KIMBERLY FREDENGURGH

Kimberly Fredenburgh was a student at State University of New York at Stonybrook when some friends suggested she see a different part of the country. A native of Poughkeepsie, she had never lived anywhere but the Northeast.

She decided to spend a semester at the University of New Mexico and ended up staying two years, graduating with a bachelor of university studies degree, with a science emphasis. While at UNM, she also studied music and played in the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Santa Fe Symphony and the Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque.

Despite her science concentration in college, Fredenburgh knew her orchestra experience deemed her a professional musician, and she was more interested in pursuing a career in music. Her first job was as associate principal violist with the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra in Louisiana, followed by a position with the New World Symphony in Miami, where she was co-principal violist.

After two years, she became the youngest person in the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, where she also was associate principal violist. During her six years in Phoenix, she earned a master's degree in string pedagogy from Arizona State University and subsequently joined the faculty there.

During the summer off-season, she played for the Santa Fe Opera, where she met her husband, Kevin Vigneau, an associate professor of oboe at UNM. They decided to live in Albuquerque, where she won the position of assistant principal with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra.

Joining the UNM faculty as associate professor, she returns to a role she first played when she was 12 years old--that of teacher. The daughter of a violinist and violin teacher, Fredenburgh prepared beginning students for her mother's more advanced instruction. "By the time I was 15, I had 20 students," she says.

"I like working with people who come to me with very different musical backgrounds and getting them to play to the best of their abilities," she says. "The reward is sitting in Keller Hall and hearing what they have accomplished and knowing that I helped them accomplish it."

Fredenburgh, a horse lover, also taught riding lessons in the summers during high school and college. Now she and her husband live on a horse farm in the South Valley, where they breed horses and train them in dressage.

JOCEYLN NEVEL

In some ways, she returned to the photograms of her youth. "I'm fascinated with the performative aspect of making them, how different objects and tones appear,” she says. As she moved through graduate school at Columbia College Chicago, Nevel began to explore the detritus of urban life. Her work has involved a grid-like photogram display of lint from clothes dryers and another made of used tea bags. Last year, she crocheted sausage casings into dainty doilies. "I like to create a paradox of something beautiful and repulsive at the same time," she says. "The banal minutiae of daily life is fascinating."

At the College of Fine Arts, Nevel teaches all manner of photography classes, from introductory courses to digital imaging to her specialty, non-silver technique. "To see someone discover the magic of photography makes it fresh for me," she says. Nevel also enjoys facilitating students' development of their individual technique, "to learn how to say what they want to say in their work. I love having a relationship with students, it's symbiotic-- they inspire me as well as I help them," she says.

In her spare time, Nevel has discovered hiking for the first time in her life and has returned to cycling along Albuquerque's bike trails.