About

This exhibition presents student and faculty artworks from the community-engaged art studio class called Seeding Radicle Futures. This class is part of  Radicle Art ▽ Ecology Lab (RAVEL) programming which offers field-based courses supporting the intersection of art, ecological research, and cultural engagement. RAVEL is a creative community focused on regenerative practices and committed to situated biophilic and relational ecologies.

Saturday, December 13, 2024

Film Screening and Reception: 2:00-4:00 pm

Center for Southwest Research, Frank Waters Room

Featuring work by:

Elena Bunker Ruiz

daniela del mar

Simon Doane

Sachika Goel

Ellan Luna

Fin Martens

Lucy Osborn

Hannah Taylor

Jacob White

Ruiqi Xu

Special thanks to our partners for their support:

Institute for Applied Ecology

Mobile Abolition Library

Asha Canalos

Plants of the Southwest

Lannan Foundation Endowment Fund

UNM ARTSLab

UNM RAVEL

UNM Art & Ecology

Celebrate the opening of Push & Pull: The Prints of Helen Frankenthaler and Her Contemporaries

UNM Art Museum latest exhibition celebrates abstraction in all print processes. Featuring Modern and contemporary abstract prints and drawings, the exhibition focuses on the works of Helen Frankenthaler and Elaine de Kooning. Displayed alongside prints by their contemporaries, the works in this exhibition demonstrate important collaborations with American publishers such as Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE), Tyler Graphics Ltd., and Tamarind Institute. Read more about Push and Pull.

We invite you to join us for an opening reception on Friday, January 31, from 4:00 – 7:00 pm, with opening remarks beginning at 4:45 pm from UNMAM Curators Mary Statzer and Angel Jiang, and Director Arif Khan.

This exhibition is made possible by a generous donation of twenty prints from Helen Frankenthaler as part of the Frankenthaler Prints Initiative. UNM students from the course Abstraction on Paper: Curating Postwar American Prints and Drawings (AHIS 429/529) played a key role in developing this exhibition, providing labels and sound pieces.

Kayliegh Begay
Hannah Cerne
Ava Marr
Logan Petersen
Marina Perez
Savannah Phelps
Sophie Rubeo
Michael Schultze
Brianna Tadeo
Yoma Wilson

In response to Frankenthaler’s work, students created original pieces featured in the exhibition. Adrian Ricca Lucci (BFA student in painting and drawing), Brianna Tadeo (third-year MFA student in photography), and Yoma Wilson (second-year MFA student in printmaking). whose works reflect a deep engagement with Frankenthaler’s artistic vision.

Closing Reception: Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 5:00-7:00 pm

Live performance piece by Luca Berkley, at the South Gym in the Johnson Center. 9:00 am until approx. 9:09 am in the free weights area. Will be repeated every first Wednesday, same time and place.

Daneil Forest’s MFA Thesis exhibition!

Reception: Thursday, February 13, 2025, 4:00-6:00 pm

In Fall 2024 Moving Image Arts students created short experimental films to accompany JustWrite anthology poems authored by participants while they were incarcerated. The resulting collaboration opened unexpected windows into shared experience. The exhibition’s catalogue conjures visions of hope, suffering, joy, and endurance. It offers startling portraits of home and reveals the fine threaded web of meaning which connects all of us in our day to day lives.

Curated by Diahndra Grill, Eden Radfarr, ​​Wren Hall Hartley, and ​Sonya Burke.

Opening Reception: Friday, February 21, 2025, 5:55-8:00 pm

Closing Reception: Saturday, March 1, 2025, 6:03-8:00 pm

Gallery Hours: Saturday, 11:00-3:00 pm

Artist Talk: March 10, 2025, 3:00 pm
CFA, Room 1020

LASER TALK: Navigating Grief, Fear, and Denial in a Time of Ecological Unraveling with Bee (Beverly) Naidus and Ruth Wallen
Join us for a presentation and conversation with SFAI residents in association with SciArt Santa Fe at Santa Fe Art Institute.

Join the UNM Latin American and Iberian Institute, Art Education program, and teacher Claudio Pérez, the creator of the Albuquerque Museum’s Border Doors exhibit, for an inspiring workshop focused on Latin American migration to the US. Sandia Prep high school Spanish teacher Claudio Perez will share his Border Door project’s inspiration, offer background on migration, and provide a lesson plan for educators to bring back to their classrooms. Educators will also enjoy a private tour of the exhibit and create their own “border door,” reflecting on the human stories behind immigration.

