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...
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...
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....
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...
Congratulations to Professor of Art and Ecology, Subhankar Banerjee! Banerjee and seven Lobo researchers from disciplines spanning across The University of New Mexico have been selected as recipients of the inaugural OVPR Ovation Award for Research and Scholarship. The new Ovation awards recognize full-time faculty for recent cutting-edge research accomplishments that address local or global...
Art & Ecology alum Kaitlin Bryson just received an AWAW / NY Foundation for the Arts award. The AWAW EAG program supports environmental art projects that inspire thought, action, and ethical engagement. Kaitlin Bryson’s Bellow Forth (New Mexico) is a multispecies, multidisciplinary, community project located in the American southwest focused on restoring soil health and...
Julia Lambright is a UNM Art Alum who began exploring iconographic canons, formulas, and techniques of 17th century icon painting. Being influenced by the icon’s visual aesthetics and its technical construction, Lambright integrates and transforms its principles into a contemporary form of art making. You can see their work at Gallery Hozho or online at:...
UNM alum Aaron S. Davidson was recently awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his significant accomplishments in creative arts. Each year, The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awards 175 fellowships to those making a difference in the creative arts, natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences. The fellowship is meant for mid-career scholars with bright and promising...
Jeannette Martinez is a second-year Ph.D. student in the art history program at The University of New Mexico. Being of the Central American diaspora greatly influenced her interests in contemporary U.S. Latinx art. While this is Jeannette’s area of discipline, her research interests are on migrations, transnationalisms, landscape, memory, feminisms, processes of identity, and decolonial...
