New Orleans Museum of Art

Artist's Choice Film Series presents The Constant Gardener
2019-06-29 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago)
Bodies of Knowledge brings together ten international contemporary artists to reflect on the role that language plays in archiving and asserting our cultural identities. In conjunction with this exhibition, NOMA will be screening movies selected by these artists that reflect their inspirations, interests, and ideals.
Artist’s Choice Film Series

Saturday, June 29, 2 pm | Adriana Corral selects The Constant Gardener (2005 | Rated R | 2 hours, 8 minutes)
Saturday, July 13, 2 pm | Garrett Bradley selects Sidewalk Stories (1989 | Rated R | 1 hour, 37 minutes)
Saturday, August 17, 2 pm | Manon Bellet selects La Jetée (1962 | Not rated | 28 minutes)
Saturday, September 14, 2 pm | Mahmoud Chouki selects Whatever Lola Wants (2007 | Not rated | 1 hour, 55 minutes)
Saturday, October 5, 5 pm | Edward Spots selects Fame (1980 | Rated R | 2 hours, 14 minutes)

ABOUT THE CONSTANT GARDENER
Assigned to a new post, reserved British diplomat Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes) relocates to Kenya with his lovely young wife, Tessa (Rachel Weisz), an activist for social justice. When Tessa is found murdered out in the wilderness, circumstances point to her friend, Dr. Arnold Bluhm (Hubert Koundé), but it is soon clear that he’s not the killer. Grief-stricken and angry, Justin sets out to uncover the truth behind Tessa’s murder — and in the process, he unearths some disturbing revelations. (Watch the trailer)

Baby Artsplay! Tiny Explorers Series (Ages 3-4)
2019-06-29 11:00 - 11:30
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 3-4. Learn how to integrate music, movement, and drama into everyday playtime to foster children’s developmental growth.
Saturdays at 11 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.
June 29 | Lesson 5 – “Mirror, Mirror” (Emotional Skills)
Children take their cues from the grown-ups around them. At this age, they become aware of feelings and ideas through mimicry. Learn how you can positively impact the emotional understanding of your child’s feelings using imitation games to model and express all the ways she might feel.
Space is limited. Register today: www.yabap.eventbrite.com
Ideal for ages 3-4.
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.

Baby Artsplay! (Ages 0-3)
2019-06-29 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.
June 29 | Lesson 5 – Baby Balancing Acts
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: Opening of Bodies of Knowledge | Black Magic Dance Performance | Music by Mahmoud Chouki with Amigos de Samba
2019-06-28 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. Be among the first to explore NOMA’s major summer exhibition, Bodies of Knowledge.
NOTE: NOMA will briefly close at 4:30 pm in preparation for the dance performance that begins on the front steps of the museum at 5 pm. Following the first act, visitors may follow the performers into the Great Hall.

5 pm: Black Magic Dance Performance (visitors should assemble at NOMA’s front entrance)
5:30 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot drop-in activity table
5:30 – 8:30 pm: Safar series featuring music by Mahmoud Chouki with Amigos do Samba
6 – 7 pm: Artist Perspective Talks: Adriana Corral (6 pm), Manon Bellet (6:30 pm), and Garrett Bradley (7 pm)

