Las Cruces
New Mexico
NMSU University Art Museum
The University Art Museum’s mission is to serve as an academic environment for the critical analysis of visual art while making culturally relevant and conceptual practice accessible to the University and surrounding regional and border communities. The UAM actively acquires and stewards a permanent collection of contemporary visual art, houses the country’s largest collection of Mexican retablos, and facilitates educational programming to align with the teaching missions of both the Department of Art and New Mexico State University. The UAM’s overarching purpose is to provide enriching and informative experiences through participatory engagements with artists and contemporary and historical visual art. To accomplish these goals for our under-served area, we involve the full regional community in our educational programming, which range from exhibitions, performances and lectures, to catalogs and scholarly publications. We actively work to establish the importance and significance of the visual arts relative to the diverse human values present in our broader community.
Recent News
Exhibition - Cruces: New Acquisitions from the NMSU Permanent Art Collection at University Art Museum
The University Art Museum (UAM) is delighted to announce the opening of Cruces: New Acquisitions from the NMSU Permanent Art Collection, an exhibition highlighting recent donations and acquisitions to the NMSU Permanent Art Collection. The…
Read More »Exhibition - E Pluribus Unum: Mogollon at University Art Museum
The University Art Museum (UAM) is excited to partner with Santa Fe-based, Axle Contemporary, to present E Pluribus Unum: Mogollon in the UAM’s Mullennix Bridge Gallery from June-August E Pluribus Unum features over 800 portraits from…
Read More »Warhol and Friends Exhibition at University Art Museum
The University Art Museum is thrilled to announce Warhol & Friends, a group exhibition showcasing artwork by Andy Warhol and his contemporaries. In addition to Warhol, the exhibition will highlight significant artists such as Jasper Johns, Roy…
Read More »Carolyn Salas: Night Vision Exhibition at University Art Museum
The University Art Museum is thrilled to announce Night Vision, a solo exhibition showcasing the spellbinding sculptures of artist Carolyn Salas. In her site-specific exhibition, Salas crafts multidimensional chromatic objects that oscillate between…
Read More »Carlos Rosales-Silva: Border Destroyer Exhibition at University Art Museum
This fall, The New Mexico State University (NMSU) Art Museum is pleased to present Border Destroyer, a monumental mural project by New York-based artist and educator, Carlos Rosales-Silva, installed in the Mullennix Bridge Gallery. In Border…
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