearney\, Katie Johnson\, DeAndre Beverly\, George Long and Glade Bilby. The panel will be moderated by Cassie Worley and Carrie Schwartz\, Senior Professor of Practice in the Media Arts & Digital Design Program at Tulane University. Following the panel discussion\, exhibitions and demonstrations by students may be seen in the Great Hall. The symposium will be a culmination of Design Week at SoPA campuses. Read more about the presenters here. \nArrive early to capture your own fashions on film at the Deep Fried photo booth\, beginning at 5:30 pm. SoPA will award a prize for the best dressed\, chosen from images taken by Deep Fried. The winner will be notified by email. \nSoPA invites attendees to donate gently used women’s dresses\, shoes\, business attire\, scarfs\, hats\, and purses. All items benefit Dress for Success\, a nonprofit that empowers women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support\, professional attire\, and the development tools to help women thrive in work and in life. \nABOUT JOSH PAXTON\nJoshua Paxton has been a fixture on the New Orleans music scene for the past ten years\, performing as a solo artist\, group leader\, and sideman with many of the Crescent City’s top names.  His diverse musical background ranges from avant-garde jazz to stints with major label rock bands. Though classically trained\, by the end of high school he saw his future in jazz. As an undergraduate he attended the University of Miami and Bowling Green University\, then went on to study under Ellis Marsalis at the University of New Orleans\, earning a master’s degree in Jazz Piano. \nABOUT CARLOS ROLÓN: OUTSIDE/IN\nJoin Curator Katie Pfohl and artist Carlos Rolón for a tour of the exhibition Carlos Rolón: Outside/In. Rolón is internationally recognized for his paintings\, sculptures and installations that break down walls. Working with shattered glass\, wrought iron fences\, and construction cinderblocks\, his art takes these barriers to access and transforms them into new points of entry. Outside/Inexplores the rich connections between New Orleans\, Latin America\, and the Caribbean through allusions to each region’s natural and built environments. \nABOUT TACO TRUCK THEATER\nAdmission: $18 general admission\, $12 NOMA Members. Advance tickets may be purchased at Eventbrite. \n\nInspired by Luis Valdez’s legendary Teatro Campesino shows on flatbed trucks in the 1970s that brought attention to the plight of migrant workers in California at parks and union halls\, José Torres-Tama and the ArteFuturo Ensemble roll out the Taco Truck Theater/Teatro Sin Fronteras with a GMC vehicle repurposed into a mobile stage that crosses economic\, geographic\, and racial borders. \nDriven by a live music sound-bed and a street performance vibe with pop-up food vendors\, the theater company challenges the anti-immigrant hysteria gripping the country. The diverse and bilingual ArteFuturo Ensemble perform a visually dynamic show with moving stories that offer a parallel between Latino immigrants dehumanized as “illegal aliens”\, and the historical struggle of African Americans with a national crisis of police shootings of unarmed black civilians. \n\nLed by award-winning performance artist José Torres-Tama\, the ensemble includes Monica “Spirit” McIntyre\, Cristina “Latina Siren” Maria Blanco\, Roberto “Mex-Andino” Carrillo\, and features Darius and Diego Torres-Copeland\, singers and performers. Their comic battle cry is “NO GUACAMOLE for Immigrant Haters!” \nFriday Nights at NOMA is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust; 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 as administered by the Arts Council of New Orleans. URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/friday-nights-noma-noma-tulane-design-symposium-carlos-rolon-tour-music-josh-paxton-taco-truck-theater/ CATEGORIES:Performances,NOMA at Night,Tours ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/tulsa-taco-truck-image_orig.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180330T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180330T210000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20180118T024229Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180329T160011Z UID:31029-1522429200-1522443600@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Good Friday - No Friday Nights at NOMA DESCRIPTION:Friday Nights at NOMA will not take place on Good Friday\, March 30. The museum will close at 5 pm. URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/good-friday-no-friday-nights-noma/ CATEGORIES:NOMA at Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Friday_Nights_at_NOMA_logo-1375216699.