"New Mexico: 100 Years of Art" Centennial Exhibition at the Las Cruces Museum of Art
31 Jan 2012
The Las Cruces Museum of Art proudly presents "New Mexico: 100 Years of Art", an exhibition commemorating one hundred years of statehood as seen through artistic expression. The exhibit opens on Friday, February 3, 2012 with a reception to be held during the Downtown Ramble from 5:00 ? 7:00 p.m.
"New Mexico: 100 Years of Art" tells the on-going story of New Mexico artists and showcases their work. In this exhibition, the Museum of Art can present but a few of the hundreds of thousands of works of New Mexico art that have been produced over the past one hundred years. It includes works of art by Peter Hurd, Luis Jimenez, Agnes Martin, Georgia O'Keeffe, Fremont Ellis, Henriette Wyeth, and many other fascinating New Mexico artists. As 2012 progresses, the exhibit will travel to the Carlsbad Museum & Art Center and to the Farmington Museum.
The exhibition was organized by the Las Cruces Museum of Art in partnership with the New Mexico Museum of Art, with assistance from other museums, collectors, and artists from around the State. This project is made possible in part by the New Mexico Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities; New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and the City of Las Cruces.
The Las Cruces Museum of Art is located at 491 N. Main Street, next to Branigan Cultural Center. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 9:00 a.m. ? 4:30 p.m. The Museum is closed Sundays and Mondays. For more information, call (575) 541-2137 or visit the website www.las-cruces.org/museums
Frontera NorteSur adds Centennial to Website
18 Jan 2012
In commemoration of the New Mexico Centennial of Statehood, Frontera NorteSur is pleased to officially announce a new section on its website dedicated to different issues of importance in the southern New Mexico borderland from 1912 to 2012. Readers will find articles published during the last three years that explore agricultural history, Mexican immigrant labor, economic development, the North American Free Trade Agreement, African Americans in Dona Ana County, and much more. Community histories of the rural towns of San Miguel and Vado-Del Cerro are among the many topics covered in Frontera NorteSur?s Centennial section:
http://fnsnews.nmsu.edu/category/centennial/
In addition to print stories, the public can listen to a pair of radio documentaries, one in Spanish and one in English, which were earlier aired on KUNM-Albuquerque and KGLP-Gallup. The English-language program, "Behind the Truck Stop," takes listeners on a journey to the small town of Vado-Del Cerro near the Mexican border. The Spanish-language documentary, "La Trailita," examines the displacement of farmworkers in southern New Mexico from mechanization and free trade.
Although the website might be of special interest to university and high school instructors specializing in New Mexico and borderlands history, it contains many broad themes of interest. Universal issues of migration, community formation and identity, foodways and more are all examined in the series.
Contributing scholars include Guillermina Nunez-Mchiri, University of Texas at El Paso; Connie Falk, New Mexico State University; Dionicio Valdes, Michigan State University; Clarence Fielder, New Mexico State emeritus; Jim Peach, New Mexico State; and Lois Stanford, New Mexico State.
The series was made possible in part by grants from the New Mexico Humanities Council, New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs and the McCune Charitable Foundation. Watch for new print stories and audio pieces in 2012.
Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper), a reference to Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid, go on an motorcycle adventure from Los Angeles to New Orleans. While passing through New Mexico the two get invited to a hippie community in Taos, and get arrested is Las Vegas for parading without a license. Don't miss the showing of this iconic classic.
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Visit the online Atlas of Historic New Mexico Maps
Travel through time and learn the stories told through historic maps.
The Centennial Online Atlas of New Mexico Historic Maps features 20 historic, interactive maps, annotated with the stories of the people living, traveling, and working in New Mexico at the time, as well as pictures, audio, full text books, and oral histories. The Atlas also features lesson plans for using the material, and for students to add maps of the historic and cultural resources in their own communities. Click the link below to start exploring!
