New Orleans Museum of Art

NOMA Book Club Curatorial Program with Lisa Rotondo-McCord
2017-11-01 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Join NOMA staff and 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 2017 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.
Some of the selections for 2017 will relate to the NOLA4WOMEN project.
NOLA4WOMEN takes action through innovative programs to celebrate women and girls, provides a forum to address the challenges they face and promotes a future where they have the opportunity to reach their full potential.
Please contact Sheila A. Cork at 504.658.4117 or scork@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club.

November 2017 Selection
The White Road: Journey into an Obsession by Edmund de Waal
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. ISBN 978-0374289263.
“A gripping blend of history and memoir, by the author of the award-winning and bestselling international sensation, The Hare with the Amber Eyes. In The White Road, de Waal gives us an intimate narrative history of his lifelong obsession with porcelain, or white gold … A potter who has been working with porcelain for more than 40 years, de Waal describes how he set out on five journeys to places where porcelain was dreamed about, refined, collected and coveted.” – Amazon.com
Wednesday, November 1 | Curatorial program with Lisa Rotondo-McCord, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs/Curator of Asian Art
There also will be a separate gathering to discuss the November selection:
Tuesday, November 14 | Book Club Discussion Group

Lecture: "Decoding Contemporary Clay," by Garth Johnson
2017-11-02 18:00 - 19:00
In conjunction with the exhibition Personalities in Clay: American Studio Ceramics from the E. John Bullard Collection, Garth Johnson, curator of ceramics at the renowned Arizona State University Art Museum Ceramics Research Center, will take you on a whirlwind tour of trends in contemporary ceramics, including the use of video, performance, social engagement and “sloppy craft.”
ABOUT GARTH JOHNSON
Writer, curator and educator Garth Johnson is curator of ceramics at the Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe, Arizona, where he oversees their world-renowned collection. Before moving to Tempe, Garth served as the curator of artistic programs at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia and spent seven years as a professor at College of the Redwoods in Eureka, California. He is a self-described craft activist who explores craft’s influence and relevance in the 21st century. He has also exhibited his work and published his writing nationally and internationally.

Movies in the Garden: Sixteen Candles, Preshow music by Sexy Dex and the Fresh
2017-11-03 17:00 - 21:00
Movies in the Garden returns this fall with an All ’80s Flashback series of films! Join us in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden for a screening of the 1984 coming-of-age comedy Sixteen Candles. Sexy Dex and the Fresh will provide preshow entertainment with music inspired by the late musical legend Prince. Food trucks will be parked outside the sculpture garden gates and a bar will be set up in the oak grove near the screen. Wear your raspberry beret, parachute pants, day-glo sweatshirts, and leg warmers for an ’80s-themed costume party. Complimentary birthday cake will be served to celebrate the “Sweet 16” of the movie’s lead character, Samantha Baker. Read more about the fashions, fads, and other cultural touchstones evident in this first “Brat Pack” movie by John Hughes.

5 – 7:30 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table
5:30 – 7:30 pm: Music by Sexy Dex and the Fresh
7:30 pm: Sixteen Candles

FREE to NOMA members | $12.00 adults | $10.00 seniors | $6.00 children (7-12)
• Children 6 and under are free
• University students with valid ID receive $8.00 admission
ABOUT SEXY DEX AND THE FRESH
Sexy Dex and The Fresh are an astonishingly talented New Orleans band imbued with a cosmic vanguard of early ‘80s funk. Known for their veneration of Prince’s “Minneapolis Sound,” the band articulates a futuristic cascade of post-disco, boogie, and electro music elevated by experimentation in synth, sampling, and other effects.
ABOUT SIXTEEN CANDLES
A girl’s “sweet sixteen” birthday becomes anything but special as she suffers from every embarrassment possible. Samantha Baker’s life is going downhill fast. The sixteen-year-old has a crush on the most popular boy in school, and the geekiest boy in school has a crush on her. Her sister’s getting married, and with all the excitement the rest of her family forgets her birthday! Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, and Michael Schoeffler star in this fun romp through the perils of being a teenager in the 1980s. (Rated PG | 1 hour, 33 minutes | Watch the original trailer. )
Sixteen Candles debuted two months prior to the creation of a PG-13 rating by the Motion Picture Association of America. This film contains sexual references, profanity, some nudity, and teen drinking. Parental discretion is advised.
Movies in the Garden, part of Friday Nights at NOMA programming, 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.

