During the past year, graduate students in UNM’s Department of Art and Art History created a new academic journal under the guidance of faculty advisor and chief editor Ray Hernández-Durán. The inaugural publication of Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas will be featured and celebrated in a symposium and reception at the UNM Art Museum on Friday, Sept. 26, 3-7 p.m.
This journal of scholarship on visual culture of the Americas has been placed in prominent library collections in the United States and has also begun to receive international attention. The symposium will feature lectures by scholars published in Hemisphere. Topics include contemporary photography, Spanish Colonial architecture, El Taller de Gráfica Popular printmaking, and the San Ildefonso Easel Painting movement.
Copies of Hemisphere will be available for purchase at the event. Refreshments will be served. For more information contact hmsphr@unm.edu.