PHOTO ARCHIVES
Gardner Hired as Site Supervisor ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM HAS NAMED AARON GARDNER as the site supervisor for Casa San Ysidro: The Gutiérrez-Minge House. Gardner has functioned as the part-time, temporary site manager at Casa since 2018. The City of Albuquerque's hiring of Gardner as a full-time, permanent employee demonstrates a commitment to the educational programs and historic significance of the property. “Aaron’s knowledge and enthusiasm for Casa San Ysidro make him an invaluable asset to Albuquerque Museum," says Curator of History Leslie Kim. "We are thrilled to have
Gardner. " My vision for Casa San
Aaron as a permanent part of the
Ysidro includes new innovation for
history department at Albuquerque
shaping the museum’s programming,
capture the introduction of mask-wearing
Museum." Gardner received his
conservation care for one of the
in public, the closure of restaurants, the
Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology
most comprehensive Territorial New
new challenge of home-schooling chil-
from the University of New Mexico.
Mexican collections in the Southwest,
dren, the socially distanced lines for Senior
He is certified in Museum Education
and strategizing plans for the
Hour at grocery stores, and the creativity of
and Outreach from the American
property’s future. Casa is a unique and
street muralists who paint walls honoring
Association for State and Local History.
memorable experience for visitors.
the health care workers. Physical objects,
“Casa San Ysidro is a part of the
My main priority is to assist people in
such as cloth masks for the public and 3-D
Museum that requires devoted
living vicariously through traditional
masks made for the healthcare workers
care, attention, and foresight," says
knowledge.”
have also been donated to the collection. Artists have been sending images of the works they’ve been inspired to create by the pandemic experience. To donate your photographs to the Covid-19 Collection, please email them to the Museum’s Digital Archivist, Jill Hartke, at: jhartke@cabq.gov.
This page: Homemade cloth mask. Offered gift of Deb Slaney. Facing page: Grocery worker at Whole Foods sanitizes carts at the store on Carlisle Northeast. Offered gift of Roland Penttila.
THIS FALL AT CASA SAN YSIDRO: THE GUTIÉRREZ-MINGE HOUSE DIARIES OF WOMEN PIONEERS NOVEMBER 14, 2020 1:00–2:30 PM 2nd Saturday with Casa San Ysidro. Email agardner@cabq. gov to register for this lecture and Q&A that will be held via Zoom.
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