The Office of the Vice President for Research announces inaugural Ovation Award winners.

Join us on April 11th from 5:00 – 6:30 PM at the UNM Art Museum for Graphic Art and Revolution: One Woman’s Experience, a lecture by poet, photographer, and social activist Margaret Randall.

In this lecture, Randall will reflect on her journey in photography, from apprenticing with a photographer in Cuba to documenting the early years of the Sandinista Revolution and the onset of the Contra War after moving to Nicaragua in 1979–80. She will also spotlight the work of Nicaraguan women photographers featured in “Graphic Art and Revolution: Latin American Political Posters 1960 – 2000” while discussing the broader landscape of photography during this pivotal era.

Graphic Art and Revolution brings together Latin American political posters from two major repositories at the university: the University of New Mexico Art Museum and the Sam L. Slick Collection of Latin American and Iberian Posters at the Center for Southwest Research. The exhibition features materials produced in response to populist, anti-imperialist, and anti-dictatorial revolutionary and resistance movements from 1968 to 2000. Representing a range of nations and organizations, it includes prints created in Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Cuba. The exhibition is organized into three sections that each focus on how graphic art has been employed as an agent and artifact of revolution: Inventing Revolutionary Icons, The Institutionalization of Revolution, and Global Solidarities.

XR Performance Hack-a-thon

Info Session: Mar 25, 6PM @ Art Bldg (84), Room 304
Workshop Sessions: TBD (Min. 3)
Rehearsal: Apr 19, 2PM @ UNM Art Museum
Performance: Apr 19, 3:30-5:30PM @ UNM Art Museum

This performance workshop is part of an initiative to foster intellectual and artistic exchange in XR (extended reality) studies. We invite you to join a three-week workshop, a collaboration between faculty/students in the Art Department and the Department of Film & Digital Arts at UNM.

The workshop will begin in Week 10 of the semester and will include students from FDMA 491: Blender and ARTS 446/546: The Politics of Performance, along with interested performers from various fields. Interested artist/scholars will collaborate with students in FDMA 491 to create performances that incorporate 3-D rendered objects in virtual reality.

The three-week collaboration will culminate in a public performance. The performance will be streamed online through the Department of Film & Digital Arts platform and presented at the UNM Art Museum.

Attendance is free. Selected participants will commit to at least 3 meetings with collaborators, as well as participation in the final rehearsal and performance, which will take place on Saturday, April 19.

📩 Apply by Mar 24, 12PM: Send portfolio (website or PDF) optional CV to Prof. Szu-Han Ho (szho@unm.edu). Space is limited!

Risky Moves is the Spring Student Choreography Concert featuring new dance works by UNM students. The Student Choreography Concert provides emerging choreographers a chance to put their training to the test and experience the vulnerable and empowering process of sharing their work with the public. Students also develop various skills involved in producing dance performance, including leading a rehearsal process, working with lighting designers, writing about their creative work, and participating in marketing.

Artist directors Dr. Ninoska M’Bewe Escobar and Jessica Wilson
May 2, 3, 8, 9, and 10 at 7:30pm, and May 4 at 2:00pm
Elizabeth Waters Center for Dance
$12 General, $10 Faculty & Seniors, $8 Staff & Students