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College of Fine Arts News
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
Watch: John Marchiando – The Trumpet Virtuoso
Praised as one of the finest trumpeters of his generation, UNM’s John Marchiando is the assistant professor of trumpet at The University of New Mexico
Watch: Jim Stone – A Story in a Snapshot
As a professor of photography in one of the highest ranked programs in the United States, Jim Stone has helped put UNM’s photography program in the national spotlight…He uses his snapshots to tell stories, in an unprecedented way
Watch: Michael Anthony – Hollywood’s Go-To Guitarist
For over 20 years, jazz guitarist Michael Anthony was one of Hollywood’s “go-to” musicians. Now Anthony teaches jazz guitar at the College of Fine Arts.
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