Recent News

2012

Current MFA graduate students and alumnus featured in Art Forum
The May issue of Art Forum features a review by Nick Stillman of the "Spaces: Antenna, the Front, Good Children Gallery" show at the Contemporary Arts Center.  The review mentions work by current students Sophie T. Lvoff and Dave Greber as well as recent MFA graduate Ryan Watkins-Hughes.

Anne Dunlop receives Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellowship for 2012-13 academic year
Art History Professor Anne Dunlop was awarded a Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts located at the National Gallery. The fellowship supports research on European Art before the early nineteenth century.

Laura Richens selected to teach at noted Penland School of Crafts
Laura Richens, adjunct professor and curator of Carroll Gallery, was selected to teach "Letterpress & Relief Prints" at the noted Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. Her course will use nature as inspiration, creating works that integrate letterpress-printed text and imagery created through linocuts and woodcuts.

Sarah House selected as a Visiting Artist in Ceramics at Tainan National University of the Arts
2012 MFA graduate Sarah House will spend June-September conducting creative research and working with graduate students in Tainan City, Taiwan.  For more information about Sarah House, please click HERE to visit her website.

2012 Student Art Awards to be presented on April 27, 2012
The Newcomb Art Department will present awards to outstanding studio art and art history students at a celebration on April, 27 at 3pm in Stone Auditorium.  Click here to learn more about the awards.

Click here to view photos from visiting ceramic sculptor Brian Kakas' demonstration

2011

MA candidate Lindsay O'Connor will present at Art & Exchange: The Tufts University Art History Graduate Student Research Conference
O'Connor will give a talk "The Picture of Civility: The Interplay between the Construction of Whiteness and Visual Culture in Kara Walker's A Warm Summer Evening in 1863".

Kevin Jones' solo exhibition CHEMTRAIL will be held at Rudolph Blume Fine Art | ArtScan Gallery
Digital Arts associate professor Kevin Jones' work is exhibited in CHEMTRAIL: Broadcasting to Unknown Points.  Jones uses a variety of media to explore the natural world.

STEPHEN HILGER: Hotel California opens at MUSE Center of Photography and the Moving Image
Photography professor Stephen Hilger's large-scale color photographs made in and around the famed Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles are exhibited in STEPHEN HILGER: Hotel California held at MUSE Center of Photography and the Moving Image.  Exhibited along side his work are photographs and ephemera drawn from the files of the Ambassador Archive.

Newcomb Art Department faculty members celebrated in Faculty Showcase Reception
Studio Art faculty member Sandy Chism and Art History faculty member Elizabeth Boone were honored at Tulane University's School of Liberal Arts reception celebrating major accomplishments for 2011. Professor Chism was honored for her solo exhibition Silver at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery and Professor Boone was honored as co-editor of Their Way of Writing: Scripts, Signs, and Pictograhies in Pre-Columbian America.

Studio Art faculty and student work featured in NOLA NOW, Part I:  Swagger for a Lost Magnificence
CAC's exhibition NOLA NOW, Part I is a "snapshot reflecting a community producing work in a culturally specific geographical locale."  It includes work by faculty members and current or former students: Michelle Basta, James Taylor Bonds, Teresa Cole, Aaron Collier, Dave Greber, Stephen Hilger, Gene Koss, Srdjan Loncar, Sophie T. Lvoff, Grace Mikell, and Monica Zeringue.

Visiting Assistant Professor Srdjan Loncar receives Art Takes London award
Sculpture professor Srdjan Loncar's work was awarded the Art Takes London 2011 Sculpture & Installation prize by judges Alexis Hubshman, Founder of SCOPE Art Show; Jason Goodman, Founder of 3rd Ward; and Daria Brit Shapiro, Head Curator at Artists Wanted.

Associate Professor Anne Dunlop receives the 2010 Margaret Wade Labarge Prize
Dr. Dunlop's book Painted Palaces: The Rise of Secular Art in Early Renaissance Italy was awarded the 2010 Margaret Wade Labarge Prize for Best Book in Medieval Studes.  The prize is awarded by the Canadian Society of Medievalists.

Professor Teresa Cole is the organizer for the International Printmaker's Conference in New Orleans
On March 14-17, 2012, "Navigating Currents," the SGC International annual conference will be held in New Orleans.