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...
Congratulations to Ellie Kane, doctoral candidate in Spanish Colonial Art History, who is the new Curator of the Health Sciences Art Collection here at UNM. In this capacity, she will also join the Committee for Public Art and the Foundation Committee where she will work with donors and donations. As most of us who live...
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.
UNM Art History alumna, Suzanne McLeod (Ph.D. 2020) has been awarded the Popejoy Dissertation Prize for her ground-breaking dissertation on Spanish-Indigenous contact in the Pacific Northwest in the 18th century. Suzanne is currently the Assistant Professor of Indigenous Art History at the University of Manitoba, where she has worked to expand the curriculum, especially with...
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...
