New Orleans Museum of Art

Closed for Christmas
2019-12-25 10:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago)
NOMA and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be closed on Wednesday, December 25, in observance of Christmas.

Christmas Eve Holiday Hours
2019-12-24 10:00 - 15:00
The New Orleans Museum of Art and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be open on December 24 from 10 am to 3 pm.

The Helis Foundation Lecture: Regina Agu with Tia-Simone Gardner
2019-12-18 18:00 - 19:00
Regina Agu’s installation of Passage in NOMA’s Great Hall marks the first museum show for the contemporary artist. In a lecture sponsored by The Helis Foundation, Agu will discuss the environmental and historical themes in her creation of panoramas with Tia Simone-Gardner. Admission is free to all Louisiana residents on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Passage was created in partnership with A Studio in the Woods, through an artist residency.
ABOUT REGINA AGU
Regina Agu’s recent work investigates the complex relationships between the landscape and communities of color, with a special focus on the U.S. Gulf Coast region. Her practice employs a variety of tactics and theories drawn from black geographies, critical geography, conceptual writing, and poetry. Her research often involves site exploration and working with and through archives. Agu produces texts, photographs, and drawings, in addition to installations, performances, and collaborative public projects. Her work has been included in exhibitions, public readings, and performances nationally. In 2018, Agu was a Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts + Project Row Houses fellow at the University of Houston, a Lawndale Artist Studio Program resident, and was awarded a residency at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans through a partnership with For Freedoms. Agu received a 2017 Artadia Houston award and was a 2016-2017 Open Sessions participant at The Drawing Center. Agu was the co-director of Alabama Song, a collaboratively-run art space in Third Ward, Houston, which received a 2016 SEED grant from The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Agu is the founder of the Houston-based WOC Reading Group, and her other collaborative projects include Friends of Angela Davis Park and the Houston-based independent small press paratext.
ABOUT TIA-SIMONE GARDNER
Tia-Simone Gardner is an artist, educator, and Black feminist scholar from Birmingham, Alabama. Her practice is interested interdisciplinary strategies that activate ideas of ritual, iconoclasm, and geography. Gardner received her BA in Art and Art History from the University of Alabama in Birmingham. In 2009 she received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Practices and Time-Based Media from the University of Pennsylvania. Gardner participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program as a Studio Fellow and has been an invited artist to a number of national and international artist residencies including the Center for Photography at Woodstock, A Studio in the Woods, and IASPIS Sweden. She has also been awarded a number of fellowships for her work including the McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship. She is currently working on a project on Blackness and the Mississippi River as well as a photographic/writing project with her mother that addresses questions of biopolitics, Black memory and Indigineity by looking at the houses that the women in her family lived in the post-bellum South. Gardner currently lives in Minneapolis.

Gallery Talk: An Ideal Unity: The Bauhaus and Beyond with Curatorial Associate Anne Roberts
2019-12-18 15:00 - 16:00
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join Curatorial Associate Anne Roberts for a discussion about the exhibition An Ideal Unity: The Bauhaus and Beyond.
Image: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (American, b. Hungary, 1894–1946), Advertisement for Schocken Department Store, 1927, Gelatin silver print with applied pigment, 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in., Museum purchase, Women’s Volunteer Committee Fund, 74.64

Gallery Talk: Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana with Curator Katie Pfohl
2019-12-18 12:00 - 13:00
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join Curator Katie Pfohl for a discussion about the exhibition Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana.
Image: Joseph Rusling Meeker, The Acadians in the Atchafalaya, “Evangeline,” 1871, Oil on canvas, 32 1/8 x 42 3/16 in., A. Augustus Healy Fund, The Brooklyn Museum, 50.118

Tina Freeman: Lamentations book signing
2019-12-14 13:00 - 14:00
Photographer Tina Freeman will visit the Museum Shop to sign copies of her book that accompanies the exhibition Tina Freeman: Lamentations. The book includes pairings of photographs by Freeman of Louisiana’s wetlands and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and the Antarctic. Read more about the exhibition in this article from NOMA Magazine.