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180323T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180323T213000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20180118T022509Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180227T201333Z UID:31014-1521828000-1521840600@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Bring Your Own and NOMA present A Queen Within: Stories That Reimagine Gender\, Conformity\, Royalty\, and Power DESCRIPTION:Bring a blanket or lawn chair for an evening under the stars in NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Presented in conjunction with A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes\, Bring Your Own and NOMA invite storytellers to spin original tales of queens and female empowerment: Yas Queen | Killer Queen | Drag Queen | Beauty Queen.  Storytellers have seven minutes to respond to the theme. Stories are told live\, unscripted\, and true to the teller. \nBring Your Own is a live storytelling pop-up series hosted by Laine Kaplan-Levenson of WWNO 89.9 FM\, New Orleans’ NPR affiliate. \nAdmission to this program is free for NOMA members\, $5 for nonmembers. Admission to the Besthoff Sculpture Garden for this event does not include admission to the museum. \nSchedule \n\n6 – 8:30 pm: Food trucks by Chef Linda Green (the Ya-Ka-Mein Lady) and Diva Dawgs\n6 – 7 pm: Kick off an evening of storytelling\, music\, and libations with DJ Jess. As a lover of all genres and eras of music DJ Jess sets an eclectic and energetic mood.\n7 – 9:30 pm: BYO + NOMA present A Queen Within: Stories That Reimagine Gender\, Conformity\, Royalty\, and Power. Intermission entertainment provided by the Jones Sisters\n\nABOUT BRING YOUR OWN\nFounded in March 2012\, Bring Your Own is a live storytelling series that takes place in unconventional spaces within the New Orleans community. Each month\, storytellers have seven minutes to respond to a theme. Stories are told live\, unscripted and true to the teller. \nAs a nomadic organization\, events often put previously unknown\, underutilized and private spaces on the public map. Each event takes on the character of its environment; the success of the night is as much about the tone as it is about the stories that are told. The best stories are produced by a team of local producers for on-air and online distribution. BYO is broadcast on All Things New Orleans\, and as a biweekly podcast on wwno.org \nBring Your Own is a production of Laine Kaplan-Levenson and Computer Moon Productions. \nABOUT THE JONES SISTERS\n \nThe Jones Sisters are four sister from New Orleans\, Louisiana\, ages thirteen to nineteen. They have been singing professionally for eleven years and are the winners of the Dorinda Clark Coles National Singers and Musicians Conference Youth Category (2012) and the Rhythm of Gospel Youth/Young Adult Category (2014). The Jones Sisters have recorded two albums and three singles\, including their latest hit\, “Too Young!” \nFriday Nights at NOMA is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust; 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 as administered by the Arts Council of New Orleans. \n  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/friday-nights-noma-bring-noma-present-queen-within-stories-reimagine-gender-conformity-royalty-power/ CATEGORIES:NOMA at Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/byo-2013-6-4-1663-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180316T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180316T210000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20180111T212215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180316T214730Z UID:30834-1521219600-1521234000@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Friday Nights at NOMA: Carlos Rolón Exhibition Tour | Music by Margie Perez and her Cosa Latina | Dance performance with Liquid Rhythm\, Inc. | Queen Within Gallery Talk DESCRIPTION:Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music\, movies\, children’s activities\, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm. \n\n5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table\n5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Margie Perez and her Cosa Latina\n6 – 8:30 pm: Dancers from Liquid Rhythm\, Inc.\n6 – 7 pm: Gallery Talk: A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes with Curator Mel Buchanan\n7 – 8 pm: Tour of Carlos Rolón: Outside/In with artist Carlos Rolón and Curator Katie Pfohl\n\nABOUT MARGIE PEREZ AND HER COSA LATINA\nMargie Perez is a vivacious singer and songwriter specializing in a versatile blend of blues\, pop\, and Latin with a New Orleans funky touch. Dubbed by Offbeat Magazine as “one of the hardest working musicians in New Orleans\,” she performs in a wide range of musical acts\, she frequently performs original music with her band Cosa Latina. She released her New Orleans debut CD\, “Singing For My Supper\,” on Threadhead Records in 2010. \nABOUT LIQUID RHYTHM\, INC.