Events & Exhibitions
Upcoming Lectures and Events
Newcomb Art Events google calendar Spring2022ArtEventsCalendar_final.pdf
Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition - Sidney Astl, Sophie Bennett, Syd Fagan, Colleen Hugo, Lydia Mattson
May 12 - 20, Carroll Gallery
Reception - Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition - Sidney Astl, Sophie Bennett, Syd Fagan, Colleen Hugo, Lydia Mattson
May 20, 12 - 2 pm (in conjunction with Commencement activities), Carroll Gallery
Antenna Gallery exhibition: June 7 - 24, 2022 (details TBA)
The Front exhibition: July 5 - 22, 2022 (details TBA)
Recent Lectures and Events
Where We Are: Tulane Contemporary.5 - an exhibition featuring work by Newcomb Art Department faculty plus select recent MFA graduates
January 18 - February 23, Carroll Gallery
*Reception: February 14, 4-6 pm
Participating artists: Diana Antohe, Anthony Baab, Allison Beondé, Teresa A. Cole, Aaron Collier, William DePauw, AnnieLaurie Erickson, Sean Fader, Pippin Frisbie-Calder, Dave Greber, Ronna S. Harris, Jeremy Jernegan, Kevin H. Jones, Gene Koss, Kaori Maeyama, Mark Morris, Anne C. Nelson, David Robinson, Sadie Sheldon, Christian Stock, Jenna Turner
Tulane Contemporary.5 catalogue (pdf)
Sawyer Seminar - Film Screening
February 10, 6:00-7:45pm, Stone Auditorium
Fireburn: The Documentary (2020) (20 minutes), Angela Golden Bryan (Writer), Joel Fendelman (Director), and We Carry It Within Us (2017) (1 hr, 7 minutes), Helle Stenum
Sawyer Seminar Site Visit: Oak Alley + Whitney Plantation
February 12, 9:30am - 4:30pm
Open to 18 guests with transportation, tickets, and lunch provided through the Sawyer Seminar, RSVP required see https://www.sitesofmemorynola.org.
Sawyer Seminar Site Visit - Shadows on the Teche
February 13, 10:30am - 4:00pm
Open to 18 guests with transportation, tickets, and lunch provided through the Sawyer Seminar, RSVP required, see https://www.sitesofmemorynola.org.
Reception - Where We Are: Tulane Contemporary.5 - an exhibition featuring work by Newcomb Art Department faculty plus select recent MFA graduates
February 14, 4-6pm, Carroll Gallery
Sawyer Seminar Artist Talk - La Vaughn Belle
February 14, 6:00pm, Stone Auditorium
Artist La Vaughn Belle in conversation with Dr. Rosanne Adderley.
Glass Demo + Artist Talk - J.W. May
February 16, 3:00 - 6:00 pm, Pace-Willson Glass Studio
Visiting Curator: Sharon Matt Atkins, roundtable discussion with graduate students in studio art and art history
March 4, 2;30-4pm, Stone Auditorium
MFA Lectures - Christian Dinh and Shabez Jamal
March 8, 6:00 pm, Stone Auditorium
Reception - Bachelor of Arts Exhibition
March 10, 4:00 - 6:00 pm, Carrolll Gallery
MFA Lectures - Diane Appaix-Castro and Danielle Fauth
March 10, 6:00 pm, Stone Auditorium
Terry K. Simmons Lecture in Art History
Adapt, Reject, and Remix: Ethiopian Christian Art in the Early Modern Era
Kristen Windmuller-Luna, Curator of African Art, Cleveland Museum of Art
March 14, 6:00 pm, Stone Auditorium
Bachelor of Arts Exhibition
March 7 - 15, Carroll Gallery
MFA Thesis Exhibition - Blaine Steiner
March 31 - April 8, Carroll Gallery
Reception - MFA Thesis Exhibition - Blaine Steiner
April 7, 5:30 - 7:30 pm, Carroll Gallery
Reception - MFA Exhibition @ Antenna
Upon Further Consideration (because things are different)
featuring: Dianne Appaix-Castro, Christian DInh, Danielle Fauth, Shabez Jamal, and Blaine Steiner
Saturday April 9, 6 pm - 10 pm, Antenna, 3718 St Claude Ave
The exhibition will be on view from April 9 - May 8.
