New Orleans Museum of Art

Gallery Talk with Kristina Kay Robinson | Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined
2024-02-07 18:00 (America/Chicago)
Expand your experience of Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined with monthly gallery talks inside the museum or in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on select Wednesdays: January 31, February 7, March 6, April 3, May 1, June 5, and July 10.
Join Kristina Kay Robinson, whose writing is featured in the exhibition’s Creative Concept Studio located in the 1st-floor elevator lobby, for a conversation about Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined.
Gallery talks are free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
About the Exhibition
This major solo exhibition of work by Wangechi Mutu brings together nearly one hundred sculptures, paintings, collages, drawings, and films to present the breadth of the Kenyan-American artists’ multidisciplinary practice from the mid-1990s to today. On view January 31–July 14, 2024, Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined traces connections between recent developments in Mutu’s sculptures and her decades-long exploration of the legacies of colonialism, globalization, and African and diasporic cultural traditions. The exhibition travels to NOMA from the New Museum, New York.
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About Kristina Kay Robinson
Kristina Kay Robinson is an artist, writer, and scholar born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her writing in various genres has appeared in Art in America, Guernica, The Baffler, The Nation, The Massachusetts Review and Elle among other outlets. Robinson is a 2019 recipient of the Rabkin Prize for Visual Arts Journalism. Currently, she serves as the New Orleans editor-at-large for the Atlanta-based Burnaway magazine.

Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined is organized by the New Museum, New York. Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation. Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Ed Bradley Family Foundation, Agnes Gund, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by The Robert Lehman Foundation. Support for the accompanying publication has been provided by the A4 Arts Foundation.
The presentation in New Orleans is sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Additional support is provided by Delta Airlines, Gladstone Gallery, Walda Besthoff, Victoria Miro Gallery, The Windsor Court, Keith Fox and Tom Keyes, Aimée Farnet Siegel and Mike Siegel, Robin Rankin, Elizabeth Boh, Pat Mitchell and Scott Seydel, Harvey and Marie Orth, and Jeff Childers and Onay Gutierrez

Gallery Talk on Self-Portrait by Margaret Taylor Burroughs
2024-02-21 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, join Dr. Redell Hearn, NOMA’s Chief Educator, for a conversation about Margaret Taylor Burroughs’ Self-Portrait. This talk will be offered at 12:30 pm and 6 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 front desk for directions to the appropriate gallery.
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MEDIUM: ATRs in Art
2024-02-21 17:30 - 19:30
New Orleans is home to vibrant and dynamic spiritual communities spanning city neighborhoods. In celebration of the exhibition Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined, Creative Assembly Cohort member Charm Taylor and local contemporary artists invite you to join a circle to honor and share experiences at the intersection of multidisciplinary art and African traditional religions.

The night will open with poetry from Sha’Condria “iCON” Sibley and sacred drumming. Following, local artists, including Gason Ayisyin, Soraya Jean-Louis, Janese Brookes-Galathe, Luther Gray, Sula Spirit, ÌFÉ, and Charm Taylor, will offer exploratory discussions of their art with an emphasis on Afro-Indigenous cultural memory, home, the environment, and ritual.

Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.

About the Exhibition
This major solo exhibition of work by Wangechi Mutu brings together nearly one hundred sculptures, paintings, collages, drawings, and films to present the breadth of the Kenyan–American artist’s multidisciplinary practice from the mid-1990s to today. On view through July 14, Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined traces connections between recent developments in Mutu’s sculptures and her decades-long exploration of the legacies of colonialism, globalization, and African and diasporic cultural traditions. The exhibition travels to NOMA from the New Museum, New York.
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Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined is organized by the New Museum, New York. Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation. Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Ed Bradley Family Foundation, Agnes Gund, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by The Robert Lehman Foundation. Support for the accompanying publication has been provided by the A4 Arts Foundation.
The presentation in New Orleans is sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Additional support is provided by Delta Airlines, Gladstone Gallery, Walda Besthoff, Victoria Miro Gallery, The Windsor Court, The Azby Fund, Keith Fox and Tom Keyes, Aimée Farnet Siegel and Mike Siegel, Robin Rankin, Elizabeth Boh, Pat Mitchell and Scott Seydel, Harvey and Marie Orth, and Jeff Childers and Onay Gutierrez.

Gallery Talk with Self-Portrait by Margaret Taylor Burroughs
2024-02-21 18:00 - 18:30 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119

Book Club Discussion | Dust
2024-02-22 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. 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 kmccurdy@noma.org.
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February 2024
Book Club Discussion | Thursday, February 22, 12 pm

Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
From a breathtaking new voice, a novel about a splintered family in Kenya—a story of power and deceit, unrequited love, survival and sacrifice.
Odidi Oganda, running for his life, is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi. His grief-stricken sister, Ajany, just returned from Brazil, and their father bring his body back to their crumbling home in the Kenyan drylands, seeking some comfort and peace. But the murder has stirred memories long left untouched and unleashed a series of unexpected Odidi and Ajany’s mercurial mother flees in a fit of rage; a young Englishman arrives at the Ogandas’ house, seeking his missing father; a hardened policeman who has borne witness to unspeakable acts reopens a cold case; and an all-seeing Trader with a murky identity plots an overdue revenge. In scenes stretching from the violent upheaval of contemporary Kenya back through a shocking political assassination in 1969 and the Mau Mau uprisings against British colonial rule in the 1950s, we come to learn the secrets held by this parched landscape, buried deep within the shared past of the family and of a conflicted nation.
Here is a spellbinding novel about a brother and sister who have lost their way; about how myths come to pass, history is written, and war stains us forever.

