Artist Talk

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 […]

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 […]

Come hear from the artists behind LUNA Fête 2017! Newcomb Art Museum in collaboration with the Consulate of Mexico is pleased to present a discussion with Pedro Narvaez and Emma Lopez of AVA will discuss how they made the transition from graphic design to projection mapping in addition to the application of design principles in […]

Enjoy an artist lecture from sculptor Dee Briggs, whose sculpture "Three Rings 6' Diameter" is currently on display in The Newcomb Pottery Garden. About the sculpture:  Made of corten steel, the twelve-foot-tall sculpture was designed by Briggs in 2015, fabricated in Braddock, Pennsylvania and was previously installed in Foley Square at Thomas Paine Park in […]