Concert Band
Directed by Chad Simons.
FREE.

Wed. May 07, 7:30 PM
Keller Hall

UNM Jazz Bands
Directed by Glenn Kostur.
$7/5/3.

Thurs. May 01, 7:30 PM
Keller Hall

Presentation by the Florence Henri Prize recipient.

Tue. April 29, 5:30 PM
UNM Art Museum
http://www.unm.edu/~artmuse/events.html

2008 Words Afire Festival

The 2008 Words Afire Festival will premiere plays by national award winners in UNM’s Dramatic Writing Program. This year’s Festival includes Greek Tragedies and Comedies told through a New Mexico lens, stories of a search for redemption, longing for connection in outer space, struggle to find justice in genocide, a send up of the use of land grants and panic on Central Avenue.

This year can purchase a festival pass that will allow you to see all the productions for one reduced price. Festival passes are available at the Box Office. This pass provides one ticket for each Festival show. Present your pass at the box office for a ticket to the performances you want to attend. $30 General admission, $20 UNM/STAFF/FACULTY

More information at http://theatre.unm.edu or call 277-4332

For a synopsis of each show and more detailed information check the Words Afire Festival Hotline at 277-7331 or http://wordsafire.unm.edu/

Tickets at UNM Ticket Offices, 925-5858, or online at www.unmtickets.com

Rodey Theatre, $15 General, $10 Seniors, $8 Students

Experimental Theatre, $10 General, $8 Seniors, $7 Students

Words Afire website: http://wordsafire.unm.edu/

April 17 - 27

Highlight of the UNM 2008 opera season will be Eugene Onegin, seven lyric scenes in three acts, music by Pyotr Ilyick Tchaikovsky, text adapted from Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse by Konstantin Schilowski and Tchaikovsky. UNM Opera Theatre production will be directed by Professor Marilyn Tyler, who will be celebrating her 25th year as director of opera studies. Opera Orchestra will be conducted by Maestro David Felberg in his first opera at UNM debut.

Thurs. April 24 - Sun. April 27, 7:30 PM
Sunday show at 2:00 PM
Keller Hall
$15/12/10

Music Dept. Calendar: http://music.unm.edu/news_events/calendar/

Presentation by the Ana Mendieta Prize recipient.

Tue. April 22, 5:30 PM
UNM Art Museum
http://www.unm.edu/~artmuse/events.html

BRYAN KONEFSKY, Basement Films and the Department of Cinematic Arts at UNM presents: EXPERIMENTS IN CINEMA V. 3.0

WHAT: Experiments in Cinema version 3.0 is a four day film festival that features contemporary, international experimental cinema.

DESCRIPTION: Experiments in Cinema (now in its 3rd year) is a collaborative effort between Basement Films and the Department of Cinematic Arts at UNM. This 4-day celebration of contemporary, international experimental cinema is designed to provide an alternative cinematic experience for Albuquerque. Additionally, our hope is to nurture a home-grown community of cinematic experimentalists whose visionary works might become part of the larger, statewide conversation about the future of filmmaking in New Mexico.

WHERE & WHEN:

:: Thursday, April 17, 8pm-9pm: 516 Arts (downtown Albuquerque). Bryan Konefsky will present a 60 minute program of contemporary “collage films” in conjunction with Alchemy: Collage & Assemblage (the current gallery exhibit at 516 Arts)
505-242-1445 / Rhiannon@516arts.org / www.516arts.org

:: Friday, April 18th, 6-9:30pm: The Southwest Film Center, UNM Student Union Building, room 1003, Albuquerque, NM
505-277-5608 / swfc@unm.edu / www.unm.edu/~swfc

:: Saturday, April 19th, 6-9:30pm: The Southwest Film Center, UNM Student Union Building, room 1003, Albuquerque, NM
505-277-5608 / swfc@unm.edu / www.unm.edu/~swfc

:: Sunday, April 20th, noon-3:30pm: The Guild Cinema, 3405 Central Ave. NE (two blocks west of Carlisle in Nob Hill), Albuquerque, NM
505-255-1848 / info@guildcinema.com / www.guildcinema.com

PRICE:

:: Thursday April 17 – 516 Arts - FREE!!!!!

:: Friday/Saturday April 18/19: Southwest Film Center
Students: $3.00, Faculty: $4.00, General Admission: $5.00

:: Sunday April 20: Guild Cinema
Students: $5.00, General Admission: $7.00

Special Events:

:: Friday April 18 – Southwest Film Center 6-7pm – Colorado based group, Itchy-O Will present a lively sound/image performance to begin the evening

:: Saturday April 19 – Southwest Film Center 6-7pm – Bart Weiss, artistic director of the Dallas Video Festival will present a “best of the festival” program to Celebrate their 20th anniversary.

:: Sunday April 20 – Guild Cinema noon – 1pm – Guggenheim Fellow and award winning Experimental filmmaker Scott Stark will be present to screen new work and interact with the audience.

CONTACT:

Bryan Konefsky 505 - 235-1852
bryank@unm.edu
www.basementfilms.org

The Abe Franck Quartet Spring Performance

With Special Appearance by Abe Franck
Tuesday, April 15, 12:30 PM Keller Hall
FREE

Music Dept. Calendar: http://music.unm.edu/news_events/calendar/

Presentation by the Friends of Art Prize recipient.

Tue. April 15, 5:30 PM
UNM Art Museum
http://www.unm.edu/~artmuse/events.html

Land Arts of the American West and The Department of Art and Art History present The Gale Memorial Lecture Series at UNM

February 18: Bill Gilbert: What Box? "Land Arts of the American West Program: a peripatetic investigation of place"

February 25: Bill Fox

March 03: Matt Coolidge

April 07: Nils Norman

April 14: Amy Franceschini

All the presentations will be held Monday evenings at Dane Smith Hall, Room 123, 5:30 - 6:30 PM

Room 123
5:30 - 6:30 PM
Dane Smith Hall
UNM Albuquerque Campus

Words Afire Kick Off Party

With live music by Le Chat Lunatique, food & drink, meet & greet the guest artists.

Words Afire website: http://wordsafire.unm.edu/

Mon. April 14, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
UNM Art Museum
UNM Albuquerque Campus

Peter Ulffers, horn

Faculty Recital.
Sat. April 12, 6:00 PM
Keller Hall
$10/7/3

Music Dept. Calendar: http://music.unm.edu/news_events/calendar/

AniMotion NM is back at ARTS Lab next Tuesday night with our own Hue Walker talking up fulldome animation. Join us for the second meeting of AniMotion NM. AniMotion NM serves as a community for New Mexico animators, motion graphic artists, VFX artists, sound designers, and broadcast designers. Meetings will serve to educate and as a means to network.

ARTS Lab Garage: http://artslab.unm.edu/where.html

2008 John Donald Robb Composers' Symposium will feature the music of Gordon Mumma, the final composer in a three year series featuring prominent members of the famous ONCE festivals in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Mumma, an early innovator in the field of live electronics, composed and performed for many years with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Other composers participating include Daniel Lentz, Carlo Alessandro Landini and Riccardo Piancentini from Italy, DJ Wolf from Frankfurt, Germany, Yvonne Lee from Massachusetts and Anne Guzzo from Wyoming. Steve Peters will present this year's sound installation at the UNM Art Museum. Dawn Chambers, Richard Cameron-Wolfe and John Kennedy will also have works performed and UNM composers Richard Hermann, Patricia Repar, Panaiotis, Paul Lombardi, Chris Schultis and William Wood will have new workds premiered as part of the festival. The opening concert will feature this year's Artists-in Residence, Duo Alterno, in a concert of contemporary Italian and American composers. The Monday evening concert will feature John Donald Robb's Clarinet Sonata performed by UNM Prof. of Music Keith Lemmons and pianist Maribeth Gunning.
Keller Hall
FREE

Music Dept. Calendar: http://music.unm.edu/news_events/calendar/

Students from three classes will collaborate on a performance that incorporates art/computer science, indigenous performing arts forum and audio engineering. The instructors are: Manny Rettinger, Maria Williams, Raven Chacon and Patrick Willink.

