Sculpture Garden Tour
2019-05-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago)
Join NOMA’s docents for a free guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Fridays, Saturdays, and Mondays, weather dependent, at noon. (Call 504.658.4153 to verify.) Sited on ten 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.

Sculpture Garden Tour
2019-05-06 12:00 - 13:00
Join NOMA’s docents for a free guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Fridays, Saturdays, and Mondays, 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 main gates to the garden, which offers free admission year-round.

Gallery Talk: Curator Russell Lord and Photographer Timothy Duffy discuss Blue Muse
2019-05-08 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 Photography Curator Russell Lord and photographer Timothy Duffy as they discuss Duffy’s series of tintype portraits of contemporary roots musicians, on view in Blue Muse. After the talk, Duffy will sign his companion book in the Museum Shop.

Blue Muse Book Signing with Timothy Duffy
2019-05-08 13:00 - 14:00
Photographer Timothy Duffy, whose tintype portraits of American roots musicians are on view in the exhibition Blue Muse, will sign his companion book of the same title at the Museum Shop from 1 – 2 pm on Wednesday, May 8. Russell Lord, NOMA’s Freeman Family Curator of Photography, wrote the foreword. Arrive early for a Gallery Talk at noon in the exhibition space with Duffy and Lord. New Orleans-based musicians Little Freddie King and Alabama Slim, pictured in the book, are also expected at the book signing.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The tintype is rooted in more than 150 years of photographic method. In this collection of extraordinary portraits, Duffy brings new vitality to this old form, capturing powerful images of musicians who represent the roots of American music. These American blues, jazz, and folk artists are living expressions of a cultural legacy, made and remade by everyday people and passed down through generations. In the hands of the people in Duffy’s portraits, centuries-old traditions find new expression in this digital millennium. Likewise, Duffy’s photographic techniques fuse old forms and the original collodion wet plates with modern lighting. In this collaboration between photographer and artist, music and image meet around a history of struggle, adaptability, and creativity. It is this ethos that Duffy captures in his tintypes. Blue Muse is jointly published by the New Orleans Museum of Art and the University of North Carolina Press.

Gallery Talk: Paper Revolutions with Curatorial Fellow Kelsey Brosnan
2019-05-08 15:00 - 16:00, 2019-05-15 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 Curatorial Fellow Kelsey Brosnan for a discussion about the exhibition Paper Revolutions: French Drawings from the New Orleans Museum of Art.

The NOLA Project presents The Henchman: A Shakespeare Story
2019-05-08 19:00 - 21:00
The NOLA Project returns to the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden for yet another crowd-pleasing outdoor theatrical production in partnership with NOMA.
The Henchman: A Shakespeare Story, an imagined sequel by playwright Michael Aaron Santos to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, reveals the true story of Jacob, the little changeling boy who Oberon and Titania quarreled over many years ago. Unexpectedly learning that he the long-lost son of the King of India, Jacob discovers he must now flee his fairy-world homestead to escape the pursuit of Esau, Jacob’s warmongering brother, who is hellbent on dispatching Jacob, and claiming the throne. Oberon and Titania are forced to send Jacob with his faithful friend Puck to Greece to enlist the aid of Theseus and Hippolyta in an adventurous comedic sequel to the Bard’s timeless tale.
The Henchman runs Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays at 7 pm from May 8 to 26. All seating is bring-your-own. Food trucks will be available at all performances as well as a fully stocked bar. No outside food or drink is allowed inside the Sculpture Garden other than food truck and NOMA bar items. This production will be staged in two locations; Act I will occur in the oak grove in the back of the current garden and Act II will move to the front pine grove during the intermission.
Rain Plan: For productions canceled due to inclement weather, we will notify all ticketed patrons no later than 4pm. Patrons will then receive instructions via email on how they may reschedule their tickets for another performance or request a refund. All ticket purchases for any production that is rained-out mid performance are final.
Admission: Adults $25 | NOMA Members $18 | Students with ID $15 | Children (5 – 17) $12
PURCHASE TICKETS
The Henchman is made possible by a grant from the New Orleans Theatre Association.

