Emma Ressel Post-Doc Fellowship Awardee for Center for Regional Studies and More!

Student Spotlight

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...

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...

Native American Environmental Arts & Humanities 2024-2025 Scholarship Recipients

Student Spotlight

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

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)....

From Merce Cunningham to Creative Computation: Media Artist Sarah Bennett-Davidson Shares Her Journey

Art, Student Spotlight

Sarah Bennet-Davidson. “Touch Dress.” Silk, fleece insulation, conductive thread, ESP-32 microcontroller, speakers, vvvv gamma, INA sound samples, 2023. From Merce Cunningham to Creative Computation: Media Artist Sarah Bennett-Davidson Shares Her Journey Sarah...

Art Student to Take Route 66 Research to National Conference

Art, Student Spotlight

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...