DECEMBER PROGRAMS AND EVENTS AT THE NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART

What's on at NOMA in the upcoming weeks:

Wednesday, December 11, 12:30 pm: Gallery Talk with Curator Brian Piper
Timed with the annual PhotoNOLA festival, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings Brian Piper leads a discussion about the exhibition Show & Tell: A Brief History of Photography and Text. Drawn from NOMA’s permanent collection, the exhibition explores the intersection between photography and written language, from photography’s invention to the present day. Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. https://noma.org/event/gallery-121124/ 

Wednesday, December 11, 6:30 pm: Ideas in Glass with Artists Gene Koss and Deborah Czeresko
In celebration of the exhibition Sand, Ash, Heat: Glass at the New Orleans Museum of Art, the museum is hosting studio glass artists Gene Koss and Deborah Czeresko in conversation with exhibition curator Mel Buchanan in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts. Gene Koss founded the glass art program at Tulane University nearly fifty years ago and served as its head until his 2024 retirement. A graduate of Tulane’s glass program under Koss, Czeresko brought her artistic voice in glass to a wider audience as the winner of the inaugural season of Netflix’s Blown Away in 2019. Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. https://noma.org/event/glass-panel-koss-and-czeresko/ 

Wednesday, December 18, 12:30 pm: Gallery Talk on Conservation
Ingrid Seyb, NOMA’s Conservator of Objects, leads a conversation about works in the exhibition Sand, Ash, Heat: Glass at the New Orleans Museum of Art, which presents nearly 300 objects representing over 4,000 years of world history through the medium of glass.
Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. https://noma.org/event/gallery-talk-121824/ 

Wednesday, December 18, 6 pm: Elders Sacred Talk Series
Each program in the Elders Sacred Talk Series, produced in partnership with the Congo Square Preservation Society, spotlights prolific elder New Orleanians, celebrating the lives they lead while providing the opportunity for visitors to learn firsthand about the impact they’ve had on our city. The series is part of NOMA’s Art Thrives initiative, which presents creative aging programs to support visitors ages 55 and up, including art-making workshops and platforms for older adults to share their experiences with audiences of all ages. Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. https://noma.org/event/elders-sacred-talk-series-121824/