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Silver City has never been a one-industry town. From its earliest days, its fortunes rose and fell with forces far beyond its narrow streets and adobe walls. Global metal prices, distant cattle markets, federal budgets, and even the lungs of sick...
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Kurt JohnsonDesert Exposure
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2/23/26
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At 595 South Foch Street in Truth or Consequences, a decades-old lumber mill is slowly being reborn. Purchased by sculptor Otto Rigan and his wife, Stacy Blum Hay, the sprawling structure is being transformed into a live/work art space and...
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Brian D'AmbrosioFor Desert Exposure
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2/7/26
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Friday, February 6 The Town of Mesilla Arts/Crafts & Farmers Market from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the plaza. Come see some amazing artists and their talent, and some great produce when in season. …
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2/6/26
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Local artists, along with the ArtForms Artists Association of New Mexico, are set to launch the annual For the Love of Art month. This celebration of art takes place every February, featuring studio tours and various art events.
"We have seen an...
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Bulletin Report
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2/4/26
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It’s easy to get caught up in the news of the day, so much of which is ugly and negative. I’m not sure there isn’t politics in a place like Silver City, but it feels a little different here.
While state legislators convene in Santa Fe this month...
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Kurt JohnsonDesert Exposure
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2/4/26
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Las Cruces Museum of Art
491 N. Main St.
Open from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Tuesday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Saturday. There is no admission fee.
Call for art
The Las Cruces Museum of Art is soliciting artwork for an upcoming exhibit....
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2/4/26
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“Mac Schweitzer and Her Art” is the February featured exhibition in Silver City’s Light Art Space Flash Gallery. Curated by Ann Hedlund the exhibition features a selection of prints and drawings by Mac Schweitzer and photos by Silver City...
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Marcia TinkerFor Desert Exposure
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2/4/26
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Silver City’s annual February event, “Chocolate Fantasia,” was always a popular one-day event. It became a very successful two-day gathering in 2025. So, what would make this chocoholic’s dream weekend even better? Three days of luscious chocolate...
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Marcia TinkerFor Desert Exposure
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2/4/26
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Friday, January 16, 2026
January Contra Dance With Seth Levine and "Rave Review" Friday, January 16th (7:15-10 pm) 2251 Calle de Santiago, Mesilla $10 General Admission ($8 under 21) More …
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1/14/26
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Silver City is known as an art destination because of all of the many creative people living here—painters, photographers, print makers, clay artists and fiber artists to name a few.
Among them are two outstanding wood artists—both named Mark....
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Marcia TinkerFor Desert Exposure
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1/12/26
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Neuronal arousal. You may be unfamiliar with the term, but you probably know the feeling. I experienced it the moment I stepped into Cruces Creatives, a maker space where the whir and sparkle of possibilities made me feel like a kid turned loose...
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Paula JohnsonFor Desert Exposure
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1/8/26
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The New Mexico State University Library has completed the Amador Family Correspondence Digitization Project, a multi-year initiative funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to preserve and provide online access to thousands of historic...
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Tatiana FavelaNMSU
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1/8/26
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Silver City Museum’s beloved holiday event Victorian Christmas will be magically transformed after more than 40 years. Reinvented as “Tapestry of Traditions: A Celebration of the Season” it will keep favorite traditions while adding new ones which...
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Marcia TinkerFor Desert Exposure
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1/8/26
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The Mimbres Mercado is an indoor/outdoor, weekly Saturday market, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (winter hours) in Mimbres. It takes place in an old airplane hangar with its doors open facing south and the dirt runway, to capture the sun and show off the...
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Valerie McCaffreyPresident, Mimbres Food & Agriculture Cooperative
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1/8/26
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The city fathers who founded Silver City were never quite comfortable working with the powers that be in Santa Fe. The resulting attempt to align the region with Arizona Territory captured the attention of state government officials, especially...
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Kurt JohnsonDesert Exposure
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1/8/26
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Few figures in western history are as surrounded by myth as Billy the Kid—and few people connected to him are as obscure as his mother, Catherine Antrim. Overshadowed by her son’s fame and constrained by the limited record-keeping of the frontier,...
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Brian D'AmbrosioFor Desert Exposure
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1/8/26
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Nde Beneh, Land of the Nde Chiricahua Apache Nation, is the region colonially known as Southwest New Mexico, Southeast Arizona and Northern Mexico. Many Apache bands exist throughout New Mexico. The Chiricahua Nation is regional to the southwest...
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Marcia Tinker (/br> For Desert Exposure
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1/8/26
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WNMU Cultural Affairs
Miss Nature: The Pride Tour Drag Show
Thursday, Jan. 15, 7 p.m.
Fine Arts Center Theater
$20
Content notice: Some material may not be suitable for young children. Attendees under 16 must be accompanied by an...
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1/8/26
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The historical archive yields almost nothing. A few legal documents. A handful of newspaper accounts. A photograph. Everything else, nearly everything we think we know, comes later.
Billy the Kid is one of the most famous figures in American...
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Kurt JohnsonDesert Exposure
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1/8/26
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It’s interesting sometimes how things come together even when they aren’t specifically planned. Such is the case for this month’s edition of Desert Exposure.
Inside this magazine, you’ll have a chance to raise your awareness of the Chiricahua...
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Kurt JohnsonDesert Exposure
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1/8/26
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