Noontime Talk: East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography with Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper
2017-11-08 12:00 - 13:00
Join Mellon Foundation Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper for a tour of the exhibition East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography. The photographs represent the first exhibition solely devoted to nineteenth-century photograph in the eastern half of the United States. Noontime Talks are brief, casual discussions on exhibitions or works of art in the galleries given by NOMA curators and special guests. For more information, call (504) 658.4100. Wednesdays are FREE for Louisiana residents with ID thanks to The Helis Foundation.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Blato Zlato | Lecture: “Past and Present Landscapes of the Mississippi Delta” with Dr. Elizabeth Chamberlain
2017-11-10 17:00 - 21:00
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.

5 – 7:30 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table
5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Blato Zlato
6:30 – 8 pm: Create Late
7 pm: “Past and Present Landscapes of the Mississippi Delta” with Dr. Elizabeth Chamberlain, department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University

ABOUT BLATO ZLATO
Blato Zlato (“Swamp Gold” in Bulgarian) is a New Orleans-based Balkan band featuring dreamy three-part vocal harmonies and hard-hitting instrumentals. Formed in 2015, the band performs folk and composed music from the Balkans and Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on Bulgarian songs and dark, improvisational arrangements. Their debut album, Swamp Gold, was released in January 2017 and features traditional Bulgarian and Eastern European melodies interpreted through languid, dark arrangements and improvisational continuous transitions.
ABOUT CREATE LATE
Exclusively 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. Reserve your space now!
ABOUT ELIZABETH CHAMBERLAIN

Southern Louisiana features a dynamic deltaic landscape crafted by the Mississippi River and the various groups of people who have inhabited and modified its banks. This talk, which is presented in collaboration with the exhibition East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography, provides an overview of the coupled human and natural history of the Mississippi Delta.
Elizabeth L. Chamberlain is native to southeastern Wisconsin and has been a longtime resident of Louisiana. She holds a PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences from Tulane University, where she studied under Torbjörn E. Törnqvist. As a doctoral student, Chamberlain traveled extensively, conducting internships at the University of Liverpool, UK, and at the Netherlands Centre for Luminescence Dating. She has also participated in field campaigns in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghan delta of Bangladesh, and has led and contributed to numerous field campaigns in the Mississippi Delta and Lower Mississippi River Valley. Her work focuses on the complex relationships between humans and natural landscapes, with a focus on how people can adapt and persist in places such as the Mississippi Delta.
Friday 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.

Create Late
2017-11-10 18:30 - 20:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Exclusively 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. Reserve your space now!
Friday, November 10 | SOLD OUT! Waiting list available.
6:30 – 8 p.m.
Calligraphy 101 | Back by popular demand! Don’t forget to cross your Ts and dot your Is! Practice your penmanship in this introductory calligraphy workshop.
NOMA Members | $25
Nonmembers | $30
Price includes materials, wine, and access to Friday Nights at NOMA programming.
Contact education@noma.org or 504.658.4100 to reserve your space today! Reservations close at 4 pm the day of each workshop.

Studio KIDS!
2017-11-11 10:00 - 12:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Get Creative with Studio KIDS!
This Fall, Studio KIDS! presents Art 101 for young artists. Perfect for students ages 5-10 who want to get creative and build up their artistic skills. In each class, Studio KIDS! explores art made by diverse cultures as inspiration for art projects. From sculpting to painting, each class features different media and techniques. Register for one class or the entire series. Make sure to sign up in advance to ensure your spot.
Call 504.658.4100 or email education@noma.org to register or for more information.
Ages 5 – 10 | 10 am – 12 pm
November 11
Acrylic Painting 101 | Go Wild SOLD OUT! Waiting list is available.
Discover wild animals in the galleries then create your own wildlife painting in the studio.
Cost per class:
$25 | members
$30 | nonmembers
Full schedule can be found here.

