New Orleans Museum of Art

Summer Art Camp Session 3 (Ages 5–12)
2025-07-07 - 2025-07-11 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Campers will embark on an exciting summer adventure at NOMA, exploring 5,000 years of art through our permanent collection, special exhibitions, and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden. With an interdisciplinary approach to creative thinking and art-making, campers will engage in a variety of artistic mediums and activities, including drawing, painting, movement, sculpture, and more. Each camp session is unique, yet all are centered on the joy of art exploration, creation, and fun—all located conveniently within New Orleans City Park.
Registration is $400 ($300 for members).
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Gallery Talk with Tony Yeboah: "West African Ontology of Space and the Architecture of Community"
2025-07-09 12:30 - 13:00, 2025-07-09 18:00 - 18:30 (America/Chicago) | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Every week, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators, artists, and other special guests. These lively, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view.
This week, join Tony Yeboah, Tulane University Faculty Fellow of African Art History, for a gallery talk on works in the exhibition New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations. The title of his talk is “West African Ontology of Space and the Architecture of Community”
Yeboah will lead two iterations of this gallery talk: the first from 12:30-1:00 pm, and the second from 6:00-6:30 pm the same evening.
Included with museum admission, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.

About Tony Yeboah
Tony Yeboah is Assistant Professor of African Art History at Tulane University. His current research supported by the Mellon Foundation and the Betty and Whitney MacMillan Center of Yale University, utilizes local-centered methodologies to reclaim African ontologies of space. Tony’s research examines the entangled themes of colonial power, the built environment, and community-making in one of the greatest West African capitals, Kumase. Tony is a contributor for the OER, (Open Educational Resources), a project of the Gates Ventures. His works have appeared in edited volumes and in numerous peer-reviewed journals and popular avenues including History in Africa, Journal of West African History, History Education Research Journal, the Conversation, and Nursing Clio.

Book Club: Luncheon of the Boating Party
2025-07-10 12:00 - 13:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
NOMA’s book club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in the museum’s collection and exhibitions.
It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to participate. In addition to monthly book discussions, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections.
Books are selected in advance and planned according to the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the titles. Selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop, where museum members receive a 10% discount.
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Meetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. For more information or questions, please email programs@noma.org.

About the Book
Luncheon of the Boating Party
by Susan Vreeland

Luncheon of the Boating Party, the novel and the painting, depicts the summer of 1880, an exuberant postwar time when social constraints were loosening, Paris was healing, and Parisians were bursting with a desire for pleasure. The fourteen people on the terrace overlooking the Seine enjoying this moment of la vie moderne are Renoir’s very real friends, my characters, whose lives unfold and connect during the course of the making of the painting.

Summer Art Camp Session 4 (Ages 5–12)
2025-07-14 - 2025-07-18 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119

Gallery Talk with Lavonna Varnado-Brown
2025-07-16 12:30 - 13:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Every week, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators, artists, and other special guests. These lively, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view.
This week, join Creative Assembly member Lavonna Varnado-Brown on the Second Floor Mezzanine to discuss the Black Madonnas in the exhibition Carlo Saraceni’s “Our Lady of Loreto” and Peruvian Viceregal Statue Paintings. Varrnado-Brown will highlight Saraceni’s work “Our Lady of Loreto/Nuestra Señora de Loreto,” exploring themes of the divine feminine, Syncretism, and the artist’s influences. We will reflect on the gradual process of adoption and adaptation of this iconography by Indigenous and Mestizo artists in Viceregal Peru in the creation of Marian images. In the past, “Our Lady of Loreto” has been exhibited as a Peruvian work created during the Viceregal Period (1542-1824), and NOMA has played a crucial role in exhibiting the work more accurately as Italian Baroque painting dated to 1600, created while the Venetian artist was active in Rome.
This talk will be held at 12:30 pm and 6:00 pm.
Included with museum admission, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.

About Lavonna Varnado-Brown
Lavonna Varnado-Brown, Creative Assembly 2025
LaVonna Varnado Brown is a multidisciplinary artist and community worker.She earned a BA from Southeastern University Louisiana with a focus on Theatre and Liberal Arts. After studying abroad in London and Paris in the summer of 2009, LaVonna has worked as an installation artist, artist advocate, teaching artist, and tutor in and around New Orleans. LaVonna creates mixed media visual art that is AfroFutiristic in aesthetic with odes to history, the Divine Feminine, and floral daydreams abounding. AfroFuturism is a cultural aesthetic that explores the intersection of art and history with intention to inspire action in the now by healing beyond trauma. In addition to creating multimedia works, LaVonna curates intentional workshops and expos with a focus on healing and raising spatial awareness. Through her work she hopes to uplift the narrative of rest, joy, resistance, and abundance.

