The Magazine of the Albuquerque Museum Foundation — Summer 2020
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Reflections on the Bomb • Explore artists’s responses to the first detonation of a nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico, coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the Trinity explosion. Yukiyo Kawano, Fat Man folded (The 1945 Oregonian), 2019, newspaper, kakisibu-dye, adhesive, bamboo grass, wire, fabric (polyester), Polyethylene rod, nylon rope, lent by the artist
• Work on a family art project from home using materials you will have around the house.
• Listen to a podcast of stories from photo archives about the history of Albuquerque.
• Download coloring pages of art and history objects from the Museum collection.
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• Enjoy a video tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination Unlimited with Brian Jay Jones, author of Jim Henson: The Biography.
• Visit our eMuseum to research our collections.
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ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Helen Atkins Hal Behl Beverly Bendicksen Wayne G. Chew
120 artists
300 artworks
10
categories (Jewelry, Glass, 3D/Sculpture, Pottery/Ceramics, Prints, Drawing, Fiber, Photography, Abstract, and Representative).
612
Applicant artists came from
40
states Washington DC and one from Japan.
Over half of the artists applied in either the Abstract art category or Representative art category.
total artists applied. A record number of applicants for this year’s ArtsThrive.
Catherine Goldberg Maria Griego-Raby
Pamela Weese Powell, Chair
October 25 -December 6, 2020
Elizabeth Earls
Dean Willingham, Treasurer
Perry Bendicksen
BY THE NUMBE R S
In This Issue: Changing Course: Trinity Goes Online.............................................................................. 2 Building a Collection........................................................................................................... 4 Picture This! Making the Photo Archives Podcast........................................................... 6 Art Matters for At-Risk Youth.............................................................................................. 8 Museum Welcomes New Curator...................................................................................... 9 Give the Gift of Membership............................................................................................ 10 Museum Foundation News............................................................................................... 12 Museum Store..................................................................................................................... 13
Joni Pierce, Albuquerque Museum Foundation Joni M. Palmer, Ph.D.
V I S I T U S AT:
Judith Suiter
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ROBERT RECK
TRINIT Y
Changing Course
I
Trinity: An Exhibition Premiers Online
T IS FITTING THAT an exhibition
breaking not just in its treatment of this
about a world-changing event
subject matter, but also as the first on-
Albuquerque Museum has been rethink-
should open amid an unprecedent-
line-only exhibition in the Museum’s history.
ing how to present this exhibition, origi-
ed global pandemic.
It displays more than 50 artists’ responses
nally curated for a physical gallery space.
Since its closure in mid-March, the
For the past several years, curators Joe
to nuclear issues and the detonation at
This required research and a team effort
Traugott and Josie Lopez and the exhibi-
Trinity on July 16, 1945, and marks the
building on the strengths of the Museum
tions team at the Albuquerque Museum
75th anniversary. More than 50 artists are
and City of Albuquerque staff. The team
have been preparing for Trinity: Reflections
represented, including Tom Joyce, Will
included Curators Lopez and Traugott, As-
on the Bomb. These artworks illuminate
Wilson, Nicola López, Emil Bisttram, Karsten
sistant to the Curator Lacey Chrisco, who
artists’ responses to the detonation of the
Creightney, Elaine DeKooning, Leigh Anne
managed the Herculean task of finding im-
first nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near
Langwell Jack Garver, Raymond Jonson,
ages of 300 objects and gathering usage
Alamogordo.
Bea Mandelman, Enrique Montenegro,
permissions; the marketing and coordina-
Enter COVID-19, and the Albuquerque
Patrick Nagatani, Bruce Nauman, Anne
tion skills of Foundation Communications
Museum had to change course. Now,
Noggle, Horace Towner Pierce, Tony Price,
Director Denise Crouse to organize the
Trinity: Reflections on the Bomb is ground-
Meridel Rubenstein, and Hideo Sakata.
flow of the website, the graphic design
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Art. History. People.
