Applications are now open for the New Orleans Museum of Art’s Creative Assembly Cohort, a community engagement-focused residency program that connects New Orleans–based artists of all disciplines with the museum’s collection, exhibitions, programs, and staff.

Participating artists have access to professional development workshops, opportunities for mentorship, and support to produce public-facing programs at the museum or elsewhere. Artists may apply to be part of the 2024–25 Cohort through Friday, September 27: https://noma.org/2024-25-creative-assembly-application/.

NOMA’s Creative Assembly residency launched in 2021 to support local artists’ creative and professional development and to facilitate participatory art and museum experiences across all disciplines with community collaboration and social change at the forefront.

“Creative Assembly offers the unique opportunity for artists to work within a museum and in collaboration with our city’s many communities,” said Dr. Redell Hearn, Chief Educator at NOMA. “This residency program is an important part of NOMA’s commitment to developing innovative offerings for New Orleans–based artists and our visitors from near and far alike.”

Artists are selected by a panel with the goal of amplifying a range of art forms and highlighting artists’ individual definitions of community. Previous artists have represented a wide variety of disciplines, including hip-hop, painting, dance, food justice and perfume creation.

“Recent Creative Assembly projects have expanded visitors’ expectations of what they might experience at NOMA or at any museum,” said Kelci Baker, Community Engagement Manager at NOMA. “It’s an honor to work alongside artists of all types as they realize their own dynamic creative visions.”