Baby Artsplay! at NOMA
2017-11-11 10:30 - 11:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Baby Artsplay! at NOMA
Instill a love of art at a young age through a guided, hands-on gallery experience. Young Audiences Wolf Trap teaching artists will present a series of 6 workshops for caregivers and children ages 0-3. Learn how to integrate music, movement, and drama into everyday playtime to foster children’s developmental growth.
Saturdays at 10:30 am

This free 6-part workshop series provides engaging arts based activities designed to instruct caregivers on how to use the arts at home to promote early learning.
November 11 | Workshop 1 – My 5 Senses (sensory play)
Space is limited. Register today: www.yabap.eventbrite.com
Ideal for ages 0-3.
Contact education@noma.org or 504-658-4128 if you have any questions.
About Young Audiences
For over 50 years, Young Audiences of Louisiana has operated arts in education programs that promote academic excellence and social growth through the arts. Studies have shown that students enrolled in Young Audiences programs outperformed their peers on standardized tests, exhibited fewer disciplinary issues, and had increased school attendance.
About Wolf Trap Institute
Young Audiences / Louisiana Wolf Trap has been an affiliate of The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts since 2010. The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, a program of the Wolf Trap Foundation, was established in 1981 under a grant from the Head Start Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services serving children birth through kindergarten. The goal of the Institute is to provide early childhood educators with professional development training in the use of performing arts techniques within educational curriculum goals and outcomes for young children. The infusion of arts-based techniques into daily routines provides powerful teaching strategies that can be used to enhance all areas of development, including emergent literacy, self-esteem and socialization, problem solving, receptive and expressive language, motor skills and self-regulation, science and math, conceptualization, and creativity, in order to provide a solid foundation for all future learning.

StoryQuest @ the New Orleans Book Festival
2017-11-11 14:00 - 14:30 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Spark imagination, creativity, and a love of reading. Professional authors, actors and artists bring the world of children’s literature to NOMA in this family program. Family activities are offered after each StoryQuest to encourage museum exploration.
Saturday, November 11: Hats
Special location & time! Join us at 2 pm in City Park at the New Orleans Book Festival.
Ideal for ages 2-7. No registration is necessary. StoryQuest is included with museum admission.
Find the full schedule here. Contact 504-658-4100 or education@noma.org with questions.
Major support for StoryQuest is provided by the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation.

David Lynch Film Retrospective | David Lynch: The Art of Life
2017-11-11 14:00 - 16:00
In this five-film retrospective on select Saturdays in November and December, NOMA invites audiences to look back at Lynch’s on-screen creations and consider his early artistic influences. (All films are free to members; standard museum admission applies to non-members.)
ABOUT DAVID LYNCH: THE ART OF LIFE
Setting the stage for the films to follow, David Lynch takes viewers on an intimate journey through the formative years of his life in this intimate documentary. From his idyllic upbringing in small town America to the dark streets of Philadelphia, viewers follow Lynch as he traces the events that have helped to shape one of cinema’s most enigmatic directors. David Lynch: The Art Life infuses Lynch’s own art, music and early films, shining a light into the dark corners of his unique world, giving audiences a better understanding of the man and the artist. (2016 | 1 hour, 28 minutes | Watch the trailer)

NOMA Book Club Discussion Group
2017-11-14 11:30 - 13:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Join NOMA staff and 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 2017 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.
Some of the selections for 2017 will relate to the NOLA4WOMEN project.
NOLA4WOMEN takes action through innovative programs to celebrate women and girls, provides a forum to address the challenges they face and promotes a future where they have the opportunity to reach their full potential.
Please contact Sheila A. Cork at 504.658.4117 or scork@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club.

November 2017 Selection
The White Road: Journey into an Obsession by Edmund de Waal
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. ISBN 978-0374289263.
“A gripping blend of history and memoir, by the author of the award-winning and bestselling international sensation, The Hare with the Amber Eyes. In The White Road, de Waal gives us an intimate narrative history of his lifelong obsession with porcelain, or white gold … A potter who has been working with porcelain for more than 40 years, de Waal describes how he set out on five journeys to places where porcelain was dreamed about, refined, collected and coveted.” – Amazon.com
Tuesday, November 14 | Book Club Discussion Group

Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Reed Turchi | Lecture: "Japanese Ceramics Tomorrow” with Joe Earle
2017-11-17 17:00 - 21:00
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.

5-7:30 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table
5:30-8:30 pm: Music by Reed Turchi
6:30 pm: “Japanese Ceramics Tomorrow,” lecture by Joe Earle

