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SUMMARY:Gallery Talk with Curator Brian Piper
DESCRIPTION:Every week\, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators\, artists\, and other special guests. These lively\, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view. \nThis week\, join Brian Piper\, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs\, Prints\, and Drawings\, for a gallery talk on the exhibition Delicate Sights: Photography and Glass. This talk will be offered at 12:30 and 6:00 pm. \nIncluded with museum admission\, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA\, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/gallery-talk-delicate-sights/2025-04-02/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
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SUMMARY:Member Preview: New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations
DESCRIPTION:NOMA members are the first to experience New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations. \nJoin us on Thursday\, April 3\, for a member preview of the exhibition\, which spotlights the work of four contemporary artists working in cities across West Africa: Chief Ekpenyong Bassey Nsa\, Sheku “Goldenfinger” Fofanah\, David Sanou\, and Hervé Youmbi. \nThe first presentation of its kind\, New African Masquerades offers a rare look into contemporary West African masquerade by contextualizing the works of individual artists within a range of social\, economic\, and religious practices and examining their networks of viewership and exchange. \nLearn More About the Exhibition \nNot Yet a Member?\nNOMA members support our institutional mission to present meaningful arts experiences that inspire communities in New Orleans and beyond. Members receive free admission the museum all year long\, invitations to special events\, and discounted tickets to programs. \nJoin Today \n\nNew African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations is made possible by support from National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts.
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/member-preview-new-african-masquerades-artistic-innovations-and-collaborations/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
CATEGORIES:Member Events
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SUMMARY:NOMA at Night: Opening Celebration for New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations with C'est Funk and DJ Ojay
DESCRIPTION:Get creative and explore the museum after hours during NOMA at Night. \nFor this edition of NOMA at Night\, we’re celebrating the new exhibition New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations with an evening featuring live music; gallery talks with the curator; specialty cocktails\, mocktails\, and a happy hour menu at Café NOMA inspired by the exhibition; all-ages art making inspired by the masquerades on view\, and more. Plus\, the exhibition catalogue is available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, which is open all night. \n$15 for members\n$30 general admission\nFree admission for ages 19 and under \nBuy Tickets \n\nProgram Details\nSets from C’est Funk and DJ Ojay\nThroughout the evening in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts\nDance the night away to celebrate the opening of New African Masquerades. \nTours by Curators\, Artists\, and Collaborators\n6:30 and 7:30 pm in English\, 7:00 pm in French in the first-floor Ella West Freeman Galleries\nTake advantage of the opportunity to learn about the exhibition directly from the artists\, curators\, and other experts. \nArtmaking Activity: Ribbon Wands\n6–9 pm\nAll ages are invited to participate in hands-on artmaking inspired by the works on view. Explore the exhibition and then make your own creation. \nSpecialty Cocktail from Café NOMA\n6–9 pm in Café NOMA\nEnjoy a Mango Masquerade and a special happy hour menu available from Café NOMA all night long. \n\nAbout the Exhibition\nNew African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations spotlights the work of four contemporary artists working in cities across West Africa: Chief Ekpenyong Bassey Nsa\, Sheku “Goldenfinger” Fofanah\, David Sanou\, and Hervé Youmbi. \nThe first presentation of its kind\, New African Masquerades offers a rare look into contemporary West African masquerade by contextualizing the works of individual artists within a range of social\, economic\, and religious practices and examining their networks of viewership and exchange. \nLearn More \nThank You to Our Supporters\nNew African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations is made possible by support from National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nNOMA at Night is supported in part by grant funds from 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.
