College of Fine Arts

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...

New Mexico has a long, distinguished history in the film industry. Tom Mix made silent movies in the early 1900s and award-winning classics such as Easy Rider and No Country for Old Men were filmed in northern New Mexico. Over the last several years, the...

When voters in the state get to the polls in the upcoming election they’ll find an item on the ballot for funding for a new Center for Collaborative Arts and Technology at The University of New Mexico. The UNM College of Fine Arts is asking for $45...

This year voters in New Mexico have the opportunity to vote on General Obligation Bond 3 which is designed to help provide funding for statewide higher education institutions to finance projects including building upgrades and renovations. New Mexico...

The University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts hosts its first-ever ArtsSplash, a showcase of the Fine Arts on Wednesday, Sept. 28. The event will be held on Cornell Mall in front of the Student Union Building from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.  There will be...

Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities, the most in-depth exhibition to date exploring the formative 1980s activist campaign Artists Call Against US Intervention in Central America, will open Tuesday, Sept. 6, at The...