MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION | FALL 2020
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Table of Contents LETTER TO MEMBERS
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES
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UNCHARTED TERRITORY
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THE LEGACY OF TOM CATRON
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MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE
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MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART
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NEW MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUM
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NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART
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NEW MEXICO HISTORIC SITES
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OFFICE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES
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CORPORATE PARTNER SPOTLIGHT
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THE SCOOP
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WAYS TO GIVE
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Our Mission
Above: The Museum of New Mexico Foundation welcomes these individuals to our Board of Trustees. Top row, left to right: Greg Dove, Kate Moss, Michael Knight. Middle row, left to right: Karen Freeman, Laura Widmar, Bruce Larsen. Bottom row, left to right: Lorin Abbey, John Andrews, Blair Naylor. Not pictured are Dan Monroe, Dennis O’Toole and Jenny Ramo Photos © Saro Calewarts Cover: While the four museums and eight historic sites in the Museum of New Mexico system remain closed, educators have created a robust calendar of online exhibitions and programming. Photos, clockwise to middle: © Cheron Bayna, © Cheron Bayna , courtesy Kemley Gomez, © Gabriella Marks, © Daniel Quat Photography
The Museum of New Mexico Foundation supports the Museum of New Mexico system, in collaboration with the Museum of New Mexico Board of Regents and the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs. The Foundation’s principal activities are fund development for exhibitions and education programs, retail and licensing programs, financial management, advocacy and special initiatives. The Foundation serves the following state cultural institutions: • Museum of Indian Arts and Culture • Museum of International Folk Art • New Mexico History Museum • New Mexico Museum of Art • New Mexico Historic Sites • Office of Archaeological Studies
Member News Contributors Mariann Lovato, Managing Editor Carmella Padilla, Writer and Editor Molly Boyle, Writer Saro Calewarts, Designer Editor’s Note: The Summer 2020 issue of Member News highlighted activities and exhibitions at Fort Sumner Historic Site and Bosque Redondo Memorial. The article neglected to mention that these activities are supported by a major, three-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. We apologize for the omission.
Dear Members, We are honored to pay tribute to our founder, Thomas B. Catron III, in this issue of Member News. Tom took the lead in establishing the Museum of New Mexico Foundation in 1962 and served as board chair for the next 25 years. Among his many accomplishments, Tom was instrumental in bringing the Alexander and Susan Girard collection of folk art to the Museum of International Folk Art. His friendship with Georgia O’Keeffe resulted in adding her work to the permanent collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art. He is remembered by some of his Foundation colleagues in a special feature on page 6, where we also hear some of his own reflections on the Foundation. We also pay tribute to the extraordinary educators who work at the 13 cultural institutions that comprise the Museum of New Mexico system. During the crisis of the coronavirus pandemic, education has become the primary way our museums and historic sites are connecting with the public, from online lectures and classes to art kits distributed to children throughout the area. Learn more in our cover story on page 3. Online programming is now a mainstay of our state museum system. Rich digital offerings vary from museum to museum and among the historic sites and are described in some detail in the following pages. Visit museumfoundation.org/virtual-visit/ or nmculture.org for ongoing updates. The Foundation itself has moved online with special member events, from previews of online exhibitions to our ongoing series, Conversations with a Curator. The Circles members are also accessing online presentations with our Inner Circle events. These exclusive activities will continue through the calendar year, so look for your invitations via email.
“We hope your Foundation membership enables you to stay connected to culture.” —Jamie Clements Photo © Saro Calewarts
Please know how grateful we are for your membership support. The Foundation is relying almost exclusively on membership dues and Annual Fund gifts to fund our operations, including the support services we provide to the state museum system. In turn, we hope your Foundation membership enables you to stay connected to culture as together we navigate the social and economic distress of this pandemic. Be safe and well. Sincerely,
Jamie Clements President/CEO
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Museum of New Mexico Foundation Board of Trustees 2020–21 OFFICERS Guy Gronquist, Chair Harriet Schreiner, Vice Chair Frieda Simons Burnes, Vice Chair John Rochester, Treasurer Sara Otto, Secretary
It is with tremendous love and gratitude that the Museum of New Mexico Foundation mourns the loss of our founder, Thomas B. Catron III, pictured above with June, his wife of 74 years. With his passing, Tom leaves an extraordinary legacy of support in all areas of our arts-andculture community, as well as throughout Santa Fe and New Mexico. The year was 1962 when Tom led the formation of the Foundation. Even after chairing the board for our first 25 years, he remained exceedingly generous with his time and wise counsel. His support for the Foundation and the Museum of New Mexico system never waned. The Thomas B. Catron III building on the Foundation’s Shonnard Campus is a daily reminder to all of our staff and visitors of Tom’s profound commitment to the art, culture and history of New Mexico and the world. We extend our deepest sympathies to June Catron and the entire Catron family. We will remain ever-mindful of Tom’s devotion to his New Mexico home and will continue to support the cultural assets he cherished. Above: Photo © Caitlin Elizabeth Photography Opposite: An online lecture about Chaco Canyon. Photo © Gabriella Marks.
VOTING TRUSTEES Lorin Abbey John Andrews Cynthia Bolene William Butler Julia Catron Chip Chippeaux Kathryn King Coleman Sharon Curran-Wescott Christie Davis Rosalind Doherty Diane Domenici John Duncan Kirk Ellis Jed Foutz Maria Gale Robert Glick Chris Hall Bud Hamilton Steve Harris David Hawkanson Susie Herman Rae Hoffacker Peggy Hubbard Michael Knight Bruce Larsen Jim Manning George Miraben Dan Monroe Kate Moss Michael Ogg, M.D. Dennis A. O’Toole, Ph.D. Michael Pettit Skip Poliner Kathleen Pugh Jenny Ramo Jerry Richardson Wilson Scanlan Judy Sherman Bob Vladem Laura Widmar David Young
ADVISORY TRUSTEES Victoria Addison Catherine A. Allen Keith K. Anderson JoAnn Balzer Robert L. Clarke Stockton Colt Liz Crews Joan Dayton Greg Dove George Duncan Karen Freeman Carlos Garcia Leroy Garcia J. Scott Hall Pat Hall Stephen Hochberg Ruth Hogan Barbara Hoover Kent F. Jacobs, M.D. David Matthews Christine McDermott Helene Singer Merrin Beverly Morris Blair Naylor Mark Naylor Patty Newman Jane O’Toole Dan Perry J. Edd Stepp Courtney Finch Taylor Nancy Meem Wirth Matt Wilson Claire Woodcock Robert Zone, M.D. HONORARY TRUSTEES Anne Bingaman Jim Duncan Jr. John Marion Edwina and Charles Milner J. Paul Taylor Carol Warren Eileen A. Wells TRUSTEES EMERITI Saul Cohen Alan Rolley Marian Silver James Snead
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Uncharted Territory Educators Explore, and Excel, During Pandemic
When our museums and historic sites were suddenly shuttered after COVID-19 spread across the state last spring, silence settled into community spaces that bustled with school field trips and member tours just days before. This new normal was uncharted territory. The same questions ran through every museum and site educator’s mind. How do our cultural institutions matter now? What do our visitors need from us during these uncertain times? Immediately, educators throughout the Museum of New Mexico system found themselves busier than ever. They all hit the ground running with quickly but carefully crafted plans—and a few wild new ideas. Museum of International Folk Art director Khristaan Villela summed up their newly intensified role: “Our educators are more important than ever now in this pandemic crisis,” he says. “They are our bridge to the public.”