Studio KIDS!
2019-12-14 10:00 - 12:00
Get Creative with Studio KIDS
This fall, Studio KIDS presents “Text and Textures” art classes for kids on select Saturday mornings from 10 am to noon. Perfect for students ages 5-10 who want to get creative and learn art-making techniques. Studio KIDS explore art in NOMA’s galleries or the Besthoff Sculpture Garden as inspiration for an art project they complete in each session.
Each class features different media and techniques. Register for one class or the entire series. Please register in advance to ensure your spot.
Call 504-658-4128 or email education@noma.org for more information.
Cost per class: $25 members | $30 nonmembers
December 14 | Stained Glass Windows: Make your own winter window using colored cellophane to create a stained glass effect.
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Scent-Blending Workshop with Xodo Botanicals
2019-12-14 10:00 - 12:00
In conjunction with the exhibition Inventing Acadia, scent specialist Jane Bleecker of Xodo Botanicals and visual artist Hannah Chalew invite you to explore your own relationship with scent and sensory memories with this hands-on scent-blending workshop. Participants will be given the opportunity to work with essential oils, native raw materials, and a variety of other fragrance ingredients to blend custom scents for personal use. Participants will be encouraged to contemplate and explore native scent elements as they relate to Louisiana history and the changing landscape of the Gulf South. The workshop includes a tour
No experience necessary. Participants will leave with two custom scents, instructional materials, and a scent notebook for ongoing scent musings.
Advance registration required: $25 NOMA Members | $30 Nonmembers
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PhotoNOLA Keynote Address: Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick
2019-12-12 18:00 - 20:00
In conjunction with the citywide PhotoNOLA Festival, NOMA will host the keynote address by Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick, a husband-and-wife team of New Orleans-based photographers born and raised in the Lower Ninth Ward who have documented Louisiana and its people for more than 35 years.
Please RSVP for limited seating in the NOMA Auditorium.
The work of Calhoun and McCormick spans the music culture of New Orleans, including brass bands, jazz funerals, social aid and pleasure clubs, and Mardi Gras Indians. They have documented river baptisms in rural Louisiana and African American laborers, ranging from sugar-cane scrappers to dockworkers and longshoremen at the Port of New Orleans. As proponents of social activism through photography, Calhoun and McCormick have been granted rare access inside the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola beginning in the 1980s and continuing to today, resulting in a series they titled Slavery: The Prison Industrial Complex. In 2014, their work was selected for the 56th annual Venice Beinnale. They have been featured on the PBS NewsHour, CBS Sunday Morning, National Geographic, Aperture, and The New Yorker, and their photographs have been exhibited at the New Orleans Museum of Art, The Louisiana State Museum, and The Smithsonian Institution’s Anacostia Museum, among others. Learn more and view works from their portfolio by visiting the couple’s website.
Calhoun and McCormick will sign copies of their book Louisiana Medley in the Museum Shop following the lecture.

Arts & Letters: Environmental Justice in New Orleans
2019-12-11 18:00 - 19:00
NOMA’s Arts & Letters series welcomes authors, poets, journalists, playwrights, and literary scholars to the museum for public conversations that reflect on literature at the intersection of arts and culture.
Thomas Beller, an author, journalist and associate professor of English at Tulane University, will be in conversation with Monique Harden, Assistant Director of Law and Policy and the Community Engagement Program Manager at the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, on the subject of her work exposing the secret hiding places of toxic waste in New Orleans, past and present.

Artist's Perspective: Photographer Lily Brooks discusses Tina Freeman: Lamentations
2019-12-11 15:00 - 16:00
Throughout the exhibition of photographs in Tina Freeman: Lamentations, a seven-year photo-documentation of Louisiana’s wetlands and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic by Tina Freeman, fellow artists, including Lily Brooks, will offer their perspective on the subject matter. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
ABOUT LILY BROOKS
Lily Brooks is an instructor of photography at Southeastern Louisiana University. She received a BFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art + Design and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin. In her research, Lily uses photography to describe systems and structures of control—personal, political, and environmental. Her ongoing series We Have to Count the Clouds traces the visual remnants of our relationship to weather and climate..
Image: 20140222_Dritvik_016 Ice along a stream, western Iceland | 20130911_Louisiana_Deltas_270 Healthy marsh along the lower Mississippi River, just west of South Pass by Tina Freeman.