DAVID GREBER
TRINIT Y
Left: Image composite featuring Meridel Rubenstein, The Meeting,1993, palladium prints, glass, steel, video,each steel grid frame: 79 x 122 ¼ x 2 in. Lent by the Tia Foundation, © 2020 Meridel Rubenstein. Above: Eve Andree Laramée, Apparatus for the Distillation of Vague Intuitions, installation as exhibited at MASSMoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts. Right: Yukiyo Kawano, Fat Man folded (The 1945 Oregonian) Floating Lanterns, 2019 newspaper, kakisibu-dye, adhesive, bamboo grass, wire, fabric (polyester), Polyethylene rod, nylon rope, 10 x 5 x 5 ft. (Fat Man) lent by the artist, © 2020 Yukiyo Kawano.
skills of Robin Hesse to build “wayfinding”
it becomes a
online graphics, and Stephen Hutchins,
different kind
curator of exhibitions, who developed a
of project. Still,
digital walk-through based on the how the
we’re sticking to
exhibition was conceived in the original
objects and con-
gallery space. The City of Albuquerque
tent conceived
Department of Technology and Innovation
for the original exhibition.”
developed the website that housed it all.
Determined to honor the artists’ and
While the curators chose not to add object images to the exhibition, some
The challenge was to put the exhibi-
curators’ vision, the Museum chose to offer
artworks can now be shown in their
tion online in a way that would honor the
an experience that would combine educa-
entirety. Eve Laramée’s Apparatus, for
original concept but take advantage of
tional resources, interactive walk-throughs,
example, is an enormous and complex
the space and interactive possibilities of
and more details on the objects them-
installation of which only a small piece
the internet. “The online version of the
selves. “The city is hosting it on its powerful
could be shown in the gallery. The
project provides an opportunity to pres-
platform, and we will be able to share all
installation resembles a vast biochemical
ent this exhibition to wider national and
the academic and scholarly content, as well
laboratory, made of hand-blown glass,
international audiences,” says Curator of
as share the images in a way that people
snippets of etched text, and various
Art Josie Lopez.
can get in close and see the details,” says
colors of solutions and wires attached
Communications Director Denise Crouse.
to flowers. “Now we can show what the
The team researched other museums’ internet-based exhibitions but chose to
artist’s original installation had intend-
develop its own take on the online expe-
ed,” Lopez says.
rience. Although they had more space to work with in a virtual setting, Lopez says they stuck to the original image list. “This project was conceived entirely as a physical exhibition. It’s different to work
Crouse notes that while online exhibi-
ON VIEW ONLINE
tions will never replace the in-person Mu-
CABQ.GOV/TRINITY Trinity: Reflections on the Bomb
to reach many more people online than it
seum experience, Trinity has the potential would have in the gallery. “We’re excited
outside of constraints of exhibition costs
to share this with our community, the
like shipping and limited physical space;
state, and to the world.”
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COLLECTIONS AND ACQUISITIONS
Left: Oli Sihvonen Dialogue Yellowblue,1964 oil on canvas, 52 x 52 in. Albuquerque Museum purchase, 1981 General Obligation Bonds. Below: Frederick Hammersley, Clout, 1989, lithograph on paper, 12x16 in, Albuquerque Museum, The Urban Enhancement Trust Fund Committee. Right: Diego Romero, Mayans from Mars, pottery bowl, 5.5. x 11 in diameter Albuqueruque Museum purchase.
Building a Collection
An inside look at how curators decide what belongs in the Museum.
T
HE ALBUQUERQUE
MUSEUM’S 10,000 WORKS
OF ART celebrate many cultures and aesthetic traditions.
Albers had a profound influence on New
collection based on the Museum’s plan.
Mexican artists Frederick Hammersly and
“As curators, we don’t focus on our per-
Oli Sihvonen, among others.
sonal interests,” says Curator of Art Josie
When a curator joins the Museum staff,
Lopez. “We have to be broader-thinking
Curators select artworks for a reason,
they bring with them their own interests,
and determine how we traverse the future
and often they have to have prescience
but also the commitment to grow the
direction of the collection.”
about what might be interesting for future generations. The collection reflects the evolution
THE FOURTH AND FINAL BOOK in the Albuquerque Museum Collection
of the Museum, the collections plan,
Guide series, "Common Ground," contains images of more than 300 objects
and what future generations might
and provides an overview of the permanent collection. The book serves to
want to know about our current world.
answer the questions: What’s the real New Mexico? How does our culture in-
It also links those who have influenced
fluence art? It includes input from Museum Director Andrew Connors, Curator
New Mexican artists. For example, the
of Art Josie Lopez, Ph.D., Lacey Chrisco, former Museum Director Jim Moore,
Museum owns prints and paintings by
and former Curator of Art, Ellen Landis. Available at the Museum Store.
German abstract artist Joseph Albers. 4
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Art. History. People.