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-at-night-new-african-masquerades/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
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SUMMARY:Gallery Talk with Curator Amanda M. Maples
DESCRIPTION:Every week\, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators\, artists\, and other special guests. These lively\, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view. \nThis week\, join Amanda M. Maples\, Françoise Billion Richardson Curator of African Art\, for a gallery talk on works in the exhibition New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations. \nIncluded with museum admission\, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA\, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/gallery-talk-masquerade-01/2025-04-09/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
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SUMMARY:Cross-Cultural Conversations: Creative Assembly and ARCAthens
DESCRIPTION:Join us in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts for an enlightening evening of cross-cultural dialogue with ARCAthens resident artists Angelo Plessas and Steffi Stouri and two of NOMA’s Creative Assembly Cohort members\, Carl Harrison Jr. and LaVonna Varnado-Brown. These artists with diverse backgrounds will share their experiences\, perspectives\, and creative processes.  \nThrough an open exchange\, attendees will gain insight into how art serves as a universal language\, transcending geographical boundaries\, and fostering connections among people from varied cultural backgrounds. In conversation with NOMA’s Creative Assembly Cohort members\, the visiting artists will explore themes of identity\, representation\, and the power of artistic expression. \nThis program is included with with museum admission\, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation.  \n\nABOUT ARCATHENS\nBased in New York City\, ARCAthens was created in 2017 to provide opportunities and support to visual artists\, curators\, and scholars through its artist residency programs. The inaugural NOLA/NYC Research Fellowship gives Greek artists and curators the opportunity to focus on cultural exchange and community engagement in two American cities: New Orleans and New York City. Visit ARCAthens to learn more about the organization and their programs. \nLearn More \n\nAbout the Speakers\nAngelo Plessas lives and works between Athens and Kymi\, Greece. He explores the intersection of spirituality and the networked world\, investigating how ancient\, folk\, and cybernetic histories intertwine. By weaving together elements from the spiritual and the online realms\, Plessas creates spaces that challenge the notion of binaries—material versus virtual\, human versus machine\, past versus future—proposing instead a fluid reality where all these dimensions converge. His work spans performances\, artist residencies\, artist’s books\, interactive websites\, quilted sculptures\, neon installations\, and educational projects. His work has been exhibited in Documenta 14\, the 8th Thessaloniki Biennale\, the Onassis Foundation\, the 8th Biennale of Gherdëina\, the Serralves Foundation\, and the 13th Gwangju Biennale in S. Korea. Other projects have also been exhibited in The Museum of Contemporary\, Chicago; the Jeu de Paume\, Paris; the DESTE Foundation\, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art\, Athens. He is the founder of the independent space P.E.T. Projects in Athens. He won the DESTE Foundation Prize in 2015. \nSteffi Stouri is an independent curator and researcher based in Athens\, specializing in feminist epistemologies\, archival practices\, and sonic art. With an academic background in Heritage and Museum Studies (MA\, University of Amsterdam) and History and Philosophy of Science (BSc\, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens)\, her work explores the intersections of gender\, identity\, and memory. Her curatorial projects often engage with embodied experiences and fragmented histories\, aiming to challenge dominant narratives through collaborative practices and innovative exhibitions. Notable projects include Otherlands (2024) a site specific exhibition and sonic performance in the archaeological site of Heraion\, Unboxing Callas (2023–2024)\, an archival and group exhibition exploring the legacy of Maria Callas in dialogue with the Greek National Opera’s archive\, and From Cartography to Cookbooks (2021)\, a digital exhibition examining Dutch colonialism through cartography and culinary history. She has also curated sound-focused projects like Chase (2018)\, a sound installation exploring sonic performance and the body\, and Symbiotic Degradation (2020)\, a hybrid exhibition addressing environmental degradation and its artistic representations. Her practice is deeply informed by a commitment to reparative curating\, cultural exchange\, and community engagement. Through the NOLA/NYC Research Fellowship\, she seeks to expand her exploration of sonic art\, while connecting the cultural histories and musical legacies of New York and New Orleans to her ongoing curatorial work. \nCarl Harrison Jr. is a New Orleans–based filmmaker\, artist\, and urban farmer dedicated to preserving cultural heritage and promoting environmental sustainability. As the founder of the St. Roch Apiary and Food Forest\, Harrison creates spaces for community engagement\, combining urban farming with beekeeping to support local ecosystems and inspire others to reconnect with nature. His short film\, The Buzz of St. Roch\, won an Audience Award at the 2024 New Orleans Film Festival and highlights the beauty and resilience of his neighborhood. Currently\, Harrison is touring The Buzz of St. Roch. His exhibition Echoes of the Hive was on view last year at the Tulane School of Public Health. Harrison also directed The Black Schoolhouse\, a documentary exploring the intersection of art\, activism\, and education within New Orleans’ Black community. \nLaVonna Varnado-Brown has worked as an installation artist\, artist advocate\, teaching artist\, and tutor in and around New Orleans and with Beginning with Children\, a Brooklyn–based college and career preparatory program). Varnado-Brown creates mixed-media visual art engaging with Afrofuturism\, history\, the divine feminine\, and floral motifs. Varnado-Brown explores Afrofuturism as a cultural aesthetic to navigate the intersection of art and history and inspire action in the now by creating space for joy. Varnado-Brown finds inspiration in the community through facilitating workshops that create intentional space to engage in creative grounding practices that raise our spatial awareness and kinesthetic responses to one another and our environment.
