Mindfulness Classes Launch with Special Screening of Walk with Me Documentary
2018-04-21 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago)
NOMA Launches Mindfulness Classes with an Info Session and Special Screening of Walk with Me
Saturday, April 21, 2018; 10 a.m.
Free public program; museum admission waived for attendees
Stern Auditorium
Learn more about mindfulness and how learning to live in the present moment can help you lead a more balanced life. This twenty-minute info session, led by mindfulness instructor Dr. Jayashree Rao, will be followed by a special screening of the 2017 documentary Walk with Me. Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch, Walk with Me is a cinematic journey into the world of a monastic community that practices the art of mindfulness with Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hahn.
View the trailer.
Click here to learn more about or register for mindfulness classes at NOMA.

Edible Book Day
2018-04-21 10:00 - 15:00
Edible Book Day is an international celebration of literature, art, and food. Museums, libraries, and universities throughout the world participate to create a program for creative individuals and community groups to highlight their artistic, baking, and decorating skills. Local community groups and individuals are invited to bake and decorate cakes inspired by books through the integration of text, literary inspiration or form. Ribbons will be awarded for the three best cakes in each category, and one “People’s Choice” ribbon will be awarded.
Schedule:

10 am: Cake entry set up
11 am: Judging and People’s Choice voting begins
12:30 pm: Café NOMA cake-decorating demonstration by Chef Brett Gauthier
1 pm: People’s Choice voting ends
1:30 pm: Awards announced in Café NOMA

For additional information, contact NOMA Librarian Sheila Cork: scork@noma.org | 504.658.4117. Contestants should visit this link to fill out an entry form before April 16.

StoryQuest
2018-04-21 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, April 21: Poetry
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: Yoruba Peoples' King's Tunic
2018-04-21 11:30 - 12:00
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 the Yoruba Peoples’ King’s Tunic in the African art gallery. Meet in the third-floor elevator lobby.

Adult Art Studio
2018-04-22 14:00 - 16:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Develop your artistic skills at NOMA! In this series, learn acrylic painting basics including brush work and color mixing while employing techniques specific to this medium. Each week will feature different subject matter to create paintings on paper or canvas. Ideal for adults with beginner to intermediate experience. Register for classes individually or as a series.
Sunday, April 22 | Abstraction
2:00 – 4:00 pm
NOMA Members | $50 per class, $130 for the series
Nonmembers | $60 per class, $160 for the series
SOLD OUT. Please contact education@noma.org if you would like to be added to the waiting list.
Full schedule found here.

Salsa Tuesdays! Dance classes with Liquid Rhythm, Inc.
2018-04-24 18:00 - 19:00
Learn the hottest Latin dance moves on Salsa Tuesdays! with classes presented by NOMA and Liquid Rhythm, Inc., in conjunction with the exhibition Carlos Rolón: Outside/In. Join instructors from Latin dance company Liquid Rhythm, Inc., for a three-part salsa instruction on Tuesdays, April 10, 17, and 24. Classes are open to adults and teens from all levels. No prior dance experience is necessary.
CLASSES ARE SOLD OUT.

Noontime Talk: Veronese in Murano with Curator Vanessa Schmid
2018-04-25 12:00 - 13:00
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 Vanessa Schmid, Senior Research Curator for European Art, for a discussion about sixteenth-century Venetian painter Paolo Veronese and the two restored altarpieces he painted for a church, on loan at NOMA in Veronese in Murano.

NOMA Book Club Group Discussion
2018-04-25 13:30 - 15:00
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.

April 2018 Selection
Please contact Sheila A. Cork at 504.658.4117 or scork@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club.
Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World by Timothy Brook
Bloomsbury Press; Reprint edition, 2009. ISBN: 978-1596915992
Timothy Brook uses works by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, and other contemporary images from Europe, Asia, and the Americas, to trace the rapidly growing web of global trade, and the explosive, transforming, and sometimes destructive changes it wrought in the 1700s when globalization really began.
Wednesday, April 25, 1:30 – 3 pm | Curatorial program with Vanessa Schmid, Senior Research Curator for European Art

