A Garden: The Birds Arrive is an earthwork and experimental garden at the Albuquerque Museum located in the sculpture garden right off Mountain Rd NW. This project was conceived, designed, and created by Land Arts of the American West and 7th regen, in conjunction with SeedBroadcast’s exhibition “Seed: Climate Change Resilience” coming in 2019.

Land Arts of the American West designed concentric planting beds radiating from a central existing pine tree and seeded these with Middle Eastern and Asian heritage grains emmer, spelt, Sonoran Wheat, and Cache Valley Rye as a winter cover crop. In the summer, local indigenous amaranth will succeed the grains. As an experiment, the garden employs two varying methods for production: dryland farming waffle gardens and drip irrigation beds. It also accommodates the shadow line of the building. A light installation will cast shadows of the growing plants on the building wall at night.

The garden aims to be an area for artistic installation and future community engagement. 7th regen has created a steel portal of three half arches reminiscent of sheafs of grain and a mud stenciled phrase, “I wait for the birds to tell me when grain is ready,” spoken by Tiana Baca of the Desert Oasis Teaching Garden. The name of the garden/installation – “The Birds Arrive” – was adapted from Baca’s quote and the acronym TBA (to be announced). This project is about possibility, variability, and engagement. 
 
September 1, 2018 – September 29, 2019
 
Albuquerque Museum
2000 Mountain Rd NW
Albuquerque, NM
 
Partners and collaborators for this project include:
Land Arts of the American West
Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance
Sarah Montgomery of Garden’s Edge
Christine Mackey
Tiana Baca of Desert Oasis Teaching Garden
Albuquerque Museum
7th regen
Art & Ecology Area at UNM
SeedBroadcast
Sun, Wind, Rain
Soil Microbes, Seeds, and Birds
 
This project and the accompanying symposium are made possible through a partnership between Albuquerque Museum, SeedBroadcast, UNM Land Arts of the American West, and UNM Art & Ecology.

Personal Branding and Career Development

10 AM — 11 AM

In a highly competitive workforce, it is more important than ever to define who you are and what sets you apart from the crowd. Learn the secrets of one of the top brands in the world as well as tips and tricks to create your own personal brand and portfolio in a digital world. This session is appropriate for students of all majors and at any point in their collegiate experience.

Career Pathways into the App Economy

11 AM — 12 PM

The app economy is at the intersection of several megatrends, from augmented reality to machine learning, which are remaking industries and opening new career pathways for students across disciplines. Learn about the latest technology trends and what skills can help you stand out. The session will provide an overview of Everyone Can Code, a free curriculum built by Apple to demystify coding and to democratize access to the building blocks of the app economy. Information technologies logo and career services

The Texas border town of San Benito is the subject of this talk which examines how memory and legacy operate within a community of “self-appointed” cultural brokers and a local municipality inspired by capitalist notions of urban development, economic growth and cultural tourism. The legacy of two of the town’s “native sons” – Narciso Martínez, the “father of Tex-Mex conjunto music” and Baldemar Huerta (aka Freddy Fender), a Grammy-winning country rock artist – have been memorialized in two opposing positions to reclaim border music history in a context of globalization and hypermediacy that seeks to counter representations of a US-Mexico border perpetually “in crisis.”

Dr. Cathy Ragland is associate professor of ethnomusicology in the College of Music at the University of North Texas.

Please join us on Thursday, September 19 for an evening of conversation about To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Adults. Project creators Jess T. Dugan and Vanessa Fabbre will be joined by Mary Statzer, Curator of Prints and Photographs, and D’Santi Nava, one of the subjects featured in the exhibition, who will share his story and discuss his experience being part of To Survive on This Shore.

To Survive on This Shore is the product of over five years of research and photography by Dugan and Fabbre, who traveled across the United States to document the life stories of older transgender adults. The exhibition and book are a response to the absence of nuanced representation of older transgender and gender nonconforming individuals in US culture. The subjects who participated in the project have a wide range of lived experiences across the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, class, and geographic location. Their narratives span the past ninety years and provide an important historical record of transgender history in the United States, as well as a complex reflection on the struggles and joys of growing older as transgender or gender nonconforming people.

