Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Fiscal Year Feats
$353,000
received in grants
Culture is everlasting The Long View of a Short Year
$126,000
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Executive Director Della Warrior says the downtime that resulted from the museum’s temporary closure at the end of fiscal year 2020 (July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020) is going to pay off down the road.
$48,000
“We’ve had time to pull some of this stuff together. We’ve been working on a lot of grants since the pandemic began,” Warrior says. They include a $60,000 COVID-19 emergency grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to support the creation of digital content and 2021 exhibitions.
private giving for Here, Now and Always
raised for exhibitions
$64,000
raised for education
$91,000
raised in Native Treasures online auction, Collectors’ Sale and sponsorships
$62,000
in endowment payouts
In addition to that successful grant and other in-process initiatives, the Museum of New Mexico Foundation raised an impressive total of $1,260,000 during FY2020 for exhibitions and education at the museum. A significant portion of those dollars support the ongoing renovation of the permanent exhibition Here, Now and Always, an upgrade of the 1997 installation that presents new approaches to community-based education and exhibition presentation. Though work on the renovation was halted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Warrior says the de-installation of Here, Now and Always began again in earnest this fall. Construction will follow with a grand re-opening scheduled for spring 2022. “On top of the nearly $1.5 million raised in private donations for the Here, Now and Always renovation project, FY2020 boosted total grant funding for the project to $510,000,” says Jamie Clements, Museum of New Mexico Foundation President/CEO. “This has put us on track for a spring 2022 reopening.”
“The de-installation of Here, Now and Always began again in earnest this fall.” Silver Linings Another silver lining in fiscal year fundraising came with the very first virtual Native Treasures auction in June. The $65,000 in proceeds from the auction of Native jewelry, paintings, pottery and artwork marked an auspicious beginning for the museum’s online funding ventures, which continued in late October with a virtual Native Treasures Collectors’ Sale. 6 museumfoundation.org
