Please join the New Mexico Museum of Art community meeting TODAY @ 5:30pm and let them know that keeping the Multicultural mural is how they can meet their goal of diversity and inclusion. This mural represents the community and needs to stay. Public art is accessible art.
The mural is all the things they claim to want, yet they plan to tear it down, please let them know this is not ok!
New Mexico Museum of Art Community Meeting
When: Thursday, December 10, 2020, 5:30 – 7:00 PM
Facilitated by: Rosemary Romero and Joe Abeyta
The New Mexico Museum of Art is hosting a virtual town hall to seek public perspectives on how the museum might better engage the community, especially where issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion are concerned. The museum also seeks input from members of the community as to how it can express its commitment through exhibitions and programs to explore ethnicity, gender, nationality, race, sexuality, and other forms of cultural difference.
Please use this Zoom link to join the webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88264800811…
Passcode: 826748
Call-in Information
1-669-900-6833 or
1-253-215-8782
Webinar ID: 882 6480 0811
Passcode: 826748The session will also be accessible via YouTube for those who wish to observe without using Zoom:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqExQ41C51-mSdijkwgGnww
keepsantafemulticultural.org 
I am so sorry to have missed this. I managed to call in during the closing remarks. I wanted to comment on my desire to see the multicultural mural be preserved as one way to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion.
I have lived in Santa Fe for 30 years and remember how this mural communicated to me as a teenager a story about what Santa Fe was about. I moved my senior year of high school so I missed learning about New Mexico history in elementary, middle, and even high school. The mural tells a visual history and story. It also creates a feeling about the place. It can also serve to create curiosity and communicate feelings that help different people identify with a place. Because the mural is in a prominent spot in downtown Santa Fe I believe there is a greater significance to restoring the mural for future generations and visitors. Perhaps we can look at other ways to raise funds for the restoration.
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