Fall 2023 Member News

The Legacy Society

Giving through Time

MEMBER NEWS CONTRIBUTORS

Mariann Lovato, Managing Editor

Carmella

Steve Cantrell, Writer

LETTER TO MEMBERS

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

TRANSFORMATIONAL PHILANTHROPY

MUSEUM SHOPS

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE

MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART

NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART

NEW MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUM

NEW MEXICO HISTORIC SITES OFFICE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL

OUR MISSION

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.

We serve 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

Padilla, Writer and Editor

Jennifer Levin, Writer Saro Calewarts, Designer

Cover: A vintage photo of fiber artist Maggy Ryan, who in 1994 bequeathed $1.9 million to the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, launching our Legacy Society. MNMF file photo.

Above: Museum visitors enjoy a hands-on display at the New Mexico History Museum. Photo © Kitty Leaken Opposite: Photo by Saro Calewarts.

Dear Members,

We frequently focus Member News on the present or near term—from exhibitions that are on display or being planned, to current educational programs or those in the works, to the immediate funding needs of our 13 cultural partners.

This issue is different. On the following pages, we consider the future of the Museum of New Mexico system and Museum of New Mexico Foundation by looking to the past. Specifically, we tell the important story of how the power of planned giving helps transform and elevate our state museum system to the world-class position it enjoys today.

Our legacy giving program started in earnest in 1994 when Maggy Ryan left a $1.9 million bequest to the Foundation. At the time, this was the largest planned gift in Foundation history and it increased our endowment by 61 percent. Since then, our endowment portfolio has grown to more than $30 million, which provides annual payouts of more than $1 million. This vital investment not only supports acquisitions, exhibition development and educational programming throughout the Museum of New Mexico system, it also helps fund the Foundation’s operations.

Planned gifts can be made in many forms: bequests of cash, stock, real estate and other assets; charitable gift annuities; beneficiary designation on a retirement or life insurance plan; and art collections. Our feature story provides examples of the generous, forward-thinking donors who translated these giving tools to the artistic, cultural and educational benefit of visitors to our divisions.

All planned gifts are recognized with membership in the Foundation’s Legacy Society. Members receive special benefits and the knowledge that their gifts ensure the perpetuation of the four state museums in Santa Fe, eight historic sites statewide and the Office of Archaeological Studies for generations to come. These benefactors also enjoy knowing they support the future of the Foundation’s critical fundraising and advocacy roles on behalf of these institutions.

As you visit our state museums and historic sites this fall, please remember how these past gifts of thoughtful generosity help make your experiences there possible. Our children and grandchildren will have the same experiences thanks to the legacies that you and others leave today.

Thank you, as always, for your wonderful support of the Museum of New Mexico system and the Foundation—now and in the future.

To learn more, visit museumfoundation.org/planned-giving or contact Laura Sullivan at Laura@museumfoundation.org or 505.216.0829.

Sincerely,

Jamie Clements President/CEO

Our children and grandchildren will have the same experiences thanks to the legacies that you and others leave today.

—Jamie Clements

As chair of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation’s Legacy Society since 2018, Foundation trustee John Duncan has been integral to solidifying and expanding planned giving on behalf of the Museum of New Mexico system.

Duncan first started visiting New Mexico in 1973 and now divides his time between Santa Fe and Chicago, where he is a partner in Kozusko Harris Duncan, representing family offices, private and multi-family private trust companies, and wealth advisors. In his work with the Foundation, Duncan has shared his expertise in finance and wealth management to help build infrastructure for the Legacy Society program, including setting planned giving goals, creating a case for support for potential donors, and identifying opportunities to grow the endowments for the Foundation and its 13 partner cultural institutions.

A longtime supporter of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Duncan also provided significant support in the naming of the Foundation's museum shop. The Colleen Cloney Duncan Shop honors Duncan’s mother.

Board of Trustees 2023–2024

OFFICERS

Frieda Simons, Chair

Cathy A. Allen,Vice Chair

Michael Knight, Treasurer

Kate Moss, Secretary

VOTING TRUSTEES

Lorin Abbey

Allan Affeldt

John Andrews

David Arment

Nancy Baker

Julia Catron

Joe Colvin

Rosalind Doherty

Diane Domenici

Greg Dove

John Duncan

Gwenn Djupedal

Eric Garduño

Robert Glick

Carmen Gonzales

Pat Hall

David Hawkanson

Susie Herman

Ruth Hogan

Peggy Hubbard

Edelma Huntley

Bruce Larsen

John Macukas

Christine McDermott

Dan Monroe

Roger Montoya

Patty Newman

Michael Ogg, M.D.

Dennis A. O’Toole, Ph.D.

Sara Otto

Sabrina Pratt

Robert Reidy, M.D.

Natalie Rivera

John Rochester

Chris Ryon

Wilson Scanlan

Harriet Schreiner

Courtney Finch Taylor

Margo Thoma

Elmer Torres

Robert Vladem

Laura Widmar

David Young

Sandy Zane

Ellen Zieselman

ADVISORY TRUSTEES

Victoria Addison

Keith K. Anderson

Cynthia Bolene

Robert L. Clarke

Stockton Colt

France Córdova

Jim Davis

Joan Dayton

George Duncan

Kirk Ellis

Maria Gale

Carlos Garcia

Leroy Garcia

J. Scott Hall

Steve Harris

Stephen Hochberg

Rae Hoffacker

Barbara Hoover

Kent F. Jacobs, M.D.

David Matthews

Helene Singer Merrin

Beverly Morris

Mark Naylor

Jane O’Toole

Michael Pettit

Jerry Richardson

Judy Sherman

J. Edd Stepp

Nancy Meem Wirth

Claire Woodcock

HONORARY TRUSTEES

Anne Bingaman

Jim Duncan Jr.

John Marion

Carol Warren

Eileen A. Wells

TRUSTEES EMERITI

Saul Cohen

Bud Hamilton

James Snead

Top: Museum of New Mexico Foundation Trustee John Duncan has chaired the Foundation’s Legacy Society since 2018. Photo courtesy John Duncan.

Opposite: Maggy Ryan, the inspiration behind the Legacy Society. MNMF file photo.

