By Angela Le Quieu, Guest Reporter
They attack benches, trees, or an occasional wall; it’s called yarn bombing and it is a popular form of installation art that has been spreading all over the country and Albuquerque neighborhoods, said art instructor Julianne Harvey-Newlands.
Not only can this so called fiber graffiti be found in the UNM and Nob Hill neighbor¬hoods, but it can also be found right on campus thanks to the curriculum for the class Art Practices II, which has yarn bombing as one of the projects instructors can use for their classes, said Harvey-Newlands.
“This is a real popular method of doing art instillation across the country, probably across the world, so we took what we saw and we embellished and we went in our own direction,” said Harvey-Newlands.
Harvey-Newlands said that most yarn bombs involve knitting, crocheting, or wrapping an object in yarn usually a tree or a bike rack such as can be seen throughout the Nobhill neighborhood.
At the end of the spring semester one of Harvey- Newlands’ art classes took over a fence outside of the JS building on Main campus with the classes own take on this trending form of art installation.
Instead of wrapping the fence in a knitted cozy, the class took a mural type idea and turned it into a yarn explosion using knitting, crochet, and wrapping to create an underwater scene.
The class focused on the elements of change and motivation in art, which used the project to explore the idea of changing the environment that one is in, and took their motivation for the project from the water issues that are a constant problem in New Mexico, she said.
“This group brings to the table so many different strengths in the arts— there are so many people working with sculpture, with painting, and with printmaking that we tried to take a lot of those practices to the composition,” Harvey-Newlands said.
Fine Arts major and project participant, Kii Lowe had never worked with yarn before and was not sure how the com¬position would turn out, but having seen the piece come together he liked the final out-come, he said.
“It’s nothing like everyone was thinking it was going to be. I like it— it’s really colorful and it’s got a lot of other aspects to it,” said Lowe.
Although Lowe said he never really got the knit¬ting part down, he did contribute to some of the sculptural elements of fish and sharks, including a cage where fish were trapped by a circling shark.
Fine Arts major Sarah Gamoke said that this was her first experience doing fiber art as well, but that someone taught her how to crochet, and though it may not be an art form that she embraces in the future, and that it was a good experience overall.
“I really enjoyed it and as usual art takes you on this adventure you never know what’s going to happen in the end,” Gamoke said.
Before this project Gamoke had never heard of yarn bombing, but her and her classmates did research on it and she enjoyed learning aspects of it, such as how it is impermanent and does not harm anything, she said.
One of the aspects of yarn bombing that can have appeal for artists is the ease in which a yarn bomb can be removed, so even though it can be considered a form of graffiti and illegal in some places, yarn bombs generally leaves no real permanent damage to areas that have been yarn bombed.
The project from Harvey-Newlands’ class was only up for a week from installation on Monday, March 21 until the following Monday, on March 28, but she said that she was glad to be able to do it when they did, because there was no rain in the forecast that week to drench their work.
There are no Art Practices II courses scheduled for the summer term but students can keep an eye out for more campus yarn bombing projects in the fall.
For those who cannot wait for fall, the fourth annual International Yarn Bombing day is scheduled for Saturday, June 7, according to knitting website loomahat.com.
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How to file a financial aid appeal
By Angela Le Quieu, Staff Reporter | Photo by Angela Le Quieu
For students who are on Financial Aid suspension, but who are close to graduation may have a few options to complete their degree program, which includes the Graduation Incentive Scholarship or an appeal to Financial Aid.
The Graduation Incentive Scholarship is available through the Academic Advisers Office and students who are within one semester of completing their degree and have no other financial aid or grants may qualify.
Students who are on financial aid suspension due to the satisfactory academic progress guidelines, which include reaching the maximum time frame, issues with their completion rate, or low grade point average, can fill out an appeal form explaining what extenuating circumstances have caused them issues through the Financial Aid office.
Student who fill out an appeal before the end of the spring term should know that the appeal will not go through until at least 10 days after the grades from this term have been posted, and it is recommended that students who are in the appeals process set up a payment plan through the Cashier’s Office in order to hold their registered classes.
If a financial aid appeal is not an option, students without any funding can seek a Graduation Incentive Scholarship which covers tuition and fees, but not books or other expenses.
