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SPRING 2004
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COMPLETING HER 10TH YEAR
at UNM and her first as chair of the Department of Media Arts, Associate Professor Susan Dever has finished her timely book on Mexican cinema and politics. Students in her course “Latin American Cinemas: After the Revolution(s)” are now making their way through Celluloid Nationalism and Other Melodramas: From Post-Revolutionary Mexico to fin de siglo Mexamerica (SUNY Press, 2003). Readers will find analysis of representation and rebellion in times of national uncertainty. Dever regards melodrama as a genre and a sensibility that structures morals and political pieties. Her study especially takes into account representations of indigenous peoples and poor urban women in Mexico and Latino Los Angeles, whose cinematic portraits both interrupt and sustain fictions of national coherence in an increasingly transnational world. Dever says, “In the spirit of democracy championed by the book, the work is available in the Fine Arts Library as illustrated text, legal photocopy and equally licit e-reserve.”
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Henry Bial, assistant professor, Theatre and Dance, published The Performance Studies Reader with Routledge Press in Fall 2003. Last September, Theatre and Dance Chair Judith Chazin-Bennahum’s book “The Living Dance”: An Anthology of Essays on Movement and Culture for the Dance Appreciation classes was published by Kendall Hunt Publishing Company.
Bradley Ellingboe, professor of music at UNM since 1985, was a recent guest of the music department at Harvard University. Ellingboe served on a panel regarding composing music for choirs at the national meeting of the Intercollegiate Men’s Chorus organization hosted by the Harvard Glee Club. Ellingboe is the composer of more than 80 works for choirs.
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ON BEHALF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC, ARTS OF
Americas Institute Director Steve Loza invited Gerald Wilson to UNM to work with CFA Jazz Band students. Loza directed the jazz bands for the Fall 2003 semester while Glen Kostur, associate professor of music, was on sabbatical. Wilson, who is legendary in the world of jazz, spent a week early in December working with the students and conducting them while they performed his compositions at two sold-out performances at the Outpost Performance Space. Two days after returning to Los Angeles, Wilson found out that, at the age of 86, he was nominated for another Grammy Award. |
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TAMARIND INSTITUTE HAS SELECTED SIX ARTISTS FOR ITS
new Migrations project. Partially funded with grants from the Andy Warhol Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, Migrations will showcase Native American artists who are working with a contemporary vocabulary.
In addition to Tamarind Director Marjorie Devon, the selection committee included Siri Engberg, curator of contemporary art, Walker Art Center, Minnesota; Truman Lowe, artist and curator of contemporary art, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC; Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, artist and independent curator, and Deborah Wye, curator of prints and illustrated books, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Artists selected are Marie Watt, Seneca; Steven Deo, Creek/Euchee; Tom Jones, Ho Chunk; Larry McNeil, Tlingit/Nisgaa; Ryan Lee Smith, Cherokee; Star Wallowing Bull, Chippewa. Alternates are Travis Hummingbird, Cherokee, and Kristal Boyers, Choctaw.
The artists will make prints in collaboration with printers at either Tamarind or at Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts on the Umatilla Reservation in Pendleton, Ore. An exhibition of two prints by each artist and several pieces of each artist’s work in other media will open at the UNM Art Museum in 2006, and then travel to venues around the country. A full catalog, with color reproductions and essays written by critics who will visit the workshops during the artists’ residencies, will be published by UNM Press.
Follow updates on Migrations on the Tamarind Web site at http://tamarind.unm.edu.
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NO IMAGES MAY BE COPIED WITHOUT EXPRESSED
WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR.
Newsletter Editors: Ellen K. Ashkraft, Todd R. Staats; Writers: Andrea Folk Bromberg, Cynthia barber, Susan Dever, Michelle G. McRuiz, James S. Moy, Kristy O'Malley, Ramsey Lofton, Lynnie Wienecke.
Most photos by Dunwood Bull, Kate Crowe, Ramsey Lofton, Laurie Mellas Ramirez and Ron Ripp; Graphic Designer: Kristina Kachele;
Web Page: Ana Marie Mowrer.
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