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Colorful farm scenes will decorate the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum’s Arts Corridor from Aug. 16 through Dec. 1. An opening celebration of Las Cruces artist Jeri Desrochers exhibit, Cultivating Color, is set for Aug. 18 from 2:30-4:30 p.m. The reception, which includes refreshments, is free. Jeri Desrochers’ vibrant oil paintings capture the…

The New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum’s lobby showpiece for the past 15 months will soon be moving on. The Museum brought the fiberglass sculpture, “Sodbuster, San Isidro,” by the late Luis Jiménez, to Las Cruces in May 2018 on loan from its owner, Russell Tether of Dallas. Its last day in the lobby

Everyone’s favorite summer treat is the star of the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum’s largest event of the summer. The 16th-annual Ice Cream Sunday, which happens to land on National Ice Cream Day, is from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. on July 21. The event routinely draws more than a thousand people. Admission

A replica of a New Mexico Scenic Historic Marker sign that was once an exhibit prop at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum is now permanently installed in front of Sparkys BBQ and Espresso, the iconic Hatch restaurant known mostly for its green chile cheeseburgers. The sign, part of the New Mexico Centennial

Come enjoy seeing and learning about the beautiful creations that are produced locally by fiber artists at the first Fiber Fiesta on June 22 at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces. Also make plans to attend the Health & Fitness Expo, which also will be at the Museum on the

The New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum has added four pieces of artwork to the popular, ongoing exhibit, “Drawn to the Land: Peter Hurd’s New Mexico.” The Hurd artwork, on loan from the El Paso Museum of Art, includes a large egg tempera painting called “Gold is Where You Find it,” two mural studies