Orange Fever Fiesta Brings the Magic

May 7
6 p.m., Hotel Paso del Norte

Former UTEP football player and Super Bowl LII champion Jon Dorenbos headlines the 2022 Orange Fever Fiesta, the annual fundraiser for UTEP Athletics. In addition to his 14-year career in the NFL, he is known as an accomplished motivational speaker and professional magician. He captured minds around the country as a finalist on America’s Got Talent in 2016. Limited number of tickets available.

Aida Cuevas

May 19
8:30 p.m., Magoffin Auditorium

The Queen of Ranchera Music brings her “Yo Creo Que Es Tiempo” U.S. tour to the UTEP campus. Cuevas has been a musical mainstay in Mexico, recording 40 albums throughout a nearly 50-year career. Her work has earned her a Grammy Award and a Latin Grammy Award.

Spring Commencement

May 14-15
1 p.m., 6 p.m. Saturday
1 p.m., 6 p.m. Sunday

UTEP will celebrate the accomplishments of graduation candidates from the Class of 2022 throughout four ceremonies that recognize students from eight schools and colleges.

Exhibit: ‘Mexico: Crisis and Uprising’

10 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday-Saturday
Centennial Museum and Chihuahuan Desert Gardens

View an artistic bridge that unites two societies in need of authentic voices. This is an exhibition space where art makes an effort to recover the dignity of people on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Exhibit: ‘Water/Ways’

10 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday-Saturday
Centennial Museum and Chihuahuan Desert Gardens

This exhibit highlights a vital topic for our region — water. Water/Ways explores the past, present, and future of water and how it divides and unites us through historic, artistic, economic, political and social lenses.

And Then Came Tango

May 6-8
Various locations

Performers from UTEP's Department of Theatre and Dance are taking their talents out around El Paso! Check out “And Then Came Tango” at these times and locations: 4:30 p.m. May 6 – Richard Burges Library, 9600 Dyer St.; 3:30 p.m. May 7 - Borderland Rainbow Center, 2714 Wyoming Ave.; noon and 3:30 p.m. May 8 – El Paso Zoo, 4001 E. Paisano Dr.

Experiencing the Bosque Workshop

May 7
10 a.m.-noon
Rio Bosque Wetlands Park, 10716 Socorro Rd.

The Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts is hosting this multi-generational workshop to reimagine our relationship to water and reconnect to the power of the Rio Grande.

UTEP Softball vs. UAB

May 6-8
6 p.m. Friday
1 p.m. Saturday
12 p.m. Sunday
Helen of Troy Softball Complex

The UTEP softball team closes the 2022 season with a three-game homestand against the University of Alabama-Birmingham.

THE CLOUD

You’ll find this interactive piece created by award-winning New York artist Donald Lipski at the center of the Schuster Avenue roundabout on the southern edge of campus. Three cloud shaped panels are covered by thousands of small, multicolored steel flaps that sway in the wind. Its appearance changes depending on the time of day, the weather and your viewpoint. It pays homage to UTEP’s Bhutanese architecture; Bhutan is called the Kingdom in the Clouds.