New Orleans Museum of Art

NOMA at Night Feat. Alexey Marti and DJ Pescadilla
2023-10-06 18:00 - 22:00 (America/Chicago) | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with NOMA at Night—an evening of Latinx and Hispanic music, art, and fun at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
On select Fridays throughout the year, we’re open late so that you can #ExploreNOMA after hours, enjoy special performances and pop-ups, and get creative.
Tickets to NOMA at Night include access to the special exhibition Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour.
$30 General Admission | $15 for Members
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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.

See the Lineup Below

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

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

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

Additional Credits
Mahmoud Chouki
NOMA is pleased to work with internationally renowned multi-instrumentalist and composer Mahmoud Chouki, who is organizing musical performances for each NOMA at Night program in collaboration with museum staff.
Thank You to Our Supporters
NOMA at Night is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation; and the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council. Funding has also been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Participants

Ajun Cajun
Japanese Garden Foundation
Louisiana Karate Association
PuriKura Panic

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

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

Candy 5
JCNO Crafts
New Orleans Kendo
Showtime Sweetie

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

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

Café NOMA
Kaminari Taiko
NOLA Kimekomi

Ikebana
Kawaii NOLA
NOLA Lolitas

Japanese Consulate
Linda Green “Yakamein Lady”
Nori Guys

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

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

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

SPONSORS

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

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

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

Louisiana Office of Tourism
All Nippon Airways

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

About the Speakers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Additional Credits
Mahmoud Chouki
NOMA is pleased to work with internationally renowned multi-instrumentalist and composer Mahmoud Chouki, who is organizing musical performances for each NOMA at Night program in collaboration with museum staff.
Thank You to Our Supporters
NOMA at Night is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation; and the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council. Funding has also been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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

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

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

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

Gallery Talk on Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour
2023-11-08 12:30 - 13:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Join us in the galleries each Wednesday for weekly talks with artists, curators, and other special guests. During these casual conversations, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA.
This week, please join NOMA’s Museum Shop Manager, Jackie DeBlieux, for a conversation about American fashion designer Christian Siriano’s influence on the fashion industry with focus on Dress for Nicole Byer, Emmy Awards Red Carpet.
Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour admission is required. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the front desk for directions to the appropriate gallery.
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Partner Session on Race, Equity, and Museums
2023-11-08 17:30 - 19:00
As part of our commitment to be an antiracist and welcoming institution, NOMA is hosting a series of participatory conversations to frankly discuss race, equity, and the museum field and the responsibilities museums have to their audiences. Our goal is to listen to and address the needs of the communities we serve, while deeply assessing opportunities for growth and partnership.
Each conversation will be moderated by an outside moderator and include invited community stakeholders, NOMA staff, and curators.
Due to capacity limitations, advanced registration is requested.
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If you have any questions, please email partnersessions@noma.org.

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

Starstruck: A Fashion Odyssey Presented by First Horizon
2023-11-10 19:00 - 23:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
You’re Invited to
Starstruck: A Fashion Odyssey
Presented by First Horizon
Patron Party | 7–8 pm
Gala | 8–11 pm
Odyssey Chairs
Elly and Merritt Lane
Permele and Garner Robinson
NVC Chair
Elizabeth Grimes

Celebrate NOMA during an elegant evening inspired by the star-studded, iconic designs featured in Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour. One of the most anticipated events of the fall, Odyssey raises necessary funds supporting NOMA’s exhibitions, programs, and initiatives all year round.

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Dr. Michael White Quartet
Dr. Michael White is an accomplished, multi-faceted New Orleans-based clarinetist, bandleader, composer, musicologist, jazz historian, and educator widely regarded as one of the leading authorities and culture-bearers of traditional New Orleans jazz music. With a career now spanning over three decades, Michael White continues to grow his musical legacy as one of the authoritative figures on New Orleans Jazz Music, and one of the finest clarinetists to walk the streets of the crescent city.