COLLECTIONS AND ACQUISITIONS
Below Right: Nicola López, Ideal Structures for a Dubious Future (Tallest Tower) 2012; Explosive intaglio on paper; 27 1/2” x 11”; Self published; edition of 12. Below left: Nicola López, Ideal Structures for a Dubious Future (Global Sprawl) 2012; Explosive intaglio on paper; 27 1/2 x 11 in; Self published; edition of 12.
Lopez looks at potential acquisitions
ing, we are also looking at the past.”
through a mission-driven lens: Why is this
López and Mandelman are also important
piece important for the collection? How
printmakers, another area of focus for the
might this fill current, pre-identified gaps
Museum’s collections plan.
in the collection? How might this work fit
Two recently acquired Diego Romero
into exhibitions in development? Does it
(Cochiti Pueblo) bowls point to the Muse-
spark an idea for a future exhibition based
um’s focus on innovation within tradition.
on other works already in the collection?
Decorated in traditional Mimbres pottery
To illustrate, Lopez points to two sig-
geometric style, the Romero bowls fea-
nificant anniversaries that have been on
ture modern Chongo figures (so named
curators’ minds: The 75th anniversary of
for their top knot hairstyle). The works
the Trinity site nuclear explosion; and the
nod to but transcend Native American
100th anniversary of the 19th Amend-
traditional ceramics.
ment granting women the right to vote. For Trinity: Reflections on the Bomb, the
Potential donors frequently approach curators with items that the Museum
Albuquerque Museum acquired prints
would love to acquire. As stewards of
from Santa Fe-born artist Nicola LÓpez
the collection, though, curators have the
and drawings from artist and ecological
responsibility to pick and choose based
activist Nina Elder—both female contem-
what’s best for the Museum's plan.
porary artists who have responded to nuclearism in their work. The acquisitions fill out the Trinity exhibition and add more work from contemporary female artists to the permanent collection. “We want to be collecting women artists of the region in a very intentional way,” Lopez says. Another recent acquisition with a dual mission is a series of prints from female WPA-era printmaker, Bea Mandelman. “The WPA had a huge impact here. We wanted these in our collection partially because the Museum didn’t exist in 1930. In the same way that we are future-look-
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PHOTO ARCHIVES
Behind the Scenes How a Curator Created the Podcast, Picture This
T
BY JILL HARTKE, PHOTO AND DIGITAL ARCHIVIST
HE PHOTO ARCHIVE OVERFLOWS with stories wait-
ran from his surgery room at Dawson’s hospital around 1910.
ing to be told. I began making a five-to-seven minute
The story of Dr. Diver and the rescuers seemed overlooked and
podcast called “Picture This with the Albuquerque
perfect for a podcast.
Museum” to highlight overlooked stories within the
Museum’s collection. My first stop is the photo archives collection. How many
The accession record for the collection had information about Dr. Diver. I researched mine rescues in the 1910s to learn the men attending Dr. Diver’s training were known as “helmet men.”
images do I have to tell the story? Is there a new angle to a well-
Newspaper accounts of the 1913 disaster shed more light on the
known story that I can share? Do I have supporting images of lo-
helmet men and I learned from the US Bureau of Mines how many
cations or subjects? The answer to each of these questions helps
helmet men were trained in Dawson. All of this research helped
determine the content for a podcast. Take the Dawson Mine
me to write a script for the podcast. Next, I start recording.
