Newcomb Art Museum

Postponed! First Friday Collections Tour
2017-10-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED! Due to Tropical Storm Nate, this event has been postponed to October 13th. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope to see you next Friday!
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, Tulane faculty and alumni art works! The tour is free but is limited to the first 10 people due to space restrictions. Please reach out to Tom Friel at tfriel@tulane.edu regarding any questions.
[Vase with Magnolia Design, Mary Williams Butler, Artist; Joseph Meyer, Potter c. 1902 – 1903 Collection of Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University]

Third Thursday Exhibition Tour
2017-09-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
Join Tom Friel, Coordinator for Interpretation & Public Engagement, every third Thursday as he leads a tour of the current exhibition, Unfamiliar Again: Contemporary Women Abstractionists.

Free and open to the public. Contact Tom Friel at tfriel@tulane.edu with questions.

Tulane Tuesday
2017-09-19 12:00 - 14:00 | LCB, 29 McAlister Drive, New Orleans, LA, United States
Tulane students are invited to wear their best Tulane gear and come learn more about Newcomb Museum’s exhibitions, programs, and events. Stop by the Lavin-Bernick Center for University Life (LBC) to meet Newcomb staffers, enjoy cotton candy, pick up some Newcomb swag, and to enter for a chance to win $50 from the bookstore! Students must be wearing Tulane gear to receive the giveaways, so show some green pride and swing by the LCB to learn all about the Newcomb Art Museum!

Family Workshop
2017-09-16 11:30 - 13:00 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
Get creative with the whole family!
This Saturday, all ages are invited to swing by the Newcomb Art Museum for a free family art workshop inspired by their latest exhibition, Unfamiliar Again: Contemporary Women Abstractionists. The exhibition features work by women artists from across the United States as they explore new ways of approaching abstraction.
From 11:30 am to 1 pm, the museum will play host to a family-friendly workshop where budding artists of all-ages will have the opportunity to create their own abstract masterpieces using collage work, colored pencils, cut paper and more. Kids and parents alike are encouraged to engage with the exhibition through a movement based scavenger hunt where you get to be the art! Story time will feature books encouraging children that anyone who wants to be an artist, can be an artist (with a little paint and a whole lot of imagination!)
This come-and-go workshop allows children and parents to explore the museum in a welcome and fun environment plus creates an opportunity for everyone, no matter your level of experience, the chance to create their own abstract masterpiece to be hung on the fridge or framed on the wall!
Free and open to the public. The event is come and go, drop-ins encouraged!
Questions? Reach out to Tom Friel at tfriel@tulane.edu.

Unfamiliar Again: Talk & Reception
2017-09-06 18:30 - 21:00 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
Join the Newcomb Art Museum in celebrating Unfamiliar Again: Contemporary Women Abstractionists. The evening will begin with a public discussion in the Freeman Auditorium between museum director Monica Ramirez-Montagut and exhibition artists Amy Ellingson, Anne Vieux, and Brittany Nelson. Sculptor Dee Briggs, whose Three Rings 6’ Diameter is currently installed in the Newcomb Pottery Garden in front of the Woldenberg Art Center, will also join the conversation.
A reception will immediately follow in the Woodward Way Breezeway.
Both events are free and open to the public.
The Newcomb Pottery Garden is dedicated in memory of Judith Henkin.

Prison Gourmet: New Orleans Cook-Off
2017-05-22 17:00 - 19:00 | Sister Hearts Thrift Store, 7519 W Judge Perez Drive, Arabi, LA, 70032, United States
“Prison Gourmet: New Orleans Cook-Off” is a workshop and community gathering facilitated by Los Angeles’ artist Karla Diaz. The project focuses on sharing and supporting the exchange of prison recipes by women previously incarcerated in New Orleans. The intent is to provide an educational space of prison food and methods. The event is free and open to the public.
Supported in part by an Arts Matter Award (2015) and Sister Maryam-Henderson Uloho

Mother's Day Brunch
2017-05-14 11:00 - 13:00 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
Join us for the second annual Newcomb Art Museum Mother’s Day Brunch!
The festive gathering will take place in the museum’s Woodward Way breezeway and feature:

a catered sit-down brunch
behind-the-scenes tours of the museum’s collection of Newcomb Pottery
guided tours of the Newcomb Pottery Garden
a special gift for all attendees

Tickets are $85 each; revenues go toward our exhibitions and programs. Space is extremely limited so order your tickets today by emailing museum@tulane.edu or clicking HERE.

