LONG ENVIRONMENTALISM IN THE NEAR NORTH
SUBHANKAR BANERJEE: ACTIVISM – PHOTOGRAPHS – WRITING

How do human beings respond to knowledge of the catastrophic loss of their fellow animals and plants during the past half century, a wave of ecocide that according to researchers is picking up pace? Given the glaring failure of even the most strenuous conservation measures today, what affects have come to attend mass extinction? Some critics have argued that the catastrophist stance of the environmental movement is politically dis-enabling, generating forms of numbness and resignation. But, sinc...

Creative Engagement Tours UNM Art Museum is partnering with local artists this semester to offer Creative Engagement Tours.  Visit The Museum and learn about the life of Frida Kahlo through the perspectives of contemporary artists. Space is limited – RSVP Traci Quinn, tmquinn@unm.edu if you want to attend. Rose B. Simpson was born in 1983 and raised in an Arts and Permaculture environment at Santa Clara Pueblo, NM. She is a mixed-media artist focusing in ceramic sculpture, metal, fash...

Christian Waguespack, curator of Luz Restirada: Latin American Photography from the University of New Mexico Art Museum (2014) and Curator of 20th Century Art at the New Mexico Museum of Art, will be speaking on a selection of objects from the UNM Art Museum’s collection that explore the varied uses of photography in Mexico during the early 20th century. Themes will include the vernacular, documentary, political, and artistic and will highlight approaches to the photographic medium in this time ...

The tiger is still “burning bright” in forests of the Indian subcontinent despite the regions innumerable economic, social, cultural and development challenges. India, which is celebrating its 70th year of Independence this year, embraced wildlife conservation only in the 1970s. The country chose to focus on the tiger as the ‘umbrella’ species to save its depleting wildlife. Four and a half decades later how have the tiger fared? How have other species benefited by protecting the tiger? Has the ...

Due to campus closure the UNM Art Museum will be closed during Thanksgiving weekend.  Frida Kahlo - Her Photos will be open for only one more week after the closure (Tues, Nov 28 - Sat, Dec 2) so don't put off seeing the exhibition and risk missing it!

Creative Engagement Tours UNM Art Museum is partnering with local artists this semester to offer Creative Engagement Tours.  Visit The Museum and learn about the life of Frida Kahlo through the perspectives of contemporary artists. Space is limited – RSVP Traci Quinn, tmquinn@unm.edu if you want to attend. UNM Student Choreographers, led by Amanda Hamp, Assistant Professor of Dance Amanda Hamp’s teaching and research integrate practice and theory. At UNM, she teaches in the areas o...