YALE ALUMNI
ASSOCIATION OF NM
Luncheon Speaker Series
April 25, 2025
Andrew Connors
Director of the Albuquerque Museum
Albuquerque
April 25, 2025 | 11:45 am to 1:00 PM MST
Our informal luncheon speaker series, featuring a local guest speaker, takes place on the last Friday of every month at the Slate Street Cafe. The space seats about 15 people; RSVPs are accepted accordingly. Attendees to pay for their own food and beverages.
A Southwest native, Andrew Connors studied Art History and Architecture at Yale. He previously served as Senior Curator at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque and as Associate Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He has curated dozens of exhibitions primarily in the areas of United States Latino Art, Colonial Art from Puerto Rico, contemporary art, and street art. As a lecturer, guest teacher, or consultant, he has worked with numerous organizations including the National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Office of Folklife Programs, Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Chicano Studies Department at UCLA, and the Royal Government of Bhutan.
Please RSVP to: Frank Apodaca frank@shalawnm.com
Location:
Slate Street Cafe
515 Slate Ave. NW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Restorying Our
HeartPlaces with
Anjelica Gallegos
April 26th
You're invited to attend Anjelica Gallegos' talk on Pueblo architecture at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center on April 26th at 12:00 PM, following a breakfast/coffee gathering at 10:00 AM.
Restorying Our HeartPlaces
Contemporary Pueblo Architecture
Anjelica Gallegos
Meet the Architects & Designers: Pueblo Architecture Today
Saturday, April 26th | 12:00 noon
Following an informal breakfast/coffee gathering at 10:00 AM
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center (IPCC)
2401 12th Street NW
Albuquerque, NM 87104
Anjelica S. Gallegos features in the speaker series accompanying Restorying Our HeartPlaces: Contemporary Pueblo Architecture, an exhibition that highlights the evolution of Pueblo architecture at the IPCC Museum’s newly renovated South Gallery. Anjelica will share her journey in the architecture field, present on her current research and principles of design, and discuss the future of Pueblo and Indigenous architectures.
Attendees must pay the IPCC entrance fee, but there is no cost to attend the talk.
Anjelica S. Gallegos (Jicarilla Apache Nation/Santa Ana Pueblo) helps to recharge architecture, pushing frontiers of design and functionality in threatened places as the Southwest and Arctic. Anjelica received her B.S. in Architecture from UC Denver in 2015 and her Master’s in Architecture from Yale in 2021. She is an advocate for Indigenous and environmental rights at the national level including at the White House Tribal Nations Conference. Anjelica serves as an architectural designer in the Government Studio at Page Southerland Page and is a co-founder and Director of the Indigenous Society of Architecture, Planning, and Design (ISAPD). Anjelica transforms physical, structural, and spiritual spaces to advance and energize Indigenous Peoples and the natural world.
Anjelica's talk is expected to begin around 12:00 PM. If you'd like to meet for coffee or a breakfast burrito to catch up with your fellow alumni before attending Anjelica's talk, please join us in the Indian Pueblo Kitchen (located inside the IPCC) at 10:00 AM.
An RSVP is helpful but not necessary. Please let Carmen Zimmer (Calhoun/Hopper '07) at carmen.m.zimmer@gmail.com know if you think you might like to attend.
May 10th and 11th
Yale Day of Service in Albuquerque and Santa Fe
The YANM will participate in the Yale Day of Service on Saturday, May 10 in Albuquerque, and Sunday, May 11 in Santa Fe. The Yale Day of Service is a global event that welcomes Yale Alumni, family, and friends to work together to make their communities a better place. Join us in person in either Santa Fe or Albuquerque!
Dress code: For both events, will could be spending time both indoors and outdoors and interacting with shelter animals. Hats, sunscreen, and water bottles are encouraged. Please wear animal-friendly clothing, including closed-toe shoes and long pants. Bonus points for Yale hats and shirts!
RSVP: Your RSVP is essential as both events will be capped somewhere between 10 and 20 people, given the guidelines of the shelters where we will be volunteering. Please see RSVP instructions for each event below.
Albuquerque | 10:00 AM to noon, May 10th (Saturday)
Animal Humane Albuquerque
615 Virginia St. SE
Meet in the main lobby of the Adoption Center (the large blue building on the main campus). Please arrive by 9:50 am to allow time to park and gather before we begin promptly at 10:00 am.
Post Event Social: For those who'd like to have lunch and socialize, let's plan to meet immediately afterwards at the Owl Cafe, 800 Eubank Ave NE (north of I-40, on the right, before Lomas). Attendees to pay for their own food & drinks.
RSVP to Janet Monroe (BK '84): janetrmonroe@gmail.com.
Day-of-event contact is also Janet Monroe: 505.288.2020
Santa Fe | 10:00 AM to noon, May 11th (Sunday)
Santa Fe Animal Shelter
100 Caja del Rio, Santa Fe, 87507
Children 13 and older are welcome to attend.
10:00 am: Meet in Adoptions Lobby for a short shelter talk
10:30 am: Construct K9 enrichment items
11:00 am: Meet & greet with shelter dogs/play off-leash outside in play yards
Noon: pics
RSVP to Rod Gould: rodgould17@gmail.com