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.

Member Magic Hours | Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined
2024-02-24 09:00 - 10:00
Step into artist Wangechi Mutu’s world as we open the museum’s galleries early, just for members. Enjoy coffee and pastries on us and then explore painting, sculpture, video, and more from one of the most exciting contemporary artists at work today.
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About the Exhibition
This major solo exhibition of work by Wangechi Mutu brings together nearly one hundred sculptures, paintings, collages, drawings, and films to present the breadth of the Kenyan-American artists’ multidisciplinary practice from the mid-1990s to today. On view January 31–July 14, 2024, Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined traces connections between recent developments in Mutu’s sculptures and her decades-long exploration of the legacies of colonialism, globalization, and African and diasporic cultural traditions. The exhibition travels to NOMA from the New Museum, New York.
Learn More

Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined is organized by the New Museum, New York. Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation. Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Ed Bradley Family Foundation, Agnes Gund, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by The Robert Lehman Foundation. Support for the accompanying publication has been provided by the A4 Arts Foundation.
The presentation in New Orleans is sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Additional support is provided by Delta Airlines, Gladstone Gallery, Walda Besthoff, Victoria Miro Gallery, The Windsor Court, The Azby Fund, Keith Fox and Tom Keyes, Aimée Farnet Siegel and Mike Siegel, Robin Rankin, Elizabeth Boh, Pat Mitchell and Scott Seydel, Harvey and Marie Orth, and Jeff Childers and Onay Gutierrez.

Studio KIDS! | Birds of a Feather (Ages 6–9 and 10–12)
2024-02-25 10:30 - 12:00
Join us at the museum on select weekend mornings for Studio KIDS! youth art-making workshops. We’ll take inspiration from artwork in the galleries or Besthoff Sculpture Garden, then return to the studio to make our own creations with a teaching artist. Registration is required and includes all art-making materials.
$25 members | $30 non-members
Pre-registration required.
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Schedule

BIRDS OF A FEATHER | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM
Examine the enchanting black-and-white photography of birds by Debbie Fleming Caffery in NOMA’s Great Hall, then use your imagination to craft your own mixed-media birds complete with feathers, buttons, and clay.
PROCESS OVER PRODUCT | SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM
Explore the amorphous sculpture of Louisiana native Lynda Benglis, followed by an art-making activity in which the process is more important than the product. The focus is on the joy of creation and using your imagination.
FANTASTICAL CREATURES | SATURDAY, MAY 11, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM
Unlock your creativity in Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined. We’ll design and bring to life imaginative and fantastical creatures inspired by the boundless realms of our imaginations and dreams.

Move Ya Brass in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden: New Orleans, New Year Yoga Sculpt Class
2024-02-25 12:00 - 13:00
Join Move Ya Brass in NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden! Ash Wednesday marks the end of Carnival season and a feeling of the new year here in New Orleans. To start off this new year, we are offering a yoga sculpt class centering themes of renewal, rest, and mindfulness.
This class, led by instructor Arielle Hunter, is a beginner-friendly, dynamic, and physically challenging workout that combines traditional yoga poses with strength training exercises. In this class, participants enhance muscle tone and overall strength while still incorporating yoga’s mindfulness and flexibility aspects.
It offers a well-rounded fitness experience with a focus on building core stability, balance, and cardiovascular endurance. Participants can expect a supportive environment, guidance on proper form, and modifications to suit their fitness level, making it a great choice for those looking to boost both their physical and mental well-being through a structured and invigorating practice.
Please bring your own mat and towel, as the class will be held on the grass.
Enter the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Enrique Alferez Drive, go right, and follow the path past the pavilion to access the North Lawn.
Class will be canceled if temperatures are below 50ºF or inclement weather occurs within two hours before the program. Registrants will be notified if the class is canceled due to inclement weather.
Advance registration is sold out. There will be limited spots available in person at the event on a first come first serve basis. Check-in at the NOMA Sculpture Garden’s North Lawn at the start of the class at 12 pm for available spots.
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About Move Ya Brass
Move Ya Brass Krewe is a fun and funky fitness program from New Orleans started by local jazz vocalist Robin Barnes. Offering free fitness classes around the city, you come to Move Ya Brass fitness classes as a stranger, but leave as family. The MYB mission is to promote a happy, positive, and healthy lifestyle, and to encourage celebrating our daily lives by taking you off the sidelines and into a New Orleans second line!
About the Instructor
Move Ya Brass instructor Arielle Hunter is a Louisiana native and seasoned fitness coach. She will guide you through a sculpting flow practice to enhance strength and balance. Her background in community fitness, Crossfit, and group classes has prepared her to offer options for different fitness levels.