Bridging the COVID Divide In a matter of weeks, museums and historic sites were reaching underserved communities statewide, making noise with virtual concerts and lectures, and creating hands-on activities for students who were rapidly turning into Zoom zombies. In several cases, online initiatives that had sat on the back burner for months or even years were thrust into action. Through it all, museum professionals flexed technological skills and climbed steep learning curves. Despite the difficulties of working from home and collaborating from afar, educators across the board are
enthusiastic about the innovations that have resulted from the pandemic. For example: • Security guards at the New Mexico History Museum volunteered to assemble learning kits with word searches on notable New Mexico women and a model of a lunar polyhedron. • Museum of International Folk Art educators gathered materials and instructions for students to create beaded animals and necklaces. They also partnered with Santa Fe’s Southside Library to feature folk tales on YouTube recited in Spanish by bilingual educator Kemely Gomez. • The New Mexico Museum of Art posted Web-based lessons for elementary school kids on artistic techniques of color and line. • New Mexico Historic Sites staff devised a Virtual Summer Camp highlighting a different daily activity at a different site—including Thursday’s “Glimpse of Life on the Reservation” from Fort Sumner/Bosque Redondo Memorial and Monday’s lessons on plants of the Chihuahuan Desert from Fort Selden and TaylorMesilla sites. • At the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Zoom lectures addressed a range of subjects, including Chaco Canyon, San Ildefonso Pueblo’s role in the founding of the Museum of New Mexico, and the future of Bears Ears National Monument.
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At the outset, admits former Museum of Indian Arts and Culture outreach and education coordinator Andrew Albertson, no one knew exactly what this educational revolution was going to look like. “We had no idea how long this would last, what people were expecting or anticipating, how other museums were responding,” he says. “I saw that Zoom lectures were being offered and I thought, ‘Well, that’s a good idea, we’ll try that.’ And surely enough, it was popular.”
When the pandemic closed the New Mexico Museum of Art, head of education Rebecca Aubin’s small staff had recently finished a two-day retreat with brainstorming sessions about new ways to reach the community. “We already had come up with these ideas to have virtual engagement,” she says. “So when we went into telework for the pandemic, we were charged, we were really inspired. We were ready.”
Educators agree that being forced to work out of their respective museums accelerated the implementation of out-of-the-box ideas that have long taken a back seat to other daily priorities of museum business. It also validated the virtual approach as a significant way to engage constituents in New Mexico and around the world.
Meanwhile, the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, which oversees Museum of New Mexico divisions, launched an initiative to bring museum professionals into virtual classrooms. Museum of Indian Arts and Culture deputy director Matthew Martinez virtually walked classes through the museum’s exhibition of the poppy graphic art of Diego Romero. At-home students learned how the artist’s narrative work reflects his Cochiti Pueblo identity.
“We kept talking about virtual engagement, but we’d have to focus on our visits and in-person programs,” explains Leslie Fagre, director of education at the Museum of International Folk Art. As the pandemic began, she recalls, “We said, ‘We have to do it. Now’s the time.’”
New Mexico History Museum educator Melanie LaBorwit spoke to first-graders in Roswell and seventhgraders in Albuquerque’s East Mountains. “I was virtually all over the state!” LaBorwit marvels. “It was heartwarming, because I got to see kids. The teachers were harried, but they were so grateful.”
Working, Virtually
Museum of International Folk Art bilingual educator Kemely Gomez reads a book in Spanish on the museum’s YouTube channel. The program is in partnership with the Santa Fe Southside Library. Photo courtesy Kemely Gomez.
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Expanding Outreach While the pandemic constricted many opportunities for in-person community engagement, it also expanded the social outreach and impact of the museums and historic sites. When the Santa Fe Community Educators Network— a consortium of school, museum and nonprofit professionals—put out the call for hands-on activities to distribute at grab-and-go school lunch sites around Santa Fe County, educators answered. Even as the pandemic shut down schools in April and May, the folk art museum put together 1,500 craft-making kits for children. “I love that these kits are a physical alternative to all the screen time kids have to do with schooling at home,” Fagre says. “It’s something to do with their hands, something physical and tangible that they can be creative with at home.” Student summer school initiatives benefited, too. Los Luceros Historic Site assembled take-home activities called Stories from the Land. Distributed at libraries in Embudo and Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, as well as Moving Arts Española, these included student writing prompts on themes such as nature, history and science fiction. The Museum of International Folk Art sent out 200 kits statewide with materials and instructions to make koinobori, or Japanese fish kites. The Museum of Art focused on its collection, using their website to spotlight virtual explorations of the museum’s basement archives and library. This enabled an online exhibition on Zozobra creator and artist Will Shuster. “We have 37 boxes of Will Shuster’s stuff,” Aubin says. “That’s exciting to show it to people.”
Funding an Unknown Future In their newly expansive roles, educators are excited to see their museums snaking their way into new education and social networks. And while the future is unknown, it’s clear that virtual and distance learning programs— which are funded by private support—are here to stay. “We are the deliverers of information,” Aubin says. “We’re more appreciated than we have been in the past.”
