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Part 6: Welcoming Painting & Drawing Grad Students ✨Featuring:1. Celia Calabaza .of.ceeyah 2. Johanna Hamblett 3. Grace ...
10/08/2026

Part 6: Welcoming Painting & Drawing Grad Students ✨

Featuring:
1. Celia Calabaza .of.ceeyah
2. Johanna Hamblett
3. Grace Hoag

More to come next week!!

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Happy Wednesday 🌿Enjoy your Fall Break!! Open studio hours are available for students using the facilities. Please see t...
10/07/2026

Happy Wednesday 🌿

Enjoy your Fall Break!! Open studio hours are available for students using the facilities. Please see the hours on the area's doors or qr codes.

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Art Happenings ✨“Burden of Proof” by Sammie Chinigo📝October 10-17, 2026Opening Reception: Saturday, October 10, 2026, 5:...
10/05/2026

Art Happenings ✨

“Burden of Proof” by Sammie Chinigo
📝October 10-17, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 10, 2026, 5:00-7:00 pm
📍6th St Studio
1029 6th St, Albuquerque, NM 87102

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“Almost Blue” by Sara Miovic
📝September 22-October 7, 2026
📍John Sommers Gallery

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Counter Ecology: Grow Through the Cracks by Angel Estrada
📝October 5-16, 2026
📍Masley Gallery

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Experimental Typography Lecture Series with Nigel Cottier
📝 Tuesday, October 6, 2026, 2:00-3:00 pm
📍Zoom, https://unm.zoom.us/j/4608627367

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Artist Talk with claudia hermano .your.hermano
📝Tuesday, October 6, 2026, 12:30-1:30 pm
📍National Hispanic Cultural Center
1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102

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King of Drag Season 2
📝Every Sunday until November 8, 2026
📍Vers .abq
5001 Central Ave NE, Albuquerque, NM 87108

Part 5: Welcoming Experimental Art & Technology Grad Student ✨Featuring:1. Shu-Min Chang More to come next week!! 📷: Uni...
10/01/2026

Part 5: Welcoming Experimental Art & Technology Grad Student ✨

Featuring:
1. Shu-Min Chang

More to come next week!!

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Thank you so much for attending today’s Arts Career Fair and Arts Splash. It was wonderful to see such a strong turnout ...
10/01/2026

Thank you so much for attending today’s Arts Career Fair and Arts Splash. It was wonderful to see such a strong turnout in support of the arts in our community! 😀👏

Come find your next opportunity by networking at Arts Career Fair with:Santa Fe Opera, American General Media, ABQ Insti...
09/30/2026

Come find your next opportunity by networking at Arts Career Fair with:

Santa Fe Opera, American General Media, ABQ Institute of Music, Fusion, Georgia O’Keefe Museum, KHFM, The Vortex Theatre, Levanta Institute (Albuquerque Academy), National Hispanic Cultural Center, New Mexico Philharmonic, Opera Southwest/Chatter, Public Art Urban Enhancement Division, Indian Arts Research Center (IARC), UNM Art Museum, UNM Arts-in-Medicine, UNM Conceptions Southwest (publication), UNM Ellis School of Business Leadership, UNM Financial Aid Office/Job Development Officer, UNM Museum Studies, UNM Office of Career Services

📅 Wednesday, September 30
⏰ 11:00am-1pm
📍 CFA Lobby

Save the Date for the Gale Memorial Lecture Series: Innovative Strategies in Contemporary Curating ✨Jasmine Wahi 📝 Wedn...
09/29/2026

Save the Date for the Gale Memorial Lecture Series: Innovative Strategies in Contemporary Curating ✨

Jasmine Wahi
📝 Wednesday, October 28, 2026, 5:30 pm
📍Albuquerque Museum Auditorium
2000 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104

Jasmine Wahi is a curator, educator, and the Founder and Co-Director of Project for Empty Space, a nonprofit organization in New York City and Newark, New Jersey. Her curatorial practice focuses on femme empowerment, challenging binary structures within social discourse, and exploring cultural identities through the lens of intersectional feminism.

In 2023, Wahi was honored by The Metropolitan Museum of Art for her exemplary social impact work in the arts. She also served as the inaugural Holly Block Social Justice Curator at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, where she curated exhibitions including Born in Flames: Feminist Futures and Wardell Milan: AMERIKA. God Bless You If It’s Good to You.

Wahi has taught at institutions including Yale University and the School of Visual Arts and currently serves on the faculty at Brooklyn College.

Gale Memorial Lecture Series was established in memory of Dr. David his wife, Sylvia, whose generosity made the series possible. All Gale Memorial Lectures are free and open to the public. This event is sponsored by the Department of Art, UNM Art Museum, UNM Women's Resource Center, and Tamarind Institute.

Art Happenings ✨Photo Lecture Series with Genesis Báezr 📝 Monday, September 28, 2026, 4:00 pm📍Art, Room 141+Experimenta...
09/28/2026

Art Happenings ✨

Photo Lecture Series with Genesis Báezr
📝 Monday, September 28, 2026, 4:00 pm
📍Art, Room 141

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Experimental Typography Lecture Series with Vincent de Boer .deboer
📝 Tuesday, September 29, 2026, 2:00-3:00 pm
📍Zoom, https://unm.zoom.us/j/4608627367

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Almost Blue” by Sara Miovic
📝September 22-October 7, 2026
📍John Sommers Gallery

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ARTSSPLASH 2026
📝Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 11:00-2:00 PM
📍East side of the Student Building, on the Cornell Mall

Arts Career Fair-UNM Arts Leadership + Business
📝Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 11:00-1:00 pm
📍CFA Lobby (Popejoy Lobby)

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“Light in mind.”
📝Thursday, October 1, 2026, 7:30-10:00 PM
📍Santa Fe Art Institute
1600 St. Michael’s Drive #31, Santa Fe, NM 87505

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From Disturbance to Discovery: Exploring the 100 Languages
📝Friday, October 2, 2026, 9:30-4:00 pm
📍Hotel Willa
233 Paseo del Pueblo Sur, Taos, NM 87571

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Grey Zone
📝 Friday, October 2, 2026, 6:00 pm & 8:00 pm
📍Sister
📍407 Central Ave NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102

✨ Undergrad Drawing Award Opportunity ✨Reggie Behl Drawing Award supports an undergraduate student who excels in drawing...
09/26/2026

✨ Undergrad Drawing Award Opportunity ✨

Reggie Behl Drawing Award supports an undergraduate student who excels in drawing. The selected student will receive $1,000 for their accomplishments in a drawing portfolio.

This award is given in honor of artist, educator and world traveler, Reggie Behl. Reggie Behl taught drawing all over the world, including University of New Mexico.

Any questions? Please email [email protected]

Full application on our website; see link in bio!!

Faculty Spotlight: On August 4, 2026, Professor of Art History Ray Hernández-Durán and Irene Vásquez, Chair of Chicana...
09/25/2026

Faculty Spotlight: On August 4, 2026, Professor of Art History Ray Hernández-Durán and Irene Vásquez, Chair of Chicana and Chicano Studies were interviewed about their work on the exhibition, Voces del Pueblo: Artists of the Levantamiento Chicano in New Mexico, which was on view at the National Hispanic Cultural Center from April 2025 through February 2026. The interview aired on September 29, 2026, and is featured in the latest episode of ¡Colores! on NM PBS.

Check it out at https://www.pbs.org/video/voces-del-pueblo-artists-of-the-levantamiento-chicano-k3i4lb/?source=social

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