Final­ists for dean of the Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico Col­lege of Fine Arts will visit cam­pus to meet with fac­ulty, stu­dents, staff, admin­is­tra­tion and com­mu­nity members:
Judith Thorpe: Mon­day, Feb. 13-Tuesday, Feb. 14. A forum for fac­ulty is set for Feb. 13, 1:45–2:45 p.m. in the Stu­dent Union Build­ing Acoma room and a pre­sen­ta­tion and open forum for Feb. 13, 3:30–5 p.m. in the SUB Santa Ana room.
Ronald Shields: Thurs­day, Feb. 16-Friday, Feb. 17. A forum for fac­ulty is set for Feb. 16, 9:45–10:45 a.m. in the SUB Mirage-Thunderbird room and a pre­sen­ta­tion and open forum for Feb. 16, 3–4:30 p.m. in the Dane Smith Hall room 123.
San­jit Sethi: Thurs­day, March 1-Friday, March 2. A forum for fac­ulty is set for March 1, 10:30–11:30 a.m. in the SUB Lobo room A and a pre­sen­ta­tion and open forum for March 1, 3–4:30 p.m. in the Dane Smith Hall room 123.
Kym­berly Pin­der: Wednes­day, March 7-Thursday, March 8. A forum for fac­ulty is set for March 7, 9:45–10:45 a.m. in a loca­tion to be deter­mined and a pre­sen­ta­tion and open forum for March 7, 3:30–5 p.m. in the SUB Acoma room.
The UNM Office of the Provost announced the final­ists fol­low­ing a national search. School of Archi­tec­ture and Plan­ning Dean Geral­dine Forbes-Isais led the search com­mit­tee com­posed of fac­ulty, admin­is­tra­tors, an alumna and a grad­u­ate stu­dent, most from 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.
Kym­berly N. Pinder

Kym­berly N. Pinder

Kym­berly N. Pin­der is pro­fes­sor in the Depart­ment of Art His­tory, The­ory and Crit­i­cism at the School of the Art Insti­tute of Chicago, where she served as depart­ment chair and grad­u­ate pro­gram head. She teaches, writes and lec­tures widely on rep­re­sen­ta­tions of reli­gion, his­tory and race in Amer­i­can art. Pin­der received her doc­tor­ate from Yale Uni­ver­sity and has been a lec­turer at the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Museum of Art, Museum of Con­tem­po­rary Art, Terra Museum of Amer­i­can Art and Art Insti­tute of Chicago.
Pin­der was the edi­tor of the col­lec­tion “Race-ing Art His­tory: Crit­i­cal Read­ings in Race and Art His­tory.” Her work has also appeared in The Art Bul­letin, The Art Jour­nal, Third Text, Out­sider and The African Amer­i­can Review.
She received awards and fel­low­ships from the National Endow­ment for the Human­i­ties and the Mel­lon, Ford and Henry Luce Foun­da­tions, among oth­ers. In 2007 she was a scholar-in-residence at the Geor­gia O’Keeffe Research Cen­ter to com­plete her forth­com­ing book on art in Chicago’s African Amer­i­can churches, “Black Pub­lic Art and Reli­gion in Chicago.”
Pinder’s most recent arti­cles appeared in the fall issue of the Smithsonian’s Amer­i­can Art and Romare Bear­den: Amer­i­can Mod­ernist. Her lat­est project is on African Amer­i­can artists and pub­lic dis­course. She, the artist Bernard Williams and Art Insti­tute stu­dents have also painted three murals in Chicago Pub­lic Schools.
San­jit Sethi

San­jit Sethi

Sethi is direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Art and Pub­lic Life and the Bar­clay Simp­son chair of com­mu­nity art at Cal­i­for­nia Col­lege of the Arts. He received a Bach­e­lor of Fine Arts from the New York State Col­lege of Ceram­ics at Alfred Uni­ver­sity, Mas­ter of Fine Arts from the Uni­ver­sity of Geor­gia, and Mas­ter of Sci­ence in advanced visual stud­ies from the Mass­a­chu­setts Insti­tute of Technology.
Sethi has been an artist in res­i­dence at the Banff Cen­tre in Alberta, Canada and a Ful­bright fel­low in Ban­ga­lore, India, work­ing on the Build­ing Nomads Project. He con­tin­ued his focus on inter­dis­ci­pli­nary col­lab­o­ra­tion as direc­tor of the Mas­ter of Fine Arts pro­gram at the Mem­phis Col­lege of Art. His work deals with issues of nomadism, iden­tity, the residue of labor and memory.
Sethi recently com­pleted the Kuni Wada Bak­ery Remem­brance, an olfactory-based memo­r­ial in Mem­phis, Tenn.; and Rich­mond Vot­ing Sto­ries, a col­lab­o­ra­tive video project involv­ing youth and senior res­i­dents of Rich­mond, Calif. His cur­rent works include ongo­ing series “Indians/Indians,” the Urban Defib­ril­la­tor project and a series of writ­ings on the ter­ri­tory of fail­ure and its rela­tion­ship to col­lab­o­ra­tive cul­tural prac­tice, all involv­ing var­ied social and geo­graphic communities.
Ronald E. Shields