Rebirth Brass Band
Whether seen on HBO’s Treme or at their legendary Tuesday night gig at The Maple Leaf, Grammy-winning Rebirth Brass Band is a true New Orleans institution. Formed in 1983 by the Frazier brothers, the band has evolved from playing the streets of the French Quarter to playing festivals and stages all over the world. While committed to upholding the tradition of brass bands, they’ve also extended themselves into the realms of funk and hip-hop to create their signature sound.

DJ Brice Nice
Brice Nice is a radio and club DJ, music historian, and vinyl junkie. He hosts a weekly Block Party radio show on WWOZ New Orleans 90.7. Nice has rocked parties in just about every venue in New Orleans such as House of Blues, Metro, Republic, and Ampersand. His taste is respected internationally and his musical versatility is unmatched in the Crescent City. From all 45 sets of New Orleans and Gulf Coast R&B, Soul, Garage, Funk, Disco, rocking all original 12″ singles to digital DJing, Brice is not limited to any one genre and can rock any crowd.

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Personal Fashion Illustration Sketches by Artist Rhonda Corley

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Music in the Garden Feat. Blan Blan and Tatiana Pino
2023-11-12 14:00 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
NOMA is excited to announce the fall return of Music in the Garden, an outdoor music series. Encounter the sounds of local New Orleans musicians while strolling through the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on select Sunday afternoons beginning at 2 pm.
No registration is required. The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free and open to the public seven days a week.
Plan Your Visit

Music in the Garden Performers
November 12
Blan Blan (duo)
Tatiana Pino (solo cello)

Gallery Talk on Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour with Curator Mel Buchanan
2023-11-15 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 Mel Buchanan, RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, for a conversation about the exhibition Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour.

Fashioning America admission required. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the front desk for directions to the appropriate gallery.
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Music in the Garden Feat. Salvador Avila and Susanne Ortner
2023-11-19 14:00 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
NOMA is excited to announce the fall return of Music in the Garden, an outdoor music series. Encounter the sounds of local New Orleans musicians while strolling through the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on select Sunday afternoons beginning at 2 pm.
No registration is required. The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free and open to the public seven days a week.
Plan Your Visit

Music in the Garden Performers
November 19
Salvador Avila (duo)
Susanne Ortner (duo)

Gallery Talk in Spanglish (Spanish and English): Fernando Botero’s Mother and Child
2023-11-22 12:30 - 13:00 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
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 Museum Educator, Laura Moreno, for conversations about Fernando Botero’s influence on the Colombian canon with a focus on Mother and Child in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden. This talk will be presented in Spanglish—a mix of Spanish and English.

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.

Museum Store Sunday
2023-11-26 10:00 - 17:00
Save up to 10% on select merchandise in-store only (20% for NOMA members) on Sunday, November 26.
Browse merchandise in advance at our online store (note that the one-day sale only applies to in-person shopping).

Music in the Garden Feat. The Golden Compass Trio and Mar Brisa
2023-11-26 14:00 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
NOMA is excited to announce the fall return of Music in the Garden, an outdoor music series. Encounter the sounds of local New Orleans musicians while strolling through the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on select Sunday afternoons beginning at 2 pm.
No registration is required. The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free and open to the public seven days a week.
Plan Your Visit

Music in the Garden Performers
November 26
The Golden Compass Trio
Mar Brisa (solo vocal & guitar)

Exhibition Encore for Members | Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour
2023-11-26 17:00 - 19:00
Take a final look at Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour before it closes. NOMA members are invited to an exclusive final viewing of Fashioning America on November 26, 5–7 pm.
Café NOMA and the NOMA Museum Shop will also be open late.
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Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour is organized by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas and curated by Michelle Tolini Finamore.
The presentation in New Orleans is sponsored by the Eugenie and Joseph Jones Family Foundation, New Orleans Tourism and Cultural Fund, and Cathy and Hunter Pierson in honor of Mrs. Bertie Deming Smith. Additional support is provided by Elizabeth Boh, Mignon Faget, Tim Fields, Susanne and David Purvis, Robert and Millie Kohn, and Patricia Unangst.

