New Orleans Museum of Art

Book Club Discussion Group
2019-11-19 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago)
Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. Our full 2019 schedule and reading list has been announced.
Organized by NOMA’s Felix J. Dreyfous Library, the Book Club is an informal group. You do not have to attend every meeting and we understand if you have to leave a discussion or program early. The book club offers several types of programs: a book discussion group that meets once a month (no reading in December), curatorial programs, field trips, and Meet the Author receptions. Most book club programs start promptly at noon, but please arrive at 11:30 a.m. if you wish to bring a sack lunch or meet beforehand. NOMA will provide water and soft drinks.
RSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space.
Please contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club.
November 2019 Selection
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Picador, 2009, ISBN: 978-0312428594
This historical novel crammed almost to the bursting point with incidents and characters, but Amitay Ghosh deftly keeps everything under control. It’s 1838, and Britain is set on maintaining the opium trade between India and China as a buttress of its economic, political and cultural power. Ghosh orchestrates his polyphonic saga with a composer’s fine touch. He lays out multiple narrative lines, initially separate, that eventually conjoin on the Ibis, a schooner bound from Calcutta to China across the much-feared “Black Water.”…The density of settings, from rural India to teeming Calcutta to the Sudder Opium Factory, is historically convincing, and the author pays close attention to variations in speech, from the clipped formality of the educated class to a patois (“the kubber is that his cuzzanah is running out”) that definitely requires the glossary that Ghosh provides. —Kirkus Reviews
Friday, November 8, 12 – 1 p.m. | Curatorial Program with Lisa Rotondo-McCord, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs/Curator of Asian Art
Tuesday, November 19, 12 – 1 p.m. | Book Discussion Group

Odyssey 2019: Mystère Louisiane presented by IBERIABANK
2019-11-15 19:00 - 23:59 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
November 15, 2019
The Odyssey Ball celebrates and enhances the New Orleans Museum of Art in an evening of unparalleled elegance. Critically important to our treasured museum and the wide community it serves, Odyssey raises the funds necessary to support NOMA’s nationally-recognized exhibitions and educational programs, which bring more than 300,000 annual visitors to the museum and sculpture garden.

Click Here to See Photos from Odyssey 2018

Please Join 2019 Chairs
Anne and Edmund Redd
Rupa and Tarun Jolly
NOMA Volunteer Committee Chair
Jennifer Heebe

Patron Party: Friday, November 15 | 7 pm – Midnight
Gala: Friday, November 15 | 8 pm – Midnight
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Sponsorship Levels and Benefits
$10,000 LUMIÉRE

8 Odyssey Sponsor Party tickets
12 Odyssey Patron tickets with sponsor room access
Recognition as a Sponsor with company name or logo in all press materials
Recognition as a Sponsor at all Odyssey events
Invitations to VIP museum member openings during 2019/2020
Sponsor recognition on printed program, NOMA.org with over 65,000 monthly visitors; on e-blasts to over 31,000+ NOMA subscribers; social media feeds including 31,000 Instagram followers (Mention on an Instagram post + story before the event and mention in an Instagram story at the event; 2 mentions on Facebook with a monthly reach of 400,000

$5,000 BON AMI

4 Odyssey Sponsor Party tickets
6 Odyssey Patron tickets with sponsor room access
Recognition as a Sponsor at all Odyssey events
Invitations to VIP museum member openings during 2019/2020 season
Sponsor recognition on printed program, NOMA.org with over 37,000 monthly visitors; e-blasts to over 37,000+ NOMA subscribers

$4,000 JOIE DE VIVRE

4 Odyssey Sponsor Party tickets
4 Odyssey Patron tickets with sponsor room access
Recognition as a Sponsor at all Odyssey events
Invitations to VIP museum member openings during 2019/2020 season
Sponsor recognition on printed program, NOMA.org with over 37,000 monthly visitors; e-blasts to over 37,000+ NOMA subscribers

$2,500 BON TEMPS

2 Odyssey Sponsor Party tickets
2 Odyssey Patron tickets with sponsor room access
Invitations to VIP museum member openings during 2019/2020 season
Recognition as a Sponsor at all Odyssey events
Sponsor recognition on printed program; NOMA.org with over 37,000 monthly visitors; e-blasts to over 37,000+ NOMA subscribers