The NOLA Project presents The Henchman: A Shakespeare Story
2019-05-09 19:00 - 21:00
ALERT: THE MAY 9 PRODUCTION HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO RAIN.
The NOLA Project returns to the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden for yet another crowd-pleasing outdoor theatrical production in partnership with NOMA.
The Henchman: A Shakespeare Story, an imagined sequel by playwright Michael Aaron Santos to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, reveals the true story of Jacob, the little changeling boy who Oberon and Titania quarreled over many years ago. Unexpectedly learning that he the long-lost son of the King of India, Jacob discovers he must now flee his fairy-world homestead to escape the pursuit of Esau, Jacob’s warmongering brother, who is hellbent on dispatching Jacob, and claiming the throne. Oberon and Titania are forced to send Jacob with his faithful friend Puck to Greece to enlist the aid of Theseus and Hippolyta in an adventurous comedic sequel to the Bard’s timeless tale.
The Henchman runs Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays at 7 pm from May 8 to 26. All seating is bring-your-own. Food trucks will be available at all performances as well as a fully stocked bar. No outside food or drink is allowed inside the Sculpture Garden other than food truck and NOMA bar items. This production will be staged in two locations; Act I will occur in the oak grove in the back of the current garden and Act II will move to the front pine grove during the intermission.
Rain Plan: For productions canceled due to inclement weather, we will notify all ticketed patrons no later than 4pm. Patrons will then receive instructions via email on how they may reschedule their tickets for another performance or request a refund. All ticket purchases for any production that is rained-out mid performance are final.
Admission: Adults $25 | NOMA Members $18 | Students with ID $15 | Children (5 – 17) $12
PURCHASE TICKETS
The Henchman is made possible by a grant from the New Orleans Theatre Association.

Closure of NOMA | Limited hours for Besthoff Sculpture Garden
2019-05-14 10:00 - 18:00
The New Orleans Museum of Art will be closed on May 14. The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be open from 10 am to 2 pm, closing early for a private event. The public is invited to tour the newly expanded sculpture garden on Wednesday, May 15, open from 11 am to 6 pm.

Opening of Besthoff Sculpture Garden Expansion
2019-05-15 11:00 - 18:00
The public is invited to visit NOMA’s newly expanded Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, opening on Wednesday, May 15, at 11 am. Food trucks will be parked in the vicinity from 11 am to 5:30 pm.
The six-acre addition features 26 new works by artists working primarily in the 21st century. The expansion, which broke ground in December 2017, builds on the success of the museum’s existing five-acre Besthoff Sculpture Garden, widely regarded as one of the top sculpture gardens in the world. The existing site is home to 64 sculptures from renowned artists from the 19th century to the present.
Artists featured in the expansion include Larry Bell, Tony Cragg, Johan Creten, Katharina Fritsch, Frank Gehry, Jeppe Hein, Georg Herold, Thomas Houseago, Shirazeh Houshiary, Baltasar Lobo, Robert Longo, Gerold Miller, Beverly Pepper, Pedro Reyes, George Rickey, Ursula van Rydingsvard, Sean Scully, Yinka Shonibare, Frank Stella, Hank Willis Thomas, Bernar Venet, and Fred Wilson. A work by Ugo Rondinone will be installed in the garden in late 2019. Two new works have been commissioned for the site: a 60-foot-long mosaic wall by artist Teresita Fernández, and a glass bridge by Elyn Zimmerman.
Food trucks from LaCocinita, Diva Dawgs and Crepes a la Cart will be parked in the vicinity of the new sculpture garden.
PREVIEW OF WORKS IN THE BESTHOFF SCULPTURE GARDEN EXPANSION

George Rickey (American, 1907 – 2002), Four Open Rectangles, 1978, Stainless steel, Gift of The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Foundation, Installation funded by Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home and Cemeteries, 2018.18

Fred Wilson (American, b. 1954), The Mete of the Muse, 2006, Bronze, paint, Gift of Sydney and Walda Besthoff, 2017.191.a,.b

