AMoCA News January - March
Recent Events and Coming Events at the Anderson Museum
Kirill Gliadkovsky wowed a full house at the Anderson Museum with his virtuosity, playing Classical and Romantic piano favorites by Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Gershwin, and receiving a standing ovation. Gliadkovsky last played at AMoCA in December 2022, when he performed alongside his wife and daughter. Dr. Gliadkovsky combines his busy concert schedule with teaching at Saddleback College as a Professor of Piano and Director of Keyboard Studies.
Everest Pipkin, a game developer, writer, and artist from central Texas who lives and works on a sheep farm in southern New Mexico, gave an artist talk, describing their studio practice in games, web-based artwork, and writing. They discussed overlapping themes of their work, from utopian/dystopian futures, to gardens as translated to digital spaces, to working with hand-collected datasets– all centered in a handmade and low-tech ethos towards digital making.
Miranda Howe (RAiR 2021-13) gave a museum tour to a group of middle school students from the New Mexico Military Institute January 18.
A busload of ninth grade students from Trinity School in Midland, TX, on a multi-day tour through New Mexico stopped at the AMoCA for a tour and some educational activities.
The thirty-six students were tasked with an exercise to draw elements from various paintings in their drawing books.
Coming Events:
R.I.S.D. Secondary Art Show
An art exhibition showcasing the work of Roswell middle school & high school students at the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art.
April 4 - 16
Opening Reception April 4, 4-6 PM, with refreshments.
The Roswell Symphony Orchestra will be holding their first annual Spring Student Recital on April 6, at 2 PM at AMoCA. Nine students will be performing - 3 soloists and two trios. The students wrote essays about how music education benefits their lives and they have received two coaching sessions with Roswell Symphony Orchestra musicians to prepare for this performance. The performance is free and open to the public.
The Anderson Museum will be participating in ART NM! Arts and Culture Day in Roswell, a community celebration of the arts and culture presented by New Mexico’s arts advocacy organization, Creative New Mexico, and hosted by the Roswell Museum during its Second Saturday on April 13, 10 AM- 1 PM. Visitors will be able to get information from many of Roswell’s arts and culture organizations all in one place, and can also participate in hands-on activities.
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