Ticket Levels and Benefits

$1,000 PREMIUM PATRON TICKET – Individual | 7 pm onward

1 Odyssey Patron ticket
Website and program listing
Invitations to VIP museum member openings during 2019/2020 season

$500 PATRON TICKET – Individual | 7 pm onward

1 Odyssey Patron ticket
Website and program listing

$300 GALA TICKET | 8 pm onward

1 Odyssey ticket

$150 ODYSSEY YOUNG FELLOWS PATRON TICKET – Ages 21-40 | 7 pm onward

1 Odyssey Patron ticket with website and program listing

Current as of 11/18/19

Free admission, early closure at 3 pm
2019-11-15 10:00 - 15:00
In preparation for the 2019 Odyssey Ball, the museum will waive admission fees for all visitors but the galleries will close early at 3 pm. Café NOMA will close at 2 pm. The Besthoff Sculpture Garden will remain open until 5 pm.

Now in its 53rd year, the Odyssey Ball in partnership with IBERIABANK raises critical funds to support the museum’s nationally-recognized exhibitions and educational programs year-round. Tickets to Odyssey Ball are still available, and we hope you’ll join us! Click here to purchase Patron tickets, Gala tickets, or our Young Fellows ticket, which admits young professionals to the event at a special rate.

If you can’t join us for Odyssey Ball, please consider supporting NOMA by donating at one of our many donation boxes located throughout the museum, or making a contribution online.

CANCELED: The NOLA Project presents The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
2019-11-14 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-11-13 19:00 - 21:00
Due to unseasonably cold weather, the final two productions of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow for Wednesday, November 13, and Thursday, November 14, have been canceled. Ticketholders will be contacted by The NOLA Project for refunds. For more information, visit nolaproject.com.

Free Admission Day
2019-11-14 10:00 - 18:00
In preparation for the Odyssey Ball, NOMA will waive admission for all visitors on Thursday, November 14.

Gallery Talk: Tina Freeman: Lamentations with Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper
2019-11-13 12:00 - 13:00
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join Brian Piper, Mellon Fellow for Photography, for a discussion about the exhibition Tina Freeman: Lamentations, a seven-year photo-documentation of Louisiana’s wetlands and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic by Tina Freeman.
Image: 20140222_Dritvik_016 Ice along a stream, western Iceland | 20130911_Louisiana_Deltas_270 Healthy marsh along the lower Mississippi River, just west of South Pass

Baby ArtsPlay!
2019-11-09 10:30 - 11:00
Instill a love of art at a young age through a guided, hands-on gallery experience. Young Audiences Wolf Trap teaching artists will present a series of six workshops for caregivers and children ages 0-3. Learn how to integrate music, movement, and drama into everyday playtime to foster children’s developmental growth.
Saturdays at 10:30 am
This free six-part workshop series provides engaging arts based activities designed to instruct caregivers on how to use the arts at home to promote early learning.

November 2 | Workshop 1 – Oh, What a Feeling! (Emotional Development)
November 9 | Workshop 2 – Hello, Friend (Social Skills)
November 16 | Workshop 3 – Express Yourself (Early Language)
November 23 | Workshop 4 – Tiny Motor Scooters (Fine Motor Skills)
November 30 | Workshop 5 – Baby Balancing Acts (Bilateral Integration)
December 7 | Workshop 6 – Tiny Household Helpers (Multiple Development Areas)