podcast, for example. I had heard of Dawson, New Mexico, from
I use a podcast application on my smartphone called Spreak-
people who had toured the ghost town and saw the rows of
er. Trial and many errors taught me that life is easier if I record
white iron crosses in the graveyard with the date of mine explo-
the podcast in bits, rather than all in one go, so I generally have
sions. I looked at seven photographs, donated by Dorothy Diver,
six or seven segments of a podcast that I record and upload
showing a rescue training session that her father, Dr. Frank Diver,
separately. Once the audio is recorded, I move on to compile
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PHOTO ARCHIVES
This page left: Men Being tested for NASA at Lovelace Clinic, 1959 PA2001.034.033 Albuquerque Museum, gift of Minton Schooley This page right: Elsie Westerfield on the steps of a Streetcar PA1993.018.015.A Albuquerque Museum, gift of Grace Miller-Redd Facing page: Mine rescuers at the entrance to a mine, Albuquerque Museum, gift of Dorothy Diver PA1974.070.006
the audio and images together into the podcast. I use software called Filmora to do my podcast magic. Filmora allows me to put in opening and ending titles, zoom in on images, pan across images, cut out audio, insert sound effects,
PICTURE THIS! EPISODES Episode 1: Van Tassel Balloon Launch Episode 2: Dawson, New Mexico
and save the podcast in several formats. I use sound effects
Episode 3: Lovelace Astronaut Program
to enhance the storytelling, often for humor, but sometimes
Episode 4: Itinerant Photographer
for drama. For the Dawson Mine story, I wanted to create an
Episode 5: King Albert I Visits Isleta
atmosphere of peril. The newspaper reported that rocks fell on
Episode 6: Streetcars and Motorettes
rescuers as they rushed into the exploded mine. I used an on-
Episode 7: Let the Sunshine In
line sound effect collection to find “rocks falling into a well”, which brought to life an image of helmet men in the mine and connected it to the storyline. The podcasts allow me to creatively present the collection to a larger audience. It’s a chance to give incredible stories
Episode 8: Albuquerque Dukes Episode 9: New Mexicans in WWI
LISTEN TO PICTURE THIS! PODCAST CABQ.GOV/PICTURETHIS
new life in the imaginations of listeners.
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Left: Art created by a student at the Youth Detention Center. Below: Vashti Moss, program administrator Right top: Teaching artists work with youth at risk. Bottom: A video art lesson during quarantine at YDC.
to the Museum, but funding limits the size of the program and number of partners. The Youth Detention Center houses incarcerated youth ages 14 to 17. New Day is a homeless teen residential center. Unlike Museum School classes which focus on skills, Art Matters programs concen-
Art Matters
trate on using art as a communication and therapeutic tool. While students do learn about color and composition and materials, “We have built a
THE MUSEUM SCHOOL ART
Museum School art education.
that would expand current
social justice, trauma-informed
CLASSROOM is a cozy space,
Art Matters is an outreach pro-
programs exposing youth to
program that engages the
perfect for small classes and
gram that takes place outside
art. “Instead of offering more
youth and administration at
personal attention. Students
the museum setting. Currently
classes,” says Elizabeth Becker,
each site,” says Program Ad-
at the Museum School benefit
it serves youth at two facilities,
curator of education, “we de-
ministrator Vashti Moss. “Our
from the excellent teaching
A New Day Youth and Family
cided to consider an audience
teaching artists are a stellar
staff and proximity to the gal-
Services and the Youth Deten-
that doesn’t typically come to
group of compassionate, cre-
leries themselves.
tion Center.
the Museum. Our focus would
ative, engaged educators and
Even before Covid-19
The program is funded in
be out in the community.”
creators. Our work grows and
closed the doors, however,
part by the Mayor’s Youth
They’d like to work with more
changes as the needs of our
young people who could not
Initiative, launched in 2018.
organizations, especially now
partners grow and change.”
visit were benefitting from a
The initiative sought proposals
when there is limited access
Art Matters specifically hired teaching artists who have worked in various community
COURTESY VASHTI MOSS
“We have built a social justice, trauma-informed program that engages the youth and administration at each site.” – VASHTI MOSS
settings and are attracted to working with youth at risk. Before the shutdown, they’d started implementing Museum tours for A New Day and Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico. “We had feedback from every visit that the youth love the tours and were
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Art. History. People.
Leslie Kim
have developed meaningful
Moss says.
arts programing via video.
Prior to shelter in place,
COURTESY LESLIE KIM
very engaged in the process,”
“It has been a big shift and
students at both sites request-
an interesting way to make
ed the opportunity to have
creative space! We are also
their own exhibition, Moss
creating art kits for the youth
says. “We had plans to teach
that they can use anytime (as
them about creating a body
their programs permit).”
Museum Welcomes New History Curator
of work, selecting work, curating an exhibition, and writing artist bios and statements.
THE ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM HAS HIRED LESLIE KIM
The students were
as history curator. Kim officially began work on June 22
have the opportunity to do this work.” Now, Moss and the teaching artists
COURTESY VASTI MOSS
really excited to
Kim comes from Albuquerque Academy, where she has been teaching World History since 2000. Kim says she has always had a love for museum work, and has worked as an art researcher, curatorial assistant, and collections associate. She has been on the Albuquerque Museum Foundation board of directors, served on several committees, and chaired ArtEdge, an effort to cultivate young donors and volunteers for an early iteration of the gala, Shaken, not Stirred. For Kim, the appointment meets a lifelong goal to be professionally engaged in museum work. She started her career researching pieces owned by Jan and Frederick Mayer on loan at the Denver Museum of Art. She interned at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science as a collections assistant, and learned about preservation work on a Kachina restoration project. When she returned to Albuquerque in December 1999, she really wanted to get into Museum work full time, but then the job at Albuquerque Academy came along, and she has been there ever since.
