New Orleans Museum of Art

Studio KIDS!
2019-12-07 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago)
Get Creative with Studio KIDS
This fall, Studio KIDS presents “Text and Textures” art classes for kids on select Saturday mornings from 10 am to noon. Perfect for students ages 5-10 who want to get creative and learn art-making techniques. Studio KIDS explore art in NOMA’s galleries or the Besthoff Sculpture Garden as inspiration for an art project they complete in each session.
Each class features different media and techniques. Register for one class or the entire series. Please register in advance to ensure your spot.
Call 504-658-4128 or email education@noma.org for more information.
Cost per class: $25 members | $30 nonmembers
December 7 | Pen and Zen: Zentangles are pen drawings made from one continuous line. Have fun with pen and ink and learn this relaxing process.
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Besthoff Sculpture Garden Tour
2019-12-06 12:00 - 13:00, 2019-11-01 12:00 - 13:00
Join NOMA’s docents for a free guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Mondays, Fridays, and Saturdays, weather dependent, at noon. (Call 504.658.4153 to verify.) Sited on twelve acres adjacent to the museum, the garden contains more than ninety works by renowned sculptors placed among a picturesque mature grove of pine, magnolia, and moss-draped live oak trees bisected by a lagoon. Represented sculptors include Pierre Auguste Renoir, Rene Magritte, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, George Rodrigue, and Robert Indiana, among others. Meet at the gates to the garden, which offers free admission year-round.

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

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

Museum Highlights Tour
2019-12-01 13:00 - 14:00, 2019-11-01 13:00 - 14:00
NOMA docents guide visitors on hour-long tours of either the permanent collection or special exhibitions. Tours are free with NOMA admission. Meet in the Great Hall to join in.
Special group tours can be arranged with two-weeks advance notice. Call Tracy Kennan, Curator of Education, at 504.658.4113.

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

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

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

Friday Nights at NOMA: Inventing Acadia and Passage lectures and gallery talks
2019-11-22 17:00 - 21:00
Friday Nights at NOMA features an exciting lineup of programs in 2019: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries, the Museum Shop, and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm.
5 – 8 pm | Art on the Spot drop-in activity table
5:30 pm | Gallery Talk with Southerly Gold
5:30 – 8:30 pm | Music by Gina Forsyth and Friends
6 pm | Acadia Revisited, a lecture by Curator Katie Pfohl upon the opening of Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana
7:30 pm | Gallery Talk with Regina Agu on Passage, an installation in the Great Hall
ABOUT SOUTHERLY GOLD
In conjunction with the exhibition Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana, an ensemble of photographers known as Southerly Gold will present an installation titled Land of Evangeline: Reconstructed in the Evelyn L. Burkenroad Creative Concept Studio that revisits many of the locations in south Louisiana painted by landscape artists in the nineteenth-century. Formed in 2011, Southerly Gold consists of Aubrey Edwards, Ariya Martin, and Elena Ricci. The three women will present contemporary photographs of Louisiana’s ever-changing terrain.
ABOUT INVENTING ACADIA: PAINTING AND PLACE IN LOUISIANA
Curator Katie Pfohl will deliver a keynote talk upon the opening of Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana. This marks the first major exhibition featuring Louisiana landscape painting in more than forty years. Exploring the rise of landscape painting in Louisiana during the nineteenth century, Inventing Acadia reveals Louisiana’s role in creating—and exporting—a new vision for American landscape painting that was vastly different from that found in the rest of the United States.
ABOUT REGINA AGU AND PASSAGE
Artist Regina Agu will discuss Passage, her installation for the Great Hall that examines contemporary Louisiana landscapes. Through a partnership between NOMA and A Studio in the Woods, Agu spent time in residence in Louisiana, revisiting many of the sites painted in the 19th-century century by artists in Inventing Acadia. Through a dynamic installation of printed material that will drape, fold, and move through the Great Hall, Agu will combine these historical reference points with present-day landscape imagery from the region.
ABOUT GINA FORSYTH
New Orleans-based Gina Forsyth is an award-winning singer/songwriter, who is known for her wizardry on fiddle and guitar. With an alto as unique as it is soulful, unpretentious songs that cut straight to the heart, and a wicked sense of humor, her live performances are legend. Considered one of the best Cajun fiddlers in Louisiana (no small feat), Gina is in demand from other great Louisiana musicians to play club gigs and festivals, some of the same talent that backs her up when she plays as Gina Forsyth and Friends.
Friday Nights at NOMA is presented by The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate and supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation; and the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council.

