Newcomb Art Museum

Representation, Legacy, and the Movement for Black Lives
2020-06-19 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago)
In celebration of the 155th Anniversary of Juneteenth, Spirit McIntyre will moderate a panel discussion with Mariah Moore, Milan Nicole Sherry, and Syrita Steib about everything from ‘Is the Movement For Black Lives representing you?’ to ‘What will be your legacy?’ Hosted by the Newcomb Art Museum, the conversation will explore the context of social justice in New Orleans, artistic expression in protest movements, and the intersectionality of the Movement for Black Lives.
The conversation will be streamed for free on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/events/2332924963683109/) and the museum’s Vimeo Page (https://vimeo.com/user95586704) at 4 pm CST, Friday June 19.
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About the panelists and moderator:
Spirit McIntyre (spirit/they/them/theirs) is a Cellist, Vocalist, Lyricist, Wellness Advocate, Sound Healer, Reiki Practitioner, and Compassionate Facilitator — promoting empowerment and healing by any medium necessary. Spirit believes in the power of breath, creating healing and reciprocitous relationships, honoring lovability, being seen/seeing, and growing compassionately through tight places to find authentic connection. As a Gender-Non-Conforming Transgender person they use their identity and community building practices to intentionally uplift TGNCNBI2-S (Trans, Gender-Non-Conforming, Non-Binary, Intersex, Two-Spirit) Black, Indigenous, and POC communities. Spirit’s reputation for honesty, compassion, and accountability allows for deeply transformative healing to be a through line in all of their performance and community building work. Healing affirmations, meticulous storytelling, and metaphor saturate their lyrics. They use their voice and cello to seamlessly blend: Blues, Soul, Folk, Classical, Reggae and Middle Eastern sounds into an unforgettable musical landscape. Since the transitioning of their father, Paris McIntyre on January 16, 2017, Spirit has been exploring the divinity of grief.
Mariah Moore (she/her/hers) is a National Organizer at Transgender Law Center. Her work includes fighting to ensure equity, equality and safety for the transgender community, especially Black transgender women. Mariah has worked tirelessly in New Orleans to bring awareness to communities that have been adversely affected by laws and policies that are discriminatory. Mariah serves on the LGBTQ Task Force which was created by New Orleans Mayor, LaToya Cantrell. She also works with the CANS Cant Stand campaign, which is a campaign that was created to bring awareness to and hopefully abolish the crimes against nature law that has historically targeted LGBTQ people of color, specifically Black transgender women. Mariah was also selected as a Victory Empowerment Fellow, which identifies LGBTQ community members who wish to run for office and provides campaign training.
Milan Nicole Sherry (she/her/hers) is a New Orleans native and founding member of BreakOUT!, where she first became a youth organizer. In direct response to killings of Black transgender women, Sherry created the #BlackTransLivesMatter campaign and organized the first New Orleans Trans March, led by transgender and gender-nonconforming youths of color, and co-founded NOLA Trans March of Resilience. Sherry has also helped the Department of Justice reduce racial and gender profiling by the Crescent City’s police and has contributed to a Human Rights Watch report linking discriminatory policing to HIV transmission. Recipient of the 2013 NOLA Unity Award and the 2015 Rising Star Award, presented by EQLA Quality Louisiana, Sherry has been involved with the American Bar Association’s Opening Doors Project and featured on PBS’ In the Life and in Philadelphia Magazine. She is a national board member of Positively Trans and a co-coordinator/outreach specialist at the Trans Equity Project.
Syrita Steib (she/her/hers) is the Executive Director and Co-founder of Operation Restoration, a non-profit organization based in New Orleans that supports women and girls impacted by incarceration to recognize their full potential, restore their lives, and discover new possibilities. Operation Restoration is committed to providing currently and formerly incarcerated women with the resources necessary to sustainably transition home through higher education, employment training, job placement, case management, and advocacy. In 2017, Syrita wrote and successfully passed Louisiana Act 276 which prohibits public post-secondary institutions in Louisiana from asking questions relating to criminal history for purposes of admissions, making Louisiana the first state to pass this type of legislation. In 2018, she was a co-chair for the healthy families committee for New Orleans Mayor Cantrell’s transition team. Syrita was also a panelist on the Empowerment stage at Essence Festival in 2018 and 2019. Syrita is also a policy consultant for Cut50’s Dignity for Incarcerated Women campaign and worked tirelessly on the passage of the First Step Act. She was appointed by the Governor to the Louisiana Justice Reinvestment oversight council and is the Vice-chair for the Louisiana Task Force on Women’s Incarceration. She also helped create and was featured in the Newcomb Art Museum’s Per(Sister) exhibit which shared the stories of currently and formerly incarcerated women.