Gallery Talk on Roberto Lugo’s "Stunting" Garniture Set
2024-02-28 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, join Kr3wcial, NOMA Creative Assembly Cohort member, for a conversation about Roberto Lugo’s “Stunting” Garniture Set. This talk will be offered at 12:30 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 front desk for directions to the appropriate gallery.
GET TICKETS
To book your ticket in advance, click the link above and select the day for the gallery talk you’d like to attend.

Fi Yi Yi Forever: A Retirement Celebration Honoring The Life and Legacy of Big Chief Victor Harris
2024-02-28 18:00 - 20:00
Join us to celebrate the retirement of Big Chief Victor Harris after 59 years as a Black Masking Indian with a short film presentation, words of thanks from community leaders, and African drumming. This program is presented by the Retirement Committee to Honor Big Chief Victor Harris and the New Orleans Museum of Art.
The celebration begins at 6:00 pm in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts. Doors open at 5:30 pm.
Free and open to the public. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the Lapis Center for the Arts.

About the Big Chief Victor Harris
Big Chief Victor Harris began his journey as a Black Masking Indian at the age of fifteen with the Yellow Pocahontas Tribe and Chief of Chiefs Tootie Montana. He later became chief of his own tribe, The Mandingo Warriors – Spirit of Fi Yi Yi. Today, Big Chief Fi-Yi-Yi is the longest continuously masking Indian in the history of New Orleans with 58 years of service to the Indigenous culture. Harris created his first suit with the color black and for 2024, Big Chief will close the chapter of this journey with another historic Black suit. Big Chief Fi-Yi-Yi is one of the most recognized chiefs in the city of New Orleans. In addition to being a Big Chief, Victor Harris is a community leader, proud husband, father, and grandfather—plus an inspiration to all!

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

Gallery Talk on In Two Canoe | Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined
2024-03-06 12:30
Expand your experience of Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined with monthly gallery talks inside the museum or in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on select Wednesdays: January 31, February 7, March 6, April 3, May 1, June 5, and July 10.
Join Ra’Jae’ Wolf, NOMA’s Marketing and Communications Associate, for a conversation about Wangechi Mutu’s In Two Canoe, located outside of the Besthoff Sculpture Garden’s pavilion.
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.
About the Exhibition
This major solo exhibition of work by Wangechi Mutu brings together nearly one hundred sculptures, paintings, collages, drawings, and films to present the breadth of the Kenyan-American artists’ multidisciplinary practice from the mid-1990s to today. On view January 31–July 14, 2024, Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined traces connections between recent developments in Mutu’s sculptures and her decades-long exploration of the legacies of colonialism, globalization, and African and diasporic cultural traditions. The exhibition travels to NOMA from the New Museum, New York.
Learn More

Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined is organized by the New Museum, New York. Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation. Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Ed Bradley Family Foundation, Agnes Gund, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by The Robert Lehman Foundation. Support for the accompanying publication has been provided by the A4 Arts Foundation.
The presentation in New Orleans is sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Additional support is provided by Delta Airlines, Gladstone Gallery, Walda Besthoff, Victoria Miro Gallery, The Windsor Court, Keith Fox and Tom Keyes, Aimée Farnet Siegel and Mike Siegel, Robin Rankin, Elizabeth Boh, Pat Mitchell and Scott Seydel, Harvey and Marie Orth, and Jeff Childers and Onay Gutierrez.

Urban Mosaics: Kr3wcial and Charm Taylor Live at the Museum
2024-03-06 19:00 - 21:00
Creative Assembly Cohort artists Kr3wcial and Charm Taylor present “Urban Mosaics,” an unforgettable night of hip-hop at the museum that reflects the cultural vibrancy of New Orleans’s neighborhoods.
For this special performance in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts, the two artists bring together musicians from across the city for a one-night-only presentation.
Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.

Charm Taylor and the Light (Lauren Fuller, Wino Willy, Saint Amethyst)
From the artist: Charm Taylor is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and change-maker. As an independent vocalist and songwriter, Taylor first gained recognition as the lead singer of the electric soul-rock band the Honorable South. She has collaborated with Galactic, Spirit McIntyre, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Mononeon, and more. Her music defies genres and her dynamic performances are infused with themes of ancestral memory, wellness, and deep feminine strength—also evident in her bold visual creations meditating on pathways to liberation. In 2015, she released a critically acclaimed first solo EP, The Road Within, followed by several albums with local indie imprint Sinking City Records, including her album She Is the Future, and her most recent collection Evolution. Taylor has served in the community as an activist and educator, and she is a graduate of Occidental College in Los Angeles.
Kr3wcial and More Love (TJ Nathan, Jemila Dunham, Yahel Yizracyah Yisrael)
From the artist: In the vibrant tapestry of New Orleans’ rich musical heritage, Kr3wcial emerges as a dynamic figure, transcending the boundaries of traditional hip-hop. Born and raised in the heart of the Crescent City, Kr3wcial’s music is a sonic journey through the soul of New Orleans itself. With lyrics that delve deep into the city’s intricate layers—from the gritty streets to the transcendent spirit of its people—he weaves a narrative that is both raw and poetic, reminiscent of the city’s jazz and blues roots. Kr3wcial’s tracks, often enlivened with the pulse of brass and the rhythm of New Orleans, serve as a compelling commentary on the city’s multifaceted nature. Through his verses, he explores themes of resilience, identity, and social consciousness. Beyond the studio, Kr3wcial is a community.

