New Orleans Museum of Art

Friday Nights at NOMA: Tulane Maya Symposium | Music by Patrice Fisher and ARPA
2019-02-15 17:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago)
Friday Nights at NOMA offers an exciting lineup of programs on select dates 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 family activity table
5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Patrice Fisher and ARPA with Ecos Latinos
6 pm: Keynote speech by Jeremy A. Sobloff of the Santa Fe Institute titled “Is ‘Collapse’ a Useful Term in Understanding Pre-Columbian Maya History?”

ABOUT PATRICE FISHER AND ARPA AND ECOS LATINOS
Growing up in the musical milieu of New Orleans, local harpist Patrice Fisher was surrounded by the sounds of jazz from every angle. She admits playing the harp felt natural to her, but she wanted to incorporate a mixture into her style of music. She is joined by the Latin jazz musicians of Arpa in concert at NOMA. Fisher is a graduate of Tulane University, as well as the Wolf Trap Academy for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. and the Creative Music Studio Jazz School in New York. She has recorded 14 albums of original music and has performed at such international music festivals as the Cancun Jazz Festival in Mexico, the Jambalaya Jazz Festival in Ilhabela, Brazil, and the Festi Jazz in La Paz, Bolivia, as well as a concert with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Sergipe in Aracaju, Brazil. Fisher will be joined by the band ARPA, consisting of Fran Comiskey on piano, Orlando Solorzano on percussion, Robert King on bass, and Carlos Valladares on cajón.
In addition, Ecos Latinos will present Omar Ramirez, a trumpet player from Puerto Rico who graduated from Loyola University College of Music and the University of New Orleans; Roberto Moreira, a guitarist and composer from Honduras, who plays rhythm and blues and Latin music with some of the most notable bands in New Orleans; and Roberto Perez, a piano player born in Cucuta, Colombia, who studied at the conservatory of Music of Colombia. Perez brings the Afro-Colombian jazz fusion through his music to all audiences, and he has toured Europe, the US, and Latin America.
ABOUT THE TULANE MAYA SYMPOSIUM AND JEREMY A. SOBLOFF
The sixteenth annual Maya Symposium, themed “The Center Could Not Hold: The Ancient Maya and Collapse,” is a collaboration of Tulane University’s Stone Center for Latin American Studies, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and Mexican Consulate in New Orleans. Scholars gather to share research and NOMA hosts the keynote address, to be delivered by Jeremy A. Sobloff,
The term “collapse” has, in recent years, become quite controversial in studies of Maya civilization, and there is good reason to question the utility of this loaded word going forward. Jeremy Sobloff’s keynote talk will focus on understandings of cultural processes in the late 8th and 9th centuries and environmental events in the Maya Lowlands that culminated in what has often been seen as a political collapse. Moreover, his talk will examine whether such understanding can help illuminate comparable trends at other times in Maya history and in other complex societies in general.
Sobloff is an External Professor of the Santa Fe Institute and past President of the Institute (2009-2015). He also is Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus of the University of Pennsylvania. Before coming to the Santa Fe Institute, he taught at Harvard University, the University of Utah, the University of New Mexico (where he was Chair of the Department), the University of Pittsburgh (where he also was Chair), and the University of Pennsylvania (where he was the Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum from 1994-2004). He also was an Overseas Visiting Fellow at St. John’s College, Cambridge, England. His principal scholarly interests include: ancient Maya civilization, pre-industrial urbanism, settlement pattern studies, archaeological theory and method, the history of archaeology, and the relevance of archaeology in the modern world. Over the past forty years, he has undertaken archaeological field research in both Mexico and Guatemala.
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.

Small Talk: Early Italian Renaissance Art
2019-02-13 15:00 - 15:15
Small Talks are ten-to-fifteen-minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about works of art in NOMA’s permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions. Wednesdays are free for Louisiana residents courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join a docent for a discussion about NOMA’s collection of early Italian Renaissance art.

Small Talk: Thornton Dial's Ninth Ward
2019-02-09 15:00 - 15:15
Small Talks are ten-to-fifteen-minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about works of art in NOMA’s permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions.
Join a docent for a discussion about Thornton Dial’s Ninth Ward.