Jeppe Hein (Danish, b. 1974), Mirror Labyrinth, Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 2017, Steel and mirror, Gift of Sydney and Walda Besthoff, Installation funded by Hancock Whitney, 2019.4

Baltasar Lobo (Spanish, 1910 – 1993), Grande jeune fille a genoux, 1987/1994, Bronze, Gift of Sydney and Walda Besthoff, Installation funded by the Eugenie and, Joseph Jones Family Foundation, 2016.63

Shirazeh Houshiary (Iranian, b. 1955), Exuviae, 2016 – 2017, Glass and stainless steel, Gift of Sydney and Walda Besthoff,
Installation funded by Adrea D. Heebe, 2018.3

Pedro Reyes (Mexican, b. 1972), Epicurus, 2017, Volcanic stone, Gift of Sydney and Walda Besthoff, Installation funded by Liz and Poco Sloss, 2017.194

Yinka Shonibare (British, b. Nigeria, 1962), Wind Sculpture V, 2013, Steel and fiberglass resin, Gift of Sydney and Walda Besthoff, Installation funded by Chuck and Anne Reily, 2014.44

Thomas Houseago (British, b. 1972), Striding Figure (Rome I), 2013, Bronze, Gift of Sydney and Walda Besthoff, 2017.193

Larry Bell (American, b. 1939), Pacific Red (VI), 2016 – 2017, Glass, Gift of Sydney and Walda Besthoff, Installation funded by Cathy and Morris Bart, 2019.1

Hank Willis Thomas (American, b. 1976), History of the Conquest, 2017, Bronze, Gift of Sydney and Walda Besthoff, Installation funded by Brian and Jacki Schneider, 2018.30

Bernar Venet (French, b. 1941), 11 Acute Unequal Angles, 2016, Cor‑ten steel, Gift of Sydney and Walda Besthoff, Installation funded by Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Steeg and Family in memory of Marion, Moise, and Melba Steeg, 2016.132

Frank Stella (American, 1936–2024), Alu Truss Star, 2016. Milled aluminium. Gift of Sydney and Walda Besthoff, 2017.229.

Katharina Fritsch (German, b. 1956), Schädel (Skull), 2017, Painted bronze, Gift of Sydney and Walda Besthoff, Installation funded by The Lupin Foundation, 2018.63

Johan Creten (Belgian, b. 1963), Massu II, 2015, Painted bronze, Gift of Sydney and Walda Besthoff, Installation funded by The Selley Foundation, 2015.66

Ursula von Rydingsvard (German, b. 1942), Dumna, 2015, Bronze, Gift of Sydney and Walda Besthoff, Installation funded by Marla and Lawrence Garvey, 2019.6

Tony Cragg (British, b. 1949), Sinbad, 2000, Bronze, Gift of The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Foundation, 2016.143

Sean Scully (American, b. Ireland, 1945), Colored Stacked Frames, 2017, Stainless steel, paint, Gift of Sydney and Walda Besthoff, Installation funded by Catherine Burns Tremaine, 2017.192

Beverly Pepper (American, b. 1922), Split Ritual II, 1996, Cast iron, Gift of Sydney and Walda Besthoff, Installation funded by Robert John Axtell Williams
and Norris Smith Lupo Williams, 2019.5

Gerold Miller (German, b. 1961), Verstärker 28, 2017, Stainless steel, Gift of Sydney and Walda Besthoff, 2018.4

Georg Herold (German, b. 1947), Liver of Love, 2013, Lacquered bronze, Gift of Sydney and Walda Besthoff,
Installation funded by Katherine and Tony Gelderman, 2017.63

