New Orleans Museum of Art

Hispanic Heritage Celebration with Ecos Latinos
2023-09-15 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts
In partnership with Ecos Latinos, NOMA hosts a Hispanic Heritage Month celebration featuring a night of music in the Lapis Center for the Arts. Doors open at 6:00 pm, and performances begin at 7:00 pm. Light bites will be available from Empanola, as well as a cash bar with specialty cocktails from Café NOMA.
$10 general admission | $5 for NOMA members
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From the Performers
Fermin Ceballos Quartet
Fermin Ceballos studied music at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) and was a professor of music at the Ministry of Culture, National System of Free Schools of the Dominican Republic. His primary musical instruments are the accordion, guitar, piano, and voice. Fermín continually works on several musical projects in the Gulf-South, such as Merengue4-FOUR, a musical project showcasing Dominican Music (Bachata & Merengue Típico), Fermín’s Latin Fusion Orchestra, performing original salsa-inspired compositions and Fermín Acústico, a musical concept interlacing melodies and harmonies with guitar and voice. With all his projects, he performs original compositions based on his fusion of different sounds and musical rhythms. In 2018, Fermín wrote YO VENGO DE TODO LADO (I Come From Everywhere) to honor and celebrate our immigrant diversity, and the National TPS (Temporary Protective Status) Alliance adopted it as their anthem. In 2019, he released his first book of poems in Spanish and English entitled “Pisando Mi Sombra” (Walking My Shadow). At the start of the 2020 pandemic shutdown, Fermín began composing and self-producing his debut solo album. BOCHINCE was released in 2021 and can stream on all online platforms. The album features 14 tracks of original music.
Leonard Jacome
Leonard Jacome was born in Rubio, Táchira State, Venezuela. He is a multi-instrumentalist, arranger, composer, producer, and one of the World’s most prolific and accomplished harpists. He has won numerous awards representing Venezuela abroad and has toured and performed throughout Latin America, the United States, South Africa, Europe, Africa, Japan, Malaysia, and the United Kingdom (UK). Leonard is also working to develop a contemporary identity for the South American harp. He is the creator/inventor of the Venezuelan electric harp, with the support of Camac-Harps of France. Leonard is a Composer and arranger of musical works for the Philharmonic Orchestra and “Big Band Jazz.”
Cristina Kaminis
Christina Kaminis is a Mexican/American singer currently living in New Orleans. Her musical style ranges in genre and languages with hints of Mexican ranchera llanto to Blues, American Standards, and French chansons, as well as Brazilian sounds and rhythms (most of the band hails from Brazil).
Patrice Fisher
Latin jazz harpist/composer Patrice Fisher favors the music of New Orleans, Brazil, and Cuba, saying that not only is the harp ‘comfortable’ harmonically with the music but that elf is drawn to the rhythmic complexities and syncopations: “that’s what makes you want to dance.” Patrice has 16 CDs of original music, the latest being “Happy Socks.” She has performed for over 35 years at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. “An unexpected delight!” raves David Fricke of Rolling Stone Magazine. Gene Scaramuzzo of Gambit newspaper says, “There are many sides to this local composer/harpist. It’s not unusual to see her play a classical gig in the morning and a music club at night. Strong rhythms form the undercurrent of her instrumental music with Arpa.”
Mariangel & Derik, Liquid Rhythm Inc.
Mariangel was born in Venezuela, and Derik was born in New Orleans. Liquid Rhythm Inc. originally began as a performance-based dance company out of New Orleansix with six core members consisting of local dancers with various dance backgrounds, such as Hip-Hop, House, Modern, Jazz, Contemporary, Folkloric, and Ballet, to name a few. LRI wanted to set itself apart from other Salsa dance companies by infusing movements each member knew from previous dance forms into the technical frameworks of the many Salsa styles they studied. Most importantly, have FUN while doing so! LRI doesn’t believe that one style of Salsa or dance is better. They all possess unique qualities that give them such flare and appeal.

About Ecos Latinos
Ecos Latinos is a monthly performance series featuring Hispanic musicians, poets, dancers, and visual artists—both local and international—at schools, hospitals, libraries, and festivals in Louisiana. Additionally, Ecos Latinos produces professionally edited documentary videos showcasing the music of Louisiana composers.
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Additional Credits
The Ecos Latinos Hispanic Heritage Celebration is produced by Musicians for Music and the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Support comes from South Arts, the City of New Orleans, New Orleans Tourism and Cultural Fund, French Market Corporation, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation, the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Economy, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and Louisiana Division of the Arts and the New Orleans Hispanic Heritage Foundation.

Baby Artsplay! (Ages 0–5 years)
2023-09-16 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-09-23 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-09-30 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-10-07 10:30 - 11:00
Join us for Young Audiences of Louisiana Baby Artsplay! Presented by The Helis Foundation. The free six-part workshop series for children ages 0–5 years and their caregivers—inspired by works on view at NOMA!
In person at the museum, YALA’s workshops provide engaging arts-based activities designed to instruct caregivers on how to use the arts at home to promote early learning. Lessons are conducted by certified Louisiana Wolf Trap Teaching Artists, who have expertly crafted multi-sensory experiences that foster children’s natural curiosity for learning.
Baby Artsplay!: Little Helpers
September 2 | Oh, What a Feeling! (Emotional Development) — Register Now
September 9 | Hello, Friend… (Social Skills)— Register Now
September 16 | Express Yourself (Early Language) — Register Now
September 23 | Tiny Motor Scooters (Fine Motor Skills) — Register Now
September 30 | Baby Balancing Acts (Bilateral Integration) — Register Now
October 7 | Tiny Household Helpers (Multiple Development Areas) — Register Now
Each workshop is free with advanced registration. Meet in NOMA’s Great Hall.

About Young Audiences of Louisiana
Young Audiences of Louisiana (YALA) is the leading provider of arts education and integration programs in the state of Louisiana. Founded in 1962 to bring chamber musicians into local classrooms, YALA has adapted and evolved to meet the ever-changing needs of youth throughout the state through its mission of “inspiring, empowering, and uniting children and communities through education, arts, and culture.” YALA offers a comprehensive and creative approach to educating young minds. Fortified with years of experience, YALA draws upon New Orleans’s strong arts culture to provide young people with tools to impact their worlds using art. Through school performances, arts-integrated residencies, extended learning programs and community workshops YALA not only impacts the children of New Orleans, but makes intentional contact with the influential adults in their lives.
About Wolf Trap
Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts is a recognized leader in early childhood arts-integrated learning and instruction. Wolf Trap Institute is scaled nationally, with 17 affiliated organizations and numerous partners in 30 states that deliver arts-integrated education experiences to 60,000 teachers, parents/caregivers, and students annually. Young Audiences of Louisiana is the Louisiana Affiliate of Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts.
About The Helis Foundation
The Helis Foundation is a Louisiana private foundation, established and funded by the William Helis Family. The Art Funds of The Helis Foundation advance access to the arts for the community through contributions that sustain operations for, provide free admission to, acquire works of art, and underwrite major exhibitions and projects of institutions within the Greater New Orleans area.