Mindfulness Class
2019-02-09 10:00 - 11:30, 2019-02-02 10:00 - 11:30, 2019-01-26 10:00 - 11:30
From January 19 through March 16, NOMA presents a series of eight mindfulness classes with Dr. Jayashree Rao. Mindfulness is defined as experiencing the present moment with open curiosity, without judgment, and with a willingness to be with what is.
Mindfulness training teaches skills to help individuals

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

About mindfulness classes at NOMA
This eight-part mindfulness series will be held on Saturdays from 10–11:30 a.m. beginning January 19. Classes will take place January 19, 26, February 2, 9, 16, 23, March 9 and 16. There will be no class on March 2 of Mardi Gras weekend.
$70 nonmembers | $50 NOMA members
Maximum class size is 30. Participants sign up for the series not per class. Participants will meet in the second-floor Woldenberg Board Room.
ENROLL NOW
Participants will learn to develop mindfulness through guided meditation and brief exercises that will help them experience the present moment during everyday activities. Although no specific outcome is promised, participants typically report feeling more alive, more “in-tune” with themselves and others. In addition, research has shown significant beneficial effects in dealing with stress, anxiety, high blood pressure, depression, chronic pain, and diabetes.
About the instructor:
Dr. Jayashree Rao is a retired pediatric endocrinologist, who spent thirty years teaching, researching, and practicing medicine at LSU Health Sciences Center and Children’s Hospital. For the past several years, Dr. Rao has practiced and led others in practicing mindfulness, employing techniques learned in the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course offered by Dr. Dave Potter.

A Night of India
2019-02-08 17:00 - 21:00
Friday Nights at NOMA features an exciting lineup of programs on select dates throughout 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 February 8, The Indian Arts Circle and NOMA host an evening of cultural immersion in the Asian subcontinent. Sample food from local Indian restaurants, watch an acclaimed biopic of an Indian scholar, listen to the Indo-New Orleans fusion music of Andrew McLean, and join tours of NOMA’s Indian Art Gallery.
Food will be available at booths on the entry circle from local restaurateurs, including Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine, Tava Indian Restaurant, and Silk Road Restaurant, along with specialties served at Café NOMA by Ralph Brennan.

5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot drop-in activity table with Rangoli
5:30 pm: Convocation song with Amritha Appaswami (Great Hall)
5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Andrew McLean (Great Hall)
6 pm: Bollywood Dancers (Great Hall)
6:30 pm: Movie screening of The Man Who Knew Infinity
6:45 pm: Gallery Talk with Curator Lisa Rotondo-McCord-McCord (Third floor Indian Art Galleries)
7 pm: Bollywood Dancers
7:30 pm: Gallery Talk with Curator Lisa Rotondo-McCord (Third floor Indian Art Galleries)

ABOUT ANDREW MCLEAN
Andrew McLean, a native of New Orleans, was nurtured by guitar great Hank Mackie and then by world music and jazz faculty at UCLA’s department of ethnomusicology and the Ali Akbar College of Music. He pioneered the performance of Indian music in New Orleans, where he co-founded the Indo-New Orleans group Shringar (with Tim Green and Aashish Khan, eldest son of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan). His collaborative work with other world-class New Orleans musicians has included Henry Butler, Michael Ray, Kidd Jordan, Tony Dagradi, James Singleton, Steve Masakowski, Mardi Gras Indian Chief Smiley Ricks, and George Porter, Jr.
ABOUT THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY
In the 1910s, Srinivasa Ramanujan is a man of boundless intelligence that even the abject poverty of his home in Madras, India, cannot crush. Eventually, his stellar intelligence in mathematics and his boundless confidence in both attract the attention of the noted British mathematics professor, G.H. Hardy, who invites him to further develop his computations at Trinity College at Cambridge. Forced to leave his young wife, Janaki, behind, Ramanujan finds himself in a land where both his largely intuitive mathematical theories and his cultural values run headlong into both the stringent academic requirements of his school and mentor and the prejudiced realities of a Britain heading into World War One. Facing this with a family back home determined to keep him from his wife and his own declining health, Ramanujan joins with Hardy in a mutual struggle that would define Ramanujan as one of India’s greatest modern scholars who broke more than one barrier in his worlds. (2015 | Rated PG-13 | 108 minutes)
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ABOUT THE INDIAN ARTS CIRCLE
The Indian Arts Circle of New Orleans was formed in 1994 to foster the love of music and dance amongst the Indian immigrant community of New Orleans. The organization seeks to organize concerts by accomplished Indian classical performing artists; enrich the cultural life of New Orleans by introducing another element of music among the thriving indigenous jazz and blues tradition; and to increase awareness of the diverse classical heritage of India.