COURTESY VASHTI MOSS
Kim’s first order of business is to get to know the collection. “As an educator, I interact with history on a daily basis,” Kim says. “I strive to bring it alive every day in the classroom, but now I’m doing the same with objects. This is going to be super fun.”
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MEMBERSHIP
WHAT MEMBERS SAY
“I feel like I have ownership of the Museum, through functions and get togethers with other supporters. I really enjoy the Patron’s Circle dinners. I see a lot of people that I don’t normally see [at other functions.] —Lauro Guaderrama M.D. “In order for us to move forward as a society, the arts and the creative endeavors enrich our lives in ways that are hard to quantify. It helps you gain insight into the world around us.” —Ted Laredo
VANESSA VASSAR
“It’s not just about the city, but also about the world beyond the city, via traveling exhibitions and other activities.” — Russ Davidson
Give the Gift of Membership Members share their love for the Museum.
V
ANESSA VASSAR has to remind seven-year-old Evan that the Museum is not his living room. “He feels so comfortable there, I have to tell him not to run around.” Evan and mom Vanessa, Museum members, visit around four times a month, regularly attend Saturday Family Art Workshops, and
spend hot summer days having lunch at Slate at the Museum followed by art classes or a gallery visit. They almost always make it to Third Thursday. Evan particularly loves Only in Albuquerque, because he and his friends can identify and walk on their neighborhoods on the giant map and make stamps, among other activities. “Only in Albuquerque is really great for kids,” Vassar says. They became members three years ago, although all of Vassar’s four kids have attended the Museum School classes. Since then, Vassar continues to make frequent use of her membership, bringing many out-of-town and international visitors and using
Member Vanessa Vassar's son Evan and his friends make themselves at home in the Museum, participating in Family Art Workshops and visiting Only in Albuquerque. Lower right: Museum Director Andrew Connors at an Artsthrive members' event.
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Art. History. People.
her Museum Store discount to purchase gifts such as jewelry, scarves, and kids books. The freelance writer/photographer/filmmaker has lived all over the world. “I have lived in big cities my whole life and I always tell people who come here that this Museum is really world class, from the way it’s run to the exhibitions, the gift shop, everything.”
MEMBERSHIP
Many members say that belonging to the Museum gives them a feeling of ownership—frequent visitors feel at home within its galleries, enjoy the community gatherings as a place to socialize with likeminded individuals, sharing the Museum with friends— even making new ones. Membership benefits foster such familiarity: events, gallery tours, curator and artist talks, and special events, de-mystify the museum experience for young and old alike, creating life-long connections to the Museum community. VANESSA VASSAR
Member Ted Laredo concurs with Vassar’s assessment of the Museum as a gem. “For Albuquerque, a city of this size, to have such a great museum is unusual.” Ted and partner Angela Berkson are both fine artists who have shown in ArtsThrive. They have also contributed to the Magic Bus program. Some of Laredo’s favorite member events are panel discussions with artists or curators. “I’m always interested in hearing someone talk about creative context,” he says. Additionally, the members’ openings allow the couple to spend time with other art appreciators. Indeed, one of the unique benefits of membership is the opportunity to hear world-class experts speak about interesting aspects of exhibitions that may not be readily apparent by visiting the gallery. One such memorable talk for Patron’s Circle member Russ Davidson was given by former Metropolitan Museum of Art Director Philippe de Montebello. He spoke at the opening for Visions of the Hispanic World in November 2018. “It was exhilarating to hear somebody of Montebello’s eminence speak at our museum.” Members who visit the Museum often have favorite works they seek out each time they come: Laredo has a fondness for Frederick Hammersly, as well as the sculptures of Patrociño Barela. “There’s just so many amazing works and that we have that kind
GIFT A LIFETIME OF ART AND HISTORY
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of talent displayed at the Museum.” The Museum wouldn’t be what it is today without the dedicated staff, who members get to know through community events. Vassar notes that Museum School teacher Ophelia Cornet is world class. Davidson says the Museum is defined by its staff. “I’ve worked with some of these people, and they are tremendously dedicated. I don’t think the Museum could have obtained the stature of significant importance without that element.”
