Newcomb Art Museum

Closing Day Tour
2019-12-14 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago)
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, 2019-10-04 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.

Free Tiffany Window Tour
2019-10-10 12:00 - 13:00

Free Artist Talk with LaToya Ruby Frazier
2019-10-02 18:00 - 20:00
Join the Newcomb Art Museum in Freeman Auditorium for a unique chance to hear from artist and activist LaToya Ruby Frazier as she discusses how she has used photography to fight injustice—poverty, healthcare and gender inequality, environmental contamination, racism, and more—and create a more representative self-portrait. The museum will remain open late and host a free reception following the talk.
This event is free and open to the public.
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About the talk:
Art as Transformation: Using Photography for Social Change
Each day, we’re bombarded by images: on billboards, on screens, in schools and in our bedrooms. And these images, largely corporate in origin, carry power—power to shape, control, and constrain—even when they offer a fantasy, or an outright lie.
That’s why, as LaToya Ruby Frazier (whose work is on view in “Flint is Family” at the Newcomb Art Museum) argues, photography is a battleground of representation. We cannot control the material circumstances of our birth, our families or our economic circumstances. But in order to change society—to seed real change and cultural transformation, especially for the marginalized and the forgotten—we must change the picture we have of ourselves and our communities.
In this talk, Frazier discusses how she has used photography to fight injustice—poverty, healthcare and gender inequality, environmental contamination, racism, and more—and create a more representative self-portrait. Drawing from her book The Notion of Family as well as from works of art by Frederick Douglass, August Sander, Julia Margaret Cameron, and Langston Hughes, she relates her conscious approach to photography, opens up more authentic ways to talk about family, inheritance, and place, and celebrates the inspirational, transformative power of images.

Free Exhibition Reception
2019-09-26 17:00 - 19:00
Celebrate the extended run of Newcomb Art Museum’s groundbreaking exhibition “Per(Sister): Incarcerated Women of Louisiana” at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine‘s Diboll Gallery with a free opening reception!
The evening will include remarks from Dean Thomas LaVeist, an introduction to the exhibition from Museum Director Monica Ramirez Montagut, refreshments, plus a very special performance from The Graduates; an ensemble comprised of former members of the LCIW Drama Club who build awareness of mass incarceration and racial injustice!
Email museum@tulane.edu for more information.

Tulane Tuesday
2019-09-24 11:00 - 13:00
Wear your Tulane gear each Tuesday and stop by the LBC between 11AM-1PM to get today’s free treat – Cotton Candy!
Sponsored by the Newcomb Art Museum and 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

Free Exhibition Tour Led By Marilyn Amar
2019-09-21 13:00 - 14:00
Join Newcomb Art Museum for a free exhibition tour of #TheAmericanDreamDenied led by Gordon Plaza resident Marilyn Amar.
Learn more about the history of Gordon Plaza, the impact living among environmental pollution has had on the residents there, and their ongoing fight for a fully-funded relocation.
The tour and museum are free and open to the public.
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About the exhibition:
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 Exhibition Tour
2019-09-19 12:00 - 13:00
Drop by 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 Exhibition Tour
2019-09-14 12:00 - 13:00
Museum staff provides free exhibition tours at noon on the Third Thursday and at noon on the Second Saturday of each month – so drop by any of those days to enjoy an in-depth look at our latest shows!

Free Film Screening - If Beale Street Could Talk
2019-09-12 21:00 - 23:00
Drop by Freeman Auditorium for a screening of the award-winning film If Beale Street Could Talk based on James Baldwin’s book of the same name.
