Taos Education & Career Center

PEOPLE, ARTS, AND CULTURE

Leigh Gusterson

UNM-Taos Education Student

“Mid-life career change — didn’t see that coming! I'm learning, growing, embracing new ideas, and feeling excited about something new for the future, instead of yearning for the way things were. UNM-Taos has made it possible to continue the pursuit of my teaching degree, even through the financial fluctuation of these uncertain times.”

FINE ARTS

The Art Department at UNMTaos offers an Associate of Fine Arts. Courses include a variety of studio disciplines including art practices, drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, metals, photography, and printmaking, as well as art history courses. Students are supported in following their personal goals beyond community college including pursuing their Bachelor of Fine Arts and other degrees, or working within the art community of Taos and beyond. The Art Department is committed to engaging students in a rich dialogue on contemporary art and art history. Students learn traditional foundations, contemporary applications of materials, interdisciplinary practice, and conceptual problem solving.

DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS

The two-year Associate Degree Program in Digital Media Arts teaches both technical “hands-on” skills and media theory. Students emerge from the program with the skills necessary to understand the trends of the media industry and produce their own original content. This program focuses on teaching industry-standard skills and developing an entrepreneurial mindset. Students graduate from the program with a professional project in their portfolio and with a solid introduction of what it takes to launch a media career. The program is dynamic, practical, and fun. This degree has class credits that easily tranfer into other programs with the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in Film and Digital Media Arts at UNM Main campus.

HUMANITIES

Humanities are academic disciplines where you will explore how individuals and diverse societies, past and present, make meaning and assign value. You will learn how histories, cultural works, languages, and ideas shape diverse communities and the relations between them. You will discover and design ways of understanding diverse human experiences, including conflict and inequality, by examining cultural records. Humanities help one to understand and relate to the increasingly global world in a positive and constructive manner.

Humanities disciplines at UNMTaos include American Studies, Classical Studies, Communication, Comparative Literature, English, First Year Experience, History, Native American Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies, and second languages.

Sarah Stolar

stolar@unm.edu

Peter Walker

pedrowalker@unm.edu https://goto.unm.edu/finearts https://goto.unm.edu/dma

Amie Chavez-Aguilar

aca@unm.edu https://goto.unm.edu/humanities