In order to see if a student is qualified for the scholarship they must make an appointment with an Academic Adviser, who will be able to sign a student up for the scholarship, but money is limited, so the school cannot give the scholarship to everyone and acting fast is key to qualifying.
Senior Director for Financial Aid, Lee Carrillo said that colleges are not required by the Department of Education to provide an appeal opportunity, which handles the guidelines for satisfactory academic progress on which the financial suspensions are based.
“We choose to, because we want to give students an opportunity to succeed,” Carrillo said.
For more information on appeals call financial aid at 224-3090, or to inquire about the Graduation Incentive Scholarship call Academic Advisement at 224-4321.
8 steps students can take to make an appeal:
Step one: Pick up an Appeal Form and Financial Aid and Scholarship Services located in the Student Services Center on Main campus, Tom Wiley Hall on Montoya campus, or Student Services on Westside in WS II, room 106.
Step two: Students must have their FAFSA submitted for the current award year, be enrolled in an eligible major for the term, and enrolled by the first day of the term being appealed.
Step three: Fill out the information on the form.
Step four: Students need to complete the SAP Web Presentation which can be found at cnm.edu/ depts./fass/requirements/sappres.php. After going through the information, there is a short assessment that must be printed and attached to the Appeal Form. Each time a student makes an appeal they must complete this step.
Step five: Students need a typed letter that is a personal statement and it must also be attached to the Appeal Form.
Tips for step five: 1. Include college history and explanations for circumstances in which the student had issues. 2. Make sure to include resolutions to any extenuating conditions. 3. The people who review the appeals are looking for patterns, if there are multiple terms in which a student has had issues they must each be explained.
Step six: Gather supporting documents and attach those to the form, which can include statements from a physician, a death notice from a close relative, letters of support from a third party, or confirmation of circumstances.
Step seven: Visit the Academic Advisors Office and get a print out of a unofficial transcript, and also have a CAPP report run.
A signed copy with the students remaining credit hours must be attached to the form.
Step eight: The completed form with the entire attached document must be taken to the Financial Aid office.
Fine Arts changes requirements, adds new classes
By Angela Le Quieu, Staff Reporter | Photo by Angela Le Quieu
In the Fall 2014 Course Catalog there will be changes that will effect students with a Fine Arts major, including new program approved electives and classes such as jewelry making.
Fine Arts Instructor, Harley McDaniel said that the changes are intended to allow them more flexibility, to make the transfer to UNM simpler, and give students applicable skills in the work force.
“There are pretty major changes, previously we basically dictated every course you had to take and that was kind of difficult for students because it didn’t give them a lot of options,” McDaniel said.
The new curriculum for the Fall 2014 term is part of an effort that McDaniel has made to streamline both Fine Arts degree concentrations, Studio Arts and Art History, he said.
Rather than having specific classes that students would be required to take, they will be able to choose three classes from program approved electives, and this will allow students more freedom to tailor their classes and learning to their own needs, McDaniel said.
One of the big advantages of this is that new art classes can be added to the program approved electives without changes to the greater curriculum being needed, and McDaniel said that the new catalog will reflect that as three jewelry classes that will be added as well as a second level ceramics class.
Facilities for the jewelry classes are still in the works, so the classes will not be offered in the fall, but McDaniel hopes to have the classes available for the 2015 catalog, which would offer students embedded certificates such as a bench jeweler’s certification, he said.
“So the dream is that down the road we’ll have the opportunity for people to have other embedded certificates like production pottery, portrait photography, things like that that would increase employ-ability at local employers,” McDaniel said.
Another aspect of the changes that have been made involved cleaning up the requirements to match with UNM, and McDaniel said CNM already has an articulation agreement with UNM, but that the changes will be more in line with what UNM is doing currently.
It was changes in UNM’s classes from 2D and 3D design to Art Practices one and two that spurred the rewriting of CNM’s curriculum for Fine Arts majors, he said.
“I went and I worked with their curriculum, I worked with their fine arts advisement coordinator, so that we would be able to have a more flexible program that would serve the needs of everybody, those who are transferring and those who are just interested in getting their associate,” McDaniel said.
These changes should also make it easier for students to get their Fine Arts degree as some of the other requirements will be changing as well, such as students only being required to take one foreign language class instead of two, McDaniel said.
McDaniel’s intent when he was working on the changes was not to make it easier for more people to get degrees, but that he wanted to work with the program already in place to make it serve the needs of the students in a better capacity, he said.
