UNM Art Department

04/25/2025

What a Year!! ✨

As the curtains close on this year’s Gale Memorial Lecture Series, we’re reflecting on what has truly been a fantastic season of thought provoking talks and conversations.

Our final speaker, Elaine Buckholtz joined us on April 3, 2025, and we were thrilled by her enthusiasm and engagement with the audience. What a way to wrap up the series!! Huge thank you to Professor Stewart Copeland for curating and putting together a successful lineup.

The Gale Memorial Lecture Series was established in memory of Dr. David Gale and his wife, Sylvia, whose generosity made this series possible. Their legacy continues to spark curiosity and celebrate creativity in all its forms. Thank you all who took the time to attend these lectures, we cannot wait for next year. Learn more about the Gale Memorial on art's website.

04/24/2025

This week, UNMAM will have extended hours during the performance of "Ain't Too Proud" shown in Popejoy Hall. UNMAM will be open until 7:30 pm on Friday, April 25th and Saturday, April 26th. We encourage you to stop by and tour the museum before the show begins!

Current exhibitions are "High Five Hall of Fame: Selections from the Permanent Collection," "Push & Pull: The Prints of Helen Frankenthaler and Her Contemporaries" and "Graphic Art and Revolution: Latin American Political Posters 1968–2000."

Photograph by Stefan Jennings Batista.

04/24/2025

04/24/2025

Student Spotlight ✨

Art History student, Evany López was awarded an Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Research (UISFL) Award to support summer travel to Mexico. She was also awarded an Excellence in Undergraduate Research Award for her research project on contemporary women artists in Mexico whose work addresses issues such as femicide. Evany applied and was accepted to the Mellon Mays undergraduate program last spring. As part of the program's requirements, she has been developing her research over the past year and presenting it at conferences, including the University of Chicago Summer Research Program Symposium. She will now be able to go to Mexico City and Culiacán to interview artists, visit feminist art spaces, and consult archives. Her goal is to pursue graduate study in Art History and continue working on contemporary women artists in Latin America whose work addresses issues affecting women in places like Mexico. Congratulations Evany!

For more information, check out our website!!

04/23/2025

Larry Madrigal Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist
Open Studio TOMORROW
📝 Thursday, April 24, 2025, 3:00-6:00 pm
📍UNM Art Annex Graduate Studios
( #105 on UNM Map)

This event is open to the public.. We hope to see you there!!

04/21/2025

Art Happenings ✨

Covington Rhode Finalist Exhibition
📝 April 21-25, 2025, Opens this Week!
📍John Sommers Gallery
Hours: M, T, W, TR, F 8:00-5:00 pm

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Outdoor Studio Exhibition
📝 April 18-24, 2025, Ends this Week!
📍 Masley Gallery
Hours: M, W, TR, F, S 12:00-5:00 pm

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“Tending To..” MFA Thesis by Amari Becker
“ Absorb-Reflect-Refract” MFA Thesis by Isabel Heiland .h.art
Closing Reception: Sunday, April 27,2025, from 2:00-4:30 pm
📝 April 19-27, 2025, Ends this Weekend!
📍6th Street Studio
1029 6th St NW, 87102
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Friday from 12:00-4:00 pm

"Tending to…"
Artist Talk: Monday, April 21, 2025, 11:00 am

"Absorb – Reflect – Refract"
Artist Talk, Monday, April, 2025, 1:00 pm

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“Fantasy Infinity” MFA Thesis by Taylor Engel
Artist Talk: Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 5:00 pm
📍Kiva Auditorium

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“Body Memory” written and directed by Yoricks
📝 Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 2:30 pm
📍Elizabeth Waters Center for Dance

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Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist Larry Madrigal Open Studio
📝 Thursday, April 24, 2025, 3:00-6:00 pm
📍Art Annex

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Studio Exhibition: Pueblo Pottery, Ceramics, & Arita Porcelain
📝 April 16-26-18, 2025, Ends this Week!
📍John Sommers Lobby
Hours: M, T, W, TR, F 8:00-5:00 pm

