Acknowledging 2025 AAMG Conference Contributors

AAMG 2025 attendees had the opportunity to visit with conference sponsors. Photograph by Stefan Jennings Batista.

Hosting an event of the scale and impact of the 2025 Association of Academic Museum and Galleries (AAMG) Annual Conference was no small undertaking, made possible only through the dedication and hard work of countless individuals and organizations. We thank everyone who contributed, and we extend our gratitude to the following (apologies to anyone we have inadvertently overlooked):

Arif Khan, UNMAM Director, and University of Iowa’s Liz Crooks, Pentacrest Museums Director — Conference Co-Chairs
Deb Haaland, Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior and New Mexico gubernatorial candidate
Dana Tai Soon Burgess, Founder and Artistic Director, Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company

We especially recognize the following individuals and groups who managed countless details and logistics to ensure the conference ran smoothly.

AAMG

Alexandra Chamberlain, AAMG Director of Operations
Katie Farkas, AAMG Coordinator

UNM

River Moore, Manager of Sales and Events, UNM Student Union Building
Brandon McDaniel, Production Services Manager, Popejoy Hall
Rachel Kaldveer, Operations & Patron Services Manager, Popejoy Hall
Daniel Linver, Marketing and Programming Specialist, Popejoy Hall
Jaime Tillotson, Admin Assistant to the Dean, UNM College of Fine Arts
Kathy Batt, Event Planning, UNM Parking & Transportation Services
UNM College of Fine Arts Dean’s Office
UNM Museum Studies
UNM Museum Council — The University of New Mexico Art Museum (UNMAM), Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Museum of Southwestern Biology, Institute of Meteoritics, UNM Paleo, Tamarind Institute
UNM Office of the President
UNM Office of the Provost
UNM Catering

AAMG 2025 guests get a peek at an upcoming exhibit for Valles Caldera at Ideum. Photo courtesy of Ideum.

Santa Fe Excursions and Partners

Tatiana Lomahaftewa-Singer, Curator of Collections, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
Museum of International Folk Art
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
NM Department of Cultural Affairs Museum Resources Division
NM Department of Cultural Affairs

Keynote and Conference Support

Chris and Michelle Mann, Fresko Mediterranean Fusion
Stefan Jennings Batista, Photographer
Goiyo Perez and Halcyon Vision

Albuquerque Museums

Albuquerque Museum of Art
National Museum of Nuclear Science and History

Conference Planning Committee

Dalina Perdomo Alvarez
Kimberly Datchuk
Isra El-Beshir
Devin E. Geraci
Gabriel Harrison
Rymer Hewitt
Shereena Honary
Tatiana Lomahaftewa-Singer
Lynne Maphies
Keidra Daniels Navaroli
Danielle Raad
Britt Royer

Conference Sponsors

The 2025 AAMG Annual Conference would not have been possible without generous sponsor support. Thank you!

James Merle Thomas, Deputy Director of the Frankenthaler Prints Initiative (FPI), takes part in a discussion about the Initiative at UNMAM during AAMG 2025. UNMAM was an awardee in Phase II of the Frankenthaler Prints Initiative. Photo by Stefan Jennings Batista.

Keynote

Bloomberg Connects

Ideum

Diamond

Helen Frankenthaler Foundation

Institute of American Indian Arts

Maroon

art2art Circulating Exhibitions

Gaylord Archival

Pentacrest Museums

Cultural Strategy Partners

MediaDesk

Christie’s

Conserv.io

Texas Heritage Museum, Hill College

University Products

MSU Broad Art Museum

Collector Systems

Goose Pen Press

QuickTales

UNM Museum Studies

Artwork Archive

Bronze

Berstein and Associates NAGPRA Consultants

ERCO

Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro

MuseumExchange

Hood Museum of Art

GuestCurator Traveling Exhibitions

Houser Walker Architecture

Maxwell Museum

We are deeply grateful to everyone who helped make the 2025 AAMG Conference a meaningful, memorable and truly collaborative celebration of academic museums and galleries.