New Orleans Museum of Art

Friday Nights at NOMA: Inventing Acadia Artist Perspective with Hannah Chalew | Gallery Talk and book signing with Southerly Gold
2020-01-24 17:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago)
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 – 8:00 pm | Music by free feral
6 pm | Artist Perspective on Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana with Hannah Chalew
6:30 pm | Gallery Talk and book signing with Southerly Gold
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7 pm | Torkwase Dyson in conversation with Leronn Brooks with an introduction by Allison Young
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8 – 8:30 pm | Performance by Serpentine Choir
ABOUT SOUTHERLY GOLD
In conjunction with the exhibition Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana, an ensemble of photographers known as Southerly Gold will present an installation in the Evelyn L. Burkenroad Creative Concept Studio that revisits many of the locations in south Louisiana painted by landscape artists in the 19th-century. Formed in 2011, Southerly Gold consists of Aubrey Edwards, Ariya Martin, and Elena Ricci. The three women will present contemporary photographs of Louisiana’s evolving terrain. The photographers will sign copies of God’s Country, a bound set of six visual guides to parishes that form the corner borders of Louisiana: Caddo, East and West Carroll, Washington, Cameron, the Felicianas, and Plaquemines. Publication of this work was made possible with funding from the Platforms Grant / The Andy Warhol Foundation.
ABOUT HANNAH CHALEW

Hannah Chalew is an artist raised and currently working in New Orleans. She received her BA from Brandeis University in 2009 and her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2016. Chalew has exhibited widely around New Orleans and the nation. Her work is in the collections of the City of New Orleans and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and published in two creative atlases by writer and activist Rebecca Solnit, Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, co-authored with Rebecca Snedeker, and Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, co-authored with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. In 2018, she was an emerging artist-in-residence at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans. She recently received a Platforms Grant: a regranting effort of Antenna Gallery, Ashe Cultural Arts Center and Pelican Bomb with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation and an Ideascity production grant, funded by the New Museum with support from the National Endowment for the Arts to incubate her work.

ABOUT TORKWASE DYSON
NOMA will host the solo exhibition Torkwase Dyson: Black Compositional Thought | 15 Paintings for the Plantationocene, on view from January 14 through April 19, 2020. Dyson was born in Chicago Illinois, and spent her developmental years between North Carolina and Mississippi. Traversing these regions helped develop a fundamental sensitivity towards urban development, southern landscape and black spatial justice. During her years at Tougaloo College where she majored in Sociology and double minored in Social Work and Fine Art, she began to examine the spatial dynamics of black history and how these histories where connected geographically. Over the next 10 years, Dyson traveled to Africa and South and Central America to strategize with communities of color on ways to attain resource equality. During this time she earned her Bachelors in Fine Arts in Painting from Virginia Commonwealth University and her Masters in Fine Arts in Painting from Yale School of Art. In 2016 Dyson designed and built Studio South Zero (SSZ) a solar-powered mobile studio where the context of nomadicity became the framework for learning and making art about the environment. It was traveling with SSZ that inspired her experimental project The Wynter-Wells Drawing School for Environmental Liberation where she explores contemporary theorizations of space, architecture and the infrastructure of extraction economies.

ABOUT FREE FERAL
free is a multi-disciplinary artist whose songwriting explores psychic landscapes thru blues and folk traditions using cello, viola, guitar, vocals & loops. They have collaborated with Leyla McCalla and Junebug Productions, among others. As a composer, they score film and radio projects, including Last Call, a queer oral history podcast, where they also serve as a producer, editor, and host. free also had the honor to be one of Found Sound Nation’s One Beat fellows for 2019 and is a member of the New Orleans based ensemble, Les Cenelles.
ABOUT SERPENTINE CHOIR
Serpentine is a queer and femme witch choir based out of Bulbancha/New Orleans, dedicated to healing personal and systemic trauma and rebuilding human connection with the earth. Their songs are stories of resiliency, joy, softness, vulnerability, transformation, survival, and deep love. The choir believes that songs change the shape of culture, that songs raise power to call forth change and justice.