Collage in Context: Exploring Robert Rauschenberg's Legacy for Contemporary Art
2018-04-25 15:00 - 16:00
This program celebrates NOMA’s 2013 acquisition of Robert Rauschenberg’s monumental fabric collage Melic Meeting (Spread) by inviting artist Ebony G. Patterson to speak about Rauschenberg’s continued resonance for contemporary artists such as herself who work with fabric, found objects and collage. In conversation with NOMA’s Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Katie A. Pfohl, Patterson will explore Rauschenberg’s influence on her own practice, and consider the broader global histories of quilt-making and textile production upon which many contemporary artists continue to draw. This program is made possible through the generous support of The Helis Foundation.
Admission to this program, and admission every Wednesday, is free to Louisiana residents, courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Image: Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925–2008), Melic Meeting (Spread), 1979, Solvent transfer, fabric collage, acrylic, mirrored panel, wood, and comb on wood panels, 96 x 132 x 14 in., New Orleans Museum of Art, Gift of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, partially in honor of Dora Rauschenberg, and Museum purchase with funds provided by The Helis Foundation.
ABOUT EBONY G. PATTERSON
Ebony G. Patterson (Jamaican, b. 1981) received her BFA from Edna Manley College in Kingston, Jamaica (2004) and MFA from Sam Fox College of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri (2006). Patterson has had solo exhibitions and projects at many US institutions including The Studio Museum in Harlem (2016), SCAD Museum of Art (2016), the Museum of Art and Design in New York. Her work was included in the 32nd Sao Paulo Biennial, the 12th Havana Biennial, and Prospect.3 New Orleans. She was a 2017 Artist-in-Residence at the Rauschenberg Foundation, and the recipient of numerous other grants and awards. She will present a solo exhibition of her work at the Perez Art Museum in Miami in 2018.
Ebony G. Patterson (Jamaican, b. 1981), …love… (…when they grow up…), 2016, Mixed media on hand-cut jacquard woven tapestry with beads, appliques, embellishments, brooches, plastic, glitter, fabric, stuffed toys, papier-mache balloons, on wallpaper fabric, 112 x 121 ½ x 12 inches, Courtesy the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago

ABOUT KATIE A. PFOHL
Katie A. Pfohl has served as the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art since June 2015. She completed her Ph.D. in American Art at Harvard University in 2014, and has a wide range of curatorial experience including positions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In 2006, she completed the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. Current and upcoming projects include a solo presentation for the Puerto Rican artist Carlos Rolón entitled Carlos Rolón: Outside/In, which explores the rich cultural and artistic connections between New Orleans, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories, which brings together seven contemporary artists to reflect on forgotten or marginalized histories of New Orleans.

Small Talk: Photographing American Musicians
2018-04-26 11:30 - 12:00, 2018-05-03 11:30 - 12:00
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 NOMA Mellon Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper as he discusses the work of photographer Lee Friedlander in the exhibition Lee Friedlander: American Musicians, on view in the Great Hall.

NOMA Book Club Discussion Group
2018-04-26 12:00 - 13:00
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.

April 2018 Selection
Please contact Sheila A. Cork at 504.658.4117 or scork@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club.
Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World by Timothy Brook
Bloomsbury Press; Reprint edition, 2009. ISBN: 978-1596915992
Timothy Brook uses works by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, and other contemporary images from Europe, Asia, and the Americas, to trace the rapidly growing web of global trade, and the explosive, transforming, and sometimes destructive changes it wrought in the 1700s when globalization really began.
Thursday, April 26, 12 – 1 pm | Book Discussion Group

Small Talk: Louisiana Legend Fritz Bultman
2018-04-27 14:00 - 14:30
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 Curatorial Assistant Anne Roberts as she discusses the work of Fritz Bultman (1919–1985), a New Orleans native who studied at the New Bauhaus School in Chicago and became part of the Abstract Expressionist movement of the mid-2oth century. Visitors should meet in the second-floor elevator lobby.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Sasha Maskowski | Gallery Talk: Lee Friedlander in Louisiana with Curator Russell Lord
2018-04-27 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. 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 Sasha Masakowski
6:30 – 7:30 pm: Gallery Talk: Lee Friedlander in Louisiana with Curator Russell Lord

