From the Moon: Mapping the Uncharted

Our very own Prof. Leslie Geddes was interviewed for the current season of the Triennale Milano's podcast, From the Moon.

Listen in to Episode 4: Mapping the Uncharted, where Prof Geddes talks about how maps reveal the ways in which we try to expand beyond the limits of our vision and how mapmaking can help uncover the mysteries of the world around us through representing vantage points we can't see or experience firsthand. From the Mississippi Delta in Louisiana to an icy moon of the distant planet Saturn, the episode goes to see how geography and design, as well as art and science fuse to create the maps we often take for granted.

Available here: https://triennale.org/en/magazine/from-moon-2-episode-4
and wherever podcasts are found!

Perception, Ritual, and Memory in an Illustrated Manuscript of the Meditationes Vitae Christi

This month, Professor Holly Flora delivered the Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. Her talk, titled “Perception, Ritual, and Memory in an Illustrated Manuscript of the Meditationes Vitae Christi,” discussed how medieval Clarissan nuns in Siena used a fourteenth-century illuminated manuscript for imaginative devotion.

Professor Flora's new book The Meditationes Vitae Christi Reconsidered New Perspectives on Text and Image (co-edited with Peter Toth) is a collection of critical essays on this fourteenth-century Sienese illuminated manuscript.

Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers

PUBLICATION ALERT: Art History alum Zoe Ariyama (BA, 2022) recently published an article in the Brooklyn Rail on the New Orleans Museum of Art's current exhibition “Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers.”

Art History alum Rebecca Villalpando (MA, 2022) contributed to this exhibition during her time as a graduate curatorial intern at NOMA.

Read the article here: https://brooklynrail.org/2023/12/artseen/Called-to-the-Camera-Black-American-Studio-Photographers

[James Presley Ball, Alexander S. Thomas, ca. late 1850s. Quarter plate daguerreotype. Courtesy Cincinnati Art Museum]

Newcomb Art Department Holiday Sale

After a two-year hiatus, our beloved holiday sale is back! Please join us on December 9th and 10th for the Newcomb Art Department Holiday Sale featuring works in glass, ceramics, printmaking, fiber, works on paper, painting, and more. All works are by Tulane undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff, and alumni. 

PLEASE NOTE RE: PARKING
There is no visitor parking on campus without a permit before 5:30 pm on Friday.
You may park on Audubon Blvd. (2-hr) or Broadway at that time. We will have two spots near the gallery reserved for those needing assistance.

Parking on campus is permitted on Saturday.

Please email Laura Richens lrichens@tulane.edu for more information.

Dutch Americas Symposium

On December 9-10, 2022, the Newcomb Art Department will host a symposium marking the end of the first iteration of the Dutch Americas humanities lab, co-taught by Stephanie Porras at Tulane and Aaron Hyman at Johns Hopkins. On Friday, December 9th, Professor Carrie Anderson will deliver a keynote address on the topic of the Dutch West India Company’s presence in the Atlantic world. 

Material Matters in the Dutch Atlantic World: Albert Eckhout’s Paintings of an African Man and Woman

lecture by Carrie Anderson, Middlebury College

Friday, December 9 2022 at 5:30 PM 

Stone Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center

download symposium program (pdf)

 

The following day, graduate students from Johns Hopkins and Tulane will be presenting their final projects - object-based research on the visual and material culture of the Dutch West India Company (WIC). The WIC, founded in 1621, traded across the Atlantic, with footholds in regions of New York, Curaçao, Guyana, Brazil, Suriname, Ghana and Benin – dealing primarily in fur, tobacco, sugar, gold and enslaved Africans. Modeled on laboratory courses in the sciences, the seminar saw teams comprising of students from both schools working on a specific geography (New Netherland/New York, the Caribbean, West Africa, Brazil) working together in order to identify, research, catalog, and publish relevant items in a web-based database. This symposium celebrates and reflects on this groundbreaking foundational research in an emerging field of art historical scholarship, the assembly of a corpus of objects, sites, and materials related to the Dutch trading companies present in the Americas. 

The Dutch Americas Symposium is supported by Johns Hopkins and the Newcomb College Institute’s Dorothy Beckemeyer Skau Art and Music Fund.