Fashion Illustration with Artist Rhonda Corley
2023-09-20 17:30 - 18:30 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Explore the art of fashion illustration with artist Rhonda Corley on select Wednesday evenings inside the exhibition Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour. All materials are provided for program participants. Programs are scheduled for on September 20, October 25, and November 1.
This program is intended for ages 13 and up. Registration includes admission to Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour.
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About Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour
From cowboy boots and bathing suits to Hollywood gowns and streetwear, Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour presents American fashion as a powerful emblem of global visual culture. Highlighting experimental art-garments, ready-to-wear classics, and iconic red carpet fashion moments, Fashioning America demonstrates the widespread impact of media and celebrity culture through fashion.
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LOVE in the Garden Presented by Hancock Whitney
2023-09-22 19:00 - 23:00 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
You’re Invited to
LOVE IN THE GARDEN
PRESENTED BY HANCOCK WHITNEY
Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden
Patron Party | 7 pm
Garden Party | 8 pm
LOVE in the Garden Chairs
Carroll Gelderman
Carter Perrilliat
NVC Chair
Elizabeth Grimes
A festive evening featuring the best of New Orleans cuisine, musical performances by NOCCA Trio and Raw Deal, and the annual LOVE Cocktail Challenge sponsored by Sazerac Company, LOVE in the Garden this year was New Orleans’s favorite garden party! Funds raised during LOVE in the Garden provide critical support to NOMA’s exhibitions, programs, and educational initiatives all year round.
For more information about LOVE in the Garden, please email love@noma.org or call 504.658.4121.

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
Presenting Sponsor

Gold

Walda Besthoff

Eileen and Joey Devall

Jane and Rodney Steiner

Silver

Katherine and Tony Gelderman

J. Edgar Monroe Foundation

Bronze

Virginia Besthoff and Nancy Aronson

Blaire Fernandez and Mike Katz

New Orleans and Company

Katie and Gray Stream

Sculpture Fields at Montague Park

Lele and Brent Wood

Benefactor

Ellen and Mac Ball

Cathy and Morris Bart

Belle Chasse Marine Trans.

Valerie Besthoff

Chris Bolen

Jean Caillouet, CPA

Luz and Salvador Caputto

Crescent Sound and Light

Sally Duplantier

EVENT ESPRESSO catering

Gaye and Allen Frederic

Carroll Gelderman and Carter Perriliat

Susan and Jimmy Gundlach

Jennifer and Fred Heebe

Claudio Hemb

Anne Kock

James Kock

Janet and Kevin Krane

Ray Lagasse

Sally and Jay Lapeyre

Tracy Mangles

Kay McArdle

David G. Perlis and Debb Almeida

Primary Eye Care

Pamela and Bill Ryan

Julia and Bo Sanders

Lisa and David Schlakman

Andrew and Robyn Schwarz

Laura Scriba

Kenya and Tod Smith

Janis Van Meerveld and Charles Cerise

Windsor Court Hotel

Yazoo Restorations, LLC

Contributor

Anonymous
Melissa Dovie
Olivier Group LLC

Kathryn and Erin Angeles
Bart and Cherise Farris
Stewart and Renee Peck

Roberta Bartee
Fidelity Bank
VGP – Taylor and Martin Pospisil

Master Gunnery Sergeant Beals
and Mrs. Jessie Beals
Vivian Fonseca and Owen Grossman, MD
Susanne and David Purvis

Mary Beth Benjamin
Kirsten R. Gambrell
Leo J. Radosta

Elizabeth A. Boh
Julie and Ted George
Kathleen and Drew Ramsey

Vivian and Richard Cahn
Becky and Warren Gottsegen
Salty Oyster Media

Ray and Fedora Copeland
Sonia Gupta and Alex Ducros
Susanne Roberts and Ralph Simon

Kristin Crawford – Kimpton Hotel Fontenot
Josephine Sculpture Park
Mrs. Dawn and Dr. Mike Smith

The Artist Cleo
Kathy Kornman
Betty and Greg Speyrer

Joni and Tommy Diaz
Lagniappe Counseling
Gregory St. Etienne

Donald J. DiBartolo
Magnolia Pools, LLC
Suzanne and Bob Thomas

Attorney Amanda Hamm and Ron Diehl
Murphy Appraisal Services LLC
Dawn Adams Wheelahan

Elaine W. Dimiceli
Robin O’Bannon and Richard Bertram
Ann and David Williams

LOVE Committee

Elizabeth and William Alpaugh
Christine and Max Hadley
Richard and Katherine Morales

Mary Beth Benjamin
Jay and Cara Howard
Taylor and Martin Pospisil

Katherine and Ethan Bickford
Anne Kock
Barkley Rafferty and Christopher Tidmore

Will Bryan
Cammie Mayer
Laura Rutledge

Court Burlingame and Allie Willis
Bailey and Malcolm McBee
Ellie Sanders

Claire and Stanton Cagle
Virginia and Calvin Miller
Sam and Andrea Scofield

Caroline and Reiss Eagan
Kathleen Mix
Shelley Tompkins and Alex Landin

Will Erickson and Philips Wood
Emilie Montgomery
William and Megan Wolf

Eliza and Michael Worley

Media Sponsors

Music by NOCCA Trio | 7–8 pm

Entertainment by Raw Deal Band | 8–11 pm
Raw Deal Band is an ensemble based in New Orleans, LA. Offering a scintillating performance of funk and soul hits, this energetic group offers a performance that is full of fire. Their raw, passionate vocalists and smooth, talented musicians present a seamless blend of melodious beats and flawless harmonics. With four amazing vocalists, a world-class horn section, and a menagerie of highly talented artists, Raw Deal Band is here to bring the party to your event. Playing the beloved music of Earth, Wind and Fire, Prince, Rick James, and many others, this band is a blazing flashback to the golden age of classic, soulful funk. Playing with some of the city’s most popular acts, this band has proven itself as a collection of talented musicians, all ready to entertain you.
Participating Restaurants

Acme Oyster House
Elizabeth’s Restaurant
P.F. Chang’s

Angelo Brocato’s Italian Ice Cream and Pastry
G’s Pizza
Picnic Provisions & Whiskey