Book Club Discussion: Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
2023-11-28 12:00 - 13:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. In addition to monthly book discussions, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to join.
Book selections are inspired by the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copies, and selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop, where museum members receive a 10% discount.
Meetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm.
For information or questions about the NOMA Book Club, please email education@noma.org.
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October 2023
Book Club Discussion | Tuesday, November 28, 12 pm

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz
Norton, 2022, ISBN-13: 978-0393882452
In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii on Italy’s southern coast, the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia, and the indigenous metropolis Cahokia, which stood beside the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today.
Newitz travels to all four sites and investigates the cutting-edge research in archaeology, revealing the mix of environmental changes and political turmoil that doomed these ancient settlements. Tracing the early development of urban planning, Newitz also introduces us to the often anonymous workers―slaves, women, immigrants, and manual laborers― who built these cities and created monuments that lasted millennia.

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.

Gallery Talk with Musician Joseph Darensburg
2023-11-29 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.
In celebration of Creole & Indigenous Heritage Month, musician Joseph Darensbourg will sing a few Kouri-Vini (Louisiana Creole) songs and read Atakapa Ishak poetry in the Great Hall.
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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About Joseph Darensbourg
Joseph is a native of Bulbancha (Choctaw for “place of many tongues,” aka New Orleans) from the Faubourg Treme, the oldest free people of color neighborhood in the country (predating the US itself). This neighborhood of Gens de Couleur Libres is a tri-racial ethnic blend comprised of Native Americans, Europeans, and African ethnic Creoles who speak a lingua franca known as Kouri Vini as well as Colonial Louisiana French.
A performer of ethnic folk musics, Joseph is a singer, violinist, and percussionist member of Les Cenelles ensemble, which specializes in music inspired by resistance and protest poetry and Les Cenelles Gens de Couleur Libres, civil rights activists opposing the Code Noir during US Reconstruction. Joseph focuses on the Bayou Ballads plantation songs (1840s–80s).
A bookbinder by trade—trained at the oldest bookbindery in the US (Harcourt, Boston)—Joseph is also a visual art alum of NOCCA, as well as a member of the oldest early music ensemble in the America, New Orleans Musica da Camera (founded in 1965, as was Joseph).

Gallery Talk with Sculptor and Jeweler Thomas Mann
2023-11-29 18:00
Join us in the galleries each Wednesday for weekly talks with artists, curators, and other special guests. During these casual conversations, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA.
Join sculptor and jeweler Thomas Mann for a conversation on Ring Redux: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection. Mann is featured in Lewin’s 1994 book One of a Kind: American Art Jewelry Today. In his talk, Mann will address the American and International Craft movements, makers, and issues of wearability in art jewelry among other topics.
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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About the Speaker
Thomas Mann has been a professional self-employed artist for 53 years. He describes himself as a sculptor working in the medium of jewelry for which he is known internationally.
Originally from Pennsylvania, the artist exhibited his work at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in 1977 and has called New Orleans home ever since. Mann spends much of his time on the road exhibiting at as many as 15 nationally juried craft and art events each year, in addition to teaching workshops and public speaking.
Over the last 10 years, he has moved away from his signature “Techno-Romantic” design vocabulary toward a new jewelry vocabulary he has identified as “Techno-Natura,” and making scale models for large-scale sculpture. He has also begun a re-entry into painting which he studied in college as a performing arts major with a focus on set design and lighting. His first solo painting show opened at Sullivan Gallery in New Orleans in April 2022.

