This spring, WAM’s Colleagues Advisory Board (CAB) has teamed up to match the first $15,000 to the WAM Student Engagement Fund! As a museum serving both students and the public, WAM plays a unique role in championing students as critical thinkers and empathetic community members. 

Gifts to the student engagement fund will sustain and strengthen programs such as:

Weisman Art Museum is delighted to announce that Cliff Fragua, a New Mexico-based sc

This salon-style conversation took place in connection with SEEN, an exhibition highlighting the stories and creative expressions of artists within and beyond the carceral system, which opened at the Weisman Art Museum on February 28, 2025. The panel explores abolitionist futures rooted in community care, healing, and liberation, examining how art serves as a catalyst for empathy, dialogue, and systemic change. 
 

Closing my eyes I 
  retrace my steps that brought me here to 
Odaawaa Zaagaa’ iganing          minawaa, 

here standing in 
this soil of government allotted land– 
           planting rhubarb and lilac 
  trees tending 
these wooded acres of ni mama’s home.