Small Talk: Christ Blessing by a follower of Carpaccio
2019-02-06 15:00 - 15:15
Small Talks are ten-to-fifteen-minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about works of art in NOMA’s permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions. Admission to NOMA is free to all Louisiana residents on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join a docent for a discussion about Christ Blessing by a follower of Carpaccio.

Noontime Talk: Past Present Future: Building Photography at the New Orleans Museum of Art with Curator Russell Lord
2019-02-06 12:00 - 13:00
Noontime 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 Russell Lord for a discussion about the exhibition Past Present Future: Building Photography at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

Sculpture Garden Tour
2019-02-04 12:00 - 13:00, 2019-02-02 12:00 - 13:00, 2019-01-19 12:00 - 13:00
Join NOMA’s docents for a free guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Saturdays and Mondays, weather dependent, at noon. (Call 504.658.4153 to verify.) Sited on five acres adjacent to the museum, the garden contains more than sixty works by renowned sculptors placed among a picturesque mature grove of pine, magnolia, and moss-draped live oak trees bisected by a lagoon. Represented sculptors include Pierre Auguste Renoir, Rene Magritte, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, and Robert Indiana, among others. Meet at the gates to the garden, which offers free admission year-round.

Small Talk: Paintings of the Dutch Golden Age
2019-02-02 15:00 - 15:15
Small Talks are ten-to-fifteen-minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about works of art in NOMA’s permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions.
Join a docent for a discussion about 17th-century paintings of the Dutch Golden Age.

StoryQuest
2019-02-02 11:00 - 11:30, 2019-01-19 11:00 - 11:30
Spark imagination, creativity, and a love of reading. Professional authors, actors and artists bring the world of children’s literature to NOMA in this family program. Family activities are offered after each StoryQuest to encourage museum exploration.
Ideal for ages 2-7. No registration is necessary. StoryQuest is included with museum admission.
Find the full schedule here. Contact 504-658-4100 or education@noma.org with questions.
Major support for StoryQuest is provided by the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation.

Studio KIDS!
2019-02-02 10:00 - 12:00
Get Creative with Studio KIDS!
This winter/spring, Studio KIDS! classes explore art made by diverse cultures throughout time as inspiration for art projects. From sculpting to painting, each class features different media and techniques. Attend one class or the entire series. Classes are limited to 14 students. Register in advance to ensure your spot!
ENROLL NOW
Call 504-658-4140 or email education@noma.org for more information.
Ages 5 – 10 | 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Cost per class: $25 members / $30 nonmembers
February 2 | Honored Ancestors
Discover the way Kalabari Ijo Peoples of Nigeria honored their ancestors and then create a three-dimensional sculpture that represents your family.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Arts & Letters Series with Edmund White and Thomas Beller | Music by Shawn Williams
2019-02-01 17:00 - 21:00
Friday Nights at NOMA returns for 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 family activity table
5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Shawn Williams
7 pm: Arts and Letters Series: Edmund White in conversation with Thomas Beller