Location: Art Building, Room 143

Kathryn Polk is a southern-born artist whose personal life has been a major influence on her body of work. Her art began with her love of drawing. Relying on her sketchbook she draws from memory to develop narrative content and figurative imagery. Polk’s stone lithographs investigate the various paths of women’s lives. “My art is a collection of personal narratives referencing the past to the present. My drawings and lithographs depict visual memories and thoughts through the eyes of all the women in my family”.

Artist lecture sponsored by the Gale Memorial X-tra Fund

BFA Honors Thesis by Anna L. White

Opening Reception: Monday, March 3, 2025, 5:00-8:00 pm

Opening Reception: Friday, March 7, 2025, 6:00-8:30 pm

Artist Talk: March 26, 2025, 4:00 pm
ARTSLab

Come celebrate at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology as we open a new exhibit, “Entangled Cultures.” It is curated by Toni Gentilli interdisciplinary artist, anthropologist, and the museum’s Curator of Exhibits. This exhibit explores the interplay of cultural and microbiological forces from the origin of our species through the development of fermentation practices across human and microbial cultures.

Drawing from the Maxwell Museum’s collections, “Entangled Cultures” presents diverse global examples of traditional vessels used in the creation and consumption of fermented foods and beverages. The exhibit retraces the origins of many now ubiquitous ferments, such as wine, beer, bread, and cheese, and reflects on the ever-changing nature of human-microbe relationships.

Opening remarks by Director Carla Sinopoli at 2:15 PM. Live improvisational music by PMDAIN (Dain Daller), a musician who produces ambient techno compositions on an array of analog and digital hardware synthesizers. Although he is inspired by many ambient techno artists from the past, he has his own distinctive ‘ambient acid’ aesthetic. When performing live, he now prefers to improvise loops and tracks on the spot.

A variety of fermented foods and non-alcoholic beverages made by local providers will be available to sample and purchase, including: Brown’s Micro Creamery, Mi Young’s Farm (Kimchi), Urban Mama 505 Kombucha, New Mexico Ferments, Lost Cultures Tea Bar, and Dobro Bread Craft Sourdough.

Performance: Saturday, March 29, 2025, 7:00 pm
UNM Mattox (#123 on UNM map)

Artist Talk: Friday, April 4, 2025, 4:00 pm
Frank Waters Room, Zimmerman Library

Woven graphic score of lunar cycles as felt time.

Performed By:
Kelly Feng
Genevieve Humenay
Adrian Angel
Jen Medina-Gray
Taylor Engel
Kenton Bueche
& billy von raven

Gale Memorial Lecture Series: Elaine Buckholtz
Artist Talk: Thursday, April 3, 2024, 5:30 pm
131 Pine St. NE (artslab.unm.edu)
Free & Open to the Public

Elaine Buckholtz is a Light Installation Artist operating in the space between installation, architecture and landscape with interests in public revelation, physical and metaphorical transformation and the technologically sublime. Her work transforms environments and sites into quiet spectacles, inducing a sense of wonder by activating architectural forms and spaces with moving light, sculptural elements and sound. Buckholtz has shown work nationally and internationally and is currently a professor at The Massachusetts College of Art and Design in The Studio for Interrelated Media.

Gale Memorial Lecture Series was established in memory of Dr. David his wife Sylvia whose generosity made the series possible. This is event co-sponsored by the Department Art and ARTSLab. All Gale Memorial Lectures are free and open to public.

Open Studio: Thursday, April 24, 2025, 3:00-6:00 pm

Larry Madrigal (b. 1986, Los Angeles) is a Mexican American painter living and working in Phoenix, Arizona.
Madrigal completed his MFA at Arizona State University in Tempe in 2020. He has had solo exhibitions with Veta Gallery in Madrid, Spain, Nicodim Gallery in Los Angeles and New York, Galeria Nicodim in Bucharest, Romania, the Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art and more. He has also been included in group exhibitions in Bucharest, Paris, Tokyo, Tel-Aviv, New York and Los Angeles, Madrigal is represented by Nicodim Gallery.