MARI Presents “Beyond the Beautiful Map: Toward Large-Scale Modeling and Community-Engaged Settlement Pattern Research”
2024-03-08 18:00 - 20:00
In celebration of the centennial of the Middle American Research Institute (MARI), director Dr. Marcello A. Canuto gives a lecture in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts: “Beyond the Beautiful Map: Toward Large-Scale Modeling and Community-engaged Settlement Pattern Research.”
Please register in advance to guarantee a seat. Free and open to the public.
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About the Lecture
Despite the long-standing interest in Maya settlement patterns in archaeology, the tropical forest has imposed practical and methodological constraints that have led academics toward local-scale analysis. Ambitious efforts to scale up local models using remote sensing have been continually thwarted by the regionalism and heterogeneity of the Maya Forest.
The use of airborne laser scanning (lidar) as a direct-discovery technique, capable of mapping enormous areas in minute detail, has given the discipline’s macro-scale objectives new life. Lidar provides new approaches to reconstruct Maya settlement patterns at previously unreachable scales by simultaneously recording topography, archaeological settlement, anthropogenic landscape modification, and vegetation.
Here, we use lidar-derived settlement and topographic data to develop a settlement suitability model that identifies constraints on settlement patterning and historical contingencies in the growth of individual cities. We also demonstrate how this approach might give significant information for local modern communities to better manage and steward the natural and cultural resources of locations where the Maya Forest still exists.

About Marcello A. Canuto
Marcello A. Canuto is currently the Director of the Middle American Research Institute and Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University. He received his BA from Harvard University in 1991 and his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002. Before coming to Tulane in 2009, he was an Assistant Professor at Yale University.
He has undertaken archaeological excavations in the Maya region, South America, India, North Africa, and the northeast US. His primary research interest in the Maya area has been on the integrative mechanisms that the ancient Maya used to build and maintain a socio-politically complex society throughout both the Preclassic and Classic periods. More broadly, his interests include household and community dynamics, the development of socio-political complexity in ancient societies, the definition of identity through material culture, and the modern social contexts of archaeology in Mesoamerica. His past research in Honduras investigated the nature of ethnic diversity at Copan.
He now co-directs a project in the understudied Northwest Peten, Guatemala where he investigates the construction of social categories and the mechanisms by which complex socio-political organizations develop and were maintained.
About the Middle American Research Institute
Founded in 1924, the Middle American Research Institute (MARI) at Tulane University strives to promote greater understanding of the vibrant and diverse cultures of Middle America. It stewards an extensive collection of textiles, artifacts, and an archive of letters, field notes, maps, and photographs from the scores of field projects it has sponsored and continues to sponsor. We strive to make these accessible to researchers and the general public through a variety of exhibitions, workshops, and symposia.
Furthermore, MARI continues to support anthropological, archaeological, ethnohistorical, linguistic, and ethnographic research projects throughout Mexico and Central America.
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Social Emotional Learning Workshop (Ages 6 and Up)
2024-03-09 10:00 - 12:00
Social emotional learning (SEL) is an educational framework to help foster social skills that develop and maintain healthy relationships with self and others. The SEL curriculum focuses on recognizing and managing emotions, setting positive goals, demonstrating caring and concern for self and others, and maintaining positive relationships. This program helps to connect these skills with the artists and artworks in the museum’s permanent collection or who are featured in special exhibitions. Designed for children ages 6 and up, the workshop includes an art-making activity, close looking at an object in the collection, storytime, and a movement-based activity. SEL workshops are led and produced in partnership with NOMA’s Teen Art Council (TAC), a cohort of creative high school students and youth leaders who serve as ambassadors for the museum.
Free with museum admission. Advanced registration is encouraged.
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Schedule
SEL WORKSHOP: Self-esteem, Empowerment, and Margaret T.G. Burroughs’s Self-Portrait | Saturday, March 9, 10 AM–12PM
Join us for a social-emotional learning workshop dedicated to building self-esteem and positive thinking. Including age-appropriate object lessons for Margaret T.G. Burrough’s Self-Portrait, art-making activities, storytime, and a healing movement session with Shanda Domango Brown. Domango Brown will be teaching movement and meditation for empowering our youth to cultivate compassion and self-worth from within.

About Our Partners
Domango Training’s mission is to fully empower and equip their clients with the tools to heal themselves physically and spiritually through ancestral connection, movement, and meditation. Domango Training envisions a community where healing is a lifestyle for individuals through physical, spiritual, and wellness practices. Influenced by dance, fitness, somatic and embodiment practices, Shanda Domango Brown has developed a new integrative approach to healing and processing emotions and self-expression, called “healing movement.”

