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College of Fine Arts News
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.
Susan Deese-Roberts Outstanding Teaching Assistants of the Year Awards
Two graduate students here at the UNM Art Department are being honored with the Susan Deese-Roberts Outstanding Teaching Assistants of the Year Award!
Emma Ressel Post-Doc Fellowship Awardee for Center for Regional Studies and More!
Emma Ressel (b. Bar Harbor, ME) is an artist working with large format film photography to make still life images with natural history collections. Her images aim to complicate the boundaries between dead versus alive, nature versus artifice, and beauty versus the grotesque. She is currently collaborating with biologists to problematize ideas around animal preservation and explore how science processes and institutions reveal our desire for proximity with nature.
Southwest Contemporary features UNM College of Fine Arts Graduate Student’s MFA Thesis Show, “The Hyperlocal: Jess Lanham”
Since the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fires, Jess Lanham has been creating work about the stark changes in her hometown of Las Vegas, New Mexico, using fragments and wildfire ash.
Native American Environmental Arts & Humanities 2024-2025 Scholarship Recipients
The UNM Center for Environmental Arts & Humanities (CEAH) in the Department of Art is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024-2025 Native American Environmental Arts and Humanities Scholarship for undergraduate students. There are seven recipients this...
UNM students awarded grants to create documentaries based on New Mexico struggles
Three University of New Mexico Film and Digital Arts students will receive extra cash for their documentaries this year after winning a New Mexico Documentary Incubator Grant (NMDIG). Out of eight awardees, three have connections to UNM: -Jay-Alan Miller, a returning...
From Merce Cunningham to Creative Computation: Media Artist Sarah Bennett-Davidson Shares Her Journey
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.
Art Student to Take Route 66 Research to National Conference
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...
Angel Estrada, UNM Art Education Undergrad, Collaborates with Local Elementary Schools on Art Project
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...
MFA in Dance Candidate Jessica Wilson Presents “Winter’s End”
MFA in Dance candidate Jessica Wilson will present her thesis concert, "Winter’s End," a provocative exploration of the societal expectation of women as sacrificial figures. Drawing upon the infamous "The Rite of Spring," Wilson reimagines this historical piece to...
PhD Candidates in Art History Awarded Prestigious LAII Fellowship
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...
URAD’s Undergraduate Research Scholarship awarded to Savannah Phelps
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...
UNM Department of Music Students, Faculty & Alumni sweep cast of Opera Southwest Production of Carmen in Spanish
Current students, faculty and alumni of The Department of Music at UNM have filled the cast of the upcoming Opera Southwest production of Carmen, one of the most famous operas of all time. The performance will be presented in Spanish, referencing a translation by...
2024 Hulsman Undergraduate Library Research Award Winners
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:...
Student and Alumni Spotlights – Get To Know Our Students!
Alayah Fierro was born and raised in Albuquerque and is in her third year at UNM. She is majoring in art studio with plans to graduate in 2025! Her plans post-graduation include selling her artwork and participating in gallery exhibitions. She hopes to get her name...
UNM Department of Theatre and Dance to Represent the US in International Theatre Festival, Beijing China
The University of New Mexico Department of Theatre and Dance is pleased to announce their participation in the 2024 Asia Theatre Education Centre (ATEC) Theatre Festival, hosted by The Central Academy of Drama in Beijing, China. The ATEC Theatre Festival, founded in...
The UNM Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities announces 2023-2024 Native American Environmental Arts and Humanities Scholarships
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:...
Celebrating art of mariachi during Hispanic Heritage Month & onward
By Savannah Peat October 08, 2023 UNM News Minute It’s not just a song, an album or an artist. It’s not simply a genre, or something you hear walking through a plaza or a restaurant. It is so much more than music; it’s a history, it’s a culture, it’s a lifestyle....
Student Spotlight – Get To Know Our Students!
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
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...
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