Fri. March 28, 7:30 PM
Keller Hall
FREE

Music Dept. Calendar: http://music.unm.edu/news_events/calendar/

Opening Receptions:

SPLASH: The Fourteenth Annual Juried Graduate Exhibition

AND

Filtered Light (Chamber Music 4)
a site specific sound installation by Steve Peters

Fri. March 28, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
UNM Art Museum
http://www.unm.edu/~artmuse/events.html

By Noah Hailde, Directed by Steve Pinzone

Mr. Marmalade, by Noah Hailde, is a sly, darkly comic look at the effects of divorce and too much television, on a precocious four year old, who, ignored by her mother, turns to her imaginary friend, Mr. Marmalade, who is too busy to play. Mr. Marmalade’s personal assistant is there, however, to compensate. Adult situations and language.

Mr. Marmalade plays in repertory with Migdalia Cruz’ Fur.

March 14, 20, 22 7:30 PM / March 16, 6:00 PM

$10 General/ $8 Faculty and Seniors/ $7 Staff and Students
Tickets available at the UNM Ticket office: 925-5858 or 1-800-905-3315, or online at www.unmtickets.com
Experimental Theatre, UNM Center for the Arts
UNM Albuquerque Campus

"Focus on Contemporary Brazil: The Videos of Marcelo do Campo and Dora Longo Bahia"

UNM Dept. of Art and Art History's Professor David Craven discusses the work of these two key artists from Brazil, one of whom disappeared in the 1970s and the other of whom has emerged on the art scene of Sao Paulo in a major way over the last decade. Several of the short videos by each artist will be shown during the talk.

Tue. March 25, 5:30 PM
UNM Art Museum
http://www.unm.edu/~artmuse/events.html

Don’t miss the New Mexico Premiere of FUR by Migdalia Cruz. Directed by Barney Lopez.

Ms. Cruz will attend the performance on Friday, March 14.

March 14, 20, 22 7:30 PM / March 16, 6:00 PM

$10 General/ $8 Faculty and Seniors/ $7 Staff and Students
Tickets available at the UNM Ticket office: 925-5858 or 1-800-905-3315, or online at www.unmtickets.com
Experimental Theatre, UNM Center for the Arts
UNM Albuquerque Campus

Real-Time Rendering and Interactivity in 'Fulldome' Immersive Digital Dome Theater: An Introduction, Demonstration and Discussion of UNM Research Projects and Goals by David Beining, UNM ARTS Lab

Large-format, immersive digital dome theater--fulldome--is a young powerful medium with a high rate of diffusion in planetariums and other venues. It's also a medium in which UNM is an internationally recognized center for research, production and education.

Based in tiled projectors and PC clusters, fulldome theaters allow for very high-resolution, immersive digital video presentation -- pre-rendered for linear cinematic experiences as well as real-time interactive presentations based on 3D models, data tables, and adapted game engines and shaders used in proprietary, open-architecture fulldome software.

The medium's origins in planetariums has largely limited tools, data and stories to astronomy, but fulldome has enormous potential for visualizing other sciences for research and education, serving the arts as new creative and performance space, and entertainment as immersive gaming and experiential venue.

The author will demonstrate the medium's tools and current uses as well as UNM-based early research. New UNM research agendas and possibilities for future work will also be discussed.

ARTS Lab Garage: http://artslab.unm.edu/where.html

Arts and culture are big business in our metropolitan region, and could get even bigger. Learn how and why at a presentation of the recently released study on the Economic Importance of the Arts and Cultural Industries in Albuquerque and Bernalillo County.

Christopher Mead, Dean of Fine Arts at UNM, and Dr. Jeffrey Mitchell, primary author of the report by the Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER) at UNM, will introduce and explain the key findings of this report.

Join us for this informative presentation and learn more about the future of arts and culture in our community.

Thurs. March 13, 5:30 - 6:30 PM
KiMo Theatre, Central & 5th, downtown Albuquerque
MORE INFO: Call the Arts Alliance at 268-1920

GALLERY TALK

Dr. Tey Marianna Nunn (Visual Arts Director at the National Hispanic Cultural Center) Guest speaker Tey Marianna Nunn will focus her talk on hispanic artists of New Mexico during the New Deal era.

Exhibition Description:
For the Greater Good
New Deal Art in New Mexico, 1933-1943
February 26 - May 25, 2008


In celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the New Deal, the UNM Art Museum presents a major selection of artworks produced by New Mexico artists from 1933 to 1943 under the auspices of the various Federal New Deal art programs. The New Deal was established by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 to support American workers, including hundreds of artists, who were paid a living wage to produce murals, easel paintings, prints, sculptures, weavings, pottery, wood carvings, stage plays, musical scores, and some of the best written works of the period. For the first time in American history, artists were recognized as productive workers and valued for what they did. Every state had its representative artists and, because of its already established art culture, New Mexico was one of the most productive, its artists forging one of the richest legacies during the New Deal era.

Exhibition artists include: Willard Nash, Raymond Jonson, Gene Kloss, Kenneth Adams, Dorothy Morang, Howard A. Barton, James Morris, B.J.O. Nordfeldt, Polia Pillin, Santiago Matta, Blanca Will, Russell Lee, Lloyd Moylan, Pablita Velarde, John Collier Jr., Patrocino Barela, Maria and Julian Martinez, Dorothea Lang and Victor Higgins.

UNM Art Museum on the web: http://unmartmuseum.unm.edu/

The University of New Mexico Orchestra.
Tue. March 11, 7:30 PM
Popejoy Hall
$7/5/3

Music Dept. Calendar: http://music.unm.edu/news_events/calendar/

The University of New Mexico Concert Choir, directed by Bradley Ellingboe and accompanied by Louise Bass.
Sun. March 09, 3:00 PM
Keller Hall
$7/5/3

Music Dept. Calendar: http://music.unm.edu/news_events/calendar/

Faculty Recital.
Sat. March 08, 7:30 PM
Keller Hall
$10/7/3

Music Dept. Calendar: http://music.unm.edu/news_events/calendar/

Guest Artist: Stephanie Zelnick, Professor of Clarinet, University of Kansas. Master class will follow.
Thurs. March 06, 7:30 PM
Keller Hall
FREE

Music Dept. Calendar: http://music.unm.edu/news_events/calendar/

Ensemble Series: Percussion Ensemble
Wed. March 05, 7:30 PM
Keller Hall
$7/5/3

Music Dept. Calendar: http://music.unm.edu/news_events/calendar/

Land Arts of the American West and The Department of Art and Art History present The Gale Memorial Lecture Series at UNM

February 18: Bill Gilbert: What Box? "Land Arts of the American West Program: a peripatetic investigation of place"

February 25: Bill Fox

March 03: Matt Coolidge

April 07: Amy Franceschini

April 14: Nils Norman

All the presentations will be held Monday evenings at Dane Smith Hall, Room 123, 5:30 - 6:30 PM

Room 123
5:30 - 6:30 PM
Dane Smith Hall
UNM Albuquerque Campus

United States Army Band Woodwind Quintet

Standard woodwind quintet literature will be perfromed. SFC Barbara Vigil, flute; MSG Robert Huffman, oboe; SGM Debra McGarity, clarinet; SFC Max Wharton, bassoon; SSG Aaron Cockson, horn; With special guest MSG Joseph Holt, piano.
Mon. March 03, 7:30 PM
Keller Hall
FREE

Music Dept. Calendar: http://music.unm.edu/news_events/calendar/

Life During Wartime, by Keith Reddin, directed by Kristen Loree, is an absurd dark comedy that examines the dangers and fears of modern life, when a home security salesman creates crime rather than prevents it... love, murder, and mayhem, all punctuated with zany appearances by theologian John Calvin!

