Join us for a day of fun creating optical illusions inspired by the painter and Op-artist Bridget Riley. Come make your own abstract work and learn how to trick the eyes into seeing movement, hidden images, flashing patterns and more! Space is limited – RSVPs required. Please email Traci Quinn at tmquinn@unm.edu.

They're Creepy and They're Kooky, Mysterious and Spooky: Prints and Photographs at UNMAM Limited seating; registration required. Register with Traci Quinn at tmquinn@unm.edu. In the spirit of the season, join us at the UNM Art Museum for a spine-chilling evening in our visual study room. Guest speaker Christian Waguespak, Curator of 20th Century Art at the New Mexico Museum of Art, will curate and explore a small selection of our darker, spooky, strange, and mysterious holdings. The Col...

Rocío Aranda-Alvarado is part of the Creativity and Free Expression team. She joined Ford in 2018 after serving as curator at El Museo del Barrio for nearly a decade. In that role, she presented visual arts and programming that reflected the history and culture of El Barrio as well as the greater Latinx and Latin American diaspora. Prior to that, from 2000 to 2009, she was the curator at the Jersey City Museum. Concurrent to her work in museums, Rocío taught as an adjunct professor; consulted...

The UNM Art Museum invites UNM students for an evening filled with mystery on Saturday, November 2nd, from 6:00 - 8:00 PM. Guests will help museum staff solve the murder that has led to a haunting of the exhibitions. All participants who solve the mystery will be entered into a raffle for prizes. To celebrate the spookiest time of the year, we will also have crafts, games, music and snacks! This event is limited to UNM students only and is free to attend, but an RSVP is required. RSVP with...

E. Carmen Ramos is the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s deputy chief curator and curator of Latino art; she joined the museum’s staff in 2010. Since then, she has dramatically expanded the museum’s pioneering collection of Latino art with an eye toward capturing the broad aesthetic and regional range of the field. Her research interests include modern and contemporary Latino, Latin American and African American art.

Karen Mary Davalos, Professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, is an independent curator and an author of three books about Chicana/o art. She serves on the board of directors of Self Help Graphics and Art, the oldest Chicana/o – Latina/o arts organization in the Southern California. She has contributed to the Getty Foundation initiative, Pacific Standard Time I and II. In 2012 she received the President’s Award for Art and Activism from the Women’s Cauc...