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College of Fine Arts News
Congratulations UNM Printmaking alum, Juana Estrada Hernández, who is now RISD’s Assistant Professor of Printmaking
Congratulations UNM Printmaking alum, Juana Estrada Hernández, who is now Rhode Island School of Design's Assistant Professor of Printmaking Juana Estrada Hernández was born in Luis Moya, Zacatecas, Mexico and immigrated to the United States when she was seven years...
Ph.D. Art History student, Jeannette Martínez awarded 2023 Graduate Fellowship at the Smithsonian
Ph.D. Art History student, Jeannette Martínez awarded 2023 Graduate Fellowship at the Smithsonian Ph.D. student in Art History, Jeannette Martínez has been awarded a coveted Summer 2023 Graduate Fellowship for the Latino Museum Studies Program at the Smithsonian. She...
UNM Art History alumna, Suzanne McLeod (Ph.D. 2020) awarded the Popejoy Dissertation Prize
UNM Art History alumna, Suzanne McLeod (Ph.D. 2020) awarded the Popejoy Dissertation Prize UNM Art History alumna, Suzanne McLeod (Ph.D. 2020) has been awarded the Popejoy Dissertation Prize for her ground-breaking dissertation on Spanish-Indigenous contact in the...
Congratulations to Szu-Han Ho who will be participating in the exhibit, “No Justice Without Love,” at the Ford Foundation in NYC
Congratulations to Szu-Han Ho who will be participating in the exhibit, "No Justice Without Love," at the Ford Foundation in NYC No Justice Without Love brings together the transformational work of artists, activists, and allied donors who make up the Art for Justice...
Article in UNM Art Museum Journal, “Q&A with Marcella Ernest of Collective Constructs”
Article in UNM Art Museum Journal, “Q&A with Marcella Ernest of Collective Constructs,” shares how the group came to be and their contributions to the exhibition. The team is headed by Assistant Professor of Native American Art History, Marcella Ernest, Marina...
Congratulation to Hulsman Research Award Winners Daniel Feng and Lauren Reddington
Congratulation to Hulsman Research Award Winners Daniel Feng and Lauren Reddington Congratulation to Daniel Feng who won 2nd place in the 2023 Hulsman Undergraduate Library Research Award’s Emerging Researcher category for a paper they wrote in PhD candidate, Beth...
UNM’s Arita Porcelain Studio honors process and history
UNM's Arita Porcelain Studio honors process and history Students at the Arita Porcelain Studio, located in the Art Annex at the University of New Mexico, are unique in their study of the traditional 400-year-old Japanese art of Arita porcelain; UNM is the only...
Congratulations UNM Photography alum Martin Wannam who is now the Assistant Professor of Art at UNC Chapel Hill
Congratulations UNM Photography alum Martin Wannam who is now the Assistant Professor of Art at UNC Chapel Hill Martín Wannam (b. 1992, Guatemala) is a visual artist and educator whose work critically examines Guatemalan’s historical, social, and political climate,...
Harpo Foundation 2022 grant recipient, Stephanie J. Woods
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...
UNM Team receives award for 2022 Venice Biennial Art exhibition project
UNM Team receives award for 2022 Venice Biennial Art exhibition project UNM + Davidson College project, "a Library, a Classroom, and the World," which was included in the 2022 Venice Biennial Art exhibition Personal Structures has won the ECC Award for the category,...
UNM Art, Center of Environmental Arts and Humanities represented at the 2022 Venice Biennale
A team from The University of New Mexico created a project titled. “a Library, a Classroom, and the World”, which is currently on display at the prestigious 2022 Venice Biennial Art exhibition Personal Structures organized and hosted by the European Cultural Centre...
Art History PH.D. Student wins the prestigious Crossing Latinidades Mellon Fellowship Award
Jeannette Martinez is a second-year Ph.D. student in the art history program at The University of New Mexico. Being of the Central American diaspora greatly influenced her interests in contemporary U.S. Latinx art. While this is Jeannette’s area of discipline, her...
Department of Art Associate Professor Meggan Gould has won a George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship
Department of Art Associate Professor Meggan Gould has won a George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship to support work on a new photographic project, entitled: Photography After Photography: A Reckoning. The Howard Foundation awarded 9 fellowships of...
Work in Progress with Jared Tso
Jared Tso (Diné), who teaches ceramics and makes pottery from the road, is a rising star in the world of Indigenous pottery. During my pottery classes at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, I admired Jared Tso’s pottery—with its beautiful curvature and...
Printmaker grad’s work reflects immigrant reality
By Mary Beth King Printmaker Juana Estrada Hernandez moved to the United States from Mexico when she was a child. Her artwork reflects her culture and status as a participant in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, part of the first wave of...
We Are Here
We Are Here, Artist presentations & exhibition featuring the UNM BAIA Capstone 2021 students Alex GalindoAmber CarrilloFlannery CowanMatthew Hickel Celebrate the capstone projects of the Fall 2021 BAIA Graduating students. The BAIA is an undergraduate degree in...
UNM students immerse in Meow Wolf internships
By Mary Beth King Meow Wolf bills itself as an arts and entertainment company that “creates immersive and interactive experiences that transport audiences of all ages into fantastic realms of story and exploration.” But mere words fall far short of the actual reality...
Call for Submissions: Chamisa
Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest, Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, and The University of New Mexico Volume Two: Women in the Southwest Call for Submissions When we consider the diverse communities located in...
Daily Lobo 2021 Photo Contest
The Daily Lobo is now accepting submissions for our 2021 Photography Contest. No matter your genre — landscape, portrait, still-life, photojournalism, etc. — we want to see your photos! Send your best picture to our photo editor for your chance to be published in the...
John Phillip Abbott opens a solo show
John Phillip Abbott opens a solo show John Abbott is an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing with UNM Department of Art. Abbott’s current exhibition, Wishing Like a Mountain, runs February 4—March 20, 2021, at Baronian Xippas in Brussels, as well as a piece in...
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