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Reception: Friday, April 25, 2025, 5:00-7:30 pm

Join the free public reception celebrating the opening of the exhibition, Voces del Pueblo: Artists of the Levantamiento Chicano in New Mexico, curated by 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 earliest generation of Chicana and Chicano activists in the state. All 6 artists, 3 men and 3 women, were students at New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU) in Las Vegas in the early 1970s when Chicano scholar Pedro Rodríguez was hired as the inaugural Director of Chicano Studies at NMHU. It was at NMHU that these young men and women became politically active and proceeded to paint murals, produce art, and organize in New Mexico as part of the nascent Chicano civil rights movement that was unfolding nationally. The artworks on display capture a distinctly New Mexican Chicana and Chicano experience that has received little attention in Chicano art history.

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 earliest generation of Chicana and Chicano activists in the state. All 6 artists, 3 men and 3 women, were students at New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU) in Las Vegas in the early 1970s when Chicano scholar Pedro Rodríguez was hired as the inaugural Director of Chicano Studies at NMHU. It was at NMHU that these young men and women became politically active and proceeded to paint murals, produce art, and organize in New Mexico as part of the nascent Chicano civil rights movement that was unfolding nationally. The artworks on display capture a distinctly New Mexican Chicana and Chicano experience that has received little attention in Chicano art history.

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Opening Reception: August 15, 2025, 5:00-7:00 pm

Hello UNM Fam! This is your invite to the opening reception of “I AM JUST a VISITOR” a two person show (myself and Deborah Stein) of new watercolors. Together, we explore themes of impermanence, strangeness, and wonder. Our works on paper range from off-kilter flora and dramatic landscapes to poetic dreamscapes, reflecting a shared reverence for nature and geological time. Rooted in ideas of place and home, our paintings invite viewers to slow down and consider themselves as visitors in the world, in the landscape, and in one’s own life.

Closing Reception, Thursday, September 18, 2025, 5:00-7:00 pm
Year of the Arts in Education: Educators as Artists. An exhibition featuring twenty-four art educators from K-12 grade schools, art museums, community-based programs, and higher education.

Opening Reception, Friday, September 5, 2025, 5:00-8:00 pm

Opening Reception: Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Opening: Friday, September 12, 2025, 2:00-5:00 pm, Spectra Gallery/The Forum, Honors College
Artist talk by Taylor Engel at 2:30 pm 
Curated by Professor Johannes Barfield

“A Wide Tale” came from a place of curiosity. I’ve always had a strong affinity towards construction and disrupting the way things are. I wanted to hang from a crane just like the behavior of dangling large objects that make their way from the ground, into the sky, in response to building.

Four-channel video installation, performance, and sculpture.
Artist bio: Taylor Engel is an undisciplinary artist working in performance, sculpture, painting, sound and installation. They received their MFA from the University of New Mexico in Sculpture (2025) and a BFA from Pratt Institute in Graphic Design (2015).

Featuring Hannah Cerne, Rebecca Shalliker, and Ted Rivera.

Opening Reception: Friday, September 19, 2025, 6:00 pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, September 27, 2025, 6:00 pm

A collaborative exhibition featuring MFA students Yoma Wilson, Aniol Barris-Cornet, and Michael Schultze.

The UAM is proud to present Necessary Futures. This exhibition features three New Mexico-based artists—sheri crider, Haley Greenfeather English, and Szu-Han Ho—whose work shares the strategic use of color, irony, joy, and hope as proposals for confronting and subverting the ongoing impacts of mass incarceration, racial capitalism, and colonialism. This exhibition presents a broad spectrum of art-making approaches, public projects, and community-driven collaborations, spotlighting coalitions committed to social change. Collectively, the artists in this exhibition propose art as both a space of reflection and a call to action. Beyond their studio practices, each artist actively engages with community partners, spotlighting organizations working on the frontlines of social justice in the Southwest.

This exhibition, which also presents work by hazel batrezchavez, daniela del mar, Juan Ortiz, and the fronteristxs collective, is part of a series of statewide exhibitions amplifying the voices and narratives of marginalized communities within the movement for criminal justice reform. The project is anchored in Albuquerque and Las Cruces, New Mexico—with additional activations in rural towns that are sites directly impacted by mass incarceration.

Please join us for the opening reception on September 19, 2025 from 5:30-7:30 pm. Visit our website for more information on upcoming programming. Necessary Futures will be on display from September 19, 2025, to March 7, 2026.

Reception and Artist Talk, Friday, September 26, 22-5, 4:00-6:00 pm

Come join us for free barbacoa and a conversation with Intellectual Property litigator Billy Trabaudo from Bardacke Allison Miller. Billy’s firm represents artists and arts organizations all over New Mexico. Someone steal your work and sell it on a T-shirt? Billy can help!

Tiranee Moody MFA Thesis Exhibition
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 4, 2025, 6:00-9:00 pm