Newcomb Art Museum

Stroller Saturday
2018-12-08 10:30 - 11:00 (America/Chicago) | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
Join the Newcomb Art Museum for “Stroller Saturdays!” NAM will open its doors early for parents with small children. Enjoy a private tour of the exhibition with Tom Friel, the museum’s Coordinator for Interpretation & Public Engagement, at 10:30 am on the second Saturday of each month. Free admission. Questions? Email tfriel@tulane.edu.

First Friday Pottery Tour
2018-12-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
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 the first 10 people due to space restrictions. Please reach out to Tom Friel at tfriel@tulane.edu regarding any questions and to RSVP for a tour.

Small Business Saturday
2018-11-24 11:00 - 16:00 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
Get your holiday shopping done early when you shop small at the Newcomb Art Museum gift shop on Saturday, November 24 for Small Business Saturday! Receive 10% off your entire purchase (with an additional 5% off for museum members) while finding the perfect gift for the art enthusiast in your life! The museum will be open from 11 am to 4 pm, we look forward to seeing you then!

Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday
2018-11-22 08:00 - 2018-11-23 17:00 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
The museum will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday and the day after so our staff can enjoy the holiday with their families. We will resume regular hours on Saturday at 11 am, we look forward to seeing you then!

Free Family Day at Newcomb Art Museum
2018-11-17 11:00 - 13:00 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
Everyone is welcome to get creative at the museum! Teens and adults will benefit from a two-hour figure drawing intensive led by local artists, while kids of all ages will love several art activities inspired by EMPIRE, including printmaking, architecture, and collage! Advanced registration is required for the figure drawing intensive, contact tfriel@tulane.edu to register or for questions. Drop-ins welcome for all other activities.
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All events are free and open to families with children of all-ages!

Uncommon Exchanges: Fish
2018-11-13 18:30 - 19:30 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
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 the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South.
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Free and open to the public; takes place at Newcomb Art Museum.

Exhibition Tour with Lee Miller
2018-11-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
Drop by the Newcomb Art Museum on Second Saturdays this fall for guided exhibition tours focusing on different themes present in the current tricentennial show, EMPIRE, led by different faculty and staff from Tulane.

On November 10, join us for a very special Second Saturday tour celebrating Homecoming at Tulane! Lee Miller, Head of The Louisiana Research Collection at Tulane University, will lead a guided tour of Newcomb Art Museum’s tricentennial exhibition EMPIRE which brings together over 400 objects culled from the diverse archives across Tulane’s collection, telling the story of New Orleans through the lens of Tulane. Miller will discuss the role of Louisiana Research Collection and go into detail about the plethora of objects on view including Mardi Gras illustrations, important LBGT+ ephemera, and historical Louisiana documents.

Free and open to all!

Tulane Tuesday | Homecoming Screen Print
2018-10-30 11:00 - 13:00 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
Wear your Tulane gear each Tuesday and stop by the LBC between 11AM-1PM to get today’s free treat – Homecoming screen print designed by Kiernan Dunn… come be a part of creating the last layer of one of a kind poster print in celebration of Tulane homecoming! Only 300 prints will be available.
Sponsored by the Newcomb Art Museum as well as the Lavin-Bernick Center for University Life.
Don’t forget to have your loyalty card stamped!
** You must wear Tulane gear to receive the giveaway, no exceptions
** Giveaway applies while supplies last and are first come, first serve

Uncommon Exchanges: Sound
2018-10-23 18:30 - 19:30 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
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 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Moderated by Newcomb’s curator Laura Blereau.
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Free and open to the public; held at Newcomb Art Museum.

Political Blackness in Multiracial Britain Book Launch
2018-10-16 18:30 - 20:00 | Stone Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans
Join Newcomb Art Museum for Diasporic Conversation, the book launch of ““Political Blackness in Multiracial Britain.” It will be an evening of music, reading, and commentary to launch Tulane professor Mohan Ambikaipaker‘s newly released book from the University of Pennsylvania Press. The evening will feature New Orleans jazz artist and Healing Room creator Michaela Harrison, accompanied by Joy Clark, and featuring professor Courtney Desiree Morris from Pennsylvania State University‘s African American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Free and open to the public in Stone Auditorium!

Exhibition Tour with Chloe Raub
2018-10-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
Drop by the Newcomb Art Museum on Second Saturdays this fall for guided exhibition tours focusing on different themes present in the current tricentennial show, EMPIRE, led by different faculty and staff from Tulane.