Ronald E. Shields

Shields is pro­fes­sor and chair of the Depart­ment of The­atre and Film at Bowl­ing Green State Uni­ver­sity in Bowl­ing Green, Ohio, a lead­er­ship posi­tion he has held for 17 years. As part of the plan­ning and devel­op­ment team, he recently par­tic­i­pated in the open­ing of the Wolfe Cen­ter for the Arts, a sig­na­ture per­form­ing arts build­ing designed by Snøhetta. A per­for­mance stud­ies scholar and the­atre direc­tor, he com­pleted his doc­tor­ate at Louisiana State Uni­ver­sity. As fac­ulty at BGSU, he taught a wide range of grad­u­ate and under­grad­u­ate courses in per­for­mance stud­ies and theatre.
Shields’ pub­li­ca­tions have appeared as book chap­ters and arti­cles in national and inter­na­tional jour­nals on such top­ics as celebrity per­for­mance and the media, verse drama between the wars, and con­tem­po­rary stag­ing the­o­ries and prac­tice. His pro­fes­sional ser­vice as an edi­tor included nine years as edi­tor of the nation’s old­est pro­fes­sional per­for­mance jour­nal, The­atre Annual: A Jour­nal of Per­for­mance Stud­ies and as an asso­ciate edi­tor for the inter­na­tional jour­nal Text and Per­for­mance Quarterly.
His opera pro­duc­tions and adap­ta­tions include works by Cav­alli, Verdi, Puc­cini, Donizetti, Han­del, Pur­cell, Wolf-Ferrari and Tele­mann. His work has been hon­ored the national Leslie Irene Coger Award and Out­stand­ing Per­for­mance Studies/Theatre Scholar Award.
Judith Thorpe

Judith Thorpe

Thorpe is pro­fes­sor of pho­tog­ra­phy and head of the Art & Art His­tory Depart­ment in the School of Fine Arts at the Uni­ver­sity of Con­necti­cut. Pre­vi­ously, she served as senior asso­ciate dean for aca­d­e­mic affairs and grad­u­ate pro­gram direc­tor at Tyler School of Art/Temple Uni­ver­sity in Philadel­phia and as the first exec­u­tive direc­tor of the Soci­ety for Pho­to­graphic Edu­ca­tion. She received a Mas­ter of Fine Arts in pho­tog­ra­phy from the Uni­ver­sity of Col­orado at Boul­der and attended the Har­vard Uni­ver­sity Grad­u­ate School of Edu­ca­tion Insti­tute for Edu­ca­tional Management.
Thorpe cur­rently serves on the board of direc­tors of the Col­lege Art Asso­ci­a­tion. She has served on the boards of the National Asso­ci­a­tion of Schools of Art & Design, National Coun­cil of Arts Admin­is­tra­tion and oth­ers. She has been suc­cess­fully involved in grant writ­ing, fundrais­ing and devel­op­ment, rais­ing more than a half mil­lion dol­lars for schol­ar­ships, pro­grams and operations.
Thorpe’s extended port­fo­lio, “The Body Remem­bered,” deals with the rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the female body. Her work is based in tra­di­tional dark­room processes, Polaroid mate­ri­als and dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies. Thorpe’s cre­ative work has been exhib­ited at venues such as the Inter­na­tional Fine Art Fair, New York; The Amer­i­can Cen­ter, New Delhi, India; and Gra­ham Gallery, Albu­querque. Her work is in the col­lec­tions of the New Britain Museum of Amer­i­can Art, Polaroid Inter­na­tional Col­lec­tion, and Atlanta High Museum of Art.
Media Con­tact: Sari Krosin­sky, (505) 277?1593,michal@unm.edu

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