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AN ICONIC HOLIDAY TRADITION RETURNS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
By Lilly Porter, October 30, 2023The National Institute of Flamenco (NIF) invites you to immerse yourself in a joyful and vibrant world of flamenco dance and music, villancicos – Spanish Christmas carols – Escuela Bolera, Spanish Folkdance, and African Dance. La...
Announcing the Distinguished Alumni Award
Announcing the Distinguished Alumni Award The College of Fine Arts at The University of New Mexico announces the Distinguished Alumni Award. This award is a recognition or honor presented to graduates who have achieved outstanding success and made significant...
Pippin the Musical Delights and Amazes, Presented by UNM Theatre and Dance
The UNM Department of Theatre and Dance is excited to present "Pippin," a captivating and surprising musical that tells the story of a young Pippin, the son of King Charlemagne, as he embarks on a quest to find his true identity and purpose in life. Written by Roger...
UNM Associate Professor of Music Dr. Ana Alonso-Minutti Releases New Book, Mario Lavista: Mirrors of Sounds, 2023
By Lilly Porter, October 30, 2023
Dr. Ana Alonso-Minutti’s new book, Mario Lavista: Mirrors of Sounds, has just been released by Oxford University Press. This work—the first of its kind—discusses the music of the influential composer Mario Lavista through the lens of his contribution to contemporary music in Mexico and beyond.
The Music from the Americas presents: “UNACCOMPANIED, Personal Stories of Immigration and American Identity
The Music from the Americas presents: “UNACCOMPANIED, Personal Stories of Immigration and American Identity The Music from the Americas presents “UNACCOMPANIED: Eight New Works for Solo Cello Exploring Personal Stories of Immigration and American Identity.” This...
Announcing ARTSSPLASH 2023 hosted by The UNM College of Fine Arts
Announcing ARTSSPLASH 2023 hosted by The UNM College of Fine Arts Albuquerque, NM – Harris Smith, Dean of the College of Fine Arts at The University of New Mexico, announces the second annual ARTSSPLASH event on Wednesday, Sept. 27. ARTSSSPLASH 2023 will celebrate...
Diller Scofidio + Renfro chosen as architect for UNM’s Center for Collaborative Arts and Technology Building
Diller Scofidio + Renfro chosen as architect for UNM's Center for Collaborative Arts and Technology Building By Sarah Scott, August 04, 2023 University of New Mexico Planning, Design & Construction has selected Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), a highly influential...
Innovative Collaboration Produces a New Play Festival
Innovative Collaboration Produces a New Play Festival The UNM Department of Theatre and Dance has partnered with the University of Memphis Department of Theatre and Dance to create Escape: A New Play Festival. Students from the UNM MFA Dramatic Writing Program worked...
UNM Theatre Debuts New Play by Gregory S. Moss
UNM Theatre Debuts New Play by Gregory S. Moss Gregory S Moss read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein back in high school, like most high school students. But for Moss, Frankenstein was not a story we read once, wrote a paper on, and then briefly forgot about until the many...
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...
UNM Business School, Film Department launch MBA for Professionals in Film and Digital Arts
By Anna Dykeman The University of New Mexico Anderson School of Management has partnered with the UNM Film & Digital Arts Department to provide a new MBA track focused on film and digital arts beginning in August 2022. The MBA for Professionals program, which also...
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...
Linnell Festival of New Plays features three new works by graduating UNM playwrights
The University of New Mexico Department of Theatre and Dance presents three works by graduating playwrights of the MFA Dramatic Writing Program. Linnell Festival of New Plays, under artistic director, Gregory S. Moss, takes place February 9-13 at The Experimental...
UNM Director of Ticketing, Leason Cherry dies
Director of UNM Ticketing, Leason Cherry died unexpectedly on Friday, Nov. 26. Cherry was a valued member of the University's Institutional Support Services (ISS) team since 2002 and became the director of UNM Ticketing in 2019. He was 41. A resident of Jarales, N.M.,...
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....
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...
Fine Arts Proudly Hosts AIDS Memorial Quilt Panels for World AIDS Day
In June 1987, a group of strangers in San Francisco gathered to remember the names and lives of their loved ones that they feared history would forget.
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
Watch: Arts Unexpected 2017
featuring over 250+ artists and performers, the 5th annual Arts Unexpected festival is a student-organized pop-up art festival which showcases the CFA’s talents.
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