On October 13, join Chloe Raub, Head of Archives and Special Collections at Newcomb College Institute, as she leads a guided tour of EMPIRE discussing in more detail the role of collections and archives at Newcomb College and the history of the Newcomb objects on display in the show, exploring the shifting narratives assigned to women at the

Free and open to all!

Postcards From Over the Edge
2018-10-07 15:00 - 17:00, 2018-10-06 18:30 - 20:30 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
Postcards From Over the Edge is an expedition through New Orleans’ complex relationship with prostitution, traveling from the middle of Storyville’s Mahogany Hall to the contemporary court case on “Crime Against Nature.”
A new theatrical work the performance will explore the court case on “Crime Against Nature” handled by local New Orleans attorneys including Bill Quigley and by the Center for Constitutional Rights as well as New Orleans’ complex relationship with prostitution. Five New Orleans-based artists (three cis-gender women and two transwomen) are developing this work collaboratively. To explore this relationship, the play shifts between two time periods, the Storyville era – connecting when prostitution was legal and any traveling businessman could pick up a Blue Book (http://www.storyvilledistrictnola.com/bluebook.html), and the modern day civil rights suit. The artists aim to accurately depict how the plaintiffs of the case are treated by society, the difficulties they encounter and the struggles they have to work through as a result of being charged with “Crime Against Nature.”
The play will take place in the Newcomb Art Museum surrounded by original pieces from Storyville currently on display in the tricentennial exhibition EMPIRE.
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Tickets for the Saturday evening and Sunday matinee are $15 and can be purchased at the door. First come, first served; please be aware there is limited seating. The Friday evening event is free; reserve your spot by emailing museum@tulane.edu.

Free Performance of Postcards from Over the Edge
2018-10-05 18:30 - 20:30 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
Postcards From Over the Edge is an expedition through New Orleans’ complex relationship with prostitution, traveling from the middle of Storyville’s Mahogany Hall to the contemporary court case on “Crime Against Nature.”
A new theatrical work the performance will explore the court case on “Crime Against Nature” handled by local New Orleans attorneys including Bill Quigley and by the Center for Constitutional Rights as well as New Orleans’ complex relationship with prostitution. Five New Orleans-based artists (three cis-gender women and two transwomen) are developing this work collaboratively. To explore this relationship, the play shifts between two time periods, the Storyville era – connecting when prostitution was legal and any traveling businessman could pick up a Blue Book (http://www.storyvilledistrictnola.com/bluebook.html), and the modern day civil rights suit. The artists aim to accurately depict how the plaintiffs of the case are treated by society, the difficulties they encounter and the struggles they have to work through as a result of being charged with “Crime Against Nature.”
The play will take place in the Newcomb Art Museum surrounded by original pieces from Storyville currently on display in the tricentennial exhibition EMPIRE.
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Friday night will be a free performance with limited seating. To reserve your spot today, email museum@tulane.edu.

Artist Talk with Nicole Awai
2018-10-01 18:30 - 19:30 | Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States
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 discuss her recent installation in Brooklyn, “Persistent Resistance of the Liquid Land” and how her art is a site of historical confluences. Exploring the elasticity of time, space and place in the Americas, this talk will also include earlier projects influenced by the Caribbean landscape, in particular the La Brea Pitch Lake in Trinidad.

Nicole Awai is a multi media artist. She earned her Master’s Degree in Multimedia Art from the University of South Florida in 1996. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture residency in 1997 and was artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2000. Awai was a featured artist in the 2005 Initial Public Offerings series at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Awai was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant in 2011 and an Art Matters Grant in 2012.
Her work has been included in seminal exhibitions such as Greater New York: New Art in New York Now, at P.S. 1/ MOMA (2000), the Biennale of Ceramic in Contemporary Art (2003), Open House: Working in Brooklyn (2004), Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art (2007) both at the Brooklyn Museum and the 2008 Busan Biennale in Korea. Her work has also been exhibited at the Queens Museum, Kemper Museum of Contemporary, The Vilcek Foundation, The Biennale of the Caribbean in Aruba (2013) and Susan Inglett Gallery.
Recent exhibitions include SHE: Deconstructing Female Identity at ArtsWestchester and Splotch at Sperone Westwater. Nicole Awai: Vistas at Lesley Heller Workspace is on view May 17th through June 30th, 2017. Awai was a Critic at the Yale School of Art in the Department of Painting and Printmaking from 2009-2015. Awai is currently faculty in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin.

