Women, Art, & Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Brunch at Wolfsonian-FIU

Photography by Rodrigo Gaya on August 14th, 2015 in Culture

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Miami Beach, FL – August 9, 2015 – Art enthusiasts came out to celebrate the Wolfsonian-FIU’s latest exhibition, Women, Art, and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise, with a Newcomb Pottery Brunch. Guests were welcomed by Catherine Hagaman Edwards, President of Newcomb Alumnae Association for a delicious brunch and discussion with Monica Ramirez-Montagut, director of Newcomb Art Museum. Women, Art, and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise is the largest presentation of Newcomb arts and crafts in more than twenty-five years. One of the most significant American art potteries of the twentieth century, Newcomb works are a graceful union of form and decoration inspired by the flora and fauna of the Gulf Coast of Louisiana. Each piece is one of a kind—and collectively they create a distinctive Southern art form. Women, Art, and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise showcases a striking collection of Newcomb pottery, metalwork, bookbinding, and textiles with new scholarship to explore the history of the pottery and its importance as a social and artistic experiment.

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