Although KTAL does not have an actual newsroom, the station is part of a statewide project called the Southern New Mexico Journalism Collaborative. It's an effort to generate more news stories from this part of the state by focusing on the issues critical to our region. Coordinator Diana Alba Soular talks about its importance and the role it fills. Reyes Mata, its staff reporter, shares what he has learned about the impact of the pandemic on Southern New Mexico.
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Nourish is a 10-year-old South African organization dedicated to wildlife conservation by linking education, enterprise, and tourism in the villages surrounding Kruger National Park, as a way to fight poverty and poaching. Rabbi Barry Leff is President of Nourish USA, a newly created support organization, and he joined Nan Rubin in the studio to introduce the project and talk about their goals.
This coming Saturday, May 14th, the community is invited to participate in a major new mural project called Pictograff: the Art of Indigenous Free Ways. Sponsored by the Brannigan Cultural Center and Arrowsoul Art, prominent graffiti muralists including Heck Ironcloud, Pecos, Ming, and Diego Medina, will create the mural on the west-facing exterior wall of the Museum of Art. Nan Rubin was joined in the studio by Interim Museum Director Stephanie Hawkins and local artist Saba who is helping coordinate the project in conjunction with the annual Illegal? Art gathering in Las Cruces.
Guest host Greg Smith talked to local artists Ana M. Uranga and Maria Lopez about their work and the Water and Women exhibition. The exhibit will be available for viewing from May 2 -27, 2022, at the Doña Ana Arts Cultural Center located at 250 W Amador.
Lopez is a figurative painter focusing on the female form, and Uranga leans toward impressionism in her landscape paintings that often include water features. These artists are both retired teachers turned full-time painters. The Las Cruces Public Schools has a special department: Bilingual Education, Translation and Interpretation, and Community Outreach. The goal of the department is to remove any barriers for students who are English learners mastering academic content and a new language at the same time. They work with students and their families together to help them receive equitable access to social support, enrichment opportunities, and services for growth of the entire family. Outreach Coordinator Blanca Ontiveros and Karina Herrera will be Nan Rubin’s guests in the studio to share information about this program critical to LCPS students who speak more than one dozen languages.
Diego Medina made a return visit as Nan Rubin’s guest in the studio. Diego is a member of the Piro-Manso-Tiwa tribe, an artist, poet, and educator is the tribal historian and whose family is one of the original Native families from the historic Mesquite district in downtown Las Cruces. This week, Diego will be speaking not only about tribal history, but also spirituality and his involvement with White Sands and the prehistoric footprints found in the park. Diego also recently completed a community mural project in the Village of Dona Ana.
Nan Rubin invited Diego Medina to be her return guest in the studio to continue their conversation on the history of Las Cruces and the various waves of diverse settlers who have moved into the region. Diego is a member of the Piro-Manso-Tiwa tribe, an artist, poet, historian, and educator whose family is one of the original Native families from the historic Mesquite district in downtown Las Cruces. As an artist, Diego’s work illustrates intricate metaphors that combine cultural knowledge and ancestral wisdom with fantasy and poetics. Diego also has a deep passion for archival research and borderlands Indigenous history.
 Nan Rubin’s guest in the studio was Diego Medina. Diego is a member of the Piro-Manso-Tiwa tribe, an artist, poet, historian, and educator whose family is one of the original Native families from the historic Mesquite district in downtown Las Cruces. As an artist, Diego’s work illustrates intricate metaphors that combine cultural knowledge and ancestral wisdom with fantasy and poetics. Diego also creates cartographical illustrations that combine ecological and cosmological knowledge with the process of prayer. In addition to creating art, Diego has a deep passion for archival research and borderlands Indigenous history.
Guest host Greg Smith spoke to Sally Quillin and Mike Stephens about their art and the Las Cruces Arts Fair coming up this weekend at the Las Cruces Convention Center.
State Sen. Willliam Sharer is a marvelous storyteller with the ability to go on at length on a wide variety of subjects.
Last week, he regaled his restless Senate colleagues on the final day of the session, as time ran out on a voting rights bill that had been one of the top priorities for Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. |
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