February 21, 22, 23, 28, 29 and March 1 at 7:30 PM / February 24 at 6:00 PM

$10 General/ $8 Faculty and Seniors/ $7 Staff and Students
Tickets available at the UNM Ticket office: 925-5858 or 1-800-905-3315, or online at www.unmtickets.com
Experimental Theatre, UNM Center for the Arts
UNM Albuquerque Campus

Part of the ARTS Lab 2008 Friday Workshop Series. Find out more about this year's DomeFest and how you can get involved. DomeFest 2008 Workshop - 2:00-4:00 PM at the ARTS Lab Garage.

ARTS Lab Garage: http://artslab.unm.edu/where.html

For more information and to SIGN UP: http://artslab.unm.edu/fridays_DF08.html

For the Greater Good: New Deal Art in New Mexico, 1933-1943

February 26 - May 25, 2008

In celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the New Deal, the UNM Art Museum presents a major selection of artworks produced by New Mexico artists from 1933 to 1943 under the auspices of the various Federal New Deal art programs. The New Deal was established by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 to support American workers, including hundreds of artists, who were paid a living wage to produce murals, easel paintings, prints, sculptures, weavings, pottery, wood carvings, stage plays, musical scores, and some of the best written works of the period. For the first time in American history, artists were recognized as productive workers and valued for what they did. Every state had its representative artists and, because of its already established art culture, New Mexico was one of the most productive, its artists forging one of the richest legacies during the New Deal era.

Exhibition artists include: Willard Nash, Raymond Jonson, Gene Kloss, Kenneth Adams, Dorothy Morang, Howard A. Barton, Charles Barrow, José Dolores López, James Morris, Walter Ufer, B.J.O. Nordfeldt, Edna Pierce, Polia Pillin, Brooks Willis, Joseph Imhoff, Juanita Lantz, Santiago Matta, Willard Everingham, Blanca Will, Russell Lee, Lloyd Moylan and Victor Higgins.

UNM Art Museum on the web: http://unmartmuseum.unm.edu/

Benjamin Silva

Faculty Recital.
Wed. February 27, 7:30 PM
Keller Hall
$10/7/3

Music Dept. Calendar: http://music.unm.edu/news_events/calendar/

Evening for Educators: New Deal Art

Preview the exhibition and take a guided walk-through with museum educators Sara Otto-Diniz and Michael Certo. Teachers will receive curriculum materials including a list of educational resources, time-line, pre- and post-visit lesson plans aligned to New Mexico standards and benchmarks in language arts, social studies and visual arts.

UNM Art Museum on the web: http://unmartmuseum.unm.edu/

UNM Jazz Bands

Glenn Kostur, director.
Tue. February 26, 7:30 PM
Keller Hall
$7/5/3

Music Dept. Calendar: http://music.unm.edu/news_events/calendar/

Evening for Educators: New Deal Art

Preview the exhibition and take a guided walk-through with museum educators Sara Otto-Diniz and Michael Certo. Teachers will receive curriculum materials including a list of educational resources, time-line, pre- and post-visit lesson plans aligned to New Mexico standards and benchmarks in language arts, social studies and visual arts.

UNM Art Museum on the web: http://unmartmuseum.unm.edu/

Land Arts of the American West and The Department of Art and Art History present The Gale Memorial Lecture Series at UNM

February 18: Bill Gilbert: What Box? "Land Arts of the American West Program: a peripatetic investigation of place"

February 25: Bill Fox

March 03: Matt Coolidge

April 07: Amy Franceschini

April 14: Nils Norman

All the presentations will be held Monday evenings at Dane Smith Hall, Room 123, 5:30 - 6:30 PM

Room 123
5:30 - 6:30 PM
Dane Smith Hall
UNM Albuquerque Campus

New Music, New Mexico

Program by the UNM contemporary performance ensemble.
Sat. February 23, 8:00 PM
Keller Hall
FREE

Music Dept. Calendar: http://music.unm.edu/news_events/calendar/

David Felberg, violin, & Pamela Viktoria Pyle, piano

Faculty Recital.
Thurs. February 21, 7:30 PM
Keller Hall
$10/7/3

Music Dept. Calendar: http://music.unm.edu/news_events/calendar/

Eric Rombach-Kendall and Chad Simons, conductors. Sam Pilafian, tuba soloist. Program will include Robert Linn's "Partita," Warren Benson's "Helix," and Roberto Sierra's "Fandangos".

Wed. February 20, 7:30 PM
Popejoy Hall
$7/5/3

Music Dept. Calendar: http://music.unm.edu/news_events/calendar/

Land Arts of the American West and The Department of Art and Art History present The Gale Memorial Lecture Series at UNM

February 18: Bill Gilbert: What Box? "Land Arts of the American West Program: a peripatetic investigation of place"

February 25: Bill Fox

March 03: Matt Coolidge

April 07: Amy Franceschini

April 14: Nils Norman

All the presentations will be held Monday evenings at Dane Smith Hall, Room 123, 5:30 - 6:30 PM

Room 123
5:30 - 6:30 PM
Dane Smith Hall
UNM Albuquerque Campus

Arlene Ward, organ, & Jeffrey Piper, trumpet

Faculty Recital
Sun. February 17, 7:30 PM
Keller Hall
$10/7/3

Music Dept. Calendar: http://music.unm.edu/news_events/calendar/

Percussion Afternoon

Scott Ney, Director
Sun. February 10, 3:00 PM
Keller Hall
FREE

Music Dept. Calendar: http://music.unm.edu/news_events/calendar/

Allison Hall, Trumpet

Master of Music Degree Recital
Sat. February 09, 6:00 PM
Keller Hall
FREE

Music Dept. Calendar: http://music.unm.edu/news_events/calendar/

Land Arts 2007 Exhibition

Land Arts of the American West is a field study program dedicated to the investigation of land arts from pre-contact Native american to Euro-American cultures. This exhibition includes the work of University of New Mexico students who spent 45 days traveling over 8,000 miles during the Fall of 2007, living and working in the landscape of the Southwest.

[AC]2 Gallery
6:00 - 8:00 PM
301 Mountain Road, NE
Albuquerque, NM 87102

Copper Street Brass Quintet

Wed. February 06, 6:00 PM
Keller Hall
FREE

Music Dept. Calendar: http://music.unm.edu/news_events/calendar/

UNM Concerto Competition

UNM Concerto Competition. Keith Lemmons, director. Open to the public.

Sat. February 02, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Keller Hall
FREE

Music Dept. Calendar: http://music.unm.edu/news_events/calendar/

Michael Chapdelaine, Guitar

Faculty Recital.

Sat. February 02, 7:30 PM
Keller Hall
$10/7/3

Music Dept. Calendar: http://music.unm.edu/news_events/calendar/

Joseph V. Williams II, Guitar

Faculty Recital.

