New Orleans Museum of Art

Noontime Talk: Veronese in Murano with Curatorial Fellow Kelsey Brosnan
2018-06-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Louisiana
Noontime talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Wednesdays are FREE to Louisiana residents courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join Curatorial Fellow Kelsey Brosnan as she discusses the two 16th-century altarpieces by Paolo Veronese in the exhibition Veronese in Murano: Two Venetian Masterpieces Restored.

Small Talks: Will Ryman's America
2018-06-08 11:00 - 11:30 | Louisiana
Small Talks are ten to fifteen-minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about artworks in our permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions.
Join docent Regina Shujaa as she discusses the life-sized, gold-painted replica of Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace cabin that forms artist Will Ryman’s America.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Carmela Rappazzo | Artist Perspective: Metalworker Darryl Reeves in Conversation with Jonn Hankins | Film: Always for Pleasure
2018-06-08 17:00 - 21:00 | Louisiana
Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm.

5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table
5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Carmela Rappozzo
6 pm: Artist Perspective: Master Metalworker Darryl Reeves in Conversation with Jonn Hankins in conjunction with Carlos Rolón: Outside/In
7:30 pm: Screening of Always for Pleasure

ABOUT CARMELA RAPPAZZO
Carmela Rappazzo grew up in upstate New York with a love for the Great American Songbooks at an early age. In New York City she attended ‘Theatrium’ and became involved in off-off Broadway Theater and appeared in a few independent films, later training with Eric Morris. Rappazzo moved to Los Angeles in 1992, working with such notable film directors as Rob Reiner, Wolfgang Petersen, Jonathan Lynn and Ken Kwapis. She performed in the Los. Angeles jazz scene with the Jon Mayer trio and recorded “Black and White”, a straight ahead standards record with them. After appearing in many of the local clubs she recorded her second album with Paul Smith, Jim DeJulio and Joe LaBarbera. This project, “Regarding Frank,” was a tribute record to Sinatra and his Capitol years of the 1950s.
ABOUT DARRYL REEVES AND JONN HANKINS
Darryl Reeves is a third generation metalworker and owner of Andrew’s Welding and Blacksmith Shop in New Orleans’ Seventh Ward. He is a master trainer for the New Orleans Master Crafts Guild, training apprentices in advanced ironwork, including welding and blacksmithing. Reeves, who apprenticed under noted master blacksmith and furrier William “Buddy” Leonard, is well known for his creative contemporary steel and brass staircase railings and furniture, and is revered for his restorations of antique ironwork at historic sites. His public commissions include the restoration of the ornate fence at the Presbytère in Jackson Square, fabrication of a new identical fence for its sister building, the Cabildo, and the disassembly and reconstruction of the massive gate at the Chalmette National Cemetery, which dates to 1872.
Jonn Ethan Hankins is the founding director of the New Orleans Master Crafts Guild. He previously served as Executive Director of the New Orleans African American Museum, Development Director of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Foundation, and Principal Development Officer for Corporate and Community Affairs at the New Orleans Museum of Art. At NOMA, he directed, “Raised to the Trade: Creole Building Arts of New Orleans,” an award-winning exhibition and oral history research project that documented two centuries of families of master craftsmen who built and still maintain New Orleans’ unique architecture.
ABOUT ALWAYS FOR PLEASURE
Always for Pleasure is a 1978 documentary film by Les Blank about social traditions in New Orleans. The film has footage of musical events, Mardi Gras Indians, a jazz funeral, various second line parades, cooking and eating red beans and rice and a crawfish boil. Mardi Gras and St. Patrick’s Day 1977 are captured, and local musicians perform and are interviewed, including Kid Thomas Valentine, Allen Toussaint, Danny Barker, Blue Lu Barker, Irma Thomas, the Neville Brothers and Professor Longhair. (Not rated | 1978 | 58 minutes)
Watch the trailer:

Baby ArtsPlay! at NOMA
2018-06-09 10:30 - 11:00 | Louisiana
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.
June 9 | 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.

Small Talk: Andy Warhol's Diamond Dust Shoes
2018-06-09 15:00 - 16:00 | Louisiana
Small Talks are ten to fifteen-minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about artworks in our permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions.
Join docent Gary Gusick as he discusses Diamond Dust Shoes by Andy Warhol.

