Legacy Lab New Mexico Seminar

Legacy Lab New Mexico brings local and national esteemed arts leaders, archivists, legal experts, and artists together for a FREE full-day seminar focused on legacy planning for artists on June 13 at the Albuquerque Museum. (Half-day workshops are by application and require a sliding scale participation fee. See the event website for details.)

The program addresses a critical but often overlooked question for working artists: What happens to an artist’s work, archives, and intellectual property over time?

Or, as many artists and even collectors ask candidly: What am I going to do with all this stuff?

Through panels, presentations, and hands-on workshops, the event will equip artists with practical tools to organize, protect, and sustain their creative legacies.

Legacy Lab New Mexico was created to help artists in the region think strategically about the long-term stewardship of their work. By connecting artists with experts in archives, law, museums, and collections management, the program provides guidance on how creative practices can endure beyond an artist’s lifetime.

The keynote will be delivered by Ruby Lerner, founding executive director of Creative Capital, a nationally recognized organization that provides funding and advisory support to artists.

Panelists and speakers include prominent artists and arts professionals such as Neal Ambrose-Smith (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, artist, research consultant and program developer for Joan Mitchell Foundation’s CALL program), Delilah Montoya (artist), Paula Wilson (artist), Josh T. Franco (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution), and Sherri L. Burr (NM School of Law), and more, who will discuss topics ranging from archiving creative work and managing intellectual property to working with museums and estate planning. The full line-up of participants is at

Info: Speaker: Ruby Lerner, Executive Founding Director, Creative Capital

Info: Panelists:
Vickie R. Wilcox, J.D., LL.M.
Jeffrey D. Myers, M.S., J.D.,
Neal Ambrose-Smith (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation), artist and research consultant and program developer for Joan Mitchell Foundation’s CALL program (Creating a Living Legacy) from 2007 to 2014

Info: Panelists:
Kathleen Shields, advisor to the Frederick Hammersley Fund for the Arts at the Albuquerque Community Foundation
Yann Novak, artist and Founder, Substratum
Paula Wilson, artist

Info: Panelists:
Josh T. Franco, PhD, Collector at Large at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art
William Gassaway, Assistant Curator, Albuquerque Museum
Amanda Ross-Ho, artist
Jonna Paden (Acoma Pueblo), Librarian and Archivist, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center

Info: Panelists:
Sherri Burr, writer and Dickason Chair and Regents Professor Emerita at the University of New Mexico School of Law
Valentina Di Liscia, Senior Editor, Hyperallergic
Jordan Eddy, Editorial Director, Southwest Contemporary
Delilah Montoya, artist

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