Join Mexican artists María José de la Macorra and Eric Peréz for a noontime gallery talk as they discuss the current exhibition "Clay in Transit: Contemporary Mexican Ceramics" (which features works by María José de la Macorra) and the focus and process of their work! Free and open to the public!
Building upon the city’s great legacy of live performance and improvisation, this concert is structured as a site-specific new musical response to the objects on view in “Empire” featuring composer Courtney Bryan from the Tulane Newcomb Department of Music as she interprets the objects on view using an interdisciplinary framework. Free and open to the public! Courtney Bryan, a […]
Artist Monique Verdin will discuss her artistic practice as it relates to displacement, EMPIRE, and the 300th anniversary of New Orleans and its colonial founding. Monique Verdin is a member of south Louisiana’s United Houma Nation Tribal Council and a part of the Another Gulf Is Possible Collaborative core leadership circle of brown (indigenous, latinx […]
This program has been generously supported by the Dorothy Beckemeyer Skau Art and Music Fund at the Newcomb College Institute. Nicole Awai is known for her multi-media works that “ooze” and make use of non-traditional mediums such as melted vinyl, nail polish, nylon mesh, found doll parts, and synthetic paper. In this lecture, she will […]
On February 20th, 7pm, in the Freeman Auditorium, Cassandro will speak about his personal story of growing up and training as a lucha libre in México. He became one of the first openly gay exóticos (a wrestler who dresses in a flamboyant style), and later he had the honor of being the first exótico to […]
Drop by the museum for a free exhibition tour, an interactive workshop, and a conversation discussing artists who use their talents for social change. 12 to 1pm - (In the Museum) In the Museum) Free exhibition tour led by artists involved in Per(Sister). 1 to 2pm - (In the Museum) Author and activist Lara Naughton […]
5 to 7 pm – Enjoy a look back at the video shorts and media created by 2-Cent Entertainment —the youth education social enterprise co-founded by Bmike Odums that produced mixed-media content and events in the overlap between pop culture and social awareness. Celebrate the creativity and energy of this hip-hop-oriented, socially-minded, grassroots, entertainment company […]
Join the Newcomb Art Museum for a virtual lecture by artist Laura Anderson Barbata, whose wearable sculptures are featured in the museum's current exhibition Transcommunality. Anderson Barbata will discuss her development as a socially engaged artist and her work with multiple stilt dancing communities across the Americas. Register for the virtual talk now. The exhibition […]
Celebrate the opening of two exhibitions, Metamorphoses: Highlights from the Permanent Collection and To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults by Jess T. Dugan and Vanessa Fabbre, on Saturday September 17 from 12 p.m to 5 p.m. Program schedule: 12pm: Drop in family art activities & scavenger […]
Activist, muralist, and artist Langston Allston will discuss the collaborative mural Together, Towards Freedom. The artwork was created with twelve young artists from the Youth Artist Movement (YAM). The mural depicts the harm of incarceration and the reimagining of a brighter future. Seen throughout the mural are messages of youth experiences in their day to day […]