Lee Friedlander and the Musicians of Preservation Hall: A Conversation with Curator Russell Lord and Preservation Hall's Ben Jaffe
2018-06-10 15:00 - 16:00 | Louisiana
Join Russell Lord, NOMA’s Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings, for a conversation with Ben Jaffe about musicians from the era of the founding of Preservation Hall. Founded in 1961 by Jaffe’s parents, Allan and Sandra, Preservation Hall was intended to preserve the music of New Orleans’ earliest generation of jazz musicians. Many of these legendary performers are pictured in the exhibition Lee Friedlander in Louisiana.
ABOUT BEN JAFFE AND RUSSELL LORD
Born in 1971, Ben Jaffe has lived his whole life with the rhythm of the French Quarter pulsing through his veins. Raised in the company of New Orleans’ greatest musicians, he returned from his education at Oberlin College in Ohio to play with the group and assume his father’s duties as director of Preservation Hall. Today he serves as creative director for both the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Hall itself, where he has spearheaded such programs as the New Orleans Musicians Hurricane Relief Fund.
Russell Lord is the Freeman Family Curator of Photographs at the New Orleans Museum of Art. He previously held positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Yale University Art Gallery. His deepest area of expertise is the origins of photography, but he has written and lectured widely on almost every moment in the history of photography. Lord’s recent publications include Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument (2013), and contributions to Photorealism: Beginnings to Today (2014) and East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography (2017).

Small Talk: Attributed To: Photographs by E. J. Bellocq
2018-06-13 11:00 - 11:30, 2018-06-20 11:00 - 11:30 | Louisiana
Small Talks are ten-to-fifteen-minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about works of art in NOMA’s permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions.
Join Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper as he discusses photographs on view in Attributed To: Photographs by E. J. Bellocq, a focus exhibition that examines the famous portraits of Storyville prostitutes attributed to the early 20th-century New Orleans photographer.
Admission is free to all Louisiana residents on Wednesdays, courtesy of The Helis Foundation.

Noontime Talk: Carlos Rolón: Outside/In with Curatorial Fellow Allison Young
2018-06-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Louisiana
Noontime 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 Fellow Allison Young for a discussion about Carlos Rolón: Outside/In, a solo exhibition by the artist that examines the cultural connections between New Orleans, the Caribbean, and Latin America, along with themes of immigration and finding home in a new land.

Small Talk: Stuart Davis's Rocks, Gloucester
2018-06-15 15:00 - 15:30 | Louisiana
Small Talks are 10–15 minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about works of art in our permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions.
Join Curatorial Assistant Anne Roberts as she discusses Rocks, Gloucester by Stuart Davis.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Mykia Jovan | Artist Perspective with Carlos Rolón
2018-06-15 18:00 - 21:00 | Louisiana
Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries, the Museum Shop, and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm.

5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table
5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Mykia Jovan
6 pm: Gallery tour of Carlos Rolón: Outside/In with Curator Katie Pfohl
6:30 pm: Create Late (Advance registration required)
7 pm: Dreaming About America and Color TVs: A Lecture by Artist Carlos Rolón

ABOUT MYKIA JOVAN
Mykia Jovan is a vocalist and songwriter from New Orleans, Louisiana. Her unique voice has drawn natural comparisons to the great Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu, while her original compositions and live performances have established her as a singular voice in the modern progressive soul scene. Mykia was recently nominated for Best Emerging Artist in 2017 by Offbeat Magazine while her debut album, Elliyahu, was named a Top 50 Album of the Year by the publication. The lead single 16 Shots quickly received over 100,000 streams on Spotify and was included on one of the platform’s official playlists alongside artists Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah and Kamasi Washington among others.
ABOUT CARLOS ROLóN
Artist Carlos Rolón (b. 1970), previously known as Dzine, is the American-born son of Puerto Rican immigrants. His works question the concept of luxury and craft while exploring questions of identity, integration, and aspiration. NOMA is hosting his solo exhibition, Carlos Rolón: Outside/In through August 26, 2018. He attended Columbia College, Chicago, with a concentration in painting and drawing. Rolón has been recognized for his elaborately crafted paintings, ornate sculptures and works that come out of American, Latino, and uniquely based subcultures. The work often addresses his biography by melding memory and the imaginary with carefully crafted, hybrid works that are playfully situated between the contradictory worlds of conspicuous consumption and urban artifact. Rolón illuminates how the masculine can become delicate and the how the baroque can be minimal. The artist often channels this approach with site-specific installation work, vivid large-scale paintings and ornate sculptures in various materials expanding on ideas of self-reflection and imagined luxury. The works ultimately produce a hybrid language of social practice, painting and sculpture inviting the viewer to engage in discourse and discussion.

