Friday Life Drawing Sessions

The Newcomb Art Department is pleased to offer Open Model Sessions on Friday afternoons from 1-4pm. The drawing sessions began September 9th, and last until December 2nd.  There are two exceptions - Tulane is on Fall Break on October 14, and on Thanksgiving Break on November 25. There will NOT be sessions on those Fridays. The Open Model Sessions take place in room 216 of the Woldenberg Art Center and are free and open to the public.

Gene Koss and Skylar Fein to be honored at NOMA

NOMA’s annual fall soiree in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be held on Friday, September 23, 2016.

This year’s LOVE in the Garden honorees include Gene Koss, Professor of Glass at Tulane for nearly forty years, and incoming graduate student in Photography, Skylar Fein, as well as Eleanora Rukia Brown, Ashley Longshore, Alexa Pulitzer, and Josephine Sacabo.

The evening events will kick off with a Patron Party at 7 pm, Garden Party at 8pm, followed by a Late Night Party at 9pm. The New Orleans Museum of Art is located at 1 Collins Diboll Circle in City Park. For more information, see:
https://noma.org/event/love-garden-2016-presented-whitney-bank/.

Kevin Jones' solo exhibition in Tokyo

Kevin H. Jones, Associate Professor of Digital Arts and Associate Chair of the Newcomb Art Department had his second solo exhibition in Tokyo, Japan at Art Lab Akiba during the month of August.  His exhibition titled Sleight Of Hand included custom electronic and interactive artworks that examined the instability of systems related to science, magic and chance.

Wiley Aker exhibits in New York, Greece, and South Korea

Wiley Aker, MFA candidate in Digital Arts, has three exhibitions opening in September. Aker’s work in video, sound, and new media explores the psychological landscapes that mediate reality in the post-internet world. The Governor's Island Art Fair in New York, New York (shown at left)  will be open every weekend in September. The RETHink Art Festival in Rethymno, Greece, the first digital art festival realized in Crete, will run from September 9th-12th. The exhibit "Artist and Location" at the CICA Museum in Gimpo, South Korea will be on view from September 23rd-October 9th. This exhibition explores the concepts of location, diaspora, and globalization. Aker's work can also be viewed at: vimeo.com/wileyaker.

Michelle Foa awarded a William L. Duren ’26 Professorship

Associate Professor Michelle Foa has been awarded a William L. Duren ’26 Professorship for the 2016-2017 academic year.  She will teach a new interdisciplinary seminar called “The Meaning of Materials” in the spring semester.

Professor Foa is returning from a year’s sabbatical leave, during which she carried out research for her current book on Edgar Degas.  Her research trips over the past year included meeting with curators and studying the collections and archives of the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Harvard’s Fogg Museum in Cambridge, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and the municipal archives in Nancy, France.  Prof. Foa was also a faculty member in Tulane’s 4-week Summer in Paris program.

Anton Schweizer authors book on Japanese “lacquered architecture”

Anton Schweizer, Professor of Practice and Director of Asian Studies at Tulane University, has authored a new book, Ōsaki Hachiman: Architecture, Materiality, and Samurai Power in Seventeenth-Century Japan.  Ōsaki Hachiman (1607), a Shintō shrine located in Sendai, Japan, is one of only a handful of surviving buildings from the Momoyama period (1568-1615). The shrine is a rare example of “lacquered architecture”—an architectural type characterized by a shiny, black coat made of refined tree sap and evocative of transitory splendor and cyclical renewal.

The building’s sponsor, the warlord Date Masamune, was one of the last independent feudal lords of his time and remains famous for dispatching a diplomatic mission to Mexico, Spain, and Rome. Although his ambitions to become a ruler of Northern Japan were frustrated, his shrine stands as a lasting testament to the political struggles he faced, his global aspirations, and the cultural cloak by which he sought to advance these objectives.

Ōsaki Hachiman: Architecture, Materiality, and Samurai Power in Seventeenth-Century Japan (Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 2016) is available from the following booksellers:

(in the US) Michael Shamansky, Bookseller

(in Europe) Reimer

Jeffrey Stenbom receives Silver Academic award at Emerge 2016

Army veteran and Tulane alumnus Jeffrey Stenbom (MFA, Glass, 2015) received the Silver Academic award at Bullseye's ninth biennial exhibition, Emerge 2016.

Stenbom's sculpture of monumental kiln-cast glass dog tags titled, To Those Who Have, was first shown in his MFA exhibition at Tulane University's Carroll Gallery.

Christopher Gray (MFA candidate, 2017) was also named a finalist in the competition.

[photo courtesy of Pamela Price Klebaum]