Friday Nights at NOMA is presented by The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate and supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation; and the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council.

Gallery Talk: Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana with Assistant Curator Anne Roberts
2020-01-22 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 Assistant Curator Anne Roberts for a discussion about the exhibition Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana.
Image: Henry Chapman Ford, Water Lilies and Spanish Moss, 1874, Oil on canvas, 30 x 48 in., Collection of Fred and Jennifer Hebee

Museum Selfie Day at NOMA
2020-01-21 10:00 - 18:00
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 is #MuseumSelfieDay! Post your selfie at NOMA for a chance to win a one-year Friends & Family membership to the museum.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
• Follow NOMA on Instagram @neworleansmuseumofart
• Take your selfie* at NOMA
*Although selfie means a photo taken of oneself, photos taken by a friend are also allowed
• Geotag “New Orleans Museum of Art” or “NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden”
• Use the hashtags #explorenoma and #museumselfieday2020
• Post your selfie on Instagram by 6 PM on Tuesday, January 21
• NOMA will post the winning selfie on our Instagram Stories to announce the winner of the one-year individual museum membership!
• Any language that is sexist, racist, ableist, etc. will result in disqualification.
Photo courtesy of Instagram user @leighfresina

Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Special Hours
2020-01-20 12:00 - 17:00
The museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be open on January 20 for special holiday hours from noon to 5 pm.

Beyond Gee's Bend: A Community Quilting Workshop
2020-01-18 10:00 - 15:00
Join New Orleans community quiltmakers for a hand-quilting workshop inspired by The Quilts of Gee’s Bend exhibition. The program will include demonstrations and talks by textile artists and a music performance. Tulane Law School’s Dr. Elizabeth Townsend Gard will speak on copyright issues, her provenance workbook project, and her popular community podcast Just Wanna Quilt.
Just Wanna Quilt started as a research project at Tulane Law School. It is now a wide community of quilters learning about their art, copyright, and other intellectual property issues. The popular podcast includes interviews with more than 300 quilt-related people—makers, scholars, historians, inventors, and lawyers.
This workshop is sold out.
For additional information, contact the NOMA Education department at education@noma.org or 504.658.4128.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Arts & Letters Series with Nathaniel Rich discussing Losing Earth | Music by Shawn Williams Band
2020-01-17 17:00 - 21:00
Friday Nights at NOMA features an exciting lineup of programs in 2020: 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 Shawn Williams Band
6:30 pm | Arts & Letters Series: Nathaniel Rich discusses Losing Earth, joined in conversation with Mark Davis, founding director of the Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy of Tulane University and former director of the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana. A book signing will follow in the Museum Shop.
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ABOUT SHAWN WILLIAMS BAND
New Orleans’ pioneering voice in “alt-rock countrybilly serial-killer blues,” Shawn Williams describes her sound as that “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.”
Her debut album Shadow (2017) is a skillfully-mastered collection of originals that moves seamlessly from old-school R&B-inflected rockers to softer, wistful numbers. On recording as in live performance, she conveys a sense of rawness, a depth of feeling, and a lack of pretension that set her apart from the rest of the city’s pool of talented up-and-coming musicians. Aside from her own music, she is also the founder of the all-female Elvis tribute band, Pelvis Breastlies.
ABOUT NATHANIEL RICH
By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change―including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. In Losing Earth, Rich chronicles their story, and ours.
The New York Times Magazine devoted an entire issue to Rich’s groundbreaking chronicle of that decade, which became an instant journalistic phenomenon―the subject of news coverage, editorials, and conversations all over the world. In its emphasis on the lives of the people who grappled with the great existential threat of our age, it made vivid the moral dimensions of our shared plight. Now expanded into book form, Losing Earth tells the human story of climate change in even richer, more intimate terms. It reveals, in previously unreported detail, the birth of climate denialism and the genesis of the fossil fuel industry’s coordinated effort to thwart climate policy through misinformation propaganda and political influence. The book carries the story into the present day, wrestling with the long shadow of our past failures and asking crucial questions about how we make sense of our past, our future, and ourselves. Like John Hersey’s Hiroshima and Jonathan Schell’s The Fate of the Earth, Losing Earth is the rarest of achievements: a riveting work of dramatic history that articulates a moral framework for understanding how we got here, and how we must go forward.
Rich is a writer-at-large for the New York Times Magazine; his essays on literature appear regularly in the Atlantic, Harper’s, and the New York Review of Books. His reported pieces have appeared in various anthologies, including the Best American Nonrequired Reading and the Best American Science and Nature Writing. He is the author of three novels: King Zeno (2018); Odds Against Tomorrow (2013); and The Mayor’s Tongue (Riverhead, 2008).
ABOUT MARK DAVIS
A widely consulted and quoted authority on water law and management, Mark Davis joined Tulane Law School in 2007 as a senior research fellow and founding director of the Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy. In 2017 he also became the director of Tulane’s ByWater Institute which is focused the interdisciplinary aspects of water stewardship and community resilience. He lectures widely on water resource management, is directly involved in helping Louisiana overhaul its long-term water planning and has testified frequently before Congress on the need for a focused and effective commitment to the viability of coastal Louisiana and other vital natural treasures.
Davis spent 14 years as executive director of the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, where he helped shape programs and policies at the state and federal level to improve the stewardship of the wetlands and waters of coastal Louisiana. He has practiced law in Indianapolis, the District of Columbia and Chicago and has taught at the Indiana University (Indianapolis) School of Business and the IIT-Chicago Kent School of Law in Chicago.
Friday Nights at NOMA is presented by The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate and supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation; and the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council.