ABOUT SASHA MASAKOWSKI
Sasha Masakowski was born into a family of musicians in New Orleans and has been a leading voice in the city’s music scene since 2009, when she was awarded “Best Emerging Artist” by the Big Easy Association. She has performed at major music festivals across the United States and abroad and leads three bands of her own that range from traditional jazz (Sidewalk Strutters) to contemporary jazz and world music (Musical Playground) to experimental art-rock (Hildegard, Tra$h Magnolia). Vanity Fair magazine listed Masakowski as one of the top jazz musicians in the world, and the December 2015 edition of Downbeat Magazine named her one of the most innovative musicians coming out of New Orleans to date.
ABOUT LEE FRIEDLANDER IN LOUISIANA
Join Russell Lord, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings, for a Gallery Talk about the exhibition Lee Friedlander in Louisiana. One of the most famous living American photographers, Lee Friedlander has been visiting Louisiana since 1957 to document New Orleans jazz and to make artful street photographs. This marks the first major exhibition in any institution to examine the full scope and influence of Friedlander’s work in the region on the history of photography.

International Sculpture Day in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden
2018-04-28 10:00 - 18:00
In celebration of International Sculpture Day, join NOMA’s docents for a free guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at noon. Sited on five acres adjacent to the museum, the garden contains more than 60 works by renowned sculptors, including Pierre Auguste Renoir, Rene Magritte, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, and Robert Indiana. Meet at the gates to the garden, which offers free admission year-round.
Visitors are also invited to partake in a scavenger hunt through the garden, exploring sculptures placed among winding footpaths through live oaks and magnolia trees. Scavenger hunt guidelines can be picked up at the window at the entrance to the Sculpture Garden.
Don’t forget to tag your social media posts with #ISDAY!

Museum Highlights Tour
2018-05-01 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.

Small Talk: Carlos Rolón: Outside/In
2018-05-02 11:00 - 11:30
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 NOMA curatorial intern María Beatriz Carrión as she discusses the works on display in Carlos Rolón: Outside/In.

Noontime Talk: Lee Friedlander in Louisiana with Curator Russell Lord
2018-05-02 12:00 - 13:00
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 Russell Lord, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings, for a discussion about renowned photographer Lee Friedlander and his documentation of Louisiana in a retrospective exhibition.

All That Jazz: A Conversation with Alex Rawls, Gwen Thompkins, and Dr. Michael White
2018-05-02 18:30 - 19:30
In conjunction with the exhibition Lee Friedlander in Louisiana, NOMA will host three leading authorities of the New Orleans music scene for a public conversation on the intersections between the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, local music/musicians, and second line traditions. This event is free and open to the public.
Alex Rawls is a New Orleans-based music journalist and creator of the website MySpiltMilk.com. He has also contributed to Rolling Stone, Spin, No Depression, USA Today, San Diego Union-Tribune, and the New Orleans Advocate. He previously edited OffBeat, New Orleans’ music monthly, and guest edited the Louisiana music issue of The Oxford American.
Gwen Thompkins is a New Orleans native, NPR veteran and host of WWNO’s Music Inside Out, where she brings to bear the knowledge and experience she amassed as senior editor of Weekend Edition, an East Africa correspondent, the holder of Nieman and Watson Fellowships, and as a longtime student of music from around the world.
Dr. Michael White is an accomplished, multi-faceted New Orleans-based clarinetist, bandleader, composer, musicologist, jazz historian, and educator widely regarded as one of the leading authorities and culture-bearers of traditional New Orleans jazz music. He has performed in over two dozen foreign countries, played on more than fifty recordings, received countless awards, made multiple national television appearances, and been featured in major media publications.

Alex Rawls

Gwen Thompkins

Dr. Michael White

This program is underwritten by a Keep it 300! grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities with funding from Union Pacific.

Small Talk: Edgar Degas’s Portrait of Estelle Musson Degas
2018-05-04 15:00 - 15:30
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 Naomi Kornman as she discusses the history of Edgar Degas’s family visit to New Orleans in 1872 and the portrait he made of his cousin Estelle Musson Degas. Meet in the second-floor elevator lobby.