The Power of Planned Giving

No one knows exactly what motivated Maggy Ryan to leave $1.9 million to the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. But when she died in 1994, her unrestricted charitable trust was the largest planned gift in the Foundation’s history, increasing its endowment by 61 percent.

Ryan spent childhood summers in New Mexico and moved to Santa Fe later in life. A talented fiber artist, she previously served on the board of the El Paso Museum of Art, where she started the children’s art program. Upon Ryan’s death, her sister, Mary Lou Cook, told the Santa Fe New Mexican the gift to the museum system was “the one thing she wanted to do.”

Jerry Richardson, a Foundation trustee since 1992, says getting such a large windfall presented “an opportunity to do something that we wouldn’t ever be able to do otherwise, so we started the Maggy Ryan Legacy Society [in 1997] in her honor. We didn’t have a formal legacy society at that point, and we wanted to incentivize planned giving at this level.”

The Foundation used Ryan’s funds to establish $100,000 endowments for each of the four museums in the Museum of New Mexico system, as well as to support the Amy Rose Bloch Wing at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture; the New Mexico History Museum’s Fray Angélico Chávez History Library and Palace of the Governors Photo Archives; and the Neutrogena Wing at the Museum of International Folk Art. The Ryan gift also helped fund the original Here, Now and Always exhibition at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.

Today it's known simply as the Legacy Society. Members receive special benefits as well as the knowledge that their future gifts help perpetuate the 13 divisions in the Museum of New Mexico system for generations to come. Planned gifts can take a variety of forms, including bequests of cash, stock, real estate and other assets; charitable gift annuities; beneficiary designation on a retirement or life insurance plan; and art collections. All provide crucial funds for capital projects, collections management, research and special exhibitions, as well as the ongoing work of the Foundation. And, in the best cases, as Ryan's and other planned gifts have shown, these can prove transformational.

Endowments Forever

When Lloyd Cotsen, the former CEO and president of the Neutrogena Corporation, gave his collection of more than 3,000 objects to the Museum of International Folk Art in 1995, the donation necessitated the addition of approximately 9,000 square feet of exhibition and storage space. The capital project was supported by an allocation from the state, while exhibition and programming costs were contributed by private funding sources via the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. The Neutrogena Wing and its inaugural exhibition, The Extraordinary in the Ordinary, opened in 1998.

“Lloyd selected objects because they pleased him, and he had a rather discerning eye,” says Charlene Cerny, director of the Museum of International Folk Art from 1983 to 1999. Cotsen also relied on the curatorial skills of international textile expert Mary Hunt Kahlenberg, who lived in Santa Fe and often consulted for the museum. “He trusted Mary to give his collection to a museum where he didn’t live. He knew she would look after it.”

Cerny recalls many meetings in Santa Fe and Los Angeles, at Neutrogena headquarters, and months of negotiations about how the collection would be showcased. Today, Cotsen’s treasures—including global textiles and folk art works in clay, wood, metal, straw, paper and more—attract visitors and scholars with their eclecticism in museum exhibitions and Lloyd’s Treasure Chest, the museum’s unique open storage gallery.

Although many collectors want to leave their beloved objects to a museum, not every collector is aware of the maintenance costs. Cotsen’s legacy gift provided such foresight in a practical way.

“Lloyd understood, so his gift came with two endowment funds,” says Cerny. “One funded curatorial and staff salaries and the other allowed for acquisition. He knew that if you give a million dollars for an exhibition that you’re passionate about, the exhibit goes up and is gone. That exhibit can change lives—I’m not minimizing that—but if you create an endowment fund, it keeps giving forever.”

The power of endowments also has everyday relevance at the Office of Archaeological Studies’ Center for New Mexico Archaeology, where about $40,000 in annual interest from the Dr. Don E. Pierce Endowment supports several research laboratories. Pierce, a former pathologist known for his acerbic wit and flashy sense of style, retired in Santa Fe, where he was a Foundation member for 20 years, a Friends of Archaeology member and a research lab volunteer. Before Pierce died in 2013, he designated a planned gift, providing a portion of his estimated $1.7 million estate to an endowment fund and a capital fund shared by OAS and the Conservation Department of the Museum Resources Division.

“Without Pierce, our labs would not exist at the capacity that they do,” says Shelby Jones, OAS laboratory supervisor. Among the labs the gift

Top: Lloyd Cotsen left his 3,000-piece folk art collection to the Museum of International Folk Art and established two supporting endowments. Photo courtesy DCA.

Bottom: Don Pierce's endowment gift benefits research and other programs at the Office of Archaeological Studies. Photo courtesy OAS.

[BOB's] gift helped fund the build-out of the Foundation's Shonnard campus, and our conference center is named in his memory. I thank him every day when I come to work.

supports are the Osteology Laboratory, which houses the radiography studio and a bioarchaeology database of human remains in New Mexico, and the Archaeomagnetic Dating Laboratory, where Jones spends the majority of her time. More specifically, the endowment pays for research time, and the capital fund is tapped for equipment purchase and repair.

“We preserve, protect and manage the legacy of archaeomagnetism in the United States, which is the study of Earth’s ancient magnetic fields—and the subject of my doctoral thesis,” Jones explains. “We’re the repository for the entire archaeomagnetic legacy of the nation, 51,000 specimens collected since 1964.”

Unrestricted Support

Stock market analyst Robert J. Nurock was known as the “Chief Elf” on Wall Street, where he formed his own market movement theories, including the Technical Market Index, also known as the Elves Index.

Nurock joined the Museum of New Mexico Foundation in 1995 and became a trustee in 2001, sharing his deep skill set as chair of the Investment Committee until 2013. Before his death in 2017, he bequeathed the Foundation a substantial portion of his $1.4 million estate as an unrestricted legacy gift. He also left a valuable Hans Hoffman painting to the New Mexico Museum of Art.

“Bob was a kind and gentle soul,” says Jamie Clements, Foundation president and CEO. “His gift helped fund the build-out of the Foundation’s Shonnard Campus. And he provided ongoing financial support of the Foundation’s operations.”