Art in Bloom Presented by First Horizon
2024-03-14 - 2024-03-17
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Art in Bloom Presented by First Horizon
Patron and Preview Party | Wednesday, March 13, 6 pm & 7 pm
On View to the Public | Thursday, March 14–Sunday, March 17
Lecture Series | Thursday, March 14
Luncheon and Fashion Show | Thursday, March 14
Silent Auction | Monday, March 11–Monday, March 18
Art in Bloom Chairs | Jeanne de Laureal and Elizabeth Wooten
NOMA Volunteer Committee Chair | Tully Forrester Jordan
Garden Study Club of New Orleans President | Courtney Le Clercq
One of the most anticipated springtime events in New Orleans, Art in Bloom showcases spectacular floral designs created by garden clubs, floral designers, and creative talents from New Orleans and beyond. Take in fabulous floral installations throughout the museum, learn directly from today’s top design talents, and celebrate spring during the luncheon and fashion show. Your support provides critical resources for both NOMA’s educational initiatives and exhibitions and the Garden Study Club of New Orleans’ community projects.
For sponsorship inquiries and questions about Art in Bloom please email aib@noma.org or call 504.658.4121.

Art in Bloom Admission Tickets
View spectacular floral installations throughout the museum made by floral designers, garden clubs, and other creative talents with Art in Bloom’s general admission tickets. Installations will be on view for the public Thursday, March 14–Sunday, March 17.
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Patron and Preview Party Tickets | Wednesday, March 13, 6 pm and 7 pm
Online Patron and Preview Party ticket sales have closed. Tickets are available at the door.
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Show your support for NOMA and the Garden Study Club of New Orleans by making a donation to Art in Bloom.
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Tickets are non-refundable. In the event that we are unable to host Art in Bloom for any reason, your ticket purchase or sponsorship will be considered a 100% tax-deductible donation.

Art in Bloom Schedule of Events
BIDDING CLOSED—Silent Auction | Monday, March 11–Monday, March 18
Online and in NOMA’s Coleman Courtyard
Bid on this featured work by Mary Ball and items from other artists, designers, and more through Monday, March 18, at 12 pm.

SOLD OUT — Lecture Series | Thursday, March 14 | 10:30 am
Lapis Center for the Arts

Farm-to-Table: Florals & Flavors
Join Greg Campbell and Erick New, co-owners of Garden District in Memphis, Tennessee, and Elizabeth Heiskell, a cookbook author and celebrity chef who operated a catering business and vegetable farm in Oxford, Mississippi until she reinvented her culinary path as a regular on “TODAY Show.” Elizabeth will share stories from the Delta flatlands to the Oxford hills while demonstrating her favorite seasonal vegetable dishes––recipes you can prepare in a few minutes and impress your guests with time and time again. Greg and Erick will complement Elizabeth’s creations with tablescapes using flowers sourced from family-owned farms across the U.S. and abroad that are showcased in their new book Florists to the Field.
SOLD OUT — Luncheon and Fashion Show | Thursday, March 14 | 12:30 pm
City Park’s Pavilion of the Two Sisters
Featuring looks by SOSUSU & Greta Constantine

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The Windsor Court is offering a promotion for attendees visiting New Orleans for Art in Bloom. Use the code ARTINBLOOM2024 when booking to take advantage of this special rate.
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Public Tours of Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined
2024-03-14 14:00
After you see the spectacular floral installations during Art in Bloom Presented by First Horizon, explore Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined, which includes nearly one hundred sculptures, paintings, collages, drawings, and films by one of the leading figures in contemporary art. NOMA docents and staff will lead guided tours of the exhibition at 2 pm each day Wednesday, March 14–Sunday, March 17.
Admission to Art in Bloom Presented by First Horizon is required. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the front desk for directions to the appropriate gallery.
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About Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined
This major solo exhibition of work by Wangechi Mutu brings together nearly one hundred sculptures, paintings, collages, drawings, and films to present the breadth of the Kenyan-American artists’ multidisciplinary practice from the mid-1990s to today. On view through July 14, 2024, Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined traces connections between recent developments in Mutu’s sculptures and her decades-long exploration of the legacies of colonialism, globalization, and African and diasporic cultural traditions. The exhibition travels to NOMA from the New Museum, New York.
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Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined is organized by the New Museum, New York. Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation. Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Ed Bradley Family Foundation, Agnes Gund, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by The Robert Lehman Foundation. Support for the accompanying publication has been provided by the A4 Arts Foundation.
The presentation in New Orleans is sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Additional support is provided by Delta Airlines, Gladstone Gallery, Walda Besthoff, Victoria Miro Gallery, The Windsor Court, The Azby Fund, Keith Fox and Tom Keyes, Aimée Farnet Siegel and Mike Siegel, Robin Rankin, Elizabeth Boh, Pat Mitchell and Scott Seydel, Harvey and Marie Orth, and Jeff Childers and Onay Gutierrez.

POSTPONED — Studio KIDS! | Process Over Product (Ages 6–9 and 10–12)
2024-03-16 10:30 - 12:00
Join us at the museum on select weekend mornings for Studio KIDS! youth art-making workshops. We’ll take inspiration from artwork in the galleries or Besthoff Sculpture Garden, then return to the studio to make our own creations with a teaching artist. Registration is required and includes all art-making materials.
$25 members | $30 non-members
This workshop session has been postponed. If requesting a refund, please contact programs@noma.org.