The Helis Foundation Artist Talk: Teresita Fernández
2020-01-15 18:00 - 19:30
Join artist Teresita Fernández for a discussion about her work as part of The Helis Foundation Artist Talk series. Fernández’s 60-foot mosaic mural Viñales (Mayombe Mississippi) is among the works on view in the expansion of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden.
Fernández’s work is characterized by an interest in perception and the psychology of looking. Her experiential, monumental works are often inspired by a rethinking of landscape and place, as well as by diverse historical and cultural references. Often referencing the natural world, Fernández’s practice emphasizes the connection between place and material by using gold, graphite, iron-ore, and other minerals that have loaded historical ties to colonization and the violence embedded in the landscape. She is a 2005 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and the recipient of numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Artist’s Grant, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award. Fernández’s works have been exhibited both nationally and internationally at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; and MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts; among others. Fernández’s mid-career museum retrospective, Teresita Fernández: Elemental, is currently on view at Pérez Art Museum Miami and will tour throughout the United States. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Admission to NOMA is free for all Louisiana residents on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.

Gallery Talk: Curator Ndubuisi Ezeluomba on Ancestors in Stone
2020-01-15 12:00 - 13:00
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join Ndubuisi Ezeluomba, Françoise Billion Richardson Curator for African Art, for a discussion about the exhibition Ancestors in Stone.