The NOLA Project presents The Henchman: A Shakespeare Story
2019-05-15 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-05-22 19:00 - 21:00
The NOLA Project returns to the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden for yet another crowd-pleasing outdoor theatrical production in partnership with NOMA.
The Henchman: A Shakespeare Story, an imagined sequel by playwright Michael Aaron Santos to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, reveals the true story of Jacob, the little changeling boy who Oberon and Titania quarreled over many years ago. Unexpectedly learning that he the long-lost son of the King of India, Jacob discovers he must now flee his fairy-world homestead to escape the pursuit of Esau, Jacob’s warmongering brother, who is hellbent on dispatching Jacob, and claiming the throne. Oberon and Titania are forced to send Jacob with his faithful friend Puck to Greece to enlist the aid of Theseus and Hippolyta in an adventurous comedic sequel to the Bard’s timeless tale.
The Henchman runs Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays at 7 pm from May 8 to 31. All seating is bring-your-own. Food trucks will be available at all performances as well as a fully stocked bar. No outside food or drink is allowed inside the Sculpture Garden other than food truck and NOMA bar items. This production will be staged in two locations; Act I will occur in the oak grove in the back of the current garden and Act II will move to the front pine grove during the intermission.
Rain Plan: For productions canceled due to inclement weather, we will notify all ticketed patrons no later than 4pm. Patrons will then receive instructions via email on how they may reschedule their tickets for another performance or request a refund. All ticket purchases for any production that is rained-out mid performance are final.
Admission: Adults $25 | NOMA Members $18 | Students with ID $15 | Children (5 – 17) $12
PURCHASE TICKETS
The Henchman is made possible by a grant from the New Orleans Theatre Association.

NOMA Book Club Discussion Group
2019-05-16 12:00 - 13:00
Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. Our full 2019 schedule and reading list has been announced.
Organized by NOMA’s Felix J. Dreyfous Library, the Book Club is an informal group. You do not have to attend every meeting and we understand if you have to leave a discussion or program early. The book club offers several types of programs: a book discussion group that meets once a month (no reading in December), curatorial programs, field trips, and Meet the Author receptions. Most book club programs start promptly at noon, but please arrive at 11:30 a.m. if you wish to bring a sack lunch or meet beforehand. NOMA will provide water and soft drinks.
RSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space.
Please contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club.
May 2019 Selection
Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
Simon & Schuster, 2017, ISBN: 978-1501139154
To write this sweeping biography, Walter Isaacson immersed himself in 7,200 pages of notebooks by Leonardo da Vinci, which are now dispersed across the globe. Da Vinci’s interests were even more divergent than previously known, and Isaacson’s empathetic and deeply researched portrait illustrates how da Vinci willed himself to genius through endless curiosity and a creativity that sometimes crossed over into fantasy. Much like Isaacson’s previous subjects of Ben Franklin and Steve Jobs, da Vinci was a polymath—he was passionate about art, science, nature, and technology, and he never stopped questioning, practicing, or experimenting. Isaacson points out that this is a particular form of genius that can teach us how to live our own lives.
Wednesday, May 1, 12 – 1 p.m. | Curatorial Program with Tracy Kennan, Curator of Education, who will lead a lesson on color.
Thursday, May 16, 12 – 1 p.m. | Book Discussion Group

Nuit Brillante — A Late Night Celebration
2019-05-17 18:00 - 23:55
In celebration of the glowing neon in Keith Sonnier’s retrospective and the dazzling sequined Haitian Vodou flags created by Tina Girouard, sequin artists Edgar Jean-Louis & Georges Valris on display in the Great Hall, NOMA throws open the doors till midnight for Nuit Brilliante. Join us for an evening of live music, performances, gallery talks, dance demonstrations, and more!
Admission is free for NOMA members | $20 for nonmembers (available for purchase in advance or at the door)

6 – 10 pm: Art on the Spot (1st-floor elevator lobby)
6 – 10:30 pm: Food by Cafe NOMA, Diva Dawg, & Haitian food by Fritai NOLA (food truck parked in the entry circle)
6 pm: Gallery Talk with Soraya Jean-Louis (Great Hall)
6 pm: Temple of Color and Sound, a shrine installation by Kristina Kay Robinson (multiple locations)
6:30 pm: Gallery Talk with Carl Joe Williams (Creative Concept Corner)
7 pm: Haitian Dance workshop and dance performance with Chakra Dance Theatre & drummers (Great Hall)
7 – 9 pm: #JacmelOrNewOrleans – Haitian trivia and visual activity table by Haitianola (Elevator Lobby)
9 – 10 pm: Music by Cliff Notez (Great Hall)
10 pm – 12 am: DJ Set with Windows 98 of Arcade Fire (Great Hall)