Schedule

BIRDS OF A FEATHER | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM
Examine the enchanting black-and-white photography of birds by Debbie Fleming Caffery in NOMA’s Great Hall, then use your imagination to craft your own mixed-media birds complete with feathers, buttons, and clay.
PROCESS OVER PRODUCT | TBD, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM
Explore the amorphous sculpture of Louisiana native Lynda Benglis, followed by an art-making activity in which the process is more important than the product. The focus is on the joy of creation and using your imagination.
FANTASTICAL CREATURES | SATURDAY, MAY 11, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM
Unlock your creativity in Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined. We’ll design and bring to life imaginative and fantastical creatures inspired by the boundless realms of our imaginations and dreams.

Gallery Talk with Curatorial Fellow Laura Ochoa Rincon
2024-03-20 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.
This week, join Laura Ochoa Rincon, Decorative Arts Trust Curatorial Fellow for a conversation about the exhibition Rebellious Spirits: Prohibition and Resistance in the South. This talk will be offered at 12:30 pm and 6:00 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 front desk for directions to the appropriate gallery.

Book Club Discussion | Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists
2024-03-21 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. 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 kmccurdy@noma.org.
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March 2024
Book Club Discussion | Thursday, March 21, 12 pm

Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists by Donna Seaman

Who hasn’t wondered where-aside from Georgia O’Keeffe and Frida Kahlo-all the women artists are? In many art books, they’ve been marginalized with cold efficiency, summarily dismissed in the captions of group photographs with the phrase “identity unknown” while each male is named.
Donna Seaman brings to dazzling life seven of these forgotten artists, among the best of their day: Gertrude Abercrombie, with her dark, surreal paintings and friendships with Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Rollins; Bay Area self-portraitist Joan Brown; Ree Morton, with her witty, oddly beautiful constructions; Loïs Mailou Jones of the Harlem Renaissance; Lenore Tawney, who combined weaving and sculpture when art and craft were considered mutually exclusive; Christina Ramberg, whose unsettling works drew on pop culture and advertising; and Louise Nevelson, an art-world superstar in her heyday but omitted from recent surveys of her era.
These women fought to be treated the same as male artists, to be judged by their work, not their gender or appearance. In brilliant, compassionate prose, Seaman reveals what drove them, how they worked, and how they were perceived by others in a world where women were subjects-not makers-of art. Featuring stunning examples of the artists’ work, Identity Unknown speaks to all women about their neglected place in history and the challenges they face to be taken as seriously as men no matter what their chosen field-and to all men interested in women’s lives.

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.

Wellness Through Mindfulness
2024-03-23 10:00 - 11:30
This spring, NOMA presents an eight-part mindfulness course with Dr. Jayashree Rao.
This series of classes will develop skills to help individuals:

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

This eight-week course is held on Saturdays in NOMA’s Woldenberg Boardroom. Through guided meditation and brief exercises, participants will learn to develop mindfulness that will help them experience the present moment during everyday activities.
Although there is no specific promised outcome, participants typically report feeling more focused and more “in-tune” with themselves and others. In addition, research suggests significant beneficial effects in dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, high blood pressure, chronic pain, and diabetes.
$80 for Eight Classes | $60 for NOMA Members
This course is open to everyone, but registration is required as space is limited. Your registration fee covers all eight sessions, and it is highly encouraged to attend every session for a full learning experience.
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Schedule
March 23rd | What is Mindfulness?
March 30 | Scientific Evidence — Due to the Crescent City Classic, classes will be held 12–1:30 pm.
April 6th | No Class
April 13th | Managing Thoughts
April 20th: | Understanding and Dealing with Stress
April 27th | Difficult Emotions and Chronic Pain
May 4th | Communication
May 11th | Compassion
May 18th | Resilience / Burnout

About the Instructor:
Dr. Jayashree Rao is a retired pediatric endocrinologist, who spent thirty years teaching, researching, and practicing medicine at LSU Health Sciences Center and Children’s Hospital. For the past several years, Dr. Rao has practiced and led others in practicing mindfulness, employing techniques learned in the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course offered by Dr. Dave Potter.
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NOMA Egg Hunt and Family Festival Presented by Hancock Whitney
2024-03-23 10:00 - 13:00
The New Orleans Museum of Art invites you to the
NOMA Egg Hunt and Family Festival
Presented by Hancock Whitney
Saturday, March 23
Egg Hunts Begin at 10:45 for Ages 4 & Under and Ages 5 & Up
NOMA Egg Hunt Chairs
Holly Poole and Caroline Wolfe
NVC Chair
Tully Forrester Jordan
The NOMA Egg Hunt and Family Festival Presented by Hancock Whitney is a fun, festive, rain-or-shine event for families featuring art activities, crafts, games, face painting, food, drinks, sweets, music, and much more.
The festival is set within the picturesque Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Born out of a love of the city and art, the Besthoff Sculpture Garden is one of the most popular public spaces in New Orleans for families and visitors.
For many families, the event may be their first introduction to the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Funds raised support NOMA’s education and exhibition programs.