Gallery Talk: Ancestors in Stone with Curator Ndubuisi Ezeluomba
2019-12-11 12:00 - 13:00
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join Curator Ndubuisi Ezeluomba for a discussion about Ancestors in Stone, an exhibition centered upon a recently acquired akwanshi stone monolith from the Cross River region of Nigeria, supported with figures and objects rendered in part or whole in stone from other regions of West Africa. The show speaks to the significance of stone as both a natural element and a significant material in the veneration of ancestors. Although carved stones represent ancestors, uncarved stones may also represent ancestors. Such characteristics suggest the importance of stone to this and other African cultures.
Image: Akwanshi, c. 16th century, Stone, Ejagham artist, Nigeria, Museum purchase, Francoise Billion Richardson and Robert P. Gordy Funds, 2019.11

Fragmented Landscapes Film Series
2019-12-07 14:00 - 15:00
On four select Saturdays at 2 pm throughout the run of Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana, NOMA will screen a series of films curated by Maaike Gouwenberg of Deltaworkers collectively titled Fragmented Landscapes/Beyond Acadia.
December 7 | New Ideas about Landscape
December 14 | A Country That is Not of This World
January 11 | Stories and Place
January 18 | The Louisiana Landscape (Read more about the selected films)
In a rapidly changing Louisiana, the natural landscape becomes part of daily life. The fluidity of the marshlands that grow from sediment brought by the Mississippi from the north, and the human interactions that change the course of that natural process, are a constant reminder of our presence in—and impact upon—the area. Fragmented Landscapes/Beyond Acadia presents films that focus on landscapes—films that present the landscape as a way to communicate ideas about representation, where the medium of film is the key to examining the landscape in relation to political histories. The films presented in Fragmented Landscapes/Beyond Acadia are linked to human interference, painful pasts, and the rule of law.
ABOUT MAAIKE GOUWENBERG
Maaike Gouwenberg is a curator and producer working between Europe and the US. Since 2017 she is affiliated with Performa, co-director of Deltaworkers international residency program in New Orleans, and she is part of the mid-length committee at International Film Festival Rotterdam. After running multidisciplinary exhibition space Expodium in Utrecht, Gouwenberg participated in the De Appel Curatorial Program (2006-2007) and worked at If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution (2007 – 2011). She produced major projects at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam including Alexandre Singh’s “The Humans”, Michael Portnoy’s “Relational Stalinism – The Musical,” and “The Ten Murders of Josephine” with Rana Hamadeh. In 2010, Gouwenberg initiated A.P.E. (art projects era) with artist Keren Cytter and curator Kathy Noble.
Film still from The Brother by Léa Triboulet

Gallery Talk on Inventing Acadia with Kelly Presutti
2019-12-07 12:00 - 13:00
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year.
Join Kelly Presutti, an art scholar who contributed to the catalog for Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana, as she describes her research into the exhibition.
Image: Joseph Rusling Meeker, The Acadians in the Atchafalaya, “Evangeline,” 1871, Oil on canvas, 32 1/8 x 42 3/16 in., A. Augustus Healy Fund, The Brooklyn Museum, 50.118

Studio KIDS!
2019-12-07 10:00 - 12:00
Get Creative with Studio KIDS
This fall, Studio KIDS presents “Text and Textures” art classes for kids on select Saturday mornings from 10 am to noon. Perfect for students ages 5-10 who want to get creative and learn art-making techniques. Studio KIDS explore art in NOMA’s galleries or the Besthoff Sculpture Garden as inspiration for an art project they complete in each session.
Each class features different media and techniques. Register for one class or the entire series. Please register in advance to ensure your spot.
Call 504-658-4128 or email education@noma.org for more information.
Cost per class: $25 members | $30 nonmembers
December 7 | Pen and Zen: Zentangles are pen drawings made from one continuous line. Have fun with pen and ink and learn this relaxing process.
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Besthoff Sculpture Garden Tour
2019-12-06 12:00 - 13:00
Join NOMA’s docents for a free guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Mondays, Fridays, and Saturdays, weather dependent, at noon. (Call 504.658.4153 to verify.) Sited on twelve acres adjacent to the museum, the garden contains more than ninety works by renowned sculptors placed among a picturesque mature grove of pine, magnolia, and moss-draped live oak trees bisected by a lagoon. Represented sculptors include Pierre Auguste Renoir, Rene Magritte, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, George Rodrigue, and Robert Indiana, among others. Meet at the gates to the garden, which offers free admission year-round.

