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...
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...
