Albuquerque Museum Member Magazine: Art, History, People, Summer 2020

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The Magazine of the Albuquerque Museum Foundation — Summer 2020

Trinity Online |

Picture This! Podcast |

The Gift of Membership


Engage with Albuquerque Museum online

Find activities for the whole family @abqmuseum

Trinity:

Reflections on the Bomb • Explore artists’s responses to the first detonation of a nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico, coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the Trinity explosion. Yukiyo Kawano, Fat Man folded (The 1945 Oregonian), 2019, newspaper, kakisibu-dye, adhesive, bamboo grass, wire, fabric (polyester), Polyethylene rod, nylon rope, lent by the artist

• Work on a family art project from home using materials you will have around the house.

• Listen to a podcast of stories from photo archives about the history of Albuquerque.

• Download coloring pages of art and history objects from the Museum collection.

Extended through August 30 AN EXHIBITION ORGANIZED BY ©MUPPETS/DISNEY. ©2019 SESAME WORKSHOP. ©THE JIM HENSON COMPANY.

• Enjoy a video tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination Unlimited with Brian Jay Jones, author of Jim Henson: The Biography.

• Visit our eMuseum to research our collections.

Find all this and more at cabq.gov/museumtrending


ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM FOUNDATION PO Box 7006, Albuquerque, NM 87194 505.842.0111 ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM 2000 Mountain Road NW in Old Town 505.243.7255, 311 Relay NM or 711 Tuesday–Sunday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Third Thursday of each month open until 8:30 p.m. Closed Mondays and holidays THE MUSEUM STORE 505.242.0434 CASA SAN YSIDRO The Gutiérrez/Minge House 973 Old Church Road, Corrales, NM 87048 505.898.3915 SLATE AT THE MUSEUM 505.243.2220 Breakfast and lunch: Tuesday–Sunday, 10 a.m.–2:30 p.m. Snacks, coffee, drinks, & pastries until 3 p.m. MAGAZINE EDITORIAL AND DESIGN E-Squared Editorial Services Emily Esterson, Editor Glenna Stocks, Art Director Sarah Kinzbach Williams, Associate Editor CULTURAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE Tim Keller, Mayor ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2019–20 Joni Pierce, President Elect

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Alex Hauger

Elizabeth Hamm

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BJ Jones

Pamela Weese Powell, Museum Board of Trustees

Beverly McMillan

Emily Blaugrund Fox, Executive Director

Tiffany Sanchez

Andrew Connors, Museum Director

Catherine Stetson

Anne Keleher Max Parrill Scott Schaffer Corinne Thevenet

Paula Blacher

Gerald (Roddy) Thomson, Jr.

Margaret (Peg) Cronin

Tracey Weisberg

Stephanie Del Campo

Joyce Weitzel

ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Helen Atkins Hal Behl Beverly Bendicksen Wayne G. Chew

120 artists

300 artworks

10

categories (Jewelry, Glass, 3D/Sculpture, Pottery/Ceramics, Prints, Drawing, Fiber, Photography, Abstract, and Representative).

612

Applicant artists came from

40

states Washington DC and one from Japan.

Over half of the artists applied in either the Abstract art category or Representative art category.

total artists applied. A record number of applicants for this year’s ArtsThrive.

Catherine Goldberg Maria Griego-Raby

Pamela Weese Powell, Chair

October 25 -December 6, 2020

Elizabeth Earls

Dean Willingham, Treasurer

Perry Bendicksen

BY THE NUMBE R S

In This Issue: Changing Course: Trinity Goes Online.............................................................................. 2 Building a Collection........................................................................................................... 4 Picture This! Making the Photo Archives Podcast........................................................... 6 Art Matters for At-Risk Youth.............................................................................................. 8 Museum Welcomes New Curator...................................................................................... 9 Give the Gift of Membership............................................................................................ 10 Museum Foundation News............................................................................................... 12 Museum Store..................................................................................................................... 13

Joni Pierce, Albuquerque Museum Foundation Joni M. Palmer, Ph.D.

