Doña Ana Arts Council Executive Director and regular Cafe Con Leche guest host Greg Smith talks with new Gallery Manager Penny Peace about The Kaleidoscope Eyes of George Mendoza exhibit and her work with the Arts Council.
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Big doings at the Las Cruces International Airport! They are in the middle of a 10 and 20 year plan, and Nan Rubin went out there to check up on things. She spoke with Andy Hume the airport executive director, and got caught up on latest developments, including passenger service coming very soon!
Dona Ana Arts Council Executive Director Greg Smith talked with Karen Conley about her work with young people, the DAARTS gallery, and the coming Renaissance ArtsFaire. They also discussed the Artspace feasibility study the Arts Council is working on for artist live/work space in our community.
Every year, the Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico has been giving out more than a million dollars in scholarships and grants to support education, the arts, and promote improving the quality of life in Southern New Mexico. They serve 10 counties in the region and manage more than 300 endowments and 35 scholarship programs. Executive Director Terra Winter was Nan Rubin's guest in the studio to talk about the activities of the foundation and their priorities for the coming year.
Nan Rubin's guest in the studio was Patrick Nolan, the Executive Director of Friends of Organ Mountain - Desert Peaks. Patrick is firmly committed to celebrating the public lands legacy of New Mexico, and he filled us in on some of the new programs they have there to support equal access to the outdoors.
Since the Supreme Court decision that threw the issue of whether a woman can receive a safe and legal abortion completely up to the individual states, New Mexico has been at the center of the debate. The Governor has guaranteed that New Mexico will support unrestricted access to abortions, and many centers providing reproductive health from around the country are now moving here. Bold Futures (formerly known as Young Women United) has been working with young women in New Mexico for more than 20 years on education and policy advocacy for reproductive justice, and Policy Director Kat Sanchez will be Nan Rubin's guest in the studio to talk about this rapidly changing environment.
On Wednesday night July 6, KTAL-LP and Film Las Cruces will be presenting a special free evening of films to celebrate 50 years of the independent film organization Women Make Movies. The showing will be at 7:00 at the Rio Grande Theatre, and Project Founder Ariel Dougherty will be there to present four short documentaries and discuss her films. A longtime resident of Truth or Consequences, filmmaker Dougherty was Nan Rubin’s guest on the phone and she was be joined in the studio by Anthony Jara of Film Las Cruces and Greg Smith, Executive Director of the Doña Ana Arts Council. This film event is supported by the New Mexico Humanities Council and the Devasthali Family Fund.
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.
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.
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