NOMA EGG HUNT AND FAMILY FESTIVAL TICKETS

Free admission for children ages 2 and under.
Refreshments are included in ticket price, excluding alcoholic beverages.

Advance ticket sales have closed. A limited number of tickets are available at the door.
The Egg Hunt and Family Festival is a rain-or-shine event. Tickets are non-refundable.

Activities
Music by DJ Audio Jocks
JoJo the Juggler and Magician
Art Activities presented by Young Rembrandts
NOMA Art Activities
Portrait Photographs by Polo Silk
Face Painting
Pixie Dust ‘Sparkle Station’
Light Refreshments and more!

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Presenting Sponsor

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Bunnies and Baskets

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Gallery Talk on Giovanni del Biondo’s Madonna Nursing Her Child
2024-03-27 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, join Imani Johnson-Bey, NOMA Museum Educator, for a conversation about Giovanni del Biondo’s Madonna Nursing Her Child. In this talk, Johnson-Bey will discuss who is the Madonna and what she represents.
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 front desk for directions to the appropriate gallery.
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Art in the Afternoon (For Families)
2024-03-27 15:00 - 17:00
Families are invited to spend the afternoon at the museum learning about an object from NOMA’s permanent collection or a special exhibition, engaging in art-making activities, and enjoying a story with teaching artists. This program is designed for families with kids of all ages.
Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Advanced registration is encouraged.
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ART IN THE AFTERNOON | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 3–5 PM
In Two Canoe by Wangechi Mutu
Taking inspiration from the exhibition Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined, join us in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden for an afternoon exploring themes related to the environment. Examine In Two Canoe, look and listen to A River by Max Martin, and create water landscapes with teaching artists.
Art in the Afternoon is happening rain or shine! Should inclement weather prevent art-making in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden, we will move inside to the museum’s galleries to look at Torkwase Dyson’s Way Over There Inside Me (Ocean as a super throughway #4).

Gallery Talk and Book Signing with Debbie Fleming Caffery—POSTPONED
2024-03-27 18:00 - 19:00
This event has been postponed.
Meet us in NOMA’s galleries at 6 pm for a gallery talk with artist Debbie Fleming Caffery and Brian Piper, NOMA’s Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings. At 6:30 pm, attendees are invited to the NOMA Museum Shop, where Caffery will sign copies of the exhibition catalogue. Published in collaboration with Radius Books, the volume features 100 richly printed black-and-white photographs and is accompanied by essays by Piper and former NOMA curator Russell Lord.
This event is free with museum admission, and advanced registration is not required. General museum admission is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday, courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the front desk for directions to the appropriate gallery.

About the Exhibition
Including nearly 100 dramatic black-and-white photographs installed across the museum, In Light of Everything is the first career retrospective for the important Louisiana-born photographer Debbie Fleming Caffery. The exhibition presents examples from her most important series made in the American South, Mexico, and France, from the 1970s to the present.
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Debbie Fleming Caffery: In Light of Everything is organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art and is supported by the Del and Ginger Hall Photography Fund, the Robert and Betty Fleming Family, James and Cherye Pierce, Milly and George Denegre, and the A. Charlotte Mann and Joshua Mann Pailet Endowment.

Louisiana Rainbow Iris Festival
2024-03-31 10:00 - 15:00 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
Iris lovers and gardening enthusiasts are invited to the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden for the annual Louisiana Rainbow Iris Festival, presented by NOMA and the Greater New Orleans Iris Society.
Come view the newly bloomed Louisiana irises in the lush natural surroundings of the Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Visitors will have the opportunity to ask on-site iris experts gardening-related questions.
Free and open to the public.

Gallery Talk | Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined
2024-04-03 12:30
Expand your experience of Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined with monthly gallery talks inside the museum or in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on select Wednesdays: January 31, February 7, March 6, April 3, May 1, June 5, and July 10.
This week join NOMA Creative Assembly Cohort member Danny Fitzpatrick for a conversation about Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined.
Gallery talks are free with museum admission, no registration is required. Louisiana residents receive free admission on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Register in Advance
About the Exhibition
This major solo exhibition of work by Wangechi Mutu brings together nearly one hundred sculptures, paintings, collages, drawings, and films to present the breadth of the Kenyan-American artists’ multidisciplinary practice from the mid-1990s to today. On view January 31–July 14, 2024, Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined traces connections between recent developments in Mutu’s sculptures and her decades-long exploration of the legacies of colonialism, globalization, and African and diasporic cultural traditions. The exhibition travels to NOMA from the New Museum, New York.
Learn More

Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined is organized by the New Museum, New York. Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation. Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Ed Bradley Family Foundation, Agnes Gund, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by The Robert Lehman Foundation. Support for the accompanying publication has been provided by the A4 Arts Foundation.
The presentation in New Orleans is sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Additional support is provided by Delta Airlines, Gladstone Gallery, Walda Besthoff, Victoria Miro Gallery, The Windsor Court, Keith Fox and Tom Keyes, Aimée Farnet Siegel and Mike Siegel, Robin Rankin, Elizabeth Boh, Pat Mitchell and Scott Seydel, Harvey and Marie Orth, and Jeff Childers and Onay Gutierrez