“It removes some of the hurdles that were more difficult and of course there is an underlying goal to get more degrees, but it is my primary goal to best serve the student, and what is best for the student, and what is going to be best for their educational needs,” McDaniel said.
The changes will not be official until the fall semester 2014 Course Catalog is published, and once the changes are in effect any student who takes one class under the new catalog can use it; any Fine Arts majors interested in learning about the changes can speak to McDaniel, he said.
“I like to try to kind of serve as a faculty advisor to students who are trying to navigate the curriculum, because I know it really well after building it—I know it inside and out. I can look at what they’ve done, so if someone shows up with their transcripts, I can really give them a sense of clarity of what they should do moving forward,” McDaniel said.
McDaniel can be contacted by email at hmcdaniel@cnm.edu to set up a time to meet, and said he is willing to help any students planning for the changes who bring an unofficial printout of their transcripts.
Speaking for the earth; School hosts sustainability speakers
By Angela Le Quieu, Staff Reporter | Photo by Angela Le Quieu
The Sustainability Speakers series is part of CNM’s ongoing efforts toward sustainability and is part of the week long celebration of Earth Day, as well as the Sustainability Beyond the Classroom project, which is scheduled to take place from April 16 to 22 at Main, Montoya and Westside campuses, said Psychology instructor and speaker Asako Stone.
The CNM community has been invited to participate in lectures and workshops across all three campuses, which will focus on spreading knowledge about what sustainability is and what people can do in response to it, Stone said.
“I think it’s very important— I think it’s the most important thing we can be teaching today. I think colleges like CNM that are arts, science, and technical have a unique combination of classes so that we can teach both the technical side of sustainability and we can teach the science and humanities side too,” Stone said.
English instructor and member of the sustainability curriculum team, Carson Bennett said Earth Day will be on Tuesday, April 22 and this year CNM plans to host a week-long series that will feature lectures on everything, from the definition of sustainability to composting and urban farming.
Faculty from all over CNM have been working throughout the spring semester to help make students aware of sustainability issues, as well as find ways to make it practically applicable to students, Bennett said.
Bennett is slated to present with Amy Miller, Director of PNM’s environmental programs, in “Defining Sustainability” on Wednesday, April 16 at 5 p.m. at the Westside campus in room WS I-304.
Bennett said that his definition comes from the 1987 Brundtland Commission in its report “Our Common Future,” which coined the term sustainable development.
The current understanding of sustainability involves the “three E’s” of environment, economy, and social equity, which all must be considered for a solution to be considered sustainable to the outcome it has on these three issues, Bennett said.
“Personally I think that sustainability is the ultimate problem solving tool. I think that if you understand how sustainability works and how a sustainable solution to a problem works then you look at problem solving in a very different way.” Bennett said.
English and Honors instructor, M.J. Zimmerman, spoke about sustainability, and how it is tied in to the way we think about the world in “Less stuff, more fun: Sustainability and the good life,” where she said that this is an important issue for all academic disciplines to learn.
When referring to her speech, Zimmerman said a quote from a bumper sticker helped her to realize what sustainability really means in the scheme of things.
“I should have put it in quotation marks because I saw it years ago on a bumper sticker out in Berkley California, ‘less stuff/ more fun,’ and implies that living sustainably is not necessarily a deprivation,” Zimmerman said.
Zimmerman’s discourse was on Monday, April 14 at Main campus, which was the kick-off to the week-long discussion about sustainability solutions.
One of the examples that Zimmerman gave for how people are starting to change the way they see the world, was how Bhutan (a small country between China and India) has moved away from measuring the success of their country in Gross National Product in favor of Gross National Happiness, she said.
According to grossnationalhappiness.com this concept defines and measures quality of life and social progress from a more holistic and psychological point of view.
Stone’s workshop “Sustainability beyond the classroom: Neighborhood cooperative” on Tuesday, April 22 at 5 p.m. at Main in room SB-132 will be about a more hands on way that people can reduce their ecological footprint, she said.
“I think it’s such a wonderful idea and I feel that this is the first time we are taking advantage of Earth Day more than a day. In the past couple of years we had an Earth Day celebration but we didn’t have a series of workshops in which students and staff and community members can come in and learn about something new,” Stone said.
Stone is herself a part of the Mountain-Forrester Neighborhood Cooperative where six households participate in bartering and the sharing of tools, she said.
