PANEL: NEW LANDSCAPES and NEW MEXICO: UNM Art Museum

Please join us for a Public Lecture

PANEL: NEW LANDSCAPES and NEW MEXICO

Thursday, April 21 at 5:30 pm

UNM Art Museum

Presented in conjunction with

the Cady Wells Exhibition on view through May 22, in

UNM Art Museum's Raymond Jonson Gallery.

Cady Wells, Untitled (Brilliant Landscape), ca. 1946. Fine Art Museums of San Francisco.

Four scholars will discuss how New Mexicans have shaped the local landscapes they inhabit, and how the impact of the modern world, especially since World War II, has affected their relationships to and representations of the land.

PARTICIPANTS:

CHRIS WILSON J. B. Jackson Professor, and Director Historic

Preservation and Regionalism Program

LUCY LIPPARD Independent scholar, cultural historian, and critic

of contemporary arts and movements

MIGUEL GANDERT Documentary photographer and Assistant Professor of Communications and Journalism

ANDREW SANDOVAL-STRAUSZ Associate Professor, Department of History

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Main campus, Center for the Arts, adjacent to Popejoy Hall.

Hours: Tues.- Fri. 10:00-4:00, Weekends 1:00-4:00.

FREE admission, $5.00 suggested donation.

Part of the “Making New Mexico Modern” series, funded in part by a grant from the New Mexico Humanities Council. This series has been designated a “We The People” project by the New Mexico Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Patrick Nagatani at the UNM Art Museum

Tuesday, October 5th at 5:30 pm The UNM Art Museum's Distinguished Speaker Series in conjunction with the exhibition "Desire for Magic: Patrick Nagatani 1978-2008" “A Conversation in Three Parts” by Michele Penhall, UNMAM Curator of Desire for Magic, in conversation with Patrick Nagatani, Artist and Professor Emeritus, and Christopher Kaltenbach, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Design, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Patrick Nagatani, Model A Woody, National Radio Astronomy Observatory (VLA) Plains of St. Agustin, New Mexico, U.S.A., 1997/1999, Silver dye bleach print Desire for Magic: Patrick Nagatani 1978-2008 was conceived as the first comprehensive look at the many and varied projects the artist has worked on since 1978, including examples from Nagatani | Tracey Polaroid Collaborations, the Japanese American Concentration Camps portfolio, Nuclear Enchantment, Novellas, Nagatani | Ryoichi Excavations, Chromatherapy, and the large masking tape works he calls Tape-estries. The book is available for purchase at the UNM Art Museum, $75 hardback, 260 pages, with 5 gate folds. Desire For Magic: Patrick Nagatani, Book Cover, published 2010 All talks in the Distinguished Speaker Series will be held at the UNM Art Museum and are FREE and open to the public. Please join us! The UNM Art Museum is located on the campus of UNM in the Center for the Arts, adjacent to Popejoy Hall. Open Tuesday - Friday: 10-4, Saturday & Sunday: 1-4 and during the evening talks. The Distinguished Speaker Series is sponsored by the UNM Art Museum in cooperation with the Department of Art & Art History.

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Writing Marathon at the University of New Mexico Art Museum

Man Ray, Noire et blanche, 1926 ©2010 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris But what exactly is a Writing Marathon? A Writing Marathon is a long period of time of sustained writing in an environment that is a resource of ideas and a source of inspiration. Place matters and writing marathons respect this. Writing Marathons offer the opportunity to take risks and share them with others, to be in new spaces and witness the influence it has on your work, and to listen to other's pieces. There are no rules, no pressure, and lots of encouragement from like-minded souls.

Writing Marathon at the Museum Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens Sponsored by the High Desert Writing Project, in partnership with the UNM Art Museum This writing marathon will involve viewing the exhibit, brief discussions about the art, and opportunities to write and share. Participants need not be accomplished writers, but are expected to have an interest in writing. Who: Writers 15 - 99+ years of age Where: University of New Mexico Art Museum (in the Center for the Arts) When: April 10, 2010 from 1:00 - 4:00 PM Bring: Something to write on and pencils (NOTE: NO PENS are permitted in the Art Museum) Cost: $10 Registration: To register for this event, please email Chuck Jurich at jurich@unm.edu The Art Museum is handicapped accessible - please make prior arrangements with Sara Otto-Diniz at sodiniz@unm.edu. For more information on the Man Ray exhibition please visit http://unm.edu/~artmuse For more information on High Desert Writing Project please visit http://hdwp.org

Lecture and Book Signing by Bill Gilbert

The UNM Art Museum proudly presents a Lecture and Book Signing by Bill Gilbert, Lannan Chair and Senior Associate Dean of the UNM College of Fine Arts on Tuesday, November 10 at 5:30PM at the UNM Art Museum.