When Nurock announced his planned gift in 2013, he emphasized the importance of supporting the Foundation’s work on behalf of the Museum of New Mexico. “While many estate gifts are designated to a particular museum,” Nurock said, “a bequest to the Foundation supports the longterm health and financial stability of the entire museum system.”

Another stalwart Foundation donor was Charmay Allred. Her cultural philanthropy was as large and legendary as her personality; known for her love of show tunes, you could often find her at a local piano bar on a Saturday night. In addition to being a long-time Foundation trustee, the noted philanthropist co-founded the International Folk Art Market, served on the boards of the Lensic Performing Arts Center, Institute for American Indian Arts Foundation, and Spanish Colonial Arts Society, and volunteered at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian and Santa Fe Symphony.

“Charmay was profoundly dedicated to art and culture, and she was the consummate volunteer and philanthropist. She was also fiercely devoted to Santa Fe,” Clements says.

Allred’s countless contributions included legacy gifts of art to museums

Top: Bob Nurock left an unrestricted gift to the Foundation as a way to benefit the entire Museum of New Mexico system. Photo © Daniel Quat Photography.

Bottom: Charmay Allred left gifts of art to the museums of New Mexico and an estate gift to the Foundation. Photo © Gabriela Marks.

Charmay was profoundly dedicated to art and culture and she was the consummate volunteer and philanthropist. She was also fiercely devoted to Santa Fe.

Building Your New Mexico Legacy

Planning a gift through the Museum of New Mexico Foundation today will make a big difference for tomorrow. Gifts of any size are welcome.

Bequests of cash, stock, real estate and other assets

A bequest allows you to remain in control of your assets during your lifetime, it costs nothing and can reduce estate tax burdens. Bequests can be a specified dollar amount, a percentage of an estate, or tangible property.

Beneficiary designation

Designate a museum, division or the Foundation as the full or partial beneficiary of a retirement or life insurance plan, bank or brokerage account.

Charitable gift annuities

A charitable gift annuity provides you with a fixed guaranteed lifetime income and allows you to receive immediate tax benefits while making an irrevocable gift to the Foundation.

Charitable remainder trust

A charitable remainder trust can give you income during your lifetime or for a term of years. Any remaining assets from the trust will be distributed to the Foundation when the trust terminates.

Donations of art

A gift of art ensures that your collection (or individual works of art) will be in the best possible care, and enjoyed by New Mexicans and visitors alike for years to come.

Outright gift

Make an outright gift through your donor advised fund, as a qualified charitable distribution from your IRA or by transferring appreciated stock.

throughout the Museum of New Mexico system. When she died in 2020, she also left an unrestricted estate gift totaling $1.9 million to support Foundation operations.

“Charmay understood what it takes to support museums, so she left unrestricted funds to the Foundation so we, in turn, could support the vital work of our state museums,” says Clements. “Gifts like Charmay’s make it possible to bring even more time and talent to our efforts.”

Funding the Future

Foundation trustee John Duncan specializes in setting up private and corporate trusts for wealthy families. As chair of the Legacy Society since 2018, he also plays a key role inspiring cultural giving today that will fund the future.

For those with significant giving capacity who are already members of the Foundation, Duncan says, “We should be talking to them about what they’re interested in supporting long-term, educating them on the needs of the museums and what a meaningful gift is.”

Equally important is inspiring new planned gifts that connect to younger donors who haven’t found their philanthropic footing.

“We have to broaden our ideas about who a donor might be," Duncan says, "it's important that we reach out to people from diverse backgrounds.”

Contact Laura Sullivan at laura@museumfoundation.org or 505.216.0829 for more information about planned giving, or consult a qualified professional advisor. Please notify us about your gift so we can honor your intent and include you in our Legacy Society.

All gifts provide crucial funds for capital projects, collections management, research and special exhibitions, as well as the ongoing work of the Foundation.

The George Duncan and Sheryl Kelsey Shop

Opening Soon at the Vladem Contemporary

When USA Today readers voted Santa Fe the country’s “Best Destination for Shopaholics” in 2015, the Museum of New Mexico Foundation’s Museum Shops surely factored in to the vote.

Were the newspaper to revisit this survey today, the new George Duncan and Sheryl Kelsey Shop at the New Mexico Museum of Art’s Vladem Contemporary would likely be a rising star in the local shopping scene.

The newest of the Foundation’s five museum shops has a “spare, contemporary feel in a palette of exposed steel, rough concrete, glass and light birch accents,” says Teresa Curl, the Foundation’s vice president of retail. The approximately 800-square-foot space was designed by the building’s principal architect, Devendra Contractor, and his firm, DNCA.

Foundation members will enjoy a year-round 10 percent discount and a free gift at the shop’s grand opening during the Vladem Contemporary’s Member Preview on September 22 and the September 23-24 public opening.

The new shop occupies a premier retail location on the south end of the museum campus, off the museum’s ground floor public arcade. A separate entrance permits its operation even when the museum is closed. Large display windows provide views of Guadalupe Street, the nearby Santa Fe Depot and the entire arcade—the site of a permanent, computer-generated LED light installation by Albuquerque-born artist Leo Villareal.

Product development for all of the Foundation’s shops is a collaborative process between Curl, the museum directors and curators. This, says Curl, “helps build the museum’s brand and ensures that our merchandise connects thematically to the collection and to upcoming exhibitions. Often, we include information about the artists or artworks that inspired them in shop displays or in product packaging.”

Curl envisions the new shop at the Vladem Contemporary to be a premium shopping destination known for sophisticated, high-design and contemporary gifts and mementos at a variety of price points. Upwards of 50 percent of the merchandise will be made by New Mexico artists, among them internationally acclaimed contemporary glass makers Elodie Holmes and Steffen Plistermann; assemblage jeweler Susan Skinner; and innovative accessories maker Erika Eckerstrand.

Curl hopes the bespoke items of local artists will attract new audiences and forge valuable ties to the community.

"A visit to an art museum can last a few hours,” she says, “but the memories that come with a museum shop purchase last a lifetime.”

