UNM Art Museum features exhibit on transgender community
Ryan Kieffer | August 29The University of New Mexico Arts Museum (UNMAM) opened the exhibition, “To Survive on this Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender Community Members and Nonconforming Adults,” on Aug. 23. Food and music accompanied the opening night as people entered the exhibit downstairs. The people featured in the exhibit were photographed and interviewed by artists Jess T. Dugan and Venessa Fabbre. Mariah Carrillo, the press contact for UNMAM, said in a press release that Jess T. Dugan is an artist whose work explores issues of gender, sexuality, identity, and community. For the past decade, she has photographed people within queer and transgender communities, focusing on the complexities of identity, gender, and sexuality.