Franky DeAngelis is an artist who lives and works in Silver City. He has a studio on the corner of Yankie & Texas where he fills large canvases with colors, shapes, lines, smudges and dribbles using unusual methods that rarely include paintbrushes. He describes his process in very visceral and cathartic terms. He often paints […]
Western New Mexico University writer in residence J.J. Amaworo Wilson reads from his books Nazare and Damnificados and answers questions from Otero Arts, Inc. members.
Southwest Word Fiesta and WNMU Miller Library will host Silver City Poet Laureate Allison Waterman and Young Adult novelist and poet Catalina Claussen for “An Hour of Poetry Power” on Tuesday, November 9, 6-7 PM. Waterman will read from her new collection of poems set for publication at the end of her term. Claussen will […]
Born in New York City, and raised there and in London and Switzerland, Riva loves where he lives now best of all: Gila, New Mexico. As creator of over 78 hours of primetime wildlife television, he spent a ton of time in parts of Africa, helped found a film history museum in Berlin, worked for […]
Ms. Ortiz Uribe writes about diversity and inequality for the El Paso Times and the USA Today network. She’s also a longtime contributor to National Public Radio. Born and raised on the U.S./Mexico border, Mónica straddles two countries, two cultures, and two languages both personally and professionally. Her first nationally broadcast story was about the […]
Historian, Professor of History and Humanities at Eastern New Mexico University, Ruidoso, she is the author of No Mexicans, Women or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, the University of Texas’ best-selling academic book between 2010 and 2020; Agent of Change: Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American Civil Rights Activist and Texas […]
We respectfully acknowledge that the entirety of southwestern New Mexico is the traditional territory, since time immemorial, of the Chis-Nde, also known as the people of the Chiricahua Apache Nation. The Chiricahua Apache Nation is recognized as a sovereign Native Nation by the United States in the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Friendship of 1 July 1852 (10 Stat. 979) (Treaty of Santa Fe ratified 23 March 1853 and proclaimed by President Franklin Pierce 25 March 1853).