Visit Our Other Museum Shops

Rosalie D. and Steven J. Harris Shop

New Mexico Museum of Art

Spiegelberg Shop

New Mexico History Museum

Lynn Godfrey Brown Shop Museum of International Folk Art

Colleen Cloney Duncan Shop Museum of Indian Arts and Culture

Sheryl Kelsey and George Duncan are the supporters behind the newly named museum shop at the Vladem Contemporary. Photo © Robert Mesa.

Inspiring Positive Change

The Della Warrior Endowment Fund

In 2017, after more than 40 years in higher education, Museum of New Mexico Foundation Trustee David Young retired from Arizona State University, where he served as vice president and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and senior vice president for academic affairs.

Young and his wife Sheila relocated to Santa Fe in 2018, a town neither had ever visited. At the couple’s first Indian Market, surrounded by more Native art than they’d ever seen in one place, David says “We fell in love with Indian Market, especially the pottery.”

Soon after, he continues, “We discovered the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, met Della [Warrior (Otoe-Missouria), the museum’s then-director], and we felt that the museum’s mission was really worth supporting.”

At the time the Youngs met Warrior, she was raising funds for renovation of the groundbreaking permanent exhibition Here, Now and Always. Impressed by the museum’s exhibitions and collections, the couple sponsored the “Community and Home” section of Here, Now and Always in honor of their late daughter, Liesel Diane.

David also immersed himself in many of the museum’s activities, such as the annual Native Treasures art market. In 2019, he was elected to the Foundation’s board of trustees. He soon joined the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture’s advancement committee, which helps raise museum funds.

At the committee’s summer 2021 meeting, Foundation President and CEO Jamie Clements broached the topic of establishing an endowment honoring the work and achievement of Warrior, who was retiring after eight years. Among the four Foundation-supported state museums, the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture’s endowments have long had the lowest principal and payouts. Warrior’s long-time goal was to increase the principal invested in those endowments to $1 million. The Della Warrior Endowment Fund would support the museum’s exhibitions, education programs and collections.

Foundation policy requires a minimum of $100,000 to establish a named endowment. Young, who was sitting next to Clements in the meeting, agreed to launch the endowment, with he and Sheila contributing the first $100,000 as a challenge grant. This came in the form of a pledge over five years via a Qualified Charitable Distribution from an IRA.

The Foundation hosted a reception at Museum Hill Café to announce the endowment’s formation along with the Youngs’ generous challenge. Of

To support the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, contact Lauren Paige at 505.982.2282 or Lauren@museumfoundation.org.

Foundation Trustee David Young and his wife Sheila contributed the initial gift that established the Della Warrior Endowment Fund. Photo by Saro Calewarts.

the many in attendance were Olga Echevarria and James Hutson-Wiley, longtime museum donors, who most recently had sponsored the “Survival and Resilience” section in Here, Now and Always. Recognizing the importance of this endowment, Echevarria and Hutson-Wiley offered their own $100,000 matching challenge from their family’s foundation.

If matched, the combined Young and Hutson-Wiley challenges of $100,000 each would generate a total of $400,000. Other dedicated museum donors, including Ildy and Skip Poliner, have since made contributions to help achieve the challenge goal, which currently requires an additional $165,000.

As the museum's only unrestricted endowment, the Della Warrior Endowment Fund complements the museum’s other endowments, collectively generating consistent, impactful support for the museum for years to come. The additional endowments include the Friends of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Exhibition Endowment (created by lead donors Uschi and Bill Butler); Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Acquisition Endowment Fund; Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Endowment for Youth Programs; and the largest fund, the Museum of New Mexico Foundation Endowment Fund for the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.

his help in establishing this important museum endowment.

“[Della] oversaw outstanding exhibitions such as Clearly Indigenous, grew the museum’s world-class collections, and most importantly, really engaged Native communities. Along with the other endowment donors, we hope that the funds raised will continue this positive movement.”

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In the summer 2014 issue of El Palacio magazine, Warrior described her dedication to the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, saying, “My life’s work has focused on bringing about positive change for Native people….My vision was to help build partnerships and collaborations with tribal museums and Native communities…to help them better understand and appreciate Native history, arts and culture.”

“These are sound reasons a fund was established at the museum in Della’s honor,” says Young—reasons that inspired

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Della Warrior was the executive director of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture for eight years. Photo © Caitlin Elizabeth Photography.

[Della] oversaw outstanding exhibitions such as Clearly Indigenous, grew the museum’s world-class collections, and most importantly, really engaged Native communities.

Investing in Education

The Girard Legacy Endowment Fund

Fun fact: an astonishing 97 percent of the people who visit Multiple Visions: A Common Bond, Alexander Girard’s installation at the Museum of International Folk Art, say they’d like to see the exhibition again.

What they generally don’t know is that the objects on view represent less than 10 percent of the entire Girard Foundation Collection, which Alexander and Susan Girard gave to the museum as a legacy gift in 1978.

Comprising some 106,000 objects from 100 countries on six continents, the collection, which largely resides in storage a floor below the installation, requires significant and ongoing preservation. So does the installation itself, which is seen by an estimated 80,000 visitors each year. Yet there is no dedicated fund to address the multitude of current and future needs of this ever-popular museum destination.

Out of need springs action. Earlier this year, as Multiple Visions marked 40 years of delighting museumgoers of all ages, museum leadership, along with the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, established the Girard Legacy Endowment Fund to serve the ongoing needs of the Girard Foundation Collection and Archives and the Multiple Visions installation.

Co-chaired by longtime museum supporter Connie Jaquith and Foundation trustee Edelma Huntley, and assisted by a volunteer committee, the campaign aims to raise $5 million—$1.5 million in cash for immediate impact and an additional $3.5 million in planned gifts.

“Three transformational gifts form the core of the museum and its global collections— Bartlett, Neutrogena/Cotsen and Girard,” says Jaquith. But while the Bartlett and Neutrogena collections came with financial endowments for their preservation and exhibition, the Girard collection did not. The Girard Legacy Fund fills the need for permanent financial support for the Girard collection and Multiple Visions installation that will both respect Girard’s original intentions and respond to visitors’ evolving expectations.