The New Mexico Museum of Art posted online art activities for children focusing on color and line. Photo © Cheron Bayna.
can’t wait to see what new opportunities will arrive in the fall. With donor support for everything from virtual technology to materials for hands-on art making kits, these and other innovative initiatives throughout the museum system will continue to serve communities and schoolchildren near and far. “I’m looking forward to opening doors—or windows, if you will—to engage online with classrooms around the state,” LaBorwit says. “We’ve all learned new skills, and I think we can impact those communities that we haven’t reached before.”
To support distance and virtual learning initiatives at the museums and historic sites, contact: Museum of Indian Arts and Culture: Jamie Clements, 505.216.0826 or Jamie@museumfoundation.org
Fagre at the folk art museum adds, “We had been wondering how we can serve an international audience better, people who can never come to the museum. We started on a strategic plan about a year ago, and one of the big goals was to increase our digital presence. And suddenly here it is. It’s a really important part of our mission now.”
New Mexico History Museum and New Mexico Historic Sites: Yvonne Montoya, 505.216.1592 or Yvonne@museumfoundation.org
After seeing how the history museum has increased its reach to students from Alamogordo to Santa Fe, LaBorwit
New Mexico Museum of Art: Kristin Graham, 505.216.1199 or Kristin@museumfoundation.org
Museum of International Folk Art: Caroline Crupi, 505.216.0829 or Caroline@museumfoundation.org
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The Legacy of Tom Catron Reflections on the Foundation
Museum of New Mexico Foundation Founder Tom Catron died May 1, 2020, at age 98. His involvement with the Foundation and support of the Museum of New Mexico system continued throughout his life. Following his death, we combed through old interviews with Catron and conducted new ones with Foundation members who knew him best. What follows is a loosely told oral history of Catron’s legacy, along with reflections on the past, present and future of the Foundation.
The Players Tom Catron, founder and trustee emeritus, former chair, (1962–1987) Saul Cohen, trustee emeritus, former chair (1996–1998) Jerry Richardson, trustee, former chair (1995–1996) Marian Silver, trustee emeritus, former chair (1990–1992) Sue Ann Snyder, Foundation executive director (1994–2002)
Our Humble Beginnings Tom Catron: Seriously, the only thing I did to help was just to talk to people and explain that there had to be some source for money. Jerry Richardson: Tom did all the legal work of getting us incorporated and creating bylaws. He was always a visionary for what would be important to our state and the culture here. Catron: We made a list of reasons why the Foundation was formed: to raise grant money, acquire collections objects, run museum shops, develop public support through museum memberships, and solicit legislative help and general museum support. Saul Cohen: There are people who talk on the one hand, and people who do things on the other. They can be combined in one person. And Tom was a leader in a very unpretentious way. Sue Ann Snyder: When we started the Planned Giving Society, we wanted to name it after him. We went to ask him very, very carefully, could we please use his name, and call it the Tom Catron Giving Society? And he just looked at us, and he laughed. And he said, ‘Well, you know, there’s a lot of places in New Mexico where Catron still isn’t a good name!’ He declined in the most gentle possible way. Marian Silver: He wanted to ensure that there was an endowment so that the museum would continue way into the future. That was his goal. He was very successful. Cohen: I can remember when there were no employees, and then there came to be one! Silver: The first office they had was in a building that was once the Elks Club, I believe. It was sort of like a mom-and-pop operation.
Expanding Our Reach Richardson: Our ability to raise money for the museums has grown hugely. When I got on the board, we had a little over $2 million in the endowment. And now it’s over $20 million. Top to bottom: Tom Catron, Saul Cohen, Jerry Richardson, Marian Silver, Sue Ann Snyder.
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Foundation Milestones
Snyder: We went through a planning process to really redefine the mission, and not be so beholden to the museum for our own policy decisions. We felt, as we grew, that we needed to be a stronger institution, so we could be our own organization in charge of our own future. In that way, we could gain more respect in the community and be able to attract really good trustees.
1962: Thomas B. Catron III establishes the Museum of New Mexico Foundation to raise funds for state museum system
Cohen: It has slowly grown, which may be the best possible way. I do believe that evolution is always better than revolution.
1964: Foundation launches membership program with $10 annual fee
Silver: It just amazes me what a huge force it’s been for Santa Fe. Richardson: Tom was the one who negotiated with Georgia O’Keeffe to get the Bear Lake painting that we donated to the art museum. And those were not easy negotiations. When she turned us down at first, the story I heard from Tom was that he just went back and said, ‘Well, we still want another one.’ He kept the long view in mind. Snyder: I was privileged to be able to shepherd the Foundation through its teenage years, when we placed the licensing program and the planned giving program and we completed the Museum Hill project. We got a lot done because we were growing and defining what our role vis-à-vis the museums should be.
Building Our Future Cohen: The Museum of New Mexico and all its component parts has become one of the top museum systems in the country. And that’s thanks to the support that has been given by the Foundation. Richardson: We’ve definitely expanded our range of services and support. Museums are one of our most important cultural assets here. We are these repositories of information and culture that need to be maintained. Snyder: Arts and humanities make a full person. They matter. Museums have a huge role: to be able to step in, to inspire fun, to teach history, to groom the eye for art. I think the future of museums is even more important in current times, especially as education struggles with a lot of issues that they never had to struggle with. Catron: The Foundation was essential back then, and it’s essential now. The museums might continue physically without it, but the heart of the museums — the art, the exhibits, the education — couldn’t be done without it. To make a gift to the Thomas B. Catron III and June Ellis Catron Endowment Fund, contact Jamie Clements at Jamie@museumfoundation.org or 505.216.0826.