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Voces del Pueblo: Artists of the Levantamiento Chicano in New Mexico
📝 April 25-February 8, 2026, Opens this Week!
Reception: Friday, April 25, 2025, 5:00-7:30 pm
📍National Hispanic Cultural Center
1701 4th St SW, 87102

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Bad Sport Group Exhibition
📝 April 16-30, 2025
📍UNM Fine Arts Design Library

Art faculty, students, alumni, and staff, you can now submit an event on our website. Check the link in bio to view and share your events!!

04/17/2025

04/17/2025

Exciting news! Two of our graduate students were honored with the Susan Deese-Roberts Outstanding Teaching Assistants of the Year Award! ✨

This award recognizes and rewards the teaching achievements of graduate students. Congratulations to both Kenton Bueche and billy von raven for earning this award! Both are graduate teaching assistants at the Department of Art within the College of Fine Arts. billy states the following about this award, “I would not be here today without the love and support of too many people to name here. I want to express my sincere gratitude to Jennifer Pollard and Magdalena Vázquez Dathe at CTL and my graduate chair Szu-Han Ho, among many other teachers, colleagues, and students. Education is about caring for each other and lifting each other, and it happens more often than not outside the classroom.” raven’s work is seen below and is included in their thesis project “Glitches in the Fabric.”

Kenton states the following about this award, “I’m deeply grateful to Magdalena Vazquez Dathe at the Center for Teaching and Learning, whose 'Teaching for Graduate Students' course helped me reflect on and strengthen my approach to teaching. I also want to thank Meggan Gould, Welly Fletcher, and Dr. Marcella Ernest, whose generosity in sharing their relational teaching philosophies has had a lasting impact on mine. I’m thankful for my students, graduate cohort, and all the professors I’ve learned from at UNM, who have shaped the way I now structure my courses. I was a teacher before I was an artist, and I hope to continue holding both roles together.” Image 4, titled “Primary Sweep” is part of Bueche’s series "Red Light Buena Vista" which was featured in their thesis exhibition.

Congratulations again to both of these incredible graduate assistants. Your passion for teaching and dedication to your students and practice truly inspire us all. We are so thankful to have such thoughtful, talented educators in our department ❤❤

📷 1. Image of billy von raven
2. 12.5’ x 3’, woven music score (wool, cotton, and synthetic yarn), 2025. Photograph by Claudia Hermano.

3. Image of Kenton Bueche
4. “Primary Sweep” from series “Red Light Buena Vista.” digital scan from color negative, 20”x 17,” 2024.

04/15/2025

The UNM College of Fine Arts celebrates Dr. Gigi Schroeder Yu , Assistant Professor of Art Education, for her outstanding scholarship, leadership, and impact in the field of art education✨

In 2023, Dr. Yu published “Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Children and Families,” exploring how Reggio Emilia’s philosophy supports social justice and linguistic human rights for multilingual children, especially immigrants and refugees.

In 2024, she brought the “Mosaic of Marks, Words, Material” exhibition from Reggio Children, Italy, to Explora Museum and co-led the North American Reggio Emilia Alliance Conference, focused on “Advocating for the 100 Languages as an Educational Right.”

She also received an NEH grant for the Summer 2025 K–12 Educator Institute at UNM: Reimagining the US/Mexico Border through Multimodal Storytelling.

Dr. Yu’s recent publications:
“The Language of Collaboration” (Nov 2024, Arts Education Policy Review), on cross-disciplinary inquiry in early childhood education.
“A Collection of Children’s Artworks as Imaginative Openings” (Feb 2025, International Journal of Art & Design Education), featuring a student-curated exhibition of children's art from Latin America and beyond. Dr. Yu quoted, “Unusual [it is]... to consider children's artwork as a form of inquiry... much of what they can reveal about society from the child's perspective is often overlooked.”