CNM’s efforts in sustainability education do not stop at the end of April; in the upcoming 2014 course catalog students will have the opportunity for a concentration in Sustainability Studies for a Liberal Arts degree that will meet 75 percent of the requirements for UNM’s sustainability minor and a new class SUST 1134, Introduction to Sustainability, will be offered, Bennett said.
“It’s really exciting because there’s so many jobs out there right now that are looking for people who have a working knowledge of sustainability concepts and CNM is uniquely situated to offer students a really marketable degree,” Bennett said.
The new concentration is the work of Bennett, Stone, and instructor Sandra Rourke and students interested in knowing more about what classes CNM offers that involve sustainability can contact one of them, Bennett said.
Bennett also said that they are hoping to get a sustainability club going at CNM, and that one has been talked about but has not yet been developed.
ECOS asks for more student involvement at upcoming event
By Angela Le Quieu, Staff Reporter | Photo by Angela Le Quieu
The Executive Council of Students wants to introduce themselves to the student body at CNM, and inform students about their group, including what they will bring to the school at the upcoming ECOS night, said Carrie Ratkevich, Criminal Justice major and President of ECOS.
ECOS plans to host a meet and greet type function on Friday, April 11 at 5p.m. in the Richard Barr room at the Student Resources Center, she said.
“We are going to have free food, pizza, who doesn’t love free food right,” Ratkevich said.
The purpose of ECOS night is to give students a forum to speak with the student council about any concerns they might have at school, to develop relationships with the administration, and to give students, who may be interested in student government, a chance to find out more about the organization, Ratkevich said.
Phillip Cox, Criminology major and Administrative Officer said that the evening will help to give a face to the student representatives, and to give people more exposer to what the CNM student government does.
“I think ECOS is under appreciated, I don’t think a lot of students know exactly what ECOS has to offer,” Cox said.
Ratkevich said that many students do not realize that CNM has a student government, and the event on April 11 is one of the things that ECOS is doing to change all that.
The student government has worked in many ways to better CNM and the surrounding community, Ratkevich said.
Projects that ECOS has worked on include safety walks around campus to identify things like trip hazards and areas with lighting issues, and also helped to change where motorcycle parking was in the PPD lot after many fender benders occurred last year, because of poles installed around the previous parking area, she said.
Ratkevich said that they organized the CNMunity Day in the 2013 spring semester, in which several clubs volunteered at local non-profits around Albuquerque.
“I know some people went out to the farm and had to clean up whatever, they had to plant plants, water plants, or they helped organize the Re-store. So just different things that make people feel good about us and make us feel good about our community,” Ratkevich said.
The work that ECOS does for the community is the main reason why Ana Martinez, Psychology major and Budget Officer, joined the group, she said.
Martinez said that ECOS has been an opportunity for her to give back to her community here in Albuquerque, just how she had also given back to her community in Mexico.
“I like this, because it’s my way to help the students,” Martinez said.
Cox said that he joined to help reach out to students because an active student government can help change things for the benefit of the students.
“So our primary thing right now is to improve membership; because once we have more members we’ll have the strength to go out and really do some really wonderful things for this community, make some very positive changes,” Ratkevich said.
Currently the membership in ECOS is low and the group hopes to get more members by informing students about their organization, and by adding incentives beyond the $100 scholarship for active members, Cox said.
There are requirements for joining ECOS such as an application, being voted into the group, as well as a 2.5 GPA requirement, and there is also a limit of 15 members, Ratkevich said.
“But it’s the satisfaction you get from just helping your fellow students, that you can’t really replicate with any other organization on campus,” Cox said.
Students interested in ECOS can attend the event on April 11 or students can go to one of the groups meetings, which are regularly held on Fridays at 4 p.m. in the portables at room ST-12A, and Ratkevich said the meetings are open to all students who wish to speak or inquire about the student council.
Leonardo magazine release party
By Angela Le Quieu , Staff Reporter | Angela Le Quieu
The Leonardo is the CNM student based literary magazine that gives students the opportunity to showcase their creative skills and talents, said Hope Hart-Petrie English major and one of the editors for the magazine.
On Friday, April 11 at 11a.m., this year’s Leonardo release party has been planned to be located at the Student Resource Center, first floor library outside the cafe, which will include a poetry reading and music from student authors who have been published in this year’s magazine, Hart- Petrie said.