Artists with Arthritis Talk
2018-09-27 18:30 - 19:30 | Stone Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans
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 earned his medical degree at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, trained in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, and completed Fellowships in Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology at UCLA. He then served as Chief, Medical Resident in internal medicine at UCLA.
Following a sabbatical at the NIH, he served as Chief, Division of Rheumatology, at the Los Angeles County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California, and as faculty member in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine for 30 years. He then facilitated translational and clinical studies of biologic therapies at Amgen fro 2002 to 2007.
With expertise in inflammatory immune-mediated and infectious rheumatic diseases, Dr. Louie has authored or coauthored more than 60 peer-reviewed research papers, authored several chapters and co-edited texts. Dr. Louie is recognized as a Master of the American College of Rheumatology and as a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. Currently, Dr. Louie is Professor Emeritus of Medicine, teaching and assisting in clinical studies at the UCLA School of Medicine.

Artist Talk with Monique Verdin
2018-09-20 18:30 - 19:30 | Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States
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 and desi) women, from Texas to Florida, working to envision just economies, vibrant communities and sustainable ecologies. Monique is also a member of the L’eau et La Vie (Water is Life) Bayou Bridge pipeline resistance camp council. She has intimately documented the complex interconnectedness of environment, economics, culture, climate and change in southeast Louisiana, for decades. Her indigenous Houma relatives and their life ways at the ends of the bayous, in the heart of America’s Mississippi River Delta, has been the primary focus of her storytelling practice. She is the subject/co-writer/co-producer of the documentary My Louisiana Love. Her interdisciplinary work has been included in an assortment of environmentally inspired projects, including the multiplatform/performance/ecoexperience Cry You One as well as the publication Unfathomable City : A New Orleans Atlas. Monique is also the director of The Land Memory Bank & Seed Exchange. The Land Memory Bank is a series of southeast Louisiana activations sharing native seeds and local knowledge through citizen collaboration, attempting to building a community record of history and present, while seeking sustainable solutions.

Film Screening
2018-09-12 19:00 - 20:30 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
Join us for a free screening of “All On A Mardi Gras Day,” directed by Royce Osborn, a prominent filmmaker known for his work chronicling African American cultural celebrations in New Orleans.

Exhibition Tour with Mohan Ambikaipaker
2018-09-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
Join Tulane professor Mohan Ambikaipaker as he leads an exploration of some of the racially charged materials and objects on view from the turn of the century. This tour will address how the exhibition provokes discussion and continued research surrounding topics of racial identity in New Orleans.

Welcome Back Reception
2018-09-06 17:30 - 20:30 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
Join us for a welcome back reception and another chance to explore our tricentennial exhibition EMPIRE after hours! Now incorporating a recently acquired piece from Brandan “Bmike” Odums, this immersive installation by Fallen Fruit merits an additional visit!

5:30 pm – VIP Members Reception (not a member? Join in August during museum month for a 25% discount!)

6:30 pm – Artist talk with Bmike whose work “Alchemist” is on view in EMPIRE

7:30 pm – Public reception featuring food, drinks, music from T-Ray the violinist, and more!

About the exhibition:

Celebrating the New Orleans tricentennial, EMPIRE is an art installation by Los Angeles based artists Fallen Fruit (David Allen Burns and Austin Young) commissioned and presented by Newcomb Art Museum, A Studio in the Woods, and Pelican Bomb. Through the assembly of over 400 objects, the artists transformed the entire museum into one immersive artwork that explores the history of people and place in terms of cultural legacy, historical narrative, and social constructs.

EMPIRE at Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University is part of “Fallen Fruit of New Orleans” a suite of site-specific projects taking place throughout New Orleans from June 2017 through June 2018, commissioned and presented by Newcomb Art Museum, A Studio in the Woods, and Pelican Bomb. “Fallen Fruit of New Orleans” was initiated by Pelican Bomb in 2015.

About Bmike:

Brandan “Bmike” Odums is a highly sought after visual artist and filmmaker who uses these chosen mediums to tell stories and make statements that transform the minds of viewers as well as the spaces in which his work appears.

In 2016 Brandan debuted his first solo show in New Orleans in a 35,000 sq ft warehouse named #Studio Be. Welcoming hundreds of visitors a week as well as school tours from around the region.

In 2013, Brandan completed a series of graffiti murals depicting iconic African American civil rights leaders at the Hurricane Katrina damaged Florida Avenue public housing complex in New Orleans’ 9th Ward. Given the name #ProjectBe, the space unexpectedly received national attention bringing spectators from all over to see the art before the deserted complex’s set demolition date.

Following the success of #ProjectBe, Brandan came across another abandoned five-story apartment building on the West Bank in New Orleans in 2014 and began working on #ExhibitBe. The completed space was the largest street art gathering in the South gaining national attention and welcoming over 30,000 visitors during its three month opening.

