DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS
The University of New Mexico
The University of New Mexico invites nominations and applications for the position of Dean, College of Fine Arts. The College of Fine Arts encompasses the Departments of Art and Art History, Music, Theatre and Dance, Cinematic Arts, The Bunting Visual Resource Library, Tamarind Institute, and the University Art Museum. Our degree programs align with the Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media Program; our faculty engage with the Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory. Ninety full-time faculty, sixty-five part-time faculty and seventy-two staff members serve approximately 1400 undergraduate majors and 200 graduate students. We’re housed at UNM’s Center for the Arts, which consists of four primary academic buildings, four major performance halls, multiple exhibition spaces, and a print study facility for scholarly research in a recognized print and photo collection.
Founded in 1936, CFA enjoys a rich history of quality educational programs, scholarship and artistic achievement that broadens understanding of the cultural heritage of our state, the Americas and the world. With a tradition of faculty and student research, creativity and innovative curricula, the college is an area of excellence at the University, an economic engine in the arts, and a cultural leader in New Mexico contributing to the quality of life in the Southwest.
The Dean, who reports directly to the Provost/Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, provides academic and administrative leadership to the College of Fine Arts. As the primary academic and administrative officer of the faculty of the College of Fine Arts, the Dean will assume a central leadership role in continuing development of the college’s disciplines toward national eminence with a solid commitment to research, creative work and teaching. The Dean is responsible for improving and promoting the College of Fine Arts in areas of instruction, research, fiscal management, development and personnel.
How to Apply:
Applications should be submitted online through https://unmjobs.unm.edu, by referencing posting #0812670. For best consideration, applications should be submitted by 10/21/2011, and the position is open until filled. Nominations can be submitted electronically to Jennifer Love, Search Coordinator, at jenlov22@unm.edu (phone: 505.277.2611)
The University of New Mexico is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and educator. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
Link:
http://unmjobs.unm.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=64432
Claudia X. Valdes was born in Santiago, Chile. Her family moved to the United States when she was three years old. Her undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley included architecture, modern dance and fine art. In 2001, she received an M.F.A. from UC Berkeley.
Between 2001-2009 Valdes’ art practice exclusively focused on the history of U.S. nuclear arms. Her creative response to this subject was coupled with research into military and scientific documents, media-produced responses, conversations with nuclear physicists, examination of literary and video documentary accounts of A-bomb survivors, the collection of present-day text-based memories by the general public about the Cold War, and visits to historic nuclear sites in the US.
She has created over 40 nuclear-themed artworks that she collectively calls TEN MILLION DEGREES - single channel digital videos for installation and cinematic contexts, hybrid print/video works, digitally produced photographs, paintings, watercolors, performances, and an interactive networked installation designed to elicit participant performances.
Works from TEN MILLION DEGREES (2001-2009) have exhibited internationally including at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; WRO Center for Media Art, Wroclaw, Poland; the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA; Mills College Art Museum, Oakland; the UCR/California Museum of Photography; Centro Multimedia/Centro National de las Artes, Mexico; the Werkstätten und Kulturhaus, Austria; the National Centre for Contemporary Art in Moscow, Russia; San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, CA; Seattle Art Museum, WA; Charles B. Wang Center, SUNY Stony Brook; Exit Art, NY; Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, Germany; San Francisco Art Institute/Walter McBean Gallery; and the Instituto Chileno Norteamericano, Santiago, Chile. A 5,000 ft2 solo retrospective, entitled TEN MILLION DEGREES, was featured at Lawrimore Project in Seattle, WA (2009).
Valdes has received numerous honors for her creative work including a 2008 Scholarship from the Santa Fe Art Institute; a 2007 Artist Grant from the Puffin Foundation; Honorable Mention at the 2006 Transmediale festival for art and digital culture in Berlin, Germany; and a 2006 Creative Capital Professional Development Retreat at the Santa Fe Art Institute. In 2001 she received UC Berkeley’s highest honor in art, the Eisner Prize, and she was an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts from 2001-2003.
She developed and taught digital media art courses at UC Berkeley, the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media at the University of Washington, Seattle, UC Santa Cruz, and at Mills College and Stanford University as a Visiting Artist. Academic honors include a Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities faculty appointment within the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington.
Valdes is Assistant Professor of Electronic Arts at the University of New Mexico. Between 2006-07 she was Associate Director of the Arts Technology Center within the College of Fine Arts at UNM. Between 2007-2009 she was also Associate Director of UNM’s university-wide interdisciplinary research center, ARTS Lab (The Art, Research, Technology & Science Laboratory).
Gloria Sutton