ABOUT REED TURCHI
Raised in the Swannanoa Valley outside of Asheville, North Carolina, Reed Turchi grew up playing piano, focusing on boogie woogie and New Orleans styles before becoming infatuated with slide guitar. While learning Hill Country Blues firsthand in North Mississippi, he founded his blues-rock trio TURCHI, which released its debut album Road Ends in Water in 2012. Five years and six albums later, after touring extensively and experimenting with a variety of styles, Turchi has returned to the music that led him to take up guitar. His newest album, Tallahatchie, is stripped of studio tricks, with songs presented simply: a slide, a voice, an acoustic guitar, and a wooden chair on a wooden floor.
ABOUT JOE EARLE
Using examples from the Kurt Gitter and Alice Yelen collection of contemporary Japanese ceramics on view in New Forms, New Voices, as well as others by emerging artists, all of them made during the present century, Joe Earle will show how the art form has reached an interesting point of development. As the time-worn narratives of “innovation within tradition” and “Japaneseness versus Westernness” recede into insignificance, it becomes easier for scholars to look at these works from a more global perspective.
Joe Earle was Director of Japan Society Gallery in New York from 2007 to 2012 and has held leadership positions in Asian art departments at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Now based in London, he works as Senior Consultant for Bonhams auction house in the U.K. and U.S. He has also revived his former career as a prolific author of Japanese art catalogues, with no fewer than six titles due to be published this year alone.
Friday 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.

Studio KIDS!
2017-11-18 10:00 - 12:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Get Creative with Studio KIDS!
This Fall, Studio KIDS! presents Art 101 for young artists. Perfect for students ages 5-10 who want to get creative and build up their artistic skills. In each class, Studio KIDS! explores art made by diverse cultures as inspiration for art projects. From sculpting to painting, each class features different media and techniques. Register for one class or the entire series. Make sure to sign up in advance to ensure your spot.
Call 504.658.4100 or email education@noma.org to register or for more information.
Ages 5 – 10 | 10 am – 12 pm
November 18 SOLD OUT! Waiting list is available.
Collage 101 | New Orleans & the River
Create a collage of images to create a composition inspired by the Mississippi River.
Cost per class:
$25 | members
$30 | nonmembers
Full schedule can be found here.

Baby Artsplay! at NOMA
2017-11-18 10:30 - 11:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Baby Artsplay! at NOMA
Instill a love of art at a young age through a guided, hands-on gallery experience. Young Audiences Wolf Trap teaching artists will present a series of 6 workshops for caregivers and children ages 0-3. Learn how to integrate music, movement, and drama into everyday playtime to foster children’s developmental growth.
Saturdays at 10:30 am

This free 6-part workshop series provides engaging arts based activities designed to instruct caregivers on how to use the arts at home to promote early learning.
November 18 | Workshop 2 – Baby Says…(language development)
Space is limited. Register today: www.yabap.eventbrite.com
Ideal for ages 0-3.
Contact education@noma.org or 504-658-4128 if you have any questions.
About Young Audiences
For over 50 years, Young Audiences of Louisiana has operated arts in education programs that promote academic excellence and social growth through the arts. Studies have shown that students enrolled in Young Audiences programs outperformed their peers on standardized tests, exhibited fewer disciplinary issues, and had increased school attendance.
About Wolf Trap Institute
Young Audiences / Louisiana Wolf Trap has been an affiliate of The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts since 2010. The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, a program of the Wolf Trap Foundation, was established in 1981 under a grant from the Head Start Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services serving children birth through kindergarten. The goal of the Institute is to provide early childhood educators with professional development training in the use of performing arts techniques within educational curriculum goals and outcomes for young children. The infusion of arts-based techniques into daily routines provides powerful teaching strategies that can be used to enhance all areas of development, including emergent literacy, self-esteem and socialization, problem solving, receptive and expressive language, motor skills and self-regulation, science and math, conceptualization, and creativity, in order to provide a solid foundation for all future learning.

Prospect.4: The Lotus In Spite of the Swamp Opening Weekend Celebration
2017-11-18 14:00 - 17:00
Prospect New Orleans is a citywide triennial of contemporary art in New Orleans. Emphasizing collaborative partnerships, Prospect presents the work of diverse local, national, and international artists in unique and culturally exceptional venues, creating an optimistic cartography through the education and engagement of residents and visitors. NOMA will showcase works by six artists: Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Barkley L. Hendricks, Dawit L. Petros, Xaviera Simmons, Gauri Gill, and Rajesh Vangad. Prospect.4 is themed “The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp,” and the triennial will run from November 18, 2017, through February 25, 2018.
The opening weekend will include the following gallery talks at NOMA on Saturday, November 18:

2 pm: Welcome by Prospect.4 Artistic Director Trevor Schoonmaker in the Great Hall, followed by a Gallery Talk by NOMA Curator Katie Pfohl and Filipa Oliveira, P.4 Artistic Director’s Council, with artists Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Xaviera Simmons in the Modern and Contemporary Galleries
3 pm: Gallery Talk by NOMA Curator Russell Lord with artist Dawit Petros in the Photography Galleries