Sawyer Seminar Site Visit - New Orleans Monumental Landscape
April 10
RSVP required, see https://www.sitesofmemorynola.org.
David Getsy Undetectability: Scott Burton’s sculpture and public art in the first decade of the AIDS crisis
April 11, 6pm Stone Auditorium
Garrard Lecture - Catherine Opie
April 21, 6:00 pm, Freeman Auditorium
MFA Thesis Exhibitions - Diane Appaix-Castro and Danielle Fauth
April 14 - 22, Carroll Gallery
Reception - MFA Thesis Exhibitions - Diane Appaix-Castro and Danielle Fauth
April 22, 5:30 - 7:30 pm, Carroll Gallery
Encounters between Weaving and Beating on Early Modern Paper
Caroline Fowler, Starr Director of the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute
Wednesday, April 27, 6pm
Zoom Meeting ID: 990 8506 6363, Passcode: 250990
MFA Thesis Exhibitions - Christian Dinh and Shabez Jamal
April 28 - May 6, Carroll Gallery
MFA Lecture - Blaine Steiner
May 3, 6:00 pm, Stone Auditorium
Reception - MFA Thesis Exhibitions - Christian Dinh and Shabez Jamal
May 5, 5:30 - 7:30 pm, Carroll Gallery
Newcomb Art Awards and MFA Open Studios
Friday May 6
Newcomb Art Awards: 5pm, Stone Auditorium and online via Zoom Meeting ID: 983 7264 2694, Passcode: 183738
MFA Open Studios: 6-8 pm, Woldenberg Art Center
2021
Undergraduate Juried Exhibition: Walkthrough with the Juror, Jennifer M. Williams
Thursday, January 21, 2021
Representation & Resistance Lecture and the Terry K. Simmons Lecture in Art History:
Acts of Translation: Black Artists and "The Song of Hiawatha”
Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Princeton University
Tuesday, February 2
Garrard Lecture: Curator Talk by Thomas J. Lax, Museum of Modern Art
Thursday, February 5
Carroll Gallery Pop-up Event: Make a mosaic tile
Wednesday March 10
Representation & Resistance Lecture and the Sandra Garrard Memorial Lecture
Posing Modernity: A Retrospective View and Implications for Art History
Denise Murrell, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Carroll Gallery Pop-up Event: Experiment with orgami
Wednesday March 31, 12-4 pm, free and open to Tulane community
MFA Exhibitions: Jenna de Boisblanc, Kelwin Coleman, Mitchell Craft, Ansley Givhan, Nicole Hawkins, Kaitlyn Morales
April 10 - May 2, Antenna Gallery and The Front map
Representation & Resistance Lecture
Black American Art and its Valorization, Effacement & Rupture in France
Richard J. Powell, John Spencer Bassett Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History, Duke University
Thursday, April 15, 5;00pm CST, Online
Zoom: https://tulane.zoom.us/j/96841589553?pwd=dGl1WGdaU012TEFCYjc2RnpUcUZ1QT09
Meeting ID: 968 4158 9553
Passcode: 428296
MFA Artist Talk: Kaitlyn Morales
April 17 1:00pm at The Front
MFA Artist Talk: Mitchell Craft
April 17 1:30pm at The Front
MFA Artist Talk: Ansley Givhan
April 24 1:00pm at The Front
MFA Artist Talk: Jenna Deboisblanc
April 24 1:30pm at The Front
MFA Artist Talk: Kelwin Coleman
May 1 1:00pm at Antenna Gallery
MFA Artist Talk: Nicole Hawkins
May 1 1:30pm at Antenna Gallery
BFA Exhibition #1
April 15 - 23, Carroll Gallery
BFA Exhibition #2
April 29 - May 7, Carroll Gallery
Student Art Awards
Thursday April 29, 6pm
BA Exhibition
May 13 - 21, Carroll Gallery
Staple Goods at Tulane: a celebration of the co-operative gallery's 10th anniversary
June 16 - July 21, Closing reception: Friday, July 23rd, from 6 – 8 pm, Carroll Gallery
The Emotional Brain
Exhibition dates: August 23 – October 22, 2021, Opening reception: Thursday, Aug. 26, 5:30 – 7:30 pm | Carroll Gallery
Ways of Looking: an invitation to thoughful observation
