College of Fine Arts News
Faculty, Alumni, & Student Highlights
New Self-Produced Music From Young CFA Artists!
Check out this new upcoming music group called "NICTEHA" and their new singly "Honey"!
Dr. Karl Hinterbichler receives the Ken Hanlon Award from International Trombone Association.
Dr. Karl Hinterbichler receives the Ken Hanlon Award from ITA. The Kenneth Hanlon Award recognizes an individual that contributes greatly to the International Trombone Association (ITA) and the trombone world with a spirit of generosity and modesty that inspires. The...
The Department of Art welcomes a new faculty member in Photography
The Department of Art welcomes a new faculty member in Photography We are excited to announce that we have added an outstanding new faculty member to our Photography program. Mark McKnight (b. Los Angeles, CA) is an artist whose work has been exhibited...
Art for Justice Fund Announces Spring 2020 Grantee Cohort
Szu-Han Ho has been awarded a grant from the Art for Justice Fund (@Art4JusticeFund) for work on migrant detention. Szu-Han Ho’s work in performance, sound, and installation explores the relationship between bodies and sites of memory. She often works collaboratively,...
Department of Music announcing three new faculty members
We are excited to announce that we will be adding three outstanding new faculty members, two to our Instrumental Music Education program, and a new Orchestra Director in the fall. George Nicholson, a Ph.D. candidate at Teachers College at Columbia University, will be...
When Coronavirus Emptied the Streets, Music Filled Them
A singer-songwriter anthropologist who has been experiencing Italy’s COVID-19 quarantine reflects on how pandemic-inspired songs connect people and reveal shifting power dynamics. By KRISTINA JACOBSEN, SAPIENS MAR 2020 Since a quarantine was imposed in parts of...
Two University of New Mexico graduate students competed in the first-ever “Comcast Pitch Deck Competition”
Two University of New Mexico graduate students, who happen to be married, Tracy and Tim Mallette competed in the first-ever “Comcast Pitch Deck Competition”. This Competition was an early-stage pitch competition that brought together university entrepreneurs from all...
Faculty Dance Concert Spring 2021
Following COVID19 guidelines UNM’s dance program will present its faculty dance concert Chameleon. The online concert will be presented in April featuring new creations staged and/or choreographed by faculty members Marisol Encinias, Donna Jewell, and Vladimir Conde...
Professor of Art and Ecology Bill Gilbert releases a new book
Professor of Art and Ecology Bill Gilbert releases a new book. Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Art and Ecology Bill Gilbert has released a new book entitled Arts Programming for the Anthropocene: art in community and environment with Routledge Press. Drawing upon...
Congratulations to our Department of Art MFA student Erin Gould!
Congratulations to our Department of Art MFA student Erin Gould! The Faculty Senate Teaching Enhancement Committee awarded the 2019-2020 Susan Deese-Roberts Teaching Assistant of the Year award to Erin Gould. Award Winners are nominated by students and colleagues and...
Sundance Institute Selects 2020 Native Filmmakers Lab Fellows
Five Indigenous filmmakers have been chosen to participate in the 2020 Sundance Institute Native Filmmakers Lab, reimagined and expressed digitally this year on Sundance Co//ab. The Lab is at the core of the Institute’s commitment to supporting Indigenous storytellers...
Music alumnus doing some incredible work during this time of COVID
Alumnus Ingela Onstad doing some incredible work during this time of COVID. Ingela Onstad, who completed her M.M. In Voice Performance (2014) and her M.A. in Mental Health Counseling (2017) from UNM, recently launched a new business called Courageous Artistry. Through...
UNM music professor awarded prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
José Luis Hurtado, is one of the 2020 winners of the Guggenheim Fellowship By Mary Beth King April 13, 2020 Composer and pianist José Luis Hurtado, an associate professor in The University of New Mexico’s Department of Music in the College of Fine Arts, is one of the...
Nuclear Science and Security Consortium Undergrad wins Best Student Game at the 2019 Serious Games Showcase and Challenge
Nuclear Science and Security Consortium Undergrad wins Best Student Game at the 2019 Serious Games Showcase and Challenge Nuclear Science and Security Consortium (NSSC) Undergraduate Jake Tibbetts and the Project on Nuclear Gaming were awarded Best Student Game at the...
Professional, amateur filmmakers ready to get back to work.
Professional, amateur filmmakers ready to get back to work. When the pandemic hit and the governor’s health order shut down most of the state, filmmakers were left wondering how long it would last. Now those months of wondering are over, as set construction and small...
A UNM Film and Digital Arts graduate, Shaandiin Tome, featured in New Mexico Magazine
A UNM Film and Digital Arts graduate, Shaandiin Tome, featured in New Mexico Magazine. FROM THE VERY BEGINNING of Shaandiin Tome’s short film Mud (Hashtl’ishnii), you notice the graininess. It’s shot on 16-millimeter film, a bold aesthetic choice that is not easy to...
Music, Emotion, and Fish with Dr. David Bashwiner
We are back, with Part 2 of ‘Music, Emotion, and Fish’. If you haven’t had the chance to listen to Part 1, you can click back to Episode 15, Dr. David Bashwiner was just getting to his work on the Midshipman toadfish, and what it can teach us about musical desire in...
Congratulations to Cherille Williams, recipient of this year’s JGS “Imagining America” Fellowship.
Congratulations to Cherille Williams, recipient of this year’s JGS “Imagining America” Fellowship. Cherille is one of eight undergraduate students from across the nation chosen for the award. Thanks to a generous grant from the Joy of Giving Something, Inc. (JGS),...
The Department of Music welcomes two new faculty members, Dr. Olga Perez Flora and Mr. James Flora
Dr. Olga Perez Flora Cuban-American mezzo-soprano, Olga Perez Flora, has been lauded by Opera News for her “smoky tones” and “firm, pleasant voice, and lively poise.” Flora has performed with opera companies and symphonies both across the country and internationally....
Undergraduate Juried Show Winners
Each spring the Art Department sponsors an Undergrad Juried Art Show. This year’s juror was Rene Palomares, an Albuquerque Public School Art teacher and a current UNM MFA student in Art Education. Mr. Palomares selected the exhibition pieces submitted by undergraduate...
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