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Art Alum News, Featuring Joanna Keane Lopez and Eric Paul Riege

We are incredibly proud of all our alum at the Department of Art. Here are this week’s highlights of two alum who have received notable recognition and appreciation for their artistic contributions. Both Joanna Keane Lopez and Eric Paul Riege have received...

Albuquerque Journal Highlights MFA Student, Sarah Bennett-Davidson

Art, Student Spotlight

The Department of Art at UNM is proud to share that Sarah Bennett-Davidson, an MFA student at the University of New Mexico, has been featured in a recent Albuquerque Journal article reviewed by Logan Royce Beitmen. “Interference” at Bingo Art Studios and...

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...