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The 2024 Fire and Fiber Show at the Tombaugh Art Gallery features artisans and more than 30 artworks. Works vary from elaborate pottery and macrame hangings, fine figurative sculpture with a bit of fiber, Ravens, tortoise, and an ancient cliff dwelling to a warrior goddess with a tile and fiber crown. Pandora's Box will be opened, and we can view a vision ball of pottery, beads and fiber. There will be at least one vessel of fiber and pottery flowers. Each piece is a work of those who bring Las Cruces Empty Bowls and all the work is for sale.
The gallery promises this show will offer the viewer a feast for the eyes and senses. The many artful ways clay can be shaped, sculpted, stamped, formed, manipulated will be on display.
From 5-7 p.m. Friday, June 7 the exhibit opens with a wine reception. Many of the artists will be in attendance. Awards will be presented at 6 p.m.
The gallery is open 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. The exhibit runs through June 30 at the Tombaugh Art Gallery, 2000 S Solano, Las Cruces.
Gallery 925 combines shows for JuneAt Gallery 925 in the Mesquite Historic District the Chair Show features a group of local artists invited to interpret the chair in an assortment of mediums. Featured artists with chair art are Diane Alire, Nancy Frost Begin, Christina Campbell, Zach Carpenter, Linda Gendall, Chris Kemler, Vickie Morrow, Noel Sandino, Penny Scribner and Diane Sperling.
Happening at the same time, The Papaya Collective is a new local artists group having its inaugural show at the gallery. Papayas are a practicing artists group formed to support and encourage each other’s artistic endeavors, and to put together group shows that are varied in style and medium to provide art for everyone to enjoy. They are Shaunna Foster, recycle artist/painter; Lauren Goldstein, metalsmith; Coy Lowther, painter/illustrator; Mary Prentice, painter; Julia Serrano, multimedia; and Natasha Zella, pottery and embroidery.
On opening day, the gallery opens at 1 p.m. with a reception from 4-8 p.m., Friday, June 7. Work will be on display through June 30. Gallery hours are 1-5 p.m. Fridays and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
Gallery 925 is on Mesquite Street near the corner of Spruce Street. For more information visit gallery925nm.com.
The Las Cruces Parks and Recreation Department and New Mexico State University are teaming up to host the City’s annual Fourth of July Celebration Concert and Fireworks display at the Pat and Lou Sisbarro Community Park, 3205 Arrowhead Drive, on the NMSU campus. The Black Jacket Symphony will make its Las Cruces debut performing “Saturday Night Fever” soundtrack, and Prince’s “Purple Rain,” for this year’s July 4 concert.
Black Jacket Symphony’s lineup changes based upon the album being performed, and no sonic detail is overlooked, with the musicians doing whatever it takes to reproduce the album. It’s a full night of rock and roll magic and a visual spectacle.
The concert begins at 6 p.m. Sunday, July 4 followed by the annual fireworks display taking place around 9:45 p.m.
For information, contact the Parks and Recreation Department at 575-541-2550, or visit the city of Las Cruces’ website at http://LasCruces.gov/.
The third Plaza Classic Film Festival Screenwriting Competition is accepting entries through July 3. It will award a $500 first prize, a $250 second prize, and Final Draft 13 screenwriting software to the top two finishers.
The first prize winner also receives a consultation with El Paso writer-director Lucky McKee and a table read of their screenplay. The contest is open to anyone 18 and older. Entries must be feature-length scripts of no more than 120 pages. There are no genre restrictions. Go to plazaclassic.com/screenwriting or Film Freeway to enter. The deadline is 11:59 p.m. July 3. Cost is $30 through June 14, $40 from June 15 through July 3. An entrant may receive written feedback, or coverage, for an additional $15. Screenplays must be uploaded in PDF format only, must be anonymous and include a cover sheet with only the screenplay’s title (name and contact details are on the entry form), a logline, and payment.
Entries will be graded on a point system, with a 50-point maximum. Scripts will be awarded up to 10 points each for premise, plot, characters, dialogue, and the script’s prospects. The top two finishers will be announced before the 17th annual Plaza Classic Film Festival, which is July 18-28. Details: 915-533-4020, local@plazaclassic.com.
