I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
On the heels of nabbing a new executive director — the sitting state historian, Estevan Rael-Gálvez — the National Hispanic Cultural Center has also nabbed a $50,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
According to a press release issued earlier today from the office of Gov. Bill Richardson, New Mexico is on the receiving end of a total of $300,000 in arts grants.
“These grants will go a long way in helping our arts organizations get through this economically challenging time,” Richardson is quoted as saying in the release. “The arts are important to economic recovery, especially here in New Mexico where they are such major economic and tourism drivers.”
In addition to the $50,000 for the Albuquerque-based National Hispanic Cultural Center Foundation, the arm of the center that raises private funds to augment the state funding the center receives, the other six grant winners are as follows:
Fine Arts for Children and Teens, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$25,000
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
Santa Fe, NM
$50,000
Santa Fe Art Institute
Santa Fe, NM
$50,000
Santa Fe New Music, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$25,000
Santa Fe Opera
Santa Fe, NM
$50,000
Working Classroom, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$50,000
