NOMA EDUCATION: Lectures, Walkthroughs, & Special Events
Wednesday, April 7, 5:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 11, 2 p.m.
Thursday, May 13, 7 p.m.
Grad Student Night at NOMA (Great Hall) Hosted in collaboration with Tulane University, the University of New Orleans, and the Museum Studies program at Southern University of New Orleans, NOMA invites all New Orleans faculty and graduate students of art history and studio art to a special preview of the exhibition Joan Mitchell in New Orleans.
Beyond the Blues: Introductory Lecture (Stern Auditorium) David C. Driskell, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Art, University of Maryland, College Park, will give a lecture introducing the Beyond the Blues exhibition.
Faubourg Quartet Performs at NOMA (Stern Auditorium) The Faubourg Quartet, a New Orleansbased string quartet comprised of members of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and NOCCA's classical music faculty, will perform At the Octoroon Balls by Wynton Marsalis and String Quartet no. 12 “American” by Antonin Dvorak. At the Octoroon Balls, Marsalis’s first composition for string quartet, evokes the people and places of New Orleans. NOMA members and NOCCA students and faculty: free with ID. General admission: $10. Students/seniors: $5 with ID.
Wednesday, April 7, May 12, & June 2, 6 p.m. Super Bowl Wager Walk-through: Claude Lorrain & J.M.W. Turner This walk-through will examine the landscape tradition with particular attention to the two works wagered in the Super Bowl bet between NOMA and the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Friday, April 9, 6 p.m.
Beyond the Blues
Joan Mitchell Symposium Reception (Great Hall) NOMA hosts a reception for attendees of the three-day symposium Joan Mitchell in New Orleans (April 9-11, co-presented with Tulane University and the Contemporary Arts Center). Reception will include the premiere of Joan Mitchell: An Interview, originally recorded in 1974 and re-edited in 2004 by Lyn Blumenthal and Kate Horsefield.
Saturday, April 10, 5:30-8 p.m.
SWEET Suite Louisiana
Members-Only Exhibition Preview for: Beyond the Blues: Reflections of African America in the Fine Arts Collection of the Amistad Research Center (Ella West Freeman Galleries) SWEET Suite Louisiana: Color Intaglio Prints by Warrington Colescott (Templeman Galleries) William Greiner Photographs: Fallen Paradise and Land’s End (Templeman Galleries) All three exhibitions open to the public on Sunday, April 11.
Saturday, April 10, 1-5 p.m. and Sunday, April 11, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Louisiana Iris Show Photograph by Judy Cooper
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Louisiana Iris Show (Besthoff Sculpture Garden) The Greater New Orleans and Acadiana Iris Societies jointly present the first-ever Louisiana Iris Show in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on April 1011. Entries will be accepted from 7:3010:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 10, and anyone is welcome to bring irises to be judged. After judging, the free show will be open to the public from 1-5 p.m. on April 10 and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on April 11. For more information, call show chair Patrick O’Connor, 504-456-6060.
Wednesday, April 14, 6 p.m. Exhibition Walk-through: William Greiner Photographs: Fallen Paradise and Land’s End (Templeman Galleries) The artist will lead this walk-through of two series of his works, shot in New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
Starting Friday, April 16, noon Fridays at Noon: Beyond the Blues Walk-through (Ella West Freeman Galleries) The Education Department introduces “Fridays at Noon,” a regularly scheduled guided tour of the Beyond the Blues exhibition for the general public. The program will run weekly for the duration of the exhibition.
Sunday, May 16, 2-4:30 p.m. Beyond the Blues Artists’ Panel Discussion (Stern Auditorium) Artists whose work is featured in the Beyond the Blues exhibition will discuss their work in a session moderated by exhibition curator Margaret Rose Vendryes. Following the panel, the artists will be in the galleries, available to answer questions about their work.
Wednesday, May 19, 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 21, 6-8 p.m. PhotoNOMA (Great Hall) The New Orleans Photo Alliance and the New Orleans Museum of Art present “PhotoNOMA,” a photographers’ portfolio night. One hundred photographers from throughout the region will display their work. Free and open to the public.
Wednesday, April 21 & Wednesday, May 5, 6 p.m. Exhibition Walk-throughs: Beyond the Blues (Ella West Freeman Galleries) These curator-guided tours of Beyond the Blues will highlight many of the significant paintings, works on paper, and sculptures included in this important exhibition.
Exhibition Walk-through: SWEET Suite Louisiana: Color Intaglio Prints by Warrington Colescott (Templeman Galleries) The artist Warrington Colescott will lead this exhibition walk-through. Colescott has delighted gallery visitors and collectors with his charming, large color prints in a career spanning more than sixty years. Taking his Creole heritage by the scruff of its neck, his eleven (so far) Suite Louisiana prints not only amuse the general public, but command the respect of graphics connoisseurs with extremely sophisticated technical originality. No reproduction can fully do justice to these images; they must be savored in person.
Wednesday, May 19, 6 p.m. April 23-24 & April 30May 1, mornings Sync Up Conference (Stern Auditorium) The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation presents the third annual Sync Up conference, connecting musicians with festival producers and leaders in the film, television, video game, and social networking industries. Admission is free, but advance registration is required: www.syncupconference.com.
Wednesday, April 28, 6 p.m. Listening Party with Quintron (Frederick R. Weisman Galleries and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden) Commemorating the completion of Quintron's latest album, recorded entirely on-site, NOMA will host a listening party.
Sculpture Tour with Miranda Lash (Besthoff Sculpture Garden) Miranda Lash, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, leads a guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, focusing on masterpieces by artists including Louise Bourgeois, Henry Moore, Claus Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, and Robert Indiana.
Thursday, May 20, 6:30 p.m. Anyplace But Here: African American Art and Rosenwald Fellows’ Travel (Longue Vue House and Gardens) A collaboration with Longue Vue House and Gardens for the Beyond the Blues exhibition, this event will feature a lecture and exhibition of works by Rosenwald Fellow artists on loan from the Amistad Research Center.
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