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Tag Archives: grants for artists

Sell Your Art to the Government

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New Mexico-based artists can apply to sell their work to New Mexico’s Art in Public Places Program. The deadline to apply is September 22, 2025.

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Posted in New Opportunities | Tagged Art in Public Places, grants for artists, New Mexico business

Resources for Creative Entrepreneurs Suffering Hardship

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Suppose a disaster, illness, or other hardship disrupts your ability to work as a creative entrepreneur. In that case, you can apply for emergency relief funding or support services based on your artistic field.

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Posted in New Opportunities | Tagged business assistance, DreamSpring, grants for artists, New Mexico business, small business loans

Applications Close Soon for Art Grant Program

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The Fulcrum Fund, managed by 516 Arts in Albuquerque, is offering grants to pandemic-impacted visual artists and art spaces in New Mexico. Applications will be accepted through April 2.

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RCAC Helps Prados Beauty Outperform

Cece Meadows started Prados Beauty from her home.

When Cece Meadows walked into rooms filled with prospective investors, she knew they saw a red flag.

During the height of the pandemic, her company, Prados Beauty, had donated 50 percent of its sales — not profits — to buy protective gear for Indigenous communities. To your typical venture capitalist or big-bank lender, that looked like a liability.

But for Meadows, a Xicana of Yaqui descent, that was the entire point. Meadows lives by her grandmother’s advice, which translates as “Everything you do with a good heart can never go wrong.”

Today, that model has a proven return on investment. Prados Beauty is the top-selling independent color cosmetics brand at JCPenney, moving products in 609 stores and becoming the first beauty line ever sold at the Smithsonian.

The brand reached these heights, in part, through Meadows’ partnership with the Rooted Relative Fund offered through the nonprofit lender Rural Community Assistance Corporation (RCAC). Fund managers viewed Meadows’ commitment to community not as a “risk” but as the secret to her success.

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