Eli Wentzel-Fisher, a media arts major, is finishing his eighth year at UNM. Wentzel-Fisher came with his family from Iowa to New Mexico in 2003. Wentzel-Fisher took breaks from school to travel to different countries. In 2005, he went to Bolivia with his high school friend. They taught children living on the streets how to juggle for spare change.
In August 2009, he took over what was formerly the Donkey Gallery on south Fourth Street and changed its name to the Normal Gallery.
“A lot of people think art is strange and weird. But it is actually a normal behavior,” said Wentzel-Fisher, explaining his inspiration for the name.
He graduates this summer and plans to start his next journey in San Miguel, Mexico, to begin work on a film project. The Normal Gallery will hold its last formal exhibition, “Robots and Unicorns,” by Parker Jennings and Andrew Cimelli on Friday.
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