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Arts of the AmericasIn past years, the arts of Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico and the Southwest United States have taken center stage. The Arts of the Americas summer program had a nine-year history of focusing on a particular theme or piece of geography each summer. That program eventually led to the development of the Arts of the Americas Institute and the Arts Technology Center. History of the Arts
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The arts offer splendid opportunities for cross-cultural exploration. In 1991, the UNM College of Fine Arts created Arts of the Americas to celebrate the diverse cultures and traditions of the Western Hemisphere. Events have included festivals of music, dance, theatre, film and visual arts, as well as seminars, exhibitions, symposia and classes. Guest artists have come from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, and many places in the United States. The goals of the program are to explore our artistic similarities and differences, enhance the artistic process by crossing cultural and national boundaries, and create long-term relationships that will promote future interaction. Arts of the Americas 1994 featured the arts of Brazil. Sixty guest artists participated; thirty were from Brazil. More than 30,000 people attended forty public events. Activities occurred in the community as well as on campus. "Do Brasil!" was an exhibition, for example, in ten Albuquerque locations of work by twenty Brazilian artists. |
 In 1995, Arts of the Americas focused on the arts and cultures of the Southwest. Many of our courses featured native and indigenous arts and artists of the region. Events included a festival of Southwest film and video, Writer's Stage, andFestival Flamenco. A special feature of the 1995 program was "Milestones, Seasons and Saturday Night," a southwestern folk life celebration featuring theatre, dance and music performances presented on an outdoor venue in the center of UNM's campus. |
| In June and July of 1996 Arts of the Americas featured the arts and artists of Mexico. Planning involved several Mexican universities and the assistance of agencies in the Mexican government. Artists and scholars who participated included Alicia Azuela (art historian), Felipe Ehrenberg (visual artist), Luis Jimenez (artist), Guillermo Santamarina (curator and artist), Maria Navarro (filmmaker), Marco Silva (choreographer) and | UTOPIA (dance company), Sabina Berman (playwright), and a music ensemble from the Conservatoria de los Rosas in Morelia.
Arts of the Americas 1997 featured the arts of Canada. Among the year's highlights were a Canadian film festival and course, a dance workshop with a Quebecois choreographer, a symposium on Canada's First Nations art, and a comedy performance series in addition to two classes on the art of comedy. |
Arts of the Americas 1998The Festival began on May 2, 1998 with an art symposium. The symposium was entitled Colonial/Postcolonial: "Spanish Colonial Cultural Studies at the Crossroads." Prominent scholars in the field of Spanish Colonial visual culture were featured in this full-day symposium. Although traditionally marginalized in the history of art, interest in this area is at an all-time high. |
As a result, we find ourselves at an intellectural crossroads. Exciting new scholarship is currently challenging long-held assumptions about the field.The symposium coordinator was Dr. Charlene Villasenor Black, UNM professor of Spanish Colonial art history, who specializes in 17th century Spanish and Mexican art. Her interdisciplinary research has focused on the gender and political ideologies encoded in religious imagery as well as "raced" and gendered histriographics in Spanish and Latin American art. |
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