ABOUT BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE
Bodies of Knowledge brings together eleven international contemporary artists to reflect on the role that language plays in archiving and asserting our cultural identities. Working with materials that range from books and silent film to ink, ashes and musical scores, ten artists propose language as a living and ever-evolving mode of communication that can counter more staid and static ways of representing our collective pasts. The following represented artists will discuss their work:
In her spare and often ephemeral installations, Adriana Corral makes use of subtle materials like ash, soil, and burned paper to acknowledge histories of political violence throughout Central and South America. Memento is a site-specific installation that addresses the 2003 homicide of eight young girls in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, as well as the widespread phenomenon of enforced “disappearances” of women throughout the region.
In her site-specific installation Brèves Braises, Manon Bellet affixes the charred remains of burned paper on the walls of the museum. From these tattered remains, she creates a script or musical score that runs across an entire length of a long white wall. Created in collaboration with musicians that Bellet invites to compose an accompanying musical score, these burned fragments of paper have a graphic dynamism and rhythm that resembles that of improvisational music or impromptu speech. Over the course of her installation, she allows these papers gradually drop to the floor, encouraged by movement of air generated by the improvisational energy of bodies and instruments as the move through and activate the installation.
Garrett Bradley’s multi-channel video installation America reimagines a lost history of African-American silent film. Bradley, a filmmaker and artist based in New Orleans, takes as her starting place a 2013 survey conducted by the Library of Congress—which states that 70 percent of American silent films made between 1912 and 1929 have gone missing—to propose that there was an entire body of cinema made by and for African American audiences, artists, and filmmakers, created and since lost.
ABOUT BLACK MAGIC DANCE PERFORMANCE
For Bodies of Knowledge, artistic director Edward Spots and choreographer Donna Crump will develop a new site-specific dance performance at NOMA, titled Black Magic, that unfolds in five distinct dance movements: Black Suffering, Black Anger, Black Beauty, Black Love, and Black Joy. This work will explore varying aspects of black cultural identity through dance and the body. Investigating a range of topics from suffering, to beauty, to joy, this original work will depict joy as a form of resistance to dominant depictions of the black experience, and consider what is often forgotten and omitted from prevalent representations of black life. This work will be performed by Spots, Crump, and twelve youth dancers from Dancing Grounds, a New Orleans-based nonprofit organization that builds community through dance with programs that work at the intersection of arts, education, and social justice.
NOMA visitors should assemble outside the museum’s front entrance at 5 pm. The dance performance will begin outdoors and the audience will follow the dancers into the Great Hall.
ABOUT MAHMOUD CHOUKI AND AMIGOS DO SAMBA
In the first of series of musical collaborations under the collective title Safar—which means “to travel” in Arabic—Mahmoud Chouki will collaborate with Amigos de Samba. This series of site-specific performances for Bodies of Knowledge explore how music can speak across cultural divides to envision new forms of dialogue between East and West.
Chouki is a master guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and composer living and working in New Orleans. His art draws together music from many different international contexts to consider how music can speak across cultural divides. His own compositions incorporate musical influences from across the globe, ranging from European classical, Andalusian from Southern Spain, Levantine music from the Middle East, Maghrebian music from North Africa, Latin American music, and jazz from the southern United States.
The Amigos specialize in samba traditionally played around a table with a variety of Brazilian percussion and string instruments. Their mission is to bring the “Roda de Samba,” well-known in Brazil, to New Orleans. The group is formed by a mix of Brazilian and US natives, including Ezra Spira-Cohen, Felipe Leite, Leo Oliveira, Nicolas Bell, Scott Myers, and Tedo Oliveira.
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.

Image credit: Edward Spots, Photography by Lois Greenfield © Lois Greenfield

Gallery Talk: Blue Muse with Curator Russell Lord
2019-06-26 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 Photography Curator Russell Lord for a discussion about the tintypes of roots musicians on view in Timothy Duffy: Blue Muse.
Image credit: Timothy Duffy (American, b. 1969), Ironing Board Sam (Sammie Moore), 9th Wonder of the World, Hillsboro, NC, 2015, Tintype, 14 x 14 in., Courtesy of the artist

Gallery Talk: Madonna and Child with Saints, Prophets (Pinnacles) with icon painter Michael Galovic
2019-06-25 12:00 - 13:00
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year.
NOMA welcomes Serbian-Australian artist Michael Galovic to discuss Madonna and Child with Saints, Prophets, a fourteenth-century work by a follower of Bernardo Daddi.
Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Galovic is a graduate of the Belgrade Academy of Applied Arts in 1974. He started painting icons in early 1970 under the influence and guidance of his stepfather, himself a painter, conservator, and restorer of old icons and frescos in Serbia. Australia became Galovic’s new home in early 1990 where he works full-time as an iconographer and artist specializing in religious art. His iconographic paintings. In 2008, he was commissioned to create an icon of St. Benedict for Pope Benedict XVI.