Gallery Talk: Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana with Jeffery Darensbourg
2020-01-11 12:00 - 13:00
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Join writer Jeffery Darensbourg as he discusses works on view in Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana.
Jeffery Darensbourg is a resident artist at Studio in the Woods, an arts collective based in a forested area on the Westbank of Orleans Parish. Darensbourg is an enrolled member and tribal councilperson of the Atakapa-Ishak Nation of mixed Native and Louisiana Creole ancestry. He is interested in the knowledge of flora, fauna, and people his ancestors carried with them and wishes to connect this sort of Louisiana-specific knowledge to the knowledge urban Natives such as himself have in negotiating indigeneity. His work explores the intersections of cultural studies and mixed ethnicity. He describes himself as an “Editor-Who’s-not-a-Chief” of the zine Bulbancha Is Still a Place: Indigenous Culture from New Orleans.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Gallery Talks about Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana
2020-01-10 17:00 - 21:00
Friday Nights at NOMA features an exciting lineup of programs in 2020: 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 Susanne Ortner and Catherine Bent
6 pm | Exhibition walkthrough of Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana with Curator Katie Pfohl
7 pm | Gallery Talk about Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana with Curator Nic Aziz
7:30 pm | Gallery Talk about Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana with Project Coordinator Dorthy Ray of the 1811 Slave Rebellion Reenactment
ABOUT SUSANNE ORTNER AND CATHERINE BENT
The duo of Susanne Ortner on reeds and Catherine Bent on cello will perform in the Great Hall. New Orleans-based German clarinetist and saxophonist, and composer Susanne Ortner is equally conversant in jazz, classical, and a variety of ethnic music. Catherine Bent is a Berklee College of Music professor who found herself in Brazil, with no Portuguese to speak of available to her, but she quickly was embraced by the choro community in Rio de Janeiro. Choro is a string-based music genre, so even though Bent didn’t speak the language, her instrument did the communicating for her.
ABOUT INVENTING ACADIA: PAINTING AND PLACE IN LOUISIANA
A variety of tours and discussions related to Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana will be conducted, with particular emphasis on the portrayal of African Americans in nineteenth-century landscape paintings of the state. Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana is the first major exhibition featuring Louisiana landscape painting in more than forty years. Exploring the rise of landscape painting in Louisiana during the nineteenth century, the exhibition reveals Louisiana’s role in creating—and exporting—a new vision for American landscape painting that was vastly different from that found in the rest of the United States. The exhibition shows how landscape painters from across the globe came together in Louisiana to form a new school of landscape painting that rivaled all others in the country.
Friday Nights at NOMA is presented by The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate and supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation; and the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council.

NOMA Book Club Curatorial Program
2020-01-09 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 2020 schedule and reading list has been announced.
Organized by NOMA’s Felix J. Dreyfous Library, the Book Club is an informal group. You do not have to attend every meeting and we understand if you have to leave a discussion or program early. The book club offers several types of programs: a book discussion group that meets once a month (no reading in December), curatorial programs, field trips, and Meet the Author receptions. Most book club programs start promptly at noon, but please arrive at 11:30 a.m. if you wish to bring a sack lunch or meet beforehand. NOMA will provide water and soft drinks.
RSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space.
Please contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club.
January 2020
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert Picador
Henry Holt & Comany, 2015, ISBN: 1250062187
Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. In prose that is frank, entertaining, and deeply informed, Elizabeth Kolbert tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before. Providing a moving and comprehensive account of the disappearances occurring before our very eyes, Kolbert shows how the sixth extinction is likely to be mankind’s most lasting legacy, compelling us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 12 – 1 pm | CURATORIAL PROGRAM with Russell Lord, Freeman Family Curator of Photography
THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 12 – 1 pm | BOOK DISCUSSION

Gallery Talk: Tina Freeman: Lamentations with Curator Russell Lord
2020-01-08 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 Russell Lord, Freeman Family Curator of Photography, for a discussion about the exhibition Tina Freeman: Lamentations, a seven-year photo-documentation of Louisiana’s wetlands and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic by Tina Freeman.
Image: 20180402_Svalbard_103 Sea ice breaking up in late winter | 20170404_Wetland_Aerials_002 Louisiana wetlands southeast of New Orleans on the east side of the river, south of the Caernarvon diversion

Besthoff Sculpture Garden Tour
2020-01-03 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 eleven 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.

Museum Highlights Tour
2020-01-02 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.

New Year's Day Special Holiday Hours
2020-01-01 11:00 - 17:00
The museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be open on January 1 from 11 am to 5 pm.