ABOUT NJIDEKA AKUNYILI CROSBY
Nijideka Akunyili Crosby was born in Enugu, Nigeria in 1983 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She was one of Financial Times’ 2016 Women of the Year, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Future Generation Art Prize. She is the recipient of the Prix Canson Prize, 2016, Foreign Policy’s Leading 100 Global Thinkers of 2015, the New Museum’s Next Generation Prize, 2015, the Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize, 2015, and the Smithsonian’s James Dicke Contemporary Art Prize, 2014. Recent solo exhibitions include I Refuse to be Invisible, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach (2016) and The Beautyful Ones, Art + Practice, Los Angeles (2015), staged concurrently with a solo presentation at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2015). Akunyili Crosby has recently displayed work at institutional venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2016); the New Museum, New York (2015); and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2014). Her work is in the collections of the Yale University Art Gallery, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, The Norton Museum of Art, Zeitz MOCAA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
ABOUT XAVIERA SIMMONS
Xaviera Simmons’ work spans photography, performance, video, sound, sculpture and installation. She defines her studio practice, which is rooted in an ongoing investigation of experience, memory, abstraction, present and future histories—specifically shifting notions surrounding landscape—as cyclical rather than linear. Simmons is committed equally to the examination of different artistic modes and processes. Simmons received her BFA from Bard College (2004) after spending two years on a walking pilgrimage retracing the Transatlantic slave trade with Buddhist monks. She completed the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in Studio Art (2005) while simultaneously completing a two-year actor-training conservatory with The Maggie Flanigan Studio. In 2015, Simmons was awarded the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (Robert Rauschenberg) Grant. Simmons has exhibited nationally and internationally where major exhibitions and performances include The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; The Public Art Fund; The Sculpture Center; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; and the Brooklyn Museum, among many others. Her works are in major museum and private collections including The Nasher Museum, Deutsche Bank, The Rubell Family Collection, UBS, The Guggenheim Museum, The Agnes Gund Art Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Studio Museum in Harlem, ICA Miami, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Perez Art Museum in Miami, and David Castillo Gallery.
ABOUT DAWIT PETROS
Born in Asmara, Eritrea, Dawit Petros lives and works Montreal, Chicago, and New York. He investigates boundaries in artistic, geographical, and cultural contexts. His practice centers around a critical rereading of the relationship between African and European modernisms. His current research investigates historical and contemporary narratives of mobility. Petros studied art as a Fulbright Fellow at Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; photography at Concordia University, Montreal, and history at The University of Saskatchewan. Recent exhibition venues include The Kansas City Art Institute’s H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City; Huis Marseille Museum of Photography, Amsterdam; The Kennedy Museum of Art at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio; and The Studio Museum in Harlem. He has been awarded an Independent Study Fellowship at the Whitney Museum of American Art, an Art Matters Fellowship, and Canada Council for the Arts Production Grants. His works are in institutional collections including The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Royal Ontario Museum of Art, and the Saskatchewan Arts Board.
ABOUT TREVOR SCHOONMAKER
Prospect.4 Artistic Director Trevor Schoonmaker, Chief Curator and Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Curator of Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, has selected 73 local, national, and international, artists that will present their work throughout New Orleans for Prospect.4. The triennial will continue the organization’s tradition of showcasing the work of artists from around the globe. Taking into consideration the 300th anniversary of New Orleans’s founding and the city’s strategic location on the Gulf of Mexico, P.4 will direct its focus southward, placing greater emphasis on art and artists that engage the Global South, specifically from North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and the European powers that colonized these regions.

Studio KIDS! Holiday Workshops
2017-11-21 09:30 - 12:30 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Explore your artistic side this holiday season! NOMA offers 3 single-day Studio KIDS! Holiday Workshops to engage young artists in the creative process. Students will explore works of art in the museum galleries and get creative in the studio.
Call 504-658-4128 or email education@noma.org to register or for more information.
9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Price per class: $30 members / $35 nonmembers
Thursday, November 21 SOLD OUT! Waiting list is available.
Monumental Collages
Ages 5-10
Inspired by Robert Rauschenberg, tell your own story by creating a large mixed media collage.
Full schedule can be found here.

