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The Art Education program has two tracks, each pro The Art Education program has two tracks, each promoting a deeper investigation of theoretical foundations, contemporary art pedagogies, art teacher-researcher reflective practices, community connections, emerging questions, and contemporary issues related to the field. Students have four capstone research options to choose from, including a thesis project, an action research project, an art curriculum development project, or an exhibition project with an educational component. • Master of Arts (M.A. in Art Education) with Licensure • Master of Arts (M.A. in Art Education) without Licensure Spring Applications due: October 15, 2026 Contact: art255@unm.edu, link in bio, or website for more details https://art.unm.edu/graduate-information-admission/
Art Happenings ✨ Saints of the Southwest 📝 August Art Happenings ✨ Saints of the Southwest 📝 August 28, 2026, 5:00-8:00 pm 📍Risolana @risolana.abq 722 Isleta Blvd SW, Albuquerque, NM 87105 A print show from talented artists! All works will be available for purchase; proceeds are split between artists and to Risolana!!
Happy to announce jesse lovell @filmnotdead as the Happy to announce jesse lovell @filmnotdead as the Assistant Professor of Art Practices!! ✨ jessamyn (jesse) lovell (b. 1977, Syracuse, NY) is a gender-fluid artist and licensed private investigator based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. lovell is of French, Sicilian, Irish, and Choctaw heritage and grew up in rural poverty in upstate New York. They work with photography, video, and surveillance as tools to document their life experiences, making connections between class and personal identity. Their work has been featured on This American Life, BBC Outlook, The Today Show, The Guardian, and other media outlets. They have received international recognition for their work including No Trespassing (2007-2010) for which they surreptitiously followed and photographed their estranged father and Dear Erin Hart, (2011-2014) for which they found, followed, and photographed their identity thief. Lovell received their Private Investigator’s license in 2018 for their project How to Become Invisible, which synthesizes their experiences as an investigator into a Photography Book and series of art exhibitions. We are excited to share this news and appreciate jesse’s many years of dedication and contributions to our department. We look forward to building on that foundation as we welcome our new faculty to the fall semester.
Call for Submissions: ASECS 2027 Session: Art at t Call for Submissions: ASECS 2027 Session: Art at the Crossroads of Church and Empire in the Eighteenth Century 📜 The relationship between imperial politics, religious institutions, and visual culture underwent significant changes during the eighteenth century. Given the historical relationship between the Church and imperial authority, institutional interests, values, and objectives had long shaped elite or official art production across Europe and eventually, its imperial outposts. In a period of intensified global expansion, territorial conflicts among European powers and among imperial subjects increased leading to popular revolutions on both sides of the Atlantic. As expected, the visual arts both registered and served as agents in such developments. In addition to advancing imperial agendas and facilitating cultural exchange, sacred spaces, architecture, religious images, devotional objects, and ritual practices came to shape local identities and served as tools to express alternate viewpoints and counter imperial interests. The changing relationship between the Church and the Imperial State inevitably inflected non-religious artworks, as well, as seen in certain categories of portraiture among other secular genres and forms. This session invites proposals that delve into the intersections of church, empire, and visual culture in the long eighteenth century, considering diverse geographical contexts and interdisciplinary approaches. Papers discussing imperial peripheries, global connections, cross-cultural encounters, marginal voices, and acts of resistance are particularly welcome. Deadline: September 18, 2026 ASECS 2027: April 1-3, 2027 Submit & learn more at https://asecs.org/call-for-proposals/ Special thanks to Chairs Luis Gordo Pelaez and Ray Hernández-Durán
Art Happenings ✨ “Reply All” 📝 August 17-Septemb Art Happenings ✨ “Reply All” 📝 August 17-September 17, 2026 📍John Sommers Gallery An art department staff exhibition. + Opening Reception for UNMAM public exhibitions 📝 August 21, 2026, 4:00-7:00 pm 📍UNM Art Museum Join us for a campus and community celebratory reception to mark the start of the fall semester and the reopening of UNMAM public exhibitions. The reception features the UNM Print Club , with works for sale, along with on-site printing of specially designed opening T-shirts. Guests may also bring their own shirt or tote bag to be printed. The UNM Porcelain Club will offer works for sale and hands-on potter’s wheel demonstrations.
Art Faculty, Emeritus Faculty, and Alum Featured a Art Faculty, Emeritus Faculty, and Alum Featured at the National Gallery of Art & More✨ The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. is currently featuring work by Art faculty, emeritus faculty, and an alum in “Beneath the Surface: Mining and American Photography”. The exhibition includes three photographs by MFA Photography alum, Will Wilson (Diné), one photograph by late Professor of Photography Patrick Nagatani, and a large scale photograph by faculty member Subhankar Banerjee. Banerjee’s Caribou Tracks on Coal Seams II, 2006 is featured in the exhibition’s “Now” gallery, while work by Nagatani and Wilson is featured in the “Environmental Concerns” gallery. Banerjee shared: “I found the exhibition to be very expansive and significant, thoughtfully developed, and beautifully presented.” “Beneath the Surface” is on view at the National Gallery of Art through August 23, 2026, before heading to the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Banerjee’s work is also currently featured in” Mapping Spaces” at New Mexico State University and will be included in the upcoming “Abundance” exhibition at the UNM Art Museum alongside emeriti faculty Basia Irland. In addition, The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago recently acquired five of his large scale Arctic photographs as well. We are so proud of their incredible work!!
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