Wise Fool New Mexico

Performing ArtsNew Mexico, United States11-50 Employees

It is Wise Fool New Mexico's mission to ignite imagination, build community, and promote social justice through performances and hands-on experiences in the arts of circus, puppetry, and theatre.

Wise Fool changes lives, one circus at a time. 

Each year, Wise Fool:
    * helps youth learn life skills, build confidence, and explore their creative self-expression
    * provides opportunities for women to empower themselves and connect with each other
    * creates and presents professional theatrical performances
    * runs low- and no-cost, high-quality arts programs in rural and underserved communities
    * teaches and performs stiltwalking, puppetry, and mask in public, charter, and pueblo schools across NM
    * adds extra color and life to other organizations’ special events
    * generates over $160,000/year in paid work for local performers and teaching artists
    * provides unlearning oppression trainings for our staff, board, teachers, and volunteers
    * creates safe spaces where people can speak, listen, dialogue, create, and find common ground
    * serves 250+ youth in on-site programs, hundreds more in schools, and performs for 9000+ people across New Mexico and the US

Awards: the prestigious Geronima Cruz Montoya "Pinon" Award for Arts and Humanities from the Santa Fe Community Foundation 2008; Best Of in Santa Fe by the readers of the Santa Fe Reporter in multiple categories; Santa Fe Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts in 2005 & 2022

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