Create Late
2018-06-15 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, June 15
6:30 – 8 p.m.
Finding Balance | Look up to Alexander Calder as you find balance to create an original hanging mobile.
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.

NOMA closed to the public, Sculpture Garden remains open
2018-06-16 10:00 - 17:00 | Louisiana
NOMA will be closed to the public on Saturday, June 16, to host an event for the New Orleans Tricentennial. The Besthoff Sculpture Garden will remain open throughout the day from 10 am to 5 pm.
Please visit us on Sunday, June 17, when admission will be free to all visitors on Father’s Day.

Free admission for all visitors on Father's Day
2018-06-17 11:00 - 18:00 | Louisiana
In honor of Father’s Day, NOMA is offering FREE ADMISSION to all visitors on Sunday, June 17, from 11 am to 6 pm. View the permanent collection and current special exhibitions, including the final day to Lee Friedlander in Louisiana, Carlos Rolón: Outside/In, and Veronese in Murano. Treat the special man in your life to brunch at Café NOMA, find a unique gift in the Shop at NOMA, and explore the Besthoff Sculpture Garden.
Photograph: Lee Friedlander, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1961, Gelatin silver print, courtesy of the artist and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Noontime Talk: Lee Friedlander in Louisiana with Curator Russell Lord
2018-06-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Louisiana
Noontime 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 Russell Lord for a discussion about Lee Friedlander in Louisiana, a retrospective of images by the renowned photographer that solely depict his time spent in metro New Orleans over the course of the past six decades. From jazz musicians and second line parades, to architectural oddities and reflected urban scenes, the assembled photographs speak to Friedlander’s sense of playfulness and unique vision.

NOMA Book Club Discussion Group
2018-06-20 13:30 - 15:00 | Louisiana
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 2018 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 Sheila A. Cork at 504.658.4117 or scork@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club.

June 2018 Selection
The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
Simon & Schuster, 2016. ISBN: 9781451693607
Alice Hoffman brings into focus the birth of impressionism and the forces that shaped Camille Pissarro’s artistic drive through the complicated, rich, adventure-filled life story of his fiery mother, fueled by her love for her family, her stubborn flaunting of society’s rules, and her deep loyalty to her friends. (Library Journal, June 1, 2015)
Wednesday, June 20, 1:30 – 3 pm | Book Discussion Group

NOMA Book Club Discussion Group
2018-06-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Louisiana
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 2018 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 Sheila A. Cork at 504.658.4117 or scork@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club.

June 2018 Selection
The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
Simon & Schuster, 2016. ISBN: 9781451693607
Alice Hoffman brings into focus the birth of impressionism and the forces that shaped Camille Pissarro’s artistic drive through the complicated, rich, adventure-filled life story of his fiery mother, fueled by her love for her family, her stubborn flaunting of society’s rules, and her deep loyalty to her friends. (Library Journal, June 1, 2015)
Friday, June 22, 12 – 1 pm | Book Discussion Group

Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Jayna Morgan and the Sazerac Sunrise Jazz Band | Gallery Talk on Lee Friedlander | Documentary: 'Til the Butcher Cuts Him Down
2018-06-22 17:00 - 21:00 | Louisiana
Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries, the Museum Shop, and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm.

5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table
5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Jayna Morgan and the Sazerac Sunrise Jazz Band
6 pm: Gallery Talk with John Klingman on Reflections of Plaza Tower in Lee Friedlander in Louisiana
7 pm: Screening of ‘Til the Butcher Cuts Him Down with an introduction by Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper

ABOUT JAYNA MORGAN AND THE SAZERAC SUNRISE JAZZ BAND
Jazz vocalist Jayna Morgan knows how to light up a room and charm an audience. Her singing style invites listeners of every age to remember the days when jazz was king. Her choice of songs and brilliant renditions of standards make her shows refreshing and classy. Combine this with her divine appearance onstage and welcoming demeanor, which creates a uniquely personal entertaining experience, for both large and more intimate audiences. Perhaps her greatest feature, however, is her New Orleans style, bringing the listener back to the bayous of Louisiana she calls home. Her shows are fun, sultry, old-fashioned, sexy, and sometimes silly — a musical journey to the Crescent City.
ABOUT JOHN KLINGMAN
John P. Klingman holds a Favrot Professorship in Architecture at Tulane University where he has been a faculty member since 1983. As an architect, he has been engaged in consulting on projects in the city, including the US Customhouse with Waggonner and Ball Architects and on Tulane’s Uptown Campus. He has served as a member of the Architectural Review Committee of the New Orleans Historic Districts Landmarks Commission since 1995.Frequently called upon by local and national media to discuss architecture in New Orleans, he is a regular architecture critic in the city, writing an annual “Best of New New Orleans Architecture” article since 1997 for New Orleans Magazine. His 2012 book, New in New Orleans Architecture, highlights eighty outstanding contemporary projects. He will discuss a building familiar to many New Orleanians, the Plaza Tower (1969), a modern high-rise in the Central Business District that appears frequently in photographs on view in the exhibition Lee Friedlander in Louisiana.
ABOUT ‘TIL THE BUTCHER CUTS HIM DOWN
‘Til the Butcher Cuts Him Down, a 1972 documentary by Philip Spalding with narration by jazz historian William Russell, studies New Orleans’ earliest generation of jazz musicians with primary focus on Punch Miller (1894–1971), a trumpeter in his twilight years whose career included playing alongside Kid Ory and Louis Armstrong. Miller led one of the first bands at Preservation Hall after it opened in 1961. The film includes footage of Miller’s last performance, at the 1971 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, along with second line parades and jam sessions in the early 1970s. The film’s title derives from the lyrics in a popular jazz song written in 1902, “Didn’t He Ramble.” (Not rated | 1972 | 53 minutes).
Watch the trailer:

Baby ArtsPlay! at NOMA
2018-06-23 10:30 - 11:00 | Louisiana
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.
June 23 | Workshop 6 – Get Your Motor Running (motor skills)
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
2018-06-23 11:00 - 11:30 | Louisiana
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, June 23: Family
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.

Small Talk: Dutch Art of the Golden Age
2018-06-23 15:00 - 15:30 | Louisiana
Small Talks are ten-to-fifteen-minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about artworks in our permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions.
Join docent Dianne Finley as she discusses Dutch Art of the Golden Age.

Small Talk: Meissen Porcelain Manufactory's The Four Continents
2018-06-27 11:00 - 11:30 | Louisiana
Small Talks are ten-to-fifteen-minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about artworks in our permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions.
Join docent Pat Loughran for a discussion about Meissen Porcelain Manufactory’s The Four Continents, on view in the exhibition Orientalism: Taking and Making.
Admission is free to Louisiana residents on Wednesdays, courtesy of The Helis Foundation.

Small Talk: Larry Rivers's Portrait of Sunny Norman: Parts of the Face
2018-06-27 15:00 - 15:30 | Louisiana
Small Talks are ten-to-fifteen minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about works of art in our permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions.
Join Curatorial Assistant Anne Roberts as she discusses Portrait of Sunny Norman: Parts of the Face by Larry Rivers.
Admission is free to all Louisiana residents on Wednesdays, courtesy of The Helis Foundation.

Noontime Talk: NOMA Curators discuss Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories
2018-06-29 12:00 - 13:00 | Louisiana
Noontime 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 curators Russell Lord and Katie Pfohl and Curatorial Fellows Brian Piper and Allison Young for a discussion about Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories. The exhibition marks New Orleans’ three-hundredth anniversary by bringing together a group of seven contemporary art projects that focus on forgotten or marginalized histories of the city.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Opening of Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories | Music by Alfred Banks
2018-06-29 17:00 - 21:00 | Louisiana
Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries, Café NOMA, and the Museum Shop remain open till 9 pm.