Gallery Talk: The Quilts of Gee's Bend with Conservator Howard Sutcliffe
2019-12-04 12:00 - 13:00
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join Conservator Howard Sutcliffe for a discussion about his work repairing the works on display in The Quilts of Gee’s Bend.
Image: Mary Lee Bendolph (American, b. 1935), Work-clothes quilt, c. 2002. Denim and cotton, 99 1/2 x 88 in., Museum purchase, and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation from the William S. Arnett Collection, 2017.171, © Mary Lee Bendolph/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Photograph by Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio/Art Resource, NY

Film Screening and Conversation: World AIDS Day
2019-12-01 14:00 - 16:00
The New Orleans Museum of Art is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for the thirtieth annual Day With(out) Art by presenting STILL BEGINNING, a program of seven newly commissioned videos responding to the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic by Shanti Avirgan, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Carl George, Viva Ruiz, Iman Shervington, Jack Waters/Victor F.M. Torres, and Derrick Woods-Morrow. The program is included with museum admission; free to NOMA Members.
The seven short videos range in subject from anti-stigma work in New Orleans to public sex culture in Chicago, highlighting pioneering AIDS activism and staging intergenerational conversations. Recalling artist Gregg Bordowitz’s reminder that “The AIDS crisis is still beginning,”* the video program resists narratives of resolution or conclusion, considering the continued urgency of HIV/AIDS in the contemporary moment while revisiting resonant cultural histories from the past three decades. (*The phrase first appeared in Bordowitz’s installation Drive (2002) and was recently displayed as a banner at the Art Institute of Chicago.)
A panel discussion moderated by Jennifer Williams, NOMA’s Public Programs Manager, will follow the screening featuring Sian Green and Angie Brown, members of the Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies, a national non-profit health organization based in New Orleans. Green and Brown are both featured in the video I’m Still Me by Iman Shervington.
ABOUT VISUAL AIDS
Visual AIDS is a New York-based non-profit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over. In 1989, Visual AIDS organized the first Day Without Art, a call to the art world for mourning and action in response to the AIDS crisis. For Day With(out) Art’s thirtieth year, over 100 institutions worldwide will screen STILL BEGINNING, recognizing the important and necessary work of artists, activists, and cultural workers who have responded to AIDS while emphasizing the persistent presence of the epidemic.
In 1989, Visual AIDS organized the first Day Without Art, a call to the art world for mourning and action in response to the AIDS crisis. Every year since, Visual AIDS has coordinated and publicized events at museums, universities, and arts organizations to highlight the ongoing urgency of the epidemic.
Featured Videos
Shanti Avirgan, Beat Goes On
Beat Goes On is an all-archival video portrait of Keith Cylar (1958–2004), the co-founder of Housing Works and a central figure in the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) NY.
Carl George, The Lie
The Lie is the latest in an ongoing series of short films drawing on found footage and original materials from the artist’s archive. Offering “ruminations on ruined nations,” the film aims to expose the links between war, poverty, AIDS and capitalism, and discredit the persistent mythologies that bind them all.
Nguyen Tan Hoang, I Remember Dancing
I Remember Dancing brings together an intergenerational cast of trans and queer “gaysians” ruminating on the past and future of AIDS, activism, gay culture, love, and (un)safe sex.
Viva Ruiz, Chloe Dzubilo: There is a Transolution
Viva Ruiz invites transgender AIDS activist, artist, and beloved friend Chloe Dzubilo (1960-2011) to speak via never before seen Hi-8 footage filmed by Chloe’s then-partner Kelly McGowan.
Iman Shervington, I’m Still Me
I’m Still Me highlights Sian, a Black woman living with HIV in Louisiana, who works in partnership with the Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies to address the disproportionate effect of HIV on Black women in the South.
Jack Waters/Victor F.M. Torres, (eye, virus)
Through an experimental collage of video and pictographs, (eye, virus) explores how conversations around disclosure, stigma, and harm reduction shift across generations and from public to private realms. Collaboratively produced with Victor F.M. Torres and Nikki Sweet.
Derrick Woods-Morrow, Much handled things are always soft
Derrick Woods-Morrow will document the geography of the public sex culture of Black Chicago from the 1960s through the 1980s, in conversation with photographer and longterm survivor Patric McCoy.

Museum Highlights Tour
2019-12-01 13:00 - 14:00
NOMA docents guide visitors on hour-long tours of either the permanent collection or special exhibitions. Tours are free with NOMA admission. Meet in the Great Hall to join in.
Special group tours can be arranged with two-weeks advance notice. Call Tracy Kennan, Curator of Education, at 504.658.4113.

