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Juried Student Show
Every Spring, the University Art Gallery hosts the Juried Student Show. This year, Cathy Lee Crane will be the guest juror for the exhibit. Students may enter up to 3 works. The deadline is getting close, March 16th. The first step in gaining access to submitting artwork, is to email the artglry@nmsu.edu for permission to…
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EVENTS HAPPENING THIS WEEK
Thursday we have our first artist talk of the semester with Cathy Lee Crane, a video artist and performer who has Guggenhiem Fellowship on her resume along with several other prestigious honors and awards. Her talk begins at 5:30 on March 1st in the Center for Theatre Arts (take note, not the usual place)….
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Monica Martinez Seizes Opportunity as Recipient of the Vivian B. Head Scholarship
The Vivian B. Head Scholarship is available for students in the art, music and theatre departments. Students are required to write an essay about free enterprise. Monica Martinez wrote about how she would use the free enterprise system in the art world and found out over the summer she was chosen to be the award…
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Fulbright Scholar, Professor Rachel Stevens in Ukraine for the Spring 2018
Sculptor Professor Rachel Stevens has just arrived in Lviv, Ukraine where she will conducting research during her second experience as a Fulbright Scholar. The title of her research is the “Forest Grows in the Synagogue: Reimagining the Galician Landscape Through Sculpture”. In western Ukraine few obvious features of Galicia’s Jewish culture remain, as the Holocaust…
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Next Step: Giving Tuesday November 28th!!!
The new art building is going up! Ground breaking in March, 2018!! The next step for continued success in our programs: – New Equipment – Updated Technology – Materials Your contribution is needed and would be appreciated to make this happen. We hope you will consider donating to our fund on Giving Tuesday by…
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Open Studio with our First Artist-in-Resident, Orly Ruaimi
Orly Ruaimi is an interdisciplinary artist working with a variety of materials that serve as a means to an end to her conceptual approaches in art making. Orly recently graduated with her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and has already completed two artist-in-residencies before coming to Las Cruces. The graduate students have been…
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Art in Public Places for the HJULC Building Made Their Final Selection!
Architect, Christophe Zeller (left) with Dept. of Art Head, Julia Barello (center) and MFA Candidate, Jeff Erwin (right) Members from the Art in Public Places Committee announced their final selection for the Hardman and Jacobs Undergraduate Learning Center Commission. In a meeting last Friday, Nov. 3, 2017, the chosen artwork from a highly competitive field…
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Beginners Workshop 11/2 for Learning Laser Cutting
This workshop is FREE to all NMSU students. The workshop will be held upstairs in Room 210 in the D.W. Williams Hall building from 4:30 to 5:30.
1 – Month Residency for MFA Graduate, Madison Manning Coming Up Soon!
“Madison Manning, MFA candidate, was selected for a one month residency at DE-CONSTRUKT [PROJEKTS] in Brooklyn, New York. In January, Madison will host Big Fun Party With All Your Cool Weird Stuff; a participatory installation that changes daily with the guests. Guests are invited to bring their old belongings and thrift store treasures- clothes…
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