College of Fine Arts

A touching tribute for one late University of New Mexico professor is taking place, not in the Southwest, but in the Southeast. The University of Georgia (UGA) hosts its Wind Ensemble Concert Thursday, Feb, 16. In addition to local performances, there...

A series created by students in a class in the Film and Digital Media Arts Department at The University of New Mexico recently won an award and may be on its way to the TV screen. Drifteen, a short film created by FDMA students...

For the first time since its inception, all six Frederick Hammersley Artist Residency recipients ̶ Maja Ruznic (2022), Henni Alftan (2021), Ellen Lesperance (2020), Danielle Orchard (2019), Luke DuBois (2018), and Matthew Shlian (2017) ̶ will be...

New Mexico's fronteristxs collective has been awarded $30,000 for The House of An-Aesthesia, an experimental runway performance with ungendered looks designed to disrupt surveillance...

The University of New Mexico Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities is celebrating, and with good cause. They recently received an award for their successful project at the prestigious Venice Biennale 2022 in Venice, Italy. The exhibition and award...

Born into a cycle of addiction, University of New Mexico senior Gerald Lovato was a child when he first realized the power of creating art to escape and heal from trauma. Lovato, who majored in Fine Arts with a studio concentration in Painting and...

The Terra Foundation for American Art has granted The University of New Mexico Art Museum (UNMAM) $75,000 to fund the installation of Hindsight/Insight 2.0: Portraits, Landscapes, and Abstraction from the UNM Art Museum Collection. UNMAM’s ongoing...

Tamarind Institute at The University of New Mexico has welcomed artist Robyn O’Neil for a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)-funded residency. The WPA-inspired artist residency series RESET responds to art in times of a pandemic. Artist residencies...

University of New Mexico senior Gerald Lovato was a child when he first realized the power of creating art to escape and heal from trauma. Now looking forward to graduating in December, he will share his work in his Honors thesis project, which is an...

The University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts has announced that the first Lydia Rede Madrid Endowed Scholarship has been awarded to Ellan Luna. Luna comes to UNM from Kentucky where she received her BFA in printmaking from the University of...