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We're thrilled to welcome B Tadeo @brianna_tadeo t

We're thrilled to welcome B Tadeo @brianna_tadeo to our team!! B will be the new Photography Lab Manager ✨

Brianna Tadeo is a visual artist whose work explores impermanence through experimental photography. Blending analog and digital methods, they use light, ephemeral processes, and discarded materials to reflect on memory, transformation, and loss. Their work is rooted in tactile exploration and the quiet magic of light.

Originally introduced to the darkroom at age 12 in Philadelphia, Tadeo has cultivated their approach over years of material exploration. They hold a BFA from California College of the Arts and an MFA in Studio Arts from the University of New Mexico. They currently live and work in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

They have been selected for FORECAST 2025, a survey of contemporary photography organized by SF Camerawork. Their work has been exhibited at SF Camerawork, Personal Space, the Lionel Rombach Gallery, Northlight Gallery, Tamarind Gallery, the Sanitary Tortilla Factory, Strata Gallery, Harwood Art Center, John Sommers Gallery, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, AIPAD in NYC, Gallery 1/1, and Art Intersection. Additionally, their work has been featured in publications such as SOVO//Magazine, One Twelve Publishing’s Diffusion IX, The Hand Magazine, and Group Study.

We’re so excited to welcome B and can’t wait for you to meet them 😀

The University of New Mexico will be closed for In

The University of New Mexico will be closed for Independence Day!!

📷: UCAM's Martin Castaneda, Work from Art Education's "Meaning-Making, Making-Meaning" Spring 2025

Congratulations to Anna Rotty @annarotty and Brian

Congratulations to Anna Rotty @annarotty and Brianna “B” Tadeo @brianna_tadeo, both MFA Photography alums who were selected for “FORECAST 2025” at SF Camerawork @sfcamerawork!! 🌉

“FORECAST 2025” is SF Camerawork’s annual survey of emerging imagemakers, and this year’s cohort was selected from over 140 global entries by an esteemed jury of Bay Area curators and artists. Anna and B are showing alongside Jonathan Mark Jackson, Jonah Reenders, and Lorena Molina. The exhibition runs May 30-August 16, 2025, at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco.

Anna’s work explores water, light, and infrastructure, investigating how these elements shape landscape, body, and place. B explores impermanence through experimental photography, blending analog and digital methods to capture memory, transformation, and decay.

Learn more: https://sfcamerawork.org

📷: Szu-Han Ho
1. Anna’s “Sun Bent Sediment” 85”x42”x9”, double-sided pigment print photograph, acrylic mirror, dry mud flake collected from Rio Grande, Albuquerque, NM, 2024
2. B’s “Shadows of an echo of a place” 14’ x 15’ x 1”, From Series: “These fleeting shadows dissolve by day’s light”

It is with great sadness that we announce the pass

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of one of our beloved students, Alix Ami @alixamiarts, who graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 2019. Alix was a cherished and integral member of our art department family. Alix was vivacious, filled with bright, exuberant energy. A funny, creative, hardworking student and loyal friend, steadfastly supportive of her peers, and deeply committed to art making and to painting, drawing, and printmaking. Our deepest sympathies go out to her family members, friends, and community as we mourn her passing.

A celebration of life is scheduled for Friday, June 20, 2025, starting at 11:00 am at Daniel's Family Funeral Services in Rio Rancho. The announcement attached provides more information.

The family suggests donations be made to the Alix Ami family fund (see attached) and have arrangements for memorial gifts to be made to the University of New Mexico Department of Art Chair's Fund. Memorial contributions can be mailed to the UNM Foundation, Two Woodward Center, 700 Lomas Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87102, or online at: https://unmfund.co/ArtChairFund (Link in bio)
Please include a note stating who your gift memorializes.

Raychael Stine shares, "Alix was one of the first students I had in my Painting III class the year I started here at UNM. She was one of my favorite students of all time. I will never forget her enthusiasm, humor, kindness, curiosity, and drive."

When classes begin again in August, we will set up a memorial in the department ❤❤❤

The University of New Mexico will be closed for Ju

The University of New Mexico will be closed for Juneteenth!!

📷: UCAM's Martin Castaneda, Work from Shondra Leigh @shondra_leigh, part of "There Is Another Sky" MFA Graduate Exhibition - Confluence Low-Residency Program @confluence_mfa

Through mid-June, e-flux @e_flux Education spotli

Through mid-June, e-flux @e_flux Education spotlights institutions across the U.S. South and Southwest, exploring how pedagogy engages with histories of segregation, slavery, frontierism, and how schools today are reimagining justice, museology, and learning.

For the final feature, writer Brian Karl @brainbkarl visits the RAVEL Lab at the University of New Mexico, where students work with local communities to unite environmental care and artistic practice.

Thank you so much for the feature. Read more on our website under Art News!!

📸: 1. RAVEL students on the Fracking is Fracking
Reality Tour with Daniel Tso and Asha Canalos, 2018
4. Still from A Gathering of Waters: The Río Grande,
Source to Sea by Basia Irland, 1995–2000
5. Cleaning amaranth seeds at the Seeding Radicle
Futures Seed School, 2023

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