Salon Supper Club Presented by First Horizon Bank
2025-07-17 18:00 - 21:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
This year, the New Orleans Museum of Art introduces a new food- and art-focused series of events inspired by works on view: the Salon Supper Club Presented by First Horizon Bank.
During this lively cocktail event with progressive food stations throughout the museum, guests will explore featured exhibitions and installations at the museum while celebrating the ability of art to connect us with friends, family, and new acquaintances.
Salon Supper Club Presented by First Horizon Bank
Celebrating “A Taste of West Africa and New Orleans”
Event Chairs | Terrah and Willie Green, Jenny and Robb Vorhoff, Elizabeth and James Williams, Ariel Wilson-Harris and L. Kasimu Harris
NOMA Volunteer Committee Chair | Taylor Pospisil
Your support of the Salon Supper Club events provides critical resources to exhibitions, educational initiatives, and programming at NOMA.
For sponsorship inquiries and questions about the Salon Supper Club, please email salonsupperclub@noma.org or call 504.658.4121.

Event Tickets
Get your tickets now for the next installation of the Salon Supper Club on Thursday, July 17.
$250 | Patron Supper Club Tickets
Grants ticket holders access to the event from 6-9 PM
TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT THE DOOR
$150 | General Admission Tickets
Grants ticket holders access to the event from 7-9 PM
TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT THE DOOR
Summer Cocktail Attire

Event Details
Guest Chef Serigne Mbaye, Co-owner and Chef of Dakar NOLA, honored with the prestigious 2024 James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant.
Serigne Mbaye, Head Chef and Co-Owner of Dakar NOLA
A Collaborative Exhibition-Inspired Menu Crafted by Dakar NOLA and Ralph Brennan Catering and Events

Cocktails Crafted by Guest Mixologist Deniseea Head (“Chicken and Champagne”) and Host of BET’s “Cheers to That!”

Better known as Chicken and Champagne, Deniseea Head, born & raised in Los Angeles, pairs innovative cocktails with her love for African American history. She specializes in well-curated, intimate and large-scale events with compelling storytelling. Currently residing in New Orleans, Deniseea hosts BET’s “Cheers To That” series, highlighting Black owned spirits, artists, and pop culture.
Through creative cocktails & history Deniseea serves as a griot to engage, inform, and bring visibility to current issues, events, and how they affect the community. She has been featured in Imbibe Magazine, Marie Claire, Food & Wine, Beverage Master BWIF 2025, Vinepair Educator of the Year 2023, Travel & Leisure, BBC, and other outlets. You can find her on Instagram: @chickenandchampagne
Live Music from AllStar Band and DJ Sets from DJ Ojay

Live Poetry Writing From Internationally-Acclaimed Poet Sunni Patterson

And More!

About the Exhibition
New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations spotlights the work of four contemporary artists working in cities across West Africa: Chief Ekpenyong Bassey Nsa, Sheku “Goldenfinger” Fofanah, David Sanou, and Hervé Youmbi.
The first presentation of its kind, New African Masquerades offers a rare look into contemporary West African masquerade by contextualizing the works of individual artists within a range of social, economic, and religious practices and examining their networks of viewership and exchange. Made from materials including wood, cloth and fabrics, sequins, feathers, gourds, raffia, and cowry shells, the ensembles on view represent a wide variety of masquerade practices and societies.
Organized in partnership with the Musée des Civilisations noires (MCN) in Dakar, Senegal, the exhibition will be also be presented in a parallel form for African audiences—marking the first time an exhibition will be presented in such a way in North America and Africa.

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Sponsorship Levels and Benefits
Take advantage of the opportunity to join as a sponsor for all three Salon Supper Club events in 2025 on Thursday, May 22; Thursday, July 17; and Friday, October 3.
$25,000 | Platinum Sponsor

12 tickets to each Salon Supper Club event (If purchased after May 22nd, you will receive 24 tickets to Summer Salon and 12 to the Fall Salon.)
Recognition as a sponsor with name or logo in all press materials
Recognition as a sponsor at all NOMA Salon Supper Club events
Invitations to exhibition patron preview openings during 2025–26
Sponsor recognition on printed invitations, evites, and on noma.org
Mention on an Instagram post + story before the event and mention in an Instagram story at the event; 2 mentions on Facebook
Listed in paid advertisements
NOMA Fellows membership
Exhibition catalogues

Become a Platinum Sponsor
$15,000 | Gold Sponsor

10 tickets to each Salon Supper Club event (If purchased after May 22nd, you will receive 20 tickets to Summer Salon and 10 to the Fall Salon.)
Recognition as a sponsor with name or logo in all press materials
Recognition as a sponsor at all NOMA Salon Supper Club events
Invitations to exhibition patron preview openings during 2025–26
Sponsor recognition on printed invitations, evites, and on noma.org
Listed in paid advertisements
NOMA Fellows membership
Exhibition catalogues