Third Thursday Tiffany Tour
2020-05-14 12:00 - 13:00
For the first time since starting our monthly Tiffany Window tours, we’ll be exploring in detail the #TiffanyWindows on the other side of campus! This special virtual tour will look at the “Art” and “Literature” windows located in Tilton Memorial and their place within the illustrious career of Louis Comfort Tiffany.
About this tour:
In 1901, as the Tilton Memorial Library was being built on Tulane University’s campus, Caroline Stannard Tilton commissioned Tiffany Studios for the design and creation of two memorial stained-glass windows to be placed in the building. Today, these windows – “Art” and “Literature” – stand as the best examples of secular windows within the Newcomb Art Museum collection. Remarkably, they have remained in their original location to this day, owing to their good condition.
Learn more about these incredible #TulaneTreasures this Thursday at noon when we drop a brand new video tour led by Tom Friel, the museum’s Coordinator for Interpretation & Public Engagement.

Per(Sister) in Song: Virtual Concert
2020-04-30 15:00 - 16:15
Celebrate the art of song at a free concert hosted by the Ford Foundation Gallery, featuring music and performances by Lynn Drury, Sarah Quintana, Spirit McIntyre, Margie Perez, and Keith Porteous. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Per(Sister): Incarcerated Women of Louisiana, Per(Sister) in Song is an invitation to dive deeper into the stories behind the music and celebrate the incredible resilience displayed in the community featured in the exhibition.
From rock to Americana, blues to jazz, and folk to pop, the concert is a sample of the unique sounds of Louisiana and the intimate stories of the women incarcerated by the state. The performance—like the exhibition—not only presents the personal experiences of the women who inspired the songs but shines a light on the myriad issues facing formerly and currently incarcerated women.
Intended to engage, inspire, and challenge the audience, the concert is an immersive experience that celebrates the power of storytelling as well as the women in the stories and their persistence in their drive for the integral survival of their mind, body, and soul.
Click here to register for this free concert!

Exhibition Tour (Online!)
2020-04-16 12:00 - 12:30
On the Third Thursday of each month at noon Newcomb Art Museum offers a free guided tour of our current exhibition “N̶O̶T̶ Supposed 2-Be Here.” Join us Thursday, April 16 for an online exhibition tour led by the museum’s Coordinator for Interpretation & Public Engagement, Tom Friel as we drop a brand new video on our website and Facebook at 12 pm CST.

Free Exhibition Tour
2020-02-20 12:00 - 13:00
Drop by the Newcomb Art Museum on the Second Saturday and Third Thursday of each month at noon for a free guided tour of “N̶O̶T̶ Supposed 2-Be Here.”

Tiffany Window Tour
2020-02-13 12:00 - 13:00
Join Newcomb Art Museum every Second Thursday at noon for free guided tours of the Tiffany Windows on the Tulane uptown campus. Tours are free but limited to 20 people and require advance registration. Email Tom Friel at tfriel@tulane.edu to RSVP for a tour.

First Friday Newcomb Pottery Tour
2020-02-07 12:00 - 13:00
Join Newcomb Art Museum on the First Friday of each month at noon for a free guided tour highlighting our permanent collection of Newcomb Pottery and the history of the Newcomb Enterprise! The tour is free but STRICTLY LIMITED to the first 10 people due to space restrictions. Email Sierra Polisar at spolisar@tulane.edu to RSVP for a tour.

2-Cent Retrospective Media Screening & Talk
2020-02-01 17:00 - 19:00
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 and hear from the original team where that energy is today.
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Presented in conjunction with N̶O̶T̶ Supposed 2-Be Here. This event is free and open to the public and supported in part by a Community Partnership Grant from the The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation.