Beyond the Canvas - Opening & Performance
2017-04-26 19:30 - 21:00 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
Public reception for the opening of Beyond the Canvas: Contemporary Art from Puerto Rico featuring a performance by Puerto Rico artist and dancer Noemí Segarra at 7:30. This event is free and open to the public

Curatorial Talk
2017-04-26 18:30 - 19:30 | Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States
In conjunction with Beyond the Canvas: Contemporary Art from Puerto Rico, co-curators Warren James and Dr. Monica Ramirez-Montagut, Director, Newcomb Art Museum, will speak in conversation with Dr. Edie Wolfe, SCLAS Assistant Director for Undergraduate Programs, Tulane University.
A public reception celebrating the show’s opening will immediately follow in the Woodward Way breezeway.

Slow Art Day
2017-04-08 11:30 - 12:30 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
Join NAM this Saturday for Slow Art Day, an international initiative that encourages people to visit local museums, look at art slowly, and then informally discuss the experience.
For our event, we’ll be looking at two works in Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on a Prime-Time Star, which closes the following day at 4 pm.
We’ll have two free sessions: one at 11:30 and another at 1:30.
Come for one or both! #SlowArtDay #SlowArtDay2017

Killer of Sheep
2017-03-15 19:30 - 21:00 | Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States
Shown in conjunction with Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on a Prime-time Star, Killer of Sheep examines the black Los Angeles ghetto of Watts in the mid-1970s through the eyes of Stan, a sensitive dreamer increasingly detached from the psychic toll of working at a slaughterhouse.
Directed by Charles Burnett, the film was shot on 16mm black-and-white film on a budget of less than $10,000. Finished in 1977, it was never shown theatrically or made available on video due to issues of music rights (the soundtrack features songs by Etta James, Dinah Washington, Gershwin, Rachmaninov, Paul Robeson, and Earth, Wind & Fire). Thirty years later, the film was restored by UCLA and remastered from 16 to 35mm.
The National Society of Film Critics has selected Killer of Sheep as one of the “100 Essential Films” of all time.
1977; 1 hr 23 min

Michelle Nonó - Poverty, Political Theater and Emancipatory Education in the Caribbean
2017-03-15 16:00 - 17:30 | 100 Jones Hall, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
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 of San Antón, Puerto Rico. The sisters describe the center, known as Patio Taller, as a site for emancipatory education in a Freyrean model, where community members can both learn and teach according to their own abilities, needs, and interests. They also host residencies for other Caribbean artists and activists. Las Nietas are perhaps best known for popular theater productions, which address issues relevant to the community such as drug abuse, violence and incarceration, and the cycle of poverty and discrimination that feed these behaviors.

Nonó will be included in the exhibition “Revolution at Point Zero: Feminist Social Practice” opening in March at the Glass Curtain Gallery in Chicago. Last year she had a Jackman Goldwasser Residency at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago. The sisters were also invited to the fourth edition of Casa Tomada, a meeting of young artists, writers and thinkers 2017 in Havana, Cuba, September 2017.

Black Girl; Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman
2017-03-12 13:30 - 15:00 | Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States
Shown in conjunction with Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on a Prime-time Star, Black Girl explores the complex dynamics and devastating legacy of colonialism. It centers on a young Senegalese woman who moves from Dakar to France to work for a rich white couple. Directed by father of African cinema Ousmane Sembène, Black Girl is the first African film to receive international acclaim. Martin Scorsese called it “an astonishing movie—so ferocious, so haunting, and so unlike anything we’d ever seen.”
1966; 1 h 5 min; French with English subtitles

Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman (2012) is artist Mickalene Thomas’ directorial debut film about her mother and artistic muse, Sandra Bush. Interspersed with excerpts from a conversation between the two are archival film clips, snapshots, and scenes of her mother–a former fashion model–in her hospital bed as she suffers the effects of the kidney disease.
2012; 23 min

Cleopatra Jones
2017-02-15 19:30 - 21:00 | Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States
Shown in conjunction with Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on a Prime-time Star, Cleopatra Jones tells of a federal super-agent (Tamara Dobson) who is a martial arts expert armed with intellect and a hot-rod sports car. The film follows her on the trail of drug kingpins, specifically the notorious “Mommy” (Shelley Winters). Of the period’s many blaxploitation films, Cleopatra Jones is notable for its black female protagonist action hero.
The film co-stars Esther Rolle (CBS sitcom “Good Times”) and Bernie Casey (“Never Say Never Again, Revenge of the Nerds 1-IV).