V I S I T U S AT:

Judith Suiter

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Alan Weitzel

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ROBERT RECK

TRINIT Y

Changing Course

I

Trinity: An Exhibition Premiers Online

T IS FITTING THAT an exhibition

breaking not just in its treatment of this

about a world-changing event

subject matter, but also as the first on-

Albuquerque Museum has been rethink-

should open amid an unprecedent-

line-only exhibition in the Museum’s history.

ing how to present this exhibition, origi-

ed global pandemic.

It displays more than 50 artists’ responses

nally curated for a physical gallery space.

Since its closure in mid-March, the

For the past several years, curators Joe

to nuclear issues and the detonation at

This required research and a team effort

Traugott and Josie Lopez and the exhibi-

Trinity on July 16, 1945, and marks the

building on the strengths of the Museum

tions team at the Albuquerque Museum

75th anniversary. More than 50 artists are

and City of Albuquerque staff. The team

have been preparing for Trinity: Reflections

represented, including Tom Joyce, Will

included Curators Lopez and Traugott, As-

on the Bomb. These artworks illuminate

Wilson, Nicola López, Emil Bisttram, Karsten

sistant to the Curator Lacey Chrisco, who

artists’ responses to the detonation of the

Creightney, Elaine DeKooning, Leigh Anne

managed the Herculean task of finding im-

first nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near

Langwell Jack Garver, Raymond Jonson,

ages of 300 objects and gathering usage

Alamogordo.

Bea Mandelman, Enrique Montenegro,

permissions; the marketing and coordina-

Enter COVID-19, and the Albuquerque

Patrick Nagatani, Bruce Nauman, Anne

tion skills of Foundation Communications

Museum had to change course. Now,

Noggle, Horace Towner Pierce, Tony Price,

Director Denise Crouse to organize the

Trinity: Reflections on the Bomb is ground-

Meridel Rubenstein, and Hideo Sakata.

flow of the website, the graphic design

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DAVID GREBER

TRINIT Y

Left: Image composite featuring Meridel Rubenstein, The Meeting,1993, palladium prints, glass, steel, video,each steel grid frame: 79 x 122 ¼ x 2 in. Lent by the Tia Foundation, © 2020 Meridel Rubenstein. Above: Eve Andree Laramée, Apparatus for the Distillation of Vague Intuitions, installation as exhibited at MASSMoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts. Right: Yukiyo Kawano, Fat Man folded (The 1945 Oregonian) Floating Lanterns, 2019 newspaper, kakisibu-dye, adhesive, bamboo grass, wire, fabric (polyester), Polyethylene rod, nylon rope, 10 x 5 x 5 ft. (Fat Man) lent by the artist, © 2020 Yukiyo Kawano.

skills of Robin Hesse to build “wayfinding”

it becomes a

online graphics, and Stephen Hutchins,

different kind

curator of exhibitions, who developed a

of project. Still,

digital walk-through based on the how the

we’re sticking to

exhibition was conceived in the original

objects and con-

gallery space. The City of Albuquerque

tent conceived

Department of Technology and Innovation

for the original exhibition.”

developed the website that housed it all.

Determined to honor the artists’ and

While the curators chose not to add object images to the exhibition, some

The challenge was to put the exhibi-

curators’ vision, the Museum chose to offer

artworks can now be shown in their

tion online in a way that would honor the

an experience that would combine educa-

entirety. Eve Laramée’s Apparatus, for

original concept but take advantage of

tional resources, interactive walk-throughs,

example, is an enormous and complex

the space and interactive possibilities of

and more details on the objects them-

installation of which only a small piece

the internet. “The online version of the

selves. “The city is hosting it on its powerful

could be shown in the gallery. The

project provides an opportunity to pres-

platform, and we will be able to share all

installation resembles a vast biochemical

ent this exhibition to wider national and

the academic and scholarly content, as well

laboratory, made of hand-blown glass,

international audiences,” says Curator of

as share the images in a way that people

snippets of etched text, and various

Art Josie Lopez.

can get in close and see the details,” says

colors of solutions and wires attached

Communications Director Denise Crouse.

to flowers. “Now we can show what the

The team researched other museums’ internet-based exhibitions but chose to

artist’s original installation had intend-

develop its own take on the online expe-

ed,” Lopez says.

rience. Although they had more space to work with in a virtual setting, Lopez says they stuck to the original image list. “This project was conceived entirely as a physical exhibition. It’s different to work

Crouse notes that while online exhibi-

ON VIEW ONLINE

tions will never replace the in-person Mu-

CABQ.GOV/TRINITY Trinity: Reflections on the Bomb

to reach many more people online than it

seum experience, Trinity has the potential would have in the gallery. “We’re excited

outside of constraints of exhibition costs

to share this with our community, the

like shipping and limited physical space;

state, and to the world.”

