University of New Mexico DEPARTMENT OF ART POSITION AVAILABLE POSITION: Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Art (Sculpture). Probationary appointment leading to a tenure decision. 1.0 FTE. The new faculty member will teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, advise MFA students, and serve on graduate committees when requested. The Department is looking for strong leadership...
“We Must Mobilize to Avert a Lonely Earth” “Recently, thousands of migratory birds suddenly dropped dead across New Mexico. Sparrows, warblers, and swallows that normally wheel across New Mexico’s iconic landscapes as they fly south for the winter instead fell lifeless across the land, weakened by extreme conditions. While scientists are still working to conclusively...
Meet the 2020 Luce Indigenous Fellows Clarence Cruz (Khaayay) [Ohkay Owingeh – Tewa], Traditional Potter/Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico will begin to document past and present potters of Tewa and Ohkay Owingeh heritage. He plans to write a book that celebrates Pueblo potters, their families, ancestors and the histories of knowledge and culture...
Kimowan Metchewais’s Search for Visual Sovereignty For the 2002 installation Without Ground, the Cree artist Kimowan Metchewais transferred dozens of small photographic self-portraits to the white walls of the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the University of Pennsylvania. The full length likenesses were posed in the ICA’s Ramp Space as if they were searching...
Conversation with Interdisciplinary Artist Marcella Ernest. Marcella Ernest (Ojibwe), an interdisciplinary film and video artist and a postdoctoral fellow in art history at the University of New Mexico is currently working on a multimedia video installation, The Indians of Gunflint Lake. The focus of the work, as she describes it, is an “abstract narrative about...
Art for Justice Fund Announces Spring 2020 Grantee Cohort. Szu-Han Ho has been awarded a grant from the Art for Justice Fund (@Art4JusticeFund) for work on migrant detention. Szu-Han Ho’s work in performance, sound, and installation explores the relationship between bodies and sites of memory. She often works collaboratively, through collective action, structured improvisation, and...
Professor of Art and Ecology Bill Gilbert releases a new book. Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Art and Ecology Bill Gilbert has released a new book entitled Arts Programming for the Anthropocene: art in community and environment with Routledge Press. Drawing upon his experience as founder and director of the Land Arts of the American West...
We are excited to announce that we have added an outstanding new faculty member to our Photography program. Mark McKnight (b. Los Angeles, CA) is an artist whose work has been exhibited internationally. His art has been reviewed in Aperture, Art in America, BOMB Magazine, and The New Yorker. Recent solo exhibitions include Mark McKnight (Aperture Foundation, New York, 2020) and in this temporarily...
Congratulations to our Department of Art MFA student Erin Gould! The Faculty Senate Teaching Enhancement Committee awarded the 2019-2020 Susan Deese-Roberts Teaching Assistant of the Year award to Erin Gould. Award Winners are nominated by students and colleagues and are chosen for their teaching excellence and innovation. A virtual awards ceremony will be held this...