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ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM FOUNDATION NEWS LEAVING A LEGACY
Magic Bus because, she says,
or something to benefit other
and interesting programs. It’s
In 2018, the Albuquerque
kids aren’t getting enough art
people long after we are
a fabulous community gath-
Museum Foundation launched
exposure in schools.
gone,” she says.
ering place. It’s important to
the aM Society, a formalized
Asbury also donates
Another longtime donor
legacy-giving program. At
through the Masterworks
and president-elect of the Al-
success of the Museum for
the time, Foundation donors
program, which allows people
buquerque Museum Founda-
future generations.”
and board members Beverly
to sponsor pieces in specific
tion Board, Joni Pierce, joined
R. and Perry Bendicksen were
exhibitions. Her most recent
aM Society about a year ago.
easy as designating benefi-
among the first members of
Masterwork was Baby Miss
“I had worked in the area
ciaries on your IRA account.
the Society. Today, the aM
Piggy, on view in Imagination
of estate planning as a wealth
You don’t have to be wealthy
Society numbers 10 couples,
Unlimited: The Jim Henson
manager, so I knew the
to include the Museum
with more than $2.5 million
Exhibition. Like many estate
power of giving beyond one’s
Foundation in your estate
pledged to the Foundation.
donors, Asbury’s giving plan
lifetime,” she says. “I love the
planning. Any size gift can
has increased over time.
Museum’s beautiful spaces
help sustain the Museum for
and wonderful exhibitions
future generations.
Lynn Asbury supports the Magic Bus program. She be-
“Years ago, our lawyer
gan five years ago, starting with
suggested that since we don’t
small donations and then spon-
have any children, we might
sored an entire bus. Asbury
like to leave some kind of
took a particular interest in
legacy, donating to a cause
me to support the long-term
Legacy giving is simple—as
To join the aM Society, contact Emily Blaugrund Fox at 505.338.8738 or ebfox@albuquerquemuseum.org.
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Hot off the press! The final book in the series of the Albuquerque Museum Collections Guides is available now. The complete set highlights the Museum’s permanent collections in art, history, photography, and its historic house museum Casa San Ysidro. Save 25% when you purchase all four books for $99.95 (plus shipping). Albuquerque Museum Art Collection: Common Ground
The broad range of works in the Albuquerque Museum's permanent art collection reflects the diversity, creativity, and innovation of New Mexico's artistic legacy. This guidebook highlights masterworks in the collection spanning centuries including contemporary art and photography, sculpture, jewelry, early and contemporary Hispanic religious art, traditional and contemporary Pueblo pottery, and tapestries. $37.50
Albuquerque Museum History Collection: Only in Albuquerque
Highlights from the museum's rich history collection, drawing examples from thirtyfive thousand artifacts, including Hispanic religious art, Native American textiles and jewelry, toys and early computers, to railroad and Route 66 memorabilia. The collection represents the history of New Mexico's central Rio Grande valley and Greater Albuquerque from before written history through the present. $34.95
Albuquerque Museum Photo Archives Collection: Images in Silver The Museum's rich archive of historic photographs - more than 133,000 - document Albuquerque, its people, architecture, businesses, urban landscape, and depictions of daily life and important events. $29.95
Casa San Ysidro: The GutiĂŠrrez/Minge House in Corrales, New Mexico
Ward Alan Minge tells the story of Casa San Ysidro's architectural history and collections. Historic and contemporary photographs show the structural changes over the years and highlight the collection - Hispano tinwork, ironwork, carpentry, and weavings; Pueblo pottery; Navajo textiles; Apache basketry; and furnishings from the Spanish colonial, Mexican, and Territorial periods - housed inside Casa San Ysidro. $29.95
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COMING SOON TO THE ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM 30 AMERICANS October 1, 2020–January 3, 2021 This provocative exhibition of artwork from the Rubell Family Collection focuses on issues of racial, sexual, and historical identity in contemporary culture while exploring the powerful influence of artistic legacy and community across generations. 30 Americans showcases works by many of the most important American artists of the last three decades, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Nick Cave, Carrie Mae Weems, and Kehinde Wiley.
Kehinde Wiley, Equestrian Portrait of the Count Duke Olivares, 2005, oil on canvas
