Alana J. Coates is a curator, educator, and arts administrator. As a Ph.D. student at the University of New Mexico, her research focuses on Contemporary Art with a particular interest in the Art of Texas. She is currently researching and archiving the work of South Texas conceptual artist Jesse Amado. Coates has held directorships in...
“Grounded in Clay,” debuted in New York on July 13, 2023. The exhibition gives voice to the Pueblo Pottery Collective, the sixty Native American curators who selected and wrote about works in clay (including UNM Associate Professor of Ceramics, Clarence Cruz) from SAR’s Indian Arts Research Center and from the Vilcek Foundation. This unique traveling...
Yahir Perez is a third-year student working toward a bachelor’s degree at UNM. He is majoring in Art History and minoring in Arts Leadership and Business. His interest in art history lies in contemporary and abstract art. Some inspirations of his are Manolo Valdés and Danielle Orchard. In his free time, he works with color...
Cortney YellowHorse-Metzger is a mixed media artist living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She received her Bachelors of Fine Arts in ceramics from Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri in 2016. She completed her Masters of Fine Arts with an emphasis in ceramics at the University of New Mexico in 2020 and is now the Visiting...
This award is given in honor of artist, educator and world traveler, Reggie Behl. Reggie Behl taught drawing all over the world, including at the University of New Mexico. Mikaila’s work will be featured in the John Sommers Lobby during the Spring 2024 semester in conjunction with the Undergraduate Juried Show. Image: “keep me grounded...
This article “Lo que se ve, no se pregunta: Creating Queer Space in the Work of José Villalobos” examines the work of multidisciplinary artist José Villalobos through a queer Latinx lens using the theory of “disidentification” as put forth by José Esteban Muñoz and argues that Villalobos makes space for queer visibility and representation within...
Karli Snyder is a second-year graduate student in the Art History department at the University of New Mexico. She received a bachelor’s degree in history with minors in medieval studies and art from UNM. Her area of thematic interests and studies is centered on late medieval European art history with a particular emphasis on the...
Juana Estrada Hernández was born in Luis Moya, Zacatecas, Mexico and immigrated to the United States when she was seven years old. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking at Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas and her Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque,...
Ph.D. student in Art History, Jeannette Martínez has been awarded a coveted Summer 2023 Graduate Fellowship for the Latino Museum Studies Program at the Smithsonian. She will spend part of her summer in Washington, D.C. researching Latinx artists, art, and archives under the direction of artist and archivist, Josh Franco.