Arts & Letters Series: A Night of Music and Literature with Narrative 4
2019-06-23 18:30 - 21:00
Narrative 4 (N4), in partnership with NOMA’s Art & Letters series, presents an extraordinary night of music and literature.
Eight renowned international authors will read excerpts of their literary work accompanied by a musical composition created to match the piece and the author’s home region. The writers include:

National Book Award-winning author Colum McCann from Ireland
Sierra Club John Muir Awardee Terry Tempest Williams from Utah
New York Times bestselling author from Sierra Leone Ishmael Beah from Sierra Leone
Former Louisiana State Poet Laureate Darrell Bourque
Novelist Ruth Gilligan from Ireland
Persian, Paris-based author Lila Azam Zanganeh
PEN Awardee Rob Spillman from New York

Zydeco superstar Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes of New Orleans will compose the musical pieces. He will be joined onstage by Colm Mac Con Iomaire, famed violinist from the Irish band The Frames. A New Orleans brass band and other local musicians will further enhance this extraordinary once-in-a-lifetime experience.
The event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP at education@noma.org or call 504.658.4128. Doors open at 6:30 pm.
About Narrative 4 (N4)
A Night of Music and Literature is presented as part of N4’s eighth annual global summit which is scheduled to take place in New Orleans from June 21-26 of this year. Narrative 4 harnesses the power of the story exchange to equip and embolden young adults to improve their lives, communities, and the world.

Baby Artsplay! Tiny Explorers Series (Ages 3-4)
2019-06-22 11:00 - 11:30
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 3-4. Learn how to integrate music, movement, and drama into everyday playtime to foster children’s developmental growth.
Saturdays at 11 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.
June 22 | Lesson 4 – “Fun at the Zoo” (Motor Skills)
They all asked for you! Standing on one foot, bending, reaching and walking in circles are important benchmarks for developing motor skills at this age. Let us show you how to get your child’s muscles moving as we mimic animals while singing and parading.
Space is limited. Register today: www.yabap.eventbrite.com
Ideal for ages 3-4.
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.

Baby Artsplay! (Ages 0-3)
2019-06-22 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.
June 22 | Lesson 4 – Tiny Motor Skooters (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.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Lynn Drury
2019-06-21 18:00 - 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 Lynn Drury

ABOUT LYNN DRURY
A performer since childhood, Mississippi-born Lynn Drury relocated to New Orleans in the mid-nineties and has performed her unique style of roots rock on many stages across the city. Over the past two decades, that meticulously cultivated style—NOLAmericana®—has brought Drury’s original music to stages all over the world. Her music, along with her personality, is reflective of her two hometowns—“Mississippi Grit–New Orleans Groove”—as she calls it.
Drury’s impressive catalogue includes “Crossing Frequencies” (2001), “Blackberry Winter” (2002 with Bad Mayo), “Spun” (2003 with Bad Mayo), “All You Need” (2006), “Dal Vivo (2009), “Sugar on the Floor “ (2011), “Come to My House” (2014), and 2017’s critically acclaimed “Rise of the Fall.” She has earned multiple nominations and awards from New Orleans’ most prominent publications.
Her latest release, “Rise of the Fall” showcases Drury’s “exponential growth as a songwriter” and was hailed as “another breakthrough” by Offbeat’s John Swenson.

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: Geoffrey Mann's "The Second Line" Cocktail Service with Curator Mel Buchanan
2019-06-19 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 Decorative Arts Curator Mel Buchanan for a discussion about Geoffrey Mann’s The Second Line Cocktail Service, a set of glassware commissioned by NOMA in shapes that were informed by street conversations and music in New Orleans. A video, shown below, accompanies this display.

Image credit: Geoffrey Mann (British, b. 1980), Jochen Holz, glassworker (German, active London, b. 1970), “The Second Line” Cocktail Service, 2017, Edition 1/1, Glass, 3D-printed nylon plated with gold, Museum purchase, William McDonald Boles and Eva Carol Boles Fund, 2016.23.a-.h

