FACULTY

& Emeritus

ENDOWED FACULTY CHAIRS

Andrea Polli

Andrea Polli

Professor, Mesa Del Sol Endowed Chair in Digital Media

Andrea Polli is currently a Professor and Director of STEAM NM with appointments in the College of Fine Arts and School of Engineering at the University of New Mexico. She holds the Mesa Del Sol Endowed Chair of Digital Media.

Jeanette Hart-Mann

Jeanette Hart-Mann

Associate Professor, Lannan Foundation Endowed Chair

Jeanette Hart-Mann is a farmer, artist, activist, and teacher committed to the transformative potential of traditional ecological knowledge, embodied land-based practices...

Jeanette Hart-Mann

Jeanette Hart-Mann

Associate Professor, Lannan Foundation Endowed Chair

Jeanette Hart-Mann is a farmer, artist, activist, and teacher committed to the transformative potential of traditional ecological knowledge, embodied land-based practices...

Subhankar Banerjee

Subhankar Banerjee

Professor, Founding Director, UNM Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities

Subhankar Banerjee is a photographer, writer, curator and environmental humanities scholar. His creative and scholarly efforts focus on biodiversity and climate crises, and on multispecies kinship, caretaking and justice...

Kaitlin Bryson

Kaitlin Bryson

Lecturer III

Kaitlin Bryson is a queer, ecological/bio artist concerned with environmental and social justice. She primarily works with fungi, plants, microbes, and biodegradable materials to engage more-than-human audiences...

Szu-Han Ho

Szu-Han Ho

Associate Professor, Graduate Director

Szu-Han’s work in performance, sound, and installation explores the interwoven relationship between bodies and sites of memory. Her practice considers modes of exchange through diverse forms...

Justin Makemson

Justin Makemson

Associate Professor

Justin Makemson PhD is an assistant professor of art education in UNM’s Department of Art Studio-History-Education and President-Elect of the New Mexico Art Education Association. Makemson has worked in teacher preparation in art education for over ten years...

Gigi Schroeder Yu

Gigi Schroeder Yu

Assistant Professor

Gigi Schroeder Yu, PhD is an assistant professor in art education in the art department at the University of New Mexico. She has also previously taught at Millikin University and DePaul University. Yu has over 20 years of experience teaching art...

Jeff Horwat

Jeff Horwat

Assistant Professor

Dr. Jeff Horwat is an artist, teacher, and researcher from Emmaus, Pennsylvania. Jeff earned his Bachelor of Science in Art Education at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, and later received a Master of Science in Art Education at Massachusetts College of Art & Design and a Doctorate in Art Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Justine M. Andrews

Justine M. Andrews

Associate Professor

After earning her Ph.D. from UCLA in 2002, Justine Andrews joined the faculty of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of New Mexico in 2004. Professor Andrews has worked extensively in the...

Kency Cornejo

Kency Cornejo

Associate Professor

Kency Cornejo is an Associate Professor of Art History at the University of New Mexico where she teaches Contemporary Latin American and Latinx Art Histories. She received her PhD in Art History and Visual Studies from Duke University, her MA from UT Austin, and her BA from UCLA. She is also a proud first-gen...

Kevin Mulhearn

Kevin Mulhearn

Assistant Professor

Born and raised in New Jersey, Kevin Mulhearn attended Haverford College, receiving a BA in History. After serving as a Congressional speechwriter and working in various capacities at museums in New York, including...

Kirsten Buick

Kirsten Buick

Professor

I identify as a scholar of the visual and material culture of the first British Empire, and the British diaspora in the US, Caribbean, and India. My teaching encompasses topics such as surveys of British Colonial and U.S. Art, American Landscape...

Susanne Anderson-Riedel

Susanne Anderson-Riedel

Department Chair, Associate Professor

Susanne Anderson-Riedel is a historian of Modern European Art and a specialist in the history of prints. Her scholarly interests include 18th and 19th-century prints and...

Ray Hernández-Durán, Ph.D.

Ray Hernández-Durán, Ph.D.

