Events

GR 55 Live: Alec Benjamin and Los Lobos

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Alec Benjamin and Alexa Villa will be performing at the Fine Arts Center Theatre instead of on the Fountain Stage to keep everyone safe and comfortable. Celebrating the 55th Annual Great Race, Western New Mexico University Cultural Affairs presents GR 55 Live. The two nights of music under Silver City's starry skies add to the lineup of events making up the university's longest-running tradition, which centers around human-powered cart races over and through the hilly campus. Gates open at 5:30 Friday: 5:30-10 PM Singer/songwriter of Let me Down Slowly, Water Fountain, and Older, Alec Benjamin, will headline with Alexa Villa opening. food trucks carnival games Saturday: 9AM-2:30 PM : Mustang Festival 8:00 Car show sign in, 9:00 AM Start 9:00 Open House 10:00  Washer tournament and salsa tasting sign in 10:00-11:00 Live Music Siempre from Bayard 11:00 Washer Tournament start 11:15-12:15 Live Music-Brandon Perrault and Friends 12:30 PM Family Race 12:30-1...
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Coffee & Clay Free Ceramics Workshop at Muir Heights

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Susie Meskill, who is completing a post-baccalaureate experience in ceramics with the WNMU Expressive Arts department, will conduct an on-campus clay workshop on Saturday, April 23, from 10 a.m. to noon. Meskill will be set up outside campus’ Muir Heights apartments to better enable the campus residents and other students to attend. She will invite participants to make a clay object which will be glazed and returned to the makers later. Coffee and donuts will be provided. All WNMU students and faculty are welcome. “Susie has been a tremendous debut post bac student in ceramics and is excelling in the studio and community,” said Courtney Michaud, who is Assistant Professor of Ceramics at WNMU. Meskill will be an exhibiting artist during the Silver City CLAY Festival this summer, and she will assist with the festival’s main workshop. She received a full scholarship to attend a July workshop at Maine’s Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, one of the top...
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“How Government Policies Affected Businesses in Grant County” by Dr. Scott Fritz

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On Saturday, April 23, at 11 a.m., WNMU Associate Professor of History Dr. Scott Fritz will present “How Government Policies Affected Businesses in Grant County: An Economic History of Southwestern New Mexico, 1870-1952” as part of a series hosted by the Silver City Museum. Interested community members are invited to attend either at The Silco Theatre or online. (Register to attend via Zoom here.) The Silver City Museum’s exhibit on the business history of Silver City is based on research Dr. Fritz conducted last summer. Javier Marrufo, who is an alumnus of the WNMU history program and is now the curator at the Silver City Museum, is also presenting. His talk will be on the history of segregation in Grant...
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Charnelle Lee and Fran Driver Presentation at “Pandemics in American History: Lessons to Be Learned”

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Nursing faculty members Charnelle Lee and Fran Driver are included in a Fort Bayard Historic Preservation Society symposium on pandemics that have changed the world, medicine and the nursing profession. On April 23, in the New Deal Theater at Fort Bayard National Historic Landmark, they will share about COVID-19’s effect on the nursing profession, nursing student training and education, patient care and family, as well as the current nursing...
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