\nLiquid Rhythm Inc is New Orleans’ premier Salsa dance company specializing in dance performance and instruction. The dance company has been around since 2001 teaching\, performing\, and helping build New Orleans’ dance community. Liquid Rhythm will lead a series of Salsa dance lessons on Tuesday evenings beginning April 10 in NOMA’s Great Hall. \nABOUT CARLOS ROLÓN: OUTSIDE/IN\nJoin artist Carlos Rolón and Curator Katie Pfohl for a Gallery Talk upon the opening of Carlos Rolón: Outside/In\, an exhibition that examines the kindred cultural landscape of New Orleans\, the Caribbean\, and Latin America. \nABOUT A QUEEN WITHIN: ADORNED ARCHETYPES\nFor the first time NOMA presents an exhibition devoted to fashion in A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes. Join Decorative Arts Curator Mel Buchanan for a Gallery Talk among more than one hundred experimental gowns\, shoes\, headpieces\, and accessories from such designers as Alexander McQueen\, Iris van Herpen\, Gucci\, and Comme des Garçons. \nFriday Nights at NOMA is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust; 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 as administered by the Arts Council of New Orleans. URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/friday-nights-noma-carlos-rolon-exhibition-tour-music-margie-perez-cosa-latina-dance-performance-liquid-rhythm-inc-queen-within-gallery-talk/ CATEGORIES:NOMA at Night,Tours ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Dzine_Bahamian-Love-Vine-Spanish-Gold-II.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180309T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180309T210000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20180111T184740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180305T205410Z UID:30819-1520614800-1520629200@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Friday Nights at NOMA: Tulane Maya Symposium | Music by Arpa Quartet | Sgraffito Workshop DESCRIPTION:Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music\, movies\, children’s activities\, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm. \n\n5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table\n5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Arpa Quartet\n6 – 7:15 pm: Keynote lecture for Tulane NOMA Symposium\, Professor Matthew Restall discusses “The Bold and the Bellicose: Maya Warfare in the Conquest Era”\n7 – 9 pm: Maya Symposium Reception\n7 – 8:30 pm: Drawings in Clay: Sgraffito Technique Workshop with Rachael DePauw (SOLD OUT)\n\nABOUT THE TULANE MAYA SYMPOSIUM\n“The Blood Pooled\, The Heads Piled Up: How the Maya Waged War” is theme of the fifteenth annual Tulane Maya Symposium. Professor Matthew Restall of Pennsylvania State University will deliver the keynote address at NOMA\, titled “The Bold and the Bellicose: Maya Warfare in the Conquest Era.” Hosted by Tulane University’s Middle American Research Institute in association with NOMA and the Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies\, the lecture is open to all museum visitors. \nDr. Restall is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Colonial Latin American History at Pennsylvania State University. His areas of specialization include the histories of Mexico\, Guatemala. and Belize\, the Maya\, Spanish Conquest\, and Africans in Spanish America. As a recipient of NEH and Guggenheim fellowships\, he has investigated Mexico’s indigenous and African past. He is the author of numerous publications\, including The Maya World (1997)\, Maya Conquistador (1998)\, and Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest (2003). \nABOUT THE ARPA QUARTET\nThe Arpa Quartet is a Latin jazz group based in New Orleans. \n \nABOUT RACHEL DEPAUW AND THE SGRAFFITO TECHNIQUE\nJoin artist Rachael DePauw in a hands-on workshop exploring the sgraffito technique. DePauw will walk participants through the history of sgraffito and how she applies the technique in her own pottery practice. Under DePauw’s guidance\, participants will then use the technique in creating their own works on tablets that will be fired at an off-site studio. Finished tablets will be available for pickup at a later date. \nNOMA members: $50 | Nonmembers: $60. SOLD OUT \nThis workshop is presented in conjunction with Personalities in Clay: American Studio Ceramics from the E. John Bullard Collection. \nFriday Nights at NOMA is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust; 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 as administered by the Arts Council of New Orleans. URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/friday-nights-noma-tulane-maya-symposium-music-arpa-quartet/ CATEGORIES:NOMA at Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Maya_stelae_Aguateca_Santiago.