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COLLECTIONS AND ACQUISITIONS

Left: Oli Sihvonen Dialogue Yellowblue,1964 oil on canvas, 52 x 52 in. Albuquerque Museum purchase, 1981 General Obligation Bonds. Below: Frederick Hammersley, Clout, 1989, lithograph on paper, 12x16 in, Albuquerque Museum, The Urban Enhancement Trust Fund Committee. Right: Diego Romero, Mayans from Mars, pottery bowl, 5.5. x 11 in diameter Albuqueruque Museum purchase.

Building a Collection

An inside look at how curators decide what belongs in the Museum.

T

HE ALBUQUERQUE

MUSEUM’S 10,000 WORKS

OF ART celebrate many cultures and aesthetic traditions.

Albers had a profound influence on New

collection based on the Museum’s plan.

Mexican artists Frederick Hammersly and

“As curators, we don’t focus on our per-

Oli Sihvonen, among others.

sonal interests,” says Curator of Art Josie

When a curator joins the Museum staff,

Lopez. “We have to be broader-thinking

Curators select artworks for a reason,

they bring with them their own interests,

and determine how we traverse the future

and often they have to have prescience

but also the commitment to grow the

direction of the collection.”

about what might be interesting for future generations. The collection reflects the evolution

THE FOURTH AND FINAL BOOK in the Albuquerque Museum Collection

of the Museum, the collections plan,

Guide series, "Common Ground," contains images of more than 300 objects

and what future generations might

and provides an overview of the permanent collection. The book serves to

want to know about our current world.

answer the questions: What’s the real New Mexico? How does our culture in-

It also links those who have influenced

fluence art? It includes input from Museum Director Andrew Connors, Curator

New Mexican artists. For example, the

of Art Josie Lopez, Ph.D., Lacey Chrisco, former Museum Director Jim Moore,

Museum owns prints and paintings by

and former Curator of Art, Ellen Landis. Available at the Museum Store.

German abstract artist Joseph Albers. 4

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COLLECTIONS AND ACQUISITIONS

Below Right: Nicola López, Ideal Structures for a Dubious Future (Tallest Tower) 2012; Explosive intaglio on paper; 27 1/2” x 11”; Self published; edition of 12. Below left: Nicola López, Ideal Structures for a Dubious Future (Global Sprawl) 2012; Explosive intaglio on paper; 27 1/2 x 11 in; Self published; edition of 12.

Lopez looks at potential acquisitions

ing, we are also looking at the past.”

through a mission-driven lens: Why is this

López and Mandelman are also important

piece important for the collection? How

printmakers, another area of focus for the

might this fill current, pre-identified gaps

Museum’s collections plan.

in the collection? How might this work fit

Two recently acquired Diego Romero

into exhibitions in development? Does it

(Cochiti Pueblo) bowls point to the Muse-

spark an idea for a future exhibition based

um’s focus on innovation within tradition.

on other works already in the collection?

Decorated in traditional Mimbres pottery

To illustrate, Lopez points to two sig-

geometric style, the Romero bowls fea-

nificant anniversaries that have been on

ture modern Chongo figures (so named

curators’ minds: The 75th anniversary of

for their top knot hairstyle). The works

the Trinity site nuclear explosion; and the

nod to but transcend Native American

100th anniversary of the 19th Amend-

traditional ceramics.

ment granting women the right to vote. For Trinity: Reflections on the Bomb, the

Potential donors frequently approach curators with items that the Museum

Albuquerque Museum acquired prints

would love to acquire. As stewards of

from Santa Fe-born artist Nicola LÓpez

the collection, though, curators have the

and drawings from artist and ecological

responsibility to pick and choose based

activist Nina Elder—both female contem-

what’s best for the Museum's plan.