Become a Gold Sponsor
$8,000 | Silver Sponsor

6 tickets to each Salon Supper Club event (If purchased after May 22nd, you will receive 12 tickets to Summer Salon and 6 to the Fall Salon.)
Recognition as a sponsor at all NOMA Salon Supper Club events
Invitations to exhibition patron preview openings during 2025–26
Sponsor recognition on printed invitations, evites, and on noma.org
NOMA Fellows membership
Exhibition catalogues

Become a Silver Sponsor
$5,500 | Benefactor

4 tickets to each Salon Supper Club event (If purchased after May 22nd, you will receive 8 tickets to Summer Salon and 4 to the Fall Salon.)
Recognition as a sponsor at all NOMA Salon Supper Club events
Invitations to exhibition patron preview openings during 2025–26
Sponsor recognition on printed invitations, evites, and on noma.org
NOMA Fellows membership

Become a Benefactor
$2,750 | Supporter Couple

2 tickets to each Salon Supper Club event (If purchased after May 22nd, you will receive 4 tickets to Summer Salon and 2 to the Fall Salon.)
Recognition as a sponsor at all NOMA Salon Supper Club events
Invitations to exhibition patron preview openings during 2025–26
Sponsor recognition on printed invitations, evites, and on noma.org
NOMA Fellows membership

Become a Supporter
$1,375 | Supporter Single

1 ticket to each Salon Supper Club event (If purchased after May 22nd, you will receive 2 tickets to Summer Salon and 1 to the Fall Salon.)
Recognition as a sponsor at all NOMA Salon Supper Club events
Invitations to exhibition patron preview openings during 2025–26
Sponsor recognition on printed invitations, evites, and on noma.org
NOMA Fellows membership

Become a Supporter
For sponsorship inquiries and questions about the Salon Supper Club, please email salonsupperclub@noma.org or call 504.658.4121.

Thank You to Our Current Sponsors
Presenting Sponsor

Gold Sponsors
Anonymous
Walda Besthoff
Silver Sponsors
Elizabeth Boh
Feil Family Foundation
Peggy and Timber Floyd
Benefactors
Mrs. Robert H. Boh
Eileen and Joey Devall
Shaun and Foster Duncan
The Helis Foundation
Kim and Thomas Henley
Phyllis M. Taylor
Elizabeth and James Williams
Supporters
R. P. Bartee
Broadmoor, LLC
Caroline and Murray Calhoun
Luz and Salvador Caputto
Red River Bank
Ann Duffy and John Skinner
Pam Davis Friedler
Julie and Ted George
Dr. Kelly E. Haynie
Millie and Robert Kohn
Kristen and Paul Leonard
Blanca Rosa Maldonado. M.D.
Ellen Manshel
Renee and Paul Masinter
Cammie and Charles Mayer
Eduardo E. Rodriguez
Claude and Mimi Schlesinger
Susu and Andrew Stall
Suzanne and Robert Thomas
Lele and Brent Wood
Media Sponsors

Libations
Sazerac Co.
Special Thanks
Urban Earth
Café NOMA

Event Committee to be Announced Soon

Gallery Talk with Laura Moreno
2025-07-23 12:30 - 13:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Every week, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators, artists, and other special guests. These lively, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view.
This week, join Museum Educator Laura Moreno for a conversation about Carlos Rolón’s “Losa Criolla” located in the NOMA 2nd Floor elevator lobby. This talk will be held at 12:30 pm.
Included with museum admission, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.

Gallery Talk with Owen Canter
2025-07-23 18:00 - 18:30 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Every week, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators, artists, and other special guests. These lively, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view.
This week, join Owen Canter for a conversation about the history of Palissy ware. This talk will be held at 6:00 pm in the Decorative Arts galleries.
Included with museum admission, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.

Gallery Talk with Jer'Lisa Devezin
2025-07-30 12:30 - 13:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Every week, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators, artists, and other special guests. These lively, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view.
This week, join Creative Assembly member Jer’Lisa Devezin for a conversation about Leonardo Drew’s piece Number 59S. This talk will be held at 12:30 pm and 6:00 pm.
Included with museum admission, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.

About Jer’Lisa Devezin
Jer’Lisa Devezin, Creative Assembly 2025
Jer’Lisa J. Devezin is an artist and educator born and raised in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, LA. She earned her BA from Dillard University and MFA from Southern Methodist University. Heavily influenced by her upbringing in the city, Jer’Lisa’s work engages research through a black feminist lens centering identity, sexuality, Black studies, and Southern culture, specifically focusing on New Orleans and socioeconomics. Devezin’s practice integrates ceramic and sculptural processes such as welded steel, woven forms, cast slip, plaster, and metal. Her research on materials like clay, metal, and fibers engages with the function of materiality and is intentionally used to coexist and initiate conversations between the viewer and the work. Devezin is based in New Orleans and works as an Assistant Professor of Art at Tulane University.

