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The New Mexico State University Art Museum will present a new pop-up exhibition, “St. Stella: Our Lady, Star of the Desert” honoring museum director Marisa Sage’s late dog Stella Sage, a beloved four-legged member of the NMSU Art Department.
The pop-up exhibition will be on display in the Mullennix Bridge Gallery inside Devasthali Hall Wednesday through Saturday between the hours of 12 p.m. and 4 p.m. through Oct. 1.
Organized by Craig Cully, an associate professor of painting and drawing, the show presents artworks inspired by the memory of Stella, the punky English bulldog who left a paw print on students, staff, faculty and members of the NMSU and Las Cruces community.
Sage rescued Stella in 2011 while she was living in Brooklyn. After serving as the “gallery assistant” for Sage’s “Like The Spice Gallery,” Stella moved with Sage to New Mexico when she accepted her position at the NMSU Art Department in 2014. Stella became an immediate everyday fixture in D.W. Williams Hall and was described as “feisty, humorful and with an innate ability to seek out those who needed a little extra love.”