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Spring 2025 Events
January 16 Tenterhooks: Sculpture and Installation by Sarah Kusa, Artist’s talk: 5:00 pm in the Stone Auditorium, followed by a reception at 6:00 pm in the Carroll Gallery. Exhibition on view: Jan. 16 - Feb. 14, 2025. Sarah Kusa will be presenting a body of work entitled Tenterhooks in the Carroll Gallery, a title that evokes, in her words, “a version of uneasiness, suspense, anticipation, and anxiety.” Her mixed-media artwork is “rooted in abstraction and uses a spare visual language to ask questions about being in the world with human limitations.” Sarah’s forms range from abstract bodies to three-dimensional drawings in space, and her show in the Carroll Gallery will also feature a video installation addressing anxiety. Sarah Kusa has exhibited her work throughout the United States and has received the McKnight Fellowship in Fiber Arts, the Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists, a Jerome Foundation Fiber Artist Project Grant, and the McKnight Next Step Fund. She has participated in residencies at MASS MoCA, the University of Minnesota’s Institute for Advanced Study, and Ragdale. She lives and works in Saint Paul. Sponsored by the Sandra Garrard Memorial Lecture Fund.
January 31 Art History Networking Event w/ Visiting Grad Students from UT Austin 1 - 8 pm. Newcomb Art Department will hold a networking event, bringing together Art History grad students from Tulane with Art History grad students from UT Austin for a grad student lunch plus visits to exhibitions and sites in the Prospect Art Triennial. The goal of this event is to begin to establish cross-institutional networks for our grad students.The event will include lunch for Tulane Art History grad students and UT Austin grad students, plus a visit to the Amistad Research Center. Later that day, we will collectively visit several parts of Prospect, a citywide contemporary art triennial that invites artists from all over the world to create projects in a wide variety of venues spread throughout New Orleans. The venues range from the Contemporary Art Center near Harmony Circle to a gallery in Tremé, to the Ford Motor Plant in Arabi, and then Deborah Jack activation performance at UNO St Claude Gallery.
February 3 "Love and Collaboration in Modern Scandinavian Art," lecture by Bridget Alsdorf, Professor of Modern European Art, Princeton University 6 pm Stone Auditorium, Supported by the Sandra Garrard Fund for Recent Trends in Contemporary Art
February 26 MFA Thesis exhibitions: Robin Haithcoat and Adrien Lee, opening reception 5:30-7:30 pm, with brief gallery walkthrough by the artists at 6:00 pm
March 27 MFA Thesis exhibitions: Theresa Batty and Grace McIntyre-Willis, opening reception 5:30-7:30 pm, with brief gallery walkthrough by the artists at 6:00 pm
April 4 “Beyond the Retablo: Overlooked Sculpture in Colonial Latin America” 4:00 pm, Greenleaf Conference Room, Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies. A one-day workshop on the art of colonial Latin America that will bring together, in-person, a small group of scholars from different latitudes to Tulane’s historic campus. During our day together, we will present short papers and discuss ideas on the topic “Beyond the Retablo: Overlooked Sculpture in Colonial Latin America.” The rationale is this: across Latin America, the best-known sculptures are those found in original contexts, such as the church retablo and facades, but publics in colonial-era Latin America engaged with a range of sculptural objects that have subsequently been overlooked by the field of art history.
April 10 MFA Thesis exhibitions: Brandon Chavis and Katie Shanks, opening reception 5:30-7:30 pm, with brief gallery walkthrough by the artists at 6:00 pm
April 24 6-8 pm Michael Plante Retirement celebration, Carroll Gallery
April 25 10-12 pm Careers in art history panel discussion with Victoria Barry, Nicole Glimner Dach, Christina Nielsen, Jessie Haynes, Cudd Hall
April 25 Art Awards Night
May 15 BFA/BA exhibition commencement reception
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