Gallery Talk with Elenora “Rukiya” Brown
2025-08-06 12:30 - 13:00, 2025-08-06 18:00 - 18:30 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Every week, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators, artists, and other special guests. These lively, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view.
This week, join us for a gallery talk led by local artist and designer Elenora “Rukiya” Brown on works in the exhibition New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations.
Rukiya will lead two iterations of this gallery talk: the first will take place from 12:30-1:00 pm, and the second from 6:00-6:30 pm the same evening.
Included with museum admission, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.

About Elenora “Rukiya” Brown
Rukiya is an artist and designer, recognized among her peers and protégés for fusing both historical influence from People of Color traditions with contemporary times. She is internationally known for making beautiful “soft sculptures” Mardi Gras InJun suits. Featured with her is one of her personal dolls from the Unclaimed Memories Hurricane Katrina collection.
Rukiya calls her art a type of therapy—that healing begins with herself and goes out to others. All of her artwork is an offering to the community of Color, to inform and inspire based on her research, weaving in the majesty of life. Rukiya treats none of her creations as a “job” in the traditional sense; it’s more the joy of the experience while doing. She is perhaps then a mixed media artist in the truest form.
Gifted as a quilter and storyteller of quilts, art and fashion designer, and master beader as well, her talents are sought by novices, major art enthusiasts, and wealthy collectors. Rukiya has participated in New Orleans JazzFest for many years, winning numerous awards. She is acknowledging her Chahta American Indian bloodline ancestry. She masks with Big Chief Monk Boudreaux’s Golden Eagles tribe, and she fully represents the New Orleans culture of masking Mardi Gras InJun.
Rukiya’s Mardi Gras InJun suit When People Could Fly (2014) was acquired by the New Orleans Museum of Art. The White Buffalo Calf Woman (2017) suit is a part of the permanent exhibit at the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, in Paris, France. The Metamorphosis (2013) was featured in Tina Freeman’s award-winning book, Artist Spaces:NEW Orleans (Louisiana Artists).

NOMA at Night: New African Masquerades Closing Celebration
2025-08-08 18:00 - 21:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Get creative and explore the museum after hours during NOMA at Night.
This NOMA at Night celebrates the closing of the exhibition New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations at NOMA. Join us as we celebrate this special look into the world of contemporary West African masquerade before it travels to its next location, the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee.
Featuring live music from Kumasi Afrobeat and DJing from NOMA Creative Assembly member Jer’Lisa Devezin; gallery talks by exhibition curator Dr. Amanda M. Maples, NOMA’s Françoise Billion Richardson Curator of African Art; a raffle from the NOMA Museum Shop, which will be open during the event; specialty cocktails, mocktails, and a light bites menu from Café NOMA; a printmaking art activity; and more.
$15 for members
$30 general admission
Free admission for attendees ages 19 and under
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Program Details
Live Music from Kumasi Afrobeat

Live DJ Set from Creative Assembly Resident Artist Jer’Lisa Devezin
Jer’Lisa Devezin, Creative Assembly 2025
NOMA Museum Shop and New African Masquerades Merchandise Raffle

The NOMA Museum Shop will raffle a gift bag of exclusive NOMA and NAM merchandise, including:

A NAM-branded tote bag, postcard set, magnet set, mug, and catalog
A NOMA-branded water bottle and hat
NOMA X Bonfolk Griffin socks
A Marie Antoinette hardback notebook

Raffle tickets will be given at entry when guests purchase or scan their attendance ticket. An additional raffle ticket will be given when guests make a purchase in the NOMA Museum Shop
Small Bites, Cocktails, and Mocktails from Café NOMA
Small bites and drinks will be available for purchase during the evening.
Hands-on Printmaking Activity
Get inspired, get creative! Try your hand at printmaking with designs, colors, and concepts inspired by the exhibition.
More details about this event to be announced soon. Please check this page for updates.

