Category: Featured News
College of Fine Arts NewsNew Book Release: Listening Pedagogies Co-Edited by Gigi Schroeder Yu, Featuring Presentation at UNM Research Week
We are thrilled to announce the publication of Listening Pedagogies: Creative and Arts-Based Approaches for Education in Unstable Times (Routledge, October 2026), co-edited by Art Education Professor Gigi Schroeder Yu, alongside Mitsy KwangDae Chung, University of Western Ontario, and Dr. Jo Pollitt, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
Hanna Brody Receives Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant
We’re pleased to share that MFA student Hanna Brody has received a grant from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, a Canadian nonprofit organization based in Montreal that supports emerging representational artists worldwide.
Exhibition Catalogue for Voces del Pueblo: Artists of the Levantamiento Chicano Earns Multiple Awards
The exhibition catalogue for Voces del Pueblo: Artists of the Levantamiento Chicano in New Mexico has received wonderful recognition, winning three awards so far.
Making the Invisible Visible: Sammie Chinigo’s Art About Living with Chronic Illness
If you’ve ever heard “but you don’t look sick,” you know how frustrating it can be. That’s been part of Sammie Chinigo’s life for almost 15 years as she manages a chronic autoimmune illness. But instead of staying silent, Sammie, an art student, is speaking out through her art.
Ray Hernández-Durán and Irene Vásquez Discuss Voces del Pueblo on NM PBS
On August 4, 2026, Professor of Art History Ray Hernández-Durán @rhernand65 and Irene Vásquez, Chair of Chicana and Chicano Studies, were interviewed about their work on the exhibition, Voces del Pueblo
Bianka Groves De La Cruz, Arts MFA, Featured in The Line Exhibition and Studio Talk 2026
MFA ceramics student Bianka Groves De La Cruz is gaining recognition for her thoughtful and patient approach to ceramics. She is currently featured in the “The Line” exhibition, September 4–26, 2026, which showcases artists who use line work to explore...
Welcoming Postdoc Afrooz Partovi to CFA
Afrooz Partovi is an artist-architect who explores intangible dimensions of time and space through immersive technologies and time-based media.
250 Years of Survival: Art Alum and Professor Eric Garcia’s New Mural
The first thing that hits you about Eric Garcia’s new mural at the Albuquerque Museum, “Since 1776…”, is the sheer size of it. I wanted to first play with the architecture,” Garcia said during the ceremony devoted to him, his team and the mural itself. “I wanted to do something that no one had done before. I wanted to go bigger.”
Welcome Our New Art Practices Faculty, jesse lovell
jessamyn (jesse) lovell (b. 1977, Syracuse, NY) is a gender-fluid artist and licensed private investigator based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. lovell is of French, Sicilian, Irish, and Choctaw heritage and grew up in rural poverty in upstate New York. They work with...
Art Faculty, Emeritus Faculty, and Alum Featured at the National Gallery of Art & More
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. is currently featuring work by UNM faculty, emeritus faculty, and an alum in “Beneath the Surface: Mining and American Photography”. The exhibition explores the relationship between resource extraction and...
Welcome Our New Art History Faculty, Sabrina Carletti
Sabrina Carletti is an Assistant Professor of Art History whose research focuses on the interdisciplinary study of modern and contemporary Latin American art and culture. Her work explores the intersections of artists’ practices, literature, media, and the production of knowledge, rethinking how the conceptual terms used to describe artistic practice shape our understanding of what art does.
MFA Graduate Student, Armando de la Torre, Selected for SOMA Summer 2026 in Mexico City Art, Student Spotlight
The UNM CFA Dean’s Office and Department of Art are pleased to announce that Armando de la Torre has been awarded the UNM SOMA Summer Travel Grant. This grant is awarded to a UNM graduate student to attend SOMA Summer 2026 @somamexico, a 4-week program in Mexico City....
Welcome Our New Art Education Faculty, Rachel Zollinger
We’re excited to welcome Rachel Zollinger to our faculty this Fall as our newest professor in Art Education. Rachel Zollinger is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and scholar whose research explores multispecies and emplaced pedagogies at the intersection of...
Recent MFA Graduate, Fen Root, Selected for SOMA Summer 2026 in Mexico City
The UNM CFA Dean’s Office and Department of Art are pleased to announce that fen root has been awarded the UNM SOMA Summer Travel Grant.
Art MFA Graduate daniela del mar Awarded Dedalus Foundation Fellowship
The Department of Art is proud to announce that recent MFA graduate daniela del mar is the recipient of a 2026 Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Painting & Sculpture.
Covington-Rhode Senior Prize Winners: Kaitlin Bone and Shaun Pinello
The UNM Department of Art is proud to announce the recipients of the 2026 Covington-Rhode Senior Prize: Kaitlin Bone (Kat B.) and Shaun Pinello. Made possible through the generosity of UNM alumna Dr. Patricia Covington and Shari Rhode, the Covington-Rhode Senior Prize...
Professor, Szu-Han Ho, Receives 2026 Asian Cultural Council Grant for Research in Taiwan
The award will support Ho’s upcoming sabbatical research in Taiwan, where they will continue exploring contemporary sound art, experimental music, and cross-cultural artistic exchange. The ACC’s 2026 grant cycle supports artists, scholars, and arts professionals...
Jessamyn Lovell co-hosting “Better Critiques, Less Burnout” and featured in The Griffin Museum of Photography exhibition “Material Work: Toil & Grace.
Jessamyn Lovell is co-hosting “Better Critiques, Less Burnout,” covering critique, reflection, and restoration through Foundations in Art Theory and Education (FATE). End-of-Semester critiques don’t have to feel like a grind.
Art MFA Student, Saúl Ramírez, reviewed by the Albuquerque Journal
Congratulations to MFA student Saúl Ramírez, whose work was recently reviewed in the Albuquerque Journal. Their thesis exhibit, “Seeds of Compromise: In Search of Digestive Architectures,” is currently on view at the AC2 Gallery.
Assistant Professor, Amanda Curreri’s, Newest Exhibition “Liber Floridus”
Congratulations to Assistant Professor and graduate director Amanda Curreri, who, along with multimedia artist Andy Ness, created the exhibition Liber Floridus presented by the Wege Gallery. Curreri contributed woven textile-based works, while Ness contributed...
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