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Organ Poppies by Phil Yost is one of the pieces featured in the For Love of Spring show at MAS Art in Las Cruces.
New Mexico Watercolor Society - Southern Chapter presents “For Love of Spring” at MAS Art, 126 S. Main Street, in Las Cruces during February. A reception will be held during the Downtown Art Ramble, 5 to 7 p.m. Feb. 5.
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ing the city of Paris over a 20-year period. During the exhibit, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, Mary Wolf and Louis Ocepek will each talk about their roles in creating work for the exhibit. Wolf’s talk will cover photographing Paris; Ocepek will talk about the Photo-Intaglio process. The exhibit concludes on Saturday, March 5 at 4 p.m.
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The Mesilla Valley Fine Arts Gallery is showing the art of Meredith Loring, above, and the art of Patricia Black in its February show.
A masterpiece show is also a feature for February at the Mesilla Valley Fine Arts Gallery. This masterThe Mesilla Valley piece revisited is by Van Fine Arts Gallery lo- Wagner. cated at 2470-A Calle de Guadalupe, Mesilla, across from the Fountain Theatre, features two artists in February, Patricia Black and Meredith Loring. Black’s artwork ranges from realistic to dynamic. Loring combines her life-long love of fabric and needle crafts with her artistic vision of developing objects and materials to be reborn into new forms. The gallery will host a reception for the Love of Art month, from 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6. In addition the gallery will hold its annual “My Masterpiece Contest” starting Feb. 2. The entry winner with the most correct matches will win a $50 gift certificate to La Posta Restaurant in Mesilla. The First American Bank, Mesilla, is well represented by gallery members who continue to rotate their artwork on a monthly basis. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Sunday. For information, call 575-522-2933 or visit www.mesillavalleyfinearts.com.
The Las Cruces Arts Association is participating in the county wide For Love of Art month starting with one of LCAA members favorite showcases, Cafe de Mesilla, located at 2190 Avenida De Mesilla. A members exhibit running through the end of February and featuring the “Art We Love.” In honor of ArtForms, the organizer of “For Love of Art” the LCAA members will be exhibiting at the Bistro and Ale House in Downtown Las Cruces from The work the Feb. 5 Downtown Art Ramble of Kayla through the end of March. ThroughBlundell is out the month LCAA will be exhibfeatured by iting the “Art We Love” the Las Cruand the work of February ces Artists featured member artist, Association for February. Kayla Blundell at all its exhibition venues. LCAA members also continue to exhibit their work at the Downtown First Friday Art Ramble and third Saturday Farmers & Craft Market of Las Cruces from 8:30 a.m. to noon on Feb. 20, at the LCAA office in the Community Enterprise Center next to the Bistro in downtown Las Cruces. Every month the Doña Ana Arts Council welcomes local artists to exThe Branigan Cultural Cenhibit in the El Paso Electric Gallery in ter presents “Reflections: Afthe lobby of the Rio Grande Theatre. rican American Life” from the The February 2016 exhibit of Steve McMyrna Colley-Lee Collection. Lellan’s work opens with a reception The Las Cruces Artists The exhibition will be on view from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 5, during Association hosts For the the monthly First Friday Downtown Love of Art Month in Doña Ana at The Branigan Cultural Center from Feb. 5 through April 2, Art Ramble, and will remain on display County. 2016. An opening reception will through the end of the month. Regular exhibit hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Fri- be held Friday, Feb. 5 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Reflecday. For more information, or to book an exhibit, call tions tells a story of community and place through the Arts Council offices during regular working hours. a selection of paintings, photographs, textile pieces The Rio Grande Theatre is located at 211 N. Main St., and works on paper from the collection of renowned costume designer and arts patron, Myrna Colley-Lee. in Las Cruces. The museum is located at 501 North Main Street and is open Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For information, visit the website at: http://las-cruces. org/museums or call 575-541-2154. Also at the Branigan is Visionaries by Chris Carruth continues through Feb. 27. Love and Death is a photo-intaglio print created by In this series of photographs, taken in early Mary Wolf and displayed at the Unsettled Gallery 2014 and 2015, Carruth February show. documents the VisionLouis Ocepek and aria Network’s ongoing Mary Wolf’s collabo- development efforts in ration of photo-intaglio Cusco and the nearby prints, Tableaux Pari- Sacred Valley of Peru. siens, opens at Unsettled Carruth has worked in The Branigan Cultural Gallery on Saturday, Feb. both the documentary Center presents “Reflec13 with an exhibit recep- and fine-art photogra- tions: African American Musée d’Orsay Clock tion from 4 to 6 p.m. The phy since 2010. His main Life” from the Myrna Colby Louis Ocepek is work reflects each artist’s themes focus on identi- ley-Lee Collection. This part of the Unsettled individual views and expe- ty, place and empower- image is of Eudora Welty Gallery show of phoriences gathered by walk- ment. window shopping. to-intaglio prints.
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