porary artists who have responded to nuclearism in their work. The acquisitions fill out the Trinity exhibition and add more work from contemporary female artists to the permanent collection. “We want to be collecting women artists of the region in a very intentional way,” Lopez says. Another recent acquisition with a dual mission is a series of prints from female WPA-era printmaker, Bea Mandelman. “The WPA had a huge impact here. We wanted these in our collection partially because the Museum didn’t exist in 1930. In the same way that we are future-look-

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PHOTO ARCHIVES

Behind the Scenes How a Curator Created the Podcast, Picture This

T

BY JILL HARTKE, PHOTO AND DIGITAL ARCHIVIST

HE PHOTO ARCHIVE OVERFLOWS with stories wait-

ran from his surgery room at Dawson’s hospital around 1910.

ing to be told. I began making a five-to-seven minute

The story of Dr. Diver and the rescuers seemed overlooked and

podcast called “Picture This with the Albuquerque

perfect for a podcast.

Museum” to highlight overlooked stories within the

Museum’s collection. My first stop is the photo archives collection. How many

The accession record for the collection had information about Dr. Diver. I researched mine rescues in the 1910s to learn the men attending Dr. Diver’s training were known as “helmet men.”

images do I have to tell the story? Is there a new angle to a well-

Newspaper accounts of the 1913 disaster shed more light on the

known story that I can share? Do I have supporting images of lo-

helmet men and I learned from the US Bureau of Mines how many

cations or subjects? The answer to each of these questions helps

helmet men were trained in Dawson. All of this research helped

determine the content for a podcast. Take the Dawson Mine

me to write a script for the podcast. Next, I start recording.

podcast, for example. I had heard of Dawson, New Mexico, from

I use a podcast application on my smartphone called Spreak-

people who had toured the ghost town and saw the rows of

er. Trial and many errors taught me that life is easier if I record

white iron crosses in the graveyard with the date of mine explo-

the podcast in bits, rather than all in one go, so I generally have

sions. I looked at seven photographs, donated by Dorothy Diver,

six or seven segments of a podcast that I record and upload

showing a rescue training session that her father, Dr. Frank Diver,

separately. Once the audio is recorded, I move on to compile

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PHOTO ARCHIVES

This page left: Men Being tested for NASA at Lovelace Clinic, 1959 PA2001.034.033 Albuquerque Museum, gift of Minton Schooley This page right: Elsie Westerfield on the steps of a Streetcar PA1993.018.015.A Albuquerque Museum, gift of Grace Miller-Redd Facing page: Mine rescuers at the entrance to a mine, Albuquerque Museum, gift of Dorothy Diver PA1974.070.006

the audio and images together into the podcast. I use software called Filmora to do my podcast magic. Filmora allows me to put in opening and ending titles, zoom in on images, pan across images, cut out audio, insert sound effects,

PICTURE THIS! EPISODES Episode 1: Van Tassel Balloon Launch Episode 2: Dawson, New Mexico

and save the podcast in several formats. I use sound effects

Episode 3: Lovelace Astronaut Program

to enhance the storytelling, often for humor, but sometimes

Episode 4: Itinerant Photographer

for drama. For the Dawson Mine story, I wanted to create an

Episode 5: King Albert I Visits Isleta

atmosphere of peril. The newspaper reported that rocks fell on

Episode 6: Streetcars and Motorettes

rescuers as they rushed into the exploded mine. I used an on-

Episode 7: Let the Sunshine In

line sound effect collection to find “rocks falling into a well”, which brought to life an image of helmet men in the mine and connected it to the storyline. The podcasts allow me to creatively present the collection to a larger audience. It’s a chance to give incredible stories

Episode 8: Albuquerque Dukes Episode 9: New Mexicans in WWI

LISTEN TO PICTURE THIS! PODCAST CABQ.GOV/PICTURETHIS

new life in the imaginations of listeners.

