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NOMA Highlights Tour
NOMA Highlights Tour
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.
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Noontime Talk: Bondye: Between and Beyond with Curator Katie Pfohl
Noontime Talk: Bondye: Between and Beyond with Curator Katie Pfohl
Noontime talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Join Curator Katie Pfohl for a discussion about the exhibition Bondye: Between and Beyond.
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Sculpture Garden Tour
Sculpture Garden Tour
Join NOMA’s docents for a free guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Fridays, Saturdays, and Mondays, weather dependent, at noon. 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.
Friday Nights at NOMA: College Night | Interactive performance with Cristina Molina in Ear to the Ground exhibition
Friday Nights at NOMA: College Night | Interactive performance with Cristina Molina in Ear to the Ground exhibition
Friday Nights at NOMA features an exciting lineup of programs in 2019: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. For a special College Night, all higher-ed students, faculty, and staff will be admitted FREE with ID.
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Studio KIDS!
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. Advance registration reqjuired.
Poets for Art
Poets for Art
In celebration of National Poetry Month, the New Orleans Museum of Art is offering a free poetry workshop on Saturday, April 6, for students in grades 8–12, led by Louisiana Poet Laureate Jack B. Bedell. Advance registration is required.
Slow Art Day
Slow Art Day
On Saturday, April 6, NOMA is participating in International Slow Art Day, which encourages visitors to slow down and explore one or several works of art for a minimum of five minutes each. Instructional materials may be found at the admission desk.
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Art Primer: Five from Louisiana
Art Primer: Five from Louisiana
Interested in taking a closer look at NOMA’s collections? Want to take a deep dive into a focused art topic? Join NOMA curators, staff and other art professionals as they explore a variety of topics in our Art Primer series. In conjunction with the exhibition Keith Sonnier: Until Today and Tina Giroaurd's beaded Vodou flags, on view in Bondye:...
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NOMA Book Club Curatorial Program
NOMA Book Club Curatorial Program
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...
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Looking Closely at Social Conditions in Nigeria Today
Looking Closely at Social Conditions in Nigeria Today
Ndubuisi Ezeluomba, the Francoise Billion Richardson Curator of African Art, will lead a roundtable discussion about contemporary social conditions in Nigeria following a screening of the 2014 film Invasion 1897. Panelists from the Association of Nigerians in New Orleans will include Reuben Amienoho, Alabor Derefaka, and Olu Ariwajoye, each representing a different regional group in Nigeria.
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NOMA Egg Hunt and Family Festival 2019
NOMA Egg Hunt and Family Festival 2019
Join us on Saturday, April 13th for the NOMA Egg Hunt and Family Festival in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Bring your family for a fun-filled day featuring egg hunts, a petting zoo, face painting, spacewalks, painting, crafts, activities and more! Tickets will sold at the door.
Baby Artsplay!
Baby Artsplay!
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...
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Noontime Talk: Ear to the Ground with Curator Katie Pfohl
Noontime Talk: Ear to the Ground with Curator Katie Pfohl
Noontime talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Join Curator Katie Pfohl for a discussion about the exhibition Ear to the Ground: Earth and Element in Contemporary Art.
Small Talk: Madonna and Child with Saints
Small Talk: Madonna and Child with Saints
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.
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NOMA Highlights Tour
NOMA Highlights Tour
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.
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Baby Artsplay!
Baby Artsplay!
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. Advance registration required.
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NOMA Book Club Discussion Group
NOMA Book Club Discussion Group
Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. The selection for April is Portrait of a Phantom: The Story of Robert Johnson's Lost Photograph by Zeke Schein.
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Gallery Talk: Bondye: Between and Beyond with Curator Nic Aziz
Gallery Talk: Bondye: Between and Beyond with Curator Nic Aziz
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Join Community Outreach Curator Nic Aziz for a discussion about Vodou flags on view in Bondye: Between and Beyond.
Arts & Letters Series: Zachary Lazar and Deborah Luster
Arts & Letters Series: Zachary Lazar and Deborah Luster
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. In partnership with One Book One New Orleans, this segment of the series features author Zachary Lazar, photographer Deborah Luster, and actor Bobby Wallace.
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NOMA Book Club Curatorial Program
NOMA Book Club Curatorial Program
Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. The selection for May 2019 is Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson.
Museum Highlights Tour
Museum Highlights Tour
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.
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Dickie Landry SOLO Concert
Dickie Landry SOLO Concert
Louisiana-born saxophonist, artist, photographer, and composer Dickie Landry will perform one of his legendary site-specific SOLO concerts in tribute to the work of Keith Sonnier and Tina Girouard. In his 60-minute performance in NOMA’s Great Hall, Landry will play the tenor saxophone to explore the textures and abstract layers of sound within NOMA’s iconic architecture.
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Sculpture Garden Tour
Sculpture Garden Tour
Join NOMA’s docents for a free guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Fridays, Saturdays, and Mondays, weather dependent, at noon.
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Sculpture Garden Tour
Sculpture Garden Tour
Join NOMA’s docents for a free guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Fridays, Saturdays, and Mondays, weather dependent, at noon. Sited on ten acres adjacent to the museum, the garden contains more than ninety works by internationally renowned sculptors.