Harpo Foundation 2022 grant recipient, Stephanie J. Woods

Congratulations to the Harpo Foundation 2022 grant recipient, Interdisciplinary instructor, Stephanie J. Woods!!

Stephanie Woods’ work fuses a relationship between fiber and digital technology to examine performative behavior and the cognitive effects of forced cultural assimilation. Her research surveys the psychological impact of intergenerational trauma, the politicization of afro hair, and unravels the everyday coping devices and affirmations we establish to survive. In addition to fiber, Woods further explores these concepts by employing photography, video, sculpture. and community-engaged projects in her practice.

She is passionate about interdisciplinary approaches and material language. Material language plays an essential part in her visual language, such as the use of hair weave, afro hair, Carolina red clay, sweet tea, and much more. Woods’ use of material language combined with iconography examines domestic spaces and alternative realities that reference Black culture and her experiences growing up in the American South.

    29mar(mar 29)3:00 PM16jun(jun 16)5:00 PMFeaturedExtant Erosions: MFA Thesis by Emma Ressel1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104

    19apr3:30 PM5:30 PMFeaturedXR Performance Hack-a-thonUNM Center for the Arts & Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM 87106

    24apr3:00 PM6:00 PMFeaturedFrederick Hammersley Visiting Artist Larry Madrigal: Open Studio1901 Central Ave. NE

    25apr(apr 25)5:00 PM09may(may 9)4:00 PMFeaturedTransparent Medium: Graduate Student Collaborative Printmaking ExhibitionUNM graduate student and Tamarind printer training program student projects2500 Central Ave SE

    02may(may 2)7:30 PM10(may 10)7:30 PMFeaturedRisky MovesThe Spring Student Choreography ConcertCarlisle Gym, Central Campus, Albuquerque, NM 87131

A Step into the Shadows: Ghost Sonata Haunts the Stage

A Step into the Shadows: Ghost Sonata Haunts the Stage

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The Student and Colonel’s Daughter are locked in a vice-grip, their hands glued to each other’s heads, rotating around, dipping and swirling, as it appears some great force has overtaken both. How can something be violent and tender? The Daughter is fighting something within that is about to burst out, and the Student is helping her keep it at bay. Eventually, the unknown force wins.

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