New Year's Eve Special Holiday Hours
2019-12-31 11:00 - 17:00
The New Orleans Museum of Art and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be open on December 31st from 11 am to 5 pm.

Closed for Christmas
2019-12-25 10:00 - 18:00
NOMA and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be closed on Wednesday, December 25, in observance of Christmas.

Christmas Eve Holiday Hours
2019-12-24 10:00 - 15:00
The New Orleans Museum of Art and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be open on December 24 from 10 am to 3 pm.

The Helis Foundation Lecture: Regina Agu with Tia-Simone Gardner
2019-12-18 18:00 - 19:00
Regina Agu’s installation of Passage in NOMA’s Great Hall marks the first museum show for the contemporary artist. In a lecture sponsored by The Helis Foundation, Agu will discuss the environmental and historical themes in her creation of panoramas with Tia Simone-Gardner. Admission is free to all Louisiana residents on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Passage was created in partnership with A Studio in the Woods, through an artist residency.
ABOUT REGINA AGU
Regina Agu’s recent work investigates the complex relationships between the landscape and communities of color, with a special focus on the U.S. Gulf Coast region. Her practice employs a variety of tactics and theories drawn from black geographies, critical geography, conceptual writing, and poetry. Her research often involves site exploration and working with and through archives. Agu produces texts, photographs, and drawings, in addition to installations, performances, and collaborative public projects. Her work has been included in exhibitions, public readings, and performances nationally. In 2018, Agu was a Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts + Project Row Houses fellow at the University of Houston, a Lawndale Artist Studio Program resident, and was awarded a residency at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans through a partnership with For Freedoms. Agu received a 2017 Artadia Houston award and was a 2016-2017 Open Sessions participant at The Drawing Center. Agu was the co-director of Alabama Song, a collaboratively-run art space in Third Ward, Houston, which received a 2016 SEED grant from The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Agu is the founder of the Houston-based WOC Reading Group, and her other collaborative projects include Friends of Angela Davis Park and the Houston-based independent small press paratext.
ABOUT TIA-SIMONE GARDNER
Tia-Simone Gardner is an artist, educator, and Black feminist scholar from Birmingham, Alabama. Her practice is interested interdisciplinary strategies that activate ideas of ritual, iconoclasm, and geography. Gardner received her BA in Art and Art History from the University of Alabama in Birmingham. In 2009 she received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Practices and Time-Based Media from the University of Pennsylvania. Gardner participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program as a Studio Fellow and has been an invited artist to a number of national and international artist residencies including the Center for Photography at Woodstock, A Studio in the Woods, and IASPIS Sweden. She has also been awarded a number of fellowships for her work including the McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship. She is currently working on a project on Blackness and the Mississippi River as well as a photographic/writing project with her mother that addresses questions of biopolitics, Black memory and Indigineity by looking at the houses that the women in her family lived in the post-bellum South. Gardner currently lives in Minneapolis.

Gallery Talk: An Ideal Unity: The Bauhaus and Beyond with Curatorial Associate Anne Roberts
2019-12-18 15:00 - 16:00
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join Curatorial Associate Anne Roberts for a discussion about the exhibition An Ideal Unity: The Bauhaus and Beyond.
Image: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (American, b. Hungary, 1894–1946), Advertisement for Schocken Department Store, 1927, Gelatin silver print with applied pigment, 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in., Museum purchase, Women’s Volunteer Committee Fund, 74.64

Gallery Talk: Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana with Curator Katie Pfohl
2019-12-18 12:00 - 13:00
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join Curator Katie Pfohl for a discussion about the exhibition Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana.
Image: Joseph Rusling Meeker, The Acadians in the Atchafalaya, “Evangeline,” 1871, Oil on canvas, 32 1/8 x 42 3/16 in., A. Augustus Healy Fund, The Brooklyn Museum, 50.118

Tina Freeman: Lamentations book signing
2019-12-14 13:00 - 14:00
Photographer Tina Freeman will visit the Museum Shop to sign copies of her book that accompanies the exhibition Tina Freeman: Lamentations. The book includes pairings of photographs by Freeman of Louisiana’s wetlands and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and the Antarctic. Read more about the exhibition in this article from NOMA Magazine.