About New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations
The exhibition New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations spotlights the work of four contemporary artists working in cities across West Africa: Chief Ekpenyong Bassey Nsa, Sheku “Goldenfinger” Fofanah, David Sanou, and Hervé Youmbi. The first presentation of its kind, New African Masquerades offers a rare look into contemporary West African masquerade by contextualizing the works of individual artists within a range of social, economic, and religious practices and examining their networks of viewership and exchange.
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About Kumasi
Kumasi is New Orleans’ own full Afrobeat orchestra. We fell in love with a style of music created over 50 years ago by Fela Kuti and Tony Allen, and we bring it to the people of New Orleans with live shows, as well as three recorded albums. You can expect lots of Fela Kuti tunes and some Afrofunk from ’70s Ghana and Benin in our live shows, and we play and record our original music inspired by those styles. Our original songs are primarily of protest, as well as vigilance toward change and collective growth, but composed to make people move, groove, and be inspired.
About Jer’Lisa Devezin
Jer’Lisa J. Devezin is an artist and educator born and raised in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, LA. She earned her BA from Dillard University and MFA from Southern Methodist University. Heavily influenced by her upbringing in the city, Jer’Lisa’s work engages research through a black feminist lens centering identity, sexuality, Black studies, and Southern culture, specifically focusing on New Orleans and socioeconomics.
Thank You to Our Supporters
NOMA at Night is supported in part by grant funds from Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation; and the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council.

Studio KIDS!: Tinker Hatfield (Ages 11–14)
2025-08-09 12:30 - 14:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Join us at the museum on select Saturday mornings for Studio KIDS! youth art-making workshops. We’ll take inspiration from artwork in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden and make our own creations with a teaching artist.
About Studio KIDS!: Tinker Hatfield
In this upcoming Studio KIDS! workshop, students will be introduced to the art and design work of Tinker Hatfield, a designer known for his numerous Air Jordan designs. Students will explore artwork across NOMA’s galleries to find inspiration for their own designs. After discussing the elements and principles of art and design, students will incorporate the artwork at NOMA into their Hatfield-inspired shoe designs. This art education experience is designed for children ages 11-14.
Registration is $30; $25 for members. Advance registration is required and includes all art-making materials.
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Gallery Talk with Thameur Mejri
2025-08-13 12:30 - 13:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Every week, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators, artists, and other special guests. These lively, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view.
This week, join artist Thameur Mejri for a conversation about works in the exhibition Afropolitan: Contemporary African Arts at NOMA, which features Mejri’s 2018 work titled “Untitled (Eroded Grounds).” This talk will be offered at 12:30 pm and 6:00 pm.
Included with museum admission, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.

About Thameur Mejri

Thameur Mejri investigates complexities of human existence by identifying parallels between paradoxical ideas of violence, innocence, guilt and shame. He blurs the boundaries between public and private in an effort to confront individual and collective values, particularly in contemporary Tunisian society. Mejri examines what happens in the painting and through the painting, where indifference bids farewell, and affect becomes activated; it strikes back with force.
He has exhibited widely, including the 13th Cairo Biennial, Cairo, Egypt / Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal / The New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, USA / The Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon, France / N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit, USA / New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, New York, USA / Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) L.I., New York, USA. He also has had solo exhibitions at Jack Bell Gallery, London, UK / Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana / Selma Feriani Gallery, Tunis, Tunisia / B7L9 Art Station. The Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunis, Tunisia / Montague Contemporary, New York, USA / Uitstalling Art Gallery, Genk, Belgium.
Mejri’s graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Tunis, and he is currently teaching at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Nabeul.

Soul-Sip at NOMA
2025-08-13 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-08-20 18:00 - 20:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Wine is among humankind’s oldest beverages. Deeply rooted in human history and culture, affirmed by ancient brewing and distilling pottery, depicted in paintings by great masters, and is a staple in museum social settings.
NOMA presents Soul-Sip, a one-of-a-kind art and wine series that offers a unique blend of relaxation, art appreciation, and wine tasting.
The evening includes gallery tours featuring select wine-related artifacts from NOMA’s permanent collection, guided meditation, a three-wine flight, and small bites from Cafe NOMA.
Food, wine, and meditation kit included.
General Admission $65 | NOMA Members $55
Register Now for August 13 or August 20

Book Club: Rolland Golden: Life, Love, and Art in the French Quarter
2025-08-14 12:00 - 13:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
NOMA’s book club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in the museum’s collection and exhibitions.
It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to participate. In addition to monthly book discussions, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections.
Books are selected in advance and planned according to the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the titles. Selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop, where museum members receive a 10% discount.
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Meetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. For more information or questions, please email programs@noma.org.