To date, the Foundation has raised over $600,000 in cash and $1.2 million in planned gifts. The campaign was launched with a sizable $300,000 bequest from the Bruce Kaliser Estate and two separate $100,000 gifts—one from Lynn Godfrey Brown and the other from the Friends of Folk Art. These were soon followed by a third contribution of $100,000 from Carl Kawaja and Gwendolyn Holcombe to establish the Elisabeth W. Alley Fund for the Girard Wing in honor of Carl's mother.

Alexander Girard and his wife Susan left their 106,000-piece folk art collection to the Museum of International Folk Art in 1978. Photo courtesy DCA.

To support the Museum of International Folk Art, contact Laua Sullivan at 505 216.0829 or Laura@museumfoundation.org.

In addition, another forward-thinking gift of $100,000 has been promised from Susan and Steven Goldstein upon their passing. Before making their home in Santa Fe, the Goldsteins’ philanthropic giving focused on youth education in Lexington, Kentucky. When attending a Girard Legacy Fund presentation, and learning that the collection provides an experiential window on the world, the couple made a generous commitment to expanding Girard’s educational reach. The fund will support new educational initiatives, including innovative technologies, lecture series, symposia and other public programming.

“I knew immediately I wanted to give to the fund because of the installation’s incredible impact on kids,” says Steven, a well-known neuroradiologist and former professor of radiology at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine.

“We are all about providing learning opportunities to young people,” adds Susan, an accomplished ceramicist and past president of the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen who is well versed in folk art. “MOIFA is an educational institution. You learn about people and other cultures. It’s a museum where you learn about humanity.”

The Goldsteins’ planned gift to the Girard endowment campaign is through a fund that the Santa Fe Community Foundation maintains on their behalf. Steven adds to the fund through a qualified charitable distribution using the required minimum distribution from his IRA. This approach allows an individual to donate up to $100,000 tax-free to charity.

The beauty of the Girard Legacy Fund is that there are countless ways to tailor your gift to your specific interests.

“The Girard Legacy Endowment Fund is an opportunity to preserve and enhance Alexander Girard’s life-changing gifts of art, imagination and scholarship," says campaign co-chair Huntley. "By contributing cash or naming the museum in your will or estate plan, you will connect more visitors from around the world to Girard’s artistic legacy.”

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 AND 17

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8 AND 22

Make & Take: Tree of Life, hands-on activity with museum docents

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14

Native Arts and Climate Change Symposium

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29

Día de los Muertos

Celebrate a Mexican tradition

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5 AND 19

Make & Take: Basket weaving, hands-on activities with museum docents

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Steven and Susan Goldstein made a $100,000 gift toward the $5 million Girard Legacy Endowment Fund at the Museum of International Folk Art. Photo courtesy Steven and Susan Goldstein.

The Girard Legacy Fund fills the need for permanent financial support for the Girard Foundation Collection and Multiple Visions installation.

Citizens of the Community

Legacy Gifts in Glass

In the early 1990s, when Arnold “Arne” and Doris Roland made a chance visit to a small-town shop in Oregon that sold studio art glass, they knew they had stumbled upon a new passion. Arne recalls he felt “weak in the knees, and I knew I needed to buy it.” His instincts were affirmed by Doris’s enthusiastic thumbs up.

After treating themselves to their first art glass piece, they journeyed on to Seattle, renowned for its important glass schools and studios. A decades-long love for collecting studio art glass was ignited that, by the early 2000s, would see their collection outgrowing their homes.

In 1994, they moved part-time to Santa Fe where, Arne recalls, “We wanted to become citizens of the community. We were most impressed by the Museum of New Mexico institutions, especially the New Mexico Museum of Art and Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.”

Knowing they wanted to share their passion for studio art glass with as many people as possible, and for generations to come, the Rolands committed to a dual-purpose legacy gift. They not only donated a significant portion of their glass collection to the Museum of Art, they established the Arnold and Doris Roland Endowment Fund for the acquisition and care of the museum’s glass collection.

The Rolands generosity gave rise to three of Santa Fe’s most talked about exhibitions. Two held at the Museum of Art—Flux: Reflections on Contemporary Glass in 2008 and The Nature of Glass in 2023—featured many works from their collection. The third, the groundbreaking 2021 Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass, displayed at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, featured five works on loan from the couple.

“People tell us that Flux took their breath away,” says Doris in describing how their gift of art has resonated with museum visitors. Arne adds that their gift recognizes Santa Fe’s own vibrant art glass community, which began in 1974 when pioneering glass artist Dale Chihuly set up a glass studio at the Institute for American Indian Arts.

The Nature of Glass, currently on view at the Museum of Art through December 31, explores how glass artists have engaged the natural world as content for their work. It also examines the nature of glass as a medium, exploring the technical and material nature of glass, the natural qualities of the medium and the process of how artists work with glass.

“We are excited to showcase the strengths of our glass collection in The Nature of Glass, thanks to the Rolands,” says Christian Waguespack, the Museum of Art’s head of curatorial affairs. “The exhibition acknowledges glass art’s growing audience."

To support the New Mexico Museum of Art, contact Alex Wilson at 505.216.0826 or Alex@museumfoundation.org.

Doris and Arnold “Arne” Roland’s endowed gift of their extraordinary glass collection to the New Mexico Museum of Art has inspired several memorable exhibitions and ensured the future preservation of the collection. Photo © Daniel Quat Photography.

For museums such as the Museum of Art, donations of collections through planned giving are vital. Collectors often have access to objects and artifacts whose cost would be impossible for museums to acquire on their own. They also have the time, resources and expertise to track down rare and unique items.

“Legacy endowments, like those established by Arne and Doris Roland, are essential for the growth of the museum because they provide ready funds for acquisition and exhibition development,” says Mark White, the Museum of Art’s executive director. “Donations of art can help museums build more diverse and comprehensive collections.”

Upcoming Vladem Contemporary Events

All of the museums in the Museum of New Mexico system rely upon private donations of both art and funds to build and preserve their collections, mount exhibitions and more. In addition to endowments helping museums acquire new works of art and expand their existing collections, they provide funds for educational programs and other public outreach activities. Without the support of collectors, many museums would not be able to fulfill their mission of sharing the cultural heritage of New Mexico and the world.