Closed for Thanksgiving
2019-11-28 10:00 - 18:00
NOMA and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be closed on Thursday, November 28, in observance of Thanksgiving.

Gallery Talk: Portrait Miniatures with Curator Mel Buchanan
2019-11-27 12:00 - 13:00
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join Curator Mel Buchanan for a discussion about the Latter-Schlesinger Collection of Portrait Miniatures dating from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries.

Family Field Day
2019-11-23 10:00 - 14:00
A FREE family festival will be held in the expansion of the Besthoff Sculpture Garden with programs that focus on the body, physical play, and the environment as it relates to art making. Activities and entertainment will include the following:
10 am | Besthoff Sculpture Garden opens | DOWNLOAD A MAP
10:15 am
• Pop-up talk on Wind Sculpture V by Yinka Shonibare
• Storytime at the Sculpture Pavilion lawn
10:30 am
• Performance by Washboard Chaz at the Amphitheater
• Yoga Class with Project Peaceful Warriors on the North Lawn
11:15 am
• Pop-up Talk on Striding Figure (Rome I) by Thomas Houseago
11:30 am
• Movement workshop with POSH Expressions Performing Arts Experience at the Amphitheater
• Yoga class with Project Peaceful Warriors on the North Lawn
12:15 pm
• Pop-up Talk on History of the Conquest by Hank Willis Thomas
12:30 pm
• Movement workshop with Posh Expressions at the Amphitheater
• Yoga class with Project Peaceful Warriors on the North Lawn
1:15 pm
• Pop-up Talk on Bear With Us by Frank Gehry
• Storytime on the Sculpture Pavilion Lawn
1:30 pm
• Closing dance performance with POSH Expressions Performing Arts Experience at the Amphitheater
2:00 pm
• As the festival concludes, enjoy discounted admission inside the museum (enter at front entrance), play in City Park, or visit our neighbor, the Louisiana Children’s Museum
Ongoing drop-in activities, 10 am – 2 pm
• Art-making: Binoculars – South Lawn
• Art-making: Birdlifes – South Lawn
• Art-making: Veggie Prints – North Lawn
• Community art-making: Exquisite Landscapes – Sculpture Pavilion Patio• Activity Card Station – Sculpture Pavilion Lawn – pick up cards, self-guided
• Wayfinding activity – Outdoor Classroom
• Photo Booth: Stroller Parade! – adjacent to the Amphitheater
• All About NOMA Station & Prize Wheel – Main Gate
• Drop-In movement & play with POSH Expressions Performing Arts Experience at the Amphitheater, in between performances
Food options
• Two food trucks will be stationed by the Friedrichs Drive gate
• NOMA Cafe – enter through the courtyard across from the Main Gate

Friday Nights at NOMA: Inventing Acadia and Passage lectures and gallery talks
2019-11-22 17:00 - 21:00
Friday Nights at NOMA features an exciting lineup of programs in 2019: 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.
5 – 8 pm | Art on the Spot drop-in activity table
5:30 pm | Gallery Talk with Southerly Gold
5:30 – 8:30 pm | Music by Gina Forsyth and Friends
6 pm | Acadia Revisited, a lecture by Curator Katie Pfohl upon the opening of Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana
7:30 pm | Gallery Talk with Regina Agu on Passage, an installation in the Great Hall
ABOUT SOUTHERLY GOLD
In conjunction with the exhibition Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana, an ensemble of photographers known as Southerly Gold will present an installation titled Land of Evangeline: Reconstructed in the Evelyn L. Burkenroad Creative Concept Studio that revisits many of the locations in south Louisiana painted by landscape artists in the nineteenth-century. Formed in 2011, Southerly Gold consists of Aubrey Edwards, Ariya Martin, and Elena Ricci. The three women will present contemporary photographs of Louisiana’s ever-changing terrain.
ABOUT INVENTING ACADIA: PAINTING AND PLACE IN LOUISIANA
Curator Katie Pfohl will deliver a keynote talk upon the opening of Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana. This marks the first major exhibition featuring Louisiana landscape painting in more than forty years. Exploring the rise of landscape painting in Louisiana during the nineteenth century, Inventing Acadia reveals Louisiana’s role in creating—and exporting—a new vision for American landscape painting that was vastly different from that found in the rest of the United States.
ABOUT REGINA AGU AND PASSAGE
Artist Regina Agu will discuss Passage, her installation for the Great Hall that examines contemporary Louisiana landscapes. Through a partnership between NOMA and A Studio in the Woods, Agu spent time in residence in Louisiana, revisiting many of the sites painted in the 19th-century century by artists in Inventing Acadia. Through a dynamic installation of printed material that will drape, fold, and move through the Great Hall, Agu will combine these historical reference points with present-day landscape imagery from the region.
ABOUT GINA FORSYTH
New Orleans-based Gina Forsyth is an award-winning singer/songwriter, who is known for her wizardry on fiddle and guitar. With an alto as unique as it is soulful, unpretentious songs that cut straight to the heart, and a wicked sense of humor, her live performances are legend. Considered one of the best Cajun fiddlers in Louisiana (no small feat), Gina is in demand from other great Louisiana musicians to play club gigs and festivals, some of the same talent that backs her up when she plays as Gina Forsyth and Friends.
Friday Nights at NOMA is presented by The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate and 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.