Movies in the Garden: Alice in Wonderland
2018-05-04 17:00 - 21:00
Movies in the Garden returns this spring with with Walt Disney’s 1951 classic Alice in Wonderland. The film marked Disney Studios’ thirteenth animated feature and is based on the children’s book by Lewis Carroll, first published in 1865. Follow young Alice as she chases the March Hare down a rabbit hole into a surrealistic land where she encounters the brash Mad Hatter and guests of his “unbirthday” tea party, the twins Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the grinning Cheshire Cat, and the tyrannical Queen of Hearts. (Rated G | 1 hour, 15 minutes | Watch the trailer below)

5 – 7:30 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table
6 – 7:30 pm: Music by Shawn Williams
7:30 – 8:30 pm: Alice in Wonderland

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
Food trucks will be parked outside the garden gates and a bar will be set up near the screen in the oak grove.
ABOUT SHAWN WILLIAMS
New Orleans’ pioneering voice in “alt-rocka countrybilly serial killer blues,” Shawn Williams describes her sound as “like the result of a dirtier-minded Elvis deciding to get it on in the back of some roadhouse saloon with one of those sad-eyed cowboy types that would rather be drinking alone.” Aside from her own music, she is also the founder of the all-female Elvis tribute band, Pelvis Breastlies.

Sculpture Garden Tour
2018-05-07 13:00 - 14:00
Join NOMA’s docents for a free guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Mondays in May at 1 pm. 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.

Noontime Talk: Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Yelen-Gitter on New Forms, New Voices
2018-05-09 12:00 - 13:00
Join Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Yelen-Gitter as they discuss their passion for collecting contemporary Japanese ceramics, selections of which are on view in the exhibition New Forms, New Voices: Japanese Ceramics from the Gitter-Yelen Collection.
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 thanks to The Helis Foundation.

The NOLA Project presents The Three Musketeers
2018-05-09 17:00 - 21:00
The NOLA Project returns to NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden with another exciting and hilarious adaptation by award-winning playwright Pete McElligott (Adventures in Wonderland; Don Quixote). This time, the company takes on Alexandre Dumas’ classic tale The Three Musketeers in an adaptation that is part Monty Python foolishness, part swashbuckling adventure tale, and all NOLA Project. Big Easy Award-winning director Mark Routhier will direct.
The Three Musketeers will be staged in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden at 7 pm on May 9, 10, 11, 13, 16, 17, 18, 20, 23, 24, 25, and 27.
$25 for adults ($30 for Friday performances)
$18 for NOMA members
Box Office: Online sales | 504.302.9117
Bring-Your-Own Seating: There will be a front section for blankets and an area in the rear for chairs. This entire production will take place in one location in the back of the garden. Seating begins at 6 pm | Show starts at 7 pm sharp
Rain Plan: For productions canceled due to inclement weather, we will notify all ticketed patrons no later than 4pm. Patrons will then receive instructions via email on how they may reschedule their tickets for another performance or request a refund. All ticket purchases for any production that is rained-out mid performance are final.
Presentation of The Three Musketeers is supported by a grant from the New Orleans Theatre Association (NOTA).

NOMA Book Club Curatorial Program
2018-05-10 12:00 - 13:00
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.

May 2018 Selection
Shocking Paris: Soutine, Chagall and the Outsiders of Montparnasse by Stanley Meisler
St. Martin’s Press, 2015. ISBN: 978-1137278807
For a couple of decades before World War II, a group of immigrant painters and sculptors, including Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine, and Jules Pascin dominated the new art scene of Montparnasse in Paris. Art critics gave them the name “the School of Paris” to set them apart from the French-born (and less talented) young artists of the period. Soutine arrived in Paris while many painters were experimenting with cubism, but he had no time for trends and fashions; like his art, Soutine was intense, demonic, and fierce. After the defeat of France by Hitler’s Germany, the Eastern European Jewish immigrants who had made their way to France for sanctuary were no longer safe. In constant fear of the French police and the German Gestapo, plagued by poor health and bouts of depression, Soutine was the epitome of the tortured artist. Rich in period detail, Stanley Meisler’s Shocking Paris explores the short, dramatic life of one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. (Amazon.com)
Thursday, May 10, 12 – 1 pm | Curatorial Program with Allison Young, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow for Modern and Contemporary Art

Small Talks: Newcomb Pottery
2018-05-11 15:00 - 15:30
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 Elizabeth LaRose for a discussion about NOMA’s collection of Newcomb Pottery, a brand of Arts & Crafts pottery produced from 1895 to 1940 that grew out of the women’s art program at Sophie Newcomb Memorial College in New Orleans. Meet in the second-floor elevator lobby.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Fashion Unbound, A Lecture by Francesca Granata | Lee Friedlander Gallery Talk | Music by Adam Schrubbe and Graffiti Sounds
2018-05-11 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. All galleries, Café NOMA, and the Museum Shop remain open till 9 pm.