“The whole idea is to validate the arts and validate that side of ourselves that’s reaching for that kind of expression,” Hart- Petrie said.
The event will also be the main distribution shot for the magazine, which is free to CNM students, said English instructor, Dr. Patrick Houlihan, who is the faculty advisor for Leonardo.
The magazine features art work and writing that was submitted throughout the year up until early in the spring term to Houlihan, and then is selected by volunteer editorial staff, Houlihan said.
In this edition, the editors were able to solicit not just poetry but also short stories, as well as a wide range of art from the CNM art department for the magazine, Hart-Petrie said.
“We really want to encourage people with all their different artistic backgrounds and skills to take this opportunity to showcase their work,” Hart- Petrie said.
The title of this year’s addition “Who I am and Where I’ve Been” is the same as the title of the cover art, which Hart-Petrie said reflects the content of the magazine that seems to have a theme of identity and experience.
Works range from traditional drawing and painting, to mosaics and photography, poems in both Spanish and English, short stories, and computer graphic art, Hart- Petrie said.
“We have a huge diverse culture in here and it reflects the student body at this school and I am really pleased with the finished product,” Hart- Petrie said.
One of the many differences with the magazine this year is that the literary magazine will be online, as well as in print, Hart-Petrie said.
The various pieces of writing and art work chosen for publication had previously been based on votes from the editors, and due to the subjective nature of those votes, some quality work did not make it in, but the online edition allowed for the editors to put some of that work in, Hart-Petrie said.
Houlihan said that offering the publication online has allowed editors to include more works than they were able to put into the printed edition which is limited on space.
Student activities fees pay for the publication of the magazine; although the small budget covers only basics, such as ink and paper, this year they should be able to print more copies than they have been able to in the past, Houlihan said.
“Print edition is paper and ink; it’s the money that limits its size, also at a certain level how much you can staple, it’s really crazy that it becomes a limit but it is—we are going to have the first online edition, and I think that allows them to include some works that physically won’t fit,” Houlihan said.
This year the event at the SRC will also be filmed again, as it has been in the past and it should be available on the CNM website, cnm.edu, as well as the online version of the Leonardo, Hart-Petrie said.
“This is here for us, and we also subtitled the magazine ‘A Celebration of the Arts,’ because the arts get so neglected and yet the arts are such an enrichment of our lives,” Hart-Petrie said.
Hart-Petrie said that her experience working on the Leonardo literary magazine has been a rewarding one, and that for her going to CNM is not just about her degree, but for life enrichment, and it has given her a chance to retool some of her skills for the current job market.
For students who cannot make it to the event on April 11, copies of Leonardo will be available in the CHSS office on the fourth floor of Max Salazar Hall, on Main campus or through creative writing instructors throughout other campuses, Houlihan said.
Students who cannot make it to Main campus, or who wish to submit work for consideration in the next edition of the Leonardo literary magazine, may contact Dr. Houlihan by email at houlihan@cnm.edu, he said.
“The most important thing we can say about the Leonardo is for people to submit (work),” Hart- Petrie said.
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Making fire; Prehistoric skills workshops offered
By Angela Le Quieu, Staff Reporter | Photos by Angela Le Quieu
The Anthropology Club and their faculty advisor, Anthropology instructor Dr. Sue Ruth, hosted workshops focusing on ancient technologies used by prehistoric Homo sapiens at the Westside campus on Thursday, March 27.
Students gathered at one of the amphitheaters outside of Westside where Ruth demonstrated how to make fire with a technique known as bow and drill.
“It gives a chance for people to play with this technology that we have had for thousands of years, and most of the time they find out that it’s a little bit harder than they expected, although we made a lot of fire today,” Ruth said.
The first student that was able to produce fire was Jaxon Sorby, Psychology major, but he used flint and steel to ignite the tender.
Sorby has had experience making fire from when he worked as a docent for El Rancho de las Golondrinas living history museum and joined the museum after attending a fire starting class that was held, he said.
The flint and steel kit that he used to start the fire was his own and he practices making fire often in his own backyard, and has even used the fire to cook things like eggs in cast iron cookware Sorby said.
“It was really fun, I was glad I could make this one, last year I wasn’t able to,” Sorby said.