About the Book
Rolland Golden: Life, Love, and Art in the French Quarter
by Rolland Golden

In the early twentieth century, the French Quarter had become home to a vibrant community of working artists attracted to the atmosphere, architecture, and colorful individuals who populated the scene (and who also became some of its first preservationists). Louisiana native Rolland Golden was one of these artists to live, work, and raise a family in this most storied corner of New Orleans. With 94 black-and-white and 54 color photographs and illustrations, his memoir of that life focuses on the period of 1955 to 1976. Golden, a painter, discusses the particular challenges of making a living from art, and his story becomes a family affair involving his daughters and his beloved wife, Stella.
Golden’s studio sat in a patio on Royal Street, around the corner from Preservation Hall where old-time musicians played Dixieland Jazz. Golden sketched and painted many of them in a visual style that encompassed realism and gradually developed into abstract realism. Golden recalls work that he did in historic preservation, sketching architecture for publications such as the Vieux Carré Courier, and he discusses his studies with renowned regionalist painter John McCrady. The artist frankly discusses his experiences with the display, representation, and sale of his work, presenting a little-explored and yet crucial part of a working artist’s life. The memoir concludes with Golden and his wife traveling to the premiere of his exhibition in Moscow, having been selected by a Russian envoy as the only American artist to have a one-man touring exhibition in the former Soviet Union. Among the nearly 150 black-and-white and color illustrations are never-before-seen photos and sketches by the artist.

Taylor Scholars Day 2025
2025-08-16 10:00 - 14:00
In partnership with the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation, NOMA presents an annual family day for Taylor Scholars. Students in the Taylor Scholars program and educators across Louisiana are invited to explore the museum and participate in art-making activities throughout the day.
The NOMA Museum Shop will also be offering a free gift with purchase to Taylor Scholars and educators this day.
No registration is required to attend Taylor Scholars Day. Taylor Scholars will receive free admission for themselves and up to four guests for this event.
About Taylor Scholars Day 2025
Activities and Benefits
Scholars will be able to work on a collaborative art piece based on work in the current Nicolas Floc’h exhibition.
Taylor Scholars will receive:

A unique sticker and free admission for themselves and up to 4 guests with Taylor Scholars certificate
A free gift with purchase in the NOMA Museum Shop
A free beverage in Cafe NOMA
A take-home collage kits

Educators will receive:

A rainbow sticker and free admission for themselves and one guest with school ID/proof of educator status
A free gift with purchase in the NOMA Museum Shop

About the Taylor Scholars Awards Program
The Taylor Scholars Awards Program is a statewide program that rewards students in grades 6 through 12 with a GPA of 2.5 or higher with free access to Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, Audubon Zoo, and the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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Gallery Talk with Dapper Bruce Lafitte
2025-08-20 12:30 - 13:00, 2025-08-20 18:00 - 18:30 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Every week, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators, artists, and other special guests. These lively, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view.
This week, join New Orleans artist Dapper Bruce Lafitte for two gallery talks on works in the exhibition Dapper Bruce Lafitte: A Time Before Katrina, currently on view in the Great Hall. These talks will take place at 12:30 pm and 6:00 pm.
Included with museum admission, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.

Elders Sacred Talk Series: Chief Howard Miller and Kamau Wesley Phillips
2025-09-03 17:30 - 18:45
NOMA and the Congo Square Preservation Society present the Elders Sacred Talk Series with prolific elder New Orleanians, celebrating the lives they lead while providing the opportunity for visitors to learn firsthand about the impact they’ve had on our city. This conversation between Chief Howard Miller and Kamau Wesley Phillips will be moderated by Malik Bartholemew.

This program is included with museum admission, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative.

About the Speakers
Chief Howard Miller is chief of the Creole Wild West which is the oldest Mardi Gras Indian tribe in New Orleans whose origins date back to the late 1700s. Chief Miller has been masking as a Mardi Gras Indian since 1969 and first became Chief of the tribe in 1976. He currently serves as president of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian Council which was formed in 1983 in order to unify tribes across the city and to support the culture. As a culture bearer of this sacred tradition, Chief Miller is the leader of The Creole Wild West Youth Program teaching children the art of sewing, chanting, dancing, suit preparation and the meaning of the culture in general. Chief Miller has spoken as a guest lecturer at universities around the nation, some of which include New York University, Georgetown, Harvard, Ohio State University, Louisiana State University, Xavier University and Tulane University as well as numerous public schools and organizations locally in New Orleans. With over his 47 years of involvement in the culture, Chief Miller has grown into a masterful Storyteller and true historian of Mardi Gras Indian tradition.

Kamau Wesley Phillips is New Orleans born and raised. He began playing drums with the Desire Poets after hearing the Last Poets records during the Black Panther movement in the Ninth Ward. Kamau has studied and performed with Kidd Jordan, Sun Ra, Energy Funk Band, Desire Community Choir, Casa Samba, African Dance Groups; Free Spirit, Culu, Nkafu, and Sacred Dance Ministry, and Fiyiyi and the Mandingo Warriors. Kamau is a poet, author, drum maker, teacher, and designer with 50 years as The Ultimate Sideman. In 2013, he wrote and produced The Spirit of the Drum in Senegal, West Africa. In 2017, this production marked his Jazz Fest debut as a band leader.