Aunt Sally’s Pralines
Gracious Bakery and Café
Silk Road

Barracuda
Highly Seasoned Catering, LLC
Southern Candymakers

Blue Oak BBQ
Ice Cream 504
Swiss Confectionery

Café Degas
Jewel of the South
The Station Coffee Shop and Bakery

Café NOMA
Lula Restaurant Distillery
The Vintage

Crescent City Brewhouse
Martin Wine Cellar

Crescent City Steakhouse
Nothing Bundt Cakes – Metairie

Eighth Annual LOVE Cocktail Challenge Sponsored By

Featuring 5 craft cocktails from the city’s most creative bartending talents.
Each bartender will create a unique drink inspired by a variation of LOVE:
FORBIDDEN LOVE • LOVE-HATE • LUST • UNCONDITIONAL LOVE • UNREQUITED LOVE
The Challengers:
Zen Castro | Latitude 29, Esprtitu, and Turning Tables – WINNER OF BEST IN SHOW
Corazon Tequila | Unrequited LOVE | Cocktail Name: Every Breath You Take
Lara Desmond | DBA NOLA and USBG – WINNER OF FAN FAVORITE
Wheatley Vodka | Unconditional LOVE | Cocktail Name: Mi Familia, Mi Corazon
Mark Griffin | Pigeon & Whale
Buffalo Trace Bourbon | LOVE/HATE | Cocktail Name: Love Doesn’t End/It Changes
Chris Hannah | The Bar at the Jewel of the South
Henry Ramos Gin | LUST | Cocktail Name: Vargas Girl
Sam Kiley | Dovetail and Turning Tables
Myers’s Rum | Forbidden LOVE | Cocktail Name: Don’t Funk with My Heart

Art Thrives: Drawing on Sculpture (Ages 55 and up)
2023-09-23 09:00 - 12:00
NOMA’s Art Thrives program creates opportunities exclusively for adults ages 55 and up to learn new skills while building community and having fun. Drawing on Sculpture is a workshop that will guide you from sketching in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden to creating sculpture in our art studio as you learn how to think and work in three dimensions. This workshop will be taught over three Saturdays on September 23, September 30, and October 7 by teaching artist Chicory Miles. Using a variety of materials, you will learn to understand the lines, shapes, and forms in space.
$90 for the entire course | $65 for members
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Space is limited and advanced registration is required.
Please contact jrjohnson@noma.org or 504.658.4140 for more information or to inquire about future Art Thrives programs.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Class time is 9 am–12 pm on these dates:
Saturday Sep 23, 2023
Saturday Sep 30, 2023
Saturday Oct 7, 2023
Participants are expected to attend all three sessions of this course.
What You’ll Need
Wear clothing and shoes that you are comfortable being outdoors in. Protection from the sun is advised (e.g. sunscreen, hats, etc.) All materials are included with registration.
What You’ll Get
You’ll receive pencils and notebooks for sketching, as well as the sculpture you create throughout the workshop. Water will be provided daily.
Please contact jrjohnson@noma.org with any questions.
Financial Assistance
Financial Assistance is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please complete a brief form requesting financial assistance, and a staff member will reach out to you soon.
APPLY FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Chicory Miles moved to New Orleans at the age of fourteen. After receiving her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicory was awarded an internship in the Kohler Arts/Industry residency program. She then moved to San Francisco and began working at the Exploratorium, a museum of science, art, and human perception as a manager in the Center for Public Exhibition. She received her MFA in Sculpture from California College of Arts. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally including Ireland, Italy, Austria, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Berkeley, Mobile, and New Orleans. She has also curated exhibitions including Fictional Science, in SoHo, New York and most recently Towards a New Paradigm in Galway, Ireland. Chicory is Co-Director of the LSU Art in Ireland Summer Program.

NOMA’s Art Thrives programs are supported by E.A. Michelson Philanthropy.

Art Thrives Ring-Making Workshop
2023-09-26 10:00 - 14:00 | Yaya Arts Center, 3322 LaSalle Street, New Orleans, LA, 70115, United States
NOMA’s Art Thrives program creates opportunities exclusively for adults ages 55 and up to learn new skills while building community and having fun. Join us at the YAYA Art Center for our two-day ring-making workshop where teaching artist Kyra Hodes will guide you in learning the basics of metalsmithing. You’ll use copper, fire, stones, and various hand tools to make a beautiful ring designed and hand-crafted by you! Please note that if fine motor skills are challenging for you, assistance will be available to help you complete each step towards crafting your ring. All levels of skill and experience are welcome.
This workshop is offered in conjunction with Ring Redux: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection at NOMA.
$160 for the entire course | $120 for NOMA members
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Space is limited and advanced registration is required. Please contact jrjohnson@noma.org or 504.658.4140 for more information or to inquire about future Art Thrives programs.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE and LOCATION
The Art Thrives Ring-Making Workshop will be held at:
YAYA Arts Center
3322 LaSalle Street
New Orleans, LA, 70115
Class time is 10 am–2 pm on these dates:
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Participants are expected to attend both sessions of this course.

ADDITIONAL PROGRAM INFORMATION
What You’ll Need
Wear clothing and close-toed shoes that you are comfortable working in. This workshop involves some fine motor skills and keen eyesight. Make sure to bring your glasses if you need them. All other materials are included with registration.
What You’ll Get
You’ll receive pencils and notebooks for note-taking, as well as the ring you create during the workshop. Water and lunch will be provided each day.
Please contact jrjohnson@noma.org with any questions.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Kyra Hodes is an artist and metalsmith from St. Louis, Missouri, and based in New Orleans, Louisiana. While working toward her BFA in Fine Arts with a focus in metalwork, she found her love for making jewelry. Her inspiration is derived from the elements. Metalsmithing provides the perfect outlet for her passions: using fire and organically derived materials to create artifacts that embody the environment from which they came. Her work revolves around nature and organic elements—embodying them, isolating them, accentuating them.

NOMA’s Art Thrives programs are supported by E.A. Michelson Philanthropy.

Book Club Discussion: Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
2023-09-26 12:00 - 13:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. In addition to monthly book discussions, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to join.
Book selections are inspired by the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copies, and selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop, where museum members receive a 10% discount.
Meetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm.
For information or questions about the NOMA Book Club, please email education@noma.org.
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September 2023
Book Club Discussion | Tuesday, September 26, 12 pm

FABRIC: The Hidden History of the Material World by Victoria Finlay
Penguin Books, 2022, ISBN-13: 978-1639361632
How is a handmade fabric helping save an ancient forest?
Why is a famous fabric pattern from India best known by the name of a Scottish town? How is a Chinese dragon robe a diagram of the whole universe? What is the difference between how the Greek Fates and the Viking Norns used threads to tell our destiny?
In Fabric, bestselling author Victoria Finlay spins us round the globe, weaving stories of our relationship with cloth and asking how and why people through the ages have made it, worn it, invented it, and made symbols out of it. And sometimes why they have fought for it. She beats the inner bark of trees into cloth in Papua New Guinea, fails to handspin cotton in Guatemala, visits tweed weavers at their homes in Harris, and has lessons in patchwork-making in Gee’s Bend, Alabama – where in the 1930s, deprived of almost everything they owned, a community of women turned quilting into an art form.