Closed for Thanksgiving
2017-11-23 10:00 - 18:00
In observance of Thanksgiving, NOMA will be closed on Thursday, November 23. Please visit us for the remainder of the holiday weekend from November 24-26.

No Friday Nights at NOMA
2017-11-24 17:00 - 21:00
Friday Nights at NOMA will not be held on November 24 following Thanksgiving Day.

Baby Artsplay! at NOMA
2017-11-25 10:30 - 11:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Baby Artsplay! at NOMA
Instill a love of art at a young age through a guided, hands-on gallery experience. Young Audiences Wolf Trap teaching artists will present a series of 6 workshops for caregivers and children ages 0-3. Learn how to integrate music, movement, and drama into everyday playtime to foster children’s developmental growth.
Saturdays at 10:30 am

This free 6-part workshop series provides engaging arts based activities designed to instruct caregivers on how to use the arts at home to promote early learning.
November 25 | Workshop 3 – My Body (learning body parts)
Space is limited. Register today: www.yabap.eventbrite.com
Ideal for ages 0-3.
Contact education@noma.org or 504-658-4128 if you have any questions.
About Young Audiences
For over 50 years, Young Audiences of Louisiana has operated arts in education programs that promote academic excellence and social growth through the arts. Studies have shown that students enrolled in Young Audiences programs outperformed their peers on standardized tests, exhibited fewer disciplinary issues, and had increased school attendance.
About Wolf Trap Institute
Young Audiences / Louisiana Wolf Trap has been an affiliate of The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts since 2010. The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, a program of the Wolf Trap Foundation, was established in 1981 under a grant from the Head Start Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services serving children birth through kindergarten. The goal of the Institute is to provide early childhood educators with professional development training in the use of performing arts techniques within educational curriculum goals and outcomes for young children. The infusion of arts-based techniques into daily routines provides powerful teaching strategies that can be used to enhance all areas of development, including emergent literacy, self-esteem and socialization, problem solving, receptive and expressive language, motor skills and self-regulation, science and math, conceptualization, and creativity, in order to provide a solid foundation for all future learning.

StoryQuest
2017-11-25 11:00 - 11:30 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Spark imagination, creativity, and a love of reading. Professional authors, actors and artists bring the world of children’s literature to NOMA in this family program. Family activities are offered after each StoryQuest to encourage museum exploration.
Saturday, November 25: Forest
Ideal for ages 2-7. No registration is necessary. StoryQuest is included with museum admission.
Find the full schedule here. Contact 504-658-4100 or education@noma.org with questions.
Major support for StoryQuest is provided by the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation.

David Lynch Film Retrospective | Eraserhead
2017-11-25 14:00 - 16:00
In this five-film retrospective on select Saturdays in November and December, NOMA invites audiences to look back at David Lynch’s on-screen creations and consider his early artistic influences. (All films are free to members; standard museum admission applies to non-members.)
ABOUT ERASERHEAD
Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child in David Lynch’s big-screen writing and directing debut. The film, starring Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, defies conventional logic and storytelling, fueled by its dark nightmarish atmosphere and compellingly disturbing visuals. (1977 | Not rated | 1 hour, 29 minutes | Watch the trailer)

Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by the Underground Railroad Freedom Singers | Lecture: “Navigating Rivers and Music East of the Mississippi” with Nick Spitzer and Captain Doc Hawley
2017-12-01 17:00 - 21:00
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.

5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table
5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Underground Railroad Freedom Singers
7 pm: “Navigating Rivers and Music East of the Mississippi” with Nick Spitzer and Captain Doc Hawley

ABOUT THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM SINGERS
Started by National Park rangers Matt Hampsey and well-known local musician Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes, the Freedom Singers perform traditional spirituals that enslaved people sang in America in the early to mid-1800s, many of which were revived 100 years later and adopted by civil rights activists.
ABOUT NICK SPITZER AND CAPTAIN DOC HAWLEY
Nick Spitzer, the producer and host of the radio program American Routes, is a folklorist and a professor of anthropology and American studies at Tulane University. Nick specializes in American music and the cultures of the Gulf South, and received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Texas in 1986 with his dissertation on zydeco music and Afro-French Louisiana culture and identities.As Louisiana State Folklorist (1978-85), he created films, festivals, exhibits and recordings of regional music, and co-produced a 90-minute Folk Festival USA special on Louisiana music for NPR, helping to bring Cajun music and zydeco to national visibility. His work continued at the Smithsonian, where he curated folk festival programs and directed or served as commentator in films about American music, including Great Performances, broadcast on PBS and the Discovery Channel. He has also served on the boards of the Fund for Folk Culture and the National Council for the Traditional Arts.
The original “Master of the Steamboat Natchez”—New Orleans’ only steamboat— Captain Clarke C. (Doc) Hawley, was awarded the River Legend Award as part of the Seamen’s Church Institute’s 2013 River Bell Awards. The award celebrated Captain Hawley as the “Pied Piper” of the French Quarter. During the course of his long river career, Captain Hawley has served as master of three out of five remaining Mississippi River steamboats, including the Steamboat Natchez—the last authentic steamboat on the Mississippi River. Although Captain Hawley retired in 1995, he continues to serve the Steamboat Natchez as a calliope player.
Friday 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.