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Left: Art created by a student at the Youth Detention Center. Below: Vashti Moss, program administrator Right top: Teaching artists work with youth at risk. Bottom: A video art lesson during quarantine at YDC.

to the Museum, but funding limits the size of the program and number of partners. The Youth Detention Center houses incarcerated youth ages 14 to 17. New Day is a homeless teen residential center. Unlike Museum School classes which focus on skills, Art Matters programs concen-

Art Matters

trate on using art as a communication and therapeutic tool. While students do learn about color and composition and materials, “We have built a

THE MUSEUM SCHOOL ART

Museum School art education.

that would expand current

social justice, trauma-informed

CLASSROOM is a cozy space,

Art Matters is an outreach pro-

programs exposing youth to

program that engages the

perfect for small classes and

gram that takes place outside

art. “Instead of offering more

youth and administration at

personal attention. Students

the museum setting. Currently

classes,” says Elizabeth Becker,

each site,” says Program Ad-

at the Museum School benefit

it serves youth at two facilities,

curator of education, “we de-

ministrator Vashti Moss. “Our

from the excellent teaching

A New Day Youth and Family

cided to consider an audience

teaching artists are a stellar

staff and proximity to the gal-

Services and the Youth Deten-

that doesn’t typically come to

group of compassionate, cre-

leries themselves.

tion Center.

the Museum. Our focus would

ative, engaged educators and

Even before Covid-19

The program is funded in

be out in the community.”

creators. Our work grows and

closed the doors, however,

part by the Mayor’s Youth

They’d like to work with more

changes as the needs of our

young people who could not

Initiative, launched in 2018.

organizations, especially now

partners grow and change.”

visit were benefitting from a

The initiative sought proposals

when there is limited access

Art Matters specifically hired teaching artists who have worked in various community

COURTESY VASHTI MOSS

“We have built a social justice, trauma-informed program that engages the youth and administration at each site.” – VASHTI MOSS

settings and are attracted to working with youth at risk. Before the shutdown, they’d started implementing Museum tours for A New Day and Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico. “We had feedback from every visit that the youth love the tours and were

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Leslie Kim

have developed meaningful

Moss says.

arts programing via video.

Prior to shelter in place,

COURTESY LESLIE KIM

very engaged in the process,”

“It has been a big shift and

students at both sites request-

an interesting way to make

ed the opportunity to have

creative space! We are also

their own exhibition, Moss

creating art kits for the youth

says. “We had plans to teach

that they can use anytime (as

them about creating a body

their programs permit).”

Museum Welcomes New History Curator

of work, selecting work, curating an exhibition, and writing artist bios and statements.

THE ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM HAS HIRED LESLIE KIM

The students were

as history curator. Kim officially began work on June 22

have the opportunity to do this work.” Now, Moss and the teaching artists

COURTESY VASTI MOSS

really excited to

Kim comes from Albuquerque Academy, where she has been teaching World History since 2000. Kim says she has always had a love for museum work, and has worked as an art researcher, curatorial assistant, and collections associate. She has been on the Albuquerque Museum Foundation board of directors, served on several committees, and chaired ArtEdge, an effort to cultivate young donors and volunteers for an early iteration of the gala, Shaken, not Stirred. For Kim, the appointment meets a lifelong goal to be professionally engaged in museum work. She started her career researching pieces owned by Jan and Frederick Mayer on loan at the Denver Museum of Art. She interned at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science as a collections assistant, and learned about preservation work on a Kachina restoration project. When she returned to Albuquerque in December 1999, she really wanted to get into Museum work full time, but then the job at Albuquerque Academy came along, and she has been there ever since.

COURTESY VASHTI MOSS

Kim’s first order of business is to get to know the collection. “As an educator, I interact with history on a daily basis,” Kim says. “I strive to bring it alive every day in the classroom, but now I’m doing the same with objects. This is going to be super fun.”

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MEMBERSHIP

WHAT MEMBERS SAY

“I feel like I have ownership of the Museum, through functions and get togethers with other supporters. I really enjoy the Patron’s Circle dinners. I see a lot of people that I don’t normally see [at other functions.] —Lauro Guaderrama M.D. “In order for us to move forward as a society, the arts and the creative endeavors enrich our lives in ways that are hard to quantify. It helps you gain insight into the world around us.” —Ted Laredo

VANESSA VASSAR

“It’s not just about the city, but also about the world beyond the city, via traveling exhibitions and other activities.” — Russ Davidson

Give the Gift of Membership Members share their love for the Museum.

V

ANESSA VASSAR has to remind seven-year-old Evan that the Museum is not his living room. “He feels so comfortable there, I have to tell him not to run around.” Evan and mom Vanessa, Museum members, visit around four times a month, regularly attend Saturday Family Art Workshops, and

spend hot summer days having lunch at Slate at the Museum followed by art classes or a gallery visit. They almost always make it to Third Thursday. Evan particularly loves Only in Albuquerque, because he and his friends can identify and walk on their neighborhoods on the giant map and make stamps, among other activities. “Only in Albuquerque is really great for kids,” Vassar says. They became members three years ago, although all of Vassar’s four kids have attended the Museum School classes. Since then, Vassar continues to make frequent use of her membership, bringing many out-of-town and international visitors and using

Member Vanessa Vassar's son Evan and his friends make themselves at home in the Museum, participating in Family Art Workshops and visiting Only in Albuquerque. Lower right: Museum Director Andrew Connors at an Artsthrive members' event.

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her Museum Store discount to purchase gifts such as jewelry, scarves, and kids books. The freelance writer/photographer/filmmaker has lived all over the world. “I have lived in big cities my whole life and I always tell people who come here that this Museum is really world class, from the way it’s run to the exhibitions, the gift shop, everything.”


MEMBERSHIP

Many members say that belonging to the Museum gives them a feeling of ownership—frequent visitors feel at home within its galleries, enjoy the community gatherings as a place to socialize with likeminded individuals, sharing the Museum with friends— even making new ones. Membership benefits foster such familiarity: events, gallery tours, curator and artist talks, and special events, de-mystify the museum experience for young and old alike, creating life-long connections to the Museum community. VANESSA VASSAR

Member Ted Laredo concurs with Vassar’s assessment of the Museum as a gem. “For Albuquerque, a city of this size, to have such a great museum is unusual.” Ted and partner Angela Berkson are both fine artists who have shown in ArtsThrive. They have also contributed to the Magic Bus program. Some of Laredo’s favorite member events are panel discussions with artists or curators. “I’m always interested in hearing someone talk about creative context,” he says. Additionally, the members’ openings allow the couple to spend time with other art appreciators. Indeed, one of the unique benefits of membership is the opportunity to hear world-class experts speak about interesting aspects of exhibitions that may not be readily apparent by visiting the gallery. One such memorable talk for Patron’s Circle member Russ Davidson was given by former Metropolitan Museum of Art Director Philippe de Montebello. He spoke at the opening for Visions of the Hispanic World in November 2018. “It was exhilarating to hear somebody of Montebello’s eminence speak at our museum.” Members who visit the Museum often have favorite works they seek out each time they come: Laredo has a fondness for Frederick Hammersly, as well as the sculptures of Patrociño Barela. “There’s just so many amazing works and that we have that kind

GIFT A LIFETIME OF ART AND HISTORY

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of talent displayed at the Museum.” The Museum wouldn’t be what it is today without the dedicated staff, who members get to know through community events. Vassar notes that Museum School teacher Ophelia Cornet is world class. Davidson says the Museum is defined by its staff. “I’ve worked with some of these people, and they are tremendously dedicated. I don’t think the Museum could have obtained the stature of significant importance without that element.”

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ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM FOUNDATION NEWS LEAVING A LEGACY

Magic Bus because, she says,

or something to benefit other

and interesting programs. It’s

In 2018, the Albuquerque

kids aren’t getting enough art

people long after we are

a fabulous community gath-

Museum Foundation launched

exposure in schools.

gone,” she says.

ering place. It’s important to

the aM Society, a formalized

Asbury also donates

Another longtime donor

legacy-giving program. At

through the Masterworks

and president-elect of the Al-

success of the Museum for

the time, Foundation donors

program, which allows people

buquerque Museum Founda-

future generations.”

and board members Beverly

to sponsor pieces in specific

tion Board, Joni Pierce, joined

R. and Perry Bendicksen were

exhibitions. Her most recent

aM Society about a year ago.

easy as designating benefi-

among the first members of

Masterwork was Baby Miss

“I had worked in the area

ciaries on your IRA account.

the Society. Today, the aM

Piggy, on view in Imagination

of estate planning as a wealth

You don’t have to be wealthy

Society numbers 10 couples,

Unlimited: The Jim Henson

manager, so I knew the

to include the Museum

with more than $2.5 million

Exhibition. Like many estate

power of giving beyond one’s

Foundation in your estate

pledged to the Foundation.

donors, Asbury’s giving plan

lifetime,” she says. “I love the

planning. Any size gift can

has increased over time.