Day With(out) Art: Everyone I Know Is Sick
2023-12-01 10:00 - 17:00
NOMA is proud to collaborate with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art by presenting Everyone I Know Is Sick, a program of five short videos highlighting under-told stories of HIV and AIDS.
Inspired by a statement from Cyrée Jarelle Johnson in the book Black Futures, Everyone I Know Is Sick examines how our society excludes disabled and sick people by upholding a false dichotomy of health and sickness. Inviting us to understand disability as a common experience rather than an exception to the norm, the program highlights a range of experiences spanning HIV, COVID, mental health, and aging. The commissioned artists foreground the knowledge and expertise of disabled and sick people in a world still grappling with multiple ongoing pandemics. Visual AIDS is a New York-based non-profit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over.
Free with museum admission. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the front desk for directions.
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ABOUT THE FILMS
Dolissa Medina and Ananias P. Soria, Viejito/Enfermito/Grito (Old Man/Sick Man/Shout)
Ananias, a San Francisco Bay Area artist and immigrant, performs the folkloric Danza de los Viejitos (the Dance of the Old Men). Originally from Michoacán, Mexico, where the dance originates, Ananias interprets its movements through the lens of his spirituality, his long-term HIV-related disabilities, and his search for a place in the world.
Dorothy Cheung, Heart Murmurs
Heart Murmurs is a poetic dialogue between the filmmaker and Dean, a young man living in Hong Kong. In reflecting on his experience living with a congenital disability and HIV during the first years of the COVID pandemic, Dean expresses his sense of self in the face of regular medical challenges.
Beau Gomez, This Bed I Made
This Bed I Made presents the bed as a place of solace and agency beyond just a site of illness or isolation. Through the shared stories of two Filipino men living with HIV, the video explores modes of care, restoration, and abundance in the midst of pandemic pervasion.
Kurt Weston, Losing the Light
Losing the Light reflects the artist’s bitter battle to stay in this world as a long-term survivor of AIDS who has lost his vision to CMV retinitis. An experimental self-portrait, the video evokes the dissolution and fragmentation of the artist’s body, representing the impact of blindness, long-term HIV infection, and the cumulative effects of decades of antiretroviral medication.
Lili Nascimento and Hiura Fernandes, Aquela criança com AID$ (That Child with AID$)
That Child with AID$ tells the story of Brazilian advocate and artist Lili Nascimento, who was born with HIV in 1990. Lili has worked to expand narratives about living with HIV beyond the limited images and ideologies that permeate the AIDS industry.

ABOUT VISUAL AIDS
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Field Drawing Workshop at Algiers Point With Alyssa Lizzini feat. Paige DeVries
2023-12-01 16:30 | Barracuda Taco Stand, 446 Pelican Ave, New Orleans, LA, 70114, United States
Field Drawings is a series of free on-location drawing workshops taking place in multiple cities and neighborhoods throughout the United States led by Cleveland-based visual artist Alyssa Lizzini. The purpose of the workshops is to encourage the slow and attentive process of observational drawing as a means of neighborhood rediscovery and creative placemaking. Workshop participants will take part in an hour-and-a-half urban sketching excursion and be supplied with sketchbooks and drawing tools. There will be two workshops taking place in New Orleans with the help of the NOMA Creative Assembly resident artists Daniel Fitzpatrick and Paige DeVries. Participants should wear good walking shoes for light neighborhood exploration and bring a bottle of water.
Participants will meet for this workshop at Barracuda Taco Stand, 446 Pelican Ave, New Orleans, LA 70114.
Materials will be provided. Free with advanced registration.
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About the Artist

Alyssa Lizzini is an artist from Cleveland, Ohio, whose work explores concepts of social geography and community engagement through on-location drawing. Lizzini’s layered images are heavily inspired by her own archival, ethnographic, and visual research of city spaces—and her lived experience growing up in the city of Cleveland. In the studio, she utilizes drawing, painting, and printmaking techniques to create visually complex images that mirror the complexity of our social and spatial world. Lizzini graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2022.