5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table
5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Adam Schrubbe and Graffiti Sounds
6 pm: Gallery Talk with Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper on Lee Friedlander in Louisiana
6:30 – 8 pm: Create Late (Advance registration required)
7 pm: Fashion Unbound: A Lecture by Francesca Granata

ABOUT ADAM SCHRUBBE AND GRAFFITI SOUNDS
Adam Schrubbe
Adam Schrubbe and the Graffiti Sounds is a jazz fusion duo featuring Schrubbe on piano and vocals and Luke Runels on drums. Schrubbe was born and raised in Fairhope, Alabama, where he began studying piano at age 9 and playing jazz at local restaurants by age 15. He moved to New Orleans to attend Loyola University for piano and has continued to play in a variety of bands while developing his own sound as an artist and a singer. His debut album Analog Dreamer is set to release in summer 2018, and the lead single “The Wasteland” has been released on Spotify, Apple Music, and other streaming platforms. The album is a story of personal discovery told in a series of songs that draw from classical, jazz, hip-hop, electronic music, and movie and game soundtracks.
Aside from the album, Adam Schrubbe and a group of fellow musicians, including the math rock band Melonaut and guitarist/songwriter Mickey Hayes, have built a small community of young creative individuals around a series of interactive, multimedia showcases of local talent in visual art, music, poetry, and other forms of expression. They are slowly bringing these DIY events to cities outside of New Orleans as they connect with like-minded artists in other scenes.
ABOUT LEE FRIEDLANDER IN LOUISIANA
Join Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper for a Gallery Talk on Lee Friedlander in Louisiana. One of the most famous living American photographers, Lee Friedlander has been visiting Louisiana since 1957 to document New Orleans jazz and to make artful street photographs. NOMA’s presentation marks the first major exhibition in any institution to examine the full scope and influence of Friedlander’s work in the region on the history of photography.
ABOUT FRANCESCA GRANATA
Experimental fashion from designers like Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons and Martin Margiela has challenged Western beauty canons, particularly as they relate to female body ideals. This talk will explore the ways experimental designers at the juncture of the twenty-first century have questioned what is grotesque and what is alluring in contemporary fashion. The lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes.
Francesca Granata is Director of the MA Fashion Studies and Assistant Professor in the School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons School of Design. She is founder and editor of the nonprofit journal Fashion Projects: On Art, Fashion, and Visual Culture. She is the author of Experimental Fashion: Carnival, Performance Art, and the Grotesque Body and has written about art and fashion for a number of journals and magazines, such as Fashion Theory and The Atlantic.

Create Late
2018-05-11 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, May 11
6:30 – 8 p.m.
Pencil Selfie | You are the inspiration for the original selfie—a pencil self-portrait!
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.

Mindfulness Classes at NOMA
2018-05-12 10:00 - 11:30
This spring NOMA presents a series of seven mindfulness classes. Mindfulness is defined as experiencing the present moment with open curiosity, without judgment, and with a willingness to be with what is. Participants will learn to develop mindfulness through guided meditation and brief exercises that will help them experience the present moment during everyday activities. Although no specific outcome is promised, participants typically report feeling more alive, more “in-tune” with themselves and others. In addition, research has shown significant beneficial effects in dealing with stress, anxiety, high blood pressure, depression, chronic pain, and diabetes.
THIS SERIES IS SOLD OUT
Saturdays from 10–11:30 a.m. | May 12, 19, 26 and June 2, 9, 16, 23
Cost for the series:
$50 | members
$70 | nonmembers
Maximum class size is 30. Participants sign up for the series not per class.
About the instructor:
Dr. Jayashree 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.

Studio KIDS!
2018-05-12 10:00 - 12:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Get Creative with Studio KIDS!
This spring, Studio KIDS! presents “Express Yourself” art classes for children. Perfect for students ages 5-10 who want to get creative and learn art making techniques. 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
May 12
Local Landscapes
Look locally for inspiration as you create a pastel landscape.
Cost per class:
$25 | members
$30 | nonmembers
Full schedule can be found here.