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/creative-assembly-and-arcathens-2025/
LOCATION:NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts
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SUMMARY:Book Club: The Art Thief: A True Story of Love\, Crime\, and a Dangerous Obsession
DESCRIPTION:NOMA’s book club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in the museum’s collection and exhibitions.  \nIt is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to participate. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections.  \nBooks are selected in advance and planned according to the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the titles. Selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nRegister Now \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. For more information or questions\, please email programs@noma.org. \n\nAbout the Book\nThe Art Thief: A True Story of Love\, Crime\, and a Dangerous Obsession\nby Michael Finkel\nStéphane Bréitwieser is the most prolific art thief of all time. \nHe pulled off more than 200 heists\, often in crowded museums in broad daylight. \nHis girlfriend served as his accomplice. \nHis collection was worth an estimated $2 billion. \nHe never sold a piece\, displaying his stolen art in his attic bedroom. \nHe felt like a king. \nUntil everything came to a shocking end. \nIn this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius\, Michael Finkel gives us one of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of our times\, a riveting story of art\, theft\, love\, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost.
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-art-thief/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:NOMA Egg Hunt and Family Festival Presented by Hancock Whitney
DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Egg Hunt and Family Festival Presented by Hancock Whitney is a fun\, outdoor event for families featuring arts & crafts\, games\, face painting\, food\, drinks\, sweets\, music\, and more! The festival is set within the picturesque Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden\, one of the most popular destinations in New Orleans for families and visitors. For many families\, the Egg Hunt may be their first introduction to NOMA and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden. \nEvent Chairs | Anne Angelico and Lacey Monteleone\nNOMA Volunteer Committee Chair | Taylor Pospisil\nEgg Hunts for Ages 4 & Under and Ages 5 & Up Start at 10:45 am\nYour support during the NOMA Egg Hunt and Family Festival provides critical resources to educational initiatives\, programs\, and exhibitions at NOMA. \nFor sponsorship inquiries and questions about the NOMA Egg Hunt and Family Festival\, please email egghunt@noma.org or call 504.658.4121. \n\nTICKETS\nThe NOMA Egg Hunt and Family Festival is a rain-or-shine event. Tickets are non-refundable. \nAdvance sales have ended. Tickets are available for $25 at the door. \nPlease note that kids ages 2 and under receive free admission\, but still require a ticket. Refreshments\, excluding alcoholic beverages\, are included in the ticket price. \n\nSCHEDULE OF EVENTS\nEntertainment\n10:00–12:30 pm | DJ Audio Jocks\n10:45–11:15 am | Egg hunt for ages 4 and under\n10:45–11:15 am | Egg hunt for ages 5 and up \nPine Grove Activities (Front Garden)\n10:00 am–12:30 pm | DJ Audio Jocks\n10:00 am–12:30 pm | Juggler and magician\n10:00 am–12:30 pm | Artmaking\n10:00 am–12:30 pm | Face painting\n10:00 am–12:30 pm | Photography by Polo Silk \nOak Grove (Back Of Garden)\n10:45–11:15 am | Egg hunt for ages 4 and under\n10:45–11:15 am | Egg hunt for ages 5 and up\n10:45 am–12:30 pm | Face painting\n11:00 am–12:30 pm | Hula hoop station\n11:00 am–12:30 pm | Temporary tattoo salon \n\nThank You to Our Current Sponsors\nPresenting Sponsor\n \nLead Sponsors\n \nBurkart Family\nCatherine Burns Tremaine \nFun and Games\nCammie and Charles Mayer \nBunnies and Baskets\nGas and Supply\nNOLA Pixie Dust\nShlenker Family Foundation\nSouthern Air New Orleans \n\nSweets & Treats\n\nPeter Wilson Family Fund\nBoogie and Bounce\nAnne and Andrew Angelico\nElizabeth A. Boh\nLake Vista Pediatrics\nLacey and Gibbens Monteleone\nEleanor Onstott \nSpecial Thanks\nElmers Chocolate\nOrleans Coffee\nRaising Cane’s\nNOLA Pixie Dust \n\nEvent Committee\nD’Ann Perez\nLauren Ridings\nMissy Tabary\nAlysha Colfry\nRosalind Wilson\nFaire Barnes\nCharlotte Thomas\nAlycia Swayze\nMelissa Cossich Myers\nLauren Rosendahl
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/egghunt2025/
LOCATION:Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans \, LA\, 70124
