NMHU exhibition design classes have completed multimedia projects for a variety of prestigious museums and cultural institutions.
New Mexico Highlands University media arts students created a multi-media exhibit, ‘100 Years of Navajo History: Celebrating Crownpoint,' which opened April 3 at the Octavia Fellin Public Library in Gallup, N.M."With this exhibit, I think the Highlands Media Arts Program is making a major contribution to preserving our Navajo history and culture for future generations," said Leonard Perry, president of the Crownpoint Historical and Cultural Heritage Council. "We gave the students freedom to be creative in putting the exhibit together, and we are more than pleased with the result. They did a really good job and we appreciate their hard work."
The Virtual Print Shop provides the experience of typesetting for a letterpress and was produced as a learning station for the exhibition Lasting Impressions: the Private Presses of New Mexico, which was on view at the Palace of the Governors History Museum in Santa Fe for two years and is on the exhibition website at www.privatepress.org.
New Mexico Land Grants are four virtual exhibitions that were produced for the website of the New Mexico Office of the State Historian and are on the New Mexico Digital History Project website at www.newmexicohistory.org.
In 2006, the exhibition design class organized the local presentation of the Smithsonian/SITES traveling exhibition Between Fences, and produced the local tie-in exhibition, in association with the New Mexico Humanities Council and the Citizens Committee for Historic Preservation in Las Vegas.
In 2007, the exhibition design class produced the traveling exhibition Emergence: A New View of Life's Origin for the Santa Fe Institute, an international center for complexity science. It became the focus of a graduate field project during 2007-2008. View the online exhibition here!
In fall of 2009, the Advanced Design class taught by Andrew Wollner worked on a project for the Marian Koshland Museum of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. Thanks to a $2,500 travel grant from the museum, Andrew took the winning team to Washington to shoot video for an online virtual tour. The winners are: Katie Delion, Brandie Carlson, Melissa Marquez, and Veronica Black!
Also during the fall of 2009, the Design for Community Projects class taught by Megan Jacobs worked on a community based oral history project in partnership with the City of Las Vegas Museum and the Citizens' Committee for Historic Preservation. The students videotaped interviews with community elders. The project culminated in a multimedia exhibit at CCHP.
“"What did I learn from the course? I learned many things, but the most valuable lesson was the best experience you can get is from just getting in there and doing it. Throughout my college years I have sat in classroom after classroom and heard lecture after lecture but there is nothing like real world application." ”— Hope Trujillo, former student
