Sheri Crider spoke on November 5, 2025,
at the UNM ARTS LAB
Sheri Crider talks about her exhibition
at the University of Arizona Art Museum in 2020
Sheri's Mobile Abolition Library van
parked out in front of the UNM ARTS LAB
Inside the van
Afterwards there was a gathering
at the UNM Maddox Sculpture Center
GIZMO BUILDING
The next day, Thursday, November 6, 2025, Sheri gave us a tour of the GIZMO Building in downtown Albuquerque, which she is renovating as an art center:
We all met in front of the Gizmo building
Entering on the first floor
In the basement
The studios will be on the second floor
(and the third floor, not shown)
One of the studio rooms
The second floor is quite large
GIZMO HISTORY
The GIZMO building was boarded up during Covid:
GIZMO DINO
In 2014 the GIZMO shop was still open in downtown Albuquerque, fronted by the dinosaur that I helped Dennis Liberty make in 2002:
Clay party at Dennis Liberty's studio back in 2002, putting clay on the dinosaur before sending it off to Washington State to be cast. I helped Dennis make the dinosaur:
On August 6, 2006 I paid someone to project my drawings on the side of the GIZMO building:
According to Sheri, originally the GIZMO building was a JC Pennys built in 1949, and closed in 1986.
- I also went to the Arts and Science Roundtable on Friday, November 7, 2025, at the UNM ARTS LAB
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