You Are Here Photographer's Perspective Talk with Monique Verdin
2019-06-19 12:00 - 13:00
Louisiana-based photographer Monique Verdin will discuss themes in You Are Here: A Brief History of Photography and Place. Admission is free on Wednesdays to all Louisiana residents courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Verdin is a filmmaker, photographer, and interdisciplinary storyteller who has intimately documented the complex interconnectedness of environment, culture, climate, and change in southeast Louisiana. She is director of the Land Memory Bank & Seed Exchange and a former United Houma Nation Tribal Council member. She serves within the core leadership circle Another Gulf Is Possible Collaborative among brown (Indigenous, Latinx and Desi) women, from Texas to Florida, working to envision just economies, vibrant communities, and sustainable ecologies in the Gulf South. Verdin’s film My Louisiana Love won Best Feature Documentary at the 2015 imagineNATIVE Film Festival.
Image credit: Monique Verdin, The Castle and the Chef Menteur, 2017, Courtesy of the artist
Additional talks by photographers represented in You Are Here will take place on the following dates:
Wednesday, June 26, 3 pm: Allison Beondé
Wednesday, July 10, 3 pm: Johnathon Traviesa
Wednesday, July 24, 3:30 pm: Abdul Aziz
Saturday, July 27, 3 pm: Gallery Talk with Mellon Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper

Baby Artsplay! Tiny Explorers Series (Ages 3-4)
2019-06-15 11:00 - 11:30
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 3-4. Learn how to integrate music, movement, and drama into everyday playtime to foster children’s developmental growth.
Saturdays at 11 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.
June 15 | Lesson 3 – “Opposites Attract” (Word Relations)
Up and down; large and small; big and little; fast and slow. Learning about opposites is a great way for children to develop their critical thinking skills. This early exploration with comparison builds the foundations of a host of mathematical concepts, including understanding measurement, time, and spatial reasoning.
Space is limited. Register today: www.yabap.eventbrite.com
Ideal for ages 3-4.
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.

Baby Artsplay! (Ages 0-3)
2019-06-15 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.
June 15 | Lesson 3 – Express Yourself (Language 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.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Preview screening of The Black Museum
2019-06-14 18:00 - 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 Extended Trio
7 pm: Screening of The Black Museum

NOMA, in partnership with the Louisiana Architecture Foundation and the Louisiana chapter of the National Minority Architects, present the documentary film The Black Museum, giving audiences a sneak peek of one of the featured films in the 2019 Architecture and Design Film Festival: NOLA Film Festival.
The film will be followed by a 30-minute panel discussion.
ABOUT THE BLACK MUSEUM
The Black Museum, directed by Oliver Hardt, takes viewers on a journey through the spectacular National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C.. Through 100,000 square feet of exhibition space spread across eight levels, the museum explores America’s history and culture through the lens of the African American experience. Interviews with the project’s key figures provide detailed insight into the challenges and conflicts during the formative stage of the museum and its overwhelming success during its first year of operation. (2017 | Not rated | 52 minutes)
Read more about the National Museum of African American History and Culture in this feature from NOMA Magazine.
Watch a preview of the film at this link.

ABOUT EXTENDED TRIO
Extended Trio is a New Orleans-based, modern-jazz, piano band featuring Brad Webb, Matt Booth, and Oscar Rossignoli as composers.
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.

NOMA Book Club Group Discussion
2019-06-11 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 Sheila A. Cork at 504.658.4117 or scork@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club.
June 2019 Selection
The Other Alcott: A Novel by Elise Hooper
William Morrow Paperbacks, 2017, ISBN: 978-0062645333
A mix of history and imagination, this debut novel by Elise Hooper focuses on May Alcott, the model for Amy in Little Women, and the youngest sister of the book’s famous author, Louisa May Alcott … May longs to be taken seriously as an artist. But the press has sharply criticized her illustrations for her sister’s book. Louisa, meanwhile, sees May as a high-spirited dilettante, dedicated to having fun. Determined to prove Louisa wrong, May dodges a serious suitor and signs up for rigorous art classes, first in Boston, then in Europe, where she mingles with other artists (some real, like Mary Cassatt, others fictional or composites). Slowly, her skill and confidence grow … Hooper is especially good at depicting the complicated blend of devotion and jealousy so common among siblings. —Kirkus Review
Tuesday, June 11, 12 – 1 p.m. | Book Discussion Group
Friday, June 28, 11:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. | New Books Potluck Lunch

Bring food and set up at 11:30 a.m.
Discuss books and eat at 12 p.m.

