Fine Arts Faculty and Alum Secure Fulcrum Grant Awards

On view in the Main Gallery
August 24, 2018 – Ongoing

HINDSIGHT / INSIGHT: Reflecting on the Collection, highlights over 50 artworks acquired since the museum was founded in 1962. This is the first in an ongoing series of exhibitions and programs celebrating the University of New Mexico Art Museum’s dedication to developing a teaching collection.

The exhibition focuses primarily on international art movements of the 1960s and 70s including Pop, Minimalism, Conceptual Art and California Funk. Visitors will discover the museum’s rich holdings from this era by artists such as Robert Arneson, Joan Brown, Judy Chicago, Bruce Conner, Luis Jiménez, Bridget Riley, Ed Ruscha, Robert Ryman and Andy Warhol.

On view in the Raymond Jonson Gallery
August 24 – December 1, 2018

Flight is a multi-media installation by Albuquerque artist sheri crider that examines connections between empathy, personal transformation, mass incarceration, and migration. Using her own story as well as the stories of incarcerated migrants as a point of departure, this exhibition is centered on understanding the personal experiences and social implications of mass incarceration. The migratory birds serve as visual metaphor, bringing focused attention to the imprisonment of migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees. Flight represents the culmination of a year and a half of research, artistic collaborations, and creative interventions into social injustices. This project combines education, community partnerships, visual art, and fundraising to expand the practical capacity of art-making into forms of discourse, civic engagement, and empathy building. The exhibit is deeply personal and intentionally socially engaged.

IN-NOV-ACTION
A Concert by Emerging Choreographers
Artistic Directors Eva Encinias and Vladimir Conde Reche

What: IN-NOV-ACTION is an evening of dance showcasing original choreography by the finest graduate and undergraduate student choreographers of the UNM dance program.

When: October 19, 20, 26, 27 at 7:30pm and October 21 at 2:00pm

Where: Elizabeth Waters Center for Dance at Carlisle Gym, UNM Main Campus

More Info: Call (505) 277-4332 or go to http://dance.unm.edu

Tickets: Ticket prices are $12 General, $10 UNM Faculty and Seniors, $8 UNM Staff & Students. Available in person at UNM Ticket Offices, by phone at (505) 925-5858, or online at www.unmtickets.com.

IN-NOV-ACTION is a showcase of original choreography by the finest graduate and undergraduate student choreographers of the UNM dance program. Choreographers are selected for the showcase by a professional audition process. Throughout this experience, one or more members of the dance faculty mentor students. IN-NOV-ACTION embraces different forms of dance with various choreographic approaches that will appeal to a broad audience. Experience the vanguard of dance in Albuquerque as the artistic talent of emerging choreographers and dancers are highlighted in this exceptional concert of student works for the stage.

In-Nov-Action
A Concert by Emerging Choreographers
Artistic Directors Eva Encinias- Sandoval and Vladimir Conde Reche

What: In-Nov-Action is an evening of original choreography by the finest graduate and undergraduate student choreographers of the UNM dance program.

When: October 19, 20, 26, 27 at 7:30pm and October 21 at 2pm

Where: Elizabeth Waters Center for Dance at Carlisle Gym, UNM Main Campus

More Info: Call (505) 277-4332 or go to http://dance.unm.edu

Tickets: Ticket prices are $12 General, $10 UNM Faculty and Seniors, $8 UNM Staff & Students. Available in person at UNM Ticket Offices, by phone at (505) 925-5858, or online at www.unmtickets.com.

In-Nov-Action is an evening of original choreography by the finest graduate and undergraduate student choreographers of the UNM dance program. Choreographers are selected for the concert by a professional audition process. Throughout this experience, one or more members of the dance faculty mentor students on their work-in-progress. In-Nov-Action embraces different forms of dance with various choreographic approaches that will appeal to a broad audience. Experience the vanguard of dance in Albuquerque as the artistic talent of emerging choreographers and dancers are highlighted in this exceptional concert of student works for the stage.

