Dark Circles aims to make dance accessible to everyone

Dance has become esoteric, Joshua Peugh said. People think it’s not interesting and they can’t get a lot out of it. “But the thing about dance is it’s innately a human …

Beer Festival this weekend at Plaza de Las Cruces

The Las Cruces Beer Fest, billed as a summer beer sampling festival, will be 5-11 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13, at Plaza de Las Cruces, 100 N. Main St. Downtown. Advance tickets are $25 and are …

NMSU film students grow as storytellers, conservationists during 12-day shoot in Gila Wilderness

The Gila Wilderness was the classroom for 13 New Mexico State University film students in July as they began work on six short documentaries about the wildlife, the history, the people and the …

What’s going on in AUGUST?

Desert Exposure would like to include your special events, from any southern New Mexico community. Please submit your event title, time, location and contact information to editor@desertexposure.com; …

Nunsense opens Friday

To begin Las Cruces Community Theatre’s (LCCT) 60th season, “Nunsense” opens Friday, Aug. 5, for a three-week run at LCCT, 313 N. Main St., Downtown. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. …

Downtown Desert Yoga has didgeridoo, chakra classes, Aug. 12-14

Downtown Desert Yoga, 303 S. Alameda Blvd., will host three “Energetics” sound healing sessions with internationally recognized professional didgeridoo musician and sound therapist Joseph …

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Murray Mystery

Staff at the Murray Hotel in Silver City is working hard to solve some mysteries about the hotel and would like your help. After being closed for many years, hotel rooms and the ballroom at the hotel …

QUACK

Here Come the Ducks

The Great American Duck Race is back and this year’s theme is “Racing to save the day.” The events are a collaboration sharing the “local hero” theme for …

COMMEMMORATION

Remembering Hiroshima, Nagasaki

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will be commemorated at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 7, in the pavilion at Gough Park, at the corner of 12th and North Pope streets in Silver City. This …

EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK

What is Art?

There is an art studio tour Labor Day Weekend. You can follow the red dots through Grant County to find working artists doing what they do and chat with them too. In Lincoln County you can find the …

Virtual Gallery

Virginia Maria Romero

Virginia Maria Romero is a visionary artist with works in public and museum permanent collections, as well as numerous private …
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Agave Artists Gallery

Agave Artists Gallery in Mesilla is a cooperative gallery featuring contemporary art in multiple media: oil, acrylic, water media, …
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Arts Scene/Gallery Guide

Please join us in visiting southern New Mexico artists in their web-based galleries. Visit the amazing work of southern New Mexico …
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Lisa Alden

Lisa Alden has always loved art and has been creating since childhood. Before formal training in art she worked in hospitality and …
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Maria Aragon

Maria Aragon is a self-taught artist working mainly in oil paint on either canvas, artist's board or paper. She is a symbolist who …
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Jean-Robert P. Béffort

Jean-Robert P. Béffort is a mixed-media assemblage sculpture and collage artist who lives in Silver City and operates a 4,000 …
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Mary Beagle

Mary Beagle has primarily worked with oil on canvas; her paintings reflect her love of native and Latino cultures and celebrations. …
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Margaret Bernstein

Margaret Bernstein was meandering through a profession of words, interviews and teenagers when, on a whim, she fell suddenly into …
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Victoria Chick

Victoria Chick established her painting studio near Silver City after a 40-year art career as studio artist, registered art therapist …
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Ruth Drayer

Ruth Drayer's work is non-objective; she is painting color and color relationships and has developed her own technique. Rather than …
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