New Orleans Festival of Photography
The FENCE is officially open for public viewing! Head down to the Laffite Greenway trail (starting at Norman Francis Parkway, formerly Jeff Davis, and extending towards Broad Street) to check out 1,200 feet of captivating photography! The FENCE features the work national photographers, including 9 regional and 6 from New Orleans! The FENCE is a year-round public photography project exhibited in major parks and downtowns across North […]
New Photography: Create, Collect, Compile Featured Photographic Works by Guanyu Xu, Esther Hovers, Dionne Lee & Elliott Jerome Brown, Jr. Covid-19 Update: NOMA is committed to the health and safety of our community. The Museum is now open Wednesday through Sunday, 10 am to 5 pm. […]
Keynote Presentation with Chandra McCormick & Keith Calhoun New Orleans Museum of Art Thursday, Dec 12, 2019 6:30pm Free and open to the public | Please RSVP Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick have documented Louisiana and its people for more than 40 years. Partners in art and in life, their linked careers have focused on […]
Oil & Water: Sonya Contino December 1-31, 2019 Opening: Thursday, Dec 12, 8-10pm Sonya Contino‘s images are created using the basic elements of oil and water. A native New Orleanian, Sonya took her first photography class at Delgado College, then began to roam the city to hone her eye. After a few months, she delved […]
American Malarkey: Renée Allie December 1-31, 2019 Opening: Wednesday, Dec 11, 6-9pm STATEMENT: American Malarkey is a nostalgic photographic trip into humorous Americana. It is the chance encounters of out-sized relics of mid-century advertising glory, their modern equivalent and other ridiculous vignettes found on the back roads of America. In the last century, and to […]
The Louisiana World Tour: Natasha Sanchez December 1 – 31, 2019 Opening/ Book Release/ Performance: Friday, Dec 6, 7-9pm This exhibit & performance marks the release of Natasha Sanchez’s new book – The Louisiana World Tour: a photographic & philosophical road trip through the State of my World. (Photos, Songs & Stories from the Louisiana […]
Return to the Yakni Chitto : Houma Migrations December 1-31, 2019 Opening: Saturday, Dec 14, 5-9pm Return to the Yakni Chitto is an installation of images and words collected from across the coastal territories of the Houma Nation. This exhibition of documentation by Monique Verdin and poetry by Raymond “Moose” Jackson, designed by artist Michel […]
Little Motels and Directional Points: Richard McCabe Pop up exhibition: Saturday, Dec 14, 6pm till Solo exhibition by Richard McCabe featuring a selection of new photographs made in 2019 from multiple series including – Little Motels and New Work. BIO Richard McCabe is a curator, photographer and writer based in New Orleans. He was born […]
Urban Forest: Colleen Mullins December 8 – December 31, 2019 This work traces a decade-long examination of the urban forest of New Orleans. Forever altered by a 70% canopy loss after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the trees of New Orleans also suffered unbelievable indignities at the hands of man. Mullins’ work points to the strange […]
Land of Evangeline: Reconstructed Southerly Gold November 19, 2019 – January 26, 2020 Opening: Friday, Nov 22, 5:30pm In conjunction with “Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana,” NOMA’s exhibition of 19th-century Louisiana landscape paintings, Southerly Gold has contemporized the exhibition’s painted landscapes by photographing the original locations through a feminine lens, thus bringing the […]