Performance by Artist Wangechi Mutu
2024-04-03 18:00 - 19:00 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
As part of NOMA’s programming alongside the exhibition Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined, the museum is hosting a performance on Wednesday, April 3, by the internationally celebrated artist.
In the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, Mutu will discuss her artistic practice and works permanently and temporarily installed in the garden. Mutu will engage with visitors outside the sculpture garden’s pavilion, which features a gallery of works by the artist.
This program is free, but capacity and seating are limited. Advanced registration is required.
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About the Exhibition
The most complete survey of the artist’s work to date, Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined is a rare opportunity to see the range and depth of the artist’s practice across her influential career and to trace the thematic throughlines and progressions in her work. The exhibition spans the museum’s campus in spaces indoors and outdoors, building on the artist’s long relationship with New Orleans and the museum.
Two of Mutu’s sculptures are permanently installed in NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden. The program kicks off a series of talks by artists in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the garden.

Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined is organized by the New Museum, New York. Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation. Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Ed Bradley Family Foundation, Agnes Gund, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by The Robert Lehman Foundation. Support for the accompanying publication has been provided by the A4 Arts Foundation.
The presentation in New Orleans is sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Additional support is provided by Delta Airlines, Gladstone Gallery, Walda Besthoff, Victoria Miro Gallery, The Windsor Court, The Azby Fund, Keith Fox and Tom Keyes, Aimée Farnet Siegel and Mike Siegel, Robin Rankin, Elizabeth Boh, Pat Mitchell and Scott Seydel, Harvey and Marie Orth, and Jeff Childers and Onay Gutierrez.

NOMA at Night feat. Special Musical Guests and DJ HEELTURN
2024-04-05 18:00 - 21:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Join us at NOMA for an evening of creativity inspired by the special exhibition Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined. The night will spotlight a showcase of music organized by Sari Jordan & Mahmoud Chouki, featuring both local and visiting musicians in a women- and queer-dominated band. Songs during the set are inspired by the exhibition and meditate on themes of transmutation, healing, and the feminine figures who anchor Mutu’s vast practice.
In addition to the museum, the Besthoff Sculpture Garden pavilion will be open for guests to view works from Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined installed there.
$30 General Admission | $15 for Members
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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

DJ Set by HEELTURN
In the Great Hall
With a strong urge to help build community and a wide taste in music, New Orleans native HEELTURN started out honing his DJ skills on WTUL with a show he likes to call “Accepted Eclectic.” From there he has bounced all over the city bringing a unique mix of soul, disco, hip-hop, R&B, bounce, baile funk, house, and club music to a wide variety of audiences. He has opened Washed Out, guest DJ-ed Set De Flo at the Hi-Ho Lounge (spotlighted by Boiler Room and Resident Advisor), performed with Katey Red, and played music festivals including BUKU and Bonnaroo. His love of the local music scene has led him to contribute writing to Antigravity and to co-book for the POC-focused punk music festival Deep Cuts.
Art-Making Activity: Assemblage
6:00–9:30 pm in the museum’s first-floor galleries

Featured Exhibition | Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined
This major solo exhibition of work by Wangechi Mutu brings together nearly one hundred sculptures, paintings, collages, drawings, and films to present the breadth of the Kenyan–American artist’s multidisciplinary practice from the mid-1990s to today.

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.
Mahmoud Chouki is a master guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer living and working in New Orleans. His art draws together music from many different international contexts to consider how music can speak across cultural divides. His own compositions incorporate musical influences from across the globe, ranging from European classical, Andalusian from Southern Spain, Levantine music from the Middle East, Maghrebian music from North Africa, Latin American music, and jazz from the Southern United States. Integrating sounds and rhythms from many different cultures, Chouki combines classical guitar with instruments such as the loutar, a traditional instrument of the Middle Atlas region of Morocco; the sintir, a Sub-Saharan instrument from the Sahel region (Mali); the oud, an oriental lute; the Algerian mandole, a steel-string fretted instrument resembling an elongated mandolin; the Bağlama saz, a Turkish long necked bowl-lute; the banjo, and a variety of percussion instruments. As artistic director of Rencontre Orient-Occident at Chateau Mercier in Sierre, Switzerland, Chouki has brought together a wide range of international musicians to envision new forms of dialogue between East and West, with music often the only common language between performers.
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. Asher Danziger and George Brown Trio
2024-04-07 14:00 - 16:00 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
NOMA is excited to present Music in the Garden, a seasonal 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. Performances will take place alongside Wangechi Mutu sculptures as an extension of the Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined special exhibition.
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
April 7

2–3 pm | Asher Danziger
3–4 pm | George Brown Trio
April 14
2–3 pm | Marina Albero
3–4 pm | Mollie Pate and the LPO Horn Sound

Music in the Garden Feat. Marina Albero, Mollie Pate and the LPO Horn Sound
2024-04-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