ABOUT SHAWN WILLIAMS
Shawn Williams is a pioneering voice in New Orleans’“alt-rocka countrybilly serial killer blues,” as she describes her unique sound. Her debut album Shadow (March 2017) is a skillfully-mastered collection of originals that moves seamlessly from old-school R&B-inflected rockers to softer, wistful numbers that evoke the broken-hearted melancholia of the desert. Idiosyncratic, catchy, and rich with local talent, the tracks showcase Williams’ impressive musicianship and unique capabilities as a songwriter. OffBeat Magazine says, “it’s an impressively mature debut album.”
ABOUT EDMUND WHITE AND THOMAS BELLER
NOMA’s Arts & Letters series welcomes authors, poets, journalists, playwrights, and literary scholars to the museum for public conversations that reflect on literature at the intersection of arts and culture. Edmund White, a pioneering figure in gay literature and memoir, will be interviewed by Thomas Beller, an acclaimed nonfiction writer and professor at Tulane University. Read an interview with Edmund White in NOMA Magazine.
Edmund White was born in 1940 and raised in Cincinnati and Chicago. As a novelist, biographer, and an essayist on literary and social topics, much of White’s writing focuses on the theme of same-sex love. His books include The Joy of Gay Sex (1977), co-written with Charles Silverstein; a trio of autobiographic novels: A Boy’s Own Story (1982), The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988), and The Farewell Symphony (1997); and a biography of French novelist, playwright, and political activist Jean Genet. He is formerly a professor of creative writing at Princeton University.
Thomas Beller is an author, editor, and professor of English at Tulane University. His books include Seduction Theory (1995), The Sleep-Over Artist (2000), How To Be a Man: Scenes from a Protracted Boyhood (2005), and J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist (2014). He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and is a contributing editor to Travel+Leisure magazine.
Edmund White and Thomas Beller
This program is included with museum admission for Friday Nights at NOMA thanks to support from the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival.

Museum Highlights Tour
2019-02-01 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.

Small Talk: Robert Henri's The Blue Kimono
2019-01-30 15:00 - 15:15
Small Talks are ten-to-fifteen-minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about works of art in NOMA’s permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions. Admission to NOMA is free to all Louisiana residents on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join a docent for a discussion about Robert Henri’s The Blue Kimono.

Noontime Talk: Commemoration: African Ancestral Screens and Bundles with Curator Ndubuisi Ezeluomba
2019-01-30 12:00 - 13:00
Noontime 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 Ndubuisi Ezeluomba for a discussion about African ancestral screens and bundles in the Françoise Billion Richardson African Art Gallery.

Small Talk: Will Ryman's America
2019-01-26 15:00 - 15:15
Small Talks are ten-to-fifteen-minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about works of art in NOMA’s permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions. Admission to NOMA is free to all Louisiana residents on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join a docent for a discussion about Will Ryman’s America.

Create Late
2019-01-25 18:30 - 20:00
Exclusively for adults, kick off your weekend with a glass of wine and a hands-on art project! Unwind while enjoying Friday Nights at NOMA programming.
NOMA Members | $25 per class
Nonmembers | $30 per class
Price includes materials, wine, and access to Friday Nights at NOMA programming. Ages 21+ only, please! To reserve your spot, email education@noma.org. Reservations close at 4 pm the day prior to each workshop.

January 25
Line and Shadow in Drawing Fabric
Many of the masterworks in The Orléans Collection feature depictions of elaborately-patterned flowing fabric. Not only does the fabric in these pieces highlight the skills of the artists, but serve a compositional purpose by using light and value to create a sense of space within the painting. While seemly quite challenging, folds in fabric can be simplified to line drawings that focus on shape and value. In this Create Late workshop, participants will explore drawing folded fabric using pencil and colored pencil.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Pardon My French | Orléans Collection Tour | Lecture: Viewing Art in 18th-Century Paris
2019-01-25 17:00 - 21:00
Friday Nights at NOMA returns for 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 family activity table
5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Pardon My French
6 pm: Gallery tour of The Orléans Collection with Curator Vanessa Schmid
6:30 – 8 pm: Create Late (Advance registration required)
6 – 8 pm: Interactive performance by Cristina Molina in Ear to the Ground: Earth and Element in Contemporary Art
7 pm: “Viewing Art in 18th-Century Paris,” a lecture by Andrew McClellan in conjunction with The Orléans Collection

