2016 Student Art Awards

On Friday April 22nd the Newcomb Art Department hosted its annual Student Art Awards ceremony in Stone Auditorium. Dr. Michael Plante, Associate Professor of Art History, presented the Art History Awards and Kevin H. Jones, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, presented the Studio Art Awards.  Following the awards presentation, the celebration moved to the Carroll Gallery for the Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition reception featuring work by Abigail Ditesheim, Emily "Ixi" Johnson, Dakota Moe, Ann Mullin, and Darrell Schwartz. 

2016 Student Art Awards

Henry Stern Prize Paper in Art History: Dana Lynch, “Jasper Johns’ Racing Thoughts”

Outstanding Art History Major: James Newton

Nell Pomeroy O’Brien Award for a Sophomore or Junior in Art History: Nicholas Hunter Gleber

Senior Honors Scholar: Victoria Barry

Alberta “Rusty” Collier Award for Outstanding Studio Art Majors in 2-Dimensional Work: Darrell Schwartz

Alberta “Rusty” Collier Award for Outstanding Studio Art Majors in 3-Dimensional Work: Claire Beauchamp

Juanita Gonzales Prize in Ceramics: Liam Trainor

Nell Pomeroy O’Brien Award for a Sophomore or Junior in Studio Art: Lilith Winkler-Schor

Sandy Chism Memorial Award in Painting: Abigail Ditesheim

Class of 1914 Prize in Art - Drawing: Emily “Ixi” Johnson

The Abigail Frank Gerrity Award for Public Service in the Studio Arts: Yu Zou

[Photo left-right: Liam Trainor, Nicholas Hunter Gleber, Lilith Winkler-Schor, Claire Beauchamp. Victoria Barry, James Newton, Dana Lynch, Emily “Ixi” Johnson, Darrell Schwartz, Abigail Ditesheim, Yu Zou]

Two Tulane Artists in Bullseye Glass Biennial

Christopher Gray (MFA candidate 2017) and Jeffrey Stenbom (MFA 2015) have been named finalists in Bullseye Glass' ninth biennial exhibition Emerge/Evolve 2016. The award ceremony for this international juried competition will take place on June 25 at the exhibition's opening reception at Bullseye Projects in Portland, Oregon. Shown: Christopher Gray, Meander White (L);  Jeffrey Stenbom, To Those Who Have (R).

Second Saturday Shows

On Saturday April 9 The Front and Staple Goods galleries will be hosting opening receptions for exhibitions of work by Tulane University faculty and recent alumni.

The Front, 4100 St. Claude, opening reception April 9, 6-10pm

Dan Alley, Perspective Perception 
Weston Lambert, Caves of Ziran 
Patch Somerville, X 


Staple Goods, 1340 St. Roch, opening reception April 9, 6-9pm


William DePauw, Limited Space


[Weston Lambert, Untitled, Black glass and pyrite, 3 x 3 x 2”, 2016]

Andrew Ladis Trecento Conference

The Newcomb Art Department is pleased to announce that the inaugural Andrew Ladis Trecento Conference will be held at Tulane University on November 10-13, 2016.

In the spirit of the tradition forged by the late Andrew Ladis and his colleagues at the University of Georgia, an international congress of Trecento specialists will congregate in New Orleans to share their research formally and informally. Scholars of all ages and stages will present specific art historical problems, issues, and ideas that focus on the arts of Italy during “the long fourteenth century” (late Dugento through early Quattrocento).

The keynote speaker at the Tulane conference will be Marvin Trachtenberg, Edith Kitzmiller Professor of the History of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Thanks to the generous support of the Kress Foundation and other benefactors, we will not be charging any registration fees for this conference. Participants will be responsible for securing their own transportation and lodgings. More information, including options for lodgings, will be posted soon on the Tulane conference webpage as well as on Facebook. Conference registration will be on Eventbrite beginning May 1.

This will be the inaugural Andrew Ladis Memorial Trecento Conference and we are very excited! The plan is for the conference to be held every other year, with a new venue and host institution each time. The 2nd conference will be hosted by the University of Houston in Houston, TX, in Fall 2018.

AnnieLaurie Erickson at the Society for Photographic Education

On Saturday, March 12 Assistant Professor AnnieLaurie Erickson will be speaking at the National Society for Photographic Education conference in Las Vegas in a panel discussion titled: "An Uncertain Present: A Conversation on Emergent Practices in Contemporary Photography." 

Also on March 12 is the closing reception for Prof. Erickson's exhibition Data Shadows,  a photographic investigation into the physical apparatus of the Internet and digital surveillance. The show has been on display at Box 13 in Houston since January 30. 

Teresa Cole exhibits new works at whitespace in Atlanta

Teresa Cole's 3rd solo exhibition, Depth of Surface at whitespace will include handmade paper works and two installations created from hand-printed and hand-dyed Japanese paper. This show contains pieces that utilize paper in two different ways. The first way is through a group of works where the imagery and handmade papers are created at the same time. These works were produced at Dieu Donne´ Paper Mill in New York City where different colored pulps are meshed together to create both image and structure. The second way of working pushes the paper to become structural. This is manifested in installations that use Washi or Japanese paper by printing on each sheet then folding and dying  and finally forming the sheets into their own surface.  All the works employ patterned imagery as a grammar, a dialect, a language of desire.

Opening Reception: Friday, February 19th | 7 - 10 pm
Exhibition Dates: February 19th - March 26th, 2016

Tulane Contemporary Glass at St. Tammany Art Association

The St. Tammany Art Association’s current exhibit, Tulane Contemporary Glass, spotlights the energy and influence behind Tulane University's Glass program and its founder, Professor Gene Koss. On view are works from professors, graduate students and former students of the glass art program at Tulane which has inspired and shaped the New Orleans glass art movement. The exhibit features works by Gene Koss, Dan Alley, Christopher Gray, Weston Lambert, Andrew Ledford, Dakota Moe, Devon Murphy, Francine Judd Stock and Lisa Tahir.

Tulane Contemporary Glass will be on view from February 13 - April 2, 2016. The St. Tammany Art Association is located at 320 N. Columbia Street, Covington, Lousiana. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10am – 4pm and Saturdays, 11am – 4pm.