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Lectures & Events
In conjunction with Prospect.2 New Orleans, the Newcomb Art Gallery will host a lecture series with biennial curator Dan Cameron and several participating artists. All talks will be held at 7:30 pm in the Woldenberg Art Center.
November 2, 2011
Dan Cameron
November 23, 2011
Jennifer Steinkamp
December 14
Pawel Wojtasik
January 11, 2012
Luke DuBois
January 25, 2012
Alexis Rockman
In conjunction with the exhibition Pictures for Books, the gallery will present two educational programs:
MAKING BOOKS SYMPOSIUM
Wednesday, September 14, 3:30-5:00
Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
A conversation about the creative process of making photography books with Thomas Roma, photographer; Susan Kismaric, curator of Pictures for Books; and Phillip Lopate, author and collaborator with Roma for the monograph On Three Pillars: Torah, Worship, and the Practice of Loving Kindness, The Synagogues of Brooklyn. Moderated by Stephen Hilger, Assistant Professor, Photography, Newcomb Art Department.
ROMA EXHIBITION WALK-THROUGH
Thursday, September 15, 1:30
Newcomb Art Gallery, Woldenberg Art Center
Thomas Roma leads a gallery talk and walk-through of Pictures for Books: Photographs by Thomas Roma. Reception with light refreshments to follow.
In addition, Tulane’s Interdisciplinary Committee for Art and Visual Culture (ICAVC) presents:
BEING THERE: FROM A PHOTOGRAPHER'S PERSPECTIVE
Thursday, September 8, 6:00
Newcomb Art Gallery, Woldenberg Art Center
A discussion of the works on view with Cheryl Aaron, painter, photographer, author, and art therapist.
PAST EVENTS
PROGRAMMING HELD IN CONJUNCTION WITH
THE HISTORY OF THE FUTURE
ALIENS ARE COMING: FEARS OF A BROWN INVASION & THE VILIFICATION OF LATINO IMMIGRANTS IN THE USA
Friday, May 13 at 7 pm
Freeman Auditorium
Woldenberg Art Center
In this multi-media lecture, artist José Torres-Tama explores the widespread hysteria of “illegal aliens” driven by groups and individuals who have stoked the fires of xenophobia and inspired hate crimes against Latinos across the U.S. The lecture will be followed by a reception.
José Torres-Tama explores the underbelly of the North American Dream mythology, the Latino immigrant experience in the United States, and Creole culture in New Orleans through spoken word poetry, critical essays, visual arts, short films, and performance art.
Image by Craig Morse.
THE HISTORY OF THE FUTURE,
BEYOND THE BORDER OF MEXICO AND THE US
Saturday, May 14 from 3 to 5 pm
Freeman Auditorium
Woldenberg Art Center
A panel discussion with photographers Michael Berman and Julián Cardona, writers Charles Bowden and Yuri Herrera-Gutierrez, and curator Nancy Sutor. Moderated by Dr. James Huck, Assistant Director for Graduate Programs at Tulane’s Stone Center of Latin American Studies, the discussion will explore, history, policy, ecology, economics, art, literature and energy related to the issues of Mexico/US migration in the 21st century.
Panel participant Charles Bowden is the author of eleven books including Down By the River: Drugs, Money, Murder and Family and Juárez: The Laboratory of our Future. Bowden is a contributing editor for GQ and Mother Jones, and also writes for Harper’s, The New York Times Book Review, and Aperture.
Yuri Herrera-Gutiérrez earned his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 2009. A visiting Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, he is the author of Trabajos del reino, given the “Otras voces, otros ámbitos” prize for the best novel published in Spain in 2008.
Nancy Sutor holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has curated exhibits for the Photographic Arts at the College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe Center for Photography, Armory for the Arts, and Eidolon. She served as Interim Director of the Marion Center for Photographic Arts at the College of Santa Fe from 2006-2008 where she also taught from 1996-2008.
images: (l) Julián Cardona, Young men and boys from southern Mexico light votive candles, Sonora, 2005 (detail) and (r) Michael Berman, Crossings, Vopoki Wash, Arizona, 2008.