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SUMMARY:Bookbinding Workshop with LaVonna Varnado-Brown and Jennella Young
DESCRIPTION:Join Creative Assembly member LaVonna Varnado-Brown and Brooklyn based artist Jennella Young for a creative experience with bookbinding. Explore how women have stitched together culture and community across time and space. \nThis program for adults ages 18 and up threads together concepts of bookbinding\, using needle and raffia\, taking inspiration from works currently on view in New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations. \nThis program is free\, but advance registration is required. \nRegister Now \n\nLaVonna Varnado-Brown has worked as an installation artist\, artist advocate\, teaching artist\, and tutor in and around New Orleans and with Beginning with Children\, a Brooklyn–based college and career preparatory program). Varnado-Brown creates mixed-media visual art engaging with Afrofuturism\, history\, the divine feminine\, and floral motifs. Varnado-Brown explores Afrofuturism as a cultural aesthetic to navigate the intersection of art and history and inspire action in the now by creating space for joy. Varnado-Brown finds inspiration in the community through facilitating workshops that create intentional space to engage in creative grounding practices that raise our spatial awareness and kinesthetic responses to one another and our environment. \nJennella Young is a Brooklyn-based painter and mixed-media artist. Her work elevates the voices and lost stories of women of color and draws from magical realism’s tradition of complex\, beautifully operatic tellings of the history of the Atlantic Slave Trade and colonization. Her practice includes an emphasis on portraiture—primarily of Black and Brown women from archival photos—and incorporates watercolor\, acrylic\, ink\, pastel\, bookmaking\, and journaling. Young holds a BA in Psychology from Lehigh University\, an MA in Counseling Psychology from New York University\, and has completed advanced graduate coursework in art history and library and information science at Pratt Institute. Over the years\, she has merged her academic background with a vibrant creative practice\, enriched by continued study at the School of Visual Arts\, Educational Alliance Art School\, Center for Book Arts\, and Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia. Young has developed city-wide initiatives that expand access to arts\, mentorship\, and youth programming across New York City. She is a 2024 Create Change Fellow with The Laundromat Project and has collaborated with institutions including the Apollo Theater Oral History Project\, Weeksville Heritage Center\, the Guggenheim Museum\, and the New York Historical Society.
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LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
CATEGORIES:Workshops & Classes,Creative Assembly
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SUMMARY:Sacred Mothers Collage Workshop with Creative Assembly Artist LaVonna Varnado-Brown
DESCRIPTION:In this program organized by Creative Assembly Cohort member LaVonna Varnado-Brown\, join for for a gallery walk with curators Lisa Rotondo-McCord and Amanda M. Maples highlighting works on view at the intersection of Afrodiaspora and the Divine Feminine—followed by a collage-making workshop facilitated by Varnado-Brown and and a showcase of her work on the second floor of the museum. \nFrom the artist: To take seriously each other’s vulnerability\, fragility\, and precarity with clear socio-emotional boundaries according to each one’s needs. To see one another with big\, world absorbing eyes. To both honor and allow space for each one to show up as they are. To enact community with an intersectional lens and practice interdependency to empower each one to another. That is Afrofuturist kinship. That can open the path to enter the sacred mother space. \nThis program is free\, but advance registration is required. \nRegister Now \n\nLaVonna Varnado-Brown has worked as an installation artist\, artist advocate\, teaching artist\, and tutor in and around New Orleans and with Beginning with Children\, a Brooklyn–based college and career preparatory program). Varnado-Brown creates mixed-media visual art engaging with Afrofuturism\, history\, the divine feminine\, and floral motifs. Varnado-Brown explores Afrofuturism as a cultural aesthetic to navigate the intersection of art and history and inspire action in the now by creating space for joy. Varnado-Brown finds inspiration in the community through facilitating workshops that create intentional space to engage in creative grounding practices that raise our spatial awareness and kinesthetic responses to one another and our environment.