Sat. February 03, 7:30 PM
Keller Hall
$10/7/3

Music Dept. Calendar: http://music.unm.edu/news_events/calendar/

Aaron Morales, Percussion

Master of Music Degree Recital. Program will include "Portals" by Bruce Hamilton, "Beads of Glass" by Gordon Stout, "Libertango" by Eric Sammut, "Tangents" by James Campbell, "Impressions" by Liam Teague, "My Sound" by Mongo Santamaria, and "Rhumba de Mill" by Aaron Morales, Joseph Goglia and Jesse Parker.

Sat. January 26, 6:00 PM
Keller Hall
FREE

Music Dept. Calendar: http://music.unm.edu/news_events/calendar/

Maureen Horgan, Trombone

Guest Artist Recital

Thurs. January 24, 2:15 PM
Keller Hall
FREE

Music Dept. Calendar: http://music.unm.edu/news_events/calendar/

Tricklock Revolutions 2008 Kick-off Party

Join Tricklock Company in celebration of the Eighth Annual Revolutions International Theatre Festival. Mingle with week one's visiting artists and festival volunteers, be the first to get your 2008 Revolutions Gear, and purchase your festival passports. As with all Revolutions Festival parties, expect good food, drink and company, & great surprise entertainment.

($5 Suggested Donation)

Albuquerque Museum
200 Mountain Road NW
Tuesday January 15, 7pm

NM Media Industries Summit and Conference 2008

Join us in January for "Media Industries 4 New Mexico's Future." The fourth annual Media Industries Conference (or "MISP" Conference for New Mexico's Media Industries Strategic Plan) will be hosted at UNM's Student Union Building on Saturday, January 12th. Preceding the conference is a new one day summit on Friday, January 11th from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, inviting leaders from New Mexico's media business, government, education, research and other organizations — and special guests from outside, gathering to develop plans and proposals to build on the success of Governor Richardson's initiatives in film and media.

For more information visit the MI4NMF page: http://artslab.unm.edu/newsevents/MI4NMF.htm

First, all day Thursday, students will have their new games on display for the CS/ECE 433 Video Game Competition. The public can try its hand at the games in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Building atrium from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, with judges reviewing the games from 5:30 - 7:00 PM. Several Awards will be given for best games, people's choice and most creative games.

WHEN: 9 AM - 5 PM (Public Play); 5:30 - 7 PM (Judges Review); 7 - 9 PM (Discussion and Feedback), Thursday 12/6

WHERE: ECE Atrium @ UNM (Main Campus)

For More Info Contact:
Pradeep Sen: psen@ece.unm.edu

WORD & IMAGE MOVIE SCREENING

Each year, UNM Cinematic Arts' "Word & Image" video production class produces several stand-out short movies, many of which have gone on to acclaim at festival showings and beyond. This year, five production teams will show their short movies at UNM's ARTS Lab Garage.

WHEN: Thursday, 12/6: 6:30 - 8:00 PM

WHERE: ARTS Lab Garage, 131 Pine St. NE: [ MAP ]

For More Info Contact:
Michael Kamins: mkamins@knme.org

THE DRM GAME

Digital Rights Management (DRM), the control, tracking, and pay structure for distribution of digital media from music to movies, TV shows and games, is a hot-button issue for students, business people, and the creators of content alike (among other things, it's closely related to the ongoing WGA writers strike). How do media companies enforce restrictions on download and distribution of music and movies? Why have Apple's iTunes and the group Radiohead achieved such success? Join us at the ARTS Lab Garage this Friday when ECE Professor Greg Heileman leads the audience through a game that simulates the DRM decision-making process to show which activities work for media companies, and which behaviors will likely lead to prosecution.

WHEN: Friday 12/7: 2:00 - 4:00 PM

WHERE: ARTS Lab Garage, 131 Pine St. NE
[ LINK TO MAP]

For More Info Contact:
Gregory Heileman: heileman@ece.unm.edu

Friday, January 11: 4th Annual Media Industries Conference

Click Here for the ARTS Lab Fridays page

ARTS Lab Garage
Located at 131 Pine St., NE, just North of Central and one block West of University. CLICK HERE FOR MAP

Tricklock Company Presents: Belladonna
A Rock N Roll Fairy Tale Nightmare

Created & Performed by Tricklock Company

Original Story & Script by Aaron Hendren and Juli Hendren
Directed by Summer Olsson
Assistant Director Kevin R. Elder

November 16 – December 2, 2007
Fridays & Saturdays @ 8pm ; Sundays @ 6pm
Tickets: $15 General; $12 Seniors; $10 Students
SPECIAL STUDENT RUSH EVERY NIGHT!
$5 Tickets – FIVE minutes before curtain
(must have valid student ID)
THEATRE X - UNM’s Center for the Arts
Tickets available at UNM Ticket Offices (505) 925.5858 or online at www.unmtickets.com

Tricklock Company returns to the Albuquerque stage after a highly-successful international tour with its latest creation, Belladonna. Belladonna is a beautiful but naive young woman whose scientist father has just invented a potion that brings ultimate power to the drinker. After witnessing her father’s kidnapping by a cruel and merciless dictator who wants the power for his own, Belladonna finds herself crippled by the Curse of the Four Witches Tongues, making her only able to speak in the lyrics of four female rockstars of the1980’s. Accompanied by her loyal but suffocating sidekick, Belladonna embarks on a journey to rescue her father. Along the way, in a gritty, volatile rock n’ roll bar, she accidentally crashes into her One True Love and tries to convince him to help her. In the end, will she choose to make a horrible sacrifice in order to save the world? If only she could speak in her own words…

Tickets:
Department of Theatre & Dance
web: www.unmtickets.com
ph: (505) 925.5858

The University of New Mexico Department of Theatre and Dance presents
The New Mexico Premiere Of Zanna, Don’t!

Book, Music, and Lyrics by Tim Acito
With additional book and lyrics by Alexander Dinelarus
Directed by Kathleen Clawson
Musical Direction by Barbara Murray, Special Guest Conductor David Geist (Nov. 16-18)
Choreography and Assistant Director Wendy Leverenz-Barker

Rodey Theatre - UNM’s Center for the Arts
November 16, 17, 23, 24, 29, 30 and Dec. 1 at 7:30pm
Nov 18, 25 and Dec. 2 at 2pm

Tickets: $20 General; $15 Seniors; $10 Students
Tickets available at UNM Ticket Offices
(505) 925.5858 or online at www.unmtickets.com

Set in Heartsville, USA, where gay is the norm, chess is cooler than football, and the high school drama club is producing a musical entitled Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, ZANNA, DON’T! is a hip musical fairy tale that follows the misadventures of Zanna, a match-making teen, who turns relationships upside-down, challenges everyone’s point of view, and changes the world forever after his friends Steve and Kate fall in love and "come out" as heterosexuals. This is the New Mexico premiere of the Off-Broadway hit, with a high-octane score that runs the gamut from funk and R&B, to classic musical theatre and touching ballads, with songs of tolerance and love for audiences gay and straight. Zanna, Don’t! will leave you singing with a smile on your face!

Department of Theatre & Dance
web: http://theatre.unm.edu/
ph: (505) 277-4332

Twist, An Evening of Contemporary Dance
November 30 – December 02
Carlisle Performance Space, Carlisle Gym, UNM Main Campus

November 30 at 7:30pm,
December 1, 2 at 2pm and 7:30pm
Ticket prices are $10 general admission
$8 Faculty and Seniors
$7 Staff and Students.
For more information check dance.unm.edu or call 277-4332

Tickets available at UNM Ticket Offices (505) 925.5858 or online at www.unmtickets.com

Twist is an evening of dance choreographed by the very finest of UNM student choreographers, offering a wide variety of styles, and exploring a vast landscape of emotional and aesthetic content. Pushing the cutting edge of art and movement in a variety of dance forms, the talent and vitality of the young choreographers in the dance program at UNM are highlighted in this extraordinary concert of student works for the stage. Twist will be presented for only five performances, in Carlisle Performance Space, November 30, December 1st and 2nd.