Studio KIDS!
2019-12-14 10:00 - 12:00
Get Creative with Studio KIDS
This fall, Studio KIDS presents “Text and Textures” art classes for kids on select Saturday mornings from 10 am to noon. Perfect for students ages 5-10 who want to get creative and learn art-making techniques. Studio KIDS explore art in NOMA’s galleries or the Besthoff Sculpture Garden as inspiration for an art project they complete in each session.
Each class features different media and techniques. Register for one class or the entire series. Please register in advance to ensure your spot.
Call 504-658-4128 or email education@noma.org for more information.
Cost per class: $25 members | $30 nonmembers
December 14 | Stained Glass Windows: Make your own winter window using colored cellophane to create a stained glass effect.
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Scent-Blending Workshop with Xodo Botanicals
2019-12-14 10:00 - 12:00
In conjunction with the exhibition Inventing Acadia, scent specialist Jane Bleecker of Xodo Botanicals and visual artist Hannah Chalew invite you to explore your own relationship with scent and sensory memories with this hands-on scent-blending workshop. Participants will be given the opportunity to work with essential oils, native raw materials, and a variety of other fragrance ingredients to blend custom scents for personal use. Participants will be encouraged to contemplate and explore native scent elements as they relate to Louisiana history and the changing landscape of the Gulf South. The workshop includes a tour
No experience necessary. Participants will leave with two custom scents, instructional materials, and a scent notebook for ongoing scent musings.
Advance registration required: $25 NOMA Members | $30 Nonmembers
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PhotoNOLA Keynote Address: Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick
2019-12-12 18:00 - 20:00
In conjunction with the citywide PhotoNOLA Festival, NOMA will host the keynote address by Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick, a husband-and-wife team of New Orleans-based photographers born and raised in the Lower Ninth Ward who have documented Louisiana and its people for more than 35 years.
Please RSVP for limited seating in the NOMA Auditorium.
The work of Calhoun and McCormick spans the music culture of New Orleans, including brass bands, jazz funerals, social aid and pleasure clubs, and Mardi Gras Indians. They have documented river baptisms in rural Louisiana and African American laborers, ranging from sugar-cane scrappers to dockworkers and longshoremen at the Port of New Orleans. As proponents of social activism through photography, Calhoun and McCormick have been granted rare access inside the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola beginning in the 1980s and continuing to today, resulting in a series they titled Slavery: The Prison Industrial Complex. In 2014, their work was selected for the 56th annual Venice Beinnale. They have been featured on the PBS NewsHour, CBS Sunday Morning, National Geographic, Aperture, and The New Yorker, and their photographs have been exhibited at the New Orleans Museum of Art, The Louisiana State Museum, and The Smithsonian Institution’s Anacostia Museum, among others. Learn more and view works from their portfolio by visiting the couple’s website.
Calhoun and McCormick will sign copies of their book Louisiana Medley in the Museum Shop following the lecture.

Arts & Letters: Environmental Justice in New Orleans
2019-12-11 18:00 - 19:00
NOMA’s Arts & Letters series welcomes authors, poets, journalists, playwrights, and literary scholars to the museum for public conversations that reflect on literature at the intersection of arts and culture.
Thomas Beller, an author, journalist and associate professor of English at Tulane University, will be in conversation with Monique Harden, Assistant Director of Law and Policy and the Community Engagement Program Manager at the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, on the subject of her work exposing the secret hiding places of toxic waste in New Orleans, past and present.