For their part, the Rolands hope their legacy gifts inspire others to give works of art, as well as the funds to support their preservation and exhibition.

“I hope that, because of our gift, the Museum of Art is as well-known for its glass as its collection of Southwest art,” says Arne. “I’d love to see studio glass become a reason you visit the Museum of Art and to know that we played a role in that.”

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

Grand Opening Gala and Preview

Enjoy the launch of our newest museum

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

The Circles First Look

Member Preview for The Circles and Circles Explorers

Be first to see our inaugural exhibitions

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

Member Preview

Experience our newest museum

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY,

SEPTEMBER 23 AND 24

Public Grand Opening Weekend

Contemporary art for the community

Visit museumfoundation.org/events for details. museumfoundation.org

Cat by Raquel Stolarski-Assael, featured in The Nature of Glass exhibition, is part of the Roland glass collection at the New Mexico Museum of Art. Photo © Daniel Quat Photography.

[The Rolands] not only donated a significant portion of their glass collection to the Museum of Art, they established the Arnold and Doris Roland Endowment Fund for the acquisition and care of the museum's glass collection.

Preserving Culture

A Legacy Gift to New Mexico

A friendship that started in the U.S. diplomatic corps decades later resulted in one of the largest planned gifts ever received by the New Mexico History Museum.

Charles “Chuck” Robinson was a successful international businessman who started an iron ore mining company in Peru, was an investment banker, and revolutionized shipbuilding with his designs. Later, while serving in President Gerald Ford’s administration, as Undersecretary of Economic Affairs and then Deputy Secretary of State, Robinson met Santa Fe-born Frank Ortiz, then U.S. ambassador to Guatemala.

Eventually, the relationship would benefit the New Mexico History Museum, when both Ortiz and Robinson, with his wife Mara, retired to Santa Fe. Ortiz, a former Museum of New Mexico Foundation trustee, was passionate about preserving New Mexican culture. Through his connections with the Santa Fe donor community, Ortiz was pivotal to the creation of a campus that would expand the New Mexico History Museum beyond the Palace of the Governors, which had served as the state history museum since 1909.

Ortiz shared his lifelong interest with his good friend Mara Robinson, who after moving to Santa Fe immersed herself in the rich history of the Palace of the Governors, making it one of her many philanthropic interests. With the 2007 public launch of the Foundation’s $22 million Shape the Future Campaign, which directed $6.5 million to exhibitions at the New Mexico History Museum and supported other endowment and capital projects in the Museum of New Mexico system, the Robinsons increased their commitment.

After an ask by then-Foundation director Tom Aageson and campaign chair Eileen Wells, the couple provided a $2 million campaign contribution structured as a charitable remainder trust. They received an immediate tax deduction for a portion of their gift upon creation of the trust. In addition, the trust provided the Robinsons income during their lifetimes. Upon their deaths, the remaining trust assets were to be distributed to their many favorite charities—among them, the New Mexico History Museum.

The couple’s generosity was recognized with a 2009 Mayor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. It was acknowledged again upon Chuck’s death in 2014 with a memorial in the New Mexico House of Representatives. In an article in the Santa Fe New Mexican following Mara’s death in late 2020, the couple’s daughter, Heather Robinson, recalled, “She was the instigator. Dad earned the money. She had the real passion for arts and culture and education.”

Charles “Chuck” and Mara Robinson provided a generous $2 million gift to the Shape the Future Campaign to fund exhibitions at the New Mexico History Museum. MNMF file photo.

To support the New Mexico History Museum, contact Jamie Clements at jamie@museumfoundation.org.

This past May, the assets from the Robinsons’ charitable remainder trust were released to their beneficiaries. In the case of the History Museum, says executive director Billy Garrett, there are two beneficiaries of the Robinsons’ “transformational bequest—the History Museum and every person connecting with it for years to come.” He adds that the generosity and unrestricted nature of the gift “demonstrates the power of planned giving” by providing the museum important momentum to generate additional planned gifts.

Garrett has sought guidance on how best to maximize this gift from the resident expertise of Foundation trustees and Museum of New Mexico Regents. He summarizes their recommendations as “Fix what needs to be fixed, be strategic and bold, and leverage whenever you can for the museum to thrive and grow.”

One initiative Garrett points to is preserving the fragile, historical materials in the museum’s library and photo archives. By digitizing and cataloguing, the materials can be made available online to researchers, writers, historians, teachers, students and other interested individuals.

Another priority is developing what Garrett describes as an interpretive framework “based on people’s input from around the state which better reflects New Mexico’s diversity, focusing initially on exhibitions in the Palace of the Governors.”

“The New Mexico History Museum is one of the state’s most valued cultural treasures and an important resource for all New Mexicans,” says Garrett. “I see the Robinsons’ generosity allowing us to find ways to bring people together. One thing is for sure, we will use the Robinson funds to strengthen relationships with the public and ensure the relevance of programs to communities throughout New Mexico.”

Upcoming NMHM Events

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

Screening: The American Buffalo, a film by Ken Burns

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

Lecture: A History of Enslaved and Free Black Cowboys in the Southwest

Garrett also sees education playing a role in “strengthening the museum’s relationships with teachers and students statewide.” He believes that Mara Robinson, who was passionate about youth education, would be pleased with the museum’s education department developing online lesson plans and resource kits to be mailed to New Mexico history teachers.

Finally, Garrett says that additional Robinson funding may be directed to several capital improvements identified for the 15-year-old, 96,000-square-foot museum building, including updates to galleries and the lobby. Garrett’s vision is for visitors to experience a welcoming building “devoted to the people of the state” that invites an exploration of New Mexico’s rich, multicultural history.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14

Opening Reception: Solidarity Now! 1968 Poor People's Campaign

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26

Fred Harvey History Weekend Screening: The Harvey Girls

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27 AND 28

Fred Harvey History Weekend Lectures

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29

Fred Harvey History Weekend Screening: The Harvey Girls

Visit museumfoundation.org/events for details.

Fix what needs to be fixed, be strategic and bold, and leverage whenever you can for the museum to thrive and grow.