1963: Catron begins 25-year run as board chair; first donation of $251.30 is received
1966: Foundation opens first Museum Shop in Museum of Fine Arts basement 1971: Foundation assets reach $220,500 1973: Museum Shop sales, including at the Palace of the Governors, reach $122,926 1983: Foundation assets reach $2.1 million 1986: Foundation hires first executive director to oversee 16 paid employees 1987: Museum of Indian Arts and Culture opens with a Museum Shop inside 1988: Foundation aids Friends of the Palace in purchasing Segesser Hide paintings 1995: A $2 million gift from the estate of Santa Fe fiber artist Maggy Ryan is received 2000: Endowment funds of $250,000 each are created for four state museums 2001: Planned giving program launched 2003: Foundation creates Thomas B. Catron III Endowment fund 2008: Foundation raises $13.5 million for Shape the Future Campaign to build the New Mexico History Museum 2016: Foundation launches Centennial Campaign for New Mexico Museum of Art; receives largest cash gift in its history of $4 million to build Vladem Contemporary 2017: Foundation gifts Georgia O’Keeffe’s 1931 painting Desert Abstraction (Bear Lake) to New Mexico Museum of Art 2018: Foundation’s five Museum Shops generate record $3.3 million in sales 2018-19: Foundation marks $9.9 million in earned and contributed revenues 2019: Foundation launches the $10 million Campaign for New Mexico History, its first-ever statewide campaign 2020: Foundation manages 31 endowments valued at more than $23 million
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Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Past Present: G Precious and Nacha Mendez
A Virtual Leap
Get Online
“So much is unknown, right?” says Matthew Martinez, deputy director of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.
newmexico.org/virtualconcerts On June 26, the final virtual concert in the Our Fair New Mexico series celebrated Pride month, pairing the state’s queen of Latin music, Nacha Mendez, with G Precious, a hip-hop artist and DJ from Ohkay Owingeh. If you missed it, there’s still time to listen online. The two performances are beautifully distinct. G Precious opens the halfhour by rapping under the 24-foot bronze Apache Mountain Spirit Dancer sculpture on Museum Hill. “And we rise,” she calls out, joined by dancers and percussionists in traditional dress. Later, Mendez plays guitar and sings soulful ballads against the sun-warmed museum entrance.
Native Treasures Goes Online
He’s discussing the museum’s brave leap into the void of virtual art markets. Between June 19 and 28, Native Treasures—an annual twoday extravaganza featuring the work of 200 Native artists, traditionally held during Memorial Day weekend at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center—went online as an auction. The event served as a digital replacement for the in-person silent and live auctions typically held on the Friday night prior to the weekend art market. It was the first Museum of New Mexico Foundation fundraiser to go completely virtual. Beautiful Sky (detail) by Kathleen Wall (Jemez), the 2020-21 MIAC Living Treasure award recipient. Photo courtesy of the artist.
These New Mexico Music Awardwinners represent the spectrum of the state’s musical heritage. G Precious began writing lyrics at age 6, performing with her brother and cousin. Mendez learned ranchera songs from her grandmother and later played in New Mexico’s first all-girl punk band. The presentation is a collaboration between the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, New Mexico Arts and the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.
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“The Native Treasures auction had a varied purpose: to give artists an opportunity to sell their work, benefit financially and gain visibility, and to support the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, since our fundraising efforts for them are really at a standstill,” says Foundation President/CEO Jamie Clements. “Additionally, we represent as many as 500 Native artists at our Museum Shops, some of which remain closed.” All sales opportunities for artists—including the 2020 Indian Market—rapidly dried up beginning last spring with the COVID-19 shutdown, taking a heavy toll on artists who rely on that income. For the Native artists who benefited from half of the total Native Treasures auction proceeds, there was nothing to lose by taking sales online. Kathleen Wall, the 2020 recipient of the Native Treasures MIAC Living Treasure award, sold several items in the auction. After seeing her planned solo exhibition at the museum postponed, she says, “I’m just glad that something happened, because this is a really crazy time. I think every artist has their own story, a different way of marketing their work and making things happen. We’re all forced to work a little harder in contacting clients now. It’s a whole different ball game. It’s going to be challenging.” The auction generated over $100,000 in registrations, bids, donations and sponsorships, with more than $60,000 of that total benefiting the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. Of the 164 auction items on offer, 83 sold. Martinez says that getting into online fundraising is a “win-win” for the artists and for the museum. “It’s a learning curve, but the museum is really excited about the opportunities for artists to sell their works,” he says. The digital initiative held advantages for the Foundation as well. Between Foundation members and the greater Museum of Indian Arts and Culture community, the Foundation was able to cast a wider net than usual in promoting Native Treasures. A total of $2,480 in tickets were sold. The potential of reaching a homebound online audience has both the museum and the Foundation excited about future virtual fundraising opportunities.
Strata V Cuff, sterling silver, gold and diamond bracelet by Maria Samora (Taos). Photo © Brad Wilson.
“It’s very plausible we could reach new people in surrounding states and regions that wouldn’t have the opportunity to be here for Native Treasures anyway,” Martinez says. “This is something we will be pursuing as an online platform at least through this next year.” Indeed, this new online auction platform will enable the Collector’s Sale, also benefiting the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, to go digital in the future. “Fiscal Year 2021 will be a year of uncertainty for the Foundation and the Museum of New Mexico,” says Clements. “Yet we are determined to find creative and innovative ways to fulfill our mission to support the state museum system.”
Plans for future events, though current as of July 31 press time, are subject to change. To support the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, contact Jamie Clements at 505.216.0826 or Jamie@museumfoundation.org.
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Museum of International Folk Art Past Present: A Designer’s Universe Get Online internationalfolkart.org
The Fabric of Life—Online Weaving a World of Relationships Leave it to the Dutch to spark a new art movement.
Did you miss Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe during its 2019 run at the Museum of International Folk Art?
Last spring, the Metropolitan Museum of Art was inspired by the creative reinterpretations of classic artworks on the Dutch Instagram account @tussenkunstenquarantaine, which means “between art and quarantine.” The museum urged followers to submit their own works modeled after those in its online collection. Soon, museums around the country followed suit, including the Museum of International Folk Art.
A wonderfully rendered 3D experience of the entire exhibition is online through 2021, meticulously filmed by 5D Photography as it was installed in the museum’s Cotsen Gallery.
When the crowd-sourced quarantine art contest sponsored by Santa Fe nonprofit Vital Spaces went online in May, creative submissions using the hashtag #NMTwinning came from all corners of New Mexico. The folk art museum proved a particularly fitting partner. After all, the democratic nature of the project is the very definition of folk art.
Every inch of each panel and case is discoverable via a walk-through tour, which includes hotspot links to more information about Girard and his long career as a textile designer and folk art collector. There’s also a lively time-lapse video of the installation process of A Designer’s Universe. This traveling retrospective organized by Germany’s Vitra Design Museum was never more at home than at the Museum of International Folk Art, which houses the Alexander and Susan Girard Collection.