Artist's Perspective: Photographer Lily Brooks discusses Tina Freeman: Lamentations
2019-12-11 15:00 - 16:00
Throughout the exhibition of photographs in Tina Freeman: Lamentations, a seven-year photo-documentation of Louisiana’s wetlands and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic by Tina Freeman, fellow artists, including Lily Brooks, will offer their perspective on the subject matter. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
ABOUT LILY BROOKS
Lily Brooks is an instructor of photography at Southeastern Louisiana University. She received a BFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art + Design and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin. In her research, Lily uses photography to describe systems and structures of control—personal, political, and environmental. Her ongoing series We Have to Count the Clouds traces the visual remnants of our relationship to weather and climate..
Image: 20140222_Dritvik_016 Ice along a stream, western Iceland | 20130911_Louisiana_Deltas_270 Healthy marsh along the lower Mississippi River, just west of South Pass by Tina Freeman.

Gallery Talk: Ancestors in Stone with Curator Ndubuisi Ezeluomba
2019-12-11 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 Ndubuisi Ezeluomba for a discussion about Ancestors in Stone, an exhibition centered upon a recently acquired akwanshi stone monolith from the Cross River region of Nigeria, supported with figures and objects rendered in part or whole in stone from other regions of West Africa. The show speaks to the significance of stone as both a natural element and a significant material in the veneration of ancestors. Although carved stones represent ancestors, uncarved stones may also represent ancestors. Such characteristics suggest the importance of stone to this and other African cultures.
Image: Akwanshi, c. 16th century, Stone, Ejagham artist, Nigeria, Museum purchase, Francoise Billion Richardson and Robert P. Gordy Funds, 2019.11

Fragmented Landscapes Film Series
2019-12-07 14:00 - 15:00
On four select Saturdays at 2 pm throughout the run of Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana, NOMA will screen a series of films curated by Maaike Gouwenberg of Deltaworkers collectively titled Fragmented Landscapes/Beyond Acadia.
December 7 | New Ideas about Landscape
December 14 | A Country That is Not of This World
January 11 | Stories and Place
January 18 | The Louisiana Landscape (Read more about the selected films)
In a rapidly changing Louisiana, the natural landscape becomes part of daily life. The fluidity of the marshlands that grow from sediment brought by the Mississippi from the north, and the human interactions that change the course of that natural process, are a constant reminder of our presence in—and impact upon—the area. Fragmented Landscapes/Beyond Acadia presents films that focus on landscapes—films that present the landscape as a way to communicate ideas about representation, where the medium of film is the key to examining the landscape in relation to political histories. The films presented in Fragmented Landscapes/Beyond Acadia are linked to human interference, painful pasts, and the rule of law.
ABOUT MAAIKE GOUWENBERG
Maaike Gouwenberg is a curator and producer working between Europe and the US. Since 2017 she is affiliated with Performa, co-director of Deltaworkers international residency program in New Orleans, and she is part of the mid-length committee at International Film Festival Rotterdam. After running multidisciplinary exhibition space Expodium in Utrecht, Gouwenberg participated in the De Appel Curatorial Program (2006-2007) and worked at If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution (2007 – 2011). She produced major projects at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam including Alexandre Singh’s “The Humans”, Michael Portnoy’s “Relational Stalinism – The Musical,” and “The Ten Murders of Josephine” with Rana Hamadeh. In 2010, Gouwenberg initiated A.P.E. (art projects era) with artist Keren Cytter and curator Kathy Noble.
Film still from The Brother by Léa Triboulet

Gallery Talk on Inventing Acadia with Kelly Presutti
2019-12-07 12:00 - 13:00
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year.
Join Kelly Presutti, an art scholar who contributed to the catalog for Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana, as she describes her research into the exhibition.
Image: Joseph Rusling Meeker, The Acadians in the Atchafalaya, “Evangeline,” 1871, Oil on canvas, 32 1/8 x 42 3/16 in., A. Augustus Healy Fund, The Brooklyn Museum, 50.118
