Category: News

Harpo Foundation 2022 Grant Recipient, Stephanie J. Woods

Harpo Foundation 2022 Grant Recipient, Stephanie J. Woods

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...

January 12, 2023March 12, 2024
UNM Team Receives Award for 2022 Venice Biennial Art Exhibition Project

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...

January 11, 2023March 12, 2024
Ryan Henel, Research Lecturer III of Art & Ecology and Craig Sponholtz selected for LAGI-MEA Design Competition

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...

December 19, 2022January 11, 2023
Fronteristxs Collective Among 2022 MAP Fund Grantees

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...

December 15, 2022March 12, 2024
Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest is Now Available

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...

November 7, 2022March 12, 2024
Honor Thesis Helps Artist, Community to Heal from Trauma

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...

October 28, 2022March 12, 2024
Associate Professor of Art & Ecology, Catherine Harris wins the 2022 Climate Education Award

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...

October 26, 2022October 26, 2022
Alumni Muralists Craft through Community and Culture

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...

October 24, 2022March 12, 2024
UNM Student Captures Queer Identity with Picture-Perfect Poeticism

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....

October 24, 2022March 12, 2024
Mary Mattingly featured in the New York Times

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...

October 5, 2022March 12, 2024