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.
Spotlight on Art Studio & Art History Faculty: Featured Exhibitions
Art History Professor Ray Hernández-Durán was recently featured in two articles and interviewed by the Latin American and Iberian Institute. UNM News published “UNM Professors Create Exhibition, First-Ever Scholarship of Local Chicano Artists’ Work” by Anna Padilla, highlighting an exhibition curated by Hernández-Durán and Dr. Irene Vásquez. The show, now on view at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, features six talented New Mexican Chicano artists whose work has been historically underrepresented in academic scholarship.
Art Faculty: Awards, Residencies & Revisited Projects
Distinguished Professor Jim Stone is an exhibiting artist who uses photography. His photographs have been published in three monographs and exhibited internationally; they are represented in the permanent collections of over 30 major museums and public archives.
Emmi Whitehorse at 12th Site SANTA FE International
Art Alum, Emmi Whitehorse’s work is featured in the 12th Site SANTA FE International with a piece titled “Cloud Gate” (2025). Whitehorse was born in Crownpoint, New Mexico, and is a member of the Navajo Nation. She earned her BFA in painting here at UNM, and she also went on to get a master’s degree, majoring in both printmaking and minoring in Art History.