Tickets:
Department of Theatre & Dance
web: www.unmtickets.com
ph: (505) 925.5858

Tricklock Company Presents: Belladonna
A Rock N Roll Fairy Tale Nightmare

Created & Performed by Tricklock Company

Original Story & Script by Aaron Hendren and Juli Hendren
Directed by Summer Olsson
Assistant Director Kevin R. Elder

November 16 – December 2, 2007
Fridays & Saturdays @ 8pm ; Sundays @ 6pm
Tickets: $15 General; $12 Seniors; $10 Students
SPECIAL STUDENT RUSH EVERY NIGHT!
$5 Tickets – FIVE minutes before curtain
(must have valid student ID)
THEATRE X - UNM’s Center for the Arts
Tickets available at UNM Ticket Offices (505) 925.5858 or online at www.unmtickets.com

Tricklock Company returns to the Albuquerque stage after a highly-successful international tour with its latest creation, Belladonna. Belladonna is a beautiful but naive young woman whose scientist father has just invented a potion that brings ultimate power to the drinker. After witnessing her father’s kidnapping by a cruel and merciless dictator who wants the power for his own, Belladonna finds herself crippled by the Curse of the Four Witches Tongues, making her only able to speak in the lyrics of four female rockstars of the1980’s. Accompanied by her loyal but suffocating sidekick, Belladonna embarks on a journey to rescue her father. Along the way, in a gritty, volatile rock n’ roll bar, she accidentally crashes into her One True Love and tries to convince him to help her. In the end, will she choose to make a horrible sacrifice in order to save the world? If only she could speak in her own words…

Tickets:
Department of Theatre & Dance
web: www.unmtickets.com
ph: (505) 925.5858

The University of New Mexico Department of Theatre and Dance presents
The New Mexico Premiere Of Zanna, Don’t!

Book, Music, and Lyrics by Tim Acito
With additional book and lyrics by Alexander Dinelarus
Directed by Kathleen Clawson
Musical Direction by Barbara Murray, Special Guest Conductor David Geist (Nov. 16-18)
Choreography and Assistant Director Wendy Leverenz-Barker

Rodey Theatre - UNM’s Center for the Arts
November 16, 17, 23, 24, 29, 30 and Dec. 1 at 7:30pm
Nov 18, 25 and Dec. 2 at 2pm

Tickets: $20 General; $15 Seniors; $10 Students
Tickets available at UNM Ticket Offices
(505) 925.5858 or online at www.unmtickets.com

Set in Heartsville, USA, where gay is the norm, chess is cooler than football, and the high school drama club is producing a musical entitled Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, ZANNA, DON’T! is a hip musical fairy tale that follows the misadventures of Zanna, a match-making teen, who turns relationships upside-down, challenges everyone’s point of view, and changes the world forever after his friends Steve and Kate fall in love and "come out" as heterosexuals. This is the New Mexico premiere of the Off-Broadway hit, with a high-octane score that runs the gamut from funk and R&B, to classic musical theatre and touching ballads, with songs of tolerance and love for audiences gay and straight. Zanna, Don’t! will leave you singing with a smile on your face!

Department of Theatre & Dance
web: http://theatre.unm.edu/
ph: (505) 277-4332

Twist, An Evening of Contemporary Dance
November 30 – December 02
Carlisle Performance Space, Carlisle Gym, UNM Main Campus

November 30 at 7:30pm,
December 1, 2 at 2pm and 7:30pm
Ticket prices are $10 general admission
$8 Faculty and Seniors
$7 Staff and Students.
For more information check dance.unm.edu or call 277-4332

Tickets available at UNM Ticket Offices (505) 925.5858 or online at www.unmtickets.com

Twist is an evening of dance choreographed by the very finest of UNM student choreographers, offering a wide variety of styles, and exploring a vast landscape of emotional and aesthetic content. Pushing the cutting edge of art and movement in a variety of dance forms, the talent and vitality of the young choreographers in the dance program at UNM are highlighted in this extraordinary concert of student works for the stage. Twist will be presented for only five performances, in Carlisle Performance Space, November 30, December 1st and 2nd.

Tickets:
Department of Theatre & Dance
web: www.unmtickets.com
ph: (505) 925.5858

The IFDM’s fall Inter/New Media Speakers Series is ongoing, free, and open to faculty and the public. It meets every Wednesday morning, from 9 – 10:30 am at ARTS Lab (131 Pine NE, just west of UNM Parking Services at Central and University), and offers a variety of topics covering the sciences, game development, the Business of filmmaking, digital art and much, much more.

Come and hear the following speakers:

October 3rd: Pradeep Sen & Joe Kniss, UNM School of Engineering (Computer Science and Computer Engineering)

October 10th: Elaine Raybourn, Sandia Labs (SERIOUS GAMES)

October 17th: David Stout, Artist, College of Santa Fe

October 24th: Claudia X. Valdes, Digital Artist & Associate Director of ARTS Lab

October 31st: David Rogers, Sandia Labs (DREAMWORKS)

November 7th: Sande Scoredos / Sony Imageworks

November 14th: Anne Godfrey, UNM School of Architecture

November 21st: David Beining & Hue Walker, UNM ARTS Lab Dome Project

November 28th: Nick Flor, Anderson Schools of Management

ARTS Lab Garage
Located at 131 Pine St., NE, just North of Central and one block West of University. CLICK HERE FOR MAP
For more information, contact the (pending) UNM Interdisciplinary Film & Digital Media Program at 277-2286.

Guest curator’s talk in conjunction with the Touch and Be Touched by Photography exhibition.

University Art Museum
Center for the Arts building, Albuquerque campus
(505)277-4001

Jim Jacob, guest curator and professor in UNM’s Department of Art & Art History discusses the one year series of drawing exhibitions.

University Art Museum
Center for the Arts building, Albuquerque campus
(505)277-4001

WHAT: Words Afire Reading Series, two weekends of readings of plays in development for the Words Afire Festival.

WHEN: Friday and Saturday, November 9, 10, 16, 17 at 7:30 pm, Sunday, November 11 at 2pm and 6pm, and Sunday, November 18 at 6pm (complete schedule below)

WHERE: Nov. 9-11, Wells Fargo Theatre, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Nov. 16-18 at the Dickey Theatre in UNM’s Humanities Building

HOW MUCH: Free

The University of New Mexico Department of Theatre and Dance announces the Words Afire Reading Series, an exciting new addition to the Words Afire Festival, the centerpiece of its nationally acclaimed Dramatic Writing program. Presented will be two weekends of readings of new works selected for the next Words Afire Festival (scheduled for April 2008.) Audiences will be able to catch a sneak peak into the devel opment of individual plays and enjoy the thrill of seeing actors and directors breathe life into these plays for the first time.