Free Exhibition Reception
2020-01-18 16:00 - 20:00
4 to 8 pm – Celebrate the opening of Newcomb Art Museum’s latest exhibition “N̶O̶T̶ Supposed 2-Be Here” with exhibition-inspired art activities for all-ages happening from 4 to 5 pm, and a free opening reception featuring artist remarks from Brandan BMike Odums, music by DJ RQ Away, and catering by Chef Ashley Jonique from 5 to 8 pm!

Closing Day Tour
2019-12-14 12:00 - 13:00
Take part in an engaging tour when you visit (or revisit!) “Flint is Family” and “The American Dream Revisited” on the final day of the exhibitions at Newcomb Art Museum.
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About the exhibitions:
In 2016, artist, activist, and MacArthur genius awardee LaToya Ruby Frazier spent ﬁve months living in Flint, Michigan with three generations of women–the poet Shea Cobb, her mother Renee, and daughter Zion–observing their day-to-day lives as they endured one of the most devastating human-made, environmental tragedies in US history: the lead contamination water crisis in their hometown. The artistic result of Frazier’s time there is reﬂected in the works presented in the exhibition “Latoya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family.”
By portraying the daily struggles of the Cobb family, Frazier used a tight focus to create a story about the impact of a systemic problem disproportionately affecting marginalized communities. Frazier rejected the voyeuristic photographs that emerged from outside media sources and instead collaborated closely with her subjects through photographs, capturing intimate moments along with the myriad challenges the family faced without access to clean water.
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In “The American Dream Denied: The New Orleans Residents of Gordon Plaza Seek Relocation,” students from the Critical Visualization and Media Lab (CVML), led by Tulane sociology and environmental studies professor Christopher Oliver, PhD, collaborated with New Orleans’ Residents of Gordon Plaza –Shannon Rainey, Lydwina Hurst, Jesse Perkins, Sam Egana, Marilyn Amar– and representatives from the New Orleans People’s Assembly to showcase the impact of living among life-threatening pollution with limited access to resources and raise awareness of the environmental crisis facing contemporary Louisianans and New Orleanians.
The exhibition – equal parts art show, social history, and critical visualization project – presents, in a myriad of ways, a chronological and visually engaging look at the residents’ ﬁght for a fully funded relocation with an emphasis on the role of women in activism, the effect on day-to-day living, and the frustrations of the “promised” American Dream.

Free Tiffany Windows Tour
2019-12-12 12:00 - 13:00, 2019-11-21 12:00 - 13:00
Join Newcomb Art Museum every Second Thursday at noon for guided tours of the Tiffany Windows on the Tulane uptown campus. Tours are free but limited to 20 people and require advance registration. Email Tom Friel at tfriel@tulane.edu to RSVP for a tour.

Exhibition Closing Reception
2019-12-07 17:00 - 19:00
Mark the end of the exhibitions “Flint is Family” and “The American Dream Revisited” with a closing reception featuring live music, catering, drinks, and a very special performance in response to “The American Dream Denied: The New Orleans Residents of Gordon Plaza Seek Relocation” to Leave the Agriculture Street Landfill Behind by the New Orleans People’s Assembly and artist LaVonna Varnado and featuring spoken word by Jewell Prim and Sheira Phillips.

Free Newcomb Pottery Tour
2019-12-06 12:00 - 13:00, 2019-11-01 12:00 - 13:00
Join us on the First Friday of each month at noon for a guided tour highlighting our permanent collection of Newcomb Pottery and the history of the Newcomb Enterprise! The tour is free but STRICTLY LIMITED to the first 10 people due to space restrictions. Email Tom Friel at spolisar@tulane.edu to RSVP for a tour.

Museum Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday
2019-11-29 10:00 - 17:00, 2019-11-28 10:00 - 17:00
The Newcomb Art Museum will close early at 2 pm on Wednesday, November 27, remain closed on November 28 and November 29 in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. We will resume regular hours at 11 am on Saturday, November 30. Please email museum@tulane.edu with questions!