JEAN SHIN LECTURE
Wednesday, April 13, 6pm
Freeman Auditorium - Woldenberg Art Center
Jean Shin is nationally recognized for her monumental installations that transform everyday objects—prescription pill bottles, sports trophies, sweaters—into elegant expressions of identity and community. Distinguished by a meticulous, labor-intensive process and an engagement of community, Shin’s arresting installations reflect individuals’ personal concerns as well as collective issues facing society.
Shin is one of fifty artists who will be featured in Prospect.2 New Orleans, the second edition of the international contemporary art biennial, which will be on view from October 22, 2011 through January 29, 2012 at twenty venues across the city.
Sponsored by the Newcomb Art Gallery and Prospect New Orleans.
Sound Wave, 2007, melted 78 rpm records on wooden armature, installation at Museum of Arts & Design, New York, 2008.
PROGRAMMING HELD IN CONJUNCTION WITH
REFLECTIONS ON WATER IN AMERICAN PAINTING
A BRIEF HISTORY OF REFLECTIONS ON WATER
a presentation by Dr. Richard H. Watts, University of Washington
Wednesday, March 23 at 6pm
Freeman Auditorium
Woldenberg Art Center
Dr. Richard Watts will examine representations and interpretations of water, both past and present. He will discuss 19th- and 20th-century theorizations of water’s meaning in the works of French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, Austrian cultural critic Ivan Illich, and French cultural geographer Elisée Reclus, as well as depictions of water in contemporary literature from several postcolonial contexts where changing environmental conditions have precipitated a crisis of the meaning of water.
CONVERSATIONS ON COLLECTIONS
Tulane Collections Managers with collector Arthur Phelan
Friday, Jan. 28 at 3pm
Freeman Auditorium,
Woldenberg Art Center
Collector Arthur Phelan, whose nautical works comprise the gallery’s exhibition, Reflections on Water in American Painting, will be joined in a discussion by Tulane Collections Managers about their experiences in the stewardship of artistic and historic works.
Bruce Raeburn from the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library Special Collections Department and Hogan Jazz Archive, Keli Rylance from the Southeastern Architectural Archive, Tom Strider, Registrar of University Collections, and Sally Main, Gallery Senior Curator will participate in the conversation.
Michael Kuczynski, Chair of the Tulane University Senate’s Art Collections Committee and an Associate Professor in English, will serve as the panel moderator.
The program will be followed by a reception and is free and open to the public.
PROGRAMMING HELD IN CONJUNCTION WITH
FASHIONING KIMONO: ART DECO AND MODERNISM IN JAPAN
MODERNISM AND FASHION: DRESSING FOR WORK AND PLAY IN JAZZ-AGE TOKYO
a talk by Alisa Freedman, Assistant Professor of Japanese LIterature and Film
University of Oregon
Saturday, Jan. 8 at 2pm
Freeman Auditorium,
Woldenberg Art Center
Dr. Freedman will examine how fashion defined Jazz-Age Tokyo and represented larger social desires and fears about rapid national modernization. Using an array of visual and literary sources, including advertisements, film, popular fiction, and journalism, the speaker will provide a composite portrait of clothing’s significance in Tokyo, which is still characterized in the global imagination by its unique street fashion.
Dr. Freedman’s major publications include "Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road" and an annotated translation of Kawabata Yasunari’s "The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa." She is editing a volume on "Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility in Labor in Japan" and is writing a book on "Tokyo Love Story: Romance of the Workingwoman on Japanese Television."
