UNM Art Museum and the University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts are throwing a party to celebrate the beginning of the new academic year and the opening of two new exhibitions: HINDSIGHT / INSIGHT: Reflecting on the Collection & Flight an installation by Sheri Crider. The evening will feature music by DJ Kayote and food by My Sweet Basil. Come dance, see great art, and eat delicious food.

Join the UNM Art Museum’s Arif Khan (Director) and Mary Statzer (Curator of Prints & Photographs) as they discuss the exhibition HINDSIGHT / INSIGHT: Reflecting on the Collection and the strategic vision for the re-installation of the museum’s collection. How do museums balance their histories with future goals for object display, acquisition, teaching and programming? What are the challenges in curating from a teaching collection of over 30,000 objects?

In this workshop participants will construct their purchased birds with artist sheri crider - taking home the hand-built work and a migrant’s story. Come learn more about building empathy, the necessity for immigration reform, and the current systems that perpetuate mass incarceration in our country. WORKSHOP FEE $25.00 or FREE with the purchase of a bird ($25.00). Contact Traci Quinn - tmquinn@unm.edu to register Proceeds from the workshop benefit New Mexico Immigrant Law Center, New M...

UNM Art Museum, in collaboration with the College of Fine Arts and For Freedoms, invites you to join us for our 50 State Initiative kick-off event and keynote talk by artist Aram Han Sifuentes.  Focusing on the artist's role in civic and democratic participation, Aram will set the stage for a semester-long series of programs and political activations organized by UNM students in the Albuquerque community.  Join us in the Museum after the talk (6:30 - 8:00pm) to meet the artist, add your voice to...

Albuquerque artist sheri crider will discuss her project Flight highlighting the inspiration, artistic processes, and community work that she uses to expand the act of art-making into a space for civic engagement and empathy building with regards to criminal justice reform.   sheri crider is a visual artist and owner of Sanitary Tortilla Factory. She sees great possibility in discarded materials, unused spaces, and missed opportunities that inspire her art practice. While maintaining a keen, ...

In this panel discussion sheri crider, Gabrielle Uballez, and Daryl Lucero will discuss ways in which artists, educators, and cultural workers build and advocate with communities in historically authoritarian spaces like museums and galleries.  Using their own experiences and creative work as a point of departure, they will explore the varied approaches of working with institutions - interrogating, shifting, challenging and forming new ways of collaborating. PANELISTS sheri crider is a vis...