Gallery Talk: Pippin Frisbie-Calder on <i>Second Nature: Japanese Rinpa Paintings from the Gitter-Yelen Collection</i>

About this event

Join us for weekly gallery talks every Wednesday at NOMA, featuring curators, artists, and other special guests.

This week’s gallery talk will be hosted by local artist Pippin Frisbie-Calder and will be focused on works in the exhibition Second Nature: Japanese Rinpa Paintings from the Gitter-Yelen Collection . This talk will take place at 12:30 and 6:00 PM in the Ella West Freeman Gallery on the museum’s first floor. When you arrive at the museum, check in with the admissions desk to be directed to the gallery talk’s location.

Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA every Wednesday, courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All Initiative.

About the Gallery Talk Speaker

Pippin Frisbie-Calder

Pippin Frisbie-Calder received her BFA with honors from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from Tulane University. She has exhibited throughout the United States, Canada and Indonesia, with residencies at the Joan Mitchell Center, LSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital and A Studio in the Woods. She was a speaker at TEDxBatonRouge. Working in printmaking, painting and installation, she collaborates with scientists, veterinarians and conservationists to visually communicate stories about climate change, land loss, and stewardship. Her installations invite viewers to remove a hand-printed bird, simulating the extinction of a species. Her woodcuts and paintings depict specific ecosystems and their conservation stories. Through draftsmanship, science, and printmaking, Pippin Frisbie-Calder connects audiences with ecosystems and species we still have and others we have failed to save.