Events
Summer will conclude our Brown Bag Lunch Talks for 2019. Come and relax while taking in an informal presentation on a variety of topics. This event is free and open to the public.
Friday, August 9, Noon
Arts Connect
The Roswell ISD Arts Connect Program started in 2003 under educator Elaine Howe and four teachers to lead a fine arts experience for students in grades K-5. Since then, the program has grown to a staff of fifteen who provide visual and performing arts lessons to over 5,700 students up through 6th grade. Join Arts Connect Principal Abie Smith and learn more about this creative, local program and the people involved in making it happen.
Movie Under the Moon
Saturday, July 20, 7pm (The day Apollo 11 landed on the moon)
FREE EVENT
The community is invited to commemorate the Apollo 11 moon landing behind the Roswell Museum and Art Center with a movie, moon and rocket crafts, and moon gazing through telescopes with the Roswell Astronomy Club on Saturday, July 20.
Bring your lawn chairs and blankets for popcorn and a screening of the 1986 family film Space Camp! Activities will begin at 7 pm and the film and star gazing will start after sunset around 8:15 pm. Food truck, Chuchulukos y mad, will also be on hand selling drinks and snacks.
pARTy After Hours:
Swing into the 40s
Friday, August 23, 6-9pm | Free
Join us as we “Swing into the 40s” and celebrate the opening of our new Decades exhibition that highlights works in the RMAC collection from the 1930s and 1940s.
Enjoy exclusive evening access to the Museum and a mix of 40’s inspired activities at this free, after-hours event for ages 21 and over. Come early at 5:30 pm for a free 30-minute swing dance class with instructor Ada Palacios, then be ready to jump and jive as Roswell’s Five Star DJ plays big band music all evening. Take a dance break and create a felt flower corsage or boutonniere, enjoy a gallery talk about the Decades exhibition and get your photo taken in our 40s era photo booth.
The event will feature a cash bar presented by Pecos Flavors Winery and new this pARTy, BBQ vendor Fireman’s Pit Bar-B-Que from Carlsbad will be on site selling dinner options from pulled pork sandwiches to loaded nachos. Stick around for door prize drawings at the end of the evening generously provided by local vendors.
The popular Kids Zone will be available for children ages 2-12 with advanced registration and a $10 per child fee. Contact Tiffany Melancon at 575-500-0363 for more information and to register.
This event is generously supported by the RMAC Foundation. pARTy After Hours is a series of free events for adults that seeks to expand access to the Museum and present art and science as an integral part of our lives.
Family After Hours:
Fields of Color
Thursday, August 29, 5-8pm | Free
Explore the world of color at our second Family After Hours event in partnership with RISD Arts Connect. Once more the Museum will be filled with free hands-on art activities encouraging parents to partner with their children to create, while building memorable, shared experiences. A gallery talk about our new exhibition Coloring Inside the Lines with Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, Aubrey Hobart, will be offered at 6 pm. Art activities will include painting, collage and drawing all exploring color, lines and shape.
This event has been developed in partnership with the Roswell Independent School District’s Arts Connect program and is sponsored in part by the RMAC Foundation. Light refreshments will be provided.
The Virtue of Ownership
The Impact of De Jure Segregated Schooling in Southern New Mexico
Panel Discussion and Closing Reception
Saturday, September 7, 2-5pm | Free
Join us as we close The Virtue of Ownership: The African American Homesteading Journey in Southern New Mexico with a discussion on the topic of school segregation, its effects on social interactions with other ethnic groups in the community, and how segregated schools interacted with other school communities. This is the conclusion of a two-part segment on the journey of African Americans in New Mexico presented in conjunction with the traveling exhibition.
RMAC is honored to host the panel discussions and exhibition as we work in partnership to continue conversations about the contributions made by African Americans in this part of the state. School groups are welcome and light refreshments will be provided.
This event and exhibition were organized in partnership with the African American Museum and Cultural Center of New Mexico.