ABOUT SORAYA JEAN-LOUIS
Soraya Jean-Louis is a Haitian born, Harlem- and Brooklyn-raised and self-described “mixed media queer womynist artist conjuer currently living and loving in New Orleans.” She describes “her love of black womyn and families, motherhood, nature, wildcrafting, Black Feminist Futurisms, comics/graphic novels and the African Diaspora” as central themes in her work.
ABOUT CARL JOE WILLIAMS
Carl Joseph Williams, born in Uptown New Orleans in 1970, attended The New Orleans Center for Creative Art ( NOCCA) where he received his initial art training, followed by studies at the Atlanta College of Art. In Atlanta, Williams flourished in his craft, graduating in 1994 and producing solo exhibitions, participating in several group exhibitions and completing several public art projects. In 2013, Williams mounted a solo exhibition at the George Ohr Museum in Biloxi, Mississippi, and was a recipient of the Joan Mitchell NOLA Studio Artist Residence Program. He was also selected to participate in the 2014 State of the Art exhibition at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. He collaborated with a team of artists to create an interactive work of art in NOMA’s Creative Corner that addresses cultural appropriation.
ABOUT KRISTINA KAY ROBINSON
Kristina Kay Robinson is a writer, curator, and visual artist born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her written, visual, and curatorial work centers the intellectual geographies of Black, Afro-Indigenous, and diasporic peoples and interrogates the modern and ancient connections between world communities while examining the impact of globalization, militarism, and surveillance on society and their intersections with contemporary pop culture.
ABOUT CHAKRA DANCE THEATRE
Chakra Dance Theatre is committed to the preservation, presentation, and teaching of African Diaspora cultures. With an emphasis on Haitian Vodou, the the dance theatre strives to obliterate the negative connotations associated with Vodou and emphasize the beauty of a culture that began in Africa, travelled to Haiti, and landed in New Orleans.
ABOUT HATIANOLA
The goal of Haitianola is to amplify the connection between New Orleans and Haiti by facilitating artistic and cultural exchanges. Haitianola fosters relationship building between New Orleanians and Haitians to encourage personal and financial investment in the well-being and progress of Haitian artists and cultural bearers.
ABOUT CLIFF NOTEZ

Award-winning musician, filmmaker, and organizer, Cliff Notez’ art is a continuous exploration of self. Rooted in hip hop, his art tackles the political and the personal, exploring the intimate consequences of a society where black bodies are easily ignored, forgotten, or disregarded. His debut solo album “When the Sidewalk Ends” was released in 2017 and is available on Spotify and Apple Music. In 2018, Cliff Notez won the Boston Music Award for “New Artist of The Year.”
ABOUT WINDOWS 98
Win Butler (DJ Windows 98) is is a singer, songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist, and DJ. He is one of the co-founders of the Montreal-based indie rock band Arcade Fire.

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

Gallery Talk: You Are Here with Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper
2019-05-22 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 Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper for a discussion about the exhibition You Are Here: A Brief History of Photography and Place.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Conversation with Photographer Rich Frishman
2019-05-24 18:00 - 21:00
Friday Nights at NOMA features an exciting lineup of programs in 2019: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries, the Museum Shop, and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm.

5 – 8 pm | Art on the Spot drop-in activity table
6 pm | Photographer Rich Frishman in conversation with Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper

ABOUT RICH FRISHMAN
Join Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper in conversation with photographer Rich Frishman, among the artists represented in the exhibition You Are Here: A Brief History of Photography and Place. Frishman will discuss his ongoing series Ghosts of Segregation which photographically explores the vestiges of America’s racism as seen in the vernacular landscape: Schools for “colored” children, theatre entrances and restrooms for “colored people,” lynching sites, juke joints, jails, hotels, and bus stations. What is past is prologue. As Frishman writes on his website, “Segregation is as much current events as it is history. These ghosts haunt us because they are so very painfully alive.”
Read an interview with Rich Frishman in NOMA Magazine.
Image credit: Rich Frishman, Colored Entrance, Tylertown, MS, 2018, Archival inkjet print, Promised gift of an anonymous donor
Friday Nights at NOMA is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation; and the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council.