Baby Artsplay! Tiny Explorers Series (Ages 3-4)
2019-06-08 11:00 - 11:30
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 3-4. Learn how to integrate music, movement, and drama into everyday playtime to foster children’s developmental growth.
Saturdays at 11 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.
June 8 | Lesson 2 – “Pass It Along” (Social Skills)
Social skills are foundational to learning in all other domains. Children build the capacity for success in preschool and beyond by establishing themselves as individuals, exploring what it means to possess something, and recognizing the emotions of others. Help little ones develop the skills for healthy social interaction by playing passing and sharing games.
Space is limited. Register today: www.yabap.eventbrite.com
Ideal for ages 3-4.
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.

Baby Artsplay! (Ages 0-3)
2019-06-08 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.
June 8 | Lesson 2 – Hello Friend… (Social 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.

Besthoff Sculpture Garden Tour
2019-06-07 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.

Besthoff Sculpture Garden Tour
2019-06-03 12:00 - 13:00, 2019-06-01 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 ten acres adjacent to the museum, the garden contains more than sixty 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.

Museum Highlights Tour
2019-06-01 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.

Baby Artsplay! Tiny Explorers Series (Ages 3-4)
2019-06-01 10:30 - 23:00
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 3-4. 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.
June 1 | Lesson 1 – “1-2-3, Count With Me” (Math Foundations)
We’re making groceries! One-to-one number correspondence, or understanding that the word “one” is directly connected to one item, is an important foundation in math. What better way to explore it than with food? Sing and count along as we play in everyone’s favorite room in the house, the kitchen!
Space is limited. Register today: www.yabap.eventbrite.com
Ideal for ages 3-4.
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.

Baby Artsplay! (Ages 3-4 Workshop)
2019-06-01 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 3–4. 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.
June 1 | Lesson 1 – 1, 2, 3, Count With Me (Counting Skills)
Space is limited. Register today: www.yabap.eventbrite.com
Ideal for ages 3–4.
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.

Mindfulness Intensive Course
2019-06-01 10:00 - 17:00
Join a Mindfulness course under the instruction of Dr. Jayshee Rao for two days, Saturday, June 1, and Sunday, June 2, 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.
$60 for NOMA members | $80 for nonmembers | Registration Required
REGISTER NOW

The two-day course will teach skills to help individuals

Cope with the stress, pain, and challenges of everyday life
Deal with disturbing events with grace and composure
Be present and alive in the here and now

Through guided meditation and brief exercises, participants will learn to develop mindfulness that will help them experience the present moment during everyday activities. Although no specific outcome is promised, participants typically report feeling more focused, more “in-tune” with themselves and others. In addition, research has shown significant beneficial effects in dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, high blood pressure, chronic pain, and diabetes.
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.
For more information, please email education@noma.org.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Susanne Ortner | Gallery Talks on You Are Here: A Brief History of Photography and Place and Keith Sonnier: Until Today
2019-05-31 18:00 - 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 pm | Music by the Susanne Ortner Trio
6 pm | Gallery Talk with Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper on You Are Here: A Brief History of Photography and Place
6:30 pm | Gallery Talk with Curatorial Fellow Allison Young on Keith Sonnier: Until Today