Following the lecture, Bill Gilbert will sign copies of his new book Land Arts of the American West, (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009) co-authored with Chris Taylor. This event is FREE and open to the public. Please join us! Bill Gilbert began teaching sculpture at UNM in the Dept. of Art and Art History in 1987. The Land Arts of the American West Program, an interdisciplinary, field based studio curriculum was conceived by Gilbert in his interest to redefine the very nature of how students are educated in the visual arts. In 2000 along with Professor Emeritus John Wenger and a dozen eager students, Gilbert initiated the first Land Arts trip which covered five states and some 8,000 miles. He later collaborated with Chris Taylor from The University of Texas at Austin. Professor Gilbert will discuss this "experiment" in pedagogy, as he calls it, and how this has both affected and intersected with his work as an artist and a teacher. Image Right | Bill Gilbert, "For John Wesley Powell, Attempts to Walk the Grid, September 7, 2006," digital print, 2009

Your are invited: Dispersal/Return reception

Dispersal/Return: Land Arts of the American West 2000-2006
August 28th - November 25, 2009
UNM Art Museum, Center for Fine Arts, Albuquerque

Claire Long and Anna Keleher invite you to join them on Friday September 25th, 5-7pm at the Center for Fine Arts (Popejoy Hall), University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque for the reception of Dispersal/Return: Land Arts of the American West 2000-2006.
To visit the UNM Art Museum website click here.

Approaching an Exchange: Albuquerque

Potentising elements of our lives, cultures and times
A collaborative project by Claire Long and Anna Keleher

An inter-temporal "Exchange" initiated in Dartmoor National Park, England now comes to New Mexico! Through the idea of exchange, the participatory project presses against boundaries of time and preconceptions of past and present peoples and cultures.

Film short - University of New Mexico Art Museum, August 28th - November 25, 2009
Visitors to Dispersal/Return at the UNM Art Museum are invited to experience "Approaching an Exchange: Dartmoor", a short collage of sound and image collected from visitors to a Bronze Age roundhouse on wild and windy Dartmoor during the project’s UK pilot phase.

Live events - September 29th and October 3rd, 10 am - 2 pm
Artists Claire Long and Anna Keleher invite you to add your voice to the growing community of Exchange participants, journeying with them to a nearby prehistoric, archaeological site to share elements of your lives and cultures with the original inhabitants. Light lunch will be provided. Reservations required; early booking recommended; places limited.

For reservations or more information visit the museum, call 505-277-2868, email clairabell22@hotmail.com, or visit www.claireandanna.com

Claire Long (New Mexico) and Anna Keleher (Devon, UK) and have been collaborating since October, 2007. Their collaborative practice arose from shared interests in archaeology, Dartmoor National Park, walking and sound collection and has evolved through continued exploration of place and site-specific works.

Presented as part of Dispersal/Return: Land Arts of the American West 2000 - 2006
August 28 – November 25, 2009
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Center for Popejoy Hall, Albuquerque
And Land Arts New Mexico www.landartnm.org

University of New Mexico Art Museum Fall 2009 Exhibitions

Click on the images below to read UNM's announcement of its Art Museum's 2009 exhibitions, including a LAND/ART film festival.

Erika Osborne: Dispersal/Return

Erika Osborne's Hunting Stump/Grape Stake and 2749 Years for Matchsticks will be exhibited as part of New Mexico's LAND/ART project and the University of New Mexico Art Museum's Dispersal/Return: Land Arts of the American West 2000- 2006 (see below).

Erika describes her work as an homage to wood's utilitarian role in our lives:

We use wood for nearly everything - to build our homes and our furniture, to keep us warm in winter and on cold nights around the campfire. We use it to make paper, grapestakes, fences, matchsticks, grocery bags, cardboard...and the list goes on. Yet, wood can also give us insight into a past that stretches far beyond our own histories. Each piece of wood tells a story, recording time and events in the form of scars, weathering and growth.

The marks and rings of the nearly 3000 year old, giant sequoia depicted in Hunting Stump/Grape Stake and 2749 Years for Matchsticks chronicle drought, fire, earthquakes, pestilence, and conclusively, human penetration in the form of a logging operation aimed at the manufacturing of grape stakes and matchsticks. Ultimately, this work is an attempt to recognize the vital, utilitarian role wood plays in our existence, while at the same time, paying homage to the lives and stories of these trees."

