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.

COVID-19 Response and Resources

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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.