This March New Mexico State University will honor women dedicated to saving the planet with an art show and reception outside the Stras Research and Reading Room at the Branson Library on the university campus.

The event is collaboration between the NMSU library and the Women’s Studies Program and is free and open to the public. Scheduled from 3 p.m.-5 p.m. Monday March 2, it will highlight Interim President Waded Cruzado’s declaration of the Year of Sustainability at the university and feature screened prints of internationally known women environmentalists created by NMSU art students.

“In recent years the issue of the protection and even the survival of the planet has been called to the forefront of international consciousness,” Cruzado said when talking of the March event.  “But many people already have been working in the field to protect the earth’s ecosystem. We celebrate them during Women’s History Month and we join them in the effort.  As the state’s land-grant institution, New Mexico State University has a special responsibility in showing leadership in regard to sustainability efforts and accomplishments. That is why we declared this the Year of Sustainability at NMSU.”

Among the women who will be featured in the art show is Constance Falk, a professor in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at NMSU. Falk has been an outspoken activist on issues of sustainability and the environment. She has agreed to speak on the issue at the art show.  Art students will be present to discuss their works.

The NMSU library also will take center stage at the event as specialists Martha Andrews and Charles Stanford will discuss the library’s special collections on women. The Stras Research and Reading Room was dedicated in the name of Caroline E. Stras, and so is a fitting site for the show and reception.

This event kicks off NMSU’s participation in the nationwide Women’s History Month celebration themed “Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet.”  Other notable events for the month include:
-March 13: Readings from Korean feminist poets by Don Mee Choi, on campus, time and place  to be announced later
-March 14: A showing of the movie, “A Single Woman;” 1:30 p.m. at the Fountain Theater in Old  Mesilla
-March 17: Lecture by visiting scholar Dena Goodman “Freedom and Happiness: Rethinking  Love and Marriage in Eighteenth Century France;” 7 p.m. Science Hall 107, on campus
- March 18:  Concluding event, Coffee with the Dean, 8:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. at the Women’s  Studies offices, Room 289 in  Science Hall.

For more information see www.nmsu.edu~wstudies or call 575-646-3448.

For a complete listing of events in Las Cruces, visit www.lascrucescvb.org.

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