Museum Closing at 2 pm
2019-11-27 14:00 - 17:00

Free Exhibition Tour
2019-11-21 12:00 - 13:00, 2019-10-17 12:00 - 13:00
Drop in to the Newcomb Art Museum on the Third Thursday of each month at noon for a free exhibition tour led by different individuals involved in the show!
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About the exhibitions:
In 2016, artist, activist, and MacArthur genius awardee LaToya Ruby Frazier spent ﬁve months living in Flint, Michigan with three generations of women–the poet Shea Cobb, her mother Renee, and daughter Zion–observing their day-to-day lives as they endured one of the most devastating human-made, environmental tragedies in US history: the lead contamination water crisis in their hometown. The artistic result of Frazier’s time there is reﬂected in the works presented in the exhibition “Latoya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family.”
By portraying the daily struggles of the Cobb family, Frazier used a tight focus to create a story about the impact of a systemic problem disproportionately affecting marginalized communities. Frazier rejected the voyeuristic photographs that emerged from outside media sources and instead collaborated closely with her subjects through photographs, capturing intimate moments along with the myriad challenges the family faced without access to clean water.
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In “The American Dream Denied: The New Orleans Residents of Gordon Plaza Seek Relocation,” students from the Critical Visualization and Media Lab (CVML), led by Tulane sociology and environmental studies professor Christopher Oliver, PhD, collaborated with New Orleans’ Residents of Gordon Plaza –Shannon Rainey, Lydwina Hurst, Jesse Perkins, Sam Egana, Marilyn Amar– and representatives from the New Orleans People’s Assembly to showcase the impact of living among life-threatening pollution with limited access to resources and raise awareness of the environmental crisis facing contemporary Louisianans and New Orleanians.
The exhibition – equal parts art show, social history, and critical visualization project – presents, in a myriad of ways, a chronological and visually engaging look at the residents’ ﬁght for a fully funded relocation with an emphasis on the role of women in activism, the effect on day-to-day living, and the frustrations of the “promised” American Dream.

Free Family Day
2019-11-16 10:00 - 13:00
Get in the spirit at this holiday themed free family day! All ages are invited to take part in art making inspired by the exhibition and the fall and winter holidays. Plus enjoy age-appropriate tours, scavenger hunts, storytime, crafting, and more!

A Reading By Rachel Kushner
2019-11-12 18:00 - 19:30
Join the Newcomb Art Museum, Newcomb Institute, and the English Department of Tulane University for a reading by Rachel Kushner, author of The New York Times Bestseller “The Mars Room,” on Tuesday, November 12 at 6 pm in Freeman Auditorium on Tulane’s uptown campus. This event is free and open to the public.

About the author: Rachel Kushner’s new novel, The Mars Room, debuted at #4 on the New York Times bestseller list. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the Prix Médicis in France. Her previous novel, The Flamethrowers, was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award, the 2014 Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, and was chosen as one of the 5 best novels of the year by the New York Times. A book of early short fictions, The Strange Case of Rachel K, was published by New Directions in 2014. Her debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was reviewed on the cover of the New York Times Book Review and was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner of the California Book Award, and a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book. Kushner’s fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and the Paris Review. She is the recipient of a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship, and 2016 winner of the Harold D. Vursell Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Los Angeles.

This event is sponsored by Newcomb Art Museum, Newcomb Institute, the English Creative Writing Fund and English Executive Committee at Tulane University.
Additional media sponsorship from WWNO.

A Public Forum on Lead
2019-11-09 14:00 - 15:00
Join the Newcomb Art Museum on Saturday 9 from 2 to 3 pm for an informative and engaging public forum on lead in conjunction with the museum’s fall exhibitions “LaToya Ruby Frazier” and “The American Dream Denied: The New Orlean Residents of Gordon Plaza Seek Relocation.” Exploring the critical issues of wellness facing our local community, this discussion will feature panelists Thomas Beller (Department of English, Tulane), Adrienne Katner (School of Public Health, LSU Health Sciences Center) and Howard Mielke (School of Medicine, Tulane) and be moderated by Christopher Oliver (Professor of Practice, Sociology and Environmental Studies, Jill H. and Avram A. Glazer Professorship and Carnegie Corporation of New York, Professor of Social Entrepreneurship III, Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking, Affiliated Faculty, Urban Studies and the City, Culture, and Community Programs).
This event is free and open to the public and is held in the Freeman Auditorium up the stairs to the left of the museum.