Brandan’s other passions lie in the New Orleans community. He is the founder and director of 2-Cent Entertainment LLC – a New Orleans based youth education social enterprise that produces mixed media content and workshops in the overlap between pop culture and social awareness. Partnering with organizations like Scholastic and Better World Books to give away tens of thousands of books to local youth, 2-Cent services countless youth in New Orleans. 2-Cent Summer Session – media arts camp, in New Orleans I currently entering it’s 4th year.

As a Filmmaker his directed music videos has appeared on MTV, VH1 and BET, Brandan has been honored as one of “20 Artist You Should Know” by Complex.com, Presidential volunteer award from the white house, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship recipient.

Museum Month
2018-08-31 08:00 - 17:00, 2018-08-01 08:00 - 17:00 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
August is New Orleans Museum Month

New Orleans Museum Month is a collaboration between museums of all sizes across the greater New Orleans area. It offers museum members the opportunity to visit all participating institutions, FREE OF CHARGE, throughout the month of August. Newcomb is thrilled to offer our members free admission to the following museums: Ashe Cultural Arts Center, Audubon Butterfly Garden and Insectarium, Beauregard-Keyes Historic House and Garden, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, Confederate Memorial Hall, The Historic New Orleans Collection, Longue Vue House & Gardens, The National World War II Museum, New Canal Lighthouse, New Orleans Jazz Museum, New Orleans Museum of Art, Old Ursuline Convent Museum, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Southern Food and Beverage Museum. Head to their websites to learn more about open hours and special programs and events.
Not a member of Newcomb? August is a great time to join! From August 1 to August 31 receive 25% off new memberships and then visit any of the participating museums for free during Museum Month! Click here to learn more!

Live Jazz with Courtney Bryan
2018-08-13 16:00 - 18:00 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
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 native of New Orleans, La, is “a pianist and composer of panoramic interests” (New York Times). Her music ranges from solo works to large ensembles in the new music and jazz idioms, film scores, and collaborations with dancers, visual artists, writers, and actors, and is in conversation with various musical genres, including jazz and other types of experimental music, as well as traditional gospel, spirituals, and hymns. Focusing on bridging the sacred and the secular, Bryan’s compositions explore human emotions through sound, confronting the challenge of notating the feeling of improvisation. Bryan has academic degrees from Oberlin Conservatory (BM), Rutgers University (MM), and a DMA in music composition from Columbia University of New York, with advisor George Lewis. She has been an instructor at Columbia University and Oberlin Conservatory, and a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department for African American Studies at Princeton University. Bryan is currently an Assistant Professor of Music in the Newcomb Department of Music at Tulane University, and the composer-in-residence with the Jacksonville Symphony. She has two independent recordings, “Quest for Freedom” (2007) and “This Little Light of Mine” (2010).

Museum Open by Appointment Only
2018-07-08 10:00 - 2018-08-20 17:00 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
Please note: Between July 8 and August 20 the museum will be open by appointment only. Call the museum at 504-865-5328 or email the museum at museum@tulane.edu to schedule a visit.
The museum will resume regular hours on Tuesday, August 21.

First Friday Collections Tours
2018-07-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States

Museum Closed for Fourth of July Holiday
2018-07-03 10:00 - 2018-07-04 17:00 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
The museum will be closed July 3rd and 4th in celebration of Independence Day; we will reopen on July 5th at 10 am.

Fruit Park Dedication
2018-06-30 12:00 - 14:00 | Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle, Caffin Ave & Florida Ave, New Orleans, LA, 70117, United States
Join Newcomb Art Museum, A Studio in the Woods, Pelican Bomb and Fallen Fruit for a dedication and celebration of the recently planted fruit park, a project of “Fallen Fruit New Orleans” at the Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle in the Lower Ninth Ward.

Members Only Special Collections Tour
2018-06-22 16:00 - 18:00 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
Members of the Newcomb Art Museum are invited to a behind-the-scenes walking tour of the Special Collections at Tulane University including the Southeastern Architectural Archive, Hogan Jazz Archive, Louisiana Research Collection, and more. A summer cocktail reception will be held at the museum preceding the tour. Space is limited and reserved for museum members, RSVP at museum@tulane.edu.

Third Thursday Exhibition Tour
2018-06-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
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.

Uncommon Exchanges: Juneteenth
2018-06-19 18:00 - 19:30 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
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 of African Diaspora History at Tulane University. The program is #free and open to the public, and held in the Newcomb Art Museum.