Space is limited. Register today: www.yabap.eventbrite.com
Ideal for ages 0-3.
Contact education@noma.org or 504.658.4128 if you have any questions.
About Young Audiences
For over 50 years, Young Audiences of Louisiana has operated arts in education programs that promote academic excellence and social growth through the arts. Studies have shown that students enrolled in Young Audiences programs outperformed their peers on standardized tests, exhibited fewer disciplinary issues, and had increased school attendance.
About Wolf Trap Institute
Young Audiences / Louisiana Wolf Trap has been an affiliate of The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts since 2010. The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, a program of the Wolf Trap Foundation, was established in 1981 under a grant from the Head Start Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services serving children birth through kindergarten. The goal of the Institute is to provide early childhood educators with professional development training in the use of performing arts techniques within educational curriculum goals and outcomes for young children. The infusion of arts-based techniques into daily routines provides powerful teaching strategies that can be used to enhance all areas of development, including emergent literacy, self-esteem and socialization, problem solving, receptive and expressive language, motor skills and self-regulation, science and math, conceptualization, and creativity, in order to provide a solid foundation for all future learning.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Screening of Bauhaus Spirit | Music by Keith Burnstein
2019-11-08 17:00 - 21:00
Friday Nights at NOMA features an exciting lineup of programs in 2019: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries, the Museum Shop, and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm.
5 – 8 pm | Art on the Spot drop-in activity table
5:30 – 8:30 pm | Music by Keith Burnstein
7 – 8:30 pm | Screening of Bauhaus Spirit: 100 Years of Bauhaus
ABOUT KEITH BURNSTEIN
Keith Burnstein is a New Orleans based singer-songwriter, pianist, and film composer who pens timeless tunes to live by. His is a new American songbook, one that draws as much from Tin Pan Alley as it does from modern geniuses like Jeff Tweedy, Dr. John, and Amon Tobin. “The songs, while instantly familiar, remain very much their own creations” writes Secret Sound Shop, “combining the bedroom intimacy of a singer-songwriter” (Seven Days VT) with the rich harmonic palette of jazz, contemporary classical, and world music.
ABOUT BAUHAUS SPIRIT: 100 YEARS OF BAUHAUS
In conjunction with the exhibition An Ideal Unity: The Bauhaus & Beyond, NOMA will screen Bauhaus Spirit: 100 Years of Bauhaus. This lively, wide-ranging documentary explores the history, present and future of the utopian design and architecture school and communal social movement around the world. Founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius, Bauhaus was supposed to unite sculpture, painting, design and architecture into a single combined constructive discipline. It is a synthesis of liberated imagination and stringent structure; cross-medial concepts that embellish and enrich our existence, illumination and clarity, order and playfulness. Bauhaus constituted one of the most significant contributions to everyday 20th-century culture and influential contemporary designs, but Bauhaus was never just an artistic experiment. Confronted with the social conditions of that particular time, as well as the experience of the First World War, the movement concerned itself with the political and social connotations of design from the very outset.
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Friday Nights at NOMA is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation; and the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council.

Book Club Curatorial Program
2019-11-08 12:00 - 13:00

Gallery Talk: Curator Ndubuisi Ezeluomba on Ancestors in Stone
2019-11-06 12:00 - 13:00
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join Ndubuisi Ezeluomba, the Francoise Billion Richardson Curator for African Art, for a discussion about the exhibition Ancestors in Stone.

Mindfulness Intensive Course
2019-11-03 10:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-02 10:00 - 17:00
Join a Mindfulness course under the instruction of Dr. Jayashree Rao for two days, Saturday, November 2, and Sunday, November 3, from 10 am to 1 pm and 2 to 5 pm. Mindfulness is defined as a method of experiencing the present moment with open curiosity, without judgment, and with a willingness to be with what is. The course, which is usually offered over eight weeks, is condensed to two days for a weekend intensive, in order to facilitate better attendance and engagement by the participants.
Lunch is not provided. Participants are welcome to bring lunch or enjoy the delicious offerings at Café NOMA.
About the instructor
Dr. 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.
Call 504-658-4128 or email education@noma.org for more information.
$60 for NOMA members | $80 for nonmembers | Registration Required
ENROLL NOW

