CFA Unit: College of Fine Arts

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.

Mark your calendars for this awesome event!
The Arts Career Fair will be an excellent opportunity for students to expand their horizons and begin networking with arts organizations all over New Mexico.
Come hang out and experience community support, networking opportunities, internship connections, continued educational opportunities, and MORE!
We will also have a Community Arts Mixer at Draft and Table afterward. Be sure to stop by, mingle, and have some fun with your UNM arts community!

Event Schedule:
1-3:30pm: Arts booths open (CFA Lobby)
4:00pm: Community Arts Mixer (Draft and Table in the UNM SUB)
Our event will showcase the following:
• Arts organization booths in the CFA Lobby (Popejoy Lobby)
• Resume/CV advice table
• Free snacks
• Community Arts Mixer (Draft and Table in the UNM SUB)

We hope to see you there!

Robb Hernández, Ph.D., Associate Professor

Department of English, Fordham University
Presentation: “Alien Skins: Cosmic Couture for a New Millennium”

As an American Studies scholar, Robb Hernández’s approach to Latinx literature is interdisciplinary combining literary studies with visual culture, contemporary art history, performance studies, and museum/exhibition research.

He is the author of Archiving an Epidemic: Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde (NYU Press, 2019), which catalogs a queer retelling of the Chicana and Chicano art movement, from its origins in the 1960s, to the AIDS crisis and the destruction it wrought in the 1980s.

In 2017, he co-curated Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas, the first major exhibition to examine three decades of Latinx and Latin American science fiction artistic practices.

He is also the author of VIVA Records 1970–2000: Lesbian and Gay Latino Artists of Los Angeles (2013) and The Fire of Life: The Robert Legorreta—Cyclona Collection, 1962–2002 (2009), published in the “Chicano Archives” series from the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press.

His related articles on a nexus of trans and queer Latinx artists in the U.S. and Latin America have appeared in American Art Journal, ASAP/Journal, Journal of Visual Culture, MELUS, Radical History Review, and TSQ, among other books and anthologies.

He is the recipient of numerous fellowships, grants, and awards, including, the Getty Foundation, Ford Foundation, Hellman Foundation, National Association of Chicana/o Studies, Dartmouth College, University of Texas at Austin, UCLA Institute of American Cultures, College Art Association, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and an Arts Writers Grant from Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation.