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Arts

Preserving, Enhancing, and Developing the Arts in New Mexico

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New Mexico Arts is the state arts agency and a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs.

Its primary function is to provide financial support and technical assistance or arts services and programs to non-profit organizations statewide and to administer the 1% public art program for the state of New Mexico. Other programs include the Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts, New Mexico Arts and Cultural Districts, New Mexico Arts Trails, and Poetry Out Loud.

New Mexico Arts' mission is to preserve, enhance, and develop the arts in New Mexico through partnerships, public awareness, and education, and to enrich the quality of life for present and future generations.

New Mexico Art

Address
407 Galisteo St.
Santa Fe, NM

Phone
505-827-6490

Division Director
Michelle Laflamme-Childs

On the Web
www.NMArts.org

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Division Instructional Coordinator
Fiana Shapiro

Address
Sandia Mountain Natural History Center

Phone
(505) 281-5259

On the Web
https://dcaeducates.nmculture.org/

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New Mexico Arts' grants support programs that foster arts education, arts economic development; performing and visual arts, and contemporary and traditional folk arts in New Mexico. . .

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Arts Trails

The Arts Trails Program provides visibility and brings the market to artists and artisans statewide, so they can retain more from sales of their work and continue to stay home and . . .

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The AIPP program reflects the diversity of the arts in New Mexico, the Southwest, and the nation while building a dynamic public art collection for the State of New Mexico. . .

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For more than three decades a prominent and diverse group of painters, weavers, sculptors, dancers, musicians, storytellers, poets, actors, playwrights, potters, and supporters of . . .

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