Community Calendar

The Share the Road Visibility Ride helps build awareness that bicyclists and motorists can share the road safely and that commuting to work on a bicycle is a viable transportation choice. Commuting by bicycle has multiple benefits. Save money by riding just one day a week and cut 20% of your weekly fuel cost and save automobile maintenance expenses. Fight pollution by using emission free transportation. Stay fit and use your commute time as your workout instead of paying to go to a gym. Enjoy your commute and arrive at work refreshed and full of energy; ride off work stress on the way home.

The Visibility Ride is a real-life, real-time demonstration of how bicyclists can ride with traffic safely. We bicycle together on the second Monday once a month to help raise awareness among motorists of the presence of bicyclists, of motorists' ability to share the road safely with bicyclists, and of how bicyclists behave while driving in traffic. The Ride is led by League of American Bicyclists Certified Instructors, and bicyclists that wish to learn tips for better commuting skills are invited to participate.

The Ride leaves the Las Cruces Railroad Museum at the west end of Las Cruces Avenue at 7:15am. The ride goes up Las Cruces to Espina, across to Kansas, up to Solano, continues to University, then back on Espina to Las Cruces and ends at Grounded on the corner of Main and Las Cruces at about 8:00am. We ask that all bicyclists wear helmets and follow the rules of the road. Join us for coffee at Grounded if you can't make the ride.

“Mixed Media Assemblage Art & Photography” is the title of the January, 2026, Exhibit at Deming Art Center. It will feature the artwork of Vickie Voiers Morrow and Diane Alire. Vickie is a former Deming resident who specializes in assemblage art, bringing pieces that will be reminiscent of her life in Deming and also her Guardian Angel pieces among other things. Diane Alire, a photographer and print maker, has lived in New Mexico since 2001 and has her own Gallery, Gallery 925, in Las Cruces. She has a Masters in Photography and has taught Photography and Print Making in Albuquerque and Las Cruces. Diane is attracted to the more gritty subjects for her photography – juxtaposing images in a way to provoke and leave interpretation to the viewer. Her latest works are black and white photographs which are then hand colored with transparent oils, pan pastels and colored pencils.

The exhibit will be on display from January 3-30, 2026. There will be a time to meet the artists on Sunday, January 4, from 1-2:30PM.

The Deming Art Center is located at 100 S. Gold, Deming NM, and is open from 10AM-4PM Monday – Friday and 10AM – 1PM on Saturday.

For more information call 575-546-3663, visit our website at www.demingarts.org or see our FB page.

This project is supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Academy for Learning in Retirement's four-part series in January 2026 will discuss “Healthcare in Crisis: Provider Shortage in New Mexico.” Presenters and topics are: Tuesday, January 6 - “What are the Issues,” Katrina Fisher; January 8 - “The Physicians’ Perspective Panel,” Jana Williams, M.D., Jean-Pierre Reinhold, M.D., Marco Duarte, M.D.; Tuesday, January 13 – “Medical Reform in the 2026 Legislation,” Richard Mason; and Wednesday, January 14 – “How to Get Involved,” Kathe Stark and Joanne Turnbull.

The live presentations will be held at the Doña Ana Community College – East Mesa auditorium and will also be available as a Zoom broadcast.

Audience members may register for the Academy for Learning in Retirement’s four January sessions or for all 16 ALR Spring presentations at https://tinyurl.com/ALR-Reg. People may also register with cash or checks at the door. ALR will send announcements and Zoom links to registrants on the evening before each presentation. Zoom registrants may log in on Zoom after 10:00 a.m. and each presentation will begin at 10:30 a.m. Free coffee and cookies will be available in the nearby DACC Student Resources Building from 9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.

Drawing from the University Art Museum's extensive collection of over 2,200 Mexican retablos, Trinities of Heaven and Earth explores the spiritual and cultural importance of these sacred images. Retablos, small devotional paintings traditionally displayed in Mexican homes, served as vital expressions of Catholic faith and values within the household. The imagery of the Holy Family conveys blessings related to family life, while depictions of the Holy Trinity invoke divine guidance. Together, these themes explore the connection between sacred devotion and earthly life, bridging the divine and the domestic.