Museum’s beautiful spaces

help sustain the Museum for

and wonderful exhibitions

future generations.

Lynn Asbury supports the Magic Bus program. She be-

“Years ago, our lawyer

gan five years ago, starting with

suggested that since we don’t

small donations and then spon-

have any children, we might

sored an entire bus. Asbury

like to leave some kind of

took a particular interest in

legacy, donating to a cause

me to support the long-term

Legacy giving is simple—as

To join the aM Society, contact Emily Blaugrund Fox at 505.338.8738 or ebfox@albuquerquemuseum.org.

THANK YOU TO SHAKEN, NOT STIRRED SPONSORS Join us in Spring 2021 for the 10th Anniversary Celebration of Shaken, Not Stirred. We are sincerely grateful for the generous sponsors and individuals who have

New Mexico Bank & Trust

Laura Andima

American Home

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Salmon | Hauger

Nancy and Steve Cogan

Schlenker & Cantwell, P.A.

Peg and Dick Cronin

SMPC Architects

Mara Malnekoff and Gregg Franklin

donated their sponsorship or ticket purchase to the 2020 event. If you are interested in making a donation please visit www.albuquerquemuseumfoundation.org and

Charles Stephen & Co Inc.

donate now.

Virginia and Lawrence Fultz

MEMORIALS AND TRIBUTES IN MEMORY OF MARY MIDDLETON MCBRIDE from Carla & Jill Kuenzi

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Per current IRS policy, distributions made from Donor-Advised Funds or Family Foundations may not be used to fulfill a pledge or Patrons’ Circle Membership that would result in a personal benefit

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to a donor or a member of donor’s family (e.g. tickets

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you have additional questions or need clarification.

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Hot off the press! The final book in the series of the Albuquerque Museum Collections Guides is available now. The complete set highlights the Museum’s permanent collections in art, history, photography, and its historic house museum Casa San Ysidro. Save 25% when you purchase all four books for $99.95 (plus shipping). Albuquerque Museum Art Collection: Common Ground

The broad range of works in the Albuquerque Museum's permanent art collection reflects the diversity, creativity, and innovation of New Mexico's artistic legacy. This guidebook highlights masterworks in the collection spanning centuries including contemporary art and photography, sculpture, jewelry, early and contemporary Hispanic religious art, traditional and contemporary Pueblo pottery, and tapestries. $37.50

Albuquerque Museum History Collection: Only in Albuquerque

Highlights from the museum's rich history collection, drawing examples from thirtyfive thousand artifacts, including Hispanic religious art, Native American textiles and jewelry, toys and early computers, to railroad and Route 66 memorabilia. The collection represents the history of New Mexico's central Rio Grande valley and Greater Albuquerque from before written history through the present. $34.95

Albuquerque Museum Photo Archives Collection: Images in Silver The Museum's rich archive of historic photographs - more than 133,000 - document Albuquerque, its people, architecture, businesses, urban landscape, and depictions of daily life and important events. $29.95

Casa San Ysidro: The GutiĂŠrrez/Minge House in Corrales, New Mexico

Ward Alan Minge tells the story of Casa San Ysidro's architectural history and collections. Historic and contemporary photographs show the structural changes over the years and highlight the collection - Hispano tinwork, ironwork, carpentry, and weavings; Pueblo pottery; Navajo textiles; Apache basketry; and furnishings from the Spanish colonial, Mexican, and Territorial periods - housed inside Casa San Ysidro. $29.95

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COMING SOON TO THE ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM 30 AMERICANS October 1, 2020–January 3, 2021 This provocative exhibition of artwork from the Rubell Family Collection focuses on issues of racial, sexual, and historical identity in contemporary culture while exploring the powerful influence of artistic legacy and community across generations. 30 Americans showcases works by many of the most important American artists of the last three decades, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Nick Cave, Carrie Mae Weems, and Kehinde Wiley.

Kehinde Wiley, Equestrian Portrait of the Count Duke Olivares, 2005, oil on canvas


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