Dispersal/Return: Land Arts of the American West 2000- 2006
August 28 - November 25, 2009

The University of New Mexico Art Museum presents twenty artists from Land Arts of the American West, an interdisciplinary field program in the Department of Art and Art History at UNM. Curated by Bill Gilbert, the Lannan Chair and Director of the Land Arts program and Michele M. Penhall, Curator, Prints and Photographs at the UNM Art Museum, the exhibition brings together former participants from this innovative studio program who continue to work on land art based projects. The exhibition includes video and installation works by Claire Long and Anna Keleher, Blake Gibson, Yoshimi Hayashi, Mark Hensel and Jen Van Horn; works on paper and sculpture by Jeff Beekman, Erika Osborne, Blake Gibson, Geordie Shepherd, Jeanette Hart-Mann, Brooke Steiger, Gabe Romero, and Peter Voshefski. There will also be four site specific works commissioned for the exhibition by Julie Anand, Jeanette Hart- Mann/Nina Dubois, Jess Dunn, and Ryan Henel. A performance by Gabe Romero and John Loth is scheduled for the opening night reception.

For more information about the Land Arts of the American West program at the University of New Mexico visit http://www.unm. edu/~artdept2/land_arts/index.html

Claire Long and Anna Keleher invite participation in their "inter-temporal 'Exchange'"

As part of the University of New Mexico Art Museum's "Dispersal/Return: Land Arts of the American West 2000 - 2006, Claire Long and Anna Keleher present a collaborative project entitled: "Approaching an Exchange: Albuquerque, Potentising elements of our lives, cultures and times"

This participatory project extends an inter-temporal "exchange" that the artists initiated in Dartmoor National Park, England to New Mexico. It uses the idea of exchange to "press against boundaries of time and preconceptions of past and present peoples and cultures."

The project consists of:

A Film short in the University of New Mexico Art Museum
Visitors to Dispersal/Return at the UNM Art Museum are invited to experience "Approaching an Exchange: Dartmoor", a short collage of sound and image collected from visitors to a Bronze Age roundhouse on wild and windy Dartmoor during the project’s UK pilot phase.

Live events - at a nearby prehistoric site, September 29th and October 3rd, 10 am - 2 pm
Artists Claire Long and Anna Keleher invite you to add your voice to the growing community of Exchange participants, journeying with them to a nearby prehistoric, archaeological site to share elements of your lives and cultures with the original inhabitants. Light lunch will be provided. Reservations required; early booking recommended; places limited.

For reservations or more information visit the museum, call 505-277-2868 or email clairabell22@hotmail.com.

Claire Long (New Mexico) and Anna Keleher (Devon, UK) and have been collaborating since October, 2007. Their collaborative practice arose from shared interests in archaeology, Dartmoor National Park, walking and sound collection and has evolved through continued exploration of place and site-specific works.
See the links below for more comprehensive documentation and information:
www.claireandanna.com and www.clairelongarts.com
http://creativetorbay.com/directory/?disc=34&view=list&p=217
http://www.axisweb.org/seCVPG.aspx?ARTISTID=11053

Reception: Friday, September 25, 5-7pm
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Popejoy Hall, Albuquerque

Dispersal/Return: Land Arts of the American West 2000 - 2006
August 28 – December 20, 2009

The University of New Mexico Art Museum presents twenty artists from Land Arts of the American West, an interdisciplinary field program in the Department of Art and Art History at UNM. Curated by Bill Gilbert, the Lannan Chair and Director of the Land Arts program and Michele M. Penhall, Curator, Prints and Photographs at the UNM Art Museum, the exhibition brings together former participants from this innovative studio program who continue to work on land art based projects. The exhibition includes video and installation works by Claire Long and Anna Keleher, Blake Gibson, Yoshimi Hayashi, Mark Hensel, Jennifer DePaolo Van Horn, and Bill Gilbert; works on paper and sculpture by Jeff Beekman, Erika Osborne, Blake Gibson, Geordie Shepherd, Elizabeth Hunt, Jeanette Hart-Mann, Brooke Steiger, Gabe Romero, and Peter Voshefski. There will also be four site specific works commissioned for the exhibition by Julie Anand, Jeanette Hart-Mann/Nina Dubois, Jess Dunn, and Ryan Henel. A performance by Gabe Romero and Johnathan Loth is scheduled for the opening night reception. Featured guest speakers will be announced at a later date. The University of New Mexico Art Museum is free and open to the public. More details on Dispersal/Return site projects.

For more information about the University of New Mexico Art Museum visit www.unmartmuseum.unm.edu For more information about Land Arts of the American West program at the University of New Mexico visit www.unm.edu/~artdept2/land_arts/index.html