This year’s Department of Art Gale Memorial Speaker Series focuses on U.S. Latinx art. Although historically marginalized by the larger art world, over the past ten years or so, interest in the art production of Latinx artists has exploded across the country. New publications are being produced, universities are hiring specialists and offering courses, scholars are studying and writing about it, museums are looking at this body of work and curating exhibits, and collectors are buying work made by Chicanx, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Haitian, and Central American artists. The speaker series this fall is presented in tandem with the new course, ARTH 429.003: U.S. Latinx Art and will consist of 6 events, i.e. five lectures and a panel discussion, across three venues. The series will include the following: Frank Blazquez, Visual Artist, Albuquerque, NM, Tuesday, October 15, 5:30 pm, UNM Art Museum; Panel Discussion: “Artistas del Pueblo: In Conversation with Four New Mexican Chicana/o Artists of the Early Movimiento, c. 1968–1978,” Thursday, October 24, 6:00 pm, Albuquerque Museum; Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Program Officer, Ford Foundation, NYC (former Curator, El Museo del Barrio, NYC), Tuesday, October 29, 5:30 pm, UNM Art Museum; Vincent Valdez, Visual Artist, Houston, Texas, Thursday, November 7, 6:00 pm, National Hispanic Cultural Center; Carmen Ramos, Curator of Latino Art, American Art Museum, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C., Thursday, November 14, 5:30 pm, UNM Art Museum; and Karen Mary Davalos, Professor of Chicano and Latino Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Tuesday, November 19, 5:30 pm, UNM Art Museum. All events are free and open to the public.

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 Collections Conversations series is a recurring program at the UNM Art Museum that brings great storytellers together with exceptional works from our permanent collection to provide an intimate, informal space for our patrons to gather with fellow art lovers. Held in our Beaumont Newhall Visual Study Room, Collections Conversations are a chance to appreciate, learn about, and discuss themed art selections not currently on view in our public galleries. For these events, visitors are offered the unique opportunity to step past the velvet rope and take a closer look at important works behind the scenes.

Love is a Blue Tick Hound

By Audrey Cefaly

Directed by Paulina Palero Estrada

November 1, 2, 7, 8, 9 at 7:30 p.m. and November 3, 10 at 2:00 p.m.

The X — Experimental Theatre

Ticket Prices $12 General, $10 Faculty & Seniors, $8 Staff & Students

Co-Produced with SCRAP (UNM Student Theatre Organization)

Love is a Blue Tick Hound is an award-winning short play collection comprised of 4 short plays illuminating the complex and rich relationships between women. The first two (THE GULF, FIN, AND EUBA) are Southern pieces about young women. The second two (CLEAN, STUCK) are modern-day love stories.

Join us this Wednesday from 4-5pm in the CFA Conference Room (Room 1009, next to Keller Hall) for our biweekly Arts Entrepreneurship Club meeting. If you have yet to attend an AEC meeting, this is a great opportunity to come and to join the club, as well as to learn about jumping into the semester. Membership in UNM’s Arts Entrepreneurship Club will grow your connections with local arts businesses, organizations, entrepreneurs, and other UNM students and will also give you opportunities to showcase your art/talents during UNM and local events.

All UNM students interested in the arts or entrepreneurship are welcome to attend, regardless of college or major.

Heathers the Musical

November 8, 9, 14, 15, 16 at 7:30pm and November 10 and 17 at 2:00pm

Rodey Theatre

Heathers the Musical is the darkly delicious story of Veronica Sawyer, a brainy, beautiful teenage misfit who hustles her way into the most powerful and ruthless clique at Westerberg High: the Heathers. But before she can get comfortable atop the high school food chain, Veronica falls in love with the dangerously sexy new kid J.D. When Heather Chandler, the Almighty, kicks her out of the group, Veronica decides to bite the bullet and kiss Heather’s aerobicized ass… but J.D. has another plan for that bullet.

Brought to you by the award-winning creative team of Kevin Murphy (Reefer Madness, “Desperate Housewives”), Laurence O’Keefe (Bat Boy, Legally Blonde) and Andy Fickman (Reefer Madness, She’s the Man). Heathers the Musical is a hilarious, heartfelt and homicidal new show based on the greatest teen comedy of all time.