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New Mexico State University Art Museum Private Tour

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Bid on a fantastic opportunity to take a private tour of the New Mexico State University Museum collections with Marisa Sage, the museum's director. Through gifts from collectors and university funding, the University Art Museum has actively acquired and stewarded a robust and diverse NMSU Permanent Art Collection since its inception as the University Art Gallery (UAG) in 1974.  In 1977, the administration of NMSU made the commitment to supply funds to the gallery to create and expand the NMSU Permanent Art Collection with the primary focus of forming a teaching collection for students and the broader community. Two major NEA grants for the purchase of works of art by living American artists further expanded the collection and NMSU's Permanent Art Collection grew by more than 2,000 objects in less than ten years. In 2019 the University Art Museum (previously the UAG) moved its culturally significant art collection from its location in D. W. Williams Hall to a state-of-the-art, fully climate-controlled, 21st-century museum facility newly constructed Devasthali Hall.   Some of the Artists featured in the collections include: Sol Lewitt, Andy Warhol, Jenny Morgan, Raul Dorn, Carrie Mae Weems, Robert Frank, Roy Lichtenstein, Nick Cave, Jasper Johns, and Wendy Red Star. 

 The new museum offers public access to the incredible permanent collection: 2,000 nineteenth-century Mexican retablos, the most extensive collection in the United States, 1,775 contemporary and modern works, and the Don Gonzales Collection, ninety World War I and II-era propaganda posters. Since opening its doors in the new museum, the collection has received additional gifts of works including the Giffords Family Retablo Collection and artworks by New Mexico based women artists from Tonya Turner and Michael Carroll in honor of Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe.

For more information about the museum visit the Web page: https://uam.nmsu.edu/.

Photo of Marisa Sage courtesy of Las Cruces Sun-News.  All other photos are courtesy of the New Mexico State University Art Museum.

 

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Lot # 29
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