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White House Invites Media Arts Grad to Share Maker Space Expertise

Las Vegas, N.M. – The White House invited a Highlands University media arts graduate and leader in the national maker space movement to share his expertise at an Aug. 24 Nation of Makers meeting. Mariano Ulibarri’s Parachute Factory put Las Vegas, New Mexico, on the...

Highlands Hermit’s Peak Hike Tradition Revived

Las Vegas, N.M. – More than 130 Highlands University students, faculty, staff and alumni scrambled up Hermit’s Peak Aug. 27, a roundtrip hike of 8.5 miles that rewards the hikers with spectacular views at the 10,212-foot summit. “For more than 100 years, incoming...

Third Invitational New Mexico Painters Exhibition Opens Sept. 25

Las Vegas, N.M. – A brilliant blue New Mexico sky dominated by scudding clouds is the backdrop for a view of the foothills in Joel Greene’s oil painting Interesting Clouds. Two colorful figures in bold Brazilian carnival masks stare straight ahead in Janet Stein...

HU Researchers See New Meaning in Pre-Colombian Pottery Designs

LAS VEGAS, NM – Geometric patterns on pre-Columbian pottery in the Sonoran Desert could be inspired by the region’s plant life, according to two Highlands University archaeologists. Vic Evans and Warren Lail published their hypothesis last month in the Journal of...