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180302T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180302T210000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20180111T165805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180228T161710Z UID:30802-1520010000-1520024400@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Friday Nights at NOMA: Opera Nouvelle presents Champion: An Opera in Jazz | Piano music by Nolan Tecklenburg | Fashion on Film Series DESCRIPTION:Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music\, movies\, children’s activities\, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries\, Café NOMA\, and the Museum Shop remain open till 9 pm. \n\n5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table\n5:30 – 6:45 pm: Music by pianist Nolan Tecklenburg\n6:30 pm: Fashion on Film Series: The Legacy of Alexander McQueen\n7 pm: Opera Nouvelle presents selections from Champion: An Opera in Jazz\n\nABOUT OPERA NOUVELLE AND Champion: An Opera in Jazz by Terence Blanchard\nOpera Nouvelle will perform selections from Champion: An Opera in Jazz in advance of its New Orleans premiere. The opera\, with music by New Orleans’ jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard\, is based on the life of professional boxer Emile Griffith\, a three-time World Welterweight Champion and twice a World Middleweight Champion who fought from the late 1950s into the 1970s. One of Griffith’s greatest professional triumphs—winning back the Welterweight Championship from Benny “The Kid” Paret in 1962—was also one of his greatest personal tragedies. The seventeen punches he landed on Paret in seven seconds resulted in not only a knockout\, but also a coma from which Paret would never recover. Paret would die ten days later. \nBefore that life-changing televised fight\, in a room full of press and officials\, Paret mocked Griffith repeatedly with a derogatory term for homosexual. Years later\, Griffith’s sexuality as a gay man was revealed to the public after he was nearly killed by a gang outside a gay bar in New York. “I kill a man\,” Griffith was quoted to have said\, “and most people understand and forgive me. I love a man\, and to so many people this is an unforgivable sin.” In an inspiring\, moving\, and painful journey of self-discovery\, Champion presents audiences with a great contemporary tragic hero—a man of strength and courage consumed ultimately by rage\, regret\, and the terrible consequences of his actions. \nABOUT FASHION ON FILM: THE LEGACY OF ALEXANDER McQUEEN\nIn conjunction with A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes\, NOMA will screen five documentaries related to the fashion industry. Alexander McQueen (1969–2010) is among the designers represented in the exhibition. The Legacy of Alexander McQueen\, directed by Loïc Print\,  chronicles the last four collections before McQueen’s suicide in 2010. Through footage of his spectacular and provocative shows\, never-before-seen interviews of his mother and his relatives\, the documentary sheds light on the stunning world and the inspirations/obsessions of the world-renowned designer. (2015 | 53 minutes | Watch the trailer) \nFriday Nights at NOMA is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust; 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 as administered by the Arts Council of New Orleans. URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/friday-nights-noma-opera-nouvelle-presents-champion-fashion-film-series/ CATEGORIES:NOMA at Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/NewChampion02-e1512764849491.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180223T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180223T210000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20180124T190440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180223T231836Z UID:31266-1519405200-1519419600@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Bon Bon Vivant | A Conversation with A Queen Within Curators DESCRIPTION:Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music\, movies\, children’s activities\, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries\, special exhibitions\, Café NOMA and the Museum Shop are open till 9 pm. \n\n5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table\n5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Bon Bon Vivant\n6 pm: A Conversation with Exhibition Curators Sofia Hedman and Serge Martynov of A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes\n\nABOUT BON BON VIVANT\nBon