Baby Artsplay! (Ages 0-3)
2019-11-02 10:30 - 11:00

Friday Nights at NOMA: Special Evening for Educators | Screening of The Quiltmakers of Gee's Bend | Music by Naydja Cojoe
2019-11-01 17:00 - 21:00
Friday Nights at NOMA features an exciting lineup of programs in 2019: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries, the Museum Shop, and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm. On this special evening for educators, all educators and up to four of their guests will receive free admission after 5 pm.
5 – 8 pm | Art on the Spot drop-in activity table
5:30 – 8:30 pm | Music by Naydja Cojoe
6 – 8 pm | Screening of The Quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend (56 minutes)
ABOUT NAYDJA COJOE
A native to New Orleans and premier vocalist and entertainer, Naydja Cojoe’s eclectic performances evoke the colorful spirit of her hometown and mainstream influences. Her sound is reminiscent of such greats as Tina Turner, Bonnie Raitt, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Patsy Cline.
ABOUT THE QUILTMAKERS OF GEE’S BEND

This Emmy Award-winning PBS film documents a group of African American quilt artists from Gee’s Bend, Alabama. The quiltmakers live in a remote community and still inhabit the land their enslaved forebears once worked. The quilts of Gee’s Bend have been hailed by Michael Kimmelman of The New York Times as “some of the most miraculous works of modern art America has produced.” The film explores the extraordinary lives, inspirations, and history of the quiltmakers, including their promotion by art historian Bill Arnett, and follows them on a poignant and journey to see their work exhibited in a major art museum. The 56-minute documentary is screened in conjunction with the exhibition The Quilts of Gee’s Bend.

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

Museum Highlights Tour
2019-11-01 13:00 - 14:00
NOMA docents guide visitors on hour-long tours of either the permanent collection or special exhibitions. Tours are free with NOMA admission. Meet in the Great Hall to join in.
Special group tours can be arranged with two-weeks advance notice. Call Tracy Kennan, Curator of Education, at 504.658.4113.

Besthoff Sculpture Garden Tour
2019-11-01 12:00 - 13:00
Join NOMA’s docents for a free guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Mondays, Fridays, and Saturdays, weather dependent, at noon. (Call 504.658.4153 to verify.) Sited on twelve acres adjacent to the museum, the garden contains more than ninety works by renowned sculptors placed among a picturesque mature grove of pine, magnolia, and moss-draped live oak trees bisected by a lagoon. Represented sculptors include Pierre Auguste Renoir, Rene Magritte, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, George Rodrigue, and Robert Indiana, among others. Meet at the gates to the garden, which offers free admission year-round.

Gallery Talk: An Ideal Unity with Curatorial Associate Anne Roberts
2019-10-30 15:00 - 16:00
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join Curatorial Associate Anne Roberts for a discussion about the exhibition An Ideal Unity: The Bauhaus & Beyond.
Image: T. Lux Feininger (American, b. Germany, 1910–2011), Untitled (Bauhaus Theater Chairs), c. 1928, Gelatin silver print, 3 1/8 x 4 3/4 in., Gift of Diego Cortez, 2008.5.131

Gallery Talk: Lamentations with artist Tina Freeman
2019-10-30 12:00 - 13:00
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Photographer Tina Freeman will discuss her exhibition Tina Freeman: Lamentations, a seven-year photo-documentation of Louisiana’s wetlands and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic.
Image: 20180401_Svalbard_804 Loose pancake ice forming | 20140417_Avoca_Island_179 Wild iris blooming

Book Club Discussion Group
2019-10-29 12:00 - 13:00
Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. Our full 2019 schedule and reading list has been announced.
Organized by NOMA’s Felix J. Dreyfous Library, the Book Club is an informal group. You do not have to attend every meeting and we understand if you have to leave a discussion or program early. The book club offers several types of programs: a book discussion group that meets once a month (no reading in December), curatorial programs, field trips, and Meet the Author receptions. Most book club programs start promptly at noon, but please arrive at 11:30 a.m. if you wish to bring a sack lunch or meet beforehand. NOMA will provide water and soft drinks.
RSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space.
Please contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club.
October 2019 Selection
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos: A Novel by Dominic Smith
Picador, 2017, ISBN: 978-1250118325
Amsterdam, 1631: Sara de Vos becomes the first woman to be admitted as a master painter to the city’s Guild of St. Luke. Though women do not paint landscapes (they are generally restricted to indoor subjects), a wintry outdoor scene haunts Sara: She cannot shake the image of a young girl from a nearby village, standing alone beside a silver birch at dusk, staring out at a group of skaters on the frozen river below. Defying the expectations of her time, she decides to paint it.
Tuesday, October 29, 12 – 1 p.m. | Book Discussion Group

