CFA Unit: Art

Best Western is pleased to announce Proximities, a five-person exhibition of work that explores the interconnected web of nearness and occurrences. Proximites includes the work of Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo (Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist, Spring 2023), Amanda Curreri (Painting and Drawing Assistant Professor), Nick Larsen, Hilary Nelson, and J Rivera Pansa. The works in this exhibition are comprised of handmade paper, digital and traditional weaving techniques, stained glass, manipulated photographic collage, and regenerative sculpture. The artists share a speculative sense of discovery in reshaping how things could be. There is an intentionality that threads each artist’s practice. Along this thread are themes of anarchy, activism, romance and ecology that open into multitudes.

Our Relationship to Nature: Young Children STEAM Project, UPDATE: Closing Extension, September 22, 2023
📍 Masley Hall

STEAM for young children falls under the umbrella of interdisciplinary an inquiry instruction. This project cultivated STEAM inquiry to include observing, classifying, comparing, communicating, predicting, and using space-time in relationship to the imaginative capacities of young children; while encountering transformations in nature.

This project was made possible by UNM Art Education Professor, Gigi Schroeder Yu, teaching artists, and early childhood educators. With support from the LANL Foundation

Best Western is pleased to announce Proximities, a five-person exhibition of work that explores the interconnected web of nearness and occurrences. Proximites includes the work of Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo (Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist, Spring 2023), Amanda Curreri (Painting and Drawing Assistant Professor), Nick Larsen, Hilary Nelson, and J Rivera Pansa. The works in this exhibition are comprised of handmade paper, digital and traditional weaving techniques, stained glass, manipulated photographic collage, and regenerative sculpture. The artists share a speculative sense of discovery in reshaping how things could be. There is an intentionality that threads each artist’s practice. Along this thread are themes of anarchy, activism, romance and ecology that open into multitudes.

You’re invited to a birthday party at the UNM Art Museum!

October 10th marks the date of UNMAM’s first-ever opening reception in the 1960s. Since then, UNMAM has remained dedicated to supporting and working closely with the UNM student community through exhibitions, programs, and professional development. The Student Advisory Council is celebrating this history with a day of drop-in activities, tours, and CAKE!

Celebration Schedule:

10:00 – 12:00: Drop-in for slow looking with ambient music in our Main Gallery, drawing activities, and UNMAM collection themed coloring pages. Coffee will be available in the Center for the Arts lobby.

12:00: Join Director Arif Khan in the Center for the Arts lobby for birthday cake and other light refreshments.

1:30 – 3:30: The Student Advisory Council will have a selection of works from our collection on display in the Beaumont Newhall Study Room. Museum staff will be present in the galleries for conversations and tours.

Join us in celebrating your university museum.

Tatiana Reinoza, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Department of Art History, Art, and Design, University of Notre Dame
Presentation: “Bodies of Water: Submerged Knowledges Forging a Black Dominican York”

Tatiana Reinoza is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Notre Dame and a past member of the Dartmouth Society of Fellows. In her research and teaching, she explores diverse facets of Latinx visual art in the United States including its relationship to borderlands discourse, and activism. 

Her first book, Reclaiming the Americas:  Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory (University of Texas Press), is an interdisciplinary study that examines how Latinx artists adopted the medium of printmaking to reclaim the lands of the Americas for Indigenous, migrant, mestiza/o, and Afro-descendant people. Drawing from the print archives of graphic workshops across the country, she focuses on artistic representations of territory that break away from traditional Western conceptions of geography. Reclaiming the Americas shows how Latinx artists have been at the forefront of battling the resurgence of anti-immigrant discourse, making migration histories visible, and critiquing printmaking’s complicity in the colonization of the Americas.

Reinoza is co-editor with Karen Mary Davalos of the edited volume, Self Help Graphics at Fifty (University of California Press), which explores the history of this East Los Angeles community-based graphic art workshop and how it fosters art for social change, dignity for all, and pride in ethnic heritage.

Professor Reinoza is currently researching a new book project, provisionally titled, Retorno: Art and Kinship in the Making of a Central American Diaspora.

Justine M. Andrews, PhD, leads a series of guided exercises designed to help participants slow down, look closely, and experience works of art in a whole new way. It’s fun, easy and relaxing, requiring nothing more than a pen or pencil and a sheet of paper.

This program is ideal for anyone who loves art and museums and is looking for a different way to experience them. Based on mindfulness meditation techniques, Mindful Looking is perfect for those who are curious about meditation. It’s also ideal for experienced meditators looking for fresh ways to quiet the mind and be still.

Mindful Looking focuses on works of art in UNMAM’s current exhibition, Hindsight/Insight 3.0: Portraits, Landscapes, and Abstraction from the UNM Art Museum. This is the second installment of an ongoing series this semester–join us on October 27th, November 17th, and December 8th for Mindful Looking!

Justine M. Andrews, PhD, leads a series of guided exercises designed to help participants slow down, look closely, and experience works of art in a whole new way. It’s fun, easy and relaxing, requiring nothing more than a pen or pencil and a sheet of paper.

This program is ideal for anyone who loves art and museums and is looking for a different way to experience them. Based on mindfulness meditation techniques, Mindful Looking is perfect for those who are curious about meditation. It’s also ideal for experienced meditators looking for fresh ways to quiet the mind and be still.

Mindful Looking focuses on works of art in UNMAM’s current exhibition, Cottonwood Tassels: Gustave Baumann’s Prints, Proofs, and Process. This will be the third installment of an ongoing series this semester–join us November 17th and December 8th for Mindful Looking!

For a Future Now takes the form of three poncho-style garments and a participatory script.

Curreri makes the script for For a Future Now in the spirit of a cento – an Italian poetic structure translating to “patchwork.” The cast of characters are based on real and fictional people, as well as contemporary and historical figures, including Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, Italian-American anarchist Bartolomeo Vanzetti, and Katya Zamolodchikova of RuPaul’s Drag Race fame.

You are invited to join an informal participatory reading of the cento on Thursday, November 30 at 5pm, in the galleries.

Justine M. Andrews, PhD, leads a series of guided exercises designed to help participants slow down, look closely, and experience works of art in a whole new way. It’s fun, easy and relaxing, requiring nothing more than a pen or pencil and a sheet of paper.

This program is ideal for anyone who loves art and museums and is looking for a different way to experience them. Based on mindfulness meditation techniques, Mindful Looking is perfect for those who are curious about meditation. It’s also ideal for experienced meditators looking for fresh ways to quiet the mind and be still.

Mindful Looking focuses on works of art in UNMAM’s current exhibition, Hindsight/Insight 3.0: Portraits, Landscapes, and Abstraction from the UNM Art Museum. This will be the final installment of an ongoing series this semester–join us December 8th for Mindful Looking!