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ArtForms Las Cruces will be sponsoring studio tours to coincide with Love of Art Month. Over 37 studio tour stops will be on the list, including XYZ Studios. At XYZ, visitors will have the opportunity to view southwest-themed watercolors by artist, Christopher Alexander. Many of the original pieces and greeting cards will be available for sale.  XYZ Studios * 5719 Mauer Road * Las Cruces, NM * 575...

February 14-16, 2025 (Friday, 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm; Saturday & Sunday, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm) February 21-22, 2025 (10:00 am - 4:00 pm)   EROTICA Twenty Twenty Five is an annual art show of erotic art set in a casual home in Las Cruces, New Mexico. There will be a collection of over 30 artists—with over 200 pieces—with work in various forms of media. The show attracts artists from all over southern...

Las Cruces Museum of Art February 07 – May 03, 2025   The focus of this show at the Las Cruces Museum of Art is on the ways contemporary artists borrow from history to create something new. These artists weave art history with today’s popular culture, creating pictures within pictures. You will see equal measures of playfulness and nostalgia, much of it tapping into our collective imagination, inc...

April 9-13, 2025   In 2014, New Mexico State University professor, Ross Marks seized on the idea of creating the Las Cruces International Film Festival at New Mexico State University. Since then, the Festival has grown to become the largest film festival in the country run by a University. It is now considered one of the most prestigious film festivals in the Southwest and is often referred to as ...

At Casa de Arte, the only real limit we have around tenancy is that the property is for adults. How guests choose to spend their visit is up to them, but the unique quality of the premises calls out to certain groups of visitors. What comes to mind in this regard are the ways Casa de Arte is highly suited for hosting writers’ retreats. As Rowena Murphy wrote in Writing in Social Spaces, “Conversat...