Jeannette Martinez is a second-year Ph.D. student in the art history program at The University of New Mexico. Being of the Central American diaspora greatly influenced her interests in contemporary U.S. Latinx art. While this is Jeannette’s area of discipline, her research interests are on migrations, transnationalisms, landscape, memory, feminisms, processes of identity, and decolonial...
A team from The University of New Mexico created a project titled. “a Library, a Classroom, and the World”, which is currently on display at the prestigious 2022 Venice Biennial Art exhibition Personal Structures organized and hosted by the European Cultural Centre (ECC) in Venice, Italy. “a Library, a Classroom, and the World” aims to...
A $3 million grant competition from the Crossing Latinidades Humanities Research Initiative will support Latino humanities research projects across the U.S. The projects range from art, literature and history to the emerging subfields of climate change and sound studies, as well as cutting-edge areas such as Afrolatinidades and archival studies. The 10 working groups, whose...
Department of Art Associate Professor Meggan Gould has won a George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship to support work on a new photographic project, entitled: Photography After Photography: A Reckoning. The Howard Foundation awarded 9 fellowships of $35,000 each for the 2022-2023 academic year in the fields of photography and film studies. The George A. and...
March 24, 2022, CNM News Britney A. King grew up in Churchrock, New Mexico, and knows first-hand what infrastructure needs that area is facing. From better access to running water to more information and food distribution, there’s a large resource gap. That’s why she teamed up with partner Marivel Medel to design a new app...
By Ivan Leonard / Journal Staff Writer UNM sculpture students from professor Randall Wilson’s beginning and advanced sculpture classes working on their projects. (Courtesy of Corrales Historical Society) In today’s day and age, what can be better than a free event at a historic venue? On Saturday, April 9, and Sunday, April 10, the University...
By Will Riding In, Southwest Contemporary, February 15, 20222 During my pottery classes at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, I admired Jared Tso’s pottery—with its beautiful curvature and near-perfect symmetry—as it airdried on nearby shelves. I am honored to have worked in the same ceramic studio as Tso (Diné), where he talked about...
The Native American Environmental Arts and Humanities Scholarship is an interdisciplinary award for Native American students across all UNM colleges who are interested in art and ecology, social justice, environmental justice, and/or species conservation. This application is for the Spring 2022 awards. This scholarship is made possible by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The application...
“my sun is black as the glowing sea by night” opens January 10. Rowe Gallery is pleased to host my sun is black as the glowing sea by night, an exhibition featuring new work by Johannes Barfield. The work was commissioned by UNC Charlotte College of Arts + Architecture Director of Galleries, Adam N. Justice,...
