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Faculty Friday highlight on Jessamyn Lovell @filmn Faculty Friday highlight on Jessamyn Lovell @filmnotdead for their recent feature in the German magazine Der Grief ✨ Hank Willis Thomas selected their image "You Tried" from the ongoing project Catastrophe, Crisis, and Other Family Traditions. The department is incredibly grateful for all the work Jesse does and the way they engage with students. We’re excited to see what comes next!! For more information, check out our website under the News section.
Incredible details of the BAIA/BFA Senior Capstone Incredible details of the BAIA/BFA Senior Capstone at the John Sommers Gallery ✨ Please join us for "Polarity", an exhibition and series of events celebrating work by UNM students in their final year of the Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts. We will be showcasing student work from mediums across visual arts, performance, and music. Reception: Thursday, December 11, 2025, 1:00-3:00 pm 📍John Sommers Gallery Performances: Thursday, December 11, 2025, 3:00-5:00 pm 📍Keller Hall Stop by today 😁 📷: Images by Emilio from University Marketing & Communication
Shots from "At First Site" works from first-year g Shots from "At First Site" works from first-year graduate students ✨ A glimpse from the exhibition that ran from November 10-21, 2025. Such incredible work, artist talks, and conversations. We appreciate all who were able to stop by!! A round of applause to our first years 👏👏👏 Rachel McLaughlin Lyza Baum Zac Brenner Benjamin Cardillo Janessa Lewis Anna Maraziti Elizabeth Rawson Muer Tie James Philip West Adam Vaagen Glyn Coyote Hayley Krichels Rachel Jump Armando De La Torre 📷: Images by Emilio from University Marketing & Communication
Spring 2026 Course Offering ✨ ARTH 456/556.001 Spring 2026 Course Offering ✨ ARTH 456/556.001 Tuesday and Thursday, 3:30 to 4:45 pm Location: CFA 1020 This course examines the arts and architecture produced in New Spain during the period of Bourbon rule, ca. 1700–1821. Following the War of Succession that took place in Spain after the last Hapsburg king died without heirs (ca. 1700–1713), the French Bourbon dynasty entered the Spanish political scene, initiating a new era that represented a significant shift from the previous two centuries of Hapsburg rule. During the eighteenth century into the first decade of the nineteenth-, the Spanish American territories experienced numerous changes due to new cultural influences and the effects of the so-called Bourbon Reforms. In this class, we will be looking at the larger political, cultural, and social changes that unfolded during the late colonial period and how they were registered in the visual arts. The eighteenth-century represents an apogee of viceregal culture in the Americas and a period of political awakening among segments of the American population that led to independence movements and modern nationalisms in what today is Latin America. The art forms we will be studying include portrait painting, convent arts, pinturas de casta, history and landscape painting, printmaking, civic architecture, Churrigueresco and Neoclassical esthetics, academic art, and political art related to the independence movement. Course requirements for undergrads include a midterm, a final, and two papers; for graduate students, a midterm, a final, and one substantial research paper. For more information, contact: rhernand@unm.edu
Art Happening & More ✨ “Polarity” BAIA/BFA Art Happening & More ✨ “Polarity” BAIA/BFA Senior Capstone 📝 Dec 5-12, 2025, Ends this Week! Reception: Thursday, December 11, 2025, 1:00-3:00 pm 📍John Sommers Gallery Performances: Thursday, December 11, 2025, 3:00-5:00 pm 📍Keller Hall Please join us for "Polarity", an exhibition and series of events celebrating work by UNM students in their final year of the Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts. We will be showcasing student work from mediums across visual arts, performance, and music. + “& all that follows” 📝 December 11-January 9, 2026, Opens This Week! Opening Reception: Thursday, December 11, 2025, 5:00-8:00 pm 📍6th St. Studio 1029 6th St, Albuquerque, NM 87102 You are invited to & all that follows, a group exhibition by the RAVEL: Seeding Radicle Futures Fall 2025 cohort. How do we seed radicle futures? This question guides us as we consider the intricate worlds of seeds — their lifeways and relationships to cultural identity and healing ancestral foodways, as well as their stories of resilience, sovereignty, and adaptation during this time of ecological unraveling. Our collective work emerges from both grief and reverence — a weaving of personal and shared visions that honor seeds as more than life’s beginning. We recognize them as sacred teachers and keepers of memory and possibility, carrying within them blueprints for futures rooted in reciprocity, diversity, and care. + “Stitches” 📝 December 12-February 8, 2025, Opens this Week! 📍INHABIT Galerie 4436 Corrales Rd. NM 87048 Opening for the new exhibition “Stitches” at Inhabit Galerie in Corrales, NM, co-curated by UNM grad student Luca Berkley @jacklope.etc. An investigation into embroidery, handkerchiefs, and bandanas, featuring Berkley’s work under their alias Piper Pelligrini.
Congratulations to MFA alum Emma Ressel @emma.ress Congratulations to MFA alum Emma Ressel @emma.ressel, awarded the CRS (Central for Regional Studies) Postdoctoral Fellowship for her research on natural history collections, photography, and the stories we tell about nature over time ✨ Ressel’s work spans large-format film photography, re-photography, and archival research, with exhibitions at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science and Strata Gallery, and her work held in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Jurassic Technology. We’re incredibly proud to see Emma’s research supported at this level and excited to see it come together in Spring/Summer 2026. More about the fellowship at UNM News here, https://news.unm.edu/news/unm-mfa-alum-awarded-postdoctoral-fellowship-at-center-for-regional-studies-6914775 📷: University Marketing & Communication Emma is just one example of the incredible artists emerging from UNM. Don’t miss your chance, MFA applications are due January 15, 2026!! For more information, visit https://art.unm.edu/become-a-student/graduate Contact art255@unm.edu or see link in bio for more information.
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