The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book! In addition to monthly book discussions, the Book Club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. Books are selected in advance and planned for the entire year according to the exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the selected titles. Meetings are held in person or via Zoom, determined at the beginning of each month. All meetings begin at 12 pm. For more information on the NOMA Book Club please contact NOMA’s Curator of Education, Tracy Kennan, at tkennan@noma.org or (504) 658-4113. FEBRUARY The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks Faucett, 1987, ISBN: 0449215040 Photographer, writer, and composer, Gordon Parks wrote this moving, true-to-life novel of growing up as a Black man in twenieth-century America. Hailed by critics and readers alike, The Learning Tree tells the extraordinary journey of a family as they struggle to understand the world around them and leave their mark a world that is better for their having been in it. CURATORIAL PROGRAM | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 12 pm with Russell Lord, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings BOOK DISCUSSION | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 12 pm