Carroll Gallery | Exhibition dates: November 8 – 24, 2022 | Opening reception: Sunday, November 7, 3 - 5 pm
Featured video artists:
Ellen Bull – Peach Body Summer
Jane Cassidy – The Thin Veil
2021 Stern Lecture: The Emperor in Pieces: Relics and Napoleonic Memory
David O'Brien, Professor of Art History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thursday, December 2 at 6pm
Zoom Meeting ID: 945 1333 0241 Passcode: 459209
Sawyer Seminar
Screening of "Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans”
December 7 at 6 pm, Stone Auditorium, 210 Woldenberg Art Center
Undergraduate Juried Exhibition Thursday, December 9: opening reception + walkthrough with the juror + award announcements
Exhibition on View through December 22
Sawyer Seminar
Panel Discussion with Dr. Lorraine Leu, Sara Zewde, Freddi Williams Evans, Luther Gray
December 10 at 3:30 pm, 3rd Floor Newcomb Commons
Sawyer Seminar
Tour of the Tremé
December 12 from 1:30-5:00pm, starting at the New Orleans African American Museum
fall 2020
Art for Activism August 10 - September 3, Carroll Gallery
Online auction: Thursday, August 20, 7:00-8:00pm
‘No one could prevent us making good use of our eyes’: Enslaved Spectators and Iconoclasts on Southern Plantations
Jennifer Van Horn, Associate Professor of Art History and History, University of Delaware
Thursday, September 10, 6:00pm
Homecoming at Home Hot Glass Demo
Thursday, October 13, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Interactive Chalkboard Mural inspired by artist Candy Chang’s “Before I Die” project, a pop-up event
Thursday, October 15, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm, Carroll Gallery
Free and open to any Tulane students, admission limited to 10 students at a time
Recycled Journal Making, a pop-up event
Thursday, October 22, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm, Carroll Gallery
Free and open to any Tulane students, admission limited to 10 students at a time
"The Materiality of Insurgency in the Colonial Andes"
Ananda Cohen-Aponte, Associate Professor of History of Art, Cornell University
Thursday, November 5, 5pm CST, Online, Zoom meeting link: https://tulane.zoom.us/j/98937431062
MFA Lectures: Mitchell Craft, Kaitlyn Morales
Monday, November 9, Freeman Auditorium, 5:30pm CST (for Tulane community only) and Online, Zoom meeting link https://tulane.zoom.us/j/93906436316
Ritual, Gender, and Narrative in Late Medieval Italy, Anne Derbes, Professor Emerita, Hood College
Wednesday November 11, 3:30 PM CST Online, Zoom meeting link: https://tulane.zoom.us/j/99621103186
MFA Lectures: Ansley Givhan, Nicole Hawkins
Wednesday, November 11, Freeman Auditorium, 5:30pm CST (for Tulane community only) and Online, Zoom meeting link https://tulane.zoom.us/j/93906436316
Drawing Miniatures with Watercolor Artist Gabrielle Reeves
Thursday, November 12, 3:40pm CST, Online, Zoom meeting link: https://tulane.zoom.us/j/92590266996
Solar Prints, a pop-up event
Thursday, November 12, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm, Carroll Gallery
Free and open to any Tulane students, admission limited to 10 students at a time
"The Greek Slave on the Eve of Abolition"
Caitlin Beach, Assistant Professor of Art History, Fordham University
Thursday, November 12, 6pm CST, Online, Zoom meeting link: https://tulane.zoom.us/j/91351100042
MFA Lectures: Kelwin Coleman, Jenna de Boisblanc
Monday, November 16, 5:30pm CST, Freeman Auditorium (for Tulane community only) and Online, Zoom meeting link https://tulane.zoom.us/j/93906436316
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