Visiting Artist Daniel Alley

Join us on Wednesday, March 1st for a sculpture demo with visiting artist Daniel Alley in the Woldenberg Art Center's  Pace-Willson Glass Studio. This program is supported by the JoAnn Flom Greenberg Fund and is open to the public.

Daniel Alley was born in Anchorage, Alaska. He received his BFA in ceramics from Washington State University in 2003 and his MFA in glass from Tulane University in 2014. Dan frequently exhibits work throughout the city, including the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Contemporary Art Center, Good Children, and The Front. His playful yet intellectual mixed-media sculptures combine his knowledge of material processes with an interest in history and science. As owner and operator of Denali Art Solutions, Dan now dedicates most of his time and knowledge in assisting museums, galleries, and artists from around the world with their custom art fabrication, installations, and logistical needs.

Attendees are asked to be aware of parking restrictions on Tulane's uptown campus. More info here: https://campusservices.tulane.edu/departments/parking/uptown

Black Arts Consortium Graduate Working Group Workshop

On Friday, November 4, 2022, Tulane’s Studio Art graduate program welcomed scholars from Northwestern University’s Black Arts Consortium Graduate Working Group for a series of workshops/studio visits. Throughout the day, each of the participants (all of whom are working towards the completion of their dissertation/ thesis) were given the opportunity to briefly speak about their works in progress and receive diverse and affirming feedback from peers. 

This workshop was supported by the Katherine Steinmayer McLean Visiting Studio Artist Fund.

Artist's Talk: Andrea Fraser

Prospect New Orleans in collaboration with the Newcomb Art Department and the Sandra Garrard Memorial Fund present:

Artist’s Talk by Andrea Fraser

 

Monday, September 16

6:00 pm

Freeman Auditorium (Rm. 205, Woldenberg Art Center)

Tulane University

Andrea Fraser performed Not just the few of us for the opening of Prospect.3: Notes for Now.  Not just the few of us is an interpretation of one public confrontation with racist systems in contemporary New Orleans: a 1991 City Council hearing regarding the official desegregation of the unofficially self-segregated Mardi Gras krewes. For Prospect.3 Fraser also installed Um Monumento as Fantasias Descartadas in the Newcomb Art Gallery. 

Andrea Fraser is an artist whose work investigates the social, financial, and affective economies of cultural institutions, fields, and groups. She is Professor, Interdisciplinary Studio Area Head, and Chair of the UCLA Department of Art. Retrospectives of her work have been presented by the Museum Ludwig Cologne (2013), the Museum der Moderne Salzburg (2015), the Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona and MUAC UNAM Mexico City (both 2016). Her most recent book, 2016 in Museums, Money, and Politics (2018)—co-published by the CCA Wattis Institute, Westreich/Wagner Publications, and MIT Press—documents the political contributions of the board members of over 125 major US art organizations in the 2016 election cycle and its aftermath, examining the intersection of cultural philanthropy and political finance in the age of plutocracy. She serves on the boards W.A.G.E, Grex (the West Coast Affiliate of the A.K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems), and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and on the Artist Council of the Hammer Museum.

Visiting Artist: James Vella

The Newcomb Art Department welcomes James Vella as Visiting Artist in Glass on Wednesday March 22nd.

Vella will demonstrate a variety of hot glass sculpting techniques in Tulane's Pace-Willson Glass Studio from 3-6pm. The demonstrations will be followed by a barbecue from 6-7pm and slide talk from 7-8pm.

This free event is open to the public and supported by the Joann Flom Greenberg Fund.

Alumna Establishes Visiting Studio Artist Endowed Fund

Katherine (Kathy) Steinmayer McLean (NC ’53

As a student in Newcomb College Katherine (Kathy) Steinmayer McLean (NC ’53) pursued her dream of majoring in art in the Newcomb Art Department. The daughter of a Tulane geology professor, Reinhard Steinmayer, she studied ceramics under world renowned Newcomb pottery artist, Sadie Irvine. In 2005, in honor of her father, she established the Reinhard A. Steinmayer Endowed Scholarship, which aids students studying earth and environmental sciences. That same year, she created the J. Michael McLean Endowed Scholarship—an award for student-athletes—to recognize her late husband who had been a graduate of Tulane (A&S ‘52) and captain of the football team.

Although now living in Houston, McLean never forgot the lessons she learned in the Newcomb Art Department or the impact it had on her life. Recently, to allow others to have the outstanding education she experienced, she has added to her generosity by establishing the Katherine Steinmayer McLean Visiting Studio Artist Endowed Fund. The gift will support visiting artists who come to Tulane and provide funds for such activities as special topics classes, workshops, lectures, artistic residencies and exhibitions. “There are so many smart and talented young people at Tulane,” says McLean. “I wanted to give them an opportunity to experience artistic experimentation and to meet visiting artists from other areas who will teach them new techniques.”