Dr. Gigi Schroeder Yu’s scholarship, leadership, and dedication continue to elevate UNM’s Art Education program and enrich our broader educational and cultural community. Congratulations Gigi!!

Read the full story under Arts News and CFA News.

04/14/2025

Art Happenings Continued...✨

“Remembering” by MFA student Ryan Singer
📝 March 28-April 14, 2025, Ends Today!
📍Blue Rain Gallery
544 South Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501

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Placitas Artist Series
📝 March 7-April 17, 2025
📍 Las Placitas Presbyterian Church

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Visiting Artist Talk: Lindsey White
📝 April 18, 2025, 11:00 am
📍 Art Building, Room 304
Zoom Link: https://unm.zoom.us/j/94560315932

Lindsey White (b. Tulsa, OK) is an artist living and working in San Francisco, CA.
In her enigmatic and slyly humorous works, Lindsey White (b. 1980) explores the aesthetics of stand-up comedy and the related field of magic. Trained as a photographer, she sees comedians and magicians as kindred spirits-similarly sensitive people who notice things that others might overlook and call them to our attention. She's particularly interested in the difficulties women face in these arenas, which are traditionally dominated by men. In addition to photographs, White creates sculptural objects inspired by everyday items. When remade and decontextualized, these "props," as White characterizes them, can take on eerily strange or dark tones. Emblazoned with kitschy phrases, they share the theatrical quality inherent to her photographs. When presented together, her works evoke the buzz of anticipation one feels in the moments before the start of a stage performance.
She has a new book, "What? Is? Art?" is out now on Colpa Press. She is represented by Casemore Gallery, San Francisco, CA

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Larry Madrigal Formations: Painting Workshop with Live Model
📝 Friday, April 18, 2025, 12:00-5:00 pm
📍Art Building, Room 245

Reserve your spot with Larry Madrigal: [email protected]

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XR Performance Hack-a-thon
📝Rehearsal: April 19, 2025, 3:15 pm
📝Performance: April 19, 2025, 3:30-5:30 pm
📍UNM Art Museum


Art faculty, students, alumni, and staff, you can now submit an event on our website. Check the link in bio to view and share your events!!

04/14/2025

Art Happenings ✨

“Birds and Bees” BFA Honor Thesis by Sarah Bauman .bauman34
📝 April 7-18, 2025, Ends this Week!
📍John Sommers Gallery
Hours: M, T, W, TR, F 8:00-5:00 pm

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Outdoor Studio Exhibition
📝 April 18- Opens this Week!
📍 Masley Gallery
Hours: M, W, TR, F, S 12:00-5:00 pm

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“at the edge of the known world” MFA Thesis by Zoe Gleitsman
📝 April 4-15, 2025, Ends this Week!
📍6th Street Studio
1029 6th St NW, 87102

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“Tending To..” MFA Thesis by Amari Becker
“ Absorb-Reflect-Refract” MFA Thesis by Isabel Heiland .h.art
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 19, 2025, from 4:00-7:00 pm
📝 April 19-27, 2025, Opens this Weekend!
📍6th Street Studio
1029 6th St NW, 87102
Gallery Hours: W, F, 12:00-4:00 pm

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“Sus Hechizos Son Diferente En Mi Lengua - Their Spells are Different On My Tongue” MFA Thesis by Ellan Luna
📝 April 11-May 3, 2025
📍Exhibit/208
208 Broadway Blvd SE, 87102
Artist Talk: Monday, April 14, 2025, 2:30 pm
📍CFA, Room 1020

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“Mind @ Large” MFA Thesis by Lana Scholtz
📝April 5-May 4, 2025
📍 AC2 Gallery
301 Mountain Rd NE, 87102¬¬¬
Gallery Hours: 12:00-4:00 pm or by appointment
Artist Talk: Monday, April 14, 2025, 4:00 pm
📍CFA, Room 2018

