Save the Date: Friday, September 25, 2009

LOVE in the Garden

7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.

Join us as we make
Love in the Garden
the best ever...

Delectable dining, open bar, and dancing under the stars and the oaks in the most romantic setting in New Orleans...
NOMA's Besthoff Sculpture Garden.

Patron Party
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Attire: Dressy Casual
In the event of rain, celebration will relocate to the Great Hall inside of the Museum

Click here to purchase tickets online.

Get Over the Hump...Wednesday Evenings
at the New Orleans Museum of Art

Six Shooters, a panel discussion on photography presented by the New Orleans Photo Alliance, and Mistology, an interactive program for lovers of fine spirits, highlight the upcoming public programs scheduled for Wednesday nights at the New Orleans Museum of Art through May.

The events are part of the Museum's popular Mid-Week in Mid-City series, held during the weekly extended hours on Wednesday evenings, from 5-8 p.m. With the exception of Mistology, all Mid-Week in Mid-City events are free to Louisiana residents.

Below is the schedule of confirmed Mid-Week in Mid-City programs through May. For details on future Mid-Week in Mid-City programs as they become available, please consult www.noma.org.

All events listed begin at 6 p.m.

JULY

Wednesday, July 8, 6 p.m. - Community Art Studio for Adults
Explore your creative side in a relaxing and inspiring environment with other adults. NOMA's resident art therapist Holly Wherry will guide you in expressing yourself with a large selection of art materials provided in this open studio. No artistic experience is necessary.

Sunday, July 12, 2 p.m. - Social Animals: Locating the Human in the Natural World
(Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden—meet at entrance) Sculpture Garden Walk-through with Curatorial Intern Sara Hoffman Sara Hoffman discusses three works in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden by artists Louise Bourgeois, Deborah Butterfield, and Rona Pondick, highlighting the sculptors' use of animal forms to examine uneasy social and environmental relationships and trouble the definition of humans as distinct from animals.

Wednesday, July 15, 6 p.m. - Decorative Arts Tour with John W. Keefe
Exhibition organizer John W. Keefe, The RosaMary Foundation Curator of the Decorative Arts, leads visitors on an informal tour of With a Little Help from Our Friends: Recent Accessions in the Decorative Arts. This new exhibition gratefully acknowledges the generosity of the Museum's patrons and friends who have helped enhance the Museum's already renowned Decorative Arts collection with gifts in ceramics, glass, metalwork, small sculpture and Fabergé objects.

Wednesday, July 22, 6 p.m. - Film:13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests
Released in conjunction with The Andy Warhol Museum, 13 Most Beautiful features 13 of Warhol's classic silent film portraits. Subjects include Nico, Lou Reed, Edie Sedgwick, Dennis Hopper and more. Shot between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City, the screen tests are presented with newly commissioned soundtracks performed by Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips. (60 minutes)

Wednesday, July 29, 6 p.m. - Mnemonic Devices Tour with Jones and Webber
In the current two-person exhibition Mnemonic Devices: Rachel Jones and David Webber, two Louisiana-based artists working in painting (Jones) and video (Webber) explore the process of selecting and assembling information from memories and pre- existing documents into new visual amalgams. Though they work in different mediums, the artists share an interest in dissolving imagery and narratives into expressive fragments. The New Orleans-based Jones has exhibited her work locally at The Front, as well as in New York and Austria. Webber is Assistant Professor of Media Art at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and has exhibited his work in numerous international film festivals.

AUGUST

Wednesday, August 5, 6 p.m. - Instant Arrested in Eternity Tour with George Roland
Join us for an informal tour of An Instant Arrested in Eternity: Sketches by Steinlen, Forain & Tchelitchew with George Roland, Doris Zemurray Stone Curator of Prints and Drawings. Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen roamed his beloved Montmartre filling his sketchbooks with the images he would draw upon to create vivid lithographs for weekly publications. Jean-Louis Forain haunted the courts, pen in hand, to capture his popular caricatures. Pavel Tchelitchew recorded the incidents from his personal life, planning more comprehensive compositions. These rapid and fluent images bring us closer to the spirit of the artist than many more highly developed works and give us the pleasure of seeing the artist at work. The exhibition features approximately 40 sheets selected from the recent gift of 135 drawings by the late Joseph F. McCrindle.