Gallery Talk: Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana with Curator Katie Pfohl
2019-11-20 12:00 - 13:00
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join Curator Katie Pfohl for a discussion about the exhibition Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana.
Image: Robert Brammer, Mississippi Panorama, 1842–1853, Oil on canvas, 29 x 36 in., Collection of Stacy and Jay Underwood

Book Club Discussion Group
2019-11-19 12:00 - 13:00
Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. Our full 2019 schedule and reading list has been announced.
Organized by NOMA’s Felix J. Dreyfous Library, the Book Club is an informal group. You do not have to attend every meeting and we understand if you have to leave a discussion or program early. The book club offers several types of programs: a book discussion group that meets once a month (no reading in December), curatorial programs, field trips, and Meet the Author receptions. Most book club programs start promptly at noon, but please arrive at 11:30 a.m. if you wish to bring a sack lunch or meet beforehand. NOMA will provide water and soft drinks.
RSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space.
Please contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club.
November 2019 Selection
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Picador, 2009, ISBN: 978-0312428594
This historical novel crammed almost to the bursting point with incidents and characters, but Amitay Ghosh deftly keeps everything under control. It’s 1838, and Britain is set on maintaining the opium trade between India and China as a buttress of its economic, political and cultural power. Ghosh orchestrates his polyphonic saga with a composer’s fine touch. He lays out multiple narrative lines, initially separate, that eventually conjoin on the Ibis, a schooner bound from Calcutta to China across the much-feared “Black Water.”…The density of settings, from rural India to teeming Calcutta to the Sudder Opium Factory, is historically convincing, and the author pays close attention to variations in speech, from the clipped formality of the educated class to a patois (“the kubber is that his cuzzanah is running out”) that definitely requires the glossary that Ghosh provides. —Kirkus Reviews
Friday, November 8, 12 – 1 p.m. | Curatorial Program with Lisa Rotondo-McCord, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs/Curator of Asian Art
Tuesday, November 19, 12 – 1 p.m. | Book Discussion Group

Odyssey 2019: Mystère Louisiane presented by IBERIABANK
2019-11-15 19:00 - 23:59 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
November 15, 2019
The Odyssey Ball celebrates and enhances the New Orleans Museum of Art in an evening of unparalleled elegance. Critically important to our treasured museum and the wide community it serves, Odyssey raises the funds necessary to support NOMA’s nationally-recognized exhibitions and educational programs, which bring more than 300,000 annual visitors to the museum and sculpture garden.

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Mary and Justin Schmidt
Robyn and Andrew Schwarz
Aimée Farnet Siegel and Mike Siegel
Mrs. Joe D. Smith, Jr
State Machinery
Pamela and Rob Steeg
Paulette and Frank Stewart
Phyllis Taylor
Susan M. Taylor and Paolo G. Meozzi
Allison and Ben Tiller
Suzette Toledano and Bill Roberti
Nancy and Franco Valobra
Kathleen and Charlie Van Horn
Sarah and Patrick Vance
Dawn Wheelahan
Virginia and Michael White

Premium Patron
Valerie Besthoff
Edel Blanks
Virginia Boulet and Alvin R. Albe Jr.
Susan and Ralph Brennan
Catherine and David Edwards
Kushner LaGraize, LLC
Elizabeth and Willy Monaghan
Rick and Debbie Rees
Pam and Bill Ryan