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“red light buena vista” MFA Thesis by Kenton Bueche
📝 April 7-18, 2025, Ends This Week!
📍Tamarind Institute
2500 Central Ave SE, 87106
Artist Talk: Monday, April 14, 2025, 4:00 pm
📍Zoom (message us for details)

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“Nosh!” MFA Thesis by Chloe Dichter
📝 March 31-April 14, 2025, Ends this Week!
📍Freestyle Gallery

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“Fantasy Infinity” MFA Thesis by Taylor Engel
📝 April 16-20, 2025, Opens This Week!
Concert: Friday, April 18, 2025, 8:00 pm
📍Immanuel Presbyterian Church
114 Carlisle Blvd SE, 87106

Art faculty, students, alumni, and staff, you can now submit an event on our website. Check the link in bio to view and share your events!!

04/11/2025

Course Offerings for Fall 2025 ✨

ARTS 451/551, RAVEL (Radicle Art & Vital Ecology Lab) Seeding Radicle Futures: Arranged with Kaitlin Bryson .t.li.n

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ARTS 429/529 The All-Over (Pattern in Art)
M/W, 9:00-11:45 am, with Amanda Curreri

Full course descriptions will be posted on the art's website or see the link in bio. Read eligibility and course descriptions or email the instructors directly to find out more. Registration is open!!

04/10/2025

Student Spotlight ✨

Emma Ressel .ressel (b. Bar Harbor, ME) is an artist working with large format film photography to make still life images with natural history collections. Her images aim to complicate the boundaries between dead versus alive, nature versus artifice, and beauty versus the grotesque. She is currently collaborating with biologists to problematize ideas around animal preservation and explore how science processes and institutions reveal our desire for proximity with nature.

Exciting news for the 2025-2026 academic year, she will conduct a Post-Doc Fellowship at the Center for Regional Studies at UNM. Ressel was a recipient of the Film Photo Student Project Award and held an Emerging Artist Fellowship at Strata Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, where she had a solo show in May 2024. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Jurassic Technology. The catalog for her MFA thesis show, Extant Erosions, was self-published this year, and the exhibition is on view in Albuquerque through June 2025.

Read more about Emma under Art News or check out Emma’s website at: https://www.emmaressel.com/about

04/09/2025

Since 2018, Ray Hernandez-Duran , Ph.D., Professor of Art History in the Department of Art, has been working with Irene Vasquez, Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies and also Director of the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute on a monumental project aimed at documenting the work of a group of first generation New Mexican Chicana and Chicano activists. The project is comprised of 4 elements: an exhibition, an exhibition catalog, a program of events, and an archive. The exhibit, which opens on Friday, April 25, 2025, at the National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum, features the work of 6 artists, 3 men and 3 women, who were students at New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas when Chicano Studies scholar and artist, Pedro Rodríguez was hired as the inaugural Director of the Chicano Studies Program ca. 1971. Pedro, originally from Texas, is credited with igniting the civil rights activism that unfolded at the university and that fed the growing Chicano movement throughout the state. The exhibition catalog, which includes 5 scholarly essays and full color reproductions of the artworks in the show, will be published in December 2025 by the University of New Mexico Press. The exhibit will run from April 25, 2025 through February 8, 2026. Scheduled events, to be announced at the opening, will run from the summer into next fall. The archive, which will be a continuing project as new materials on the Chicano movement in New Mexico are identified and collected, will be housed at the Center for Southwest Research in Zimmerman Library. The opening reception at the NHCC is free and open to the public although registration is required. If there are any questions, please feel free to contact Ray at: [email protected].

04/07/2025

Art Happenings Continued...✨

Undergraduate Art History Symposium
📝 April 11, 2025, 3:00-5:00pm
📍CFA, Room 1020

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“red light buena vista” MFA Thesis by Kenton Bueche
Opening Reception: Friday, April 11, 2025, 4:00-7:00 pm
📍Tamarind Institute
2500 Central Ave SE, 87106

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“Sus Hechizos Son Diferente En Mi Lengua - Their Spells are Different On My Tongue” MFA Thesis by Ellan Luna
📝 April 11-May 3, 2025, Opens this Week!
Opening Reception: Friday, April 11, 2025, 5:00-9:00 pm
📍Exhibit/208
208 Broadway Blvd SE, 87102

Art faculty, students, alumni, and staff, you can now submit an event on our website. Check the link in bio to view and share your events!!

