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College of Fine Arts News
Harris Smith, Dean of the College of Fine Arts, announces two new leadership appointments
Amanda Hamp, associate professor of dance, stepped into the role of associate dean of equity and excellence on June 1, 2022. Dr. Michael Hix, associate professor of voice, will continue to lead the Department of Music as chair. Dr. Hix previously served as interim...
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...
Dr. Maxine Thévenot selected to participate in the Jeanne Demessieux Centennial Tribute
Dr. Maxine Thévenot, Instructor of Organ, here at the UNM Department of Music, was one of 14 women organists selected to participate in the Jeanne Demessieux Centennial Tribute. To commemorate the virtuoso French organist, Jeanne Demissieux. Dr. Thévenot was selected...
Alonso-Minutti receives prize for ‘Voces del desierto’ composition
Alonso-Minutti receives prize for 'Voces del desierto' composition Ana Alonso-Minutti, associate professor of Music and faculty affiliate of the Latin American and Iberian Institute at The University of New Mexico, was recently awarded the biennial 2021 Robert M....
The Department of Theatre and Dance welcomes Ninoska M’bewe Escobar, Ph.D. post-doctoral research associate
Ninoska M’bewe Escobar, Ph.D. specializes in Black diasporic theatre, dance, and performance. Her work focuses on the body in society through its experiences, narratives, and creative production. From 2016-2021 she was affiliated with the Five College Dance Department...
‘I’m Possible’ autobiography featuring UNM music professor Dr. Richard White now on sale
From the streets of Baltimore, Maryland to the campus of The University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, Associate Professor, Dr. Richard White (R.A.W. Tuba) continues to make headlines. The most recent is the publishing of his autobiography, ‘I’m Possible’. ‘I’m...
Michael Hix named interim chair of the Department of Music
Michael Hix named interim chair of the Department of Music Michael Hix, associate professor of Voice, will serve as interim chair of the Department of Music at The University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts. Hix served as associate chair for five years under the...
Distinguished Dance Teacher of the Year Award goes to Professor Eva Encinias-Sandoval
Professor Eva Encinias-Sandoval awarded Distinguished Dance Teacher by Dance Teacher Magazine The Department of Theatre and Dance is proud to share the news that Professor Emeritus Eva Encinias-Sandoval has been granted this year's Distinguished Dance Teacher award...
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...
Faculty Dance Concert Spring 2021
Following COVID19 guidelines UNM’s dance program will present its faculty dance concert Chameleon. The online concert will be presented in April featuring new creations staged and/or choreographed by faculty members Marisol Encinias, Donna Jewell, and Vladimir Conde...
Dr. Karl Hinterbichler receives the Ken Hanlon Award from International Trombone Association.
Dr. Karl Hinterbichler receives the Ken Hanlon Award from ITA. The Kenneth Hanlon Award recognizes an individual that contributes greatly to the International Trombone Association (ITA) and the trombone world with a spirit of generosity and modesty that inspires. The...
Professor of Art and Ecology Bill Gilbert releases a new book
Professor of Art and Ecology Bill Gilbert releases a new book. Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Art and Ecology Bill Gilbert has released a new book entitled Arts Programming for the Anthropocene: art in community and environment with Routledge Press. Drawing upon...
The Department of Art welcomes a new faculty member in Photography
The Department of Art welcomes a new faculty member in Photography We are excited to announce that we have added an outstanding new faculty member to our Photography program. Mark McKnight (b. Los Angeles, CA) is an artist whose work has been exhibited...
Music, Emotion, and Fish with Dr. David Bashwiner
We are back, with Part 2 of ‘Music, Emotion, and Fish’. If you haven’t had the chance to listen to Part 1, you can click back to Episode 15, Dr. David Bashwiner was just getting to his work on the Midshipman toadfish, and what it can teach us about musical desire in...
Art for Justice Fund Announces Spring 2020 Grantee Cohort
Szu-Han Ho has been awarded a grant from the Art for Justice Fund (@Art4JusticeFund) for work on migrant detention. Szu-Han Ho’s work in performance, sound, and installation explores the relationship between bodies and sites of memory. She often works collaboratively,...
Department of Music announcing three new faculty members
We are excited to announce that we will be adding three outstanding new faculty members, two to our Instrumental Music Education program, and a new Orchestra Director in the fall. George Nicholson, a Ph.D. candidate at Teachers College at Columbia University, will be...
The Department of Music welcomes two new faculty members, Dr. Olga Perez Flora and Mr. James Flora
Dr. Olga Perez Flora Cuban-American mezzo-soprano, Olga Perez Flora, has been lauded by Opera News for her “smoky tones” and “firm, pleasant voice, and lively poise.” Flora has performed with opera companies and symphonies both across the country and internationally....
When Coronavirus Emptied the Streets, Music Filled Them
A singer-songwriter anthropologist who has been experiencing Italy’s COVID-19 quarantine reflects on how pandemic-inspired songs connect people and reveal shifting power dynamics. By KRISTINA JACOBSEN, SAPIENS MAR 2020 Since a quarantine was imposed in parts of...
UNM music professor awarded prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
José Luis Hurtado, is one of the 2020 winners of the Guggenheim Fellowship By Mary Beth King April 13, 2020 Composer and pianist José Luis Hurtado, an associate professor in The University of New Mexico’s Department of Music in the College of Fine Arts, is one of the...
John Abbott opens a solo show “New Day” at the Xippas Gallery in Paris
John Abbott opens a solo show “New Day” at the Xippas Gallery in Paris Abbott is an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing who joined the College of Fine Arts this fall. This is Abbott’s first solo show at the Xippas gallery, reuniting on both floors of the...
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