Too Much, Too Much, Too Many
By Meghan Kennedy
Directed by Monica Villalba

Following the death of her husband, Rose locks herself in her bedroom for the better part of a year, leaving her daughter Emma to care for her through the closed door. When the church sends a pastor to help coax Rose out of her room, he soon finds that Rose is not the only one using barriers to hide her true feelings. Bittersweet, poignant, and touchingly funny, TOO MUCH, TOO MUCH, TOO MANY is a compelling new drama about the walls we build to protect our hearts–and deciding when it’s time to break them down.

October 26, 27, November 1, 2, 3 at 7:30pm
and October 28 and November 4 at 2:00pm

Experimental Theatre
Ticket Prices $12 General, $10 Faculty & Seniors, $8 Staff & Students
UNM Ticket Offices, Call 925-5858 or 1-877-664-8661, or online at www.unmtickets.com
Co-Produced with SCRAP (UNM Student Theatre Organization)

Jonathan Abrams, MD Fifth Floor Art Gallery

Reception for the Artists

Friday, November 9, 2018 5:00 to 7:00 PM
November 5, 2018 – January

The Jonathan Abrams, MD Art Gallery was founded in 1991, to offer New Mexico artists a place to display their artwork, and to provide a venue for our patients, visitors, and staff to view contemporary art. This exhibition celebrates the reopening of the gallery under a new collaborative partnership between the University of New Mexico Museum of Art and the generous support of Fay Pfaelzer Abrams.
The gallery is located on the fifth floor of the Ambulatory Care Center (5ACC).

For more information about the gallery, or to purchase a work in the exhibition, please call Chris Fenton at 272-9700

As You Like It
By William Shakespeare

Directed by Shepard Sobel

As You Like It, Shakespeare’s gender-bending comedy is a timely tale of transformation, amidst the trials and triumphs of every kind of love. It has long been an audience favorite, and no wonder…it’s filled with spectacular wit and humor, along with gender identity, philosophy, Nature as the Cure for Civilization, “All the world’s a stage,” wrestling, lust, coming of age, and music. Name it. It’s in there. Forced into exile in the Forest of Arden, lovers Rosalind and Orlando become entangled in a beguiling game of love, lust and mistaken identity.

November 9, 10, 15, 16, 17 at 7:30pm and November 11 and 18 at 2:00pm
Rodey Theatre
Ticket Prices $15 General, $12 Faculty & Seniors, $10 Staff & Students
at UNM Ticket Offices, Call 925-5858 or 1-877-664-8661,
or online at www.unmtickets.com
Info at 277-4332 or theatre.unm.edu

“Different Rivers. Sardinian Hill Country and the DIY Ethos of River of Gennargentu”

Talk Description:
In the summer of 2014, the Bluesman “River of Gennargentu” released, on his SoundCloud page, three songs of hill country blues, sung in English and played with a technique like those of historical Delta blues artists, recorded in low-quality sound. Within a few months, the web page collected dozens of comments from users who were amazed by this new “discovery” and demanded the real artist’s origin, as-yet-not-specified. For many listeners, these songs seemed played by an American bluesman: the Gennargentu, however, is not in the United States, but is in fact a mountain range in central Sardinia (Italy). “River of Gennargentu” is from a little Sardinian village named Gavoi, and produces his music drawing inspiration from the US blues musicians of the early 1900s, declaring his love for the DIY philosophy, building his own instruments and using low-fi home-recording techniques. This talk shows how rural blues is redefined by musicians in relation to Sardinian territory, thanks to a complex alternation of retro-mania (the idealized American past) and the idealistic claim which sees in the DIY a way to revive the “raw” spirit of the origins of the blues, adapting this one to the cultural space of Sardinia.

Bio:
Diego Pani is the manager of the musical patrimony of the Istituto Superiore Regionale Etnografico (ISRE) and a Ph.D. Student in Ethnomusicology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. His research focuses on the dynamics of music performance of young generations of musicians in reference to the use of media as a learning device, as well as the construction of social meaning via audio and video materials in the vernacular traditions of Sardinia. Additionally, he is engaged in the production of documentary films, web documentaries, and photo reportages. Besides his academic work, he sings in the rock’n’roll band King Howl and manages Talk About Records; a DIY record specialized in blues, rock ‘n’ roll and punk music.