Donna Perret Rosen Lecture featuring Fred Wilson with Ron Bechet
2019-10-24 18:00 - 20:00
Fred Wilson, an artist best known for his role in refiguring the representation of race in museums, will join New Orleans-based artist Ron Bechet in conversation at the 2019 Donna Perret Rosen Lecture in Stern Auditorium.
The talk is free with museum admission and limited to 180 seats.
RESERVE SEATS NOW
ABOUT FRED WILSON
▶ READ AN INTERVIEW WITH FRED WILSON IN NOMA MAGAZINE
Fred Wilson was born in the Bronx in 1954, and lives and works in New York. He received a BFA from Purchase College, State University of New York. Commenting on his unorthodox artistic practice, Wilson has said that, although he studied art, he no longer has a strong desire to make things with his hands: “I get everything that satisfies my soul from bringing together objects that are in the world, manipulating them, working with spatial arrangements, and having things presented in the way I want to see them.” Thus, Wilson creates new exhibition contexts for the display of art and artifacts found in museum collections—including wall labels, sound, lighting, and non-traditional pairings of objects.

His installations lead viewers to recognize that changes in context create changes in meaning. While appropriating curatorial methods and strategies, Wilson maintains his subjective view of the museum environment and the works he presents. He questions (and forces the viewer to question) how curators shape interpretations of historical truth, artistic value, and the language of display—and what kinds of biases our cultural institutions express. In his groundbreaking intervention, Mining the Museum (1992), Wilson transformed the Maryland Historical Society’s collection to highlight the history of slavery in America. For the 2003 Venice Biennale, Wilson created a mixed-media installation of many parts—focusing on Africans in Venice and issues and representations of blacks and whites—which included a suite of black glass sculptures; a black-and-white tiled room, with wall graffiti culled from texts of African-American slave narratives; and a video installation of “Othello,” screened backwards.
Wilson received a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Achievement Award (1999) and the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award (2003). He is the Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Object, Exhibition, and Knowledge at Skidmore College. Fred Wilson represented the United States at the Cairo Bienniale (1992) and Venice Biennale.
ABOUT RON BECHET
Ron Bechet, a native New Orleanian, is a professional artist and serves as a professor of art at Xavier University of Louisiana. Bechet served as chair of the department for nine years. He holds a B.A. degree in Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans, and an M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from the Yale School of Art, Yale University. He has served on the board of the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans and served as a member of New Orleans Arts Council percent for art committee Public Art Commission Program, NOCCA Institute Board and many other commissions and boards.
Bechet’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, culminating in a solo show in the summer of 2015 at the Acadiana Art Center in Lafayette called “Sense of Place” in which he examined the visual culture of the African Diaspora. He has collaborated in pieces and exhibitions with John Scott, with whom he shared studio space for many years. Bechet’s work can be found in the collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania College of Art and Design Museum, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.

Gallery Talk: Curator Lisa Rotondo-McCord on Inspired by Nature
2019-10-23 12:00 - 13:00
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join Curator Lisa Rotondo-McCord for a discussion about the exhibition Inspired by Nature | Japanese Art from the Permanent Collection.

