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

Join Curator Josie Lopez in the Beaumont Newhall Study Room to explore the works of one of the world’s most prolific and influential printmaking workshops -  Mexico City’s Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP). Founded in the 1930’s by Leopoldo Méndez, Luis Arenal, and Pablo O'Higgins as a printmaking collective, artists of the TGP produced prints, posters and illustrated publications seeking to advance progressive social change. Influenced by the works of Jose Gudalupe Posada, the collective addresse...

University of New Mexico Art Museum is hosting curator, photo historian, photographer and educator, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio for a special talk on his curatorial vision for the exhibition Frida Kahlo: Her Photos. This exhibition was curated from a collection of 6500 images that lay hidden in the Blue House Archive for 50 years, and offers a uniquely intimate glimpse into the life and work of a beloved cultural icon. Frida Kahlo – Her Photos contains over two hundred previously unseen images, in...

Join us for a special culinary event inspired by artist and cultural icon Frida Kahlo!  Artichoke Café’s Executive Chef, David Gaspar de Alba, will create flavorful dishes from Frida Kahlo’s personal recipes sourced from the cookbook "Frida's Fiestas: Recipes and Reminiscences of Life with Frida Kahlo".   Join the curator of the exhibition Frida Kahlo - Her Photos, Pablo Ortiz-Monasterio from Mexico City, and enjoy the tastes and smells of Frida’s kitchen.  The dinner will feature 3 courses a...

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. Jodie Herrera is a visual artist and curator from Taos, New Mexico. She is of both native and Hispanic descent. Herrera works as an illustrator, muralist, a mixed-media artist, and ...

University of New Mexico Art Museum, in partnership with The Southwest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and UNM Department of Music, presents a lecture with associate professor of music and faculty affiliate of the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico, Ana Alonso-Minutti. Born in Costa Rica, singer Chavela Vargas (1919–2012) arrived in Mexico at age 14 and in time became an international icon, especially for her performances of rancheras. Given her unusual voice t...

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 ...

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...