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/sacred-mothers-collage/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
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SUMMARY:Musical Encounters: Amina Scott
DESCRIPTION:On select Wednesdays\, NOMA presents a new series of gallery talks featuring conversations with musicians about their creative processes\, followed by a short\, intimate performance inspired by a work on view at the museum. \nThis week\, join Amina Scott at 6 pm. \nIncluded with museum admission\, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA\, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location. \nSave the date for future Musical Encounters on June 25 and July 16. \n\nFrom the Artist\nAmina Scott\, born and raised in Oakland\, CA\, is an upright and electric bassist\, composer\, and arranger. Her interest in music began at an early age when her grandmother began giving her piano lessons. From then\, her love and passion for music has yet to cease\, playing electric bass when she was 12 years old and was soon playing gigs with local bands in Oakland. She relocated to New Orleans in 2012 where she quickly became a part of the vibrant music scene. In 2017\, Scott joined the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra led by Adonis Rose. Now based in New Orleans\, Scott leads her own band and she has performed and toured with various artists including Nicholas Payton\, Steve Turre\, Joanne Brackeen\, Don Vappie\, Herlin Riley\, Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah\, and more. She currently tours with a quartet\, spearheaded by Dee Dee Bridgewater\, called WE EXIST!\, as well as with the DDB Big Band where she serves as an arranger and as the bassist. Scott continues to forge her own path as a trailblazing artist\, Ranging from many musical influences\, she is able to express her journey into Black womanhood and capture the trials and tribulations of her career thus far. While staying true to the musical lineage as well as herself\, Scott is able to captivate audiences around the world with her music and her story. Her debut album Where The Wild Seed Grows is out now on all platforms.
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/musical-encounters-amina-scott/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
CATEGORIES:Performances,Gallery Talks
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SUMMARY:Member Preview: Nicolas Floc’h: Fleuves-Océan\, Mississippi Watershed
DESCRIPTION:NOMA members are the first to experience Nicolas Floc’h: Fleuves-Océan\, Mississippi Watershed. \nJoin us on Tuesday\, April 29\, for a member preview of the exhibition\, which pairs vibrant monochromatic photographs of the color of water made under the surface with dramatic black-and-white landscape photographs made along the banks of the Mississippi and its tributaries—from Louisiana and across the country. \nLearn More About the Exhibition \nNot Yet a Member?\nNOMA members support our institutional mission to present meaningful arts experiences that inspire communities in New Orleans and beyond. Members receive free admission the museum all year long\, invitations to special events\, and discounted tickets to programs. \nJoin Today \n\nNicolas Floc’h: Fleuves-Océan\, Mississippi Watershed is organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art and is sponsored by Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation thanks to Ardian’s support. Additional support is provided by the Del and Ginger Hall Photography Fund\, the A. Charlotte Mann and Joshua Mann Pailet Endowment\, George and Milly Denegre\, Harvey and Marie Orth\, and James and Cherye Pierce.
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/member-preview-nicolas-floch/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
CATEGORIES:Member Events
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SUMMARY:Gallery Talk with Artist Nicolas Floc’h
DESCRIPTION:Every week\, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators\, artists\, and other special guests. These lively\, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view. \nThis week\, join artist Nicolas Floc’h for a conversation about the exhibition Nicolas Floc’h: Fleuves-Océan\, Mississippi Watershed. \nIncluded with museum admission\, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA\, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location. \nLater this day\, join curator Brian Piper and Floc’h for a program in the second-floor Frederick R. Weisman Galleries.
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/gallery-talk-with-artist-nicolas-floch/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
CATEGORIES:Gallery Talks
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SUMMARY:Tour with Curator Brian Piper
DESCRIPTION:Every week\, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators\, artists\, and other special guests. These lively\, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view. \nThis week\, join Brian Piper\, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs\, Prints\, and Drawings\, for a tour of the exhibition Nicolas Floc’h: Fleuves-Océan\, Mississippi Watershed. \nIncluded with museum admission\, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA\, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location. \nFollowing the tour\, join Piper and artist Nicolas Floc’h for a conversation in the second-floor Frederick R. Weisman Galleries.
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/tour-with-curator-brian-piper/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
CATEGORIES:Gallery Talks
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SUMMARY:Conversation with Artist Nicholas Floc’h and Curator Brian Piper
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate the opening of Nicolas Floc’h: Fleuves-Océan\, Mississippi Watershed\, enjoy a conversation between artist Nicholas Floc’h and Brian Piper\, NOMA’s Freeman Family Curator of Photographs\, Prints\, and Drawings\, followed by a Q&A with the audience. \nIncluded with museum admission\, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative.  \nSeating for the talk is limited and will be available on a first come\, first served basis. Check in at the admissions desk in the Great Hall and then head to the second-floor Frederick R. Weisman Galleries for the program. \n\nAbout the Exhibition\nFrench photographer and visual artist Nicolas Floc’h’s Fleuves-Océan project traces the movement of water across our planet\, exploring its flow through varied habitats and representing the ways we are all connected by water cycles and systems. This exhibition pairs vibrant monochromatic photographs of the color of water made under the surface with dramatic black-and-white landscape photographs made along the banks of the Mississippi and its tributaries—from Louisiana and across the country. \nLearn More
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/floch-conversation/
LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119
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