Creative Support Funding: Arts Projects Grants

New Mexico Arts offers Creative Support Funding to support arts organizations and presenters in various disciplines, including performing, visual, literary, media, multidisciplinary, and interdisciplinary arts. This funding is aimed at organizations with medium-sized budgets, specifically those with unrestricted income between $100,000 and $749,999. The program has transitioned to a two-year funding cycle starting in FY2026, allowing successful applicants to submit shorter renewal applications for FY2027.

NOTE:
New Mexico Arts has moved to a two-year funding cycle in FY2026. Applicants who are awarded funding in FY2026 will be allowed to submit a shorter Application Renewal for FY2027; you must have been successfully funded in FY2026 in order to submit in FY2027. Eligible Applicants will be notified when the Renewal Application is open.
Through Creative Support Funding we support arts organizations and other presenters for program activities in the performing arts, visual arts, literary arts, media arts, multidisciplinary arts (involving more than one discipline), and interdisciplinary arts (relating to two or more artistic disciplines). Funding can be used for a single event, several events, or an organization’s entire season.
Arts Projects funding supports organizations statewide with medium-sized budgets for arts presenting activities. Organizations with actual last completed fiscal year unrestricted income of $100,000-$749,999, excluding in-kind should apply in Arts Projects.