Curated by Daisy Desrosiers No Justice Without Love brings together the transformational work of artists, activists, and allied donors who make up the Art for Justice Fund (A4J) community. The exhibition is an invitation to engage with the Fund’s mission to change the narrative around mass incarceration and disrupt the criminal justice system. Inaugurated in...
Article in 𝘜𝘕𝘔 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘮 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 “Q&A with Marcella Ernest of Collective Constructs” shares how the group came to be and their contributions to the exhibition. The team is headed by Assistant Professor of Native American Art History, Marcella Ernest, Marina Perez, UNM Ph.D. student in Art History, Francis Reynold and Anna Rotty, UNM MFA...
Congratulation to Lauren Reddington who won 3rd place in the 2023 Hulsman Undergraduate Library Research Award’s Emerging Researcher category for a paper they wrote in PhD candidate, Ellie Kane’s, History of Art II course. Their work was title, “Prometheus Bound by Peter Paul Rubens and Frans Snyders: Psychological and Physical Punishment.” The Jim and Mary...
Congratulation to Daniel Feng who won 2nd place in the 2023 Hulsman Undergraduate Library Research Award’s Emerging Researcher category for a paper they wrote in PhD candidate, Beth Wilson Norwood’s, Intro to Art course. Their work was title, “Cezanne’s Colors, Lines, and Perspectives of Mont Saint Victoire.” The Jim and Mary Lois Hulsman Undergraduate Library...
Students at the Arita Porcelain Studio, located in the Art Annex at the University of New Mexico, are unique in their study of the traditional 400-year-old Japanese art of Arita porcelain; UNM is the only university in the United States with faculty authorized to instruct in this artform outside of Japan. Arita porcelain is moreso...
Martín Wannam (b. 1992, Guatemala) is a visual artist and educator whose work critically examines Guatemalan’s historical, social, and political climate, focusing on freedom dreaming for the queer individual. He focuses on the intersection of brownness and queer utopia that uses the foundation of iconoclasm and the aesthetic of maximalism through the tools of photography,...
The University of Texas at Austin, College of Fine Arts welcomes three Early Career Fellows for the next two years as part of its Expanding Approaches to American Arts initiative: Henry Castillo, UNM MFA Art & Ecology alum Dylan McLaughlin, and Bella Maria Varela. The selected fellows receive researching funding, an office or studio space...
Congratulations to the Harpo Foundation 2022 grant recipient, Interdisciplinary instructor, Stephanie J. Woods!! Stephanie Woods’ work fuses a relationship between fiber and digital technology to examine performative behavior and the cognitive effects of forced cultural assimilation. Her research surveys the psychological impact of intergenerational trauma, the politicization of afro hair, and unravels the everyday coping...
UNM + Davidson College project “a Library, a Classroom, and the World” which was included in the 2022 Venice Biennial Art exhibition Personal Structures has won the ECC Award for the category, “University and Research Project”. UNM Art Professor of Art & Ecology, Subhankar Banerjee and Davidson professor of Latinx environmental visual art and culture...
MEAnder by Ryan Henel, Research Lecturer III, Art & Ecology, and Craig Sponholtz (Watershed Artisans) is the chosen design from the Land Art Generator Initiative-Modern Elder Academy invited design competition for the Saddleback Ranch, south of Santa Fe, New Mexico. This sculptural infrastructure project is designed to induce a meander in the Galisteo Creek. It...
