For the Love of Art Month Schedule Las Cruces
S. Derrickson Moore
LAS CRUCES – February For the Beloved of Art Month draws to a shut with events that showcase fine fine art quilts, poetry and literature, also as continuing arts exhibits throughout the Mesilla Valley.
Weekend events offer a opportunities for literary and fiber artists to meet and network with one another and arts aficionados.
"Desert Blooms," Los Colcheras Quilt Gild'due south 13th judged show, runs from 9 a.thousand. to five p.g. Sabbatum and x a.m. to four p.1000. Lord's day at the Las Cruces Convention Center, 680 Eastward. University Ave. The testify will feature 150 judged quilts, quilt exhibits, workshops, lectures, a social club boutique, door prizes and quilt appraisals past a National Quilt Association Certified Appraiser. Admission is $7 per day, $12 for a two-solar day pass, and free for children under 12.
"We'll have three special exhibits this year, something nosotros haven't had for a long fourth dimension, including an international keepsakes exhibit, and an exhibit of 12 pocket-sized calendar quilts that have exceptional needlework, and our themed presidential challenge upshot, which is something we do every twelvemonth," said longtime lodge member Linnea Egbert.
She said the region has a wealth of talented quilters and cobweb artists.
"We take a very large number of quilters, and a lot of them are what I call 'closet quilters' because they don't showroom or vest to a group, or they vest to a small grouping that doesn't go outside to prove their piece of work. Munson Center has a wonderful group of hand quilters and in that location are churches here that take modest groups who do their own work and community work. The quilting shops in boondocks have their ain classes, and there are many material artists here who put their work in galleries. Nosotros'd like to hook upwardly with them all," Egbert said, calculation that our region's largest quilting show offers opportunities for meeting and collaborating with new artists and groups.
"Houston has the largest quilt show in the country and they continue telling us quilting is the largest hobby in the U.S., after gardening, and tell us many billions of dollars are spent on quilting fabrics and supplies," Egbert said.
The nonprofit group, founded in 1988, currently has most 170 members whose goal is "to promote and preserve the art of quilt making through education, activities and friendship," according to the group's website, lcqg.org.
Sin Fronteras Writers Without Borders will present a For the Love of Lit Poetry Reading at i p.thou. Sabbatum in the Shannon Room of Branigan Cultural Centre, 500 N. Water Ave.
"We're moving to a bigger room this year. Nosotros have enough readers to sell out the house," quipped Michael Mandel, who will host the free upshot.
For the Beloved of Lit will feature 14 readers, including LeeAnn Meadows, Frank Varela, Joanne Townsend, Dick Thomas, Christine Eber, Peter Goodman, Ellen Roberts Young, Joe Somoza, Catherine McGeehan, Gerry Stork, Caitlin Ferguson, Terry Hertzler, Anna Moya Underwood and Tim Staley.
Mandel feels the FLAM outcome helps to focus attending on Las Cruces' vibrant poetry scene.
"I like the fact that we're doing information technology (For the Love of Lit). When we offset started doing it, I had the thought that information technology's something we do all year, but February'southward the one month everybody cares well-nigh information technology. Apr is Poesy Month, but we have poetry every calendar month of the year. More stuff brings more awareness, and so information technology's good. We should take dearest of art, poesy and all the arts, every month of the year," Mandel said.
Sin Fronteras also hosts open up mics at vii:30 p.grand. the tertiary Tuesday of each calendar month at Palacio Bar in Mesilla, where anybody is welcome to read three poems or 5 minutes of prose.
FLAM, sponsored past ArtForms Artists Clan of New United mexican states, a nonprofit grouping founded in 1998, features a month of performing, literary and visual arts, including exhibits in offices, restaurants and schools and well as galleries, and this year included two weekends of artist studio tours with a record number of participating artists. ArtForms FLAM members shows continue at ii venues, the Branigan Cultural Eye and Tombaugh Gallery at Unitarian Universalist Church.
For a full roster of FLAM events, pick up a For the Love of Art Month February Upshot Guide at museums and galleries around boondocks, or visit artformsnm.org and check updates throughout Feb in Pulse, Fri SunLife sections and online at lcsun-news.com.
S. Derrickson Moore may exist reached at dmoore@lcsun-news.com, @derricksonmoore on Twitter or call 575-541-5450.
If you get
What: Feb For the Honey of Arts Calendar month
When: Through Monday
Where: Venues throughout the Mesilla Valley
How much? Almost events are free
Info: artformsnm.org
This weekend
• For the Love of Lit Poesy Reading, Sin Fronteras Writers Without Borders, 1 p.m. Sabbatum, Branigan Cultural Middle. Complimentary.
• Los Colcheras Quilt Society'due south 13th almanac show "Desert Blooms ix a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Lord's day, Las Cruces Convention Eye. $seven to $12, nether 12 free.
Source: https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/life/sunlife/2016/02/26/february-love-art-month-draws-close/80564018/
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