Opéra Nouvelle performance in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden
2019-10-20 15:00 - 17:00
Singers from the Opéra Nouvelle will perform a variety of works in the setting of the Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Please bring lawn chairs or blankets for this roving three-part concert that will move from sculpture to sculpture throughout the garden. Seating is bring-your-own. Admission is FREE for this joint production between NOMA and the New Orleans Opera Association.
The first selection of works, themed as “The Classics: Statues and Stories,” will be performed in the pine grove near the main entrance of the Besthoff Sculpture Garden.
The second selection of works will be performed in the new expansion of the garden near the sculpture Acute Unequal Angles (2016) by Bernar Venet. Themed as “Trauma, Loss and Reflections,” these musical selections will be aligned with the New Orleans Opera Association’s production The Falling and the Rising, which will address the ramifications of PTSD among war veterans.
The final selection of works will be presented in the new amphitheater of the garden expansion, under the title “Magic and Wonder.”
Poetry readings will also take place between the musical performances.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Lee Ledbetter lecture and book signing | Music by Eileina Davis
2019-10-18 17:00 - 21:00
Friday Nights at NOMA features an exciting lineup of programs in 2019: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries, the Museum Shop, and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm.
5 – 8 pm | Art on the Spot drop-in activity table
5:30 – 8:30 pm | Music by Eileina Dennis
6 – 8 pm | Lee Ledbetter lecture and book signing
ABOUT EILEINA DENNIS
Vocalist Eileina Dennis was raised in Birmingham, England and grew up singing gospel. She had a notable career as an R&B and pop singer performer before falling in love with jazz. Dennis points to Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald as all having influenced her career. She will perform hits from the American Songbook, accompanied by pianist Larry Sieberth.
ABOUT LEE LEDBETTER
Lee Ledbetter & Associates served as consultants for the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Pavilion, which opened at NOMA in May 2019. The renowned New Orleans-based design firm has issued a book showcasing the work of its lead designer and architect known for creating spaces that balance historic detail and modern elegance.
▶ READ AN INTERVIEW WITH LEDBETTER IN NOMA MAGAZINE
The work of architect and interior designer Lee Ledbetter represents a one-of-a-kind combination of traditional details and chic Modernism. Ledbetter established his practice in New Orleans in 1996 and has developed a body of work that emerges from his ability to incorporate historical precedent as well as regional and environmental context, and his firm has received recognition for its expertise well beyond its Deep South roots. Ledbetter’s interiors and architecture combine a cleanly tailored and bright modernity with the unapologetic embellishments of refined and luxurious decoration. Ledbetter strongly believes design to be a fine art along with painting and sculpture, and he considers placement and scale of furniture, artwork, and lighting as carefully as he does the creation of walls and the spaces they contain. As Mayer Rus, who provides the text for this title, once wrote in House & Garden, “Lee Ledbetter rejects the idea that a serious architect cannot be a dedicated decorator as well.”

A book signing in the Museum Shop will follow the lecture.

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

The NOLA Project presents The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
2019-10-16 19:00 - 21:00
Back for their tenth collaboration with NOMA, the NOLA Project theater company returns to the Besthoff Sculpture Garden with a new twist on Washington Irving’s Halloween classic The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by ensemble member Pete McElligott.
This outdoor, spooky, immersive production features Ichabod Crane and the infamous Headless Horseman. Sounds great, huh? We at the NOLA Project thought so, too—and that’s what we intended for the audience. That is, until the cast started to be mysteriously killed off…and the crew…and the entire Louisiana Philharmonic that was supposed to take part in the festivities. But the show must go on! By any means necessary…
Come enjoy this horrifically hilarious Halloween-season production that is part American classic, part the play that goes wrong, and all kinds of absurd fun. Written by NOLA Project favorite Pete McElligott, this new telling is bound to leave you laughing your head off. Perhaps literally.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow runs Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays at 7 pm from October 16 to November 13. All seating is bring-your-own. Food trucks will be available at all performances as well as a fully stocked bar. No outside food or drink is allowed inside the Sculpture Garden other than food truck and NOMA bar items.
Rain Plan: For productions canceled due to inclement weather, we will notify all ticketed patrons no later than 4pm. Patrons will then receive instructions via email on how they may reschedule their tickets for another performance or request a refund. All ticket purchases for any production that is rained-out mid performance are final.
Admission: Adults $30 | NOMA Members $25 | Youth (under 21) $15
For tickets, visit The NOLA Project website.