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

Gallery Talk: Curator Katie Pfohl on Keith Sonnier: Until Today
2019-05-29 12:00 - 13:00
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join Curator Katie Pfohl for a discussion about the exhibition Keith Sonnier: Until Today.

The NOLA Project presents The Henchman: A Shakespeare Sequel
2019-05-29 19:00 - 21:00

NOMA Book Club Meet the Author Event
2019-05-30 12:00 - 13:00
Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. Our full 2019 schedule and reading list has been announced.
On Thursday, May 30, from 12 – 1 pm, author Anne Boyd Rioux will discuss her book Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters. This event is planned in conjunction with the June book selection of The Other Alcott, A Novel by Elise Hooper, a fictionalized biographical account of Louisa May Alcott’s sister, May Alcott.
Organized by NOMA’s Felix J. Dreyfous Library, the Book Club is an informal group. You do not have to attend every meeting and we understand if you have to leave a discussion or program early. The book club offers several types of programs: a book discussion group that meets once a month (no reading in December), curatorial programs, field trips, and Meet the Author receptions. Most book club programs start promptly at noon, but please arrive at 11:30 a.m. if you wish to bring a sack lunch or meet beforehand. NOMA will provide water and soft drinks.
RSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space.
Please contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Susanne Ortner | Gallery Talks on You Are Here: A Brief History of Photography and Place and Keith Sonnier: Until Today
2019-05-31 18:00 - 21:00
Friday Nights at NOMA features an exciting lineup of programs in 2019: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries, the Museum Shop, and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm.

5 – 8 pm | Art on the Spot drop-in activity table
5:30 – 8 pm | Music by the Susanne Ortner Trio
6 pm | Gallery Talk with Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper on You Are Here: A Brief History of Photography and Place
6:30 pm | Gallery Talk with Curatorial Fellow Allison Young on Keith Sonnier: Until Today

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

Mindfulness Intensive Course
2019-06-01 10:00 - 17:00
Join a Mindfulness course under the instruction of Dr. Jayshee Rao for two days, Saturday, June 1, and Sunday, June 2, from 10 am to 1 pm and 2 to 5 pm. Mindfulness is defined as a method of experiencing the present moment with open curiosity, without judgment, and with a willingness to be with what is. The course, which is usually offered over eight weeks, is condensed to two days for a weekend intensive, in order to facilitate better attendance and engagement by the participants.
$60 for NOMA members | $80 for nonmembers | Registration Required
REGISTER NOW

The two-day course will teach skills to help individuals

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

Through guided meditation and brief exercises, participants will learn to develop mindfulness that will help them experience the present moment during everyday activities. Although no specific outcome is promised, participants typically report feeling more focused, more “in-tune” with themselves and others. In addition, research has shown significant beneficial effects in dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, high blood pressure, chronic pain, and diabetes.
Dr. Jayashree Rao is a retired pediatric endocrinologist, who spent thirty years teaching, researching, and practicing medicine at LSU Health Sciences Center and Children’s Hospital. For the past several years, Dr. Rao has practiced and led others in practicing mindfulness, employing techniques learned in the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course offered by Dr. Dave Potter.
For more information, please email education@noma.org.

