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.

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.

Join us for a free public reception at 5:30 PM and an artist talk at 6 PM for experimental filmmaker Linda Fenstermaker.

BIO:
Linda Fenstermaker is an experimental filmmaker and graduate of Hampshire College.

She works primarily on 16mm film. Her work explores interactions and relationships between body and landscape with a focus on representing organic food systems and empowered women.

In addition to filmmaking, Linda has curated and co-curated multiple programs, including Ovular Films and the experimental program for Local Sightings Film Festival in Seattle, as well as being a visiting artist at The Evergreen State College, Seattle University and the University of Washington.

She currently lives in the agricultural area of Skagit County in Washington State.

Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico will stage, in a public setting, a re-construction of Tallis’ monumental 40-part Renaissance motet, Spem in Alium, written in 1570 for eight choirs of five voices each. Arguably the greatest work of Renaissance choral music by an English composer, Spem in Alium was Tallis’ crowning achievement.

Saturday, November 23, 2019

Episcopal Cathedral of St. John

318 Silver Ave SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102

5 pm Guest Lecture by UNM Department of Music Professor Colleen Sheinberg,

5:30 pm Workshop-Performance & Reception

Participant Registration $25 (free to full-time students)

Spectator Tickets $20  (free to full-time students)