College of Fine Arts News
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Congratulations UNM Printmaking alum, Juana Estrada Hernández, who is now RISD’s Assistant Professor of Printmaking
Congratulations UNM Printmaking alum, Juana Estrada Hernández, who is now Rhode Island School of Design's Assistant Professor of Printmaking Juana Estrada Hernández was born in Luis Moya, Zacatecas, Mexico and immigrated to the United States when she was seven years...
Ph.D. Art History student, Jeannette Martínez awarded 2023 Graduate Fellowship at the Smithsonian
Ph.D. Art History student, Jeannette Martínez awarded 2023 Graduate Fellowship at the Smithsonian Ph.D. student in Art History, Jeannette Martínez has been awarded a coveted Summer 2023 Graduate Fellowship for the Latino Museum Studies Program at the Smithsonian. She...
UNM Art History alumna, Suzanne McLeod (Ph.D. 2020) awarded the Popejoy Dissertation Prize
UNM Art History alumna, Suzanne McLeod (Ph.D. 2020) awarded the Popejoy Dissertation Prize UNM Art History alumna, Suzanne McLeod (Ph.D. 2020) has been awarded the Popejoy Dissertation Prize for her ground-breaking dissertation on Spanish-Indigenous contact in the...
Australian scholar will teach spring 2024
Australian scholar will teach spring 2024 Naomi Sunderland, professor and Australian Research Council Fellow at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, is coming to The University of New Mexico as an Australian Fulbright Senior Scholar Spring of 2024. She will...
Play by Poet Laureate Joy Harjo Highlights New Annual Native American Theatre Festival
Play by Poet Laureate Joy Harjo Highlights New Annual Native American Theatre Festival The University of New Mexico Department of Theatre and Dance, in collaboration with Two Worlds Theatre, proudly presents “Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light,” a play by Joy...
Congratulations to Szu-Han Ho who will be participating in the exhibit, “No Justice Without Love,” at the Ford Foundation in NYC
Congratulations to Szu-Han Ho who will be participating in the exhibit, "No Justice Without Love," at the Ford Foundation in NYC No Justice Without Love brings together the transformational work of artists, activists, and allied donors who make up the Art for Justice...
The UNM Department of Music would like to welcome Dr. Emily Moss as the new Director of Bands
UNM Department of Music Welcomes Dr. Emily Moss as the New Director of Band Dr. Emily Moss will be joining us as a Professor of Music and the Director of Bands starting in August 2023. She is currently the Director of Bands at California State University in Los...
UNM Dance Students Recognized at Regional and National Conference
UNM Dance Students Recognized at Regional and National Conference No rest for the determined! The Monday after closing Monstro/us: UNM’s Faculty Dance Concert, students from the Flamenco and Contemporary concentrations traveled to Huntsville, Texas to participate in...
Article in UNM Art Museum Journal, “Q&A with Marcella Ernest of Collective Constructs”
Article in UNM Art Museum Journal, “Q&A with Marcella Ernest of Collective Constructs,” shares how the group came to be and their contributions to the exhibition. The team is headed by Assistant Professor of Native American Art History, Marcella Ernest, Marina...
Low Frequency Trio returns to UNM as part of their Spring 23 UST Tour!
Low Frequency Trio returns to UNM as part of their Spring 23 UST Tour! Tuesday, April 18, 7:30 pm UNM Keller Hall, Department of Music LOW FREQUENCY TRIO Formed by Antonio Rosales (bass clarinet, Juan José García (double bass), and José Luis Hurtado (piano), Low...
Congratulation to Hulsman Research Award Winners Daniel Feng and Lauren Reddington
Congratulation to Hulsman Research Award Winners Daniel Feng and Lauren Reddington Congratulation to Daniel Feng who won 2nd place in the 2023 Hulsman Undergraduate Library Research Award’s Emerging Researcher category for a paper they wrote in PhD candidate, Beth...
UNM’s Arita Porcelain Studio honors process and history
UNM's Arita Porcelain Studio honors process and history Students at the Arita Porcelain Studio, located in the Art Annex at the University of New Mexico, are unique in their study of the traditional 400-year-old Japanese art of Arita porcelain; UNM is the only...
Musicology students present their research at UNM 2023 Musicology Student Symposium
Musicology students present their research at UNM 2023 Musicology Student Symposium How can music be used to revitalize a language? How can opera be a journey of healing from trauma? How does a popular music genre interact with the Mexican drug war? How can hyperpop...
Renowned Choreographers Debut New Works in UNM Faculty Dance Concert
Renowned Choreographers Debut New Works in UNM Faculty Dance Concert Article Content: Prepare to be captivated by the haunting beauty and depth of the annual Faculty Dance Concert from the UNM Department of Theatre and Dance. Monstro/us takes a deep dive into the...
The Linnell Spring Reading Series
The Linnell Festival of New Plays February 10th -12th in the Experimental Theatre on UNM The annual Linnell Festival of New Plays presents new works by students of the UNM MFA Dramatic Writing Program. This year presents six staged readings of new works in progress by...
Congratulations UNM Photography alum Martin Wannam who is now the Assistant Professor of Art at UNC Chapel Hill
Congratulations UNM Photography alum Martin Wannam who is now the Assistant Professor of Art at UNC Chapel Hill Martín Wannam (b. 1992, Guatemala) is a visual artist and educator whose work critically examines Guatemalan’s historical, social, and political climate,...
UNM MFA Art & Ecology alum Dylan McLaughlin appointed Early Career Fellow at UT Austin
UNM MFA Art & Ecology alum Dylan McLaughlin appointed Early Career Fellow at UT Austin The University of Texas at Austin, College of Fine Arts welcomes three Early Career Fellows for the next two years as part of its Expanding Approaches to American Arts...
Recent essay from Experimental Art & Technology professor, Stewart Skylar Copeland
Recent essay from Experimental Art & Technology professor, Stewart Skylar Copeland Experimental Art & Technology professor, Stewart Skylar Copeland, co-authored an essay in the most recent issue of the Journal of Landscape Architecture. "Homing bodies" is an essay...
Harpo Foundation 2022 grant recipient, Stephanie J. Woods
Harpo Foundation 2022 grant recipient, Stephanie J. Woods Congratulations to the Harpo Foundation 2022 grant recipient, Interdisciplinary instructor, Stephanie J. Woods!! Stephanie Woods' work fuses a relationship between fiber and digital technology to examine...
UNM Team receives award for 2022 Venice Biennial Art exhibition project
UNM Team receives award for 2022 Venice Biennial Art exhibition project UNM + Davidson College project, "a Library, a Classroom, and the World," which was included in the 2022 Venice Biennial Art exhibition Personal Structures has won the ECC Award for the category,...
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