Clarence Cruz, who is Tewa from Ohkay Owingeh (formerly San Juan Pueblo), serves as the Professor of Ceramics in the Art Department. He has been a prominent and familiar figure on campus since his student days.
Evany López Receives UISFL Award for Undergraduate Research
APRIL 2025 | Art History student, Evany López was awarded an Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Research (UISFL) Award to support summer travel to Mexico. This funding opportunity, intended to support undergraduate travel to the field, has been made possible by a Title VI grant from the US/Department of Education administered through the Latin American and Iberian Institute (LAII).
She was also awarded an Excellence in Undergraduate Research Award for her research project on contemporary women artists in Mexico. The work addresses issues such as femicide. López applied and was accepted to the Mellon Mays undergraduate program last spring. As part of the program’s requirements, she has been developing her research over the past year and presenting it at conferences, including the University of Chicago Summer Research Program Symposium.
The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) program is the centerpiece of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s initiatives to increase diversity in the faculty ranks of institutions of higher learning. The fundamental objective of MMUF is to address, over time, the problem of underrepresentation in the academy at the level of college and university faculties. This goal can be achieved by increasing the number of students from underrepresented minority groups who pursue Ph.D.s and by supporting the pursuit of Ph.D.s by students who may not come from traditional minority groups but have otherwise demonstrated a commitment to the goals of MMUF.
López will now be able to go to Mexico City and Culiacán to interview artists, visit feminist art spaces, and consult archives. Her goal is to pursue graduate study in Art History. UNM’s Art History graduate program allows students to deepen their knowledge of art history through a chronological range of courses, and the introduction of essential art historical methodology and theories. The degree also requires the successful presentation of a research paper, proficiency in one language other than English, and a thesis paper written under the supervision of one of our faculty members. After that, López will continue her research on contemporary women artists in Latin America whose work addresses issues affecting women in places like Mexico.
UNM Students Feed the Fun in “Little Shop of Horrors”
UNM Theatre and Dance brings the cult-classic Little Shop of Horrors to the stage this season. Part B-movie spoof and part social satire, Little Shop of Horrors follows a meek and shy flower-shop worker whose discovery of a mysterious plant changes his life forever....
From UNM to Texas: Raychel Stine continues to shine in “Falls and Springs and Stardust Things”
Raychael Stine, Professor of Painting and Drawing, recently created a show titled “Falls and Springs and Stardust Things” at the Cris Worley Fine Arts Gallery in Texas. Stine makes luscious, joyful paintings that integrate a variety of painterly languages and approaches to mark, texture, and levels of visual legibility, allowing for playful slippage between formal and material abstraction.