Orleans. In 2012, Tulane University implemented a new reporting structure for the gallery, moving it out of the School of Liberal Arts and putting it under the Office of the Provost. With the hiring of director Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, who began her tenure in July 2014 and left July 2020, the institution began an intensive year-long transformation. In July 2015, the Newcomb Art Gallery officially became the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University. The change was made to distinguish the art space from a commercial gallery and to indicate its status as a collections-holding institution. Maurita N. Poole was hired as director August 2021. Exhibitions The museum holds on average four exhibitions annually. Shows encourage the creative exchange of ideas and cross-disciplinary collaborations around innovative art and design. The Museum has presented exhibitions featuring the work of such recognized artists as Mickalene Thomas, Pat Steir, KAWS, Joan Mitchell, Marsden Hartley, Chakaia Booker, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Diane Arbus, Nick Cave, David Smith, and Ellsworth Kelly, as well as artists with a Newcomb connection like Mark Rothko, Ida Kohlmeyer, and current faculty member Gene Koss. Honoring the legacy of the artistic traditions of Newcomb College, the Museum regularly presents work by women artists. In 2003 the Newcomb Art Museum (then Gallery) commissioned a new work by artist Carrie Mae Weems that became known as her "Louisiana Project". The exhibitions include educational programs such as lectures, symposia, film series, artist-led family programs, public tours, performances, studio demonstrations, and partnerships with other organizations. Collections Newcomb Arts and Crafts The museum holds the world's largest collection of Newcomb arts and crafts produced at Newcomb College from 1895 until 1940. The collection includes outstanding groups of Newcomb pottery as well as other objects associated with the Arts & Crafts Movement including embroidery, bound books, and metalwork. The museum's collection includes important pieces made by Sadie Irvine, Harriet Coulter Joor, and Marie de Hoa LeBlanc. Tiffany Glass The uptown campus of Tulane University is home to several one-of-a-kind stained-glass windows designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Newcomb College founder Josephine Louise Newcomb and her confidant Frank Walter Callender commissioned the majority of these works between 1894 and 1896 for a chapel at Newcomb's Washington Avenue campus in New Orleans' Garden District. In the decades following Newcomb's 1918 relocation to the Tulane Broadway campus, the two stained-glass triptychs were installed in the Woodward Way breezeway fronting the museum’s interior façade.