Wednesday, August 12, 6 p.m. - Chinese Tour with Lisa Rotondo-McCord
Lisa Rotondo-McCord, Assistant Director for Art and Curator of Asian Art, leads an informal tour of highlights from the permanent collection of Chinese art.

Wednesday, August 19, 6 p.m. - Art of Caring Tour with Alice Webb Dickinson
Join Alice Webb Dickinson, associate collections manager and the institutional curator for The Art of Caring, on a tour of the exhibition. Through photography and film, The Art of Caring examines how key life events are celebrated and honored and how pivotal life decisions are made by a number of different world cultures. The tour will look at the themes and artists highlighted in the show as well as discuss the way in which photography is used to document life.

Wednesday, August 26, 6 p.m. - Film: Last of the Czars: Death of a Dynasty
From Films for the Humanities and Sciences: "Decades of social unrest coupled with the privations of World War I brought Russia to revolution; yielding to the people's will, Czar Nicholas II abdicated the throne. This finely crafted program presents the final years of the Romanovs, from the outbreak of revolt and the return of Lenin to their brutal execution, the culmination of the Bolshevik leader's lifelong plan of revenge. The program uses an incredible array of rare film footage, diaries, letters, and interviews with survivors of the era, to include Prince Nicholas Romanov, the present head of the family. DNA evidence is also examined, proving finally the identities of the Romanov remains. A Discovery Channel Production." (47 minutes)

SEPTEMBER

Wednesday, September 2, 6 p.m. - Asian Art Tour with Lisa Rotondo-McCord
Lisa Rotondo-McCord, Assistant Director for Art and Curator of Asian Art, leads an informal tour of her latest reinstallation of the third-floor Asian galleries.

Wednesday, September 9, 6 p.m. - Community Art Studio for Adults
Explore your creative side in a relaxing and inspiring environment with other adults. NOMA's resident art therapist Holly Wherry will guide you in expressing yourself with a large selection of art materials provided in this open studio. No artistic experience is necessary.

Wednesday, September 16, 6 p.m. - Artist Talk with William Sooter
New Orleans-based video artist William Sooter screens and discusses his recent work. Says Sooter: "My investigation is centered on the conflict between my fascination with and repulsion toward the war machine. I am questioning the paradox which I feel many confront between the romanticized depiction of organized violence and the realities which have severe repercussions in our culture. I am interested in the paradox between what is portrayed as entertainment but in reality is a perpetuation of violence. This causes desensitization toward perceptions of organized violence."

Wednesday, September 23, 6 p.m. - Film: What About Style? Alex Katz: A Painter's Painter
For over 50 years, painter Alex Katz has bucked trends in modern art to pioneer and refine his own style of flat, elegant and realistic figure painting. What About Style? offers an uncluttered view of this American maverick. Filmmaker and art critic Heinz Peter Schwerfel captures the elusive Katz working in his Maine studio and his New York SoHo flat, laboring over a 32-foot painting called The Black Brook. Interviews, archival footage, images of his subjects and a virtual tour of 20 Katz paintings are combined to convey his unique style to the viewer. (56 minutes)

Wednesday, September 30, 6 p.m. - Artist Performance by Skylar Fein (NOMA)
Evening of live music curated by exhibiting artist Skylar Fein, in celebration of the contemporary art exhibition Skylar Fein: Youth Manifesto (opening on September 12).

Mid-Week in Mid-City made possible through a generous donation from the Ruby K. Worner Trust.

The Art of Caring Community Partners Days

The New Orleans Museum of Art has invited a number of community partners to assist in the presentation of a special series of awareness days related to the themes of the exhibition, The Art of Caring: A Look at Life through Photography. Each organization will share information about the contributions they make to our community, raising awareness for important issues that shape our lives. A corresponding HBO Film will accompany each themed day.

