In conjunction with the opening of her solo exhibition, Andrea Dezsö: I Wonder, the artist will speak about her work and influences. Beginning at 6 pm, the lecture will take place in the Woldenberg Art Center's Freeman Auditorium. It is free and open to the public. Lecture will be followed by a reception at Newcomb Art […]
Artist Kate Clark will lead a tour of her current exhibition, Mysterious Presence. Guests will have an opportunity to speak directly with the artist and learn more about her process and inspiration.
Alexis Esquivel is a Cuban visual and performance artist whose work often explores themes of history, race, and identity, particularly in a Cuban cultural context. Esquivel presents the sharp perceptions of the black population's social reality in his paintings through his nonconformist readings of history. His work details historical figures past and present that are […]
Elena Dorfman will discuss her project "Syria's Lost Generation" that will be on view at the museum on May 9th. For several months over the last two years, Elena covered the Syrian refugee crisis for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Of the millions of Syrians displaced by the ongoing civil war, Dorfman was drawn most strongly to the teenagers. “They seemed particularly shell-shocked and bereft,” she said. “They spoke to me of powerful longing and frustration.”
One of the leading political and performance artists of her generation, Tania Bruguera will speak about her projects: intensive interventions on the institutional structure of collective memory, education, and politics. Her work The Francis Effect is currently on view in New Orleans as part of False Flags, a group exhibition curated by Noah Simblist, at […]
Diana Al-Hadid will discuss her upcoming NAM exhibition, which runs from May 9 – July 24, 2016. The works appear to be trapped in an eternal moment of precariousness and decay. Inspired by historical forms from art and architecture, Al-Hadid’s highly material sculptures and paintings are charged with drips, textures, patterns, and ornaments that recall […]
Renowned former NASA Senior Researcher Dr. Yvonne Clearwater will explore the range of meanings and variance of human experience in the realm of isolation and confinement, solitude and loneliness, highlighting the human experience of living and working in space. She will then present an overview of her interdisciplinary work in leading NASA space human factors […]
Renowned former NASA Senior Researcher Dr. Yvonne Clearwater will present an overview and wide ranging examples of creative works that have both been inspired by and served to inform the process of space exploration as they arise from the convergence of science, art, technology, transmedia, and fan culture.
In conjunction with the NAM exhibition Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on a Prime-Time Star, the artist will speak about her work in conversation with Dr. Mia Bagneris, Assistant Professor, History of Art, Tulane University. A public reception celebrating the show's opening will immediately follow in the Woodward Way breezeway. Mickalene Thomas (b.1971) is a USA Fellow […]
Caribbean artist and community organizer Michelle Nonó will discuss the role of social practice art in struggles for equality, visibility and political change. Nonó and her sister compose Las Nietas de Nonó, a performance collective that also runs an alternative art and community space in a house inherited from their grandfather in the industrial zone […]
