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250 Years of Survival: Art Alum and Professor Eric Garcia’s New Mural
The first thing that hits you about Eric Garcia’s new mural at the Albuquerque Museum, “Since 1776…”, is the sheer size of it. I wanted to first play with the architecture,” Garcia said during the ceremony devoted to him, his team and the mural itself. “I wanted to do something that no one had done before. I wanted to go bigger.”
Honoring the Legacy of Jaune Quick-to-see Smith Panel Discussion led by Art & Ecology Professor and Author Subhnakar Banerjee
Subhankar Banerjee, a professor, photographer, writer, curator, and scholar of environmental humanities. He is also the founder and director of the Center for Environmental Arts & Humanities at UNM.
Jessamyn Lovell, Featured in LENSSCRATCH
Jessamyn Lovell is a gender-fluid artist and licensed private investigator based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They hold a BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology, an MFA from California College of the Arts, and are currently a Principal Lecturer at the University of New Mexico.
Bad Bunny x UNM Alum Eric-Paul Riege
As Bad Bunny’s cultural influence continues to expand, we revisit his 2019 collaboration with Eric-Paul Riege during the artist’s first solo museum exhibition at ICA Miami. Grounded in Diné weaving traditions and the philosophy of hózhó – beauty, balance, and goodness – Riege’s regalia for epr embodies ancestral knowledge, performance, and the meaning of hó𝘭ǫ́: to exist.