Laura Blereau

Based in New Orleans, Laura Blereau is the Curator and Coordinator of Academic Programming at the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University, where she develops exhibitions that highlight women artists, socially engaged art practices, and a collection that contextualizes the Newcomb Pottery movement.

Her most recent major projects include Laura Anderson Barbata: Transcommunality (2021), Brandan “Bmike” Odums: Not Supposed 2-Be Here (2020), the traveling group exhibition Per(Sister): Incarcerated Women in Louisiana (2019), and Fallen Fruit: Empire (2018).

Previously, Blereau served as Curator of the Hilliard University Art Museum, a 12,000-square-foot exhibition space at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. There, she initiated a series of single-channel video art exhibitions and curated a wide range of projects, including the kinetic sculpture retrospective Lin Emery: A Movement, 1957–2017.