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...
Experimental Art & Technology professor, Stewart Skylar Copeland, co-authored an essay in the most recent issue of the Journal of Landscape Architecture. “Homing bodies” is an essay based on Body I/O, a graduate landscape architecture studio Stewart co-taught with Suzanne Matthew at the Rhode Island School of Design. In the Body I/O Studio, students explored...
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...
The MAP Fund announces 2022 grantees: New Mexico’s fronteristxs collective has been awarded $30,000 for the House of An-Aesthesia, an experimental runway performance with ungendered looks designed to disrupt surveillance technologies in a city with one of the highest police brutality rates in the nation. fronteristxs is a collective of artists in New Mexico working...
Professor of Art History, Ray Hernández-Durán and his colleagues at the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute have been laboring for the past year on the second issue of Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest. The journal is now accessible via UNM Digital Repository. https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/chamisa/vol2/iss1/1/ Special thanks to photographer, Kris...
University of New Mexico senior Gerald Lovato was a child when he first realized the power of creating art to escape and heal from trauma. Now looking forward to graduating in December, he will share his work in his senior thesis project, which is an interdisciplinary approach to making art to create a social impact...
Congratulations to Catherine Harris who won the Climate Change Leadership Institute’s 2022 Climate Education Award for “teaching and encouraging students to develop a sense of agency in addressing climate change.” The award will support student projects including a podcast project in Spring 2023 and this semester’s ARTS 444/544’s project in addressing the material economy’s role...