Mara Robinson had a passion for youth education, and funds from the Robinsons’ charitable remainder trust will help develop lesson plans and resource kits for teachers statewide. Photo © Cheron Bayna.

Protecting a Way of Life

New Mexico's Eighth Historic Site

J. Paul Taylor’s death at age 102 in February 2023 marked the end of an era in New Mexico, one reflected in Taylor’s life’s work on behalf of the state as a beloved educator, cultural advocate and state legislator.

It also marked a new era for New Mexico Historic Sites—as Taylor’s home, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is transitioned from the Taylor-Mesilla Historic Property to the state’s eighth historic site. The state will take full possession of the property in November.

“J. Paul Taylor will always be revered for his devotion to our great state,” says Patrick Moore, executive director of New Mexico Historic Sites. “This extends to the generous planned gift of his family home that broadens the story that historic sites collectively tell about New Mexico’s rich history. We are grateful.”

Located on Old Mesilla’s historic plaza in southern New Mexico, the property embodies the history and heritage of the Southwest Borderlands. Each of the home’s 15 rooms evokes Mesilla’s past as a racial, cultural and political melting pot dating to the 1853 Gadsden Purchase.

In 2003, Taylor and his wife Mary Daniels Taylor bequeathed their family home since 1953 to the Museum of New Mexico as a way to ensure its protection beyond their lifetimes. Their planned gift included most of their extraordinary collection of Spanish Colonial, Mexican and New Mexican artwork along with furniture, rugs, pottery and textiles from all over the world.

Reflecting on his collection in a 2013 New Mexico Magazine interview, Taylor said, “I hope people 50 years from now can come here and get an idea of the passage of time, how people lived, and understand that the things in the house reflect what they found important.”

Preparations have long been underway for the property’s opening to the public full time. Staff from the New Mexico State Historic Preservation Division and architect Jonathan Craig developed a Historic Structures Report guiding its preservation and maintenance. The report mandated a museum-grade HVAC system, which former collections specialist Ivana Montenegro described as integral to “safeguarding the magic of this home,” as well as discreetly hidden pipes and ductwork. A special state legislative appropriation funded the HVAC project.

Tin panels on the site's Reynolds storefront, the oldest tin-faced storefront in existence in the state, are slated for replacement. Serious sleuthing by historic sites staff turned up the original manufacturer of the store’s

The late J. Paul Taylor at his home in Mesilla, soon to become the eighth New Mexico Historic Site. Photo © Paul Ratje.

To support the New Mexico Historic Sites, contact Jamie Clements at Jamie@museumfoundation.org.

façade for the replacement panels. Specially-coated UV shields will be installed on the window glass to protect textiles and paintings inside.

A years-long, room-by-room inventory of the home’s contents, including detailed condition reports, is nearing completion, says site manager Rhonda Dass, noting that the last object Taylor acquired shortly before he died was a Native pot. The gift was “a fitting bookend to the collection,” Dass says, “as the first object he collected as a 5-year-old boy was a Native pot.”

A visitors center planned for the Reynolds store, which will be the starting point for tours of the home and Plaza area, is envisioned to serve the entire town of Mesilla, highlighting important and historical sights. There will also be space for temporary exhibitions about the site’s contents and architecture.

Upcoming NMHS Events

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2

Lecture: The 3 Escapes of Billy the Kid

Lincoln Historic Site

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9

Living History, Fort Stanton Historic Site

Craft Tea Session, Crocheting, Fort Stanton Historic Site

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

Summer Star Parties, Jemez Historic Site

Photography Tour, Fort Stanton Historic Site

Flashlight Tour, Fort Stanton Historic Site

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

Art Festival, Los Luceros Historic Site

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

Harvest Festival, Los Luceros Historic Site

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7

Lecture: The Capture and Death of Billy the Kid

While the Taylor-Mesilla property is currently closed to the public, site staff are busy developing educational outreach programs that will both enhance the visitors’ experience of the area and maintain ties to the community. All future exhibitions and programming will require private support.

“We hope that J. Paul and Mary’s gift to the state inspires others to support Taylor-Mesilla through the Museum of New Mexico Foundation for visitor orientation, interpretation, and public and educational programs,” Moore says.

Lincoln Historic Site

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14

Annular Eclipse Viewing, Jemez and Coronado Historic Sites

Living History, Fort Stanton Historic Site

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21

Fiesta of Cultures, Coronado Historic Site

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22

Trick-or-Treat Trail, Fort Stanton Historic Site

Flashlight Tour, Fort Stanton Historic Site

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28

Día de los Muertos, Lincoln Historic Site

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11

Living History, Fort Stanton Historic Site

Craft Tea Session, Quilling, Fort Stanton Historic Site

Visit museumfoundation.org/events for details.

I hope people 50 years from now can come here and get an idea of the passage of time, how people lived.

J. Paul Taylor, a former educator, frequently welcomed schoolchildren to his historic southern New Mexico home. Photo courtesy New Mexico Historic Sites.

Honoring Mollie Toll Endowment

Moves Education Dreams Forward

Mollie was a person who made a difference in the world and in the lives of those she encountered. —Cathy Cameron, friend of Mollie Toll

Mollie Struever Toll was happiest with her hands in the dirt. Gardening was Toll’s passion, from the home she shared with her husband Wolcott “Wolky” and two sons, to her volunteer roles at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden and as a Los Amigos del Rancho Los Luceros board member. Her vast botanical knowledge also was key to her longtime role as an ethnobotanist and archaeobotanist at the Office of Archaeological Studies. The thought, time, effort and love she invested in educating students made her a beloved teacher and colleague.

As Toll’s friend, Claudia Silva, wrote in the Santa Fe New Mexican, “When Mollie wasn’t trying to uncover the intricacies of New Mexico’s prehistoric past, she was helping students understand life concepts through science.” And in her own personal bio for the Santa Fe Botanical Garden, Toll herself wrote that “Teaching four rounds of semester-long high school classes in ethnobotany at the Academy for Technology and the Classics and at the Institute of American Indian Arts” was among her favorite teaching stints.