ABOUT PARDON MY FRENCH
Pardon My French is a New Orleans-based band known for their repetoire of French classics and traditional cabaret tunes. With Pete Rozé on guitar, Joshua Gouzy on bass, Michael Ward Bergeman on accordion, and vocalist Caroline Fourmy, the band will transport you to days of yore in the clubs of Montmartre.
ABOUT CREATE LATE
Exclusively for adults, kick off your weekend with a glass of wine and a paint brush! Unwind with a teaching artist-led art project while enjoying Friday Nights at NOMA programming. $25/$30 per class NOMA member/nonmember. Email education@noma.org or call 504.658.4128 to reserve a seat.
ABOUT CRISTINA MOLINA
At select intervals throughout the run of the exhibition Ear to the Ground: Earth and Element in Contemporary Art, New Orleans-based artist Cristina Molina will host a series of intimate guided tours of the exhibition in which she will assume the perspective of the earth, personified.
Drawing upon cultural mythologies of the underworld, Molina will guide museum visitors through a whispered exploration of the exhibition in which the different artworks in the exhibition constitute the topography of an imagined subterranean landscape. Inspired by the classical myth of Persephone, who was doomed to spend a third of the year in the underworld, Molina reimagines this mythological figure as an empowered goddess who harnesses the earth as a place of primordial cultural emergence. Spanning video installation, performance, photography, sculpture and textile design, Molina’s work privileges female protagonists to explore themes related to origins, heritage, and personal mythology, and how they work in concert with natural and urban landscapes.
ABOUT ANDREW MCCLELLAN
Trained in European art of the early modern period (primarily 17th-early 19th centuries), Andrew McClellan has lectured and published widely on painting, sculpture, and architecture, as well as the historiography and institutions of art. An overriding interest in contexts, institutional frameworks, and the reception of art led him to study the collecting and display of art and forms the basis of four of his books, Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics, and the Origins of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth-Century Paris (1999), Art and Its Publics: Museum Studies at the Millennium (2003), The Art Museum from Boullée to Bilbao (2008), and The Art of Curating: Paul J. Sachs and the Museum Course at Harvard (2018).
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.

Small Talk: Antoine Coypel's Assembly of the Gods
2019-01-23 15:00 - 15:15
Small Talks are ten-to-fifteen-minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about works of art in NOMA’s permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions. Admission to NOMA is free to all Louisiana residents on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join a docent for a discussion about the painting Assembly of the Gods by Antoine Coypel, on view in The Orléans Collection.

Noontime Talk: The Orléans Collection with Curator Vanessa Schmid
2019-01-23 12:00 - 13:00
Noontime 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 Vanessa Schmid for a discussion about The Orléans Collection.

Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Special Hours
2019-01-21 12:00 - 17:00
NOMA and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be open from noon to 5 pm on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

Art & Process: Tintype Workshop with Artist Timothy Duffy
2019-01-19 13:00 - 15:00
In advance of NOMA’s upcoming photographic exhibition Timothy Duffy: Blue Muse, on view April 25 through July 28, 2019, photographer Timothy Duffy will offer a workshop to the public demonstrating the creation of his wet-plate collodion tintype photographs. Attendees will have the opportunity to observe and engage with a 19th-century photographic process which offered the first “instant” photographs.
Free with museum admission.
ABOUT TIMOTHY DUFFY
Timothy Duffy (born in New Haven, Connecticut, 1963) is a renowned photographer and Founder of the Music Maker Relief Foundation. Duffy has been recording and photographing traditional artists in the South since the age of 16, when he became interested in ethnomusicology. After earning a BA from Friends World College and MA from the Curriculum in Folklore at the UNC, Tim and his wife Denise founded Music Maker Relief Foundation in 1994 to assist traditional musicians in need.

Studio KIDS!
2019-01-19 10:00 - 12:00
Get Creative with Studio KIDS!
This winter/spring, Studio KIDS! classes explore art made by diverse cultures throughout time as inspiration for art projects. From sculpting to painting, each class features different media and techniques. Attend one class or the entire series. Classes are limited to 14 students. Register in advance to ensure your spot!
Call 504-658-4140 or email education@noma.org to register or for more information.
Ages 5 – 10 | 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Cost per class: $25 members / $30 nonmembers
January 19 | Local Landscapes
Let your imagination run wild as you create dream worlds and landscapes using an array of techniques and media.

