What’s going on in APRIL?

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The Spread of a Disease – Part 2

The merciful women returned home to Grant County from the mining town of Mogollon, and the risks they had run soon became apparent. Silver City recorded it first cases of the flu. By Nov. 5 there were 31 cases, but still no deaths – few days later ...

Arts Scene

The Silver City Blues Festival is moving online for 2021. In consideration of the health and wellbeing of the community and visitors, the Mimbres Region Arts Council is canceling the live …

Dutch Treat

If you’re looking for something to do in the great outdoors, check out the Annual Glenwood Dutch Oven Gathering Saturday April 10 at Glenwood Community Park. The event features teams cooking …

BORDERLINES

Reconsider Travel

I used to jump in my car some Saturday mornings, drive to Ascension to have lunch and then move on to Casas Grandes. Or I might spend my day in Juarez, which had lots of marketplaces, both inside and …

HISTORICAL CONTEXT

The Woman Who Kept Track

In the early 1990s, growing numbers of women were reported missing or found dead across the city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Decades later advocates have documented more than 2,000 women were murdered …

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Bigger on the Inside

Whether watching your nanny pull an umbrella from her carpet bag or traveling in time and relative dimension in space (TARDIS) accompanying an alien with two hearts, the concept of something being …

NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY OF NEW MEXICO

Native Plant Week is April 18-24; Zoom presentation is April 14

In celebration of Native Plant Week, April 18-24, the Las Cruces chapter of the Native Plant Society of New Mexico will host a Zoom presentation by James Von Loh, retired field biologist and vegetation mapping specialist, 7 p.m., Wednesday, April 14.

CORONAVIRUS

New Mexico ranked second safest state during COVID-19

New Mexico is rated the second safest state in the country during COVID-19, according to the personal finance website WalletHub.The state is second only to Alaska in WalletHub’s overall safety …

Virtual Gallery

Arts Scene/Gallery Guide

Please join us in visiting southern New Mexico artists in their web-based galleries. While we can’t yet go to these galleries …
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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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Lois Duffy

Lois Duffy has had a studio and gallery in Silver City’s downtown historic Yankie/Texas Art District for 23 years. She paints …
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Dr. Lucky

Dr. Lucky is a performance artist and curator of happenings influenced by exaggerated theatricality, camp sensibility and commitment …
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