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, […]
Celebrate the close of our tricentennial exhibition EMPIRE with jazz from Courtney Bryan (4 to 6 pm), food, drinks, and a chance to meet the artists behind the exhibition! Free and Open to All! __ About the exhibition: Celebrating the New Orleans tricentennial, EMPIRE is an art installation by Los Angeles based artists Fallen Fruit […]
Louis Comfort Tiffany was a pioneer in the art of stained glass and key figure in the Arts & Crafts Movement. Join Newcomb Art Museum every Second Thursday at noon, for guided tours of Tiffany Windows on the Tulane uptown campus. Tours are free but limited to 20 people and require advance registration. Contact tfriel@tulane.edu […]
Drop by the museum every Third Thursday at noon for a guided tour by museum staff of Newcomb Art Museum's new art installation EMPIRE created by Fallen Fruit! Free and open to the public. Contact Tom Friel at tfriel@tulane.edu with questions. --- What is EMPIRE? Celebrating the New Orleans tricentennial, EMPIRE is an art installation by […]
Mark the opening of this groundbreaking exhibition with an afternoon of family activities and an evening of conversation, performance, and celebration. 2 to 4pm - (In Woodward Way and the Museum) Museum-goers of all ages are invited to engage with the exhibition at our friends and family afternoon. Activities will include tie-dye, a scavenger hunt, […]
Drop by Freeman Auditorium in the Woldenberg Art Center at Tulane University for a free screening of two films documenting the treatment of formerly and currently incarcerated women. "Sin by Silence" documents inside the California Institution for Women as the first inmate initiated and led group in U.S. prison history shatters the misconceptions of domestic […]
Have you ever wanted to get a behind-the-scenes look at Newcomb Art Museum’s incredible collection of Newcomb Pottery? Then drop by on the first Friday of each month for a guided tour highlighting our permanent collection of Newcomb Pottery and the history of the Newcomb Enterprise! The tour is free but IS STRICTLY LIMITED to […]
Join the museum as we partner with Tulane Law School to engage with attorneys Mercedes Montagnes, Executive Director at the The Promise of Justice Initiative, Katherine Mattes, Director of the Criminal Justice Clinic at Tulane University, Caroline Tillman, Senior Staff Attorney at the The Promise of Justice Initiative, Charell Arnold, Staff Attorney at the Innocence […]
Are you ready for Mardi Gras? Newcomb is hosting a two-part Carnival shoe-decorating workshop, inspired by one of our favorite Mardi Gras krewes – Muses! Grab your friends and join us for a fun-filled craft session where a member of Muses shows us how to festively decorate a classic Muses shoe! This workshop is limited […]
Join the museum for a behind-the-scenes exhibition tour and a conversation led by representatives from the community focusing on the myriad issues addressed in the exhibition as they pertain to formerly and currently incarcerated women in New Orleans. 12 to 1pm - (In the Museum) Monica Ramirez Montagut, director of Newcomb, and Laura Blereau, curator, […]