Professor

Ray Hernández-Durán, originally from San Antonio, Texas, completed his B.A. in Psychology/Pre-Med (1988) and B.F.A. in Studio Art and Art History (1990) at the University of Texas at Austin, his M.A. in African Art History (1994) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his Ph.D. in Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Latin American Art History (2005) at The University of Chicago. He is currently Professor of Art History...

Margaret A. Jackson

Margaret A. Jackson

Associate Professor

Margaret Jackson is a scholar of art and visual communication in the ancient Americas. A specialist in Moche imagery and iconography, she received her doctorate in Pre-Columbian Art History from...

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Marcella Ernest (Ojibwe)

Assistant Professor

Marcella (Ojibwe) is an interdisciplinary artist and community-engaged scholar. She creates video art and soundscapes using poetic imagery...

Clarence Cruz

Clarence Cruz

Associate Professor

Luce Foundation Indigenous Knowledge Fellowship for Native American intellectual and community leaders MFA Studio Art, Pueblo Pottery Emphasis Minor Museum Studies, BFA Studio Art, emphasis Ceramics, UNM Albuquerque, c108@unm.edu

Carol Padberg

Carol Padberg

Professor of Practice

Carol Padberg is an interdisciplinary artist, and the founding director of the Nomad MFA. Her art has been the subject of exhibitions at the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, and the New Britain Museum of American Art.

Mary Mattingly

Mary Mattingly

Professor of Practice

Mary Mattingly is an interdisciplinary artist who co-creates sculptural ecosystems that address forms of public food and commons in New York City.

Kathryne Cyman

Kathryne Cyman

Professor of Practice

Kathryne grew up in Michigan and traveled west to study Fine Arts at Arizona State University. She received a BFA in Ceramics in 1984. Kathryne considered handmade pottery an art form, even though ceramic...

Mary Tsiongas

Mary Tsiongas

Professor

Mary Tsiongas is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work addresses human relationships to technology, the wilderness, and sometimes delves into longtime fascinations such as our perception of time, the physics of light, and memory...

Lee Montgomery

Lee Montgomery

Associate Professor

Lee Montgomery got his BA in Film at Bard College, and and MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute. As the founder of Neighborhood Public Radio Lee has received grants from CEC Artslink, the...

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Leah Buechley

Joint Appointment in Art

Leah Buechley  is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at UNM where she directs the Hand and Machine Lab. Her work explores integrations of electronics, computing, art, craft, and design...

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Stewart Copeland

Director of ARTS Lab

Stewart Copeland is a transdisciplinary artist with a passion for emergent media, new narrative genres, and artistic research. His art often incorporates technology as a means to explore, dissect, and interrogate technological systems themselves.

Ellen Babcock

Ellen Babcock

Associate Professor

Ellen Babcock draws inspiration from landscapes and from panoply of materials, often scavenged or re-used, for her sculptures and installations. She has exhibited at numerous New Mexico and California venues, including SCA...

Jessamyn Lovell

Jessamyn Lovell

Principle Lecturer

Jessamyn Lovell (b. 1977, Syracuse, NY) is a visual artist working with photography, video, and surveillance as tools to document her own life experiences making connections between class and personal identity. BFA, Rochester...

Bart Exposito

Bart Exposito

Associate Professor

I was born in Amarillo, Texas and completed my education at the California Institute of the Arts. Since this time, approaching two decades now, I have worked as an artist and educator residing primarily...

Raychael Stine

Raychael Stine

Associate Professor

Raychael Stine holds a BA from The University of Texas at Dallas and an MFA from The University of Illinois at Chicago. Stine’s work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including, Art Palace Gallery...

Scott Anderson

Scott Anderson

Associate Chair, Professor

Scott Anderson (born Urbana, IL 1973) received a BFA from Kansas State University in 1997, a MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in...

Amanda Curreri

Amanda Curreri

Assistant Professor

Amanda Curreri is an artist and educator. Her artwork is situated between textiles and painting, characterized by an engagement with social hxstories of resistance. Textiles are key to the work for their ability to invite an experience...