About Elders Sacred Talks and Art Thrives
NOMA’s Art Thrives initiative presents creative aging programs designed to support visitors ages 55 and up. In addition to art-making workshops, courses, and opportunities for hands-on art-making, the Elders Sacred Talk Series provides a platform for older adults in New Orleans to share their experiences with audiences of all ages.
The Elders Sacred Talk Series is presented in partnership between NOMA and the Congo Square Preservation Society. Art Thrives is supported by E.A. Michelson Philanthropy.

Gallery Talk with Dawn DeDeaux
2025-09-03 18:00 - 18:30 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Every week, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators, artists, and other special guests. These lively, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view.
This week, join artist Dawn DeDeaux for gallery talks on her work Rushed in Near Ten (2015), now on view in the Great Hall. DeDeaux’s talks will take place at 12:30 and 6:00.
Included with museum admission, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.

Culture Collision 15
2025-09-10 17:00 - 20:00
WWNO’s annual Culture Collision event is returning to the New Orleans Museum of Art! Join us at the museum on Wednesday, September 10, from 5 to 8 pm for an evening of learning about and connecting with local arts and culture organizations. More information about this event can be found at culturenola.org.
Culture Collision is free and open to the public. Admission to NOMA is free every Wednesday for Louisiana residents, courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative.
About Culture Collision
Culture Collision is an organization dedicated to fostering all of the nonprofit performing and visual arts organizations in the New Orleans metro-area. For 15 years, we have kicked off the cultural season with a unique happy hour, including the city’s most entertaining organizations. It is our goal to introduce potential audience members, volunteers, patrons and artists to the diverse mix of arts organizations the city has to offer.
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Butterfly Music Series: David Torkanowsky
2025-09-14 14:00 - 15:00 | NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts
Experience part of Super Bowl LIX history and enjoy music played on Suleika Jaouad and Jon Batiste’s custom Yamaha piano on view at NOMA. Batiste performed his moving rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner on this instrument in the Caesars Superdome during the Super Bowl pregame show.
This series celebrates the piano’s residency at NOMA and pays homage to the musical history of New Orleans by inviting New Orleans–based musicians to offer intimate sets in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts, which also features bas-relief murals by Enrique Alférez.
Join us for this installment of the Butterfly Music Series featuring New Orleanian jazz pianist and composer David Torkanowsky.
Attendance is included with museum admission. Preregistration for this event is recommended. Seating is limited and not guaranteed with registration.
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About David Torkanowsky
David Torkanowsky is one of New Orleans’s premier contemporary jazz pianists, composers, and arrangers. “Tork” was born in New Orleans in 1956, the son of classical conductor Werner Torkanowsky and flamenco artist Theresa Torkanowsky. He learned to play piano early on, and was schooled in the ways of New Orleans music by legends such as Danny Barker, David Lastie and Ellis Marsalis. Read more at https://www.wwoz.org/acts/david-torkanowsky
About the Work
For a limited time, NOMA visitors have the unique opportunity to see the custom piano played by acclaimed musical artist Jon Batiste during the Super Bowl LIX pregame show. On view in the museum’s Lapis Center for the Arts, the vibrant and colorful grand piano features a design by artist and bestselling author Suleika Jaouad, who is Batiste’s wife.
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Gallery Talk with Curator Orlando Hernández Ying
2025-09-17 18:00 - 18:30 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Every week, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators, artists, and other special guests. These lively, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view.
This week, join Orlando Hernández Ying, NOMA’s Lapis Curator of the Arts of the Americas, for a gallery talk on Our Lady of Loreto in the newly-reinstalled second floor mezzanine gallery. Learn more about the upcoming Great Hall installation of grand scale Peruvian Vice-Regal paintings, opening September 30th.
This gallery talk will be offered at 12:30 and 6:00 pm the next day. The 6:00pm gallery talk will be followed by a 7:00 pm combined performance and lecture by psalterist Marc Armitano Domingo in the Lapis Center for the Arts, as part of the National Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration.
Included with museum admission, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.

National Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration 2025
2025-09-17 18:00 - 21:00
Celebrate National Hispanic American Heritage Month at NOMA, featuring gallery talks from Lapis Curator of the Art of the Americas Orlando Hernández Ying and a live performance and lecture from Marc Armitano Domingo.
This program is included with museum admission, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. Advanced registration is recommended.
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Program Details
6:00 pm | Gallery Talk with Curator Orlando Hernández Ying
Join Orlando Hernández Ying, NOMA’s Lapis Curator of the Art of the Americas, for a Gallery Talk on Our Lady of Loreto in the newly reinstalled second floor mezzanine gallery. Learn more about the upcoming Great Hall installation of grand scale Peruvian Vice-Regal paintings, opening September 30th.
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7:00 pm | Live Salterio (Psaltery) Performance and Lecture with Marc Armitano Domingo
Musician and researcher Marc Armitano Domingo will perform on the salterio (psaltery), a historical dulcimer instrument. The performance will be interspersed and connected with his lecture titled “The Hispanic Psaltery in the Americas.”
Beverages and Light Bites from Café NOMA
Enjoy specialty cocktails, mocktails and a light bites menu from Café NOMA leading up to Armitano Domingo’s lecture.

