NMHC AWARDS NEARLY $180,000 TO CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS

In 2025 NMHC will be partnering with 13 organizations by sponsoring projects through our major grant program. A total of $179,805.22 is being awarded to organizations based in the Taos, Ramah, Las Cruces, Abiquiú, Santa Fe and Albuquerque metro area. We are excited about how these projects will feature scholars, tradition-bearers, elders, historians and tribal leaders from around the state, various parts of New Mexico including Taos, Ramah, Isleta Pueblo, San Felipe Pueblo, Laguna Pueblo, Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, Jemez Pueblo, Zia Pueblo, and more.

Instead of a major grant cycle in May, 2025, NMHC now offers a new Quick Grants line available year-round.  For more information visit our grant program’s “Getting Started” webpage and check out the information bubble that relates to “choosing a grant line.”

ORGANIZATION:  AfroMundo based in Albuquerque
GRANTED AMOUNT: $18,254.22
PROJECT:  2025 AfroMundo Festival – Troubled Territories: the Will to Heal
LOCATION OF ACTIVITIES: Albuquerque 

ORGANIZATION: Basement Films Inc. based in Albuquerque
GRANTED AMOUNT: $14,980.00
PROJECT: Experiments in Cinema: Future Trends in Cultural Representation
LOCATION OF ACTIVITIES: Albuquerque and online

ORGANIZATION: CENTER based in Santa Fe
GRANTED AMOUNT: $14,407.00
PROJECT: Photographic Project Presentations & Exhibition Santa Fe
LOCATION OF ACTIVITIES: Santa Fe

ORGANIZATION: Congregation Nahalat Shalom based in Albuquerque
GRANTED AMOUNT: $6,816.00
PROJECT: Festival Sefardi 2025

LOCATION OF ACTIVITIES: Albuquerque


ORGANIZATION: El Morro Area Arts Council
GRANTED AMOUNT: $17,250.00 
PROJECT: Seeing What’s There: Life and Land along New Mexico Rte. 53
LOCATION OF ACTIVITIES: Ramah and Zuni Pueblo

ORGANIZATION: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum based in Santa Fe and Abiquiú

GRANTED AMOUNT:  $15,000.00
PROJECT: Tewa Nangeh / Tewa Country: Tewa Interpretation of O’Keefe Country
LOCATION OF ACTIVITIES: Santa Fe and art elements with an alternative funding source will include six Tewa Pueblos (Santa Clara, O’ke Owingeh, San Ildefonso, Pojoaque, Nambe, and Tesuque)

ORGANIZATION: Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Inc. based in Albuquerque
GRANTED AMOUNT: $14,998.00
PROJECT: Restoring our Heart Places: Contemporary Pueblo Architecture Exhibition
LOCATION OF ACTIVITIES: Albuquerque


ORGANIZATION: Indigenous Ways based in Santa Fe

GRANTED AMOUNT: $15,000.00
PROJECT: 2025 Indigenous Ways Film Festival
LOCATION OF ACTIVITIES: Santa Fe



ORGANIZATION: The Leopold Writing Program based in Albuquerque

GRANTED AMOUNT: $15,000.00
PROJECT: The Leopold Writing Project Lecture Series
LOCATION OF ACTIVITIES: Albuquerque and Taos

ORGANIZATION: National Institute of Flamenco based in Albuquerque

GRANTED AMOUNT: $15,000.00
PROJECT: Gatherings, Communities, Legacies: Diasporic Artforms in the Southwest and Beyond
LOCATION OF ACTIVITIES: Albuquerque

ORGANIZATION: New Mexico State University based in Las Cruces

GRANTED AMOUNT: $15,029.00
PROJECT: Feminist Border Arts Film Festival 2025
LOCATION OF ACTIVITIES: Las Cruces

ORGANIZATION: Society of the Muse of the Southwest (SOMOS) based in Taos
GRANTED AMOUNT: $10,019.00
PROJECT: SOMOS Writers’ Showcase
LOCATION OF ACTIVITIES: Taos

ORGANIZATION: Taos Center for the Arts based in Taos

GRANTED AMOUNT: $8,052.00
PROJECT: Land & Water: A Film and Conversation Series on agricultural and cultural practices in Northern New Mexico
LOCATION OF ACTIVITIES: Taos