Artist's Perspective: Dawn DeDeaux discusses Tina Freeman: Lamentations
2019-10-16 12:00 - 13:00
Throughout the exhibition of photographs in Tina Freeman: Lamentations, a seven-year photo-documentation of Louisiana’s wetlands and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic by Tina Freeman, fellow artists, including Dawn DeDeaux, will offer their perspective on the subject matter. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
ABOUT DAWN DEDEAUX
New Orleans-based artist Dawn DeDeaux has merged art with new technologies for decades to broaden art and audience engagement. Early works from the 1970s such as CB Radio Booths were works of mobility that travelled the communication systems and streets of underserved communities. Mid-career works were large-scale installations and pioneering immersive, synchronized media environments including Soul Shadows, Women Eating, and The Face of God that premiered at the 1996 Olympics. Latter works, including Project Mutants, The Goddess Fortuna and The MotherShip Series, are inspired by environmental challenges. DeDeaux will be the subject of a retrospective exhibition at NOMA in 2020.
Image: 20140225_Jökulsárólon_069 Glacial lagoon in southern Iceland | 20140418_Avoca_Island_377 A healthy freshwater marsh near Morgan City by Tina Freeman.

Closing concert of the Safar music series with Mahmoud Chouki and special musical guests
2019-10-13 18:00 - 20:00
As Bodies of Knowledge comes to a close, Mahmoud Chouki will conclude his concert series of site-specific performances for the exhibition, collectively titled Safar, that explore how music can speak across cultural divides to envision new forms of dialogue between East and West. The following performers will join Chouki in a collaborative concert: Steve Lands, arranger, on trumpet; Brad Walker, saxophone; Peter Gabriel Gustavson, trombone; Amber Rene Mouton, French horn; Oscar Rossignoli, piano; Noah Young, bass; Michelle Welchon, percussions; Simon Mouchabek, accordion, percussions; and Gerald T. Watkins Jr., drums.
Admission: $15 NOMA Members | $20 Nonmembers
Purchase tickets in advance or at the door.
PURCHASE SAFAR CONCERT TICKETS
ABOUT MAHMOUD CHOUKI
Mahmoud Chouki is a master guitarist and 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.

Edward Spots in performance for Bodies of Knowledge
2019-10-13 15:00
As the exhibition Bodies of Knowledge comes to a close, performance artist Edward Spots will present a short solo dance in the Great Hall.
ABOUT EDWARD SPOTS
New Orleans native Edward Spots is an internationally renowned dancer, choreographer, and actor. Spots began his dance training with Baderinwa “Mama” Rolland at the very first charter middle school in New Orleans. He has trained extensively, from NOCCA and New Orleans NORD Centers as a young dancer, to the Walnut Hill School for the Fine Arts, The Joffrey Ballet School in New York, and the Washington School for Ballet in Washington, DC. In 2010, he enrolled at the Ailey School, ultimately becoming part of the Ailey II Company where he performed and taught in the US and abroad in more than 8 countries. He has danced with Urban Ballet Theatre, New Orleans Ballet Theatre, Civic Scranton Ballet, Delaware Dance Company, and Marigny Opera Ballet, and has been featured in numerous commercials and television shows. Spots played a lead role in the film America by Garrett Bradley.

Japan Fest 2019
2019-10-12 10:00 - 16:00
Organized by NOMA, the Consulate General of Japan in Nashville and the Japan Club in New Orleans, Japan Fest is the largest celebration of Japanese culture in the Gulf South. It’s a day to sample Japanese cuisine and enjoy traditional dance groups, martial arts demonstrations, tours of NOMA’s Japanese art collection, fashion shows, and much more.
Admission: $5 | FREE for NOMA members and visitors age 19 and younger
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
10 am

Kaminari Taiko drumming demonstration (NOMA front steps)

10:45 am

Welcoming remarks (NOMA front steps)

11 am

Eishen-Ryu Iaido sword drawing (NOMA front steps)
The Hearn Society presentation “Seeking an Open Life: Contemporary Collodion Photographs of Japan Inspired by the Writings of Lafcadio Hearn” (Stern Auditorium)
Japanese Garden Foundation Tour (Meet at the Japanese Foundation table in the Italian Galleries on the ground floor)| Tea Demonstration on 3rd Floor
Candy 5 demonstration (Café courtyard)

11:30 am

Greater New Orleans Suzuki Forum concert (Great Hall)
Kimono dressing demonstration (Second-floor elevator lobby)

