Garrard Lecture: Curator Talk by Thomas J. Lax

Please join the Newcomb Art Department for a Curator Talk by Thomas J. Lax, Curator of Media and Performance at the Museum of Modern Art. 

Thomas J. Lax is Curator of Media and Performance at MoMA (NY) where he is currently preparing the exhibition Just Above Midtown: 1974 to the Present with Linda Goode Bryant. He was the inaugural recipient of the Cisneros Research Grant, traveling to Brazil to meet artists and curators engaged in creating semi-autonomous spaces devoted to contemporary Black art. He also worked with colleagues across MoMA on a major rehang of the museum’s collection and organized Unfinished Conversations centered around John Akomfrah’s video portrait of the cultural theorist Stuart Hall. Previously, he worked at the Studio Museum in Harlem for seven years.

Thomas is on the boards of Danspace Project and the Jerome Foundation and teaches at Wesleyan University’s Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance. A native New Yorker, he is on the advisory committees of local and diasporic organizations including Contemporary And, The Laundromat Project, Participant Inc., and Recess Assembly.  

Garrard Lecture: Curator Talk by Thomas J. Lax, Museum of Modern Art
Thursday, February 5, 6pm CST, Online
Zoom link: bit.ly/thomaslax

This event is supported by the Sandra Garrard Memorial Fund. 

Undergraduate Juried Exhibition virtual walkthrough with the juror, Jennifer M. Williams

Please join us on January 21, 2021 at 6:00pm on Zoom for a virtual walkthrough of the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition with this year's juror, Jennifer M. Williams. Juried Exhibition award winners will be announced at that time.

Jennifer M. Williams is the Communications Coordinator and Wordsmith at the arts service organization, Alternate ROOTS.  She is passionate about collaborating with artists, and recently served as the Public Programs Manager at the New Orleans Museum of Art.  Before taking on her role at NOMA, Williams served as the Deputy Director for the Public Experience for Prospect.4.  For six years, Williams served as the Director and Curator of the George and Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art.
As a visual art curator organizing exhibitions and performances, Ms. Williams is committed to contributing to the cultural and artistic landscape in the city and across the region.  As a part of a vibrant art community, she supports and serves on a variety of committees and boards including Junebug Productions and the New Orleans Photo Alliance.  She has participated in and led a variety of experiences around the world, including the Lagos Biennial Curatorial Intensive and the Urban Bush Women Leadership Institute in Brooklyn, NY.  She received her B.A. in History with a concentration in Art History from Georgia State University.

 Zoom Meeting ID: 960 7118 3947
Passcode: 923242

2018 Sandra Garrard Memorial Lecture: Darby English

Pope.L, 2008

2018 Sandra Garrard Memorial Lecture Series presents:

Darby English

Differing, Drawn:  Pope.L’s Skin Set Drawings

Monday, February 26, 7pm

Freeman Auditorium
Woldenberg Art Center
Newcomb Art Department
Tulane University

Darby English’s research probes art’s interaction with instituted forms of historical subjectivity and experience. Recent research has focused on artistic and other cultural manifestations of optimism, discomposure, and interculture. More theoretical formulations of English’s work examine the difficulty of studying the foregoing themes as historical objects while having also to negotiate their implications as sources of anxiety about historical change. English is the author of 1971: A Year in the Life of Color (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness (MIT Press, 2007). A new monograph, To Describe a Life: Essays at the Intersection of Art and Race Terror, will be published by Yale University Press this autumn (2018). This book synthesizes material first presented as the Richard D. Cohen Lectures at Harvard University in November 2016. Current projects include a small book on discomposure; monographic essays on the art of Rachel Harrison, Zoe Leonard, and Silke Otto-Knapp; and, a collection volume entitled Among Others: Blackness at MoMA. English also serves as Adjunct Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

For more information, please call 504.865.5327

2017 Wladis Lecture on Curatorial Careers

The Newcomb Art Department is pleased to present the 2017 Wladis Lecture on Curatorial Careers, "From the Heart of the Andes: On Creating Golden Kingdoms," a lecture by Joanne Pillsbury, Andrall E. Pearson Curator of the Art of the Ancient Americas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, on Thursday, October 19, 2017 at 6:00 pm in Stone Auditorium (Room 210), Woldenberg Art Center.

Dr. Pillsbury gives a behind-the-scenes view of the exhibition Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas (Getty Research Institute and Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fall 2017-Spring 2018), and the international research project that inspired it. Drawing upon significant recent archaeological findings and new investigations into the roles of artists, their patrons, and their workshops, the lecture focuses on luxury arts in the lands between the two great imperial capitals of the ancient Americas: Cusco, the seat of the Inca state, and Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital.  It probes a fundamental question: How can we discern and interpret indigenous ideas of value?

The lecture is sponsored by the Newcomb Art Department, supported by a gift from Mark and Diane Wladis.

Undergraduate Juried Exhibition

On Friday, November 11th, the Carroll Gallery hosted a walkthrough of the annual  Undergraduate Juried Exhibition with Juror Emily Wilkerson, Curatorial Associate at Prospect.New Orleans. Wilkerson discussed the selected works and the curatorial process.  She highlighted the award recipients and explained why each of those works appealed to her so directly, and how they fit into the larger context of contemporary art practices. Congratulations to the following artists, recipients of the 2016 Juror's Awards: Elizabeth Carey, Untitled, Emery Gluck, Potatoes No. 1, Malcolm Kriegel, Hanging Doodle #1 (shown at left), John Ludlam, Untitled, and Lucie Taylor, Perennial Observation.

The exhibition will be on view through November 22nd.

This week @NewcombArt

W  Nicolas Ticot, artist talk | Wednesday, November 18, 9am | 204 Woldenberg Art Center

W Copyright Criminals (2010), WHAT IS A COPY? a film series | Wednesday, November 18, 4pm | 209 Woldenberg Art Center

W Jeremy Jones, MFA artist lecture | Wednesday, November 18, 6pm | Freeman Auditorium

TH Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, announcement of awards and walkthrough with juror Dr. Katie Pfohl, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, New Orleans Museum of Art | Thursday, November 19, 3:00pm | Carroll Gallery

Student Awards Night and Undergraduate Juried Exhibition

The Newcomb Art Department presents the 2014-15 Student Awards Night and Undergraduate Juried Exhibition on Monday, April 27 from 5:00-7:30pm. 

Student Awards Night begins at 5:00pm in Stone Auditorium, followed by Opening Reception for Undergraduate Juried Exhibition at 6:00pm in the Carroll Gallery. 

Walkthrough with juror Dr. Andrea Andersson, Chief Curator of Visual Arts at the Contemporary Arts Center, begins at 6:00pm.

Exhibition will be on view from April 27-May 1, 2015. Carroll Gallery hours: Monday-Friday 9am - 4pm.

[photo by Colleen Garrett]