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

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

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

Click Here to See Photos from Odyssey 2018

Please Join 2019 Chairs
Anne and Edmund Redd
Rupa and Tarun Jolly
NOMA Volunteer Committee Chair
Jennifer Heebe

Patron Party: Friday, November 15 | 7 pm – Midnight
Gala: Friday, November 15 | 8 pm – Midnight
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Sponsorship Levels and Benefits
$10,000 LUMIÉRE

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

$5,000 BON AMI

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

$4,000 JOIE DE VIVRE

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

$2,500 BON TEMPS

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

Ticket Levels and Benefits

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

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

$500 PATRON TICKET – Individual | 7 pm onward

1 Odyssey Patron ticket
Website and program listing

$300 GALA TICKET | 8 pm onward

1 Odyssey ticket

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

1 Odyssey Patron ticket with website and program listing

Current as of 11/18/19

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

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

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

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

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

Gallery Talk: Tina Freeman: Lamentations with Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper
2019-11-13 12:00 - 13:00
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join Brian Piper, Mellon Fellow for Photography, for a discussion about the exhibition Tina Freeman: Lamentations, a seven-year photo-documentation of Louisiana’s wetlands and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic by Tina Freeman.
Image: 20140222_Dritvik_016 Ice along a stream, western Iceland | 20130911_Louisiana_Deltas_270 Healthy marsh along the lower Mississippi River, just west of South Pass

Baby ArtsPlay!
2019-11-09 10:30 - 11:00
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 six 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 six-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 2 | Workshop 1 – Oh, What a Feeling! (Emotional Development)
November 9 | Workshop 2 – Hello, Friend (Social Skills)
November 16 | Workshop 3 – Express Yourself (Early Language)
November 23 | Workshop 4 – Tiny Motor Scooters (Fine Motor Skills)
November 30 | Workshop 5 – Baby Balancing Acts (Bilateral Integration)
December 7 | Workshop 6 – Tiny Household Helpers (Multiple Development Areas)

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.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Screening of Bauhaus Spirit | Music by Keith Burnstein
2019-11-08 17:00 - 21:00
Friday Nights at NOMA features an exciting lineup of programs in 2019: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries, the Museum Shop, and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm.
5 – 8 pm | Art on the Spot drop-in activity table
5:30 – 8:30 pm | Music by Keith Burnstein
7 – 8:30 pm | Screening of Bauhaus Spirit: 100 Years of Bauhaus
ABOUT KEITH BURNSTEIN
Keith Burnstein is a New Orleans based singer-songwriter, pianist, and film composer who pens timeless tunes to live by. His is a new American songbook, one that draws as much from Tin Pan Alley as it does from modern geniuses like Jeff Tweedy, Dr. John, and Amon Tobin. “The songs, while instantly familiar, remain very much their own creations” writes Secret Sound Shop, “combining the bedroom intimacy of a singer-songwriter” (Seven Days VT) with the rich harmonic palette of jazz, contemporary classical, and world music.
ABOUT BAUHAUS SPIRIT: 100 YEARS OF BAUHAUS
In conjunction with the exhibition An Ideal Unity: The Bauhaus & Beyond, NOMA will screen Bauhaus Spirit: 100 Years of Bauhaus. This lively, wide-ranging documentary explores the history, present and future of the utopian design and architecture school and communal social movement around the world. Founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius, Bauhaus was supposed to unite sculpture, painting, design and architecture into a single combined constructive discipline. It is a synthesis of liberated imagination and stringent structure; cross-medial concepts that embellish and enrich our existence, illumination and clarity, order and playfulness. Bauhaus constituted one of the most significant contributions to everyday 20th-century culture and influential contemporary designs, but Bauhaus was never just an artistic experiment. Confronted with the social conditions of that particular time, as well as the experience of the First World War, the movement concerned itself with the political and social connotations of design from the very outset.
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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.

Book Club Curatorial Program
2019-11-08 12:00 - 13:00

Gallery Talk: Curator Ndubuisi Ezeluomba on Ancestors in Stone
2019-11-06 12:00 - 13:00
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join Ndubuisi Ezeluomba, the Francoise Billion Richardson Curator for African Art, for a discussion about the exhibition Ancestors in Stone.