Education and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation; Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Conversation and Book Signing: Susan Grant Lewin and Thomas Beller
2023-09-27 18:00 - 19:00 | NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts
In conjunction with the exhibition Ring Redux: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, NOMA presents a talk with Lewin, one of the foremost collectors of 20th– and 21st-century art jewelry, and writer Thomas Beller, who is Director of Creative Writing & Associate Professor of English at Tulane University. Following the conversation, the NOMA Museum Shop hosts a book signing.
Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the admissions desk for directions.

About Ring Redux: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection
The ninety international artists represented in Ring Redux: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection imagine jewelry as a thought-provoking medium, resonating with contemporary art, design, craft, and technology. These artists show a mastery of both traditional and unconventional materials, with rings ranging from gold, diamond, and pearls to found sunglass lenses and goat hair. Innovative techniques and conceptual pieces show jewelers who have given free flight to their imaginations to create objects imbued with sensitivity and humor, beauty and power, subtlety or drama. Ring Redux includes improvisations on the ring form dating from the 1950s to the present, arranged around six themes: Real to Surreal, Drawings in Space, Darkness to Light, Tender to Tough, Geometry Devolves, and All About Color.
Ring Redux: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection is organized by the SCAD Museum of Art, and curated by Ursula Ilse-Neuman. The presentation at NOMA is supported by the Elise M. Besthoff Charitable Foundation.
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En Español: Gallery Talk on Fernando Botero
2023-10-04 12:30 - 13:00
Únanse con nuestra educadora del museo Laura Moreno para una conversación en español sobre la obra Mother and Child de Fernando Botero el 4 de octubre a las 12:30.

Join us in the galleries each Wednesday for weekly talks with artists, curators, and other special guests. During these casual conversations, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA.
Join Museum Educator Laura Moreno for a conversation in Spanish about Fernando Botero’s Mother and Child at 12:30 pm on Wednesday, October 4.
No registration is required. The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free and open to the public seven days a week. When you arrive, please wait at the Besthoff Sculpture Garden office for directions.
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Elders Sacred Talk Series with Bill Summers and Nana Anoa
2023-10-04 17:30 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
NOMA’s Art Thrives initiative for adults 55 and older is proud to partner with the Congo Square Preservation Society to present the Elders Sacred Talk Series, four-panel discussions with prolific elder New Orleanians, celebrating the lives they lead while learning firsthand about the impact they’ve had on the city.
Join us on October 4, at 5:30 pm in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts for the second program featuring our second two honorees of the series: award-winning percussionist Bill Summers and Nana Anoa Nantambu, educator and community leader. Sula Janet Evans of the Congo Square Preservation Society will moderate the conversation. Doors open at 5 pm.

Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the Lapis Center for the Arts.
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About the Speakers
Bill Summers
Bill Summers is a multiple Grammy Award nominee and Billboard Music Award–winning percussionist. He has studied the rhythmic connections between Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas for more than three decades, making him a leader in the field of Afro-Cuban jazz and Latin jazz percussion. Summers performed with Herbie Hancock and worked with Quincy Jones on scores for Roots, The Wiz, and The Color Purple. His performance groups included Bill Summers & Summers Heat, which produced seven albums; Los Hombres Calientes, which produced six albums; and the Headhunters, which released nine albums.
Over the years, Summers recorded and/or toured with numerous artists including Tupac Shakur, Janet Jackson, Anita Baker, Carlos Santana, Young Jeezy, Keyshia Cole, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Malik Yoba, Kenny Loggins, Arsenio Hall, Nina Simone, Dianne Reeves, Prince, Michael Jackson, Sting, Stevie Wonder, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Kool & The Gang, Teddy Pendergrass, Barry White, The Gap Band, Jill Scott, and Earth Wind and Fire.
Bill Summers—Baba Eshubi—is an initiated Priest of Orisha Esu Elegba.
Nana Anoa Nantambu
Nana Anoa Nantambu, daughter of Roy and Mary Booker Cains, is a perpetual educator and student. After attending McDonogh #35 High School, she earned a BS in Mathematics from UNO and a PhD in Education (Research Methods and Statistics) from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She has taught in universities, community colleges, training programs, and her community-based mathematics learning center, Neighborhood Math Place. She also lectured at the University of Maiduguri in Borno State, Nigeria, for four years. As an independent consultant, she provided program evaluations and community assessments for local nonprofit organizations for nearly 18 years. Nana is an initiated Priestess of Yemaya and was crowned in Cuba.
Her present work, her life’s calling, evolved through Wholely Living Simply Living, a not-for-profit organization that she started in Durham, North Carolina, while displaced after Hurricane Katrina. With a mission to foster the well-being and conscious living of Black people, particularly women, and to help transform individuals, families and communities, this mind-body-spirit work has as its guiding principle: Be Transformed by the Perfect Power within You.

About Congo Square Preservation Society
The Congo Square Preservation Society serves as a continuing catalyst in the resurrection and continuation of activities, advocacy, and preservation of historic and sacred Congo Square in New Orleans. Learn more at https://www.congosquarepreservationsociety.org/.

NOMA’s Art Thrives programs are supported by E.A. Michelson Philanthropy.

GOGO Jewelry in the NOMA Museum Shop
2023-10-06 - 2023-10-08 | NOMA Museum Shop
In conjunction with Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour, the NOMA Museum Shop is hosting a three-day pop-up by GOGO Jewelry October 6–8. Products are available in-store only.
From the Designer
Gogo Borgerding is a New Orleans-based jewelry artist. Using sterling silver and brass metal, adding color with anodized aluminum, Gogo creates unique statement cuffs, earrings, and necklaces.

NOMA at Night Feat. Alexey Marti and DJ Pescadilla
2023-10-06 18:00 - 22:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with NOMA at Night—an evening of Latinx and Hispanic music, art, and fun at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
On select Fridays throughout the year, we’re open late so that you can #ExploreNOMA after hours, enjoy special performances and pop-ups, and get creative.
Tickets to NOMA at Night include access to the special exhibition Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour.
$30 General Admission | $15 for Members
PURCHASE TICKETS
Please note that food and drinks are not included in the ticket price. They are available for purchase directly from our partner vendors.

