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.

This conjunctive presentation connects the nodes of our experiences across the American Southwest to underscore our collective concerns and create an experience to encounter photography, each other, and the world anew.

“Through Land, Body and Archive we bear witness to changing landscapes/waterways, family/community memory, and the embodiment of ritual. At stake is the negotiation of identity, positionality, and relationships with human and non-human relatives” – Marina Perez, UNM Art History PHD student.

Participating artists include: Jacqueline Arias, Nathan Cordova, Zoë Gleitsman, claudia hermano, Mehrdad Mirzaie, Richard Pence, Elizabeth Piñeda, Emma Ressel, Francis Reynolds, li rothrock, Anna Rotty, Brianna Tadeo, & Nicholas Valdés

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

Join the College of Fine Arts at UNM for ARTSSPLASH 2023! This second annual event is hosted by the Office of the Dean. Stop by the Cornell Mall in front of the SUB (Student Union Building) during the lunch hour on Wednesday, September 27th, 2023, to earn your ARTSSPLASH t-shirt and enjoy performances from our Departments of Music and Theatre & Dance from noon-1pm. Earn your ARTSSPLASH t-shirt by exploring demonstrations and informational booths hosted by the Department of Art, Department of Film & Digital Arts, Department of Music, Department of Theatre & Dance, ARTSLab, BAIA (Bachelors of Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts), the UNM Art Museum, and Tamarind Institute.

The UNM Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Matthew Forte, presents Joan Tower’s Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No. 1, with guest conductor Dr. Emily Moss; the overture to Shuying Li’s Purple Mountains (New Mexico premiere); and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4.

Tickets will go on sale on August 8. $15 general admission, $10 seniors and UNM employees, $5 students. To purchase tickets to this concert or to purchase a Concert Series Pass, visit https://www.unmtickets.com/