 GLOBAL COSPLAY: JAPAN'S SOFT POWER IN THE 21ST CENTURY
a lecture by Dr. Kukhee Choo
Tuesday, Nov. 16 at 6pm
Freeman Auditorium
This presentation will examine how the current global consumption of Japanese fashion, particularly focusing in Cosplay, has been utilized and mobilized by Japanese policy makers to mark a new era of Japan’s branding strategy in the global market. Dr. Choo is a Professor of Practice, Communication/Asian Studies at Tulane. Her research interests are Japanese popular culture and Trans-Asian media flows.
Free and open to the public. Funded in part by the Interdisciplinary Committee for Arts and Visual Culture (ICAVC).
 VIEWPOINT: HOW ARTISTS USE TEXTILES AS INFLUENCE
a gallery walk-through with
printmaker Teresa Cole
Wednesday, Nov. 17, 5:30pm
Newcomb Art Gallery
This event is the first in a series of gallery walk-throughs in which participating artists will explore themes, process, and inspiration relevant to the gallery's current exhibition.
Professor Teresa Cole holds the Ellsworth Woodward Professorship in Art. She earned a BFA in fiber arts from the Maryland Institute College and an MFA in printmaking. Ms. Cole had spent time as an artist-in-residence at Khoj Kolkata in India, the Frans Masereel Graphics Center in Belgium, and Hardground Printmakers in Cape Town, South Africa.
Free and open to the public.
A CONVERSATION WITH BASKET WEAVERS
Saturday, October 16, 11am
Newcomb Art Gallery
 In conjunction with the exhibition Voices Inside: The Form and Function of Baskets, the gallery presents a conversation between Chitimacha weavers John Paul and Scarlett Darden and Houma weaver Lora Ann Chaisson moderated by Dr. Dana Bowker Lee.
The Dardens are two of the few remaining Chitimacha split-cane basket weavers. John Paul Darden learned the craft from his grandmother, Lydia Darden, while Scarlett learned from her grandmother, Ernestine Walls. Both promote the importance of maintaining Chitimacha basketry and cultural traditions.
Lora Ann Chaisson started weaving in her mid-20s after realizing that the tradition was in danger of dying out in the United Houma Nation. She has become one of the tribe’s premier palmetto basket weavers.
Dayna Bowker Lee, Ph.D. is an ethnologist, folklorist, and historian. She has studied basketry of the American Southeast for over 25 years and worked with tribal weavers to document and conserve basketry traditions.
Clara Darden, Chitimacha weaver, ca 1900. Courtesy of the McIlhenny Company Archives.
REMEMBERING JOAN MITCHELL
Saturday, April 9, 6 pm
Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
In conjunction with the gallery's exhibition, Joan Mitchell: Works on Paper, a symposium on the artist's life and work will take place in New Orleans from April 9th – 11th.
Co-organized by Tulane University’s Newcomb Art Gallery and the Joan Mitchell Foundation, this three-day gathering will feature art historians, friends of Mitchell and screenings of select films on Mitchell. The symposium is free and open to the public.
Click HERE for a full listing of events and programming at other venues in town.
image: Joan Mitchell (1925-1992), PASTEL, 1991, pastel on paper, 48 x 31 1/2 in. © Estate of Joan Mitchell. Courtesy Joan Mitchell Foundation and Cheim & Read Gallery, New York.
SOCIAL EXPRESSIONISM: THE ART OF LUIS CRUZ AZACETA
a lecture by Alejandro Anreus
Wednesday, Feb 24, 6 pm
Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
Held in conjunction with ¡Sí Cuba!, the
presentation explores the work of contemporary Cuban-American artist Luis Cruz Azaceta. Speaker Alejandro Anreus is an Associate Professor of Art History and Latin American Studies at William
Paterson University and the author of Orozco in Gringoland and The Social
and The Real.
image: Luis Cruz Azaceta. Tributary, 2009.
VALUE OF THE POSTER: MUSIC, CULTURE, and TRADITIONS
Wednesday, Sept 30, 6 pm
Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
In conjunction with the exhibition American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print, the Newcomb Art Gallery presents a panel discussion featuring folklorist and American Routes producer Nick Spitzer; Hogan Jazz Archive curator Bruce Raeburn; and jazz musician Dr. Michael White.The panel will explore the music and culture of New Orleans as it relates to exhibition. Marquette Folley, Project Director of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, will moderate the discussion.
ALL-AGES PRINT WORKSHOP
Saturday, Oct 3, 10 am
Newcomb Art Gallery
The final program in the Newcomb Art Gallery's Hatch Show Print educational series will be a workshop that introduces kids and adults to the exhibition's themes and artistic process. Includes a gallery tour and artist presentation followed by a studio project during which participants design and create art inspired by the exhibition. RSVP at sboles@tulane.edu or 504-865-5361.
The Smithsonian Grant Program, funded by the MetLife Foundation, is a proud sponsor of this public program.
MAKE 'EM DANCE: THE HACKBERRY RAMBLERS STORY
Wednesday, Aug 26, 6pm
Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
Make 'Em Dance tells the story of America’s oldest performing band and its 70-year odyssey from touring the marsh roads of south Louisiana in a Model-A in the early days to a 1998 appearance on MTV. Their music is a blend of Cajun music, western swing, classic country, blues and rockabilly, with a dash of Gulf Coast swamp pop.
Ben Sandmel, folklorist and the band’s drummer/manager for over twenty years, will introduce the film.
For more information about the Hackberry Ramblers, click HERE.
Make 'Em Dance was directed by John Whitehead, an independent filmmaker whose work has earned six Emmy Awards (Midwest Region) and an HBO Films Producer Award, among others.
The Smithsonian Grant Program, funded by the MetLife Foundation, is a proud sponsor of this public program.
 HATCH SHOW PRINT TALK
Wednesday,
Sept 2, 6pm
Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
Jim Sherraden, designer and manager of Nashville's Hatch Show Print since 1984, will speak about the company’s colorful history, emphasizing its fidelity to the craft of letterpress printing in an era of digital media.
The Smithsonian Grant Program, funded by the MetLife Foundation, is a proud sponsor of this public program.
photo credit: Jack Thompson
 FAUBOURG TREME: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BLACK NEW ORLEANS
Wednesday, Sept 23, 6pm
Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
New Orleans writer and filmmaker Lolis Eric Elie will introduce his 2008 documentary about Faubourg Tremé, arguably the oldest black neighborhood in America, the birthplace of jazz, and the site of America’s first Civil Rights movement.
Following Elie’s renovation of a historic home in the storied area, the film celebrates the resiliency of a community and how its residents created a unique and expressive culture that has enriched America and the world.
The Smithsonian Grant Program, funded by the MetLife Foundation, is a proud sponsor of this public program.
Photo credit: Michelle Elmore
VALUE OF THE POSTER: MUSIC, CULTURE, and TRADITIONS
Wednesday, September 30, 6 pm
Freeman Auditorium
Renowned folklorist and American Routes producer Nick Spitzer; Tulane’s Hogan Jazz Archive curator Bruce Raeburn; and Xavier University professor and jazz musician Dr. Michael White will participate in a panel discussion addressing the music and culture of New Orleans as it relates to the themes in the exhibition. SITES Project Director Marquette Folley will moderate the talk.
The Smithsonian Grant Program, funded by the MetLife Foundation, is a proud sponsor of this public program.
American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print, an exhibition created by
the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in collaboration
with the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum, is supported by America¹s
Jazz Heritage, A Partnership of the Wallace Foundation and the Smithsonian
Institution. Images courtesy Smithsonian Institution.
 VOX FEMINAE CONCERT
Saturday, June 13, 2 pm
Newcomb Art Gallery
Vox Feminae is the female vocal ensemble of New Orleans Musica da Camera. The oldest ensemble in the Americas devoted to performing medieval and Renaissance music, Musica da Camera was founded in 1966 by Milton G. Scheuermann.