Jess T. Dugan is an artist whose work explores issues of gender, sexuality, identity, and community. For the past decade, Jess has photographed people within queer and transgender communities, focusing on the complexities of identity, gender, and sexuality. Jess earned a BFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, a Master of Liberal Arts in Museum Studies from Harvard University, and an MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago. Jess regularly exhibits internationally and has work in several museum collections.

Vanessa Fabbre, PhD, LCSW, is an Assistant Professor at the Brown School of Social Work and Affiliate Faculty in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Vanessa’s research explores the conditions under which LGBTQ people age well, and what this means in the context of structural forces such as heteronormativity, heterosexism, and transphobia. Her research has been published in the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, Social Work, The Gerontologist, the Journal of Gerontological Social Work, and the Journal of Urban Health.

D’Santi Nava is a native of Santa Fe, NM. A musician since the age of 7. Retired from the Santa Fe DA’s office as a Victim Advocate. A member of Kalpulli Teocalli Ollin (Community Sacred House of Energy) a traditional Mexhika Indigenous healing community. D’Santi Nava carries 2-Spirit medicine as a ceremonialist, fire guardian, sound healer, Certified Medicinal Aromatherapist and Curandero/Santero. He was presented with the New Mexico Music Award in 2017 for his original nuevo flamenco music. In 2019 he was nominated in 3 categories. D’Santi tours across the state, nation and into Canada plus volunteering for several community events into the Navajo Nation. He believes playing music brings healing to the soul! At the age of 50, he commenced his path as a transgender man. After a NDE, he committed his life as a prayer with music. With each note he heals.

Join us this Wednesday from 4-5pm in the CFA Conference Room (Room 1009, next to Keller Hall) for our biweekly Arts Entrepreneurship Club meeting. If you have yet to attend an AEC meeting, this is a great opportunity to come and to join the club, as well as to learn about jumping into the semester. Membership in UNM’s Arts Entrepreneurship Club will grow your connections with local arts businesses, organizations, entrepreneurs, and other UNM students and will also give you opportunities to showcase your art/talents during UNM and local events.

All UNM students interested in the arts or entrepreneurship are welcome to attend, regardless of college or major.

Limited seating; registration required. Register with Traci Quinn at tmquinn@unm.edu.

Join us for an evening with UNM Art Museum’s Collections Manager, Stephen Lockwood, as he presents rarely seen objects and shares stories that highlight the museum’s conceptual and historical connection to the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Collections Conversations series is a recurring program at the UNM Art Museum that brings great storytellers together with exceptional works from our permanent collection to provide an intimate, informal space for our patrons to gather with fellow art lovers. Held in our Beaumont Newhall Visual Study Room, Collections Conversations are a chance to appreciate, learn about, and discuss themed art selections not currently on view in our public galleries. For these events, visitors are offered the unique opportunity to step past the velvet rope and take a closer look at important works behind the scenes.

con flama

By Sharon Bridgforth

Directed by Erik Ehn

September 27, 28, October 3, 4, 5 at 7:30 p.m. and September 29 and October 6 at 2:00 p.m.

The X – Experimental Theatre

Ticket Prices $15 General, $12 Faculty & Seniors, $10 Staff & Students

Gurl, a young African American woman, comes of age in Los Angeles. Memories and aspirations unfold on a city bus, which moves across the city and through time, from the 1940’s to the 70’s. Thriving on legacy, family love, and social compassion, Gurl builds a future.

“If a flood deluged your home, it would disturb not only belongings such as clothes, papers and photographs, but also bits of personal history and memories. In some ways, Sharon Bridgforth’s stream-of-memory play con flama is a result of such a wash-out – albeit better-smelling. A lyrical, emotional and humorous salvage operation, con flama uses music, movement and poetry – all echoing and refracting throughout the production – to tell a very personal story of history and survival, of good times and loss.”
—Rohan Preston, Star Tribune