Toll died February 8, 2023. In honor of her memory and her dedicated contributions to the Office of Archaeological Studies, the Mollie Toll Endowment for Education Outreach was recently established at the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. The endowment is designed to support the continuation of Toll’s educational outreach efforts by funding projects in a diverse range of subjects, including ecology, climate, biology, math and measurement, geology, hand manufacture and mapping.

With access to such programs, says Toll’s husband Wolky, “Students should come away knowing New Mexico’s complicated past. Many aspects of archaeology can be made fun for students of all ages, such as handling and making tools and objects derived from their discovery in archaeological contexts.”

The subjects are directly aligned with Toll’s work in area classrooms, where her flair for storytelling made archaeology and ethnobotany content enjoyable. At Gonzales Community School and Salazar Elementary School in Santa Fe, Toll taught students to create abundant school gardens, learning how to plant, grow, maintain and harvest a vegetable garden. Once

To support the Office of Archaeological Studies, contact Lauren Paige at 505.982.2282 or Lauren@museumfoundation.org.

An endowment in honor of Mollie Toll will support her innovative botanical and educational outreach programs at the Office of Archaeological Studies.

Photo by Saro Calewarts.

harvested, Mollie gathered the students with their parents to cook a celebratory meal—often in conjunction with the nonprofit, Cooking with Kids. Toll’s compatible interests in agriculture and food also led her to teach how Spanish colonial contact created a uniquely New Mexican culinary tradition. It's no surprise that, in 2013, Toll was named one of two outstanding science teachers of the year by the New Mexico Science Teachers Association.

In her role at the Office of Archaeological Studies, Toll was instrumental in planning the Walk Through Time Garden on the grounds of the Center for New Mexico Archaeology. This 15,000-square-foot garden, created in collaboration with the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, provides visitors a glimpse of plant use at every phase of New Mexico history.

In a Fall 2021 interview in Member News, Toll said, “From [the garden], you can really get a sense of what the New Mexico landscape is and was.” She added that she believed the project is “woven into our [OAS] mission. I would like to encourage people to embrace the idea that landscaping is not just something to look at, it’s something to learn from.”

Today, the garden continues to take shape in chronological order, from a Hunter/Gatherer section to Early Farmers, Pueblo Farmers, and a Spanish Colonial Garden Orchard. The OAS is looking for volunteers to help maintain this special garden space. Visit nmarchaeology.org for details.

The Mollie Toll Endowment for Education Outreach is currently funded at $200,000 via private donations, including a generous $100,000 contribution from the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust.

Join Friends of Archaeology

As a Museum of New Mexico Foundation member, free membership in Friends of Archaeology is your opportunity to dig deep into the past while supporting the Office of Archaeological Studies.

FOA activities educate members about past civilizations, lost technologies, and other topics that distinguish the region’s unique geography and cultural diversity. FOA members enjoy exclusive invitations to interact with archaeologists in an annual series of stimulating statewide field trips, lectures, volunteer fieldwork and other archaeology-focused activities.

To become an FOA member today, call 505.982.6366 ext. 100.

One of many plants in the Walk Through Time garden, which Mollie Toll helped create at the Center for New Mexico Archaeology.

When Mollie wasn’t trying to uncover the intricacies of New Mexico’s prehistoric past, she was helping students understand life concepts through science.

Concept Hotels

Prioritizing Community

Concept Hotels bought the Sage Inn in Santa Fe seven years ago. They knew they were coming into a bustling tourist economy—as well as a small town with a long history.

“As a California-based company, we didn’t want to give the impression we were coming to do things ‘our way,’” says Tushar Patel, director of sales, marketing and revenue (also known as the “S&M&R Maestro”). “We wanted to build upon the work of the previous ownership groups and make community involvement a priority.”

The hotel group didn’t anticipate how easy it would be to make important local connections. “The Santa Fe hospitality community is supportive, and when the opportunity came up to partner with the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, we were honored,” Patel says. “The Foundation is deeply rooted and committed to the rich history of the state, and we are here to support that. We want to be associated with and contribute to arts and culture in Santa Fe.”

The first Concept Hotel opened in 1967 in Menlo Park, California—now the heart of Silicon Valley. Concept’s CEO, Bimal Patel, grew up living onsite with his family. Now, he's grown the group’s portfolio to include 10 hotels in California and New Mexico.

In 2016, when Concept purchased The Sage at the corner of Cerrillos Road and Guadalupe Street, it had long been a conveniently located choice for travelers, poised at the intersection of downtown and the Railyard District. Concept has since purchased two more local properties: Coyote South (formerly Super 8) in the Midtown District, and the Inn at Santa Fe, a Best Western-branded hotel on the city’s south side.

If Concept’s business model sounds a bit like the popular comedy series Schitt’s Creek, in which the Rose family refurbishes mom-and-pop motels, S&M&R Maestro Patel says that’s accurate, though he distinguishes between motels and hotels. “Motels are places to sleep. Hotels and inns provide a full residential experience, with on-site restaurants and bars. But, yes, what we’re doing is similar to Schitt’s Creek in that we take away the cookie-cutter conformity and give you something a little out of the box.”

The company’s philanthropic commitment varies by property, always connected to the nature of the community and size of the hotel. The Sage is just a few blocks from the new Vladem Contemporary, and Patel says they look forward to developing packages for guests around this new attraction. But he insists the benefit of these partnerships is really about being connected to what’s important.

“The way that Santa Fe has embraced us has made us feel officially accepted in the town," he says. "So being a corporate partner is just a reciprocation of that energy.”

To learn more about becoming a Corporate Partner, contact Mariann Lovato at Mariann@museumfoundation.org or 505.216.0849.

Guest rooms at Coyote South (top) and The Sage (bottom) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Photos courtesy Concept Hotels.

Staff

EXECUTIVE OFFICE

Jamie Clements

CEO/President Jamie@museumfoundation.org

Kourtney Mitchell Executive Office Manager Kourtney@museumfoundation.org

HUMAN RESOURCES

Rachel Saiz Human Resources/Employee Relations Officer

Rachel@museumfoundation.org

DEVELOPMENT

Jamie Clements

New Mexico History Museum New Mexico Historic Sites Jamie@museumfoundation.org

Lauren Paige Director of Leadership Giving Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Office of