@prismaterra, otherwise known as Santa Fe artist Ileana Alarcon, took one of the top three prizes selected among the project’s participating museums, including six in Santa Fe. Alarcon reinterpreted a bright woven Colombian hammock in the folk art museum’s collection, reworking the hammock pattern into a face mask. Her Instagram submission is a photo of the artist wearing the mask. Alarcon’s caption reads, “My reinterpretation of a beautiful hammock from Colombia, the country from which my parents emigrated. My heart goes out to all immigrants and their children who are luchando for a better life, and whom this pandemic has hit very hard.” Since the onset of COVID-19, the #NMTwinning contest is one of a number of online experiences the Museum of International Folk Art has promoted, all of which are focused on drawing visitors to the museum’s collections and cultural offerings. Moifa.org is a portal to hours of divergent immersions, including links to a virtual tour of Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe and a Google 360 view of Multiple Visions: A Common Bond; access to DIY folk art projects and bilingual lesson plans for families and teachers; and a number of thoughtful blog essays by museum docents about their favorite pieces in the collection. Those essays emphasize the intimate relationships that folk art can forge with viewers worldwide, even through phone and computer screens. In her examination of Herón Martínez Mendoza’s Puebla, Mexico, market scenes (part of Multiple Visions), docent Edelma Huntley writes about the captivating liveliness of the figures: “Most of Martínez’s market-goers have completed their purchases, pausing for refreshments with others on similar errands. The
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Left: The Vital Spaces #NMTwinning project inspired Artist Ileana Alarcon to reinterpret a Columbian hammock from the Museum of International Folk Art collection as a mask. Right: Hammock, South America, Colombia, c. 20th century, cotton. Gift of Elizabeth King Black.
juxtaposition of figures implies dialogue, conversations between vendors and customers. Market-goers and sellers become both actors and spectators, engaging in dialogue with each other, simultaneously watching the interplay between others in a public space reminiscent of a theatrical set. Representing actual marketplaces, Martínez’s market scenes are little theatres, depicting local customs and culture, and documenting the migration of food from one culture to another.” Even after reopening, increased Web offerings will continue to be woven into the fabric of the museum’s outreach and communications. In the meantime, staff members focused this summer on mounting a future physical exhibition in the Gallery of Conscience that, whenever the museum reopens, will be especially timely: a show of face masks. “The idea is to look at global artistic engagement with the coronavirus by focusing on masks,” says Amy Groleau, the museum’s curator of Latin American and Caribbean
collections. “In the spirit of the Gallery of Conscience, this show is meant to be responsive, something that will grow and evolve over time. So unlike other galleries, it will not be finished at opening.” Funding is needed for the mask exhibition, as well as for materials required to mount the future exhibition Dressing with Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia. Dressing with Purpose focuses on three dress traditions—Swedish folkdräkt, Norwegian bunad, and Sámi gákti. If COVID restrictions allow, it will be the museum’s centerpiece exhibition this winter.
Plans for future exhibitions, though current as of July 31 press time, are subject to change. To support the Museum of International Folk Art, contact Caroline Crupi at 505.216.0829 or Caroline@museumfoundation.org.
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New Mexico History Museum Past Present: Voices of Counterculture in the Southwest Get Online https://www.museumfoundation. org/online-event-recordings/ A pair of co-curators and a new museum director don’t often get the chance to reflect together on an exhibition nearly three years after its successful run. But that’s exactly what Meredith Davidson Schweitzer, Jack Loeffler and New Mexico History Museum director Billy Garrett did recently in a Conversation with the Curators video hosted by the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. “That was, to me, the most meaningful exhibition I ever worked on in my life,” remembers Loeffler, “and it’s especially relevant now, in this time.” If you missed it, you still have a chance to view it online. Schweitzer and Loeffler take a tour, via Zoom, through the exhibition, exchanging thoughts about the significance of certain items.
Museums Are Us
Documenting a Living History “We’re all historians now,” says New Mexico state historian Robert Martinez. “We’re all doing things that are going to shape how future generations look at us and learn from us.” He’s talking—of course—about the age of COVID-19. One of the pandemic-inspired practices is a resurgence of diary keeping. A new initiative from the New Mexico History Museum’s Fray Angélico Chávez History Library is The Quarantine Diaries Collection, which relies on New Mexicans to document their lives in the time of coronavirus. The aim is to capture different experiences using vivid primary-source storytelling. “Last Tuesday I cut my friend’s hair,” begins a poem by Hedda Saltz. A recording of her reading it is on the history museum’s YouTube account. “We both wore stuffy masks. I brought my sharpest scissors and we sat inside because of the cold. I cut her curly hair in her kitchen… I would never have touched her soft curls before the salons all locked down.”
Aliyah Martinez contributed these personal reflections to The Quarantine Diaries Collection, the New Mexico History Museum’s community documentation of life during the pandemic. Photo courtesy Fray Angélico Chávez History Library.
Later in the program, Garrett digs deeper in a one-on-one Q&A with Loeffler about his reflections on the counterculture era and its resonant effect on New Mexico culture.
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The YouTube clip emphasizes an important difference between the diaries being recorded today and those from the 1918 flu pandemic. First-person accounts are now taking many forms, including personal videos, songs, poems and social media posts. They make up the “living” in the concept of living history, Martinez says. “Our museums are important now more than ever because they are us,” he says. “They are living museums. Our museums aren’t about relics or old people and old things, they’re about us.” Kathleen Dull, the museum librarian spearheading the project, says submissions can take any creative form, from graphic novels to letters. Thus far, the museum has collected accounts ranging from children to college classes. Even museum receptionist Angela Gibbs and her two kids, ages 6 and 11, pitched in. In her diary, Gibbs writes, “I pray for all of those who are in fear, those with high anxiety, those with any health situations, but mostly for all this to come to an end.” The library is accepting submissions through the end of the year for an upcoming virtual exhibition titled The Quarantine Diaries Collection. The diaries will also be available through the University of New Mexico Digital Libraries and on New Mexico Digital Collections. Participants must submit a release form giving the museum license to use their account. Dull says funding opportunities are abundant for The Quarantine Diaries Collection. Mounting an online exhibition is a considerable challenge for the museum, which is in need of digital file storage solutions and computers that can handle sizeable files. Another item on Dull’s wish list is a large-format scanner, which would allow for further digitization of the library’s collection. Plans for future exhibitions, though current as of July 31 press time, are subject to change. To support the New Mexico History Museum, contact Yvonne Montoya at Yvonne@museumfoundation.org or 505.216.1592.