Baby Artsplay! at NOMA
2017-12-02 10:30 - 11:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Baby Artsplay! at NOMA
Instill a love of art at a young age through a guided, hands-on gallery experience. Young Audiences Wolf Trap teaching artists will present a series of 6 workshops for caregivers and children ages 0-3. Learn how to integrate music, movement, and drama into everyday playtime to foster children’s developmental growth.
Saturdays at 10:30 am

This free 6-part workshop series provides engaging arts based activities designed to instruct caregivers on how to use the arts at home to promote early learning.
December 2 | Workshop 4 – Let’s Move! (movement)
Space is limited. Register today: www.yabap.eventbrite.com
Ideal for ages 0-3.
Contact education@noma.org or 504-658-4128 if you have any questions.
About Young Audiences
For over 50 years, Young Audiences of Louisiana has operated arts in education programs that promote academic excellence and social growth through the arts. Studies have shown that students enrolled in Young Audiences programs outperformed their peers on standardized tests, exhibited fewer disciplinary issues, and had increased school attendance.
About Wolf Trap Institute
Young Audiences / Louisiana Wolf Trap has been an affiliate of The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts since 2010. The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, a program of the Wolf Trap Foundation, was established in 1981 under a grant from the Head Start Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services serving children birth through kindergarten. The goal of the Institute is to provide early childhood educators with professional development training in the use of performing arts techniques within educational curriculum goals and outcomes for young children. The infusion of arts-based techniques into daily routines provides powerful teaching strategies that can be used to enhance all areas of development, including emergent literacy, self-esteem and socialization, problem solving, receptive and expressive language, motor skills and self-regulation, science and math, conceptualization, and creativity, in order to provide a solid foundation for all future learning.

Sculpture Garden Tour
2017-12-02 12:00 - 13:00
Join NOMA’s docents for a free guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Saturdays at noon through mid-December. Sited on five acres adjacent to the museum, the garden contains more than 60 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, and Robert Indiana, among others. Meet at the gates to the garden, which offers free admission year-round.

David Lynch Film Retrospective: Blue Velvet
2017-12-02 14:00 - 16:00
In this five-film retrospective on select Saturdays in November and December, NOMA invites audiences to look back at David Lynch’s on-screen creations and consider his early artistic influences. (All films are free to members; standard museum admission applies to non-members.)
ABOUT BLUE VELVET
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child. Blue Velvet blends psychological horror with film noir and stars Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper and Laura Dern. Lynch has called it a “film about things that are hidden—within a small city and within people.”

Noontime Talk: East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography with Curator Russell Lord
2017-12-06 12:00 - 13:00
Join Curator Russell Lord on a tour of East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography with an emphasis on the business of being a photographer. East of the Mississippi marks the first exhibition of nineteenth-century photography from the eastern half of the United States. Noontime Talks are brief, casual discussions on exhibitions or works of art in the galleries given by NOMA curators and special guests. For more information, call (504) 658.4100. Wednesdays are FREE for Louisiana residents with ID thanks to The Helis Foundation.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Marcus Akinlana | Lecture: “Improving Nature: Image Manipulation in Nineteenth-Century Photography,” by France Scully Osterman and Mark Osterman
2017-12-08 17:00 - 21:00
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.