5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table
5 pm: Drumming by Luther Gray in the Ella West Freeman Galleries
5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Alfred Banks in the Great Hall

Small Talks with artists represented in Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories:

6 pm: L. Kasimu Harris
6:30 pm: Skylar Fein
7 pm: Willie Birch

ABOUT ALFRED BANKS
The emergent New Orleans rapper Alfred Banks has garnered critical acclaim from some of rap’s most esteemed publications. In addition to being named one of Complex.com’s 10 upcoming New Orleans MCs, Banks has been featured prominently on HipHopDx, Okayplayer & on DJBooth’s list of top indie rappers from Louisiana. Having played at Voodoo Festival, Buku Festival, Atlanta’s A3C Festival, and Austin’s SXSW, Banks has also made headway in Europe, starring in a Volkswagen ad campaign featuring his song “HomeComing.” Most Recently, Alfred’s Song “UnderDogCentral” can be heard in the Netflix Movie Burning Sands. Banks recently released his third LP, The Beautiful.
ABOUT L. KASIMU HARRIS
L. Kasimu Harris is a storyteller who uses writing, photography and video to push the narrative. Images from his War on the Benighted series are a part of the group exhibition, Changing Course: Reflection of New Orleans Histories. War on the Benighted is a narrative constructed reality series about New Orleans public school students who became frustrated with the inequalities in education; they rose up and began a quest to educate themselves. Their grievances include the school-to-prison pipeline, emphasis on standardized testing, and a diminishing arts curriculum.
Harris is a New Orleans native who has participated in twenty group exhibitions across the US, two abroad, and three solo photography exhibitions. In 2015, his work was exhibited in both The Rising and Louisiana Contemporary at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and garnered coverage in The New York Times and NPR. He also a featured artist in Dandy Lion (Re) Articulating Black Masculinity, curated by Shantrelle P. Lewis, a traveling exhibition with the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago that has traveled to San Francisco, Miami, and London.
ABOUT SKYLAR FEIN
Skylar Fein was born in Greenwich Village and raised in the Bronx. He has had many careers including teaching nonviolent resistance under the umbrella of the Quakers, working for a gay film festival in Seattle, stringing for The New York Times and as pre-med student at University of New Orleans where he moved one week before Hurricane Katrina hit. In the wreckage of New Orleans, Fein found his new calling as an artist, experimenting with color and composition of the detritus of Katrina. His work soon became known for its pop sensibility as well as its hard-nosed politics. After a few starring roles in group shows, he had his first solo show in May 2008 at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans.
In the fall of 2008, his Prospect.1: Biennial installation, Remember the Upstairs Lounge, shined a spotlight on an overlooked piece of New Orleans history: a fire that swept through a French Quarter bar in 1973, killing everyone inside. The worst fire in New Orleans history has never been solved. His installation walked visitors right through the swinging bar doors, and offered visual riffs on politics and sexuality circa 1973. The piece was praised in ArtForum, Art In America, The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker, among others.
ABOUT WILLIE BIRCH
Willie Birch is a New Orleans-based artist who draws inspiration from this city and the complexity of its diverse traditions and histories. Working in a variety of mediums, from paper mache to acrylic and charcoal on paper, he renders second lines, street musicians and the architecture of New Orleans with a nuanced eye towards intimate details—power lines and chain linked fences, discarded sneakers and wood-paneled shot-gun houses that bear traces of their histories. Birch’s recent work questions the role that history plays in determining our present and future. His installation for Changing Course will present new works that focus on roots and bones, the largely invisible structures that both sustain and support what we see above and around them. At the same time, his work will refer museum visitors to associated artwork and performances staged offsite at a community-driven arts space that Birch is creating in New Orleans’ Seventh Ward.

Baby ArtsPlay! at NOMA
2018-06-30 10:30 - 11:00 | Louisiana
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.
June 30 | Workshop 6 – 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.

Small Talk: Pablo Picasso's Still Life with Candle
2018-06-30 15:00 - 15:30 | Louisiana
Small Talks are 10-to-15 minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about artworks in our permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions.
Join docent Deb Houghton as she discusses Pablo Picasso’s Still Life with Candle (1937).

Museum Highlights Tour
2018-07-01 13:00 - 14:00 | Louisiana
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.

Bounce-N-Line Dance Classes
2018-07-03 18:00 - 19:00 | Louisiana
This weekly class presented by Dancing Grounds in conjunction with the Changing Course exhibition combines two uniquely New Orleans dance forms — bounce and second-line.
Classes are open to teens and adults. Register online in advance for discounted pricing. Drop-in participants also welcome.
Instructor: Kristal Jones
$10 online sales prior to the class: PURCHASE NOW
$12 at the door ($8 for NOMA and Dancing Grounds members, discounted price only available at the door)

NOMA open for Independence Day
2018-07-04 12:00 - 17:00 | Louisiana
The New Orleans Museum of Art will be open on the Fourth of July from noon to 5 pm. Wednesdays are FREE to all Louisiana residents courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
