Public Tours Every Wednesday and Saturday

NOMA provides guided tours of the galleries with museum docents and staff every Wednesday and Saturday. During these tours, you’ll explore the museum’s permanent collection of nearly 50,000 works of art and exhibitions currently on view. Included with museum admission, ......More

NOMA provides guided tours of the galleries with museum docents and staff every Wednesday and Saturday. During these tours, you’ll explore the museum’s permanent collection of nearly 50,000 works of art and exhibitions currently on view. Included 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.

New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119

Yoga in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Saturday

Take in the beauty of NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden during outdoor yoga sessions every Saturday morning.  Class is $10 $5 for NOMA members. Registration remains open until 3 pm the day before class. Please bring a digital or printed version of your ticket to class. E......More

Take in the beauty of NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden during outdoor yoga sessions every Saturday morning.  Class is $10 $5 for NOMA members. Registration remains open until 3 pm the day before class. Please bring a digital or printed version of your ticket to class. Enter at the main entrance gate to the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Dueling Oaks Drive. Please bring your own mat. REGISTER NOW These classes are outside and will be canceled for severe weather. Registrants will be notified of cancellation via email by 5 pm the day before class. Call 504.658.4128 or email [email protected] with any questions.  

Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124

Public Tours Every Wednesday and Saturday

NOMA provides guided tours of the galleries with museum docents and staff every Wednesday and Saturday. During these tours, you’ll explore the museum’s permanent collection of nearly 50,000 works of art and exhibitions currently on view. Included with museum admission, ......More

NOMA provides guided tours of the galleries with museum docents and staff every Wednesday and Saturday. During these tours, you’ll explore the museum’s permanent collection of nearly 50,000 works of art and exhibitions currently on view. Included 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.

New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119

Public Tours in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Saturday

NOMA provides guided tours of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden every Saturday. During these tours, you’ll learn about a selection of the 100 large-scale works installed in the garden. No registration is required. NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free an......More

NOMA provides guided tours of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden every Saturday. During these tours, you’ll learn about a selection of the 100 large-scale works installed in the garden. No registration is required. NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free and open to all, seven days a week. Tours start at the main entrance gate to the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Dueling Oaks Drive.

Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124

Public Tours in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Saturday

NOMA provides guided tours of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden every Saturday. During these tours, you’ll learn about a selection of the 100 large-scale works installed in the garden. No registration is required. NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free an......More

NOMA provides guided tours of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden every Saturday. During these tours, you’ll learn about a selection of the 100 large-scale works installed in the garden. No registration is required. NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free and open to all, seven days a week. Tours start at the main entrance gate to the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Dueling Oaks Drive.

Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124

Public Tours in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Saturday

NOMA provides guided tours of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden every Saturday. During these tours, you’ll learn about a selection of the 100 large-scale works installed in the garden. No registration is required. NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free an......More

NOMA provides guided tours of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden every Saturday. During these tours, you’ll learn about a selection of the 100 large-scale works installed in the garden. No registration is required. NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free and open to all, seven days a week. Tours start at the main entrance gate to the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Dueling Oaks Drive.

Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124

Gallery Talk and Book Signing with Boyce Upholt, Author of The Great River

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......More

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. Join the NOMA Book Club in welcoming local author Boyce Upholt for two gallery talks connecting his book The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi with NOMA’s special exhibition Nicolas Floc’h: Fleuves-Océan, Mississippi Watershed. The gallery talks will be offered at 12:30 and 6 pm this day. This program will also include a book signing with Upholt.  Included 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.

New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119

Gallery Talk and Book Signing with Boyce Upholt, Author of The Great River

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......More

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. Join the NOMA Book Club in welcoming local author Boyce Upholt for two gallery talks connecting his book The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi with NOMA’s special exhibition Nicolas Floc’h: Fleuves-Océan, Mississippi Watershed. The gallery talks will be offered at 12:30 and 6 pm this day. This program will also include a book signing with Upholt.  Included 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.

New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119

Studio KIDS!: Embroidered Snowflakes (AM session)

Join us at the museum on select Saturday mornings for Studio KIDS! youth art-making workshops. In this workshop series designed for artists ages 6-12, we’ll take inspiration from works on view across the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden and make our own creation......More

Join us at the museum on select Saturday mornings for Studio KIDS! youth art-making workshops. In this workshop series designed for artists ages 6-12, we’ll take inspiration from works on view across the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden and make our own creations with a teaching artist. About Studio KIDS!: Embroidered SnowflakesIn this “Embroidered Snowflakes” workshop, participants will channel their chilliest day while learning multiple stitching and beading techniques. Young artists will learn how to combine and blend colors of embroidery floss, create different textures, and attach materials while embroidering their own wintery mix of snowflakes. Participants will view artworks such as The Ice-Hole, Maine, by Marsden Hartley to gain icy inspiration for their creations. This workshop will be led by teaching artist Michelle. Registration is $25 for members and $30 for other participants. Advance registration is required and includes the price of all art-making materials. Studio KIDS! participants receive a 10% discount on purchases made at the NOMA Museum Shop. The discount is valid only for the day of their workshop attendance. Participants must show proof of attendance to receive the discount. Markdown and consignment merchandise is excluded from the discount. Register for Studio KIDS!: Embroidered SnowflakesThere will be 2 sessions of this workshop offered on January 17: The AM session will take place from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM Register for the AM session The PM session will take place from 12:30 PM to 2:00 pm Register for the PM session *Please note: capacity for each session is 12 participants. Registration will close at 12 pm the day before the workshop. Refunds will not be issued for cancellations made after 12 pm the Thursday before the workshop.

