AMoCA News May - July

Guillermo Gómez-Peña Lecture at AMoCA

Guillermo Gómez-Peña came to the Anderson Museum to deliver a presentation for the third consecutive summer. He delivered an illustrated lecture about the first forty years of his career as a performance artist.

In the lecture, Gómez-Peña started with his family’s “vernacular performativity,” going through his semi-voluntary performances during childhood, and then went into his time in art school and his performance art works including Border Walk; Mister Misterio; Border Actions; Tijuana/Niagra; Border Wedding; Border Brujo; The Guatinaui World Tour and many others.

Gómez-Peña has exhibited and performed around the world. He is MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim, Bessie and American Book Award recipient and has authored 21 books.

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Other May and June Events at AMoCA

Events since May at the Anderson Museum have included an Eastern New Mexico Medical Center leadership training conference; more student tours including 163 students in one day (!); the Democratic Party of Chaves County’s post-primary convention, and the Roswell Museum Foundation held a catered, intimate museum dinner for a winning fundraiser-bidder and their party.