Weekend 1 at the Wells Fargo Theatre National Hispanic Cultural Center

Friday 11/9, 7:30 PM: Pajaros de Mi Sangre by Don Garcia, directed by Eduardo Andino

Saturday 11/10, 7:30 PM: Aurora by Leonard Madrid, directed by JoRae Taylor

Sunday 11/11, 2:00 PM: The Medea Complex by Patricia Crespin, directed by Brian Herrera

Sunday 11/11, 6:00 PM: Comanche Women by Terry Gomez, directed by Valli Rivera

Weekend 2 at the Dickey Theatre (UNM Humanities Building)

Friday 11/16, 7:30 PM: Greek Row Tragedy by Casey Mraz, directed by Paul Ford

Saturday 11/17, 2:00 PM: Four Days in the Delta by Kristen Simpson directed by Dodie Montgomery

Saturday 11/17, 7:30 PM: Connect - an Evening of One-Acts directed by Rebecca Holmes, Unravel by Kamarie Chapman, April Disappears into Thin Air by Shannon Rodgers, and The Politics of Hair by Lou Clark

Sunday 11/18, 6:00 PM: Panic on Central by Theo Jackson, Amber Cannon, Danae Lopez, and Magdelene Gallegos, directed by the Blackout Comedy Troupe

Words Afire Myspace Page:
www.myspace.com/wordsafire

Tim Acito is a graduate of UC Berkley and toured internationally as a modern dancer for many years before returning to Yale to get his MFA in Playwriting in 2002. He wrote the book, music, and lyrics for Zanna, Don’t! and The Women of Brewster Place, a musical based on the prize-winning novel by Gloria Naylor, which is co-produced by the Alliance Theatre (Atlanta) and Arena Stage (Washington D.C.) and premiered this Fall.

All workshops are free and open to the public.

Thursday, November 15, 9:30-10:45am
“Auditioning for Musical Theatre: 16-bar auditions”
Class: Topics in Musical Theatre
Center for the Arts B409

Thursday, November 15, 2:00-3:15
“Writing for Musical Theatre”
Class: Script analysis
Johnson Gym 154

Friday, November 16, 2:00-3:30
Special Workshop in Movement and Choreography
Carlisle South Arena

Department of Theatre & Dance
web: http://theatre.unm.edu
ph: (505)277-9125

Photographer and Professor Emeritus from UNM's Department of Art and Art History will discuss the exhibition.

University Art Museum
Center for the Arts building, Albuquerque campus
(505)277-4001

WHAT: Words Afire Reading Series, two weekends of readings of plays in development for the Words Afire Festival.

WHEN: Friday and Saturday, November 9, 10, 16, 17 at 7:30 pm, Sunday, November 11 at 2pm and 6pm, and Sunday, November 18 at 6pm (complete schedule below)

WHERE: Nov. 9-11, Wells Fargo Theatre, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Nov. 16-18 at the Dickey Theatre in UNM’s Humanities Building

HOW MUCH: Free

The University of New Mexico Department of Theatre and Dance announces the Words Afire Reading Series, an exciting new addition to the Words Afire Festival, the centerpiece of its nationally acclaimed Dramatic Writing program. Presented will be two weekends of readings of new works selected for the next Words Afire Festival (scheduled for April 2008.) Audiences will be able to catch a sneak peak into the devel opment of individual plays and enjoy the thrill of seeing actors and directors breathe life into these plays for the first time.

Weekend 1 at the Wells Fargo Theatre National Hispanic Cultural Center

Friday 11/9, 7:30 PM: Pajaros de Mi Sangre by Don Garcia, directed by Eduardo Andino

Saturday 11/10, 7:30 PM: Aurora by Leonard Madrid, directed by JoRae Taylor

Sunday 11/11, 2:00 PM: The Medea Complex by Patricia Crespin, directed by Brian Herrera

Sunday 11/11, 6:00 PM: Comanche Women by Terry Gomez, directed by Valli Rivera

Weekend 2 at the Dickey Theatre (UNM Humanities Building)

Friday 11/16, 7:30 PM: Greek Row Tragedy by Casey Mraz, directed by Paul Ford

Saturday 11/17, 2:00 PM: Four Days in the Delta by Kristen Simpson directed by Dodie Montgomery

Saturday 11/17, 7:30 PM: Connect - an Evening of One-Acts directed by Rebecca Holmes, Unravel by Kamarie Chapman, April Disappears into Thin Air by Shannon Rodgers, and The Politics of Hair by Lou Clark

Sunday 11/18, 6:00 PM: Panic on Central by Theo Jackson, Amber Cannon, Danae Lopez, and Magdelene Gallegos, directed by the Blackout Comedy Troupe

Words Afire Myspace Page
www.myspace.com/wordsafire

Photographer and Professor Emeritus from UNM's Department of Art and Art History will discuss the exhibition.

University Art Museum
Center for the Arts building, Albuquerque campus
(505)277-4001

Tim Acito is a graduate of UC Berkley and toured internationally as a modern dancer for many years before returning to Yale to get his MFA in Playwriting in 2002. He wrote the book, music, and lyrics for Zanna, Don’t! and The Women of Brewster Place, a musical based on the prize-winning novel by Gloria Naylor, which is co-produced by the Alliance Theatre (Atlanta) and Arena Stage (Washington D.C.) and premiered this Fall.

All workshops are free and open to the public.

Thursday, November 15, 9:30-10:45am
“Auditioning for Musical Theatre: 16-bar auditions”
Class: Topics in Musical Theatre
Center for the Arts B409

Thursday, November 15, 2:00-3:15
“Writing for Musical Theatre”
Class: Script analysis
Johnson Gym 154

Friday, November 16, 2:00-3:30
Special Workshop in Movement and Choreography
Carlisle South Arena

Department of Theatre & Dance
web: http://theatre.unm.edu
ph: (505)277-9125

The University Libraries and DILARES are pleased to present, “Drawing the Body: Memory, Mimesis, and the Florence Academy.” The exhibition of Professor Kathleen Keating’s recent works, produced while training at the Florence Academy of Art in 2004, will be held in the Herzstein Latin American Reading Room at the Zimmerman Library, from November 12, 2007 to January 25, 2008.

The exhibition is curated by Roland Rodríguez, a Masters candidate from UNM’s Department of Art and Art History. Rodríguez is the 2007-2008 recipient of the first-ever CHIPOTLE Fellowship.

Kathleen Keating’s drawings demonstrate not only the technique that she learned while training at the Florence Academy, but also provide an excellent example of the curriculum taught, and materials employed, through the Brague-Gérôme design course in late nineteenth-century French art and design schools. The Florence Academy of Art continues this method of instruction, emphasizing a progression in drawing, developed from the precise copying of antique engravings, then plaster casts, and finally, the live, nude model. Keating’s work, mostly charcoal on colored paper, marked a return to the European ‘academic’ tradition of drawing the body. As an artist, she pursued a course of training that places an emphasis on line, tonal value, memory, and precision in rendering the human form.

Additionally, the exhibition’s explanatory texts will note the correspondences with academies of art and methods of drawing instruction utilized in Latin America during the same time period.

A reception for the opening of the exhibition will be held from 3:30 to 5:30 on November 12, 2007 in the Herzstein Latin American Reading Room’s conference room at the Zimmerman Library.

Herzstein Latin American Reading Room’s conference room
Albuquerque Campus

Join us for opening of this outstanding photography exhibition Contemporary Desert Photography: The Other Side of Paradise.

University Art Museum
Center for the Arts building, Albuquerque campus
(505)277-4001

“The Process of Appraising Photography”. The accredited photography specialist will present an informative talk on all of the ins and outs of appraising photographs.

University Art Museum
Center for the Arts building, Albuquerque campus
(505)277-4001

This Sunday, November 4, 1:30-4 at the Albuquerque Museum, Professor Basia Irland (Department of Art and Art History) will have a book launch and signing for “Water Library” featuring international art water projects of the past 30 years. Also, her exhibition “Water Library: Volume by Volume, the Work of Basia Irland” can be viewed at the Albuquerque Museum November 4, 2007 - January 27, 2008.

Albuquerque Museum on the web
Albuquerque Museum
19th and Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM
(505) 243-7255

Ellen Brooks
Thursday, November 1st, 4:15 – 5:15 PM
Room 2018 Center for the Arts Building

Ellen Brooks will lecture on her work that spans 30 years of art making from sculpture to large scale installations to photographic works.

