Gay-Themed Art Fundraiser Show

September 26, 2025

6:00 - 8:00 PM

XYZ Studios

5719 Mauer Road

Las Cruces, New Mexico

Coming off the successful showing of our private art collection at the Las Cruces Museum of Art (Engaging Masters: Parody Art, February 7 - May 3, 2025), we are now hosting an art display/fundraiser at XYZ Studios in Las Cruces. Proceeds from all sales will go to the University Art Museum at New Mexico State University. The pieces in this show celebrate the male body, from serious to playfulness. Most of these were produced by young, up and coming artists, here in the US and abroad. 

While museums need more money than ever, the traditional philanthropic model is no longer one they can rely on. The rising generations are not interested in supporting these institutions the way their parents did. For more than a century, US museums have been sustained by donors with a very particular idea of what philanthropy looks like. It used to be that one of the hallmarks of becoming a community leader was giving to bedrock institutions where you live—the local food bank, museum, orchestra.