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About Marc Armitano Domingo

Marc Armitano Domingo (b. 1996) is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York City, working across oil painting, porcelain, and historical music performance. His visual work delves into sacred and natural themes, rendered through shadowy, atmospheric, and whimsical compositions on copper, linen, and porcelain.
As a leading performer and researcher of the salterio—a historical dulcimer popular in 17th- and 18th-century Spain, Italy, and colonial Latin America—Armitano Domingo focuses on reconstructing both the repertoire and authentic playing techniques. He performs on a replica 18th-century salterio, using special finger rings to pluck the strings rather than hammers.
Across media, his work engages with history and memory whether through nostalgic, tenebrous landscapes, delicate porcelain forms, or the vibrant, resonant sound of the salterio. His practice confronts the cultural amnesia that allows once-important traditions to fade, reclaiming forgotten forms and questioning why they were so readily lost to history.

Book Club: The Underground Railroad
2025-09-18 12:00 - 13:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
NOMA’s book club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in the museum’s collection and exhibitions.
It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to participate. In addition to monthly book discussions, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections.
Books are selected in advance and planned according to the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the titles. Selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop, where museum members receive a 10% discount.
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Meetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. For more information or questions, please email programs@noma.org.

About the Book
The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead

Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.
In Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor—engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city’s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.
Like the protagonist of Gulliver’s Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey—hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre–Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman’s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share.

Fall Festival
2025-09-20 10:00 - 16:00 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
Come out to NOMA’s Fall Festival, a free outdoor festival hosted in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Enjoy live music and performances, art making activities, guided tours featuring highlights from the Besthoff Sculpture Garden, and more.
Free and open to all.

Program Line-Up
ENTERTAINMENT AND ACTIVITIES
Polo Silk Photography Station
DJ Audio Jocks
Move Ya Brass
Dow Dance Company
Da Lovebirds (Robin Barnes and Pat Casey)
Krewe des Fleurs
Party People Face Painting Station
Glitter Ladies Station
NOMA temporary tattoo station

FOOD VENDORS
Dat Dog
Imperial Woodpecker Snowballs
Crêpes à la Cart
Nori Guys
Cochon King BBQ
Café NOMA Bar (drinks only)
La Cocinita Restaurant

COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Broadmoor Improvement Association
Son of a Saint and William Jones
Congo Square Preservation Society
YAYA
New Orleans Public Library (NOPL)
The St. Charles Center for Faith + Action
Middle American Research Institute
Danny Fitzpatrick
Grow Dat Youth Farm
NOMA Creative Assembly

Schedule of Events
10:00 AM | DJ Audio Jocks, Polo Silk photography station, food vendors, and art activities begin
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Move Ya Brass Bounce Class (Oak Grove)
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Docent-led Sculpture Garden Tour
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM | Da Lovebirds performance (Oak Grove)
11:00 AM – 3:00 PM | Pixie Dust Glitter Station opens
11:00 AM – 3:30 PM | Party People Face Painting begins
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Radio Bird Quartet performance (Oak Grove)
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM | Krewe Des Fleurs
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Docent-led Sculpture Garden Tour
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Dow Dance Company performance (Oak Grove)
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM | DJ set

Thank You to Our Sponsors for this Event
Lead Sponsor

Entertainment and Program Sponsors
Howard Family Foundation
Cammie and Charles Mayer

Studio KIDS!: Painting Autumn (Ages 6-10)
2025-09-20 10:30 - 12:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Join us at the museum on select Saturday mornings for Studio KIDS! youth art-making workshops. We’ll take inspiration from artwork in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden and make our own creations with a teaching artist.
Studio KIDS!: Painting Autumn
Celebrate the arrival of autumn with this mixed media art lesson. Students will receive an introduction to watercolor painting, learning three foundational techniques. They will also pull inspiration from nature to create a textural artwork that showcases all they have learned. Families who register are encouraged to enjoy NOMA’s Fall Festival while their children participate in this art making activity.
Registration is $25 for members and $30 for other participants. Advance registration is required and includes the price of all art-making materials.

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Please note that there will be 2 sessions of this workshop offered on September 20th:
Artists ages 6-10 will be welcomed from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm

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Artists ages 11-14 will be welcomed from 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
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