Teresa Eckmann

Teresa Eckmann is Associate Professor of Contemporary Latin American art in the School of Art at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She completed a Ph.D. in Latin American Studies with a concentration in art history at the University of New Mexico (UNM). Prior to joining the University of Texas at San Antonio as Assistant Professor in 2008, she held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at UNM’S Center for Southwest Research where she worked with several digital, archival, and curatorial projects for the Special Collections Department of the University Libraries. With a previous position as Assistant Curator at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, she continues to balance and integrate her interests in scholarship, curation, archival work, and teaching. These are further informed by art practice having completed a B.A. in studio art from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as well as her experience in the performing arts in her prior professional dance career as a member of the Berkshire Ballet and an apprentice with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre following high school graduation as a dance major from North Carolina School of the Arts (NCSA). Her greatest love is writing; she specializes in modern and contemporary Latin American art, with a focus on contemporary Mexico. Eckmann’s commitment to teaching and writing about Latin American art and history emerged from formative years as a child living in Santiago, Chile with her family. Her interests were shaped as the daughter of a civil engineer U.S. Army Major (her father), and a talented fiber artist (her mother).