HAPPY NEW YEAR! FROM NEW MEXICO ARTS | |
"Creativity is contagious" - Albert Einstein | |
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Call for Panelists!
New Mexico Arts is seeking individuals interested in serving as grant application review panelists for our FY26 Annual grant cycle.
Panelists play a vital role in New Mexico Arts' work to provide support to nonprofit & government organizations offering a broad range of arts services & programs statewide.
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What We’re Looking For:
- Artists, arts professionals, community members, and others actively involved in and/or trained in the arts.
- Individuals with expertise in one or more artistic disciplines (performing, visual, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary arts, traditional arts, economic development, or arts education) or administration.
- Panelists are selected for their artistic or administrative experience. We strive to have them represent a range of artistic genres as well as geographic reach. Especially seeking panelists from rural areas.
What to Expect:
- Panelists will review and score eligible applications online based on panel evaluation criteria for their assigned category (March 2025).
- Panelists will attend a virtual orientation (February 2025).
- Panelists receive an honorarium.
How to submit:
Fill out the online interest form here
Thank you!
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Back by popular demand!
Poetry Ourselves New Mexico is a statewide original poetry competition for students in grades 9-12.
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This is an opportunity for students to share their written poetry with the possibility of publication in New Mexico's Annual Poetry Ourselves New Mexico Anthology.
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Students are encouraged to submit one original poem, typed and no longer than 50 lines. Poems may focus on any topic, but students should remember that winning entries may be presented to the public. This creative writing competition does not require a performance or recitation.
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Poetry Ourselves New Mexico compliments the New Mexico Poetry Out Loud recitation program enhancing opportunities for students to study and perform masterworks of poetry.
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No cost to submit. One poem only - make it your best!
Online submission of poem and entry form are due January 20, 2025
Contact: Kevin Lenkner, POL Coordinator
kevin.lenkner@dca.nm.gov 505 412-5791
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New Mexico Epic Poem Project Event 1:
Socorro Public Library
401 Park St.
Socorro, NM 87801
Thursday, January 9, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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New Mexico Epic Poem Project Event 2:
Reserve Public Library
Village Hall
15 Jake Scott Ave
Reserve, NM 87830
Friday, January 10, 2025
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
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Northern New Mexico lost artists of all types this year, including a world-renowned flamenco dancer, a well-known science fiction writer and a craftsman whose work will live on in the tiles at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Read more here
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This year New Mexico Arts also lost our dear friend and co-worker, Phyllis Jennings Kennedy. Jennings Kennedy was a photographer and artist who helped secure millions of dollars for fine arts education at the elementary school level across New Mexico.
Jennings Kennedy loved to photograph New Mexico’s architecture, and much of her work remains in private and public collections, at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe and in the city of Albuquerque’s public art collection, including a piece at the Albuquerque International Sunport and several at the Albuquerque Convention Center.
Jennings Kennedy later went into teaching and got involved with a coalition that was supporting a statewide measure to give funding to elementary school arts and music programs. The bill passed in 2003 and survived then-Gov. Bill Richardson’s initial plan to repeal it.
“She didn’t win every fight,” said her husband, Roderick Kennedy. “[But] when Phyllis took something on, that was it, she was all in. She didn’t do things in half-measures.”
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Opportunities From Our Friends... | |
The Paseo Project AIR Fellowship brings artists from all over the world to Taos to work with our community on a public art project. The program is an opportunity for working artists to activate their projects within the community of Taos, while exposing our community to new technologies, processes, and ideas. Entry Deadline: 2/1/25 | |
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In 2023 Creative New Mexico, the state’s arts advocacy organization, worked with communities across the state, from Roswell to Hobbs to Albuquerque to Gallup, to coordinate the “Tiny Art Project” in April 2023.
The project is inspired by Golden, Colorado’s “Itty Bitty Art Project.” Its purpose in New Mexico is to visualize the healing and transformational power of the arts as we rebuild after three hard years, strengthen connections between communities across the state, and amplify our state’s arts and cultural identity.
Through this project, Gallup MainStreet Arts & Cultural District and gallupARTS aim to put Gallup on the map.
Deadline extended until January 17th.
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The mission of the Art in the Heart of Farmington, NM is to promote sculpture as a public art form that enhances Historic Downtown Farmington and promotes artists from the four states of New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah. Up to 15 sculptures will be chosen by a juror to be displayed for one year and must be available for sale. The selected artists will receive a $1,000 honorarium after installation.
In addition, all selected artists from out of town, will receive lodging for two nights on May 8th, 9th or 10th, 2024, depending on the date of their installation. A reception for the selected artists will be held on Friday, May 9th.
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Cultural Properties Restoration Fund (“CPRF”) Grant Program
The Land of Enchantment Legacy Fund was established by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham in 2023 to support conservation and preservation projects in the State of New Mexico. The Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) was fortunate to be one of eight participating departments to receive funding. The New Mexico Historic Preservation Division (HPD) will administer this program through the Cultural Properties Restoration Fund by offering agencies and other political subdivisions of the state up to $250,000 to fund historic preservation efforts.
Examples of projects include: Restoration – work to depict a cultural property as it appeared at a particular period of time; work to rehabilitate a property for modern use like brick-and-mortar projects or planning projects. Preservation – work to stabilize a cultural property; planning documents to preserve a cultural property. Stabilization – work to stabilize a cultural property like structural engineering, brick-and-mortar projects or planning projects. Protection – work to protect a cultural property like brick-and-mortar projects or planning projects. Interpretation – developing an interpretive plan of a cultural property.
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Complete Guide to FREE Artist Grants and Opportunities in 2025
All the best artist grants, residencies, and open calls for 2025.
All of these calls are FREE to apply!
Click Here For More Information
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NM Art Book Club Selection: | |
Art on My Mind: Visual Politics
With her easy to decode yet provocative style of writing, Hooks uses this book to answer the ongoing conversations that revolve around the production, exhibition and critic of art. She brings up the question of why art has not had a very big impact on the lives of most African Americans.
This book is passionate and very personal. She talks about her own experience involving betrayal by a friend who is also an artist. She is disappointed by the lack of black critics and uses the works of the late Jean-Michel Basquiat to analyze the effect of historical photography on African Americans. It is a necessary need because there is a need to point out the insufficient representation of African American artists.
Available from booksellers everywhere.
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NEW MEXICO ARTS MISSION
Public support for the arts to ensure the arts are central to the lives of
New Mexicans.
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NEW MEXICO ARTS VISION
A New Mexico with vibrant communities, meaningful quality of life, and a robust economy.
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