May 16: Remembering

Featured Organizations:

• National Hospice Foundation
• National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
• Seasons Grief and Loss Center
• Louisiana-Mississippi Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
• Angola Prison Hospice Program

HBO Film: Letting Go: A Hospice Journey, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

June 6: Children and Family

Featured Organizations:

• Children's Defense Fund
• Jewish Family Service
• Magnolia School
• Therapeutic Family Services of Catholic Charities

HBO Film: Dismantling the Cradle to Prison Pipeline, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

June 20: Healing through Art for Children

Hyogo-NOMA Art Therapy Initiative

HBO Film: We Are Together: The Children of the Agape Choir, , 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

July 11: Aging

Featured Organizations:

• The Council on Aging
• Jewish Family Service-LifeLine Program
• AARP
• PACE Program for Seniors/Catholic Charities

Film: Young at Heartand Aging in America - The Years Ahead, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

JULY 25: Caregiving and Healing

Featured Organizations:

• LSU School of Nursing
• Ochsner Blood Bank - will hold a blood drive at the Museum
• Covenant House

Film: See Me/Look at Me and The Sandwich Generation, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

August 8: Alzheimer's

Featured Organization:

• Greater New Orleans Alzheimer's Association

HBO Film: Alzheimer's Project, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

August 29: Disaster

Featured Organizations:

• American Red Cross
• Habitat for Humanity
• Make It Right Foundation
• Disaster Management at Tulane University
• Art Project-NOMA

A reading of names will memorialize the victims of Katrina. The day will also feature photographs from Dean Ron Marks of Tulane University School of Social Work and individual and community art-making as part of the NOMA Art Therapy Initiative.

HBO Film: When the Levees Broke , 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

September 12: Wellness

Featured Organizations:

• EJGH Wellness Center - Yoga Program in the Sculpture Garden
• Integrative Medicine Specialist, Irene Sebastian, M.D., Ph.D. - will discuss nutrition, classical homeopathy, and herbal therapy
• Elmwood Fitness Center - Personal Training Program and Weigh No More Program

Film: Autism: The Musical, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

September 26: Love

Featured Organizations:

• American Heart Association
• LASPCA - will offer a dog adoption program
• Magnolia School

Film: Andrew Jenks, Room 335, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

October 10: All Partners

All Art of Caring participating organizations will be invited back for a community awareness day.

Yoga in the Sculpture Garden

The New Orleans Museum of Art partners with East Jefferson General Hospital to offer Yoga in the Sculpture Garden on the first Saturday of every month. The one-hour classes, led by a Certified Yoga Instructor from the EJGH Wellness Center, begin at 8 a.m. in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Each session is $5 for NOMA members and requires pre-registration by calling EJGH Health Finder at (504) 456-5000. The first class filled in advance with the maximum 40 participants so reserve your spot now.

Summer Art Studio at NOMA!

Looking for ways to engage your children or teens this summer? Consider the New Orleans Museum of Art Summer Art Studio for ages 4 to 17, which features nine sessions designed for particular age groups that highlight different media and subjects. Week-long, half-day art workshops for children ages 4-12 and all-day Saturday workshops for teens ages 13-17 are taught by professional art teachers and artists. Each class offers an in-depth exploration of a variety of art mediums and approaches spanning both traditional and non-traditional methods and all workshops are based on different aspects of NOMA's permanent collection and special exhibitions.

Call the Education Department at 504-658-4128 to register for workshops. Registration is taken on a first-come, first-serve basis. Please register early to reserve a spot. Payment methods accepted are check or credit card. Please remember that registration is not complete until tuition is paid in full! All programs are non-refundable unless cancelled due to low enrollment and a substitute session cannot be found. A limited number of scholarships based on need and merit are available with teacher recommendation. Teachers interested in submitting a recommendation should contact the education department.