Patron
John C. Abajian and Scott R. Simmons
William Allen
Antonia Alexander
Bagert Law Firm | Ben Bagert
Bellwether Technology Corp.
Kristin and John Blackwell
E.V. Benjamin III
Steven Callan
Gerald Cohen, MD and Jacqueline Biglow
Mary Claire and Danny Conwill
Melissa Dovie
Ann Duffy and John Skinner
Carmen and Kelly Duncan
Kathleen Edmundson
Julie and Michael Flick
Ella and Walter Flower
René Fransen and Eddie Bonin
Tina Freeman and Philip Wollam
Anne and Cherie Gauthier
Marc A. Goldman
Holly Gordon
Claudio Hemb
Susan Hess
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Klebba
William LeCorgne
Lee Ledbetter
Sherry and Alan Leventhal
Melanie Loomis
Drs. Thomas May and Mary Fazekas-May
Hope and Jimmy Meyer
Cherie and Ryan Moore
Frank Ochsner
Mary Lou Ochsner
Lock and Lori Ochsner
Drs. Joy and Howard Osofsky
Cynthia Pazos
Gary and Linda Raphael
Rick Rizzo and Julia Lennox
Alejandra Rosales
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Saer
Carol Short
Dara and Dale Smith
Carol Starr
Catherine Burns Tremaine
Melanee and Steve Usdin
Beth Utterback
Gardner Wade
Calais and Patrick Waring Fund
Amanda and Teddy Winstead
Dr. Lawrence and Joan Zaslow

Young Fellows Patron
Justin Alsterberg
Margaret Archila
Nia and Theodore Avery
Gladys Benford
Sarah Bjerklie
Emay Boyd
Sally Brower
Adela Canaj
Trishelle Cannatella
Ellen Cannon
Olivia Carisella
Damon Carraby
Elizabeth Cerniglia
Khaled Dajani
Alison J. Diboll
Charolotte Drenna
Courtenay and Brian DuFour
Gian Durand
Mervatt Eljaouhari
Lauren Favret
Laura Finn
Lorey Flick
August Gallo
Gina Gendy
Alex Geriner and Patrick Owens
Sophie Hirabayashi-McFall
Mariama Holeman
Annalee Jackson
Samantha L. Jacob
Anne S. Kock
Emily LaBorde
Victoria Lacayo
Brooke Laizer
Martine Chaisson Linares
Conor Lutkewitte
Rodolfo Martinez
Georgianna May
Mamta Melwani
Kim Miller
Corey Moll
Alexander Monteleone
Ayesha and Aaron Motwani
Kaylee Mulgrew
Nathaniel A. Novak and M. Rebecca Cooper
Brooke Ochsner
Marcella Peraza and Patrick Willis
Marylyn Rigby
Mallory Anne Robinson
Ashley Spivey
Bridget Sullivan
Shaista Vally and Matthew Frost
Kristina Vitrano
Bryant York
Chris Wheelahan
Thomas Wicker

Media Sponsors

Event Design

Libations

2019 Odyssey Committee
Carla Adams
Natasha Alveshire
Karen and Burton E. Benrud Jr.
Kristin Blackwell
Elizabeth A. Boh
Lisa Brooking
Sally Brower
Winnie Brown
Adela Canaj
Ella Camburnbeck
Caroline and Murray Calhoun
Olivia Carisella
Hunter Cazes
CeCe and Trevor Colhoun
Danny Conwill
Jeanne and Martin de Laureal
Melissa Dovie
Margo DuBos
Ann Duffy
Courtenay and Brian Dufour
Carmen Duncan
Shaun and Foster Duncan
Gian Durand
Kathleen and Bob Edmundson
Leah Engelhardt
Lauren Favret
Frances Fayard
Mary Fazekas-May
Sarah Feirn
Tim Fields and Chris Bergeaux
Glendy Forster
Rebecca Friedman
Keith Frischhertz and William Velez
Julie George
Joanna Giorlando
Garlyn Gryder
Dana Hansel
Juli Miller Hart
Jennifer Heebe
Henry Heaton
Marshall Hevron
Kaylea and Hunter Hill
Jane Scott and Phillip Hodges
Diane Hollis
Sandy Hunter
Joan and Steven Jacob
Anne Kock
Renée and Peter Laborde
Brett Lapeyre
Courtney Le Clercq
Faye Lieder
Mary Matalin
Cammie Mayer
Kathleen Mix
Cherie Moore
Kelly Nolan
Judith Oudt
Marcella Peraza and Patrick Willis
Taylor Pospisil
Cleland Powell
Mallory Robinson
Pamela Rogers
Stephanie Rogers
Erin Romney
Elizabeth Ryan
Mary Schmidt
Carol Short
Kathy Singleton
Susu Stall
Carol Starr
Allison and Ben Tiller
Nancy and Franco Valobra
Margaret and Pierre Villere
Diane Walmsley
Tommy Westervelt
Dawn Wheelahan
Brent Wood
Joan Zaslow

