SIPS & SPIRITS

On December 14, 2023, we hosted our second annual fundraiser, Sips & Spirits, with an overwhelming amount of support from our community, colleagues, and artists who keep pushing our work forward! We send our gratitude to all of you for championing our vision of revitalizing our 2-acre campus, as the second largest landowners in Historic Tremé!

As Executive Director and Chief Curator, Gia Hamilton states, at NOAAM, "We raise our voices with colleagues, creatives, and the community to speak truth to power and use our resources to shift the distribution of resources and shift to a culture of care.”

We laughed all evening with our celebrity guest bartenders, Gina Charbonnet, Nakisha Ervin-Knott, Shawn Barney, and Wild Wayne. Our spirits and cups stayed filled with our amazing mixologists, Deniseea Taylor, Ashtin Berry, and Eve Marie Haydel! 

We honored our Tremé Heroes, six Black legends whose work has stewarded and preserved the historic and cultural legacy of the oldest living Black neighborhood in the country. Their names are Alvin Jackson, Gail Glapion, James B. Borders IV, Brenda Marie Osbey, Cherice Harrison-Nelson, and Leon Waters. We are honored to be working alongside them in the community!

We extend our gratitude to our Board of Directors and our funders for their instrumental roles in amplifying our work to expand beyond the walls of our museum. And lastly, we must uplift our staff for their continuous work throughout the year, with programs, exhibitions, communications, and operations! Our work does not move without you!

As we close for the holiday season, remember to come back over to the House on January 4th, 2024 to kick off this new year with us. #Joinusonthejourney