The UNM Dance Program welcomes dance scholar and historian Clare Croft to Albuquerque. Croft, in addition to being a dance theorist, curator, dramaturg, and dancer, has written on the role dance plays in cultural exchange and diplomacy as well as a focus on Jill Johnston – a queer writer, dance critic, and activist. In her written work Croft explores the relationship Johnston had between her physical body as a dancer, audience member, and protest participant, and her written critiques and traces the lesbian feminist movement backs to avant-garde art practices in the 1970s.
Clare Croft is the founder and curator of Daring Dances-a project that showcases work by dance artists about navigating through difficult situations. The project uses dance and bodies to teach us that policies have real effects on peoples’ lives and experiences. Daring Dances hosts a residency program that has been awarded to Anna Martine Whitehead, Leila Wadallah, and T. Ayo Alston.
Clare Croft will be at the University of New Mexico in the Elizabeth Waters Center for Dance to give a book reading and artist talk March 7th 1pm-2:30pm.
Voces del Pueblo: Artists of the Levantamiento Chicano in New Mexico, curated by Art History Professor Ray Hernández-Durán, Ph.D., and Irene Vásquez, Ph.D. This is an exhibition 7 years in the making that features a group of New Mexican artists who were among the...
The Department of Art is thrilled to congratulate MFA Photography alumni Anna Rotty and Brianna Tadeo on the selection of their work for “FORECAST 2025” at SF Camerawork!
The UNM Department of Art’s RAVEL Lab was featured in a recent e-flux journal article by Brian Karl. Published on June 13, 2025, as part of e-flux Education’s mid-June focus on U.S. institutions across the South and Southwest, the feature spotlights the RAVEL Lab within Art & Ecology program at The University of New Mexico.
