A collection of podcasts, interviews, lectures, and panel discussions featuring faculty, graduate students, and alumni of the Newcomb Art Department.
MFA candidate Gabrielle Garcia Steib at MoMA's “Forum on Contemporary Photography: Lines of Belonging”
September 17, 2025, The Museum of Modern Art. Organized in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of MoMA’s landmark New Photography series and the forthcoming Lines of Belonging exhibition, this Forum on Contemporary Photography convenes an international group of artists working in and out of four cities across the globe—Johannesburg, Kathmandu, Mexico City, and New Orleans—which have existed as centers of life, creativity, and communion for longer than the nation states in which they are presently situated. The presentations will be framed around a series of questions for the featured speakers, drawing out threads beyond geographic boundaries: How do historical narrative, memory, and cultural inheritance intersect in your work? How do you engage the idea of a border? Who do you make your pictures of, and who do you make your pictures for? How does your work contend with experiences that might be obscured or left aside?
A Conversation with Sean Clark on the Drawing South podcast
June 10, 2025. One of those long, meandering, soul-filling chats with @sgclarkart about what it really means to make and teach art. We wandered through strategies, shared artists we love, swapped stories from the classroom—and even cracked open the ever-tricky world of grading. Sean brings a unique lens to it all—balancing the grit and freedom of being self-taught with the structure and reflection of earning his MFA. His studio practice is shaped by both, and now he’s bringing that perspective into the classroom with care and intention. Like many of us, he sees teaching as a calling—not just a job—and we hope you'll give this powerful, nuanced conversation a listen.
“Samplers by Free, Freed, and Enslaved Schoolgirls: An Interview with Sarah Brokenborough” on Sew What?, Season 4, Episode 23
October 24, 2024, interview by Isabella Rosner. In this episode, Isabella interviews Sarah Brokenborough, a PhD student at Tulane University, about her master's dissertation entitled "What’s the Use?: A Comparison of Needlework Samples Made By Free, Freed, and Enslaved Schoolgirls in the Early Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World." Images and sources are available at @sewwhatpodcast on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. The podcast has a website, sewwhatpodcast.com.
“Gene Koss: From Farm to Flame” on Talking Out Your Glass podcast, Season 9, Episode 19
September 2024. Gene Koss uses glass as a medium of pure sculptural expression, resulting in monumental sculptures of cast glass, steel, and light. He developed innovative techniques to transform his memories of the mechanized Wisconsin farm of his youth into foundry-based glass sculptures. He combines glass and steel found objects to create small-scale sculptures that often also serve as studies for his larger-scale works.
“Artist Teresa Cole on the Humanness of Pattern” on Platemark, a podcast about prints and the printmaking ecosystem
August 13, 2024. In this five-part mini-series, Ann is talking to five artists who were selected to be included in an exhibition called 5X5, that was part of Print Austin's winter festival this year in 2024. The juror of the show is Mysczka Lewis, who is a curator at Tandem Press. Next up is Teresa Cole, an artist and printmaker from New Orleans. She has taught at Tulane University for nearly thirty years. Teresa’s interest in the humanness of pattern has been a throughline in her work and she incorporates different cultures’ methods of patternmaking and storytelling in beautiful installations. In their conversation, they talk about orizome (a Japanese method of folding and dyeing paper), commissioning printed fabric for saris in India, printing on aluminum mesh, and Tulane’s tuition-free master’s program.
Elizabeth Boone - In Profile - The LAST 100
April 3, 2024. The Stone Center for Latin American Studies is pleased to release the second video from the collection, The LAST 100: In Profile, featuring Elizabeth Hill Boone, Ph.D. Elizabeth Boone, a specialist in the Precolumbian and early colonial art of Latin America, with an emphasis on Mexico, taught art history at Tulane from 1995 to 2021. She held the Martha and Donald Robertson Chair in Latin American Art and was a M.A.R.I. Research Associate. Dr. Boone is an internationally recognized scholar and a big influence on Tulane’s Latin Americanist community. She was awarded Mexico’s Order of the Aztec Eagle in 1990 (Mexico’s highest decoration awarded to non-citizens), the College Art Association’s Distinguished Scholar for 2019, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Ethnohistory in 2019. She also received the Research Hall of Fame Award from Tulane University in 2021. Watch her profile to learn more about Elizabeth Boone and her legacy.