See the Lineup Below

Live Music Performance by Alexey Marti
7:30 PM in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts

DJ set by Pescadilla
6–7:30 PM & 9–9:45 PM in the Great Hall

Food Provided by La Cocinita
6–9 PM on Enrique Alférez Drive
Gallery Talk with Curator Brian Piper
6:30 PM & 9 PM in the second floor Templeman galleries
Art-Making Activity: Hojalatas
6– 9:30 PM on the first floor elevator lobby
Teri Greeves, Abstraction: Kiowa by Design, 2014. Beads on canvas high-heeled sneakers, 11 ½ x 10 x 4 inches. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas. Photography by Edward C. Robinson III
Featured Exhibition | Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour
From cowboy boots and bathing suits to Hollywood gowns and streetwear, Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour presents American fashion as a powerful emblem of global visual culture. Highlighting historical garments, ready-to-wear classics, and iconic red carpet fashion moments, Fashioning America demonstrates the widespread impact of media and celebrity culture through fashion. This bilingual Spanish–English presentation includes more than 100 objects—from a rare 19th-century denim frock coat to a zero-waste wedding dress and Savage X Fenty lingerie—and amplifies the voices of Indigenous, Black, immigrant, and women designers who are often left out of dominant narratives of American fashion history.
Debbie Fleming Caffery, Nigel, Livingston, Louisiana, 2019. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the artist.
Featured Exhibition | Debbie Fleming Caffery: In Light of Everything
Debbie Fleming Caffery has long been recognized as one of the foremost photographers from the American South, but with major bodies of work from Mexico, France, and across the United States, her career has long transcended its Southern roots. In each of the places where she has worked, Caffery has spent significant periods of time living and learning with the people she photographs. Caffery’s work emphasizes the deep emotional relationships between people and place, raises questions about social and economic structures, and explores a wide variety of human relationships and rituals.

Additional Credits
Mahmoud Chouki
NOMA is pleased to work with internationally renowned multi-instrumentalist and composer Mahmoud Chouki, who is organizing musical performances for each NOMA at Night program in collaboration with museum staff.
Thank You to Our Supporters
NOMA at Night is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; 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. Funding has also been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.

En Español: Gallery Talk with Curatorial Fellow Laura Ochoa Rincon
2023-10-11 12:30 - 13:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Únase con Laura Ochoa Rincón, curadora de Decorative Arts Trust, para conversar en español sobre la exposición Fabricando Moda en EE. UU.: de la firmeza al glamour a las 12:30 y 6:00 p. m. el miércoles 20 de septiembre.
Gratis con la entrada a Fabricando Moda en EE. UU.: de la firmeza al glamour. Los miércoles, los residentes de Louisiana reciben entrada general gratuita al museo, cortesía de ls fundacion Helis. El acceso a Fabricando Moda en EE. UU.: de la firmeza al glamour cuesta $10 adicionales por adulto.

Join us in the galleries each Wednesday for weekly talks with artists, curators, and other special guests. During these casual conversations, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA.
Join Decorative Arts Trust Curatorial Fellow Laura Ochoa Rincon for conversations in Spanish about the exhibition Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour at 12:30 and 6:00 pm on Wednesday, September 20.
Free with admission to Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour. On Wednesdays, Louisiana residents receive free general admission to the museum, courtesy of The Helis Foundation. Access to Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour is an additional $10 per adult.
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To book your ticket in advance, click the link above and select the day for the gallery talk you’d like to attend.

Book Club Curatorial Program with Curator Mel Buchanan
2023-10-12 12:00 - 13:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. In addition to monthly book discussions, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to join.
Book selections are inspired by the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copies, and selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop, where museum members receive a 10% discount.
During this curatorial program, Curator Mel Buchanan will discuss the current exhibition Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour. Then, join us on October 26 for the discussion of The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir by André Leon Talley.
Meetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm.
For information or questions about the NOMA Book Club, please email education@noma.org.
Register Now

October 2023
Curatorial Program | Thursday, October 12, 12 pm

The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir by André Leon Talley
Ballantine Books, 2021, ISBN-13: 978-0593129272
During André Leon Talley’s first magazine job, alongside Andy Warhol at Interview, a fateful meeting with Karl Lagerfeld began a decades-long friendship with the enigmatic, often caustic designer. Propelled into the upper echelons by his knowledge and adoration of fashion, André moved to Paris as bureau chief of John Fairchild’s Women’s Wear Daily, befriending fashion’s most important designers (Halston, Yves Saint Laurent, Oscar de la Renta). But as André made friends, he also made enemies. A racially tinged encounter with a member of the house of Yves Saint Laurent sent him back to New York and into the offices of Vogue under Grace Mirabella.
There, he eventually became creative director, developing an unlikely but intimate friendship with Anna Wintour. As she rose to the top of Vogue’s masthead, André also ascended, and soon became the most influential man in fashion.
The Chiffon Trenches offers a candid look at the who’s who of the last fifty years of fashion. At once ruthless and empathetic, this engaging memoir tells with raw honesty the story of how André not only survived the brutal style landscape but thrived—despite racism, illicit rumors, and all the other challenges of this notoriously cutthroat industry—to become one of the most renowned voices and faces in fashion.

Education and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation; Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Japan Fest
2023-10-14 10:00 - 17:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Celebrate Japanese culture through art, performances, food, and more at Japan Fest, organized by NOMA, the Japan Club in New Orleans, and the Consulate General of Japan in Nashville.
Sample Japanese cuisine, enjoy traditional dance groups, martial arts demonstrations, tours with the Japanese Garden Foundation, and film screenings throughout the day. Shop a variety of vendors offering unique goods in a festive atmosphere. Costumes are welcome, please see costume guidelines below.
Please note: NOMA’s special exhibition, Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour, will be closed during Japan Fest. The expansion of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden is not included in the Japan Fest festivities but will be open to the general public.

Pre-purchasing tickets on NOMA’s website is strongly recommended. Tickets are available for purchase at the admissions tables in front of the museum and in front of the main gate of the Besthoff Sculpture Garden.
$10 General Admission | $5 for NOMA Members | Free for 19 years old and under
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Festival Schedule
10:00 am | Kaminari Taiko on the front steps
10:45 am | Welcome and remarks on the front steps
11:oo am–11:30 am | Minyo Japanese Folk Dance Group on the front steps
11:00 am–12:00 pm | PuriKura Panic in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden
11:30 am–12:00 pm | Shogun Martial Arts in the Great Hall
11:30 am–12:00 pm | Japan Society of New Orleans samurai suit fitting on the second floor
11:30 am–12:30 pm | Japanese Garden Foundation tour. Meet at the Japanese Garden Foundation table on the first floor
11:30 am–12:30 pm | Guided tour of the Japanese galleries on the third floor
12:00 pm–12:30 pm | New Orleans Kendo in the Great Hall
12:30 pm–1:00 pm | Kaminari Taiko on the front steps
1:00 pm–1:30 pm | Louisiana Karate Association in the Great Hall
1:30 pm–2:00 pm | Aikido of New Orleans and NOLA Aikido in the Great Hall
1:30 pm–2:30 pm | Japanese Garden Foundation tour. Meet at the Japanese Garden Foundation table on the first floor
1:30 pm–2:30 pm | Guided tour of the Japanese galleries on the third floor
2:00 pm–2:30 pm | Jujitsu Club of SLU in the Great Hall
2:00 pm–2:30 pm | Mechamaid Clubhouse in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden
2:30 pm–3:00 pm | Japan Society of New Orleans samurai suit fitting on the second floor
2:30 pm–3:00 pm | Candy Mix Maids in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden
3:00 pm–3:30 pm | New Orleans Zen Temple Ceremony in the Great Hall
3:00 pm–3:30 pm | NOLA Lolitas Fashion Show in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden
3:30 pm–4:00 pm | Japanese Weekend School with Minyo Dance on the front steps
4:00 pm–4:30 pm | Kaminari Taiko on the front steps