PG; 1973; 1h 29m

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
2017-02-07 19:30 - 21:00 | Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States
Shown in conjunction with Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on a Prime-time Star, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song is a groundbreaking film in the history of African American cinema. It tells of a young hustler who goes on the run after saving a Black Panther from local racist authorities. Written, directed, produced, edited and starring Melvin Van Peebles, the film ushered in a wave of films known as Blaxploitation cinema, which responded to a lack of black heroes and heroines in popular film.
1971. Rated R. (nudity and graphic sexual content; viewer discretion advised). Musical score by Earth, Wind & Fire. 1 hr 37 min

Muses-Inspired Shoe Workshop
2017-01-31 17:30 - 19:30 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
Just in time for Carnival, NAM is hosting a two-part Carnival shoe-decorating workshop, inspired by one of our favorite Mardi Gras krewes. The instructor is a current riding member and is recognized for her highly creative designs.
Due to the time required for preparing and decorating the shoes, attendees must be able to attend both workshops, on January 31 AND February 7.
Supplies and refreshments provided will be provided.
$40 advance registration required; email tfriel@tulane.edu to register or additional information.

Jenni Sorkin - Material Decisions: Women, Process, and Form
2017-01-26 18:30 - 20:00 | Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States
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 B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, an M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, and a Ph.D. from Yale University.
This event is supported in part by the Newcomb Art Department and the Sandra Garrard Memorial Fund for Recent Trends in Contemporary Art.

Opening Reception
2017-01-18 19:30 - 21:00 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
Public reception for the opening of Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on a Prime-time Star. This event is free and open to the public

Conversation with Mickalene Thomas
2017-01-18 18:30 - 19:30 | Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States
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 and acclaimed international artist known for her elaborately lush works that celebrate the power of female beauty toward claiming women’s agency. Thomas combines historical artworks and pop cultural representations that define and reference fashion and domestic spaces through a queer lens.
Mickalene Thomas is a 2015 United States Artists Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz Fellow, a distinguished visual artist, filmmaker and curator who has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. She is known for paintings that combine art-historical, political, and pop-cultural references. Her work introduces complex notions of femininity and challenges common definitions of beauty and aesthetic representations of women.
Thomas earned her MFA from Yale University in 2002, and a BFA from Pratt Institute in 2000. Her first solo museum exhibition, Origin of the Universe, originated at the Santa Monica Museum of Art in 2012 before traveling to the Brooklyn Museum of Art, where her film “Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman” premiered. Recent solo exhibitions include George Eastman House, New York; L’Ecole des Beaux Arts, Monaco; and First International Contemporary Art Biennial, Columbia. Her work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions, including at La Conservera Contemporary Art Center, Ceutí, Spain; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Hara Museum, Tokyo; National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; Saatchi Gallery, London; and University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her work has been featured in various catalogues and reviewed by Artforum, Art in America, The New York Times, The New Yorker, NY Arts, Modern Painters, and The Wall Street Journal, among others.
Mickalene Thomas is represented by Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong; Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago and Berlin; Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris and Brussels. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, and serves on the board of the Brooklyn Museum, Children’s Museum of the Arts, MoCADA, MoMA PS1, and Rush Philanthropic.
supported in part by Newcomb Art Department and Sandra Garrard Memorial Fund for Recent Trends in Contemporary Art
photo: Francois Meyer, Mickalene Thomas, 2013

Marking the Infinite Film Screening
2016-11-16 19:30 - 21:00 | Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States
In conjunction with Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia, the museum is screening two short documentaries Nyapanyapa: The Constant Artist and Bush Plum: The Contemporary Art of Angelina Pwerle.
Both artists’ works are included in the Newcomb Art Museum exhibition.
Bush Plum is a visual poem, capturing the imagery and connection between Angelina Pwerle’s painting and country. Central Australia is a place of extraordinary power and beauty, the art from this place is a mirror, a spiritual reflection of beliefs, of culture, of country, of its plants and animals. (duration 32 min.)
The Constant Artist introduces viewers to Nyapanyapa Yunupingu, beginning at the VCA Print Workshop at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne and later at her art centre in East Arnhem Land. (duration 30 min)

ART21: Mexico City
2016-10-25 19:30 - 21:00 | Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States
Join us for a screening of “Mexico City” from season 8 of PBS’ award-winning broadcast series Art21 with a special welcome from Carlos Ponce, Consul of Mexico, New Orleans.
The episode will explore how Natalia Almada, Minerva Cuevas, Damián Ortega, and Pedro Reyes use the growing megalopolis as their canvas. The artists present everyday materials as artworks, mine recognizable images for their poetic potential, and take their art to the streets.
Wine & cheese reception to follow.