New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119

Studio KIDS!: Embroidered Snowflakes (PM session)

Join us at the museum on select Saturday mornings for Studio KIDS! youth art-making workshops. In this workshop series designed for artists ages 6-12, we’ll take inspiration from works on view across the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden and make our own creation......More

Join us at the museum on select Saturday mornings for Studio KIDS! youth art-making workshops. In this workshop series designed for artists ages 6-12, we’ll take inspiration from works on view across the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden and make our own creations with a teaching artist. About Studio KIDS!: Embroidered SnowflakesIn this “Embroidered Snowflakes” workshop, participants will channel their chilliest day while learning multiple stitching and beading techniques. Young artists will learn how to combine and blend colors of embroidery floss, create different textures, and attach materials while embroidering their own wintery mix of snowflakes. Participants will view artworks such as The Ice-Hole, Maine, by Marsden Hartley to gain icy inspiration for their creations. This workshop will be led by teaching artist Michelle. Registration is $25 for members and $30 for other participants. Advance registration is required and includes the price of all art-making materials. Studio KIDS! participants receive a 10% discount on purchases made at the NOMA Museum Shop. The discount is valid only for the day of their workshop attendance. Participants must show proof of attendance to receive the discount. Markdown and consignment merchandise is excluded from the discount. Register for Studio KIDS!: Embroidered SnowflakesThere will be 2 sessions of this workshop offered on January 17: The AM session will take place from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM Register for the AM session The PM session will take place from 12:30 PM to 2:00 pm Register for the PM session *Please note: capacity for each session is 12 participants. Registration will close at 12 pm the day before the workshop. Refunds will not be issued for cancellations made after 12 pm the Thursday before the workshop.

New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119

Public Tours in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Saturday

NOMA provides guided tours of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden every Saturday. During these tours, you’ll learn about a selection of the 100 large-scale works installed in the garden. No registration is required. NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free an......More

NOMA provides guided tours of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden every Saturday. During these tours, you’ll learn about a selection of the 100 large-scale works installed in the garden. No registration is required. NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free and open to all, seven days a week. Tours start at the main entrance gate to the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Dueling Oaks Drive.

Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124

New Mutations, Old Traditions: Stop Action Animation Workshop with Creative Assembly Resident LaVonna Varnado Brown and Artist Emily Denlinger

Join us at the New Orleans Museum of Art for a workshop co-facilitated by Artists LaVonna Varnado Brown and Emily Denlinger. Participants will explore collage & animation as a socio-emotional tool to process new beginnings and purge to create space in the new year. Soci......More

Join us at the New Orleans Museum of Art for a workshop co-facilitated by Artists LaVonna Varnado Brown and Emily Denlinger. Participants will explore collage & animation as a socio-emotional tool to process new beginnings and purge to create space in the new year. Social Awareness is an important aspect of socio emotional intelligence. Heightened awareness supports in understanding the perspectives and emotions of others, including those from diverse backgrounds. We will also discuss the ways that creating a character through collage can help us move through the world around us with a heightened sense of awareness. Characters developed in this workshop will incorporate symbolism and body language to highlight traits we intend to embody in the new year. We will then photograph each character and, through the photography process, explore elements of stop motion film making together while co-creating an intergenerational space to process ideas around releasing, receiving, stop motion, and collage making. This program is for all ages. Anyone under 16 years of age should be accompanied by an adult who will also be participating in the workshop. Space is limited and prior registration is required. REGISTER HERE About the Workshop FacilitatorsLaVonna Varnado BrownLaVonna Varnado-Brown is a resident of the 2024-2025 New Orleans Museum of Art Creative Assembly cohort. 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. Emily DenlingerEmily Denlinger has worked as Professor of Digital Arts and Photography at Southeast Missouri State University since 2009. Originally from Ohio, she holds BFA in 2D Art with a Concentration in Photography from Bowling Green State University, and an MA in Digital Art and an MFA in Photography and Digital Imaging from Maryland Institute College of Art. Her collages have been exhibited across the USA and are held in collections internationally. In addition to her gallery practice, Denlinger creates accessible wearable art that is created for commissions or sold in the local community at boutiques and fundraising sales. In her free time, she works with the Cape Girardeau County Clerk’s office to promote voting and voter registration and as an election judge.