The exhibition will open on March 21, 2025, at 5:30 pm in the Margie and Bobby Rankin Retablo Gallery, and will be open until March 7, 2026.

Have you ever wanted to be a DJ, or host your own radio talk show? Perhaps you were even a professional DJ in the past, but you were forced to play what the programmer told you to play, not the music you loved. Or, you might be someone who wants to help behind the scenes at a radio station.

Did you know an opportunity exists here in Las Cruces for you to fulfill your dreams? We are KTAL-LP 101.5 FM, Las Cruces’ Community Radio Station. If you are curious about what it takes to have your own show, please join us for one of our monthly information sessions. The first one will be September 15th, 6pm at KTAL-LP.
Check us out! 101.5 FM or LCCOMMUNITYRADIO.ORG

Join us for our monthly volunteer gatherings, held on the second Tuesday of every month from 9:30AM -10:30AM at the Asombro Institute for Science Education office at 401 E College Drive, Las Cruces. This is a great opportunity to meet other volunteers who have worked in the education and STEM realms, have a shared interest in promoting science among K-12 students in our local schools, and have a passion for contributing to the great community we live in! We work on a variety of tasks such as prepping materials for Asombro's education programs, compiling kits for teacher workshops, assembling items for classroom science experiments, and whatever else is needed to increase natural science literacy through engaging, place-based education!

“Mixed Media Assemblage Art & Photography” is the title of the January, 2026, Exhibit at Deming Art Center. It will feature the artwork of Vickie Voiers Morrow and Diane Alire. Vickie is a former Deming resident who specializes in assemblage art, bringing pieces that will be reminiscent of her life in Deming and also her Guardian Angel pieces among other things. Diane Alire, a photographer and print maker, has lived in New Mexico since 2001 and has her own Gallery, Gallery 925, in Las Cruces. She has a Masters in Photography and has taught Photography and Print Making in Albuquerque and Las Cruces. Diane is attracted to the more gritty subjects for her photography – juxtaposing images in a way to provoke and leave interpretation to the viewer. Her latest works are black and white photographs which are then hand colored with transparent oils, pan pastels and colored pencils.

The exhibit will be on display from January 3-30, 2026. There will be a time to meet the artists on Sunday, January 4, from 1-2:30PM.

The Deming Art Center is located at 100 S. Gold, Deming NM, and is open from 10AM-4PM Monday – Friday and 10AM – 1PM on Saturday.

For more information call 575-546-3663, visit our website at www.demingarts.org or see our FB page.

This project is supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Academy for Learning in Retirement's four-part series in January 2026 will discuss “Healthcare in Crisis: Provider Shortage in New Mexico.” Presenters and topics are: Tuesday, January 6 - “What are the Issues,” Katrina Fisher; January 8 - “The Physicians’ Perspective Panel,” Jana Williams, M.D., Jean-Pierre Reinhold, M.D., Marco Duarte, M.D.; Tuesday, January 13 – “Medical Reform in the 2026 Legislation,” Richard Mason; and Wednesday, January 14 – “How to Get Involved,” Kathe Stark and Joanne Turnbull.

The live presentations will be held at the Doña Ana Community College – East Mesa auditorium and will also be available as a Zoom broadcast.

Audience members may register for the Academy for Learning in Retirement’s four January sessions or for all 16 ALR Spring presentations at https://tinyurl.com/ALR-Reg. People may also register with cash or checks at the door. ALR will send announcements and Zoom links to registrants on the evening before each presentation. Zoom registrants may log in on Zoom after 10:00 a.m. and each presentation will begin at 10:30 a.m. Free coffee and cookies will be available in the nearby DACC Student Resources Building from 9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.

We meet monthly to learn about topics of interest to the group and to learn about the most recent legislation which concerns retirees in New Mexico.

LCAER is an organization who welcomes any and all people and their families who have worked in any capacity in education, from pre-school to university. We are advocates for the security of retired educators. We sponsor yearly projects to benefit the community, especially students. Our yearly dues are only 10 dollars. Those who are still working can become an associate member and enjoy all the activies we are in volved in. We meet once a month on the second Tuesday of the month. Come join us.