Screening: "Rabbit Proof Fence"
2016-10-18 19:30 - 21:30 | Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States
Set in 1931 and based on true events, Rabbit Proof Fence tells the story of three Aboriginal girls who escape from a life of indentured servitude and set out across the Outback. As the girls make their 1,500 mile journey back home by following a rabbit proof fence that bisects the continent, they are pursued by the Australian government. Directed by Phillip Noyce. Running time: 1 hour, 34 minutes. Drama. Rated PG.

Screening: "Ten Canoes"
2016-10-04 19:30 - 21:30 | Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States
Two interwoven stories of life in Australia before colonization are presented in both color and black & white in seamless transitions. Considered both groundbreaking and mesmerizing, it swept the 2006 Academy Awards. Named as one of the 100 Best Films of World Cinema. Directed by Rolf de Heer & Peter Djigirr; 103 minutes; unrated with English subtitles. Contains nudity; parental discretion advised.

Newcomb Roadshow
2016-10-01 13:00 - 16:00 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
Join us for our first annual Newcomb Roadshow!
Guests will have the opportunity to get an on-site evaluation of one work of Newcomb arts and crafts, and meet other collectors and enthusiasts.
Each registered guest is allowed one object believed to be a product of the Newcomb Pottery enterprise (pottery, needlework/embroidery, metal work/jewelry, or bookbinding), and may only meet with one appraiser. Guests are encouraged to set up follow up appointments with appraisers for more objects to be formally appraised.
Refreshments will be served, and all attendees will receive a complimentary hardcover copy of The Arts & Crafts of Newcomb Pottery (a $65 value).
Advance registration and a $40 participation fee are required. Contact tfriel@tulane.edu or call 504-865-5361 to register or for more details.
Time slots will be assigned at the time of registration. Guests should arrive at least 20 minutes prior to their appointment to allow time for parking and sign-in. If a guest arrives late for their scheduled time slot, they will either have to wait for an open slot or receive a shorter evaluation, if time allows.
The Newcomb Roadshow is a fundraiser for the Newcomb Art Museum and proceeds directly contribute to our exhibition programming.

CANCELLED -- Art Workshop: My Home in Space
2016-09-16 18:30 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
This workshop has been cancelled. We regret any confusion this may cause. Please note that similar programming may occur later in the year.

“Art Inspired by Space”
2016-09-14 18:30 - 20:00 | Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States
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.

"From Antarctica to Outer Space: Reflections on Isolation and Confinement"
2016-09-13 18:30 - 20:00 | Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States
Renowned former NASA Senior Researcher Dr. Yvonne Clearwater will explore the range of meanings and variance of human experience in the realm of isolation and confinement, solitude and loneliness, highlighting the human experience of living and working in space. She will then present an overview of her interdisciplinary work in leading NASA space human factors and habitability research efforts toward the design of the International Space Station, with an emphasis on the critical relationships between the environment, psychological well-being and human performance.

Exhibition Reception: Marking the Infinite
2016-09-07 18:30 - 21:00 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
Join us in celebrating the opening of Marking the Infinite, Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia.
6:30 pm – Talk by Dennis Scholl, collector and Henry F. Skerritt, Curator, Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia
7:30-9:00 pm – Public reception
Free and open to the public.

Exhibition VIP/Members Reception
2016-09-07 17:30 - 18:30 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
Museum V.I.P.s and members are invited to attend a sneak peek of Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia. Guests will enjoy light hors d’oeuvres and libations. Email museum@tulane.edu to join, renew, or inquire into membership.

Hello, Goodbye Art Activity
2016-06-18 13:00 - 15:00 | Newcomb Art Museum, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
It’s time to say goodbye to KAWS’ Companion (Passing Through). The 16-foot outdoor sculpture has greeted visitors to the museum for the past year, but it will leave campus later this month. We think it looks a little sad to go, no?
At the same time, we are thrilled about the arrival of our Newcomb Enterprise coloring book, a fun and informative publication for all ages that recognizes the important artistic legacy of Newcomb College.
To mark both events, we invite you to bring your favorite companion to say goodbye to ours and, while you’re here, receive a free coloring book. Colored pencils and a space to create your own masterpiece will be provided.
Free and open to the public. Email tfriel@tulane.edu for more information.