Ellen Brooks grew up in Los Angles, California and currently lives in New York City. She received both her BA and MFA from the University of California at Los Angles. Brooks taught at New York University, Tisch School of Arts for over twenty years as well as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and The Art Institute of San Francisco.

Ellen Brooks has received numerous awards including two National Endowment for the Arts individual fellowships in 1979 and 1991. Her work is in many major collections including the Whitney Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, National Museum of American Art, Getty Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Room 2018, 4:15 – 5:15 PM
Center for the Arts
UNM Albuquerque campus

Want to learn more about lighting, compositing and real-time work with Green Screens? Motion Capture for movies, games, scientific and other applications? Digital Rights Management and starting new companies? Our Friday series schedule will be up soon, but save the date for our first one, Lighting for Green Screen Production, October 26th.

ARTS Lab Fridays page

ARTS Lab Garage
Located at 131 Pine St., NE, just North of Central and one block West of University
For more information, contact the (pending) UNM Interdisciplinary Film & Digital Media Program at 277-2286.

"How IS the West One?" Joesph Traugott, curator of 20th century art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, will discuss his recently published book “The Art of New Mexico-How the West is One.”

University Art Museum
Center for the Arts building, Albuquerque campus
(505)277-4001

Luke Batten and Jonathan Sadler
Thursday, October 25th 4:15 – 5:15 PM
Room 2018 Center for the Arts Building

Luke Batten and Jonathan Sadler will lecture on their collaborative work, New Catalogue

Luke Batten, born 1968 in Santa Maria, California, received his MFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois.

Jonathan Sadler, born 1965 in Sacramento, California received his MFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography at Boise State University.

Jonathan splits his time between Boise, Idaho and Chicago, Illinois, where he works with Luke Batten on their collaboration, New Catalogue.

Luke Batten and Jonathan Sadler conceptualized New Catalogue as a production project that parallels the corporate model of a stock photo agency while simultaneously expanding upon and critiquing this model. Their various series explore contemporary issues and popular culture while augmenting the discourse surrounding traditional genres of photographic image making.

New Catalogue’s work is in many major collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, the Indiana Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois.

Room 2018, 4:15 – 5:15 PM
Center for the Arts
UNM Albuquerque campus

Luke Batten
Wednesday, October 24, 4:15 – 5:15 PM
Room 2018 Center for the Arts Building

Luke Batten will lecture on the work of Robert Heinecken

Luke Batten, born 1968 in Santa Maria, California, received his MFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois.

Robert Heinecken was born in Denver, Colorado on October 29, 1931. Received both his BA and MA from the University of California at Los Angles. In 1964 he founded the graduate program for photography at UCLA and retired in 1991.

Throughout his career, Robert Heinecken redefined the role of photographer and perceptions of photography as an art medium. He produced numerous works that manipulated and recontextualized mass media imagery in order to understand how this imagery, mainly photographic, works on and through our imaginations.

He was a member of the Board of Trustees of The Friends of Photography and a chairman of the Society for Photographic Education. His numerous awards and grants include Guggenheim Fellowship (1976), a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artists Grant (1977, 1981, 1986), and Polaroid Corporation grants to use 20×24 and 40×80 cameras (1984, 1985, 1988).

Robert Heinecken has had over sixty one-person shows including the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, and a 35-year retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago in 1998.

Room 2018, 4:15 – 5:15 PM
Center for the Arts
UNM Albuquerque campus

Artist's talk in conjunction with his painting exhibition:

Mass: Of Our World

October 12 - December 20, 2007

Artist talk is October 23, 5:30 pm

Jonson Gallery
1909 Las Lomas Road NE, Albuquerque
(505)277-4967

Mass: Of Our World

New Paintings by Alan Paine Radebaugh

October 12 - December 20, 2007

Artist talk is October 23, 5:30 pm

Jonson Gallery
1909 Las Lomas Road NE, Albuquerque
(505)277-4967

2007 Best in the SW:
Flash Animation & Motion Graphics Conference
October 8 - October 11, 2007 - Albuquerque, New Mexico
Embassy Suites Hotel & Spa

Meet the artists who created animations and visual effects for The Bourne Ultimatum, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Disney, The Simpsons and Nickelodeon.

Top Hollywood animators, motion graphics artists and VFX artists are coming to the Best in the SW: Flash Animation and Motion Graphics Festival to share their skills, work, and professional insights in panel discussions and workshop sessions. See how screen graphics were created for The Bourne Ultimatum. Learn about the VFX pipeline used in Star Wars. Discover how Disney and Nickelodeon animators are using Flash in their workflow. Experience some of the hottest broadcast design in the industry. Learn new skills and techniques to apply to your own work in motion graphics, title design, broadcast design and animation.

Learn. Network. Celebrate the best.
Join the 2007 Best in the SW speakers, industry leaders and Adobe pros for a casual kickoff party in the Atrium at the Embassy Suites Hotel on October 8th. The conference opens on the 9th with Adobe favorite Michael Coleman giving a tour of the hottest motion graphics, broadcast design, and animation studios in the country using Flash and After Effects, followed by our annual Best in the SW: Flash Animation & Motion Graphics Awards program.

Best in the SW 2007 speakers include:

Zoa Martinez: A&E Networks, Animal Planet, Chrysler, Disney/ESPN, Dodge, HBO, SKY Italia, Time Warner/NY1

Phil Nibbelink: Disney, Casper, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, An American Tail, We’re Back

Mark Coleran: The Bourne Ultimatum, Mission Impossible 3, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Trish & Chris Meyer: Cybermotion, CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, The Learning Channel, HBO, PBS

Stanton Cruse: ABC, Slacker Cats, MTV 2, Where My Dogs At, Cartoon Network

Alex Lindsay: Industrial Light & Magic, Titan AE, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

Chris Georgenes: Leapfrog, Nicktoons, Teletubbies, New Balance, Hasbro, Fuse TV, Carnegie Hall, PBS

Dr. Woohoo: Fila, Bank of America, eTrade, CamelBak, Nike Golf, Nascar, Taylormade, NBC

Ehren Addis: Universal Studios, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Old Navy, Atlantis, Motorola, Sketchers

Michael Coleman: Adobe - Product manager for Adobe After Effects

Kevan O'Brien: Adobe - Video Expert

Embassy Suites Hotel & Spa, Albuqueruqe, NM
For more information check http://www.bestinthesw.com

Catherine Saiki: Artist Talk + Artist as Curator
October 10, 2007
5:00 PM
Room 1020, Center for the Arts, Albuquerque campus

Catherine Saiki maintains her studio practice in Oakland, California. Born in New Mexico in 1972, Saiki completed her undergraduate studies at Scripps College in Claremont, California, and earned her MFA in painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been exhibited in San Francisco, Miami, New York and London.

Saiki will discuss her work and the shifts it has undergone at various phases in her professional career including graduate school namely the introduction of representational elements into previously abstract compositions. "Central to my work is an investigation of the material objects (signifiers) we use to express and explore identity. How do we assert an affiliation with a subculture, class, or gender, for example? I am interested in the irony and humor involved in the use of mass-produced objects to manifest what is ultimately a unique notion of self."

She will also address her interest in the role of artist as curator. This form of grassroots curating often brings forth artwork that might otherwise go unseen, and it can enable a curator to put together exhibitions that move beyond gallery walls and operate politically within a community. Saiki is the Curator for the biennial exhibitions affiliated with the University of California and the California Breast Cancer Research Program. She also curates at local venues, working with Bay Area artists.

