College of Fine Arts News
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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,...
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...
Visiting Scholar Dr. Javier Marín-López will present on Colonial and Baroque Music in the Americas
Visiting Scholar Dr. Javier Marín-López to present on Colonial and Baroque Music in the Americas Visiting Scholar Dr. Javier Marín-López, Professor of Musicology at the University of Jaén, Spain, will present two lectures at UNM this month. He is a scholar specialized...
UNM Music Students and Faculty to Perform in the Santa Fe Opera’s Premiere of This Little Light of Mine
UNM Music Students and Faculty to Perform in the Santa Fe Opera’s Premiere of This Little Light of Mine Four graduate vocal performance students in the UNM Music Department have been invited to perform with the Santa Fe Opera. Mia Flora, Marshal Hollingsworth, Garrett...
Kristina Jacobsen to tour South Africa as singer-songwriter and ethnomusicologist
This month, Dr. Kristina Jacobsen will travel to Johannesburg, South Africa, as a guest of the Diné-led jazz trio, DDAT, as both a singer-songwriter and ethnomusicologist to perform at the legendary music festival, WOMAD. In Johannesburg, Jacobsen will perform her...
The Office of the Vice President for Research announces inaugural Ovation Award winners.
Congratulations to Professor of Art and Ecology, Subhankar Banerjee and Professor of Music, Richard White! Banerjee, White, and six Lobo researchers from disciplines spanning across The University of New Mexico have been selected as recipients of the inaugural OVPR...
Harris Smith, Dean of the College of Fine Arts, announces two new leadership appointments
Amanda Hamp, associate professor of dance, stepped into the role of associate dean of equity and excellence on June 1, 2022. Dr. Michael Hix, associate professor of voice, will continue to lead the Department of Music as chair. Dr. Hix previously served as interim...
UNM Art, Center of Environmental Arts and Humanities represented at the 2022 Venice Biennale
A team from The University of New Mexico created a project titled. “a Library, a Classroom, and the World”, which is currently on display at the prestigious 2022 Venice Biennial Art exhibition Personal Structures organized and hosted by the European Cultural Centre...
Art History PH.D. Student wins the prestigious Crossing Latinidades Mellon Fellowship Award
Jeannette Martinez is a second-year Ph.D. student in the art history program at The University of New Mexico. Being of the Central American diaspora greatly influenced her interests in contemporary U.S. Latinx art. While this is Jeannette’s area of discipline, her...
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...
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