Summer Art Studio at NOMA for Children

Cost is $100 for Museum Members and $125 for Non-Members. Both morning and afternoon classes are available. All classes run Monday through Friday for 2-1/2 hours a day. Morning classes are from 10:00 a.m. - Noon. Afternoon classes are from 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Class size is restricted to twenty. As art can sometimes be messy, students should wear old or play clothes to the workshops!

June 8 - 12, Ages 4-6
Powwow at NOMA
Artists will explore the art and culture of Native American tribes featured in NOMA's permanent collection while learning elements of art such as line, shape, color, pattern and more! Exciting projects will incorporate a variety of two-dimensional and three-dimensional media and emphasis will be placed on imagination, creative expression and skills that will help children to develop hand/eye coordination.

June 15 - 19, Ages 7-9
Be Like Mic...elangelo
Michelangelo was a sculptor, architect, painter, philosopher, and as much of a celebrity in his day as any Ninja Turtle! Through Renaissance-inspired projects, students will learn about Michelangelo by painting scenes of their own world using his techniques. The workshop will focus on highlighting artistic techniques with different media and introducing the vocabulary of the Italian Renaissance.

June 22 - 26, Ages 10-12
Space: The Final Frontier
According to 20th century artist Frank Stella, "the aim of art is to create space." By examining NOMA's collection of modern and contemporary art, participants will discover how artists use different materials to create and engage space and how the viewer is affected by these choices. Hands-on projects involving printmaking, drawing, found objects and three-dimensional construction will allow the young artists to explore new methods of art-making and will highlight the art principles behind much of 20th century art.

July 6 - 10, Ages 4-6
Mid-Summer Mardi Gras
Who doesn't love Mardi Gras? Participants will be inspired by local artists and themes within the Museum's galleries as we celebrate our favorite holiday and learn about art! New Orleans-themed projects involving float-making, food, costuming, music and more will conclude with our own parade around NOMA. Associated art elements, techniques, and imagination will be highlighted with each project, and a snack will be provided for the artists.

July 13 - 17, Ages 7-9
PAINT, PAINT, PAINT...
Artists will delve into color, materials and classic painting techniques as well as off-the-wall methods of paint application Drawing inspiration from the wide variety of painting styles in the galleries of NOMA, participants will develop their creativity with everyone's favorite medium, PAINT! Develop basic painting skills using watercolor, tempera and acrylic paints, exploring texture, color, composition, light and shadow. Prepare to be messy!

July 20 - 24, Ages 10-12
Mixed Media Mish-Mash
A great way to introduce young artists to different art mediums! This is a workshop with classes focusing on drawing, painting and sculpture as well as other fun and interesting materials! Each session focuses on different mediums and artistic styles as well as studying famous artists featured in NOMA's galleries.

Summer Art Studio at NOMA for Teens

Cost is $45 for Museum Members and $60 for Non-Members. Registration is taken on a first-come, first-serve basis. Please register early to reserve a spot. Each workshop will be from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on a Saturday, and students should bring a brown-bag lunch. Regrettably, there are no restaurant facilities on the premises. Class size is restricted to twelve.

June 13th Ages 13-17
Project NOMA
Imagination, composition, color, texture and material will be the focus of Project NOMA; a full day of creating a wearable work of art. Teens can explore combinations of traditional two-dimensional art-making techniques and unconventional media, as they learn methods of construction and three-dimensional design.

July 11th Ages 13-17
2-D to 3-D
Students will choose a favorite two-dimensional work of art from NOMA's galleries that will serve as the inspiration for a three-dimensional masterpiece. Instructors will be on hand to introduce innovative methods of constructing and a wide variety of traditional and non-traditional materials will be available.

August 8th Ages 13-17
Drawing Studio
Designed for the beginning to intermediate artist, this course is an introduction to many drawing approaches with a variety of media and subject matter. Basic figure drawing techniques will be introduced as well as drawing from life with a clothed model.

Save the Date:
Friday, November 13, 2009

The 44th Odyssey Ball