In 1994, Vox Feminae was formed by Thaïs St. Julien to focus on medieval music by and for women.
 CLARA DRISCOLL
& THE TIFFANY GIRLS
Wed, June 10, 5:30 p.m.
Newcomb Art Gallery
Gallery Senior Curator Sally Main will discuss the significant contributions of Clara Driscoll (1861-1944) to the Tiffany Studios. Only recently recognized for her work, Driscoll created the patterns of Wisteria, Dragonfly and Peony and supervised the Women’s Glass Cutting Department--collectively known as the "Tiffany Girls."
TIFFANY GLASS
Wednesday, April 22, 5:30 p.m.
Freeman Auditorium
For the third and final talk in the spring decorative arts lecture series, Cynthia Williams, Director of the Smithsonian Associates/Corcoran College of Art + Design M.A. Program in the History of the Decorative Arts, will speak about Tiffany glass. Reception to follow.
detail: Tiffany Glass Decorating Company, St. Cecaelia, 1894, stained glass, collection of the Newcomb Art Gallery
THE ART OF POCHOIR
Wednesday, April 8, 5:30 p.m.
Freeman Auditorium
Jodie Blake, Curator of the Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, will discuss “The Art of Pochoir.”
Often associated with Art Deco and Art Nouveau, pochoir is a refined technique of stenciling characterized by vibrant colors and bold geometric shapes. Reception to follow.
Natalia Gontcharova, Spanish Dancer from L'Art Decoratif, 1916,
pochoir,
Collection of the McNay Art Museum
NEWCOMB POTTERY IN CONTEXT
On March 18, preeminent Newcomb Pottery scholar Jessie J. Poesch discussed the history of Newcomb Pottery as part of the broader Arts & Crafts movement of the early 20th century.
 SHIRIN NESHAT ARTIST LECTURE
Friday, January 30, 6 pm
Recognized as one of the most significant artists working today, Iranian-American photographer and video artist Shirin Neshat presented an overview of her work, focusing on Women without Men, on view from November 1 to February 7 in the Newcomb Art Gallery as part of the international art biennial Prospect.1 New Orleans.
PANEL DISCUSSION
Friday, November 21
In conjunction with Shirin Neshat: Women without Men, the gallery hosted a panel discussion, War, Obsession, and Women's Oppression in the Woldenberg Art Center's Stone Auditorium. The panel explored themes presented in Neshat's challenging and powerful work, such as Islam's relation to the West, western depictions of the Muslim world, and women's role in Islam.
 ARTIST PANEL
Vital Signs
Wednesday, October 1, 7 pm
On October 1, the Gallery hosted an artist panel in the Freeman Auditorium moderated by curator Gary Sangster. Panel participants included Dr. Michael Plante from the Newcomb Art Department and Vital Signs artists Amy Rathbone & Leslie Shows.
PROSPECT.1 CURATOR'S OVERVIEW
On September 23, 2008 Prospect.1 curator Dan Cameron discussed his plans for the largest biennial of international contemporary art ever organized in the U.S.
 DEBORAH LUSTER
One Big Self: Prisoners of Lousiana
On Wednesday, January 23, 2008 photographer Deborah Luster discussed her exhibition of more than 200 inmate portraits with an audience of community members, artists, and students. She spoke in detail about her artistic influences and the individuals presented in her most recent body of work.
image: Matthew Haynes, Angola, Lousiana
 JULIKA RUDELIUS
Innocence and Manipulation
International video artist Julika Rudelius spoke about her work on Wednesday, October 24, 2007. Featuring numerous excerpts from her ouevre, the lecture focused on her artistic approach and, in turn, explored the diversity of the video art form.
image: Forever (still), 2006, synchronized dual-channel DVD video installation
For more information about upcoming or past lectures, call Teresa Parker Farris at 504.314.2406.
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