Spring Fever Kelly Cowan what day is it? hard to know the mail is delivered on Sunday now don’t need to go outside today my prowler garb gloves, mask, hoodie sits by the door rediscovered bored games & baking bread stocked up on flour grocery stores are the new nightclubs yellow tape cordons off lines that wind around the corner bulked up guy lets a few move forward & holds back the rest zoom - once a word that took us places now we all zoom so we can stay in one place in Brady Bunch formation helicopters circle overhead pent-up protestors percolate on the plaza (again) down the road Mayor Hicks buying 357 Magnum cartridges shouts, “We’re not gonna do it anymore,” further down the road at the mayor’s request riot control act closes all roads into the “Heart of Indian Country” spring is sweeping across the US
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New Mexico Museum of Art Past Present: Grace Notes Get Online https://vimeo.com/mnmf In March and April, the first months of the COVID-19 museum shutdown, New Mexico Museum of Art photography curator Katherine Ware selected a group of images from social media that reflect a pandemicinduced shift in perspective. If you missed Grace Notes the first time, you can still view it online. The photographers focus on slight, seemingly everyday gestures and surreal glances that show the weight of each moment at home. In Eirik Johnson’s What day is it again?, the camera looms down on a child’s abundant “quarantine hair.” Aziza Murray’s Thank you to whoever did this sweet thing, dated March 31, frames the simple elegance of a chalk rainbow on a weedy sidewalk.
The Art of Sharing Managing our Times Online
Brad Trone assembled ten Trader Joe’s shopping bags into a robot figure. Rosemary Meza-DesPlas sewed gray strands of human hair onto black twill fabric and called it Twelve Angry Women. And Keith Boadwee painted a bright oil on canvas depicting a goldfish in a bowl smoking a cigarette. What do these artists have in common? They all posted their creations to Instagram with the hashtag #NMAWhatsInside. By doing so, their work was featured in What’s Inside, a crowd-sourced digital exhibition organized by Merry Scully, the New Mexico Museum of Art’s head of curatorial affairs. “Protracted time inside allows for extended observation of our surroundings and seems to encourage more frequent, and uninterrupted, internal dialogues,” Scully writes in the introduction. “Odd Rosemary Meza-DesPlas (@rosemarymezadesplas), Twelve Angry Women, 2018. Hand-sewn human gray hair on black twill fabric.
“Whether created on a windowsill, on a walk, or in an artist’s studio,” Ware writes, “these images capture the subdued quality of this worrisome time, when we are newly awakened to our immediate surroundings and the quiet moments of beauty and grace in our busy lives.”
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online collection artworks. Sponsored by Vital Spaces, the project drew participation from six Santa Fe museums. Scully served as a juror. Five winners were announced weekly in May, with three overall winners chosen at month’s end. According to Scully, the overarching idea behind every project has been to keep visitors engaged with the museum and its collections during the pandemic. Her team members were extraordinarily nimble in implementing online initiatives. For example, within the first week of staff working from home, assistant curator Jana Gottschalk began soliciting submissions for Now!, a crowd-sourced show of immediate responses to the pandemic. The Museum of New Mexico Foundation has sponsored most of these online projects, but funding opportunities remain. The museum has need of a professional videographer to help elevate production values, as well as more advanced audiovisual and computer equipment. Currently, staff members are using their own phones, home wifi connections, free Zoom accounts and personal computers to mount Web-based projects. Brad Trone (@bradtrone), Untitled (Grocery Bags), 2020.
things are amplified, meanings are changed and perspectives are altered.” What’s Inside is one of a deluge of virtual initiatives conceived by curators after last spring’s COVID-19 closure of the art museum. These online innovations include: • Digital exhibitions like The Solitary Figure, featuring 20th century works from the collection that depict isolation and introspection, and Grace Notes, which used Instagram crowd-sourcing to compile images of beauty and grace. • In Gallery Conversation, interviews with the five New Mexico artists featured in Alcoves 20/20 on the museum’s YouTube channel. • #NMTwinning, a social media-based community art competition with cash prizes for reinterpretations of
Museum work during COVID-19 has highlighted “what a good team I work with,” says Scully. “We were able to adapt pretty quickly and to be agile about trying to find solutions.” Even after reopening, the museum will continue to focus on digital exhibitions and education. This fall, art lovers can look forward to two new exhibitions: A Fiery Light: Will Shuster’s New Mexico and For America: The Art of the National Academy. “We want to stay on people’s radars however we can,” Scully says. “So much of what we do is about sharing.”
Plans for future exhibitions, though current as of July 31 press time, are subject to change. To support the New Mexico Museum of Art, contact Kristin Graham at Kristin@museumfoundation.org or 505.216.1199.
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New Mexico Historic Sites Past Present: Marlon Magdalena at Jemez Pueblo
Camp Connections
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Undeniably, one of the best assets of New Mexico’s eight historic sites is their location: statewide.
newmexico.org/virtualconcerts Not many concert videos are as evocative as the Our Fair New Mexico virtual concert streamed live from Jemez Historic Site on May 1, now available to watch online. Among the sunny ruins of the San José de los Jemez mission church, Jemez Pueblo musician and educator Marlon Magdalena plays a colorful array of handmade traditional flutes, explaining the maker and origin of each instrument. The show rolls performance together with cultural and musical education, complete with transportive flute songs (“Jemez Sunrise,” “A Hunter’s Journey,” “Jemez Warrior Honor Song”) that celebrate pueblo customs. The nearly 50-minute video is an unforgettable lesson in Native flute traditions and artisans. The presentation is a collaboration between Jemez Historic Site, New Mexico Historic Sites and the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.
