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.
Jenni Sorkin, author of Live Form: Women, Ceramics and Community (University of Chicago Press) will speak about her scholarship focusing on the intersection between gender, material culture, and contemporary art. Sorkin was also co-curator of Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947–2016 at Hauser Wirth and Schimmel in Los Angeles. Sorkin holds a […]
in partnership with A Studio in the Woods, The ByWater Institute at Tulane University, and New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, Newcomb Art Museum is pleased to introduce a new interdisciplinary conversation series, “Uncommon Exchanges,” that invites the New Orleans community to interact with diverse experts from Tulane and the Gulf South region. With the arts […]
In this new speaker series presented by Newcomb Art Museum in partnership with A Studio in the Woods, The ByWater Institute at Tulane University, and Nola Gulf South, unlikely pairings of Tulane and Gulf South experts use an aspect of Newcomb's latest exhibition as the catalyst for interdisciplinary dialogue. In this edition, artist Tia-Simon Gardner […]
Newcomb Art Museum presents Uncommon Exchanges, a unique dialogue between unlikely pairings of Tulane and Gulf South experts, in partnership with A Studio in the Woods, The ByWater Institute at Tulane University, and New Orleans Center for the Gulf South. For this special program marking Juneteenth, artist Bmike will be in dialogue with Dr. Rosanne Adderley, Associate Professor […]
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 […]
Dr. James Louie will chronicle the lives and art of three inspiring artists: Pierre-Auguste Renoir with rheumatoid arthritis, Paul Klee with scleroderma, and Ruth Asawa who was inflicted with lupus. The talk will explore how these artists took charge of their respective diseases and continued to express themselves visually despite their medical and physical challenges. Dr. Louie […]
Newcomb Art Museum, in partnership with A Studio in the Woods, The ByWater Institute at Tulane University, and New Orleans Center for the Gulf South (Nola Gulf South), presents a unique dialogue, centering on “sound,” between Joel Dinerstein, the Clark Chair of American Civilization at Tulane University and Dr. Renata Durães Ribeiro, Professor of the Practice in Tulane’s Department of […]
Newcomb Art Museum, in partnership with A Studio in the Woods, The ByWater Institute at Tulane University, and New Orleans Center for the Gulf South (Nola Gulf South), presents a unique dialogue, centered around “fish,” between Bruce Sunpie Barnes of Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots and Chef Ryan Prewitt of Peche Seafood Grill. Moderated by Rebecca Snedeker, Clark Executive Director for […]
In partnership with A Studio in the Woods, The ByWater Institute at Tulane University, and The New Orleans Center for the Gulf South (Nola Gulf South), Newcomb Art Museum's interdisciplinary conversation series "Uncommon Exchanges" invites the New Orleans community to interact with diverse experts from Tulane and the Gulf South region. Using the current exhibitions […]