After the initial fire was made students were given marshmallows to roast which were part of the snacks that the Anthropology Club provided for students who attended the event.
Chandra Germain, Anthropology major and Vice President of the Anthropology Club helped supply the snacks, she said.
Germain said that these events give students the opportunity to see the sort of hands-on work that students who pursue anthropology do in order to better understand what they are studying.
“We did it last year and I really enjoyed it. A group of us actually managed to make fire, but that was like the only time. It’s actually exciting to see a lot more people are making fire,” Germain said.
Introducing applied anthropology, such as replicating how hunter-gatherers built fire, is the reason that the Anthropology Club organizes events like this one, said Jamie Fowler-Diaz, Anthropology major and Club Treasurer.
An event like this gets people involved in what anthropology is as well as being something that is fun, Fowler-Diaz said.
“I think they are awesome, so this is a really cool way to get a lot of people involved— people are having fun, they are chatting, they are talking, they are enjoying themselves, and we have food,” Fowler- Diaz said.
Fire making was not the only event planned by the Anthropology Club this spring, and on Monday, March 24 the club had an atlatl throwing event, that are devices which use a stick to propel a dart with greater force than if it had just been thrown by hand, which is a technique that has been around for tens of thousands of years, Ruth said.
The club will also have an event on April 9 that will show students how to make pinch pots, Ruth said.
Pinch pots are another way to demonstrate how experiential archeology and applied anthropology work, Ruth said.
“So basically we are going to be playing with clay and look at a very simple way to make a pot. It’s essentially the kindergarten ashtray, but again people find out is not quite as easy as they remembered it back in kindergarten,” Ruth said.
These events on the Westside are not the only things that the Anthropology club does; they also go on field trips to places like the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, and the Petroglyph National Monument, Ruth said.
In the fall, the club will also host a meet and greet for club members, anthropology majors, and faculty to showcase the program and to discuss what they will do in the future; this upcoming fall term will be the third year that they will have this event, Ruth said.
“We have just a great group of people and we’re really active,” Ruth said.
More information about the Anthropology Club and their events can be found on their Facebook page CNM Anthropology, which is a closed group, but the club does accept requests to join.
Student ID: Passport to discounts
By Angela Le Quieu, Staff Reporter
A valid CNM ID can be used more than just on campus; various organizations and businesses offer discounts and other perks to CNM students.
A free annual bus pass can be picked up from student services and CNM students can also get a free UNM community library card that allows them access to Zimmerman and other libraries on the UNM campus.
Besides these freebies, there are many discounts available for food, fun, fitness, and lots more, and this is a list of various places around town.
Food
Cheba Hut
Monday student day; free chips and drink with ID and purchase of a sandwich.
232-2432
115 Harvard Drive SE
Sombreros Mexican Restaurant
Students receive a 10 percent discount on Mexican cuisine, open daily from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
266-8226
120 Harvard Drive SE
Street Food Market
Take 10 percent off on Malay, Vietnamese and Thai street food from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
268-1196
2300 Central Ave SE
Fitness
UNM Fitness Center
CNM students can purchase a RecCard and have access to all of the Johnson fitness center including their gym and pool for $40 a semester per person with a $10 fee the first time to create a UNM access card.
277-4347
Johnson Center across from Popejoy on the UNM campus
Flavor Fitness
$40 a month instead of $55 with unlimited classes that include BodyPump, Body Step, Zumba and many more.
280-6462
5600 Menaul Blvd. NE
Tennis Club of Albuquerque
Offers discounts on membership to CNM students, members have access to tennis courts, a fitness center, and pool during the season. Call for more information on summer discounts.
262-1691
2901 Indian School Road
Entertainment
Popejoy Hall
CNM students can receive a 40 percent discount at the UNM Bookstore ticket office for the following shows:
Sherman Alexie, on March 30, at 3 p.m.
Soweto Gospel Choir on April 4 at 8 p.m.
Yesterday Once More: A Musical Tribute to the Carpenters, on April 5 at 8 p.m.
Taikoza, on April 13 at 3p.m.
The Mystical Arts of Tibet on May 31 at 8 p.m.
popejoypresents.com/tickets/cnm-student-discounts
The Guild Cinema
Student tickets are $5 with a valid CNM ID for a variety of independent movies.
255-1848
3405 Central Ave NE
The Kimo Theater
Offers student discounts, but discounts vary depending on show and discounts may not be available for all shows, check with the box office.