Bon Vivant is an Indie-Gypsy/New Orleans band playing original bawdy gypsy swing\, dark ballads and uptempo indie rock/dance music. Front-woman Abigail Cosio’s songwriting is as fierce as it is heartbreaking\, often compared to Amy Winehouse\, Melody Gardot and Florence and the Machine. BBV pays homage to the New Orleans music tradition while infusing an indie/punk edge\, attracting both swing dancers and indie-rock concert goers alike. \nABOUT SOFIA HEDMAN AND SERGE MARTYNOV\nMUSEEA is the collaboration of the artist and design duo Sofia Hedman and Serge Martynov: a multidisciplinary curatorial platform based in Barcelona that curated A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes. \nOver nearly a decade\, Hedman and Martynov have jointly curated and designed numerous critically acclaimed exhibitions in renowned museums and art institutions worldwide. Integral to their work is creating thought-provoking immersive environments that intrigue\, inspire\, and draw people together. Their unique combination of both conceptual and aesthetic design allows MUSEEA to shape powerful curatorial narratives and in turn engage their audiences in sensorial and emotive experiences. Hedman and Martynov’s projects are driven by their passions for stimulating collaborations\, global inclusivity\, and sustainable artistic practices. URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/friday-nights-noma-music-bon-bon-vivant-conversation-queen-within-curators/ CATEGORIES:NOMA at Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/06-a-queen-within-tabitha-ostler-mother-earth-queen-photo-sarah-carmodyslide.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180216T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180216T210000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20171201T024033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180215T164923Z UID:29728-1518800400-1518814800@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by The Huval-Fuselier Cajun Trio | Docent tour of permanent collection | Collect-O-Mania Film Fest DESCRIPTION:Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music\, movies\, children’s activities\, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries\, special exhibitions\, Café NOMA and the Museum Shop are open till 9 pm. \n\n5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table\n5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Huval-Fuselier Cajun Trio\n6 pm: Docent-guided tour of NOMA’s permanent collections\n7 pm: Collect-O-Mania Film Fest: Herb and Dorothy\n\nABOUT THE HUVAL-FUSELIER CAJUN TRIO\nLuke and Philip Huval and Zach Fuselier represent the next generation of talented teenage Cajun musicians. Each has already gained notoriety in family bands and professional situations — Luke and Phillip sharing the stage with father Terry’s Jambalaya Cajun Band\, and Zach Fuselier with Joe Hall’s Louisiana Cane Cutters. Together they form a formidable trio that has already played the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival\, Festival International in Lafayette\, Louisiana\, and out-of-state events in Canada and Wisconsin. \nIn 2014\, they recorded a very traditional album with fellow musician Cameron Dupuy showing that the group is well rooted in the core of Cajun music\, as noted by its renditions of such cherished favorites as “Les Petits Yeux Bleus” and “Reno Waltz\,” and popping instrumentals “Ossun Two-Step” and “Hick’s Wagon Wheel Special.” \nABOUT HERB AND DOROTHY\nHe was a postal clerk. She was a librarian. With their modest means\, the couple managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history\, including works by pop artist Roy Lichtenstein\, photographers Cindy Sherman and Lorna Simpson\, minimalist Robert Mangold\, and post-minimalist Richard Tuttle. Meet Herb and Dorothy Vogel\, whose shared passion and discipline have defied stereotypes and redefined what it means to be an art collector. (Not rated | 2008 | 1 hour\, 27 minutes | Watch the trailer) \nFriday Nights at NOMA is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust; 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 as administered by the Arts Council of New Orleans. URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/friday-nights-noma/ CATEGORIES:NOMA at Night,Tours ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/huval-fuselier-cajun-trio.