Harpo Foundation 2022 grant recipient, Stephanie J. Woods
Congratulations to the Harpo Foundation 2022 grant recipient, Interdisciplinary instructor, Stephanie J. Woods!!
Stephanie Woods’ work fuses a relationship between fiber and digital technology to examine performative behavior and the cognitive effects of forced cultural assimilation. Her research surveys the psychological impact of intergenerational trauma, the politicization of afro hair, and unravels the everyday coping devices and affirmations we establish to survive. In addition to fiber, Woods further explores these concepts by employing photography, video, sculpture. and community-engaged projects in her practice.
She is passionate about interdisciplinary approaches and material language. Material language plays an essential part in her visual language, such as the use of hair weave, afro hair, Carolina red clay, sweet tea, and much more. Woods’ use of material language combined with iconography examines domestic spaces and alternative realities that reference Black culture and her experiences growing up in the American South.
Subhankar Banerjee Leads in Environmental Arts & Humanities
Subhankar Banerjee, professor in the UNM Department of Art, is a photographer, writer, curator, and environmental humanities scholar. He is also the founder and director of the Center for Environmental Arts & Humanities at UNM.
On Earth Day, the Center opened a small exhibition of Banerjee’s work, “BioDiversity,” at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton. After being on display for a year, the full contents of the“BioDiversity” exhibit will become part of the permanent archive at the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center at IAS.
UNM Musicology Celebrates 10 Years
By Melissa Ríos, UNM Musicology Graduate Student & Musicology Research Assistant April 2025 April 17th marked the celebration of a decade of musicology at UNM. To celebrate the occasion, Dr. Heidi Jensen, who was the first graduate of the revamped program in 2015,...
Evany López Receives UISFL Award for Undergraduate Research
Art History student, Evany López was awarded an Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Research (UISFL) Award to support summer travel to Mexico.