768-3522
421 Central Ave NW
Cliffs Amusement Park
Students, staff, faculty and their families can take 20 percent off ticket prices by purchasing tickets ahead of time at cliffsamusementpark.com/
881-9373
4800 Osuna Road NE
Retailers
Frock Star
Take 10 percent off all non-clearance vintage clothing
266-6979
115 Harvard Dr. SE
Artisan Art Supplies
CNM students can take 10 percent off their total purchase with ID.
256-4540
3017 Monte Vista Blvd. NE
Master Touch Automotive
10 percent off all services with student ID.
883-9141
4113 Menaul Blvd. NE
Tom Quirk Automotive
$80 per hour instead of the normal $92.50 for labor.
883-0793
3434 Girard NE
English class visits cinema’s golden age
By Angela Le Quieu, Staff Reporter | Photos by Angela Le Quieu
Not only can students get extra credit in class for watching movies, but students are also being directed to see classic films on the big screen at the historical KiMo Theatre at 421 Central Ave NW.
English instructor Jonathan Briggs said that he offered his English Film as Literature class an opportunity to visit the historic theater and watch a movie for extra credit.
“I told the class about it for two reasons; one is that it’s something to do outside of class that is related to film, and another is that the KiMo is an important landmark in Albuquerque,” Briggs said.
The Film as Literature class is a survey course that covers the origin of film, film as an art form, and the cultural impact of film, Briggs said.
The KiMo Theater runs various film retrospectives throughout the year; The Silver Screen Legends Film Series will wrap up on March 29 with a showing of “The African Queen,” at 7 p.m., with ticket prices at $5 to $7.
Briggs said that films like “The African Queen” are important to film history because of the impact that was made in cinema by the actors who starred in them, their directors, and the stories.
“There is this period of Bogart’s career where several really important films were made that he was in, that are different styles, different stories; in ‘The African Queen” his female lead was Kathrine Hepburn, and it was very much not war story, not the detective thing, it’s about a struggle, they are stuck in the jungle just the two of them and it’s another kind of story for the both of them,” Briggs said.
To see a classic film on a big screen is a very different experience than watching one on a television or computer screen, Briggs said.
Films made before television were made to be seen on a large screen; at that time people did not know about the small screen and since then film makers have learned that sometimes they shoot things very differently if they are made for television, Briggs said.
Another reason to see a classic film in a theater is because of the audience, Briggs said.
“Being in a theater with people— that’s a different experience than sitting by yourself or sitting with a few people in a small room,” Briggs said.
An example of this was at the KiMo Theater’s showing of the film noir classic “The Big Sleep” on March 15, 2014 when the whole audience jumped at a surprise gunshot that killed a character.
Classic film is not the only reason to visit the KiMo Theater, it is also an important part of film architecture, Briggs said.
The KiMo Theater was built in 1927, during a time when the people who built theaters wanted to make them interesting places to look at as well as serve the function of showing films, and several styles emerged such as oriental, Greco Roman, and Art Deco, which the KiMo is an example of these architectural styles, Briggs said.
“I love the KiMo. It’s great because it’s big, but not huge, it has a wonderful look, and there are many things to look at besides the film,” Briggs said.
The KiMo Theater has several murals as well as art throughout the building that is inspired by native New Mexican design and culture, a style which is known as Pueblo Revival, and includes the sculptural elements that frame the stage with buffalo skulls that have glowing eyes.
According to cabq. gov in 1977 the people of Albuquerque voted to purchase the KiMo Theater, which had fallen in to disrepair, and renovations have happened since then; the most recent ending in 2002, to bring the back the former glory of the historical building.
“To see (a movie) on the big screen at least once and to see it in a place like the KiMo, which is that other kind of theater, you know the contemporary multiplexes aren’t built to be an example of design, other than functional,” Briggs said.
There are several other series that will be running at the KiMo including Crazy for Swayze, which shows a different Patrick Swayze film every Friday night, through to April 18.
But the KiMo has played host to other movie events such as the upcoming film series at the KiMo Theater that includes the Sunday Matinee: Sir Anthony Hopkins Festival, from April 27 to June 29, and Friday Fright Nights: Universal Monster: the 30s, from May 23 to July 11.
For more information on events at the KiMo Theater and for show times or tickets, visit KiMotickets.com.