Participants

Ajun Cajun
Japanese Garden Foundation
Louisiana Karate Association
PuriKura Panic

All Nippon Airways
Japan Society of New Orleans
Mechamaid Clubhouse
SHCC Designs

Bambi DeVille
Japanese Weekend School of New Orleans
Minyo Japanese Folk Dance Group
Shogun Martial Arts

Candy 5
JCNO Crafts
New Orleans Kendo
Showtime Sweetie

Candy Mix Maids
JET Alumni Association Mid-South
New Orleans Zen Temple Ceremony
Twootie Tarte

Crane’s Nest Go Club
Jujitsu Club of SLU
Aikido of New Orleans and NOLA Aikido
Violet Sprinkles

Café NOMA
Kaminari Taiko
NOLA Kimekomi

Ikebana
Kawaii NOLA
NOLA Lolitas

Japanese Consulate
Linda Green “Yakamein Lady”
Nori Guys

COSTUME GUIDELINES
For the safety and comfort of all guests, as well as the artwork at NOMA:

Costume masks that obstruct or cover the wearer’s face are prohibited. Face masks covering the nose and mouth for health reasons are welcomed but not required.
Accessories or toy weapons, such as swords, greater than 2 feet in length are not permitted.
No sharp objects are allowed.
Costume components cannot extend more than 2 feet in length from the body.
Please keep all costumes family friendly.

Other restrictions may apply at NOMA’s discretion. A check room will be available for any items not in compliance. For questions regarding costumes, please call 504.658.4100. Please note that admission is required for fashion show participants.

SPONSORS

Japan Club of New Orleans
Donna D. Fraiche, Honorary Consul of Japan
Denka Performace Elastomer

Japan Society of New Orleans
Zen-Noh Grain Corporation
CMP Chugoku Marine Paints, LTD

The Consulate General of Japan in Nashville
CGB Enterprises, Inc.
Japan Foundation New York

Louisiana Office of Tourism
All Nippon Airways

Art Thrives Color Theory Workshop (Ages 55 and up)
2023-10-17 14:00 - 16:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
NOMA’s Art Thrives program creates opportunities exclusively for adults ages 55 and up to learn new skills while building community and having fun.
The power of color in a painting cannot be underestimated. Be it subdued, bright, or absent, it is a key component of any artwork. Along with the ability to mix colors together, understanding color theory allows one to not only create unity, but also to convey emotion in a painting.
Color can be intimidating for beginning painters, and color theory is a body of principles that provide guidance on the relationship between colors and the physiological impacts of certain color combinations. As an artist, one does not necessarily need to be concerned with the complex underlying principles of color theory, but you should understand general applications of color theory and color relationships.
In this workshop, we will use the basic concepts of color theory to learn about how we perceive color. We will explore the qualities of color and how light affects color within a painting. For this workshop, we will work in oil paint since the colors do not change when dry.
$160 for the entire course | $120 for members
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Participants are expected to attend all eight sessions of this course.

Program Schedule
Class time is every Tuesday and Thursday, 2-4 pm on these dates:
Week 1:
October 17 and 19
Week 2:
October 24 and 26
Week 3:
October 31 and November 2
Week 4:
November 7 and 9
Participants are expected to attend all eight sessions of this course.

Additional Program Information
What You’ll Need
Wear clothing and shoes that you don’t mind getting messy. All materials are included with registration.
What You’ll Get
You’ll receive pencils and notebooks for sketching, as well as the work you create throughout the workshop.
Financial Assistance
Financial Assistance is available on a first come, first served basis. Please complete a brief form requesting financial assistance, and a staff member will reach out to you soon.
Apply for Financial Assistance
About the Instructor
Rebecca Birtel Madura is a New Orleans–born visual artist and art educator. Many of her colorful paintings represent humanity’s sometimes detached relationship with nature within an urban environment. Working primarily in oils and mixed media, the emotional impact of color and color relationships is as important as the subject matter itself in her paintings. Recent work is especially concerned with the balance between saturated and muted hues depicted in her abstracted compositions.

NOMA’s Art Thrives programs are supported by E.A. Michelson Philanthropy.

Move Ya Brass Presents Bounce Ya Brass Live in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden
2023-10-21 09:00 - 10:00 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
Move Ya Brass presents a special free Bounce Ya Brass Live dance cardio class with the Young Pinstripe Brass Band in NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden.
Teaching signature New Orleans bounce moves in an aerobics format, this class is open to all levels and ages. No dance experience is needed for the best cardio workout of your life!
Free and open to the public. Capacity is limited, and advance registration is recommended.
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Please note that this wellness class is being filmed for a national PBS program.
Wear athletic clothes or your favorite Move Ya Brass apparel. On the day of the class, please enter the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Henry Thomas Drive in New Orleans City Park. There will be signs directing you to the North Lawn.

About Move Ya Brass
Taking People Off the Sidelines and into the Second Line
Move Ya Brass is a fun, funky New Orleans fitness community and lifestyle group that promotes creating a healthy community of people from all walks of life. Participants come to Move Ya Brass’s fitness classes as strangers, but leave as family. Move Ya Brass promotes happy, positive, and healthy group workouts to help everyone become the best version of themselves.

Baby Artsplay!: Lynda Benglis’s Wave of the World (Ages 0–5)
2023-10-22 10:30
Join us in City Park for Young Audiences of Louisiana’s Baby Artsplay! Presented by The Helis Foundation on Sunday, October 22. This special pop-up program for young children under 5 years old and their caregivers is inspired by Lynda Benglis’s Wave of the World installed in New Orleans City Park within walking distance of the New Orleans Museum of Art.
This pop-up workshop will be led by Wolf Trap trained YALA teaching artist Ja’nese Brooks Galathe. This multi-modal family workshop will include singing, moving, and manipulatives.
After the workshop, please visit other pieces by Lynda Benglis inside NOMA, including Wing, which the museum acquired in 2015 with support from The Helis Foundation.
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This workshop is free, thanks to support provided by The Helis Foundation. Space is limited so register today to reserve your spot.
About Lynda Benglis’s Wave of the World
Lynda Benglis, born in Louisiana, is an American sculptor and visual artist known especially for her wax paintings and poured latex sculptures. Following the 1984 New Orleans World’s Fair, her Wave of the World sculpture sat hidden for decades in a former sewage treatment plant in the City of Kenner outside of New Orleans. The Wave suffered years of neglect that led to surface damage and the loss of a large section of the base.
With the permission of Kenner, which owns the sculpture, and the funding of The Helis Foundation, Benglis personally undertook and supervised the complete restoration of the work in the summer of 2014. The piece was returned to the Modern Art Foundry in New York where Benglis originally created and cast the work.
Benglis worked with 1983-84 team member, Bob Spring, and his son, Jeffrey, present director of Modern Art Foundry, to pour a new base, restore the original patina, and repair the internal plumbing of the fountain. In October of 2015, The Wave of the World (The Wave) returned to public view in City Park’s “Big Lake.”