Baby Artsplay! (Ages 3-4 Workshop)
2019-06-01 10:30 - 11:00
Instill a love of art at a young age through a guided, hands-on gallery experience. Young Audiences Wolf Trap teaching artists will present a series of six workshops for caregivers and children ages 3–4. Learn how to integrate music, movement, and drama into everyday playtime to foster children’s developmental growth.
Saturdays at 10:30 am
This free six-part workshop series provides engaging arts based activities designed to instruct caregivers on how to use the arts at home to promote early learning.
June 1 | Lesson 1 – 1, 2, 3, Count With Me (Counting Skills)
Space is limited. Register today: www.yabap.eventbrite.com
Ideal for ages 3–4.
Contact education@noma.org or 504.658.4128 if you have any questions.
About Young Audiences
For over 50 years, Young Audiences of Louisiana has operated arts in education programs that promote academic excellence and social growth through the arts. Studies have shown that students enrolled in Young Audiences programs outperformed their peers on standardized tests, exhibited fewer disciplinary issues, and had increased school attendance.
About Wolf Trap Institute
Young Audiences / Louisiana Wolf Trap has been an affiliate of The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts since 2010. The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, a program of the Wolf Trap Foundation, was established in 1981 under a grant from the Head Start Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services serving children birth through kindergarten. The goal of the Institute is to provide early childhood educators with professional development training in the use of performing arts techniques within educational curriculum goals and outcomes for young children. The infusion of arts-based techniques into daily routines provides powerful teaching strategies that can be used to enhance all areas of development, including emergent literacy, self-esteem and socialization, problem solving, receptive and expressive language, motor skills and self-regulation, science and math, conceptualization, and creativity, in order to provide a solid foundation for all future learning.

Baby Artsplay! Tiny Explorers Series (Ages 3-4)
2019-06-01 10:30 - 23:00
Instill a love of art at a young age through a guided, hands-on gallery experience. Young Audiences Wolf Trap teaching artists will present a series of six workshops for caregivers and children ages 3-4. Learn how to integrate music, movement, and drama into everyday playtime to foster children’s developmental growth.
Saturdays at 10:30 am
This free six-part workshop series provides engaging arts based activities designed to instruct caregivers on how to use the arts at home to promote early learning.
June 1 | Lesson 1 – “1-2-3, Count With Me” (Math Foundations)
We’re making groceries! One-to-one number correspondence, or understanding that the word “one” is directly connected to one item, is an important foundation in math. What better way to explore it than with food? Sing and count along as we play in everyone’s favorite room in the house, the kitchen!
Space is limited. Register today: www.yabap.eventbrite.com
Ideal for ages 3-4.
Contact education@noma.org or 504.658.4128 if you have any questions.
About Young Audiences
For over 50 years, Young Audiences of Louisiana has operated arts in education programs that promote academic excellence and social growth through the arts. Studies have shown that students enrolled in Young Audiences programs outperformed their peers on standardized tests, exhibited fewer disciplinary issues, and had increased school attendance.
About Wolf Trap Institute
Young Audiences / Louisiana Wolf Trap has been an affiliate of The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts since 2010. The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, a program of the Wolf Trap Foundation, was established in 1981 under a grant from the Head Start Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services serving children birth through kindergarten. The goal of the Institute is to provide early childhood educators with professional development training in the use of performing arts techniques within educational curriculum goals and outcomes for young children. The infusion of arts-based techniques into daily routines provides powerful teaching strategies that can be used to enhance all areas of development, including emergent literacy, self-esteem and socialization, problem solving, receptive and expressive language, motor skills and self-regulation, science and math, conceptualization, and creativity, in order to provide a solid foundation for all future learning.

Besthoff Sculpture Garden Tour
2019-06-01 12:00 - 13:00, 2019-06-03 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 ten acres adjacent to the museum, the garden contains more than sixty works by renowned sculptors placed among a picturesque mature grove of pine, magnolia, and moss-draped live oak trees bisected by a lagoon. Represented sculptors include Pierre Auguste Renoir, Rene Magritte, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, George Rodrigue, and Robert Indiana, among others. Meet at the gates to the garden, which offers free admission year-round.

Museum Highlights Tour
2019-06-01 13:00 - 14:00
NOMA docents guide visitors on hour-long tours of either the permanent collection or special exhibitions. Tours are free with NOMA admission. Meet in the Great Hall to join in.
Special group tours can be arranged with two-weeks advance notice. Call Tracy Kennan, Curator of Education, at 504.658.4113.