Special Thanks
Walton and Jeffrey Goldring
Johnson Tropicals
Roland Montealegre, Urban Earth
H2O Salon and Spa
Mosaic Linens
Perrier Party Rentals
SeeHear Productions

Click here to support Odyssey and Give to the NOMA need of your choice!

Sponsorship Levels and Benefits
$10,000 LUMIÉRE

8 Odyssey Sponsor Party tickets
12 Odyssey Patron tickets with sponsor room access
Recognition as a Sponsor with company name or logo in all press materials
Recognition as a Sponsor at all Odyssey events
Invitations to VIP museum member openings during 2019/2020
Sponsor recognition on printed program, NOMA.org with over 65,000 monthly visitors; on e-blasts to over 31,000+ NOMA subscribers; social media feeds including 31,000 Instagram followers (Mention on an Instagram post + story before the event and mention in an Instagram story at the event; 2 mentions on Facebook with a monthly reach of 400,000

$5,000 BON AMI

4 Odyssey Sponsor Party tickets
6 Odyssey Patron tickets with sponsor room access
Recognition as a Sponsor at all Odyssey events
Invitations to VIP museum member openings during 2019/2020 season
Sponsor recognition on printed program, NOMA.org with over 37,000 monthly visitors; e-blasts to over 37,000+ NOMA subscribers

$4,000 JOIE DE VIVRE

4 Odyssey Sponsor Party tickets
4 Odyssey Patron tickets with sponsor room access
Recognition as a Sponsor at all Odyssey events
Invitations to VIP museum member openings during 2019/2020 season
Sponsor recognition on printed program, NOMA.org with over 37,000 monthly visitors; e-blasts to over 37,000+ NOMA subscribers

$2,500 BON TEMPS

2 Odyssey Sponsor Party tickets
2 Odyssey Patron tickets with sponsor room access
Invitations to VIP museum member openings during 2019/2020 season
Recognition as a Sponsor at all Odyssey events
Sponsor recognition on printed program; NOMA.org with over 37,000 monthly visitors; e-blasts to over 37,000+ NOMA subscribers

Ticket Levels and Benefits

$1,000 PREMIUM PATRON TICKET – Individual | 7 pm onward

1 Odyssey Patron ticket
Website and program listing
Invitations to VIP museum member openings during 2019/2020 season

$500 PATRON TICKET – Individual | 7 pm onward

1 Odyssey Patron ticket
Website and program listing

$300 GALA TICKET | 8 pm onward

1 Odyssey ticket

$150 ODYSSEY YOUNG FELLOWS PATRON TICKET – Ages 21-40 | 7 pm onward

1 Odyssey Patron ticket with website and program listing

Current as of 11/18/19

Free admission, early closure at 3 pm
2019-11-15 10:00 - 15:00
In preparation for the 2019 Odyssey Ball, the museum will waive admission fees for all visitors but the galleries will close early at 3 pm. Café NOMA will close at 2 pm. The Besthoff Sculpture Garden will remain open until 5 pm.

Now in its 53rd year, the Odyssey Ball in partnership with IBERIABANK raises critical funds to support the museum’s nationally-recognized exhibitions and educational programs year-round. Tickets to Odyssey Ball are still available, and we hope you’ll join us! Click here to purchase Patron tickets, Gala tickets, or our Young Fellows ticket, which admits young professionals to the event at a special rate.

If you can’t join us for Odyssey Ball, please consider supporting NOMA by donating at one of our many donation boxes located throughout the museum, or making a contribution online.

CANCELED: The NOLA Project presents The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
2019-11-14 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-11-13 19:00 - 21:00
Due to unseasonably cold weather, the final two productions of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow for Wednesday, November 13, and Thursday, November 14, have been canceled. Ticketholders will be contacted by The NOLA Project for refunds. For more information, visit nolaproject.com.

Free Admission Day
2019-11-14 10:00 - 18:00
In preparation for the Odyssey Ball, NOMA will waive admission for all visitors on Thursday, November 14.
