On view in the Lower Gallery
June 6, 2017 – November 11, 2017

Curated by Arif Khan, Director, University of New Mexico Art Museum & Subhankar Banerjee, Lannan Foundation Endowed Chair of Land Arts of the American West and Professor of Art & Ecology in the Department of Art at UNM

In a recent essay Subhankar Banerjee coined the term ‘long environmentalism’ to draw attention to environmental justice engagements that last, not merely weeks or years, but decades, and become inter-generational. The exhibition presents a selection of his photographs, writing, lectures, interviews and other activist initiatives over the past sixteen years that collectively continue to contribute to the long environmentalism in Arctic North America. It highlights the resistance movements and coalitional politics to stop destructive fossil fuels development projects in lands and waters in Arctic Alaska, which are home to an incredible chorus of biotic life and have sustained, nutritionally, culturally and spiritually, the Gwich’in and the Iñupiat indigenous communities for millennia. The exhibition also includes a photograph from Siberia that alludes to what anthropologist Piers Vitebsky has called ‘Outliving the Empire’.

Residents of the lower latitude generally consider the Arctic as the ‘Far North’, a place disconnected from their daily lives and concerns. Banerjee’s work urges us to consider the Arctic instead as the ‘Near North’, a place that connects us all in material and intangible ways. The Arctic is the bellwether of climate change as it continues to warm at a rate of at least twice the global average, and yet paradoxically, the Arctic and non-Arctic nation states are pushing hard to exploit its fossil fuels reserves, the burning of which will only exacerbate Arctic warming, and which in turn will affect the whole planet as the top of the Earth is the integrator of our planet’s climate systems. Engaging in ‘long environmentalism’ we may derail this suicidal trajectory.

Subhankar Banerjee is Lannan Foundation Endowed Chair of Land Arts of the American West and Professor of Art & Ecology in the Department of Art at UNM. He is convener of the recent UNM environmental justice public forum “Decolonizing Nature”, and is currently working to establish a new interdisciplinary center at UNM, Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities.

The UNM Art Museum would like to thank the Lannan Foundation for their generous support of this exhibition.

“Bewitched: Bothered and Belittled”
Magic is in the Air in Throwback Tribute

Local beloved theatre troupe The Dolls are bringing out their big broomsticks in a hilarious send up of the classic T.V. series “Bewitched.”

“The characters, clothes, camp and period seemed disposed for a Dolls retelling,” says Ken Ansloan, aka Tequila Mockingbyrd, who plays meddling matriarch Endora. “More than a few Dolls fans and members over the years have wished for us to do a ‘Bewitched’ show. Well here it is and we couldn’t be prouder.”

Playing Samantha is Dolls newcomer and Elizabeth Montgomery look-a-like Rikki Carroll who, in the play, much like in every episode of the sitcom, puts long-suffering yet loving husband Darrin (played by Russell Maynor) through many toils and troubles thanks to her well-meaning yet dysfunctional extended magical T.V. family. Spells are miscast and mortal neighbors’ suspicions arise in this original homage production. All your favorite “Bewitched” characters collide in a cauldron only The Dolls could concoct live on stage.

Don’t miss what is sure to be a summer theatrical treat (with a few tricks). For mature audiences.

WHAT: The Dolls Present “Bewitched: Bothered and Belittled”

WHEN: July 21st – August 6th, 2017
Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00pm
Sunday Matinees at 2:00pm

WHERE: Experimental Theatre X, Center for the Arts, Lower Level,
University of New Mexico, Main Campus

HOW: Tickets are $20
unmtickets.com
(505) 925-5858