Besthoff Sculpture Garden Tour
2019-06-07 12:00 - 13:00
Join NOMA’s docents for a free guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Mondays, Fridays, and Saturdays, weather dependent, at noon. (Call 504.658.4153 to verify.) Sited on twelve acres adjacent to the museum, the garden contains more than ninety works by renowned sculptors placed among a picturesque mature grove of pine, magnolia, and moss-draped live oak trees bisected by a lagoon. Represented sculptors include Pierre Auguste Renoir, Rene Magritte, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, George Rodrigue, and Robert Indiana, among others. Meet at the gates to the garden, which offers free admission year-round.

Baby Artsplay! (Ages 0-3)
2019-06-08 10:30 - 11:00
Instill a love of art at a young age through a guided, hands-on gallery experience. Young Audiences Wolf Trap teaching artists will present a series of six workshops for caregivers and children ages 0-3. Learn how to integrate music, movement, and drama into everyday playtime to foster children’s developmental growth.
Saturdays at 10:30 am
This free six-part workshop series provides engaging arts based activities designed to instruct caregivers on how to use the arts at home to promote early learning.
June 8 | Lesson 2 – Hello Friend… (Social Skills)
Space is limited. Register today: www.yabap.eventbrite.com
Ideal for ages 0-3.
Contact education@noma.org or 504.658.4128 if you have any questions.
About Young Audiences
For over 50 years, Young Audiences of Louisiana has operated arts in education programs that promote academic excellence and social growth through the arts. Studies have shown that students enrolled in Young Audiences programs outperformed their peers on standardized tests, exhibited fewer disciplinary issues, and had increased school attendance.
About Wolf Trap Institute
Young Audiences / Louisiana Wolf Trap has been an affiliate of The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts since 2010. The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, a program of the Wolf Trap Foundation, was established in 1981 under a grant from the Head Start Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services serving children birth through kindergarten. The goal of the Institute is to provide early childhood educators with professional development training in the use of performing arts techniques within educational curriculum goals and outcomes for young children. The infusion of arts-based techniques into daily routines provides powerful teaching strategies that can be used to enhance all areas of development, including emergent literacy, self-esteem and socialization, problem solving, receptive and expressive language, motor skills and self-regulation, science and math, conceptualization, and creativity, in order to provide a solid foundation for all future learning.

Baby Artsplay! Tiny Explorers Series (Ages 3-4)
2019-06-08 11:00 - 11:30
Instill a love of art at a young age through a guided, hands-on gallery experience. Young Audiences Wolf Trap teaching artists will present a series of six workshops for caregivers and children ages 3-4. Learn how to integrate music, movement, and drama into everyday playtime to foster children’s developmental growth.
Saturdays at 11 am
This free six-part workshop series provides engaging arts based activities designed to instruct caregivers on how to use the arts at home to promote early learning.
June 8 | Lesson 2 – “Pass It Along” (Social Skills)
Social skills are foundational to learning in all other domains. Children build the capacity for success in preschool and beyond by establishing themselves as individuals, exploring what it means to possess something, and recognizing the emotions of others. Help little ones develop the skills for healthy social interaction by playing passing and sharing games.
Space is limited. Register today: www.yabap.eventbrite.com
Ideal for ages 3-4.
Contact education@noma.org or 504.658.4128 if you have any questions.
About Young Audiences
For over 50 years, Young Audiences of Louisiana has operated arts in education programs that promote academic excellence and social growth through the arts. Studies have shown that students enrolled in Young Audiences programs outperformed their peers on standardized tests, exhibited fewer disciplinary issues, and had increased school attendance.
About Wolf Trap Institute
Young Audiences / Louisiana Wolf Trap has been an affiliate of The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts since 2010. The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, a program of the Wolf Trap Foundation, was established in 1981 under a grant from the Head Start Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services serving children birth through kindergarten. The goal of the Institute is to provide early childhood educators with professional development training in the use of performing arts techniques within educational curriculum goals and outcomes for young children. The infusion of arts-based techniques into daily routines provides powerful teaching strategies that can be used to enhance all areas of development, including emergent literacy, self-esteem and socialization, problem solving, receptive and expressive language, motor skills and self-regulation, science and math, conceptualization, and creativity, in order to provide a solid foundation for all future learning.
