Friday, April 16, 2021

Alexis Culotta awarded NEH summer stipend grant

Alexis Culotta wearing a floral blouse stands in front of a graffiti painting on a brick wall
Alexis Culotta, Professor of Practice in Art History, was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her project, Fare la Bella Figura: Mapping and Documenting the Vanishing Tradition of the Roman Frescoed Façade. The funding will support archival research and fieldwork to document sixteenth-century frescoed façades in Rome leading to the creation of an online database and article.

Friday, April 9, 2021

Black American Art and its Valorization, Effacement & Rupture in France

image: Henry Ossawa Tanner, Daniel in the Lion's Den, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Please join the Newcomb Art Department and Tulane Africana Studies Program for the final lecture of the 2020-2021 lecture series Representation and Resistance: Scholarship Centering Race in Western Art, “Black American Art and its Valorization, Effacement & Rupture in France,” a lecture by Richard J. Powell, John Spencer Bassett Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History, Duke University.

This talk explores how modern French culture interfaced with numerous black American visual artists, among them mid-nineteenth century printmaker Jules Lion (1810-1866), fin de siècle impressionist Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937), jazz age painter Archibald Motley (1891-1981), 1960s expressionist Bob Thompson (1936-1966), and contemporary photographer Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953).  These encounters between a celebrated European destination and several African American sojourners resulted in work that, while of major art historical significance, hardly registers within the French cultural context, underscoring both the critical rifts and, paradoxically, the aesthetic confidence and freedom that such Franco-American liaisons have engendered over time.
 
Representation and Resistance: Scholarship Centering Race in Western Art is a virtual lecture series organized by Mia L. Bagneris and Michelle Foa of the Newcomb Art Department and co-sponsored by the Africana Studies Program.

Zoom: https://tulane.zoom.us/j/96841589553?pwd=dGl1WGdaU012TEFCYjc2RnpUcUZ1QT09
Meeting ID: 968 4158 9553
Passcode: 428296

[image: Henry Ossawa Tanner, Daniel in the Lion's Den, Los Angeles County Museum of Art]