The New Orleans Museum of Art, or NOMA, which is a participant in the New Orleans Power Pass, will be featuring an exhibit entitled 'Style, Form and Function: Glass from the Collection of Jack M. Sawyer' for a limited time.  This exhibit is part of the New Orleans Museum of Art admission which is included with the New Orleans Power Pass attractions pass.

More information on this exhibition from their press release -
Opening to the public on February 8 and continuing through April 26, the New Orleans Museum of Art presents Style, Form and Function: Glass from the Collection of Jack M. Sawyer. This major exhibition showcases more than 200 works, many of which are the miraculous survivors of a 30-foot storm surge that inundated Sawyer's home in Waveland, Miss., on August 29, 2005.
 
The pieces in the exhibition represent Sawyer's range of interests. While the collection has always been strong in 19th century examples, it also expanded over the years to include excellent works of the Art Nouveau style, the Vienna Sezession movement, Art Deco and Functionalist designs of post-World War II Scandinavia and Italy, and even studio glass from the 1960s to the present.
 
Style, Form and Function: Glass from the Collection of Jack M. Sawyer will be on view in the first-floor Ella West Freeman Gallery. 
 
More about Jack M. Sawyer

• Jack M. Sawyer began collecting glass in the 1960s. Today he maintains that glass remains as great a source of mystery and visual pleasure as it was when he began collecting nearly half a century ago.
• Decorating a house in the 1960s, Sawyer was originally seeking attractive, reasonably priced decorative accessories.
• Like many another intelligent and astute collector, Sawyer was far ahead of prevailing wisdom in his realization that worthy pieces of glass could be acquired for little money.
• Sawyer, a respected television broadcasting executive with WVUE and WYES, and later a successful realtor, collected glass for his residences in New Orleans and on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
• One of Sawyer's earliest acquisitions was a cameo glass vase by the noted French Art Nouveau glassmaker Emile Gallé (1846-1904) for the now-incredible sum of $8.
• An earlier exhibition, COLLECTORS CHOICE: Selections of Glass, 1830-1930, from the Collection of Jack M. Sawyer, was presented at NOMA in Spring 1989. Some of the pieces in Style, Form and Function were included in COLLECTORS CHOICE, while others have never been seen publicly before.
• At the time of COLLECTORS CHOICE, Sawyer announced his intention to bequeath the glass to NOMA. Later he decided that it would be far more enjoyable to give the collection to the Museum during his lifetime and thus be able to witness integration into the distinguished permanent collection.
• On August 29, 2005, Jack Saywer's house in Waveland, Mississippi, was totally flooded from a 30-foot storm surge. A barrier of storm debris impeded the flood waters, so that his house slowly filled with water, which then slowly receded. All of the glass objects in the house floated off tabletops and shelves, were swirled around, then gently deposited in new locations. Only about ten percent of the collection was broken beyond repair, leaving nearly six hundred works intact.

More about Expression, Innovation and Design
Also opening Sunday, Expression, Innovation and Design: Studio Ceramics from the Permanent Collection highlights an important chapter in the history of American ceramics. Although the Museum's collection of American studio pottery is national in scope, it should not be surprising that a number of its pieces are by Southern artists. The selection of work in Expression, Innovation and Design provides a record of the breadth of expression present in the studio pottery movement as well as a wide generational spread. The works also reflect the vigor and flexibility of the studio pottery movement.
 
Since 1986, the Museum has built a nationally important collection of American art pottery from 1884 to 1965. As that collection was assembled, the Museum was aware of a succeeding studio pottery phenomenon and sought out examples of that movement as well. A number of significant collectors in the region emerged and supported the Museum's quest, including Eva Ingersoll Gatling of Alabama, Hugh J. Smith Jr. of New Orleans, Harriet von Breton of Mississippi, and Robert and Margaret Willson of Texas. Several practicing ceramists also responded with gifts of their work, all of which are part of this exhibition.
 
Expression, Innovation and Design remains on view in the second-floor Lupin Cameo Gallery through June 7.