Saiki will also talk about her experiences at the CUE Art Foundation, where she was recently awarded a two-month painting residency in New York City.

Room 1020
Center for the Arts
UNM Albuquerque campus

Join us for this exciting PBS documentary series focusing on contemporary artists. Ursula von Rydingsvard, Inigo Mañglano-Ovalle, Robert Adams,and Mark Dion are the subjects of this new episode.

University Art Museum
Center for the Arts building, Albuquerque campus
(505)277-4001

The Water Engine: An American Fable
By David Mamet
Directed by Paul Ford

The Water Engine is aptly described as an American fable. Set in 1934 against the background of the Chicago Century of Progress World’s fair, inventor Charles Lang has made an incredible discovery. He has designed an engine fuelled solely by distilled water, which will revolutionize industry forever. He soon discovers that progress comes at a sinister price. Originally written as a radio play, Mamet adapted it for stage in 1977, creating a tense and darkly comic noir thriller in which one man’s dreams are pitted against big business.

http://theatre.unm.edu/
Ticket Prices $15 General, $10 Faculty & Seniors, $8 Staff & Students
For more information check theatre.unm.edu or call 277-4332
Tickets at UNM Ticket Offices, Call 925-5858, or online @ www.unmtickets.com
Rodey Theatre, Center for the Arts building, Albuquerque campus

GALE MEMORIAL LECTURE SERIES
ART AND ART HISTORY & IFDM
presents for one night only!

Barbara Hammer will be screening her documentaty Resisting Paradise (90 min.) that juxtaposes the lives of painters Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard during World War II with those of several French Resistance fighters who are still alive. A profound work that asks : "Can art exist during a time of political crisis and war?"

Barbara Hammer is an internationally recognized film artist who has made 80 films/videos for which she has received many international awards including the prestigious Frameline Award for making a significant contribution to lesbian and gay cinema. She has been featured in several Whitney Biennials and received a Creative Capital grant for Resisting Paradise. "Hammer's intense productivity places her on the scale of Brakhage or Warhol as a major force in the independent cinema; Hammer neatly inverts the patriarchal forces implicitly and often "invisibly" at work in independent cinema practice."

ARTS Lab Garage
Located at 131 Pine St., NE, just North of Central and one block West of University

Join the UNM Painting and Drawing Faculty for a gallery walk through of the Jesse Reichek exhibition followed by discussion.

University Art Museum
Center for the Arts building, Albuquerque campus
(505)277-4001

“Connecting the Arts, Humanities and Social Conscience”

Keynote address-performance by Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Performance Artist, Author, Cultural Critic

2 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 1, in Rodey Theatre Center for the Arts

This symposium is jointly sponsored by the College of Fine Arts, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the University Libraries, as part of a series of symposia leading up to the installation of David Schmidly as UNM’s 20th President.

The symposium features Guillermo Gomez-Peña, director and founder of La Pocha Nostra, an international nonprofit organization that fosters collaboration in socially transformative, experimental performance art. UNM faculty panelists are Holly Barnet-Sanchez, Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History; Teresa Eckmann, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Regional Studies; Miguel Gandert, Professor, Department of Communications and Journalism; Brian Herrera, Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance; and Gabriel Melendez, Professor, Department of American Studies.

Gómez-Peña’s work in performance, video, installation, poetry, journalism, cultural theory and radical pedagogy explores cross-cultural issues, immigration, the politics of language and new technologies. A MacArthur Fellow and American Book Award winner, he has presented his work at more than 700 venues in almost 20 nations.

La Pocha Nostra has associates across the U.S., Mexico, Spain, United Kingdom, Australia, and many other countries. Collaborating across national borders and artistic disciplines, La Pocha Nostra artists produce projects ranging from solos to large-scale performance installations using video, photography, audio and cyber-art. The projects challenge audiences to rethink the boundaries between cultures, ethnicities, genders and languages, as well as those between art and politics, artist and spectator. One of La Pocha Nostra’s ongoing projects is a living museum where performers exhibit themselves as human artifacts –as in an ethnographic diorama or freak show – using the culturally marginalizing context to challenge stereotypes and social fears. Audience members move through the interactive, simultaneously performed installations, creating a unique experience for each participant.

Rodey Theatre
Center for the Arts building, Albuquerque campus

The Water Engine: An American Fable
By David Mamet
Directed by Paul Ford

The Water Engine is aptly described as an American fable. Set in 1934 against the background of the Chicago Century of Progress World’s fair, inventor Charles Lang has made an incredible discovery. He has designed an engine fuelled solely by distilled water, which will revolutionize industry forever. He soon discovers that progress comes at a sinister price. Originally written as a radio play, Mamet adapted it for stage in 1977, creating a tense and darkly comic noir thriller in which one man’s dreams are pitted against big business.

http://theatre.unm.edu/
Ticket Prices $15 General, $10 Faculty & Seniors, $8 Staff & Students
For more information check theatre.unm.edu or call 277-4332
Tickets at UNM Ticket Offices, Call 925-5858, or online @ www.unmtickets.com
Rodey Theatre, Center for the Arts building, Albuquerque campus

Preview of exhibitions and museum resources with educators Sara Otto-Diniz and Michael Certo.

University Art Museum
Center for the Arts building, Albuquerque campus
(505)277-4001

Cloud Tectonics
By Jose Rivera
Directed by Barney Lopez

Cloud Tectonics is a dreamy exploration of the nature of love and time. On a night that seems to last forever, one man picks up a hitchhiker, and she takes him on a ride through time and space, revealing the love of a lifetime. Celestina del Sol, a woman who is unrestricted by the effects of time, struggles to find her place in this ever-aging world. The only security she has lies in LAX baggage handler, Anibál de la Luna. Ignoring the complications of the outside world, Celestina and Anibál develop a bond so strong; they become one in the same time continuum. But can a love this unique survive in a world dominated by the restraints of time?

http://theatre.unm.edu/
Ticket Prices $10 General, $8 Seniors, $7 Students
Experimental Theatre, Center for the Arts building, Albuquerque campus

Panel discussion by participating artists.

Jonson Gallery
1909 Las Lomas Road NE, Albuquerque
(505)277-4967
jonsong@unm.edu

Opening Reception
Joan Fontcuberta: Landscapes Without Memory

University Art Museum
Center for the Arts building, Albuquerque campus
(505)277-4001

Presentation by award-winner Theresa Avila.

Jonson Gallery
1909 Las Lomas Road NE, Albuquerque
(505)277-4967
jonsong@unm.edu

Incoming Studio Graduate Students in the Department of Art and Art History.

Jonson Gallery
1909 Las Lomas Road NE, Albuquerque
(505)277-4967
jonsong@unm.edu

Artist's talk in conjunction with her lower gallery exhibition The Evolution of Disarticulation.

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When Teri Horton bought a painting in a thrift shop for five dollars, she was stunned when a friend told her that it looked like an original Jackson Pollock and could be worth millions. Working with a leading forensic scientist, Teri learned that a fingerprint on the back of her canvas matched a fingerprint found on a can of paint in Jackson Pollock's studio. More research showed that paint on the floor of Pollock's studio matched the paint on Teri's canvas. Realizing that a Pollock painting the size of hers was worth upwards of $50 million, Teri thought she had won the lottery. “Not so fast,” the art establishment answered, proclaiming her painting worthless. This feature-length documentary captures the 15-year debate between the world’s most prestigious art collectors, authenticators and experts and the feisty, 73 year-old grandma who would not give up. (Rated PG-13)

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Professor of the History of Photography and Contemporary Art at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, speaks about the work of Joan Fontcuberta.

University Art Museum
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