History Happens Online
But when COVID-19 shut down the sites last spring, access to those prized places was abruptly cut off—not only for schoolchildren looking forward to field trips, but for road-trippers and history buffs planning summer visits. In the meantime, however, with the new Virtual Summer Camp set up by Historic Sites staff, anyone with an internet connection can explore New Mexico history and culture from home. Featuring video content that was updated daily from all eight sites between June 8 and the end of July, the online camp features lessons about life at the individual sites for both kids and adults. All the videos, lessons and activities will stay on the Web past summertime, offering a perpetual store of information. Presented by a rotating cast of staff members, including rangers, instructional coordinators and costumed living history re-enactors, the videos capture the stories, science and history behind the state’s historic sites. They also offer glimpses into the atmospheric details that define each place. Los Luceros instructional coordinator Carlyn Stewart says that virtual lesson plans were already in various stages of development at the different sites when the pandemic hit. The sites quickly came together to create cohesive but distinct all-ages online content. It was a longoverdue initiative that always seemed to be eclipsed by the daily demands of running in-person programs, Stewart says. “It was a pretty good opportunity to devote time to all of those materials and make them available,” she says. The Virtual Summer Camp is organized by days of the week, with each site showcasing its own assets on assigned days, including: Mondays: Plants of the Chihuahuan Desert, a series of botanical lessons and activities from Fort Selden and Taylor-Mesilla sites. Tuesdays: Music with Marlon, featuring explorations and performances of traditional New Mexico music with tribal member Marlon Magdalena at Jemez Historic Site. Wednesdays: Wild West Adventures, detailing the colorful history of Lincoln County, told by staff from Lincoln and Fort Stanton Historic Sites.
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Eldon Vita, a ranger at Jemez Historic Site, at the waffle garden at Los Luceros Historic Site. Vita constructed the garden for the Saturday Summer Fun segment of the New Mexico Historic Sites Virtual Summer Camp. Photo Š Carlyn Stewart.
Thursdays: A Glimpse of Life on the Reservation, exploring Navajo and Mescalero Apache life at Fort Sumner Historic Site and the Bosque Redondo Memorial. Fridays: Campfire Stories with Carlyn Stewart, folk and historical tales under a signature Los Luceros canopy of early summer cottonwoods. Saturdays: Coronado Historic Site presents a grab bag of hands-on activities that focus on culture, nature or history. The Virtual Summer Camp videos are funded in part by the Museum of New Mexico Foundation’s ongoing Campaign for New Mexico History, which launched in fall 2019. The campaign aims to raise a total of $10 million over three years, which will benefit programming and historic preservation at the New Mexico Historic Sites and the New Mexico History Museum.
This fall, if COVID-19 restrictions allow, New Mexico Historic Sites plans to present a limited program of events. Among the tentatively planned offerings are the living history performance, Buffalo Soldiers: A Proud Legacy, at Fort Selden on September 26. And on October 17, Coronado Historic Site presents Fiesta of Cultures, a free fair of demonstrations and performances. For updated or additional information, go to: nmhistoricsites.org/calendar. renewal
Plans for future events, though current as of July 31 press time, are subject to change. To support the New Mexico Historic Sites, contact Yvonne Montoya at Yvonne@museumfoundation.org or 505.216.1592.
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Office of Archaeological Studies Layers in the Learning Providing Experiential Education
Four hundred ceramic pots. Six hundred tiles made from native clay. And one week of at-home archaeological lessons. That’s what went into the 200 Project Archaeology boxes distributed by the Office of Archaeological Studies to libraries statewide this summer. The kits, called Making and Breaking Pots, are part of the Department of Cultural Affairs Summer Youth Program. While much of that program’s content is virtual, the archaeology offerings are grounded in physical, experiential learning. “We’re trying to give kids an alternative to screen time,” says Office of Archaeological Studies ethnobotanist Mollie Toll. Toll helped conceive and assemble the kits with her osteologist colleague, Caitlin Ainsworth, and a group of volunteers who make up the Project Archaeology team. It’s all under the umbrella of the Office of Archaeological Studies award-winning Education Outreach Program, Dr. Sherill Spaar and her colleagues assemble take-home education kits distributed by the Office of Archaeological Studies.
which is supported in part by gifts from private donors to the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. One of Project Archaeology’s main goals is for kids to be self-guided by the enclosed directions in the kits, though parents also received a page of troubleshooting instructions. Toll emphasizes the importance of children having control over their own lessons. “There’s all kinds of really nice research that shows when kids reflect on their own process in an open-ended way, they do much more learning,” she says. “There are layers after layers in there of critical thinking skills, literacy skills and math skills.” One activity involves two kinds of dirt and a jar. Students are instructed to add water, investigate the layers that form, and see what conclusions can be drawn. Another lesson directs kids to make an inventory of the vessels in their homes and compare them to the pots and tiles included in the kit. With an emphasis on rural and tribal libraries, 50 boxes went to libraries in northern New Mexico, while the rest made their way to points south. “We’re banking on those librarians knowing their community,” Toll notes, explaining the importance of hands-on Project Archaeology lessons going to families who are most eager for them. With a laugh, Toll recalls one model student she encountered last spring. “I put a science kit in the front seat of a car,” she says, “and this kid unbuckled his seatbelt and dove into the seat.” To support education programs at the Office of Archaeological Studies, contact Jamie Clements at 505.216.0826 or Jamie@museumfoundation.org.
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Corporate Partner Spotlight Santa Fe New Mexican
An Independent Voice of Support The 17-decade history of the Santa Fe New Mexican is proudly embedded in its brand. “The West’s Oldest Newspaper” has faithfully brought northern New Mexico the daily news from Territorial times through statehood, during two World Wars, and from the last century’s pandemic to the current one. Although times have never been tougher for independently owned local newspapers, the New Mexican is riding out the COVID-19 storm. New Mexican marketing director Henry Lopez says that despite the paper’s decreased revenue and reduced staff, its Web traffic has increased by 50 percent since the pandemic’s onset. “It’s proof positive that folks see us as their resource,” Lopez says. Lopez called one of the newspaper’s main missions “a stewardship of the cultural life and economy of Santa Fe,” though northern New Mexico’s relationship with the New Mexican is equally strong. “We take seriously our role in helping the folks who help the community,” he says. The New Mexican annually gives close to a quarter of a million dollars to a long list of area nonprofits, including the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. As a Premier Corporate Partner of the Foundation, the New Mexican is a significant voice of support for the Museum of New Mexico system and its cultural community. “It’s just a match that makes a lot of sense,” Lopez says, adding that, in their respective missions to support arts and culture, the goals of the Foundation and the New Mexican “dovetail nicely.” While reporting the news in 2020 has become much more difficult, Lopez says the New Mexican is committed to providing a vital community service. Most of the newsroom has worked from home since the spring. Reporters interview subjects through masks, Zoom and over the phone. Photographers maintain social distance with longer lenses. Editors and designers shape pages in isolation. Day after day, as it has since 1849, the New Mexican goes to press.