ABOUT THE SUSANNE ORTNER TRIO
Clarinetist/saxaphonist Susanne Ortner will join guitarist Nahum Zdybel and bass player James Singleton for a performance titled “Last Stop Sehnsucht,” featuring acoustic music from disparate traditions. Driven by an “addictive yearning” for deep connection, this stellar trio explores often overlooked twentieth-century repertoire from disparate traditions in an inside/outside kind of way – and with great sensitivity, communication, and fire.
For Susanne Ortner, a desire to find the similar in the different has lead to an exploration of a myriad of musical traditions, as well as collaborations and international concert tours with numerous musicians — mostly in the intimate duo or trio format — such as Belgian Gypsy icon Tcha Limberger, accordionist/pianist Alan Bern, multi-instrumentalist Vince Giordano, pianist Tom Roberts and many others. She was the founder of the German klezmer quartet Sing Your Soul, and collaborates with American klezmer and jazz musicians, mostly in the intimate duo and trio format.
Nahum Thelonious Zdybel is a New Orleans-based guitarist, improviser, and composer who restlessly shifts roles between innovative explorer of improvised music, creative indie rock sideman, and ardent revivalist of early jazz styles and repertoire. Attracted to musical settings that are intimate and sincere, Nahum deploys a playful, hyper-sensitive approach to re-imagine material from disparate musical traditions as baffling combustions of spontaneity and subtle cleverness. Correspondingly at home amongst jazz tunes, free improvisations, original works, and early twentieth-century American music, Nahum is an inventive musician who regards with equal fondness and irreverence his relationship with early jazz, hardcore punk, and unstructured improvisation.
Composer/Double bassist/bandleader James Singleton has been ubiquitous on the New Orleans music scene for more than forty years. He has performed, toured, and recorded in many styles from the earliest New Orleans traditions to R&B, blues, and all imagined types of jazz to punk rock and the avant-garde. The New Orleans traditions he most adheres to are invention, making it new, and making it deep.
ABOUT YOU ARE HERE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND PLACE
You Are Here: A Brief History of Photography and Place both embraces and challenges the photograph’s role as a faithful record of place, examining photography’s successes and failures in rendering, and sharing, fragments of the world. Drawn almost exclusively from NOMA’s permanent collection, the exhibition traces a history of photography from the origins of the medium to the present. Throughout, You Are Here explores photographs of place, photographs in place, and photographs about place, in the hopes of leading us to think more deeply about how photography mediates our experience of the world and other people in it.
ABOUT KEITH SONNIER: UNTIL TODAY
Now in its final days, closing Sunday, June 2, NOMA hosts the first comprehensive museum survey for Keith Sonnier, a pioneering figure in conceptual, post-minimal, video and performance art of the late 1960s. Born in Grand Mamou, Louisiana, in 1941, Sonnier was one of the first artists to incorporate light into sculpture: an innovation that forms the foundation of his subsequent work.
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.

NOMA Book Club Meet the Author Event
2019-05-30 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.
On Thursday, May 30, from 12 – 1 pm, author Anne Boyd Rioux will discuss her book Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters. This event is planned in conjunction with the June book selection of The Other Alcott, A Novel by Elise Hooper, a fictionalized biographical account of Louisa May Alcott’s sister, May Alcott.
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.

The NOLA Project presents The Henchman: A Shakespeare Sequel
2019-05-29 19:00 - 21:00
The NOLA Project returns to the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden for yet another crowd-pleasing outdoor theatrical production in partnership with NOMA.
The Henchman: A Shakespeare Story, an imagined sequel by playwright Michael Aaron Santos to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, reveals the true story of Jacob, the little changeling boy who Oberon and Titania quarreled over many years ago. Unexpectedly learning that he the long-lost son of the King of India, Jacob discovers he must now flee his fairy-world homestead to escape the pursuit of Esau, Jacob’s warmongering brother, who is hellbent on dispatching Jacob, and claiming the throne. Oberon and Titania are forced to send Jacob with his faithful friend Puck to Greece to enlist the aid of Theseus and Hippolyta in an adventurous comedic sequel to the Bard’s timeless tale.
The Henchman runs Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays at 7 pm from May 8 to 31. All seating is bring-your-own. Food trucks will be available at all performances as well as a fully stocked bar. No outside food or drink is allowed inside the Sculpture Garden other than food truck and NOMA bar items. This production will be staged in two locations; Act I will occur in the oak grove in the back of the current garden and Act II will move to the front pine grove during the intermission.
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.
Admission: Adults $25 | NOMA Members $18 | Students with ID $15 | Children (5 – 17) $12
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The Henchman is made possible by a grant from the New Orleans Theatre Association.

Gallery Talk: Curator Katie Pfohl on Keith Sonnier: Until Today
2019-05-29 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 Keith Sonnier: Until Today.

Open Memorial Day | Special Holiday Hours
2019-05-27 12:00 - 17:00
NOMA and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be open for Memorial Day on Monday, May 27, from 12 to 5 pm.