About Young Audiences of Louisiana
Young Audiences of Louisiana (YALA) is the leading provider of arts education and integration programs in the state of Louisiana. Founded in 1962 to bring chamber musicians into local classrooms, YALA has adapted and evolved to meet the ever-changing needs of youth throughout the state through its mission of “inspiring, empowering, and uniting children and communities through education, arts, and culture.” YALA offers a comprehensive and creative approach to educating young minds. Fortified with years of experience, YALA draws upon New Orleans’s strong arts culture to provide young people with tools to impact their worlds using art. Through school performances, arts-integrated residencies, extended learning programs and community workshops YALA not only impacts the children of New Orleans, but makes intentional contact with the influential adults in their lives.
About Wolf Trap
Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts is a recognized leader in early childhood arts-integrated learning and instruction. Wolf Trap Institute is scaled nationally, with 17 affiliated organizations and numerous partners in 30 states that deliver arts-integrated education experiences to 60,000 teachers, parents/caregivers, and students annually. Young Audiences of Louisiana is the Louisiana Affiliate of Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts.
About The Helis Foundation
The Helis Foundation is a Louisiana private foundation, established and funded by the William Helis Family. The Art Funds of The Helis Foundation advance access to the arts for the community through contributions that sustain operations for, provide free admission to, acquire works of art, and underwrite major exhibitions and projects of institutions within the Greater New Orleans area.

Member Sale at the NOMA Museum Shop
2023-10-23 09:00 - 18:00
Start your holiday shopping early!
NOMA members save 20% on all regularly priced items and get first access to 70% markdowns in the NOMA Museum Shop. Exclusions apply. Not combinable with other offers [There are no additional discounts on already marked-down items, as well as consignment merchandise.]
Not yet a member? Join today at any level to get access to the NOMA Museum Shop’s annual sale.
Become a Member

Book Club Discussion: The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir
2023-10-26 12:00 - 13:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. In addition to monthly book discussions, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to join.
Book selections are inspired by the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copies, and selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop, where museum members receive a 10% discount.
Meetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm.
For information or questions about the NOMA Book Club, please email education@noma.org.
Register Now

October 2023
Book Club Discussion | Thursday, October 26, 12 pm

The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir by André Leon Talley
Ballantine Books, 2021, ISBN-13: 978-0593129272
During André Leon Talley’s first magazine job, alongside Andy Warhol at Interview, a fateful meeting with Karl Lagerfeld began a decades-long friendship with the enigmatic, often caustic designer. Propelled into the upper echelons by his knowledge and adoration of fashion, André moved to Paris as bureau chief of John Fairchild’s Women’s Wear Daily, befriending fashion’s most important designers (Halston, Yves Saint Laurent, Oscar de la Renta). But as André made friends, he also made enemies. A racially tinged encounter with a member of the house of Yves Saint Laurent sent him back to New York and into the offices of Vogue under Grace Mirabella.
There, he eventually became creative director, developing an unlikely but intimate friendship with Anna Wintour. As she rose to the top of Vogue’s masthead, André also ascended, and soon became the most influential man in fashion.
The Chiffon Trenches offers a candid look at the who’s who of the last fifty years of fashion. At once ruthless and empathetic, this engaging memoir tells with raw honesty the story of how André not only survived the brutal style landscape but thrived—despite racism, illicit rumors, and all the other challenges of this notoriously cutthroat industry—to become one of the most renowned voices and faces in fashion.

Education and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation; Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Elders Sacred Talk Series with Ronnie Moore and Doratha “Dodie” Smith Simmons
2023-11-01 17:30 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
NOMA’s Art Thrives initiative and the Congo Square Preservation Society present the Elders Sacred Talk Series with prolific elder New Orleanians, celebrating the lives they lead while learning firsthand about the impact they’ve had on the city.
On November 1, 5:30 pm, in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts, the program will highlight Civil Rights activists Ronnie Moore and Doratha “Dodie” Smith Simmons. Doors open at 5 pm.
Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the Lapis Center for the Arts.
Plan Your Visit
To book your ticket in advance, click the link above.

About the Speakers

Ronnie Moore
Ronnie Moore is a veteran civil rights activist, community developer, and photographer. At the age of 15, he and his peers attempted to integrate a public park in his hometown of New Orleans. In 1961, while a student at Southern University in Baton Rouge, he led a group of 2,500 students to the state capitol to protest the city's hiring policies and segregated lunch counters. That activism led to his arrest and expulsion from the university and prompted his full-time commitment to CORE (the Congress of Racial Equality). Moore worked as a field secretary for CORE from 1961 to 1965, which included establishing voter registration initiatives in parts of Louisiana. From 1965 – 1973, he worked as the executive director of the Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality, Inc. Moore also served as the director of the Institute for Resident Initiatives at Tulane University from 1996 to 2005 and the director of the African American Youth Congress from 1982 to 1994. During his lifetime of activism, Moore was arrested over 17 times and held in solitary confinement for 56 days for advocating for voting rights in Louisiana.

Doratha “Dodie” Smith-Simmons
Doratha “Dodie” Smith-Simmons joined New Orleans chapter of CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) in 1961 when she was 14 or 15 years old. It was one of the most active chapters in the region and she became a very active member participating in sit-ins and picketing. Her participation resulted in police arresting her several times. Her dedication led her to become a Freedom Rider and test the law that made segregation on public buses unconstitutional. She and other members of the New Orleans CORE rode a bus from New Orleans to McComb, MS where they were met with severe violence and some of them suffered life-threatening injuries. “After the rides, Smith-Simmons trained freedom riders and taught members how to participate in nonviolent protests. In the ‘60s, she also worked to integrate hotels and Florida beaches and participated in the March on Washington.

About Congo Square Preservation Society
The Congo Square Preservation Society serves as a continuing catalyst in the resurrection and continuation of activities, advocacy, and preservation of historic and sacred Congo Square in New Orleans. Learn more at https://www.congosquarepreservationsociety.org/.

