Congratulations to our Department of Art MFA student Erin Gould!

Congratulations to our Department of Art MFA student Erin Gould!

The Faculty Senate Teaching Enhancement Committee awarded the 2019-2020 Susan Deese-Roberts Teaching Assistant of the Year award to Erin Gould. Award Winners are nominated by students and colleagues and are chosen for their teaching excellence and innovation. A virtual awards ceremony will be held this fall. Erin Gould will receive the 2019-2020 Susan Deese-Roberts Teaching Assistant of the Year Award.

Erin Gould is a multimedia artist working primarily with sculpture, video, and performance. She received her MFA degree in Sculpture in Spring 2020. Erin participated in the Land Art of the American West program in 2018. Before moving to Albuquerque in 2017, she lived in Santa Fe for four years after finishing her Bachelor of Arts degree at Colorado College in 2013. Living with a chronic and painful autoimmune disease and surviving a decade-long eating disorder fed Gould’s interest in how we perceive and live inside our bodies and how our bodies sometimes seem to live without us.

For more information about awards: 

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

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

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.

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