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180202T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180202T210000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20171201T010844Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180131T162537Z UID:29714-1517590800-1517605200@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Lynn Drury | A Passion for Collecting: A Conversation with Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Yelen-Gitter DESCRIPTION:Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music\, movies\, children’s activities\, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. \n\n5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table\n5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Lynn Drury\n6 – 7:30 pm: A Passion for Collecting: A Conversation with Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Yelen-Gitter\, moderated by Curator Lisa Rotondo-McCord\n\nABOUT LYNN DRURY\nLynn Drury has been an integral part of the New Orleans music scene for more than fifteen years. She was recently nominated “Songwriter of the Year” from Offbeat Magazine (2015)\, Best Female Performer by Gambit Weekly (2015)\, and has been featured at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival for over ten years. She plays a style called “Mississippi Grit/New Orleans Groove.” Her song City Life was featured on ESPN’s ten-year Hurricane Katrina anniversary video. Her most recent album\, Come to My House\, was produced by John Porter\, who has produced thirteen Grammy-winning albums. \nABOUT DR. KURT GITTER AND ALICE YELEN-GITTER\nDr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Yelen-Gitter’s collection of contemporary Japanese pottery forms the exhibition New Forms\, New Voices\, on view through May 13. Join Asian-art Curator Lisa Rotondo-McCord as she moderates a conversation that will engage the couple in stories about their passion for Japan and its art\, and the friendships they have formed with many of the ceramicists. \nFriday Nights at NOMA is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust; 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 as administered by the Arts Council of New Orleans. URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/friday-nights-noma-music-lynn-drury-passion-collecting-conversation-dr-kurt-gitter-alice-yelen-gitter/ CATEGORIES:NOMA at Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2005-46.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180126T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180126T210000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20171116T224921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190130T220338Z UID:29203-1516986000-1517000400@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Mia Borders | Artist Perspective with Ceramicist Kevin John O'Keefe | Talk by Prospect.4 Artist Odili Donald Odita DESCRIPTION:Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music\, movies\, children’s activities\, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm. \n\n5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table\n5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Mia Borders\n6 pm: Artist Perspective with Ceramicist Kevin John O’Keefe\n7 pm: “The Indivisible and the Invincible\,” a talk by Prospect.4 artist Odili Donald Odita\n\nABOUT MIA BORDERS\nBorn and raised in New Orleans\, Mia Borders’ original music genuinely reflects the oft-referenced melting pot of her hometown.  Her catalogue of nine commercial releases spans from pop-rock-influenced “the ep” in 2007 to the R&B LP “Fever Dreams” in 2016. Heralded locally and nationally as one of New Orleans’ best talents\, Borders has been featured on AXS.tv’s coverage of The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival\, and has performed at such renowned venues as Essence Festival\, Brazil’s Bourbon Street Music Festival\, House of Blues New Orleans\, Tipitina’s\, Santa Cruz Blues Fest\, Chattanooga’s Night Fall\, Voice of the Wetlands\, Memphis’ Levitt Shell\, Wakarusa\, Long’s Park Amphitheater\, 2012 Food & Wine Classic\, and The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. \nABOUT KEVIN JOHN O’KEEFE\nKevin John O’Keefe is an artist based in Gulfport\, Mississippi. He has worked with master potter Jimmy Anderson and his son Peter Jr. in the preservation of the life and work of their forefather\, Peter Anderson of Ocean Springs\, Mississippi. O’Keefe has worked for the George Ohr Museum’s “Mud Daubers” arts camp and has also taught wheel-thrown and hand-built ceramics in many other studios. His work has been shown at the Museum of Art in Hattiesburg and the Andrew Jessup Gallery in Biloxi. In September of 2005 he was in the last stages of preparation for a large private installation at The University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Park Campus Library when Hurricane Katrina destroyed the campus and damaged this body of work. This show and samplings of his work can be seen at KevinJohnOKeefe.com. After regrouping with the help of The Mississippi Arts Commission\, O’Keefe began refining