Category: Faculty Spotlight
College of Fine Arts News
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...
Andrea Polli wins award for community-engaged art projects
Andrea Polli wins award for community-engaged art projects New project lights up Albuquerque downtown nights By Mary Beth King Art installations created by Andrea Polli, a University of New Mexico professor of Art and associate professor of Engineering, and her team...
Dance program welcomes Miguel Gutierrez as a guest artist in residence
Miguel Gutierrez is a choreographer, composer, performer, singer, writer, educator and advocate who has lived in New York for over twenty years. Miguel Gutierrez / artist-in-residence @ the UNM Dance Program / October 28 - November 9 Artist Talk on Friday, November 1,...
UNM Fine Arts welcomes new faculty members
UNM Fine Arts welcomes new faculty members UNM Fine Arts is pleased to announce the appointment of our new faculty members. We are thrilled to have these artists and educators join our faculty,” says Regina Carlow, Interim Dean of UNM Fine Arts. “Their diverse...
Watch: ArtsUnexpected 2019
ArtsUnexpected was an all day and evening arts extravaganza at various locations on the UNM campus, surrounding community and in downtown Albuquerque. Check out this year’s video to give you an idea of what you missed.
Watch: UNM Dance students perform in “Hannibal”
"Hannibal" 2019Professor Donna Jewell, guest choreographer and actress with the Austrian based theater company Lawine Torren, took four dance students from UNM to perform on April 12 in the largest contemporary theater piece in the world, entitled Hannibal. The...
UNM professors take the stage in Granada
Their performance, Nueva Música de Nuevo México, will connect new music from New Mexico with an international audience, and bring selected John Donald Robb Field Recordings of historical New Mexican folk music back to Spain as part of the world premiere of a new composition.
Honoring the legacy of Patrick Nagatani
On April 27, the UNM Art Museum will open “Patrick Nagatani: A Survey of Early Photographs” in the Raymond Jonson Gallery. The photographs in the exhibition predate Nagatani’s move to New Mexico, highlighting the work he did as a graduate student and earlier, when Nagatani was a novice photographer.
Fine Arts Faculty and Alum Secure Fulcrum Grant Awards
Professor Ray Hernández-Durán and BFA Joanna Keane Lopez among those receiving project funding from the 516 ARTS partnered grant program
A Farewell to Winds: An Interview with Keith Lemmons
Keith Lemmons has been teaching music here at UNM since 1984. Retiring this spring, the former UNM Teacher of the Year discusses a prodigious career in music, and his farewell UNM performance
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