Mindfulness Intensive Course
2019-11-03 10:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-02 10:00 - 17:00
Join a Mindfulness course under the instruction of Dr. Jayashree Rao for two days, Saturday, November 2, and Sunday, November 3, from 10 am to 1 pm and 2 to 5 pm. Mindfulness is defined as a method of experiencing the present moment with open curiosity, without judgment, and with a willingness to be with what is. The course, which is usually offered over eight weeks, is condensed to two days for a weekend intensive, in order to facilitate better attendance and engagement by the participants.
Lunch is not provided. Participants are welcome to bring lunch or enjoy the delicious offerings at Café NOMA.
About the instructor
Dr. Rao is a retired pediatric endocrinologist, who spent thirty years teaching, researching, and practicing medicine at LSU Health Sciences Center and Children’s Hospital. For the past several years, Dr. Rao has practiced and led others in practicing mindfulness, employing techniques learned in the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course offered by Dr. Dave Potter.
Call 504-658-4128 or email education@noma.org for more information.
$60 for NOMA members | $80 for nonmembers | Registration Required
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Baby Artsplay! (Ages 0-3)
2019-11-02 10:30 - 11:00

Friday Nights at NOMA: Special Evening for Educators | Screening of The Quiltmakers of Gee's Bend | Music by Naydja Cojoe
2019-11-01 17:00 - 21:00
Friday Nights at NOMA features an exciting lineup of programs in 2019: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries, the Museum Shop, and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm. On this special evening for educators, all educators and up to four of their guests will receive free admission after 5 pm.
5 – 8 pm | Art on the Spot drop-in activity table
5:30 – 8:30 pm | Music by Naydja Cojoe
6 – 8 pm | Screening of The Quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend (56 minutes)
ABOUT NAYDJA COJOE
A native to New Orleans and premier vocalist and entertainer, Naydja Cojoe’s eclectic performances evoke the colorful spirit of her hometown and mainstream influences. Her sound is reminiscent of such greats as Tina Turner, Bonnie Raitt, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Patsy Cline.
ABOUT THE QUILTMAKERS OF GEE’S BEND

This Emmy Award-winning PBS film documents a group of African American quilt artists from Gee’s Bend, Alabama. The quiltmakers live in a remote community and still inhabit the land their enslaved forebears once worked. The quilts of Gee’s Bend have been hailed by Michael Kimmelman of The New York Times as “some of the most miraculous works of modern art America has produced.” The film explores the extraordinary lives, inspirations, and history of the quiltmakers, including their promotion by art historian Bill Arnett, and follows them on a poignant and journey to see their work exhibited in a major art museum. The 56-minute documentary is screened in conjunction with the exhibition The Quilts of Gee’s Bend.

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.

Gallery Talk: An Ideal Unity with Curatorial Associate Anne Roberts
2019-10-30 15:00 - 16:00
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join Curatorial Associate Anne Roberts for a discussion about the exhibition An Ideal Unity: The Bauhaus & Beyond.
Image: T. Lux Feininger (American, b. Germany, 1910–2011), Untitled (Bauhaus Theater Chairs), c. 1928, Gelatin silver print, 3 1/8 x 4 3/4 in., Gift of Diego Cortez, 2008.5.131

Gallery Talk: Lamentations with artist Tina Freeman
2019-10-30 12:00 - 13:00
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Photographer Tina Freeman will discuss her exhibition Tina Freeman: Lamentations, a seven-year photo-documentation of Louisiana’s wetlands and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic.
Image: 20180401_Svalbard_804 Loose pancake ice forming | 20140417_Avoca_Island_179 Wild iris blooming

Book Club Discussion Group
2019-10-29 12:00 - 13:00
Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. Our full 2019 schedule and reading list has been announced.
Organized by NOMA’s Felix J. Dreyfous Library, the Book Club is an informal group. You do not have to attend every meeting and we understand if you have to leave a discussion or program early. The book club offers several types of programs: a book discussion group that meets once a month (no reading in December), curatorial programs, field trips, and Meet the Author receptions. Most book club programs start promptly at noon, but please arrive at 11:30 a.m. if you wish to bring a sack lunch or meet beforehand. NOMA will provide water and soft drinks.
RSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space.
Please contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club.
October 2019 Selection
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos: A Novel by Dominic Smith
Picador, 2017, ISBN: 978-1250118325
Amsterdam, 1631: Sara de Vos becomes the first woman to be admitted as a master painter to the city’s Guild of St. Luke. Though women do not paint landscapes (they are generally restricted to indoor subjects), a wintry outdoor scene haunts Sara: She cannot shake the image of a young girl from a nearby village, standing alone beside a silver birch at dusk, staring out at a group of skaters on the frozen river below. Defying the expectations of her time, she decides to paint it.
Tuesday, October 29, 12 – 1 p.m. | Book Discussion Group
