Category: Student Spotlight

Sarah Bennet-Davidson is a media-based artist in New Mexico. She is currently a graduate student here at The University of New Mexico, enrolled in the MFA program in Electronic Art & Technology, and has been taking vvvv classes with The NODE Institute since 2022.

Madison Garay is a third-year master’s student at The University of New Mexico. Her research interests are in Art History-Art of the Americas, 20th-century design, Native contemporary art, Chicano art, and built environments of the Southwest. Her research at UNM...

Originally from New York, he moved to New Mexico in 2021 at the urging of his mentor, Santa Fe potter Romig Streeter. Along with art teacher Tanya Silva, Estrada is involved in an Albuquerque Public Schools project with the City of Albuquerque. Art teachers and...

Beth Norwood, Bre Reiss, and Ellie Kane, three PhD candidates in art history, have all been awarded a Latin American and Iberian Institute Fellowship. In addition to insurance and a stipend, the fellowship is renewable for a second year. For this scholarship, our...

Savannah Phelps, one of our talented undergrads in Art History, has been awarded the 2024 URAD’s Undergraduate Research Scholarship! Savannah is also pursuing Honors and will be working with Art History Professor, Ray Hernández-Durán, as her mentor. "In my research...

Congratulations to Piper Lincoln and Kaitlin Bone for winning the 2024 Hulsman Undergraduate Library Research Award in the Emerging Researcher Category! Kaitlin Bone (left image), an art major, won first place for her work, “Class Distinctions Between Moche Warriors:...

The UNM Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities (CEAH) in the Department of Art is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023-2024 Native American Environmental Arts and Humanities Scholarship for undergraduate students. There are five recipients this year:...

Yahir Perez is a third-year student working toward a bachelor's degree at UNM. He is majoring in Art History and minoring in Arts Leadership and Business. His interest in art history lies in contemporary and abstract art. Some inspirations of his are Manolo Valdés and...

Ph.D. Art History student, Ellie Kane, the new Curator of the Health Sciences Art Collection Congratulations to Ellie Kane, doctoral candidate in Spanish Colonial Art History, who is the new Curator of the Health Sciences Art Collection at UNM. In this capacity, she...

Ph.D. Art History student, Jeannette Martínez awarded 2023 Graduate Fellowship at the Smithsonian Ph.D. student in Art History, Jeannette Martínez has been awarded a coveted Summer 2023 Graduate Fellowship for the Latino Museum Studies Program at the Smithsonian. She...

Congratulation to Hulsman Research Award Winners Daniel Feng and Lauren Reddington Congratulation to Daniel Feng who won 2nd place in the 2023 Hulsman Undergraduate Library Research Award’s Emerging Researcher category for a paper they wrote in PhD candidate, Beth...

Jeannette Martinez is a second-year Ph.D. student in the art history program at The University of New Mexico. Being of the Central American diaspora greatly influenced her interests in contemporary U.S. Latinx art. While this is Jeannette’s area of discipline, her...