Recent College of Fine Arts graduate receives Andrew W. Mellon fellowship

Deborah Roberts, Austin based mixed media artist whose work challenges the notion of ideal beauty.

Deborah Roberts is a mixed media artist whose work challenges the notion of ideal beauty. Her work has been exhibited internationally across the USA and Europe. Roberts’ work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York; LACMA, Los Angeles, California; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia and the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, among several other institutions.

She was selected to participate in the Robert Rauschenberg Residency (2019) and is the recipient of the Anonymous Was A Woman Grant (2018), Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2016), and the Ginsburg-Klaus Award Fellowship (2014).

Roberts received her MFA from Syracuse University, New York. She lives and works in Austin, Texas. She has a solo exhibition that opened in the Fall of 2020 at The Contemporary Austin. Roberts is represented by Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, CA.

For more information contact: sommersgallery@unm.edu

Join us for our first Musicology Colloquium Series of the spring with Dr. Philip Ewll discussing

“How We Got Here, Where To Next: Examining Assimilationism in
American Music Studies”

In this talk, I consider our past so that we might chart a path for the future. Only through an exhaustive study of the past can we truly understand why the academic study of music is what it is today, a study that remains exclusionist with respect to musics that are not centered around both whiteness and maleness. In coming to terms with this difficult past we together—white, black, and everyone in between—can create a new academic study of music, rich and inclusive, which will be rewarding and emancipating for all.

Dr. Philip Ewell is an Associate Professor of Music Theory at Hunter College of the City University of New York, where he serves as Director of Graduate Studies.

Questions? Contact Dr. Kristina Jacobsen at kmj23@unm.edu
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or email slarteaga@unm.edu for Zoom login.
This event is available for Concert Music credit.