The Santa Fe New Mexican, a corporate partner of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, makes its daily print run before being distributed to readers throughout northern New Mexico. Photo courtesy Santa Fe New Mexican.
“You have frontline workers in every department coming up with different ideas about how to make things run more efficiently,” Lopez says. In an era of conglomerates that regularly gobble up small newspapers, reducing regional news, and blurring the boundaries between journalism and revenue, the local, independent focus of the New Mexican feels more valuable than ever. In keeping with its tradition of community service, the paper lowered its paywall through the pandemic, making coronavirus coverage free online. “Because the ownership lives here, because the management lives here, we have a better perspective,” Lopez says. “Much of northern New Mexico is a news desert. If we aren’t paying attention to it, nobody else is going to.” For information about corporate partnership, contact Mariann Lovato at 505.216.0849 or Mariann@museumfoundation.org.
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Notable News and Events Supporting Tribal Families
A Safe Reopening
In the spirit of community collaboration, the Museum of New Mexico Foundation recently donated 300 family memberships to Native American Professional Parent Resources (NAPRR) in support of the tribal families they serve.
Retail looks very different in a COVID-19 world, and the Museum of New Mexico Foundation Shops are no exception.
“The Foundation wanted to give back to the greater New Mexico community during this difficult COVID-19 time,” says Foundation President/CEO Jamie Clements. “We hope that a membership and its experiences will be an opportunity for learning and provide a bright spot in people’s lives.” Based in Albuquerque, the nationally recognized nonprofit offers Early Intervention, Early Head Start, Tribal Home Visiting and Dental Support Center services. For more than 38 years, the organization has empowered, educated and provided these support services at no cost as a way to build healthy children and families in both rural and urban communities, including children from newborn to 5 years old as well as prenatal mothers. Services are also available for infants and toddlers with, or at risk for, developmental disabilities.
“We’re not the same old shops,” says Sara Birmingham, Foundation retail vice president. Before the July 7 reopening of the downtown shops—at the New Mexico Museum of Art and New Mexico History Museum—staff members cleaned and rearranged stores, setting up clearer entry and exit points, which are accessed from the street rather than inside the museums. Large red stickers on the floors guide visitors to social distance. Hand sanitizer is at the ready, and free masks are on offer. “We don’t want to turn anyone away,” says Birmingham. Shop hours are Tuesday to Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Occupancy restrictions allow three people at a time in the Museum of Art shop and 12 people in the History Museum shop.
Each year, NAPRR staff and specialized providers reach thousands of families across New Mexico with a concentration in Bernalillo, Cibola, Sandoval and Valencia counties.
Priorities in merchandising have also shifted. Web traffic during the pandemic indicated an increased demand for family-oriented craft and puzzle products. The advent of masks is offering new opportunities in apparel.
Photo courtesy NAPRR
The shops are focusing on new ways to forge lasting customer relationships. “We’re connecting with humanity, people to people, as much as possible,” Birmingham says. “Trying to stay connected to visitors after they leave the state is an important part of building business on our website after they go home.” Shop purchases support the Foundation in supporting the Museum of New Mexico system. Members receive a 15 percent discount on purchases through October 31. For more information on the Museum Shops, or to shop online, visit shopmuseum.org.
Ways to Give In this challenging time, the Museum of New Mexico Foundation is relying almost exclusively on membership dues and annual fund gifts to fund our operations, including the support services we provide to the state museum system. Your membership—new or renewed—or your gift to the annual fund are our lifeline right now. To thank you, we have added the following membership benefits: • One free month, 13 months of membership • 15% off at the Museums Shops (usually 10%) and at shopmuseum.org (valid through October 31, 2020) • Online members-only events every 4-6 weeks • Enhanced Member E-News • Virtual events and activities at museumfoundation.org/virtual-visit • Online event calendar at museumfoundation.org • Free hand sanitizer with Foundation logo for members at the Shops
We are tremendously grateful for your support in any of these areas:
Membership Support the Museum of New Mexico Foundation’s ability to deliver essential services to our 13 partner cultural institutions while offering enjoyable member benefits.
The Circles Leadership-level membership that gives members access to a series of exclusive events.
Circles Explorers A Circles membership group whose members explore the art, culture and history of New Mexico through active, adventurous cultural excursions and other unique experiences.
Corporate Partner and Business Council Support the museums through your business and receive recognition and member benefits for your business, clients and employees.
Annual Fund To join, renew or make an annual fund gift, visit museumfoundation.org or call 505.982.6366 ext. 100.
Provide critical operating support for the Museum of New Mexico Foundation to fulfill its mission on behalf of our 13 partner cultural institutions.
Museum of New Mexico Foundation Staff EXECUTIVE OFFICE Jamie Clements Jamie@museumfoundation.org Francesca Moradi 505.216.0826 Francesca@museumfoundation.org
DEVELOPMENT Jamie Clements
Yvonne Montoya
New Mexico History Museum New Mexico Historic Sites
505.216.1592 Yvonne@museumfoundation.org
GRANTS Peggy Hermann 505.216.0839 Peggy@museumfoundation.org
Brittny Wood 505.216.0837 Brittny@museumfoundation.org
FINANCE AND OPERATIONS Eduardo Corrales 505.216.1606 Eduardo@museumfoundation.org
MEMBERSHIP AND COMMUNICATIONS
Tammie Crowley 505.216.1619 Tammie@museumfoundation.org
Saro Calewarts 505.216.3016 Saro@museumfoundation.org
Georgine Flores 505.216.1651 Georgine@museumfoundation.org
Kristin Graham
Mariann Minana-Lovato 505.216.0849 Mariann@museumfoundation.org
Sachiko Hunter-Rivers 505.216.1663 Sachiko@museumfoundation.org
505.216.1199 Kristin@museumfoundation.org
Cara O’Brien 505.216.0848 Cara@museumfoundation.org
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Office of Archaeological Stuides
505.216.0826 jamie@museumfoundation.org Caroline Crupi
Museum of International Folk Art
505.216.0829 Caroline@museumfoundation.org New Mexico Museum of Art
SHOPS Sara Birmingham 505.216.0725 Sara@museumfoundation.org Kylie Strijek 505.216.0651 Kylie@museumfoundation.org James Wood 505.216.3137 James@museumfoundation.org
LICENSING Pamela Kelly 505.216.0614 Pamela@museumfoundation.org For a full staff list, visit: museumfoundation.org/staff
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