04/07/2025

Art Happenings ✨

“Birds and Bees” BFA Honor Thesis by Sarah Bauman .bauman34
📝 April 7-18, 2025, Opens this Week!
Opening Reception: Friday, April 11, 2025
Artist Talk: 5:00 pm
📍John Sommers Gallery
Hours: M, T, W, TR, F 8:00-5:00 pm

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“Glitches in the Fabric” MFA Thesis by billy von raven
📝 April 2-12, 2025, Ends this Week!
Closing Reception: Saturday, April 12, 2025, 3:00-5:00 pm
📍 Masley Gallery
Hours: M, W, TR, F, S 12:00-5:00 pm

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“at the edge of the known world” MFA Thesis by Zoe Gleitsman
📝 April 4-15, 2025
📍6th Street Studio
1029 6th St NW, 87102
Artist Talk: Monday, April 7, 2025, 3:00 pm
📍CFA, Room 1020

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“Extant Erosions” MFA Thesis by Emma Ressel .ressel
📝March 29-June 16, 2025
📍 New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104
Artist Talk: Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 5:00 pm
📍Zimmerman Library, Frank Waters Room

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“Auto Body” MFA Thesis by Rebecca Elise Cook
📝 March 28-April 9, 2025, Ends this Week!
📍Stardust Lounge
1101 4th St. NW 87102
Artist Talk: Wednesday, April 9, 2025
📍ARTSLab

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“The Social Life of Plants: Botanical Representations in Moche Art” PH.D Dissertation Defense by Breanna Reiss
📝Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 3:00-4:45
📍 CFA, Room 1020

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“the price is right” MFA Thesis by Graham Parker Ansell
📝March 28-,
📍 ABQ INT’L
1206 Broadway Blvd SE, Albuquerque, NM
Artist Talk: Thursday, April 10, 2025
📍George Pearl Hall

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“Nosh!” MFA Thesis by Chloe Dichter
📝 March 31-April 14, 2025
📍Freestyle Gallery
Artist Talk: Thursday, April 10, 2025, 12:30 pm
📍George Pearl Hall, Room 104

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Arts Career Fair
📝 Thursday, April 10, 2025, 1:00-3:00 pm
📍CFA/Popejoy Lobby

Art faculty, students, alumni, and staff, you can now submit an event on our website. Check the link in bio to view and share your events!!

04/03/2025

A four-flap enclosure is a simple yet effective way to protect objects like books, pamphlets, manuscripts, and other printed materials from damage. Four-flap enclosures are standard in museum and archival collection practice, ensuring the long-term care of delicate materials. But how do you make one?

Join us on April 10th from 5:00 – 6:30 PM at the UNM Art Museum for a free weeknight workshop where UNMAM Collections Manager, Andrea Perez-Martinez, will lead participants through a hands-on exercise in creating a four-flap enclosure. Each participant will create a custom enclosure for a small book selected from the Raymond Jonson Archive.

This weeknight workshop is only open to current UNM students. To reserve a spot, email Joseph McKee, Coordinator of Student Engagement & Technology, at [email protected]. Please include your name, UNM email address, and student ID number.

Participants will be using sharp tools, including blades, during this workshop. If you are in need of accommodations, please email Joseph McKee at [email protected].

04/03/2025

This week, UNMAM will have extended hours during the performance of BODYTRAFFIC shown in Popejoy Hall. UNMAM will be open until 7:30 pm on Friday, April 4th. We encourage you to stop by and tour the museum before the show begins!

Photograph by Stefan Jennings Batista.