NOMA’s Art Thrives programs are supported by E.A. Michelson Philanthropy.

Iris 1956 in the NOMA Museum Shop
2023-11-03 18:00 - 21:00 | NOMA Museum Shop
In conjunction with Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour, the NOMA Museum Shop is hosting a permanent jewelry pop-up by Iris 1956 on Friday, November 3, during NOMA at Night, 6–9 pm. Products are available in-store only.

From the Designer
Iris 1956 imagines a new modern ideal in jewelry that balances timeless, ancient, and modern-day minimalist organic forms and shapes into undeniable conversation pieces with refined organic texture. Inspired by ancient culture and nature, our pieces are carefully crafted using the lost-wax casting technique to showcase a sophisticated aesthetic.

NOMA at Night Feat. Double Whisky Trio and Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots
2023-11-03 18:00 - 22:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Unwind from the week with NOMA at Night—an evening of music, art, and fun at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
On select Fridays throughout the year, we’re open late so that you can #ExploreNOMA after hours, enjoy special performances and pop-ups, and get creative.
Tickets to NOMA at Night include access to the special exhibition Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour.
$30 General Admission | $15 for Members
PURCHASE TICKETS
Please note that food and drinks are not included in the ticket price. They are available for purchase directly from our partner vendors.

NOMA AT NIGHT LINE-UP
Meet NOMA’s 2023-24 Creative Assembly cohort during an evening of live music, food, tours, and more inspired by this year’s Creative Assembly theme: New Orleans Neighborhoods.

Live Performance by Double Whisky Trio
6:15–7:30 pm in the Great Hall

Live Performance by Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots
8:00–9:30 pm in the Lapis Center for the Arts
Artist Lounge
6:00–9:30 pm in the Great Hall
Engage in insightful conversations with the Creative Assembly cohort about their artistic processes, gain a deeper understanding of their inspirations, and discover the stories behind their creations.
Gallery Talk with Community Engagement Manager Kelci Baker
6:30 pm and 9 pm in the first-floor elevator lobby
Join Community Engagement Manager, Kelci Baker, for a talk on the inspiration behind the theme for this year’s Creative Assembly, what to expect to see from the cohort during their Assembly year, and the Forever mural by Odili Donald Odita, a representation of the crossroads of life in New Orleans.
Scavenger Hunt
6:00–9:30 pm in Coleman Courtyard
Learn more about the new Creative Assembly Cohort members through a scavenger hunt, and win an exclusive prize.
Art-Making Activity: Memories
6:00–9:30 pm in the first-floor elevator lobby

Featured Exhibition | Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour
From cowboy boots and bathing suits to Hollywood gowns and streetwear, Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour presents American fashion as a powerful emblem of global visual culture. Highlighting historical garments, ready-to-wear classics, and iconic red carpet fashion moments, Fashioning America demonstrates the widespread impact of media and celebrity culture through fashion. This bilingual Spanish–English presentation includes more than 100 objects—from a rare 19th-century denim frock coat to a zero-waste wedding dress and Savage X Fenty lingerie—and amplifies the voices of Indigenous, Black, immigrant, and women designers who are often left out of dominant narratives of American fashion history.

Additional Credits
Mahmoud Chouki
NOMA is pleased to work with internationally renowned multi-instrumentalist and composer Mahmoud Chouki, who is organizing musical performances for each NOMA at Night program in collaboration with museum staff.
Thank You to Our Supporters
NOMA at Night is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; 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. Funding has also been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Music in the Garden Feat. Victoria Doutón and Simon Moushabeck
2023-11-05 14:00 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
NOMA is excited to announce the fall return of Music in the Garden, an outdoor music series. Encounter the sounds of local New Orleans musicians while strolling through the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on select Sunday afternoons beginning at 2 pm.
No registration is required. The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free and open to the public seven days a week.
Plan Your Visit

Music in the Garden Performers
November 5th
Victoria Doutón (trio)
Simon Moushabeck (solo accordion)

Mini Masters at the Library
2023-11-06 10:30 - 11:30 | Norman Mayer Library, 3001 Gentilly Boulevard, New Orleans, LA, 70122, United States
NOMA and the New Orleans Public Library have partnered to bring together art and early literacy activities for this community program designed for children ages 2–5 and their caregivers. Inspired by NOMA’s Mini Masters, an arts-integration program that provides visual arts experiences and museum interaction for preschool students, participants of Mini Masters at the Library will engage in hands-on art-making activities and develop the early literacy skills needed to become ready to read.
Monday, November 6 — Communities and Culture: Exploring our world creatively with people, places, and things (Register now)
Monday, November 13 — Our Environment: A focus on seasons, weather, plants, water, astronomy, and recycling (Register now)
Monday, December 4 — Elements of Art: Awareness of shape, color, line, space, texture, form and value (Register now)
Monday, December 11 — Living Creatures: An artistic look at animals, insects, and their habitats (Register now)
This program is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Please note: Each session takes place at the Norman Mayer Library (3001 Gentilly Boulevard).

NOMA is grateful to the following donors for their support of the Mini Masters program: The City of New Orleans, First Horizon, Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack, Sara and David Kelso, Karen and Henry Coaxum, Hancock Whitney, and The Patrick F. Taylor Foundation.

Gallery Talk on Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour
2023-11-08 12:30 - 13:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Join us in the galleries each Wednesday for weekly talks with artists, curators, and other special guests. During these casual conversations, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA.
This week, please join NOMA’s Museum Shop Manager, Jackie DeBlieux, for a conversation about American fashion designer Christian Siriano’s influence on the fashion industry with focus on Dress for Nicole Byer, Emmy Awards Red Carpet.
Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour admission is required. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the front desk for directions to the appropriate gallery.
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To book your ticket in advance, click the link above and select the day for the gallery talk you’d like to attend.

Partner Session on Race, Equity, and Museums
2023-11-08 17:30 - 19:00
As part of our commitment to be an antiracist and welcoming institution, NOMA is hosting a series of participatory conversations to frankly discuss race, equity, and the museum field and the responsibilities museums have to their audiences. Our goal is to listen to and address the needs of the communities we serve, while deeply assessing opportunities for growth and partnership.
Each conversation will be moderated by an outside moderator and include invited community stakeholders, NOMA staff, and curators.
Due to capacity limitations, advanced registration is requested.
Register Now
If you have any questions, please email partnersessions@noma.org.

Partner Session Dates and Locations
Wednesday, November 8, 5:30 pm in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts
Tuesday, November 14, 5:30 pm in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts
Tuesday, December 12, 8:30 am at Chapter IV (1301 Gravier Street)
Tuesday, January 16, 5:30 pm in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts — Canceled due to inclement weather.
Wednesday, February 28, 8:30 am at Chapter IV (1301 Gravier Street)
Wednesday, March 20, 5:30 pm in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Art