John Phillip Abbott

John Phillip Abbott

Assistant Professor

Wausau, Wisconsin born John Phillip Abbott has exhibited internationally with solo exhibitions at Baronian Xippas, Brussels, Belgium; Xippas, Paris, France; Gleichapel, Paris, France; COUNTY Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida; Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, New York;...

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Jim Stone

Distinguished Professor

Jim Stone is an exhibiting artist who uses photography. He studied mechanical engineering and architecture while an undergraduate at MIT, but turned to photography while taking classes there from Minor White...

Meggan Gould

Meggan Gould

Professor

Meggan Gould’s photographic work primarily seeks to visualize the act of seeing in new ways, using photographs and the act of photographing as a departure point in various groups of work. She is a graduate of...

Sara Abbaspour

Sara Abbaspour

Assistant Professor

Sara Abbaspour's photographic work draws on influences from her background in urban studies. While embracing a herstorical approach, her photographs often seem timeless and placeless...

Patrick Manning

Patrick Manning

Associate Professor

Patrick Craig Manning is an Associate Professor of Photography at the University of New Mexico. Born in Seattle, WA, he received degrees in photography and archeology from the University of Washington and his MFA...

Yoshiko Shimano

Yoshiko Shimano

Professor

Japanese-born, Yoshiko Shimano challenges to transform the paper so it no longer speaks as “paper”, but has a density of physical presence that is one with its imagery. By using many different printmaking...

Karsten Creightney

Karsten Creightney

Assistant Professor

Karsten Creightney grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He received his BA from Antioch College, 2000. He completed the Tamarind Institute’s Professional Printer Training Program in 2001, and received his MFA from UNM, 2011. Creightney works in multiple media combining prints, paint, photographs...

Stephanie J. Woods

Stephanie J. Woods

Assistant Professor

"My work fuses a relationship between fiber and digital technology to examine performative behavior and the cognitive effects of forced cultural assimilation. My research surveys the psychological impact of intergenerational trauma, the politicization of afro hair, and unravels the everyday coping devices...

Randall Wilson

Randall Wilson

Associate Professor

Randall Wilson seamlessly integrates craft, design and intuition in his artwork. Beginning with technical principles of multi-material construction and expanding...

Llewelynn Fletcher

Llewelynn Fletcher

Assistant Professor

Llewelynn Fletcher’s work addresses the body as a material space of reflection and transformational potential. Collaboration is an element of her overall practice which manifests...

EMERITI

Nick Abdalla, M.A., University of New Mexico
Jane Abrams, M.F.A., Indiana University
Garo Antreasian, B.F.A., Herron School of Art
Holly Barnet-Sanchez, Ph.D., University of California (Los Angeles)
Thomas F. Barrow, M.S., Institute of Design, I.I.T.
Steve Barry, M.F.A., Hunter College
J.J. Brody, Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Michael Cook, M.F.A., University of Oklahoma
Constance DeJong, M.F.A. University of New Mexico
Martin Facey, M.F.A., University of California (Los Angeles)
Elen Feinberg, M.F.A., Indiana University
William T. Gilbert, M.F.A., University of Montana
Betty Hahn, M.F.A., Indiana University
Basia Irland, M.F.A., University of Massachusetts
Kathleen Jesse, M.F.A., University of California, Berkeley
Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier, Ph.D., Harvard University
Laurel Lampela, PhD, Ohio State University
Wayne R. Lazorik, M.F.A.,
University of Minnesota
Ralph Lewis, M.A.,
University of New Mexico
Howard McConeghey
, Ed.D., Michigan State University
Christopher Mead, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Joyce Neimanas, M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago
O. Joseph Rothrock, Ph.D., Princeton University
Adrienne Salinger, M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Peter Smith, Ed.D., Arizona State University
James Srubek, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Joyce M. Szabo, Ph.D., University of New Mexico
John H. Wenger, M.F.A., University of Arizona
Linney Wix, Ph.D., University of New Mexico

Director Emeritus

Marjorie Devon, B.A., University of California (Berkeley)