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- Purchase Selection Meeting for University of New Mexico - Hospital TowerPDF File
- Invitation to Artist Inc Express Cultural LeadersPDF File
- Purchase Selection Meeting for Eastern New Mexico University-RoswellPDF File
- Purchase Selection Meeting for City of DemingPDF File
- New Mexico Arts Commission Regular Meeting, June 2nd, 2022PDF File
- Purchase Selection Notice: NM Workforce SolutionsPDF File
- New Mexico Arts Commission Special Meeting to meet Virtually, March 24, 2022PDF File
- New Mexico Music Commission to Meet Virtually - April 12th, 2022PDF File
- Purchase Selection Meeting for Serenity Mesa Youth Recovery CenterPDF File
- New Mexico Arts Commission to Meet Virtually - February 17th, 2022PDF File
- New Mexico Arts Commission Planning & Budget Subcommittee to Meet Virtually, May 12, 2022
- Local Selection Committee Meeting: NMSUPDF File
- Purchase Selection Notice: Cottonwood PrepPDF File
- Purchase Selection Notice: Mora Senior CenterPDF File
- Finalists Presentations Meeting: NHCC Acequia ProjectPDF File
- Press Releases


News & Announcements
- Purchase Selection Meeting for University of New Mexico - Hospital TowerPDF File
- Invitation to Artist Inc Express Cultural LeadersPDF File
- Purchase Selection Meeting for Eastern New Mexico University-RoswellPDF File
- Purchase Selection Meeting for City of DemingPDF File
- New Mexico Arts Commission Regular Meeting, June 2nd, 2022PDF File
- Purchase Selection Notice: NM Workforce SolutionsPDF File
- New Mexico Arts Commission Special Meeting to meet Virtually, March 24, 2022PDF File
- New Mexico Music Commission to Meet Virtually - April 12th, 2022PDF File
- Purchase Selection Meeting for Serenity Mesa Youth Recovery CenterPDF File
- New Mexico Arts Commission to Meet Virtually - February 17th, 2022PDF File
- New Mexico Arts Commission Planning & Budget Subcommittee to Meet Virtually, May 12, 2022
- Local Selection Committee Meeting: NMSUPDF File
- Purchase Selection Notice: Cottonwood PrepPDF File
- Purchase Selection Notice: Mora Senior CenterPDF File
- Finalists Presentations Meeting: NHCC Acequia ProjectPDF File
- Press Releases
New Mexico Arts is the state arts agency and a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs. The 15-member governor-appointed New Mexico Arts Commission serves as our advisory body. Our primary function is to provide financial support for arts services and programs to non-profit organizations statewide and to administer the 1% public art program for the state of New Mexico.
United States of Arts: New Mexico is a film created collaboratively with the National Endowment for the Arts in celebration of their 50th Anniversary. It explores art and culture in New Mexico and is part of the Tell Us Your Art Story series. Join the celebration by sharing a story about how the arts have influenced your life! We hope you enjoy the NEA Film and share your art stories.

Art in Public Places
The art in public places program enriches New Mexico's public spaces through an innovative and diverse public art collection.
Arts and Cultural Districts
The Arts and Cultural Districts approved by the Legislature have the potential of spurring new development crucial to smaller New Mexico communities. The New Mexico Arts Commission serves as the authorizing authority for the Arts and Cultural Districts.

Arts Trails
The Arts Trails are designed to put New Mexico artists on the map and bring the market to them. The trails are a key component of New Mexico Arts' arts-based economic development and cultural tourism efforts and are paid for through state funds approved b

Folk Arts
The Folk Arts Program preserves and perpetuates performing and visual art forms of the traditional arts practiced by various cultures within the state of New Mexico.

Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts
The Governor's Arts Awards were established in 1974 by Governor Bruce King and First Lady Alice King to celebrate the enormous roles - both economic and cultural - that artists, craftspeople and arts supporters play in the life of New Mexico. During its 4

Grants
New Mexico Arts contracts arts services on behalf of the state for the people of New Mexico.

Poetry Out Loud
The National Endowment for the Arts and The Poetry Foundation have partnered with state arts agencies to support the expansion of Poetry Out Loud, which encourages the nation's youth to learn about great poetry through memorization and recitation.

2023 New Mexico Arts Artist Residency - Bosque Redondo Memorial Historic Site
2023 New Mexico Arts Artist Residency - Bosque Redondo Memorial Historic Site

Inside/Out Public Art Interactive Light Installation
Inside/Out is an interactive public art light installation created by Ivan Toth Depena for WisePies Arena aka the Pit at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Inside/Out will enliven the building through a dynamic nighttime light display programmed

Don Redman Discusses Camera Obscura
Don Redman discusses his site-specific installation Camera Obscura in which he transformed the Centennial Project Space into a place where visitors could interact with projections from the heavens above.

Manny Wheeler, Navajo Nation Museum, discusses TIME: Coyote Canyon
TIME is an ongoing collaboration between New Mexico Arts Art in Public Places Program, Navajo Nation, Eileen Braziel Art Advisors | Santa Fe, and International Land-Sensitive Art Foundation.

Commission Project Blue Flower/Flor Azul by Federico Muelas at Pearl Hall - UNM
Blue Flower/Flor Azul was commissoned for the George Pearl Hall School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque by New Mexico Arts public art program.
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Header Photo Credits from Left to Right
- Western New Mexico University, photo by Jay Hemphill WNMU
- Karen Yank, "Growing Strength" at Central New Mexico Community College, 2017
- Albuquerque Youth Symphony Program, photo by Howard George Photography
- Wholly Rags, "Red Earth Dog" by Melissa Larson, at Arte XVIII Stables Gallery, 2018
- A Children's Theatre of the Mesilla Valley, photo by Kelly Corkern King
- Doña Ana Arts Council, photo by Emmitt Booher
- Dancing Earth, artists Shane Montoya, Anne Pesata, Trey Pickett in SEEDS REGENERATION. Location: Abaachi territories, garments by Cheryl's Odom and photo by Paulo T for Dancing Earth
- National Dance Institute New Mexico Inc., photo by InSight Foto


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