undeveloped and unconventional techniques using salt. These works were promoted in various galleries on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and in New Orleans. Beyond ceramics\, O’Keefe’s fresh\, creative talent has led to a wide variety of projects\, including artistic designs for a Mississippi manufacturer of drum sticks\, graphic design of covers for several books and bibles\, and logos and marketing packages for several businesses. \nABOUT ODILI DONALD ODITA\nOdili Donald Odita is an African American abstract painter who lives and works in Philadelphia. Odita’s work explores color both in the figurative historical context and in the sociopolitical sense. His vibrant large-scale abstractions have been described as “showstoppers” and are considered to raise questions about race and society. Most of Odita’s work is inspired by the vibrant textiles of his home country\, Nigeria mixed with patterns from Western modernity. His Forever mural\, commissioned in 2011\, fills an entire wall in NOMA’s elevator lobby on the first floor. For Prospect.4\, he has created brightly multicolored flags installed at places of “cultural\, racial and historical importance” around the city\, and more of his work is on view aboard the Algiers ferry. \nOdita is primarily a painter\, but also works in photo-based pieces and installation art. He has experimented with a variety of media\, but his works since the 1990s are often large-scale paintings on canvas and Plexiglass. He sometimes paints directly on walls to alter the perception of space. Often involving “complex interlocking geometries and contrasting hues\,” his works are seen as raising significant questions about race and society. \nFriday Nights at NOMA is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust; 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 as administered by the Arts Council of New Orleans. URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/friday-nights-noma-music-mia-borders-artist-perspective-ceramicist-kevin-okeefe-talk-prospect-4-artist-odili-donald-odita/ CATEGORIES:NOMA at Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/forever-mural.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180119T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180119T210000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20171125T194512Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180119T010717Z UID:29449-1516381200-1516395600@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Friday Nights at NOMA: New Forms\, New Voices Gallery Talk | Hamiltunes NOLA: An American Singalong DESCRIPTION:Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music\, movies\, children’s activities\, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries\, Café NOMA\, and the Museum Shop remain open till 9 pm. \n\n5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table\n6 – 7 pm: Gallery Talk with Curator Lisa Rotondo-McCord for New Forms\, New Voices: Japanese Ceramics from the Gitter-Yelen Collection\n6:45 pm: Spotlight tour: “Right Hand Man: George Washington and the Politics of Portraiture\,” with Curator Katie Pfohl\n7 – 8:30 pm: Hamiltunes NOLA: An American Singalong to the Broadway musical Hamilton\n\nABOUT NEW FORMS\, NEW VOICES: JAPANESE CERAMICS FROM THE GITTER-YELEN COLLECTION\nJoin Lisa Rotondo-McCord\, Curator of Asian Art\, for a guided tour of an exhibition of contemporary Japanese ceramics from the collection of Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Yelen-Gitter\, most of which date after the year 2000. Ceramics have been made in Japan for more than 15\,000 years. For the first time in over twenty years\, NOMA is presenting an exhibition devoted to modern and contemporary ceramics from the Asian nation\, including works by Ryūichi Kakurezaki Machiko Ogawa\, Yo Akiyama\, Jun Nishida\, Sueharu Fukami\, Shinobu Kawase\, Osamu Suzuki\, Kazoo Takiguchi\, and Kenji Miyashita. \nABOUT HAMILTUNES: AN AMERICAN SINGALONG AND “RIGHT HAND MAN: GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THE POLITICS OF PORTRAITURE”\nWhat time is it? Show time! Be in the room where it happens as the New Orleans Museum of Art presents Hamiltunes NOLA: An American Singalong. We’ll sing like we’re running out of time and raise a glass to freedom\, lifting our voices in celebration of our generation’s most popular musical phenomenon. \nBefore the singalong\, join curator Katie Pfohl for a spotlight tour of NOMA’s iconic Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington\, and learn why this portrait may be the most reproduced image in all of American history! Hint: It’s all about the money. \nPlease RSVP here. Costumes are encouraged (no swords or dueling pistols\, please). \nHamiltunes: An American Singalong\, is an officially licensed singalong set to the award-winning soundtrack of Hamilton: An American Musical. \nFriday Nights at NOMA is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust; 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 as administered by the Arts Council of New Orleans. \n  \n  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/friday-nights-noma-new-forms-new-voices-gallery-talk-hamiltunes-nola-american-singalong/ CATEGORIES:NOMA at Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20431333_767693480082393_7264392344491190639_n.