Francine Judd Stock

Francine Judd Stock is an artist, archivist, and cultural heritage advocate. At Tulane University, Francine has spent decades building and managing digital archives of images of art and architecture, applying rigorous metadata and cataloging standards. As the Archivist and Digitization Consultant for the Newcomb Art Museum’s Ida Kohlmeyer Catalog Raisonné project, she is leading the digitization and cataloguing of thousands of analog media items from the artist's slide collection and card catalog. As a founding board member and past President of DOCOMOMO/Louisiana, she led advocacy efforts that placed Mid-Century Modern Public Schools on the Louisiana Landmarks Society’s Nine Most Endangered list. She also achieved a successful nomination of the Phillis Wheatley Elementary School for the World Monuments Fund Watch. She curated exhibitions, designed and led architectural tours, co-authored the Regional Modernism iPhone app, and co-authored and produced a documentary film, A Plea for Modernism, advocating for the preservation of modernist monuments of New Orleans. As an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Tulane University, she developed courses on the history of art and architecture with a sustained focus on the region and its archival collections, including the seminars, “Romanticism in the Art and Architecture of Louisiana” and “Regional Modernism: the New Orleans Archives.” She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Louisiana Landmarks Society. 

Her studio practice explores intersections between art and language, especially the connections between drawing and writing, in various materials and methods. She works in her Harmony Street studio in Central City, New Orleans.