“Going Viral in the Renaissance,” featuring Stephanie Porras at the Getty Research Institute
December 2, 2023. What do today's TikTok dances and Renaissance prints have in common? In this talk, Stephanie Porras describes how early modern prints invited repetition and emulation, taking advantage of new media technologies and emerging global infrastructures long before the invention of the Internet. Examining how prints and other artworks were used as models by artists working across the early modern world, Porras reconstructs how such images were copied and, in doing so, challenges assumptions about artistic invention in Renaissance art.
Mia L. Bagneris, "Imagining the Oriental South” at the Hutchens Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University
October 11th, 2023. Mia L. Bagneris, “Imagining the Oriental South: The Enslaved Mixed-Race Beauty in British Art and Culture, c. 1865-1900.” Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Colloquium Series.
Holly Flora, "Perception, Ritual, and Memory in an Illustrated Manuscript of the Meditationes Vitae Christi" at The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
December 6, 2022. Professor Holly Flora delivered the Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. Her talk, titled “Perception, Ritual, and Memory in an Illustrated Manuscript of the Meditationes Vitae Christi,” discussed how medieval Clarissan nuns in Siena used a fourteenth-century illuminated manuscript for imaginative devotion. Professor Flora's new book The Meditationes Vitae Christi Reconsidered New Perspectives on Text and Image (co-edited with Peter Toth) is a collection of critical essays on this fourteenth-century Sienese illuminated manuscript.
Barbara E. Mundy: “Books in the Contact Zone: Between Amatl Papers and the Printing Press, Mexico 1500–1600” – The Sol M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture at the Rare Book School
June 12, 2023. The destruction of Indigenous books is one of the tragic legacies of the European Invasion of the Americas. Less known is the history that unfolded in the bonfires’ wake. Mundy will show how Indigenous writers and artists working in Mexico could draw upon a millennia-long book tradition. The strength and depth of this tradition allowed them to absorb and adopt many of the new technologies sent over by Europeans, including alphabetic writing, European paper and ink, and new binding structures for books. Mundy’s talk will focus on these bicultural Indigenous books to chart the history of an Indigenous book tradition in Mexico that was never static, but flexible and responsive to new conditions.
“Mapping the Uncharted,” featuring Leslie Geddes on From the Moon podcast, season 2 episode 4
December 5, 2022. The fourth episode of season 2 of From the Moon looks at a vital part of knowledge when it comes to understanding both the surface of our own planet, or indeed any part of the universe. From the Mississippi Delta in Louisiana to an icy moon of the distant planet Saturn, the episode goes to see how geography and design, as well as art and science fuse to create the maps we often take for granted. Mapping the Uncharted sees the host of the podcast, David Plaisant, converse with art historian Leslie Geddes and information designer Irene Stracuzzi.
Elizabeth Boone: “Spatial Grammars: The Union of Art and Writing in the Painted Books of Aztec Mexico” at UCLA
April 15, 2021. UCLA CMRC Center for Early Global Studies, Annual Armand Hammer Art History Lecture. This lecture by Elizabeth Hill Boone (Art History, Tulane), focuses on the painted books of Aztec Mexico, sixteenth-century documents that some people consider to be works of Art and others consider to contain Writing. The talk thus explores that place where our Western conceptions of Art and Writing come closest together. The Aztecs and their neighbors conceptualized writing and image-making as a single cultural category, one that involved a nonverbal system of graphic communication in which images carry meaning directly within the structure of their own discourse but without a detour through speech. This lecture analyzes the graphic vocabulary of Mexican pictography, but it focuses principally on the arrangement of the images–the spatial grammar—that constructs the message.
Distinguished Scholar Session Honoring Elizabeth Hill Boone at the College Art Association 2019
February 14, 2019. Elizabeth Hill Boone, Martha and Donald Robertson Chair in Latin American Studies, Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University, is recognized as the Distinguished Scholar in this special session. Introduction by Joanne Pillsbury. Remarks by Lori Diel, Barbara Mundy, and Dana Leibsohn.