Free Exhibition Tour
2019-11-09 12:00 - 13:00, 2019-10-13 12:00 - 13:00
Drop in to the Newcomb Art Museum on the Second Saturday of each month at noon for a free exhibition tour led by different individuals involved in the show!
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About the exhibitions:
In 2016, artist, activist, and MacArthur genius awardee LaToya Ruby Frazier spent ﬁve months living in Flint, Michigan with three generations of women–the poet Shea Cobb, her mother Renee, and daughter Zion–observing their day-to-day lives as they endured one of the most devastating human-made, environmental tragedies in US history: the lead contamination water crisis in their hometown. The artistic result of Frazier’s time there is reﬂected in the works presented in the exhibition “Latoya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family.”
By portraying the daily struggles of the Cobb family, Frazier used a tight focus to create a story about the impact of a systemic problem disproportionately affecting marginalized communities. Frazier rejected the voyeuristic photographs that emerged from outside media sources and instead collaborated closely with her subjects through photographs, capturing intimate moments along with the myriad challenges the family faced without access to clean water.
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In “The American Dream Denied: The New Orleans Residents of Gordon Plaza Seek Relocation,” students from the Critical Visualization and Media Lab (CVML), led by Tulane sociology and environmental studies professor Christopher Oliver, PhD, collaborated with New Orleans’ Residents of Gordon Plaza –Shannon Rainey, Lydwina Hurst, Jesse Perkins, Sam Egana, Marilyn Amar– and representatives from the New Orleans People’s Assembly to showcase the impact of living among life-threatening pollution with limited access to resources and raise awareness of the environmental crisis facing contemporary Louisianans and New Orleanians.
The exhibition – equal parts art show, social history, and critical visualization project – presents, in a myriad of ways, a chronological and visually engaging look at the residents’ ﬁght for a fully funded relocation with an emphasis on the role of women in activism, the effect on day-to-day living, and the frustrations of the “promised” American Dream.

Free Film Screening: Green
2019-11-05 19:00 - 21:00
Join us for a screening in Freeman Auditorium of Laura Dunn’s 2000 documentary Green which presents a sobering look at environmental concerns along the Mississippi Petrochemical Corridor from Baton Rouge to New Orleans. This event is produced in partnership with Howard-Tilton Memorial Library.

Free Homecoming Tour Led By the CVML
2019-11-02 12:00 - 13:00
In honor of Tulane Homecoming, join the Newcomb Art Museum on Saturday, November 2 at 12 pm for a unique look at the current exhibitions as students from the Critical Visualization and Media Lab at Tulane University lead a tour and alk that discusses their own research and how it informed the exhibition The American Dream Denied.

Kwaidan – Call of Salvation Heard from the Depths of Fear
2019-10-29 19:00 - 20:30
Newcomb Art Museum is pleased to sponsor, along with the Japan Society of New Orleans, Tulane Asian Studies Program, and Tulane English Department: Kwaidan – Call of Salvation Heard from the Depths of Fear: A Reading Performance by The Hearn Society of Matsue at Tulane University as one of the event of the 150th anniversary of Lafcadio Hearn’s Arrival in the USA and the 25th anniversary of the friendship city relationship between Matsue City, Shimane and New Orleans.
This event is performed by the actor Shiro Sano and the guitarist Kyoji Yamamoto along with an introduction by Bon Koizumi, Lafcadio Hearn’s great-grandson of Matsue City.
Doors open at 6:30 pm, performance start time is 7:00 pm.
The location is in the Freeman Auditorium located in the Tulane Woldenberg Art Center on the Uptown Tulane campus. Click here to view the campus map.

Free Film Screening: Women of Cancer Alley
2019-10-22 19:00 - 21:00
Join director Anne Rolfes in Freeman Auditorium for a screening of her new documentary Women of Cancer Alley, followed by a conversation on citizen activism and environmental equality with Sharon Lavigne, founder of RISE ST. JAMES, who also appears in the film. This event is produced in partnership with The New Orleans Center for the Gulf South (Nola Gulf South)

Uncommon Exchanges with Pippin Frisbie-Calder and Jordan Karubian
2019-10-15 18:30 - 20:00
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 “Flint is Family” and “The American Dream Denied” as a catalyst, Pippin Frisbie-calder, FATHOM Resident Artist at A Studio in the Woods and Jordan Karubian, Phd, Associate Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Tulane will engage in a unique conversation bridging their different disciplines and expertise to workshop new kinds of questions and establish commonalities.
Free and open to the public, this event takes place inside the museum’s galleries.
