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 will spend part of her summer in Washington, D.C. researching Latinx artists, art, and archives under the direction of artist and archivist, Josh Franco.
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.
Voces del Pueblo: Artists of the Levantamiento Chicano in New Mexico
Professor Ray Hernández-Durán and Dr. Irene Vasquez are leading a groundbreaking project documenting first-generation New Mexican Chicana/o activism. The initiative includes an art exhibition, catalog, events, and an evolving archive, highlighting a pivotal movement in New Mexico’s history. The exhibition debuts April 25, 2025, at the National Hispanic Cultural Center.
“The Human Body’s Digital Echo” – An Artist Talk by Kelsey Paschich
The 2025 New Mexico Dance Hackathon is pleased to announce an artist talk by multidisciplinary dance artist Kelsey Paschich, taking place on April 25, 2025 at UNM ARTSLab.