In addition to making a current-use gift establishing the visiting artist fund, she has also provided a generous bequest in her will for the same purpose. “I just feel that Tulane is a wonderful place, and I know that this gift will really make a difference to students who are following their dreams to study art,” she says. “It makes me so happy to do it.”

[Why We Give, School of Liberal Arts newsletter, February 2018]

Penny Siopis: Artist Talk

The Newcomb Art Department presents P.4 artist Penny Siopis for an artist talk on Tuesday November 14 at 6pm in Stone Auditorium. This talk is supported by the Sandra Garrard Fund for Recent Trends in Contemporary Art.

Penny Siopis is currently an Honorary Professor at Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. Siopis received an MFA (1976) and an Honorary Doctorate (2017) from Rhodes University, Grahamstown. She works in painting, film/video, photography and installation. Her work since the early 1980s has covered different foci but her interest in what she calls the 'poetics of vulnerability' characterises all her explorations, from her earlier engagements with history, memory and migration to her later concerns with shame, violence and sexuality.

Solo exhibitions include Penny Siopis: Films, Erg Gallery, Brussels (2016); Incarnations, ICA Indian Ocean, Mauritius (2016); Time and Again: A Retrospective Exhibition, South African National Gallery, Cape Town (2014) and Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg (2015); Red: The iconography of colour in the work of Penny Siopis, KZNSA Gallery, Durban (2009), and Three Essays on Shame, Freud Museum, London (2005).

Notable group shows include P.4 The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, New Orleans, Louisiana (2017); South Africa: The art of a nation, British Museum, London (2016); Boundary Objects, Kunsthaus Dresden (2015); After Eden/Après Eden - The Walther Collection, La Maison Rouge, Paris (2015); Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2014); Prism: Drawing from 1990-2011, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo (2012); Appropriated Landscapes, Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen, Germany (2011); PEEKABOO - Current South Africa, Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki (2010); Black Womanhood: Images, Icons and Ideologies of the African Body, Hood Museum, New Hampshire; Davis Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts, and the San Diego Museum of Art, California (2008), as well as the biennales of Taipei (2016), Venice (South African Pavilion 2013, and 2003), Sydney (2010), Johannesburg (1995 and 1997), Gwangju (1997) and Havana (1994 and 1997).

Visiting Artist Lecture: Cullen Washington, Jr.

The Sandra Garrard Memorial Fund for Recent Trends in Contemporary Art presents a free public lecture by visiting artist Cullen Washington, Jr. on Wednesday, January 27th at 6:00pm in Stone Auditorium, room 210 Woldenberg Art Center.  

Washington,  a Louisiana native, is currently an instructor at SUNY Purchase. His work has been widely exhibited throughout the United States, as well as in solo shows in London and Tokyo. He has partaken in several well known residency programs including the Skowhegan School of Painting in 2010 and was a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Award in 2009. His lecture will focus on his personal artwork which explores human interconnectivity through mixed media and found object paintings. 

This week @NewcombArt

Doreen Garner, The Observatory, 2014

W Ceramics Talks, Jeffrey Thurston / Michelle Swafford, MFA artist lecture | Wednesday, November 11, 6pm | Freeman Auditorium

TH An Inter-American Standoff: Marisol, MoMA and the Cold War, Art History Works in Progress & the Stone Center for Latin American Studies lecture by Delia Solomons | Thursday, November 12, 6pm | 209 Woldenberg Art Center

F Visiting Artist Doreen Garner | Friday, November 13, 5:30pm BBQ, 6:00pm lecture, 7:00pm performance | Pace-Willson Glass Studio, Woldenberg Art Center | sponsored by the Sandra Garrard Memorial Fund for Recent Trends in Contemporary Art

Visiting Artist: Rachel Rader

Visiting artist Rachel Rader will present a lecture and demonstration
Monday, October 19 at 4:30pm in the Pace-Willson Glass Studio.

Visiting Artist Jim Gaylord meets with Abstraction class

On Tuesday September 29 visiting artist Jim Gaylord of Brooklyn met with Aaron Collier's Intermediate Painting (Abstraction) class which has 18 undergraduates. The students had recently completed a Geometric Abstraction assignment which they reviewed together.  It was a real hit: students were really thankful, and were sharpened by the experience.  Gaylord also offered a public lecture in Stone Auditorium Tuesday night.  His visit with us was generously supported by CELT, the Sandra Garrard Memorial Fund, and the Newcomb Art Department.