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180112T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180112T210000 DTSTAMP:20251107T044928 CREATED:20171116T183319Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180112T175700Z UID:29180-1515776400-1515790800@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Kettle Black | Gallery Talk with E. John Bullard for Personalities in Clay | Sculpture Garden Expansion Presentation DESCRIPTION:Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music\, movies\, children’s activities\, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm. \n\n5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table\n5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Kettle Black\n6 pm: Besthoff Sculpture Garden Expansion Presentation by Susan Taylor\, NOMA’s Montine McDaniel Freeman Director\n7 pm: Gallery Talk with E. John Bullard\, Personalities in Clay: American Studio Ceramics from the E. John Bullard Collection\n8 pm: Collect-O-Mania Film Series: Adele’s Wish \n\nABOUT KETTLE BLACK\nThe band Kettle Black describes itself as “a quiet dance\, a tiny explosion expanding exponentially; it is funky\, heartfelt\, and unmistakably New Orleans.” The brainchild of Keith Bernstein\, alum of the Mumbles\, along with members of Toubab Krewe and Antibalas\, the band is a double percussion discussion that fans out the African and Cuban influences found in New Orleans music to create a new American songbook. \nABOUT THE BESTHOFF SCULPTURE GARDEN EXPANSION\nJoin NOMA’s Director\, Susan Taylor\, as she discusses the 2018 expansion of the Besthoff Sculpture Garden. The privately funded expansion will allow the museum to increase offerings for public programming and the display of sculpture in an environmentally sustainable setting. The six-acre site will house twenty-two new sculptures by twenty-first-century artists. A public Q&A session will follow the presentation. Attendees only present for the Sculpture Garden Expansion presentation and Q&A will receive a free admission wristband upon museum entry after 5 pm. \nABOUT E. JOHN BULLARD\nFor thirty-seven years\, E. John Bullard served as the director of the New Orleans Museum of Art. Since his retirement in 2010\, he has actively collected American studio pottery\, a portion of which is on view in the exhibition Personalities in Clay: American Studio Ceramics from the E. John Bullard Collection. Bullard will discuss how he has assembled more than 500 ceramic works within a three-year period and the story behind many of the artists represented in his collection. The exhibition is accompanied by a full-color\, 104-page catalogue\, published by NOMA. The catalogue highlights significant work with a two-page spread for each of thirty-two artists in the exhibition\, features an essay by John Bullard on his approach to collecting\, and is anchored by an essay by Mel Buchanan\, NOMA’s RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts and Design that situates the context of the studio ceramics movement. \nABOUT ADELE’S WISH\nWhat inspires a collector and when do personal collections become something more? Join us on select Fridays and Saturdays in January and December for a series of documentaries that tell the stories of passionate collectors who have helped shape the twenty-first-century art museum landscape. \nAdele’s Wish chronicles Jewish World War II refugee Maria Altman’s attempts to recover Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I from the Republic of Austria decades after the painting was stolen by Nazi leaders from her family’s home in Vienna. (Not rated | 2009 | 1 hour\, 41 minutes) Watch the trailer. \nFriday Nights at NOMA is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust; 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 as administered by the Arts Council of New Orleans. URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/friday-nights-noma-music-kettle-black-gallery-talk-e-john-bullard-personalities-clay/ CATEGORIES:NOMA at Night,Tours ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/johnbullard10-copy.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR