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State Of The Arts
Saturday 11:30am

State of the Arts is a weekly 30-minute program focusing on the arts community of El Paso. Hosted by dedicated art enthusiast Marina Monsisvais, State of the Arts provides listeners with a behind-the-scenes glimpse of how creativity is shaping our community.

Marina interviews local visual artists, writers, dancers, singers, actors and directors, as well as regional talent exhibiting or performing in El Paso. The show gets to the heart of what inspires and drives artists to do what they love best.

  • SOMOS Performance Group is a new organization founded by long-time El Paso community artists and educators who wish to provide more inclusive and diverse performing arts opportunities to young people.
  • El Paso artist Michael Woznicki will host a solo show through October 4, 2026 at the International Museum of Art. His show promises to be a fun celebration of our El Paso desert cactus and wildlife.
  • The El Paso Symphony Orchestra welcomes its 96th anniversary season with a multimedia program that celebrates Mexico.
  • In his exhibit, composites-my eyes tear in the sun, Eric Santoscoy-Mckillip explores the relationship between space, time, memory, and place through work rooted in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
  • El Otro Muralismo: Historical and Contemporary Sign Painting in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez is an exhibit exploring the traditions and artistry that surround sign painting in the Paso del Norte region.
  • Alexandra Urbina is a Mexican-American painter and Art Historian. She views painting as a tool for meditation on the ephemerality of life, creating works that explore the unreliability of memory.
  • The International Museum of Art invites you to help create the Window to the World Singing Tree Mural. People of all ages can paint or draw images which will be added to the mural.
  • Andres Payan Estrada is the Director and Senior Curator at the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts at UTEP. Previously, he was curator at Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles.
  • Artist Carmen Navar has a solo art show opening August 13 at Rejuvene Med Spa. Now in her late 70s, Carmen is all about inspiriting others in their golden years to grow and flourish as artists.
  • Louie Salazar is an artist from El Paso, whose artistic journey is rooted in being born and raised on the border. He currently has an exhibit at LUP Gallery titled Ideas from Cuartitos.