12 pm

Guided tour of Japanese Art Gallery (Third floor)
Guided tour of Besthoff Sculpture Garden (Meet at the Main Gate)
Candy 5 demonstration (Café courtyard)

12:30 pm

Kaminari Taiko drumming demonstration (NOMA front steps)
New Orleans Kendo Club (Stern Auditorium)

1 pm

Minyo Dance (NOMA front steps)
Jujitsu Club of Southeastern Louisiana University (Stern Auditorium)
Tea demonstration (Third floor)
Candy 5 demonstration (Café courtyard)

1:30 pm

Miyabi Kai Japanese Dance Group of Pensacola, Florida (Stern Auditorium)
Guided tour of Japanese Art Galleries (Third floor)
Candy 5 demonstration (Café courtyard)

2 pm

Lolita Fashion Show (NOMA front steps)
Louisiana Karate Association (Stern Auditorium)
Japanese Garden Foundation Tour (Meet at the Japanese Foundation table in the Italian Galleries on the ground floor)
Candy 5 demonstration (Café courtyard)

2:30 pm

Mechamaid Clubhouse (NOMA front steps)
Hakkoryu Shindokai Dojo (Stern Auditorium)
New Orleans Zen Temple Ceremony (Great Hall)
Kimono dressing ceremony (Second-floor elevator lobby)
Candy 5 demonstration (Café courtyard)

3 pm

Japanese Weekend School’s Kids Dance
Aikido of New Orleans (Stern Auditorium)
Candy 5 demonstration (Café courtyard)

3:30 pm

Shogun martial arts (Stern Auditorium)
All Nippon Airways raffle (Great Hall)

4 pm

Kaminari Taiko drumming demonstration (NOMA front steps)

Food vendors: Ajun Cajun (Sculpture Garden) • Linda Green “Yakamein Lady” (Sculpture Garden) • Café NOMA, serving Japanese specialties
Participating sponsors, businesses, and organizations: Aikido of New Orleans, ANA Airways, Amai Nightmare Anime Cover Band, Baton Rouge Iaido, Candy 5, Crane’s Nest Go Club, Eva Vanrell Kimono Demo, Greater New Orleans Suzuki Forum, GACHI, Hakkoryu Shindokai Dojo and Shiatsu Massage, Hearn Society, Japan Club of New Orleans, Japan Society of New Orleans, Japanese Antiques and Textiles, Japanese Garden Foundation, Japanese Weekend School of New Orleans, JET Alumni Association, Jujitsu Club of SLU, Kaminari Taiko of Houston, Kawaii NOLA, Louisiana Karate Association, LSU Libraries, Mechamaid Clubhouse, Minyo Folk Dancing Group, Miyabi Kai Japanese Dance Group of Pensacola, Florida, New Orleans Zen Temple, New Orleans Chapter 97 Ikebana International, New Orleans Haiku Society, New Orleans Kendo Club, New Orleans Zen Temple, NOLA Aikido, NOLA Kimekomi, NOLA Lolitas, Shogun Martial Arts, Showtime Sweetie, Twootie Tarte, and UNO Japan — Study Abroad at Doshisa University, Way of Tea Chado demonstration
COSTUME GUIDELINES:
For the safety and comfort of all guests, as well as the artwork at NOMA:

No masks are permitted.
Accessories or weapons (ex: swords) greater than 2 feet in length will not be permitted.
No sharp objects.
Costume components cannot exceed or extend 2 feet in length from body.
Please keep all costumes family friendly.
Guests participating in the costume contest are still required to pay the $5 admission fee.

Other restrictions may apply at NOMA’s discretion. A check in room will be available for any items not in compliance. For questions regarding costumes please call 504.658.4143.

Gallery Talk: An Ideal Unity with Curatorial Associate Anne Roberts
2019-10-09 15:30 - 16:30
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join Curatorial Associate Anne Roberts for a discussion about the exhibition An Ideal Unity: The Bauhaus & Beyond.
Image: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (American, b. Hungary, 1894–1946), Advertisement for Schocken Department Store, 1927, Gelatin silver print with applied pigment, 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in., Museum purchase, Women’s Volunteer Committee Fund, 74.64
