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09/07/2026

Art Happenings ✨

"Teaching: Exercises, Experiences, Exemplars"
📝 September 10-24, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 10, 2026, 2026, 5:00-7:00 pm
📍Masley Gallery

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"Love Notes"
📝 September 7-12, 2026
Saturday, September 12, 2026, 4:00-7:00 pm
On view windows: September 7-12, 2026
In-person preview: Thursday, September 10, 2026, 5:00-7:00 pm & Friday, September 11, 20256, 1:00-4:00 pm
📍Parkway Studios
1189 Parkway Dr F3, Santa Fe, NM

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"Bellow Forth"
📝September 12, 2026, 5:01 pm
September 13, 2026, 5:01 pm
📍Warrior Heart Ranch,
near San Geronimo Fire Station,
outside Las Vegas, New Mexico

09/06/2026

Join the NEW Figure Drawing Club ✨

📝 September 11 and September 25, 2026
📍Art, Room 245

Students, staff, faculty, and public are welcome to join! $5 entry, and proceeds go to the model. Please email [email protected] with questions.

🖼: Ivan Boyd

09/05/2026

The University of New Mexico will be closed for Labor Day

📷: Artwork by Department Administrator Amy Hawkins, Office Hours, Fall 2025

09/04/2026

Welcoming Postdoc Afrooz Partovi to the Department of Art and CFA ✨

Afrooz Partovi is an artist-architect who explores intangible dimensions of time and space through immersive technologies and time-based media. Her work engages absences as vessels for tracing what has been forgotten, erased, or transformed into nonexistence. Digital realms serve as both medium and metaphor in this exploration, challenging the primacy of physicality as the definitive marker of presence. Her practice investigates how the recontextualization of absence within digital environments can uncover deeper narratives of resistance and resilience.

Afrooz earned her master’s degree in architecture from Iran University of Science and Technology in 2020 and completed her second master’s degree in fine arts at Carnegie Mellon University in 2026. She is the co-founder of Unche Studio, a collaborative practice exploring the thresholds between art, design, architecture, and theory. She was awarded the Creative Research Grant from XRTC and the FRFF grant from the Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry for her recent project, Luna Park, which was exhibited at the Andy Warhol Museum in March–April 2026.

As part of her mentorship, Professor Emeritus Mary Tsiongas has begun introducing Afrooz to art directors, artists, and members of the Albuquerque arts community.

We are excited to have Afrooz; please join us in welcoming her!!

09/03/2026

Welcoming Art Education Grad Students ✨

Featuring:
1. Kelechi Agwuncha
2. Melissa Carroll .a.carrollstudio
3. Mary Hanley .emma.hanley
Candelaria Lorelei (not pictured)
4. Kai Nakamura
Kwakye Oppong-Asamoah (not pictured)

We’re excited to learn, create, and grow together with our newest graduate students 😁🌱

📷: University Marketing & Communication

09/02/2026

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

Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva .m.soboleva
📝 Wednesday, September 23, 2026, 5:30 pm
📍Albuquerque Museum Auditorium
2000 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104

Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva is a New York based writer and art historian specializing in q***r art and culture. She holds a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. Her writings have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, Cultured, Ursula Magazine, Artforum, frieze, Hyperallergic, as well as various artist monographs and exhibition catalogues. Soboleva was a Vilcek Curatorial Fellow at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender and LGBTQ+ History at the New-York Historical. She is the recipient of the 2022 Baxter St. Camera Club Guest Curatorial Initiative, the 2025 Dora Maar Cultural Center Fellowship, the 2026 Emily Harvey Foundation Residency, and the 2026 Tee Corinne Travel Fellowship Award. Soboleva practices an autobiographical approach to art history and an art historical approach to autobiography. She is currently completing her book manuscript “What Happens After: Art, AIDS, and Le***an Histories” and developing a book and exhibition project on q***r artists who turn to the sky as a space of imagination. Soboleva teaches at NYU Steinhardt.

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.

08/31/2026

"Saints of the Southwest" was a huge success ✨

Thank you to everyone who came out last Friday, August 28, 2026, to celebrate an incredible collection of prints by talented Southwest artists at Risolana .abq 🖼️🌵

It was an amazing evening filled with art, community, and good vibes.

📸: A special thank you to Kuba Kaskiewicz for capturing these images!!

08/28/2026

Faculty Spotlight ✨

UNM alum and Professor Eric Garcia’s new mural, “Since 1776…”, is now on display at the Albuquerque Museum.

In their Daily Lobo story, Elliott Wood takes a closer look at Garcia and the mural, which is filled with political imagery and commentary on everything from George Washington and data centers to immigration and New Mexico’s history with nuclear weapons.

Garcia says he wanted to “give a critical look at what we’re really celebrating here, 250 years later.”

Read Elliott Wood’s full story in the Daily Lobo at https://www.dailylobo.com/article/2026/08/250-years-of-survival-unm-alum-debuts-new-mural-at-albuquerque-museum

📷: Elliott Wood

08/25/2026

The UNM Art Education program has two tracks, each promoting a deeper investigation of theoretical foundations, contemporary art pedagogies, art teacher-researcher reflective practices, community connections, emerging questions, and contemporary issues related to the field. Students have four capstone research options to choose from, including a thesis project, an action research project, an art curriculum development project, or an exhibition project with an educational component.

• Master of Arts (M.A. in Art Education) with Licensure
• Master of Arts (M.A. in Art Education) without Licensure

Spring Applications due: October 15, 2026

Contact: [email protected], link in bio, or website for more details https://art.unm.edu/graduate-information-admission/

08/24/2026

Art Happenings ✨

Saints of the Southwest
📝 August 28, 2026, 5:00-8:00 pm
📍Risolana .abq
722 Isleta Blvd SW, Albuquerque, NM 87105

A print show from talented artists! All works will be available for purchase; proceeds are split between artists and to Risolana!!

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