Francine Judd Stock

Francine Judd Stock is an archivist and educator with more than 25 years of experience in digital preservation, architectural history and theory, visual culture, and cultural heritage advocacy. At Tulane University, she has spent decades building and managing digital archives of art and architectural images, applying rigorous metadata and cataloging standards to ensure that these collections remain discoverable and accessible. As the Archivist and Digitization Consultant for the Newcomb Art Museum’s Ida Kohlmeyer Catalog Raisonné project, she is leading the digitization of thousands of analog media items, transforming fragile physical collections into enduring online resources. 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 has developed courses on the history and theory of 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.