2025 Bienvenu Lecture Series: Art, Nature, and Identity: The Newcomb Pottery Legacy

Join the Hilliard Art Museum for the 2025 John B. Bienvenu Lecture with Elyse D. Gerstenecker, PhD, Curator of Decorative Arts at Telfair Museums. Gerstenecker explores how Louisiana's celebrated Newcomb Pottery transformed regional flora into internationally recognized art and made vital contributions to the 20th century Arts & Crafts movement.

This presentation coincides with the Hilliard’s exhibition Fragile Matter, featuring works by Newcomb artist Harriet Joor, who taught at UL and was among the museum's first collection contributors. The evening will also debut a presentation of Joor ceramics generously loaned from the Haynie Family Collection.

5 p.m. Reception
5:30 p.m. Lecture

RSVP highly recommended.