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...
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UNM Team Receives Award for 2022 Venice Biennial Art Exhibition Project
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...
Ryan Henel, Research Lecturer III of Art & Ecology and Craig Sponholtz selected for LAGI-MEA Design Competition
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...
Fronteristxs Collective Among 2022 MAP Fund Grantees
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...
Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest is Now Available
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...
Honor Thesis Helps Artist, Community to Heal from Trauma
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...
Associate Professor of Art & Ecology, Catherine Harris wins the 2022 Climate Education Award
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...
Alumni Muralists Craft through Community and Culture
For local muralists, art can serve as a powerful medium for bringing strength back to the people in times of great division and disenfranchisement. With this knowledge, mural artists here in New Mexico have created a means of revitalizing community strength through collaborative art. “What we’re really trying to do is show that art really...
UNM Student Captures Queer Identity with Picture-Perfect Poeticism
Andrew Michael Joseph, he/him, senior at the University of New Mexico, is heading into his final year in the studio art program, leaving behind a photographic legacy of exploration and celebration of queer identity in the UNM arts and honors programs. In his work, Joseph is interested in exploring his identity as a transgender man....
Mary Mattingly featured in the New York Times
Our new hire in the new Low Residency MFA Concentration in the Art Department, Mary Mattingly (Professor of Practice) was featured in the New York Times. Mary Mattingly is an interdisciplinary artist. She is known for bundling personal objects into large boulders for performances about consumption and for large-scale public artwork like Limnal Lacrimosa, Vanishing...