EXHIBITIONS & CREATIVE GATHERINGS
( NURTURING OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH CULTURE, COMMUNITY AND THE LARGER WORLD )
Fostering cross-cultural dialogue through contemporary art.
Our exhibitions and community gatherings bring together artists whose work expands how we see ourselves and one another.
By elevating creative voices from border communities and other historically underrepresented perspectives, we use art as a platform to nurture curiosity, conversation, and meaningful cultural exchanges.
PAST EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
Sunset Concert Series - Continuous Sky
Sunset Concert Series - from Valley Sessions : August 29, 2026. Featuring an intimate evening with Telegram, a Las Cruces-based musician performing ambient, post-rock, and shoegaze, followed by The Continuous Sky, whose layered textures and slow-moving harmonies create a peaceful, immersive atmosphere.
A Listening Room- from Valley Sessions
August 16, 2026. Featuring an intimate evening with Branson Anderson and Era Snow. Showcasing emerging musicians from the borderland and beyond.
Paper Town : An Exhibition by Artist Eva Gabriella Flynn
Opening reception May 15, 2026. A series by Eva Gabriella Flynn exploring place, memory, and mapping across the U.S./Mexico Borderland through layered symbolism and cartographic forms.
The Breath Guides the Mark : An Exhibition by Artist Tauna Cole
April 10, 2026 - Tauna Cole explores the relationship between breath and mark-making, where gesture, rhythm, and presence unfold across the surface. Each work becomes a record of movement-an intimate exchange between body, material, and time.
Desde el Corazón : An Exbition by Border Artists Collective
Opening Feb. 6th, 2026 : Opening Friday, Oct 4, 2024. A group exhibition featuring works by sixteen accomplished artists from southern New Mexico and El Paso, Texas
Fantasmas : An Exhibition by Artist Adrian Aguirre
Opening Reception January 3, 2025. Solo exhibition for Las Cruces artist Adrian Aguirre reflects on refugees who were deported to a high-security prison in El Salvador.
Borderlines [Movement]
June 4 – July 28, 2025, at the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries at Parsons School of Design in New York City. Explored intersecting personal narratives, captured shared experience, and traced life-lines along the US-Mexico border with shows in NY and NM.
The Border Artists
Opening reception Friday Feb 14, 2025. A group exhibition featuring works by sixteen accomplished artists from southern New Mexico and El Paso, Texas
BORDERLINES [HOME]
Opening Dec 7, 2024 - Invites viewers to consider the multiple dimensions of home - not only as a physical space but as an emotional and cultural landscape shaped by memory, community, & dis/continuity. Curated by Leslie Moody Castro
Love Story : Opening Friday, Oct 4, 2024
A joint exhibition of work by NMSU art professors emeriti, Joshua Rose and Jacklyn st Aubyn.
The Present is the Truth : An Exhibition by Artist Jason Lucero
Opening Friday, June 21st, 2024. Solo exhibition for El Paso based painter Jason Lucero.
I Don’t Have A Thorn In My Side, A Desert Grows From It : An Exhibition by Artist Matthew Villareal
February 9, 2024 - Solo exhibition for El Paso and NYC based artist Matthew Villarreal, assistant professor of Art, Design, and Social Justice and assistant dean for Art and Design Education at Parson’s School of Design.
An Emerging Interior : An Exhibition by Artist Angelica Jones
Oct 25, 2023 - 1st solo exhibition for NMSU grad and UofA grad student Angelica Jones. Her work elegantly encapsulates the tension of nurturing and developing creative freedom under the weight of traditional gender roles in this culturally rich and complex border culture.
Sweet Rituals and Strange Memories
Opening April 16, 2022. This exhibition is the result of 8 Las Cruces based artists working collaboratively at a critical juncture in their academic and professional careers challenging one another’sprocesses, exploring the shifting influences of time, place, ritual, and memory.
The Growing Edge
Opening July 24, 2021. An exhibition of 9 artists, who formed an online community during the COVID-19 pandemic. What is found when a limitation, a boundary, a border or an edge expands, breathes or grows? What is gained? What is lost? What emerges?
A Path Described By A Body
Opening Feb 27, 2020. Work from 11 artist parents currently living and working in New Mexico. The exhibition was co-curated by artists Kaylan Buteyn and Sarah Irvin planned in tandem with NMSU Art Museum’s inaugural exhibition: Labor: Motherhood & Art in 2020.
