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UNM Musicology Celebrates 10 Years

Alumni Spotlight, Faculty Spotlight, Music

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,...

Southwest Contemporary features UNM College of Fine Arts Graduate Student’s MFA Thesis Show, “The Hyperlocal: Jess Lanham”

Art, Student Spotlight

Jessica Lanham March 2025 | Albuquerque, NM 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. Even while pursuing her undergraduate degree in...

UNM Theatre and Dance Hosts Dance Historian and Scholar Clare Croft March 7th

Theatre & Dance

The UNM Dance Program welcomes dance scholar and historian Clare Croft to Albuquerque. Croft, in addition to being a dance theorist, curator, dramaturg, and dancer, has written on the role dance plays in cultural exchange and diplomacy as well as a focus on Jill...

Professor Ray Hernández-Durán Joins National Think Tank to Redefine American Art and Identity

Art, Faculty Spotlight

Professor Ray Hernandez-Duran with MFA Boston Curators Lucía Abramovich Sánchez and Layla Bermeo at the Lunder Institute for American Art in Maine on October 11, 2024. Professor Ray Hernández-Durán Joins National Think Tank to Redefine American Art and Identity...

UNM students awarded grants to create documentaries based on New Mexico struggles

Film & Digital Arts, Student Spotlight

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)....