5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table
5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Marcus Akinlana
6:30 – 8 pm: Create Late: Black and White (charcoal still life)
7 pm: “Improving Nature: Image Manipulation in Nineteenth-Century Photography,” a lecture by France Scully Osterman and Mark Osterman

ABOUT MARCUS AKINLANA
Marcus Akinlana is an artist, traditional African Sango priest, martial arts instructor and drummer. He lives in New Orleans, where he co-runs Positive Creations Fine Arts and WON Mural Society with his wife Fatu Akinlana, two art companies both founded in the 1980s. He has also cofounded Ile Eko Asa Yoruba Ni New Orleans, a study institute for traditional African culture and spirituality. In 2012, Akinlana also founded Avalanche JA Self Defense and Combat School, a martial arts training academy. Akinlana is a professional drummer and now combines his visual arts with music.
ABOUT FRANCE SCULLY OSTERMAN AND MARK OSTERMAN

France Scully Osterman is an artist-educator and lecturer at Scully & Osterman Studio and guest scholar at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, both in Rochester, New York. She has received glowing reviews of her “Sleep” exhibit in Art in America, Paris Photo Magazine, and the Village Voice. France is recognized for her extensive knowledge of early photographic processes including photogenic drawings, wet-plate and dry-plate collodion, albumen, and salt print methods. She gives lectures and workshops at museums and universities and teaches in her nineteenth-century skylight studio.

Mark Osterman is Photographic Process Historian at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film. He teaches the technical evolution of photography from Niepce heliographs to making gelatin emulsions. As an artist, his series “Confidence,” based on a traveling medicine show he performed for twenty years, received high praise in Photo Review, After Image, and Zoom magazines. Osterman’s most recent writings on the subject of early photographic processes include the nineteenth-century chapter for the Focal Encyclopedia of Photography . He began research in historic photographic processes while attending the Kansas City Art Institute in the 1970s.
Friday 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.

Create Late
2017-12-08 18:30 - 20:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Exclusively 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. Reserve your space now!
Friday, December 8
6:30 – 8 p.m.
Black & White | Develop your drawing skills by creating a still life using charcoal pencils.
NOMA Members | $25
Nonmembers | $30
Price includes materials, wine, and access to Friday Nights at NOMA programming.
Contact education@noma.org or 504.658.4100 to reserve your space today! Reservations close at 4 pm the day of each workshop.

Studio KIDS!
2017-12-09 10:00 - 12:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Get Creative with Studio KIDS!
This Fall, Studio KIDS! presents Art 101 for young artists. Perfect for students ages 5-10 who want to get creative and build up their artistic skills. In each class, Studio KIDS! explores art made by diverse cultures as inspiration for art projects. From sculpting to painting, each class features different media and techniques. Register for one class or the entire series. Make sure to sign up in advance to ensure your spot.
Call 504.658.4100 or email education@noma.org to register or for more information.
Ages 5 – 10 | 10 am – 12 pm
December 9 SOLD OUT! Waiting list is available.
Ceramics 101 | Bodacious Boats
Explore the ancient Egyptian boat figures before creating your own ceramic ship.
Cost per class:
$25 | members
$30 | nonmembers
Full schedule can be found here.

Baby Artsplay! at NOMA
2017-12-09 10:30 - 11:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Baby Artsplay! at NOMA
Instill a love of art at a young age through a guided, hands-on gallery experience. Young Audiences Wolf Trap teaching artists will present a series of 6 workshops for caregivers and children ages 0-3. Learn how to integrate music, movement, and drama into everyday playtime to foster children’s developmental growth.
Saturdays at 10:30 am

This free 6-part workshop series provides engaging arts based activities designed to instruct caregivers on how to use the arts at home to promote early learning.
December 9 | Workshop 5 – Up, Down & All Around (spatial awareness)
Space is limited. Register today: www.yabap.eventbrite.com
Ideal for ages 0-3.
Contact education@noma.org or 504-658-4128 if you have any questions.
About Young Audiences
For over 50 years, Young Audiences of Louisiana has operated arts in education programs that promote academic excellence and social growth through the arts. Studies have shown that students enrolled in Young Audiences programs outperformed their peers on standardized tests, exhibited fewer disciplinary issues, and had increased school attendance.
About Wolf Trap Institute
Young Audiences / Louisiana Wolf Trap has been an affiliate of The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts since 2010. The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, a program of the Wolf Trap Foundation, was established in 1981 under a grant from the Head Start Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services serving children birth through kindergarten. The goal of the Institute is to provide early childhood educators with professional development training in the use of performing arts techniques within educational curriculum goals and outcomes for young children. The infusion of arts-based techniques into daily routines provides powerful teaching strategies that can be used to enhance all areas of development, including emergent literacy, self-esteem and socialization, problem solving, receptive and expressive language, motor skills and self-regulation, science and math, conceptualization, and creativity, in order to provide a solid foundation for all future learning.