Mindfulness Class
2019-01-19 10:00 - 11:30
From January 19 through March 16, NOMA presents a series of eight mindfulness classes with Dr. Jayashree Rao. Mindfulness is defined as experiencing the present moment with open curiosity, without judgment, and with a willingness to be with what is.
Mindfulness training teaches skills to help individuals

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

About mindfulness classes at NOMA
This eight-part mindfulness series will be held on Saturdays from 10–11:30 a.m. beginning January 19. Classes will take place January 19, 26, February 2, 9, 16, 23, March 9 and 16. There will be no class on March 2 of Mardi Gras weekend.
$70 nonmembers | $50 NOMA members
Maximum class size is 30. Participants sign up for the series not per class. Participants will meet in the second-floor Woldenberg Board Room.
ENROLL NOW
Participants will learn to develop mindfulness through guided meditation and brief exercises that will help them experience the present moment during everyday activities. Although no specific outcome is promised, participants typically report feeling more alive, more “in-tune” with themselves and others. In addition, research has shown significant beneficial effects in dealing with stress, anxiety, high blood pressure, depression, chronic pain, and diabetes.
About the instructor:
Dr. Jayashree Rao is a retired pediatric endocrinologist, who spent thirty years teaching, researching, and practicing medicine at LSU Health Sciences Center and Children’s Hospital. For the past several years, Dr. Rao has practiced and led others in practicing mindfulness, employing techniques learned in the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course offered by Dr. Dave Potter.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Extended Trio | Small Talks for Ear to the Ground exhibition
2019-01-18 17:00 - 21:00
Friday Nights at NOMA returns for 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.
In celebration of the Saints’ NFC championship, visitors wearing the team’s jerseys, apparel, or black and gold colors will be admitted FREE after 4 pm.

5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table
5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Extended Trio
6-8 pm: Series of Small Talks in the exhibition Ear to the Ground: Earth and Element in Contemporary Art

ABOUT EXTENDED TRIO
Extended Trio is a New Orleans-based, modern-jazz, piano band featuring Brad Webb, Matt Booth, and Oscar Rossignoli as composers.
ABOUT EAR TO THE GROUND: EARTH AND ELEMENT IN CONTEMPORARY ART
Working with natural elements like earth, wind, water and fire, the artists in Ear to the Ground show how nature can spur artistic innovation and spark new thinking about human culture and community. In their art, nature is not just as a resource to be protected or exploited, but rather a generative force with its own sentient power. Mining earth both as a material and a metaphor, the artists in this exhibition treat nature as a teacher: a model for negotiating the complexities of contemporary cultural life. Informed by a kind of elemental logic, their art envisions new ways we might relate to the natural world, as well as to one another.
The following ten-to-fifteen-minute Small Talks by artists represented in the exhibition will take place throughout the evening:

6 – 6:30 pm: Cristina Molina is a visual artist who creates video installations that include still imagery and sculptural forms. Molina’s non linear, hypnotic works centralize female protagonists within historical, mythical, and autobiographical narratives. Her artwork has been exhibited at various national and international venues.
6:30 – 6:45 pm: Diedrick Brackens thoughtfully employs the language of weaving and textile making to explore the intersections of identity and sociopolitical issues in the United States. Brackens uses calculated woven algorithms that stem from the cultural histories of African, American, and European textiles to generate his intricate tapestries, seeking to highlight the complexities of African-American identity while also focusing on the loom and its significance to cultural production.
7 – 7:30 pm: Sara Madandar is a US-based artist from Iran. She currently works in painting, sculpture,video and performance. Her work is mostly about the relationship of the human to their bodies and covers. She materializes the issues of existing in an in-between space through construction and deconstruction of the canvas. Her work evokes a sensation out of destruction and touches on the cultural displacements of corporeality. Her video, video installations, and performances are influenced by her emigration and comparison between cultures.
8 pm: Dan Alley grew up in Alaska and did his undergraduate work at Washington State University, where he received a BFA in ceramics. In 2014 he earned an MFA in glass art and currently serves there as an adjunct professor.

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.
