When he’s not managing his parent’s popular Las Cruces restaurant, “Nopalito,” Victor Gallegos is managing one of the first art galleries in Las Cruces to be owned and operated by Mexican Americans.House in an ancient but restored adobe house along the Camino Real (The King’s Highway), the Nopalito’s Galeria was founded by Victor and features a wide variety of Chicano and Latino artists. Victor shared with Latinopia how he converted an ancient historical treasure into a contemporary art gallery.