These two outstanding poems were recently featured in the Institute’s 2013 Aspirations newsletter. SHE Brianna Breaux, Creative Writing, Level II Assume the gulf’s wide mouth, a sharp outcrop of rock licked with sea-slicked lichen. Assume: …
Join Chefs Dana D’Anzi Tuohy (NOCCA Culinary Arts Chair), Jesse Wightkin (NOCCA Culinary Arts Instructor), and Michael Doyle (Maurepas Foods) as they teach the basics of pickling and preserving in this free outdoor workshop.
The NOCCA Institute awarded over $150,000 in Term-Time and Summer Study Financial Aid in 2012-13. Students receiving aid from the Institute graduated from NOCCA with almost $7 million in scholarship offers and aid to college …
One day last fall, students arrived to a topographical map taped to the floor of the breezeway. Their charge: to discover what the oblong-lined shapes meant using the measurement systems, geology, biology, scientific data collection …
Above: exterior rendering of the NOCCA Forum by John C. Williams Architects Young, creative and focused energy is about to fill one of the city’s oldest architectural structures. Built in the 1830’s as part of …
On the heels of its successful first season in 2012/13, the Broadway @ NOCCA concert series returns to New Orleans with some of New York theater’s leading ladies (one of whom is famously a man …
Rows of vividly colored vegetables and cut flowers crisscrossed by grass pathways. A mouth-watering menu made with just-picked herbs and produce served at The Boxcar, the on-site food truck. Beds for a thousand experiments in biology, physics, chemistry and environmental science. All surrounded by a green fence covered in vining fruits and flowers.
Terence Blanchard GRAMMY Award-winning trumpeter and composer, Artistic Director of Jazz for Mancini Institute at University of Miami Frost School of Music, NOCCA alumnus “The thing about finding yourself as an artist is that at …
As the Academic Studio’s year-end sciences and humanities projects symposium came to a close in May, every 9th and 10th grade student had something to celebrate. Each student had experienced remarkable double-digit growth in every …
Friends are invited Tuesday, October 1st at 7:00pm to hear writers from the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program. Participating authors include Patrícia Portela (Portugal), Roland Rugero (Burundi) and Sridala Swami (India).
NOCCA students won awards this year in the following prestigious national and regional competitions: 4 students were recognized by the National Arts Recognition and Talent Search. 4 seniors were recognized by the National Merit Scholarship …
“You always hear that the real world awaits when you get out of school,” Academy Award-nominated director Behn Zeitlin opened in his remarks at this year’s Celebration ceremony for 2013 NOCCA graduates. The 30-year-old filmmaker …
NOCCA’s Culinary Arts students are baking fantastic pies all year long! If the thought of homemade desserts crafted from fresh, seasonal ingredients makes your mouth water, we offer two ways to satisfy your sweet tooth…
The NOCCA Institute and NOCCA’s Visual Arts department announce the opening of the 2013 Alumni Exhibition, featuring work by Sam Crosby, Logan Dixon, and Ashley Teamer. Join us for a reception on Thursday, September 12, from 6pm – 8pm, to celebrate this very special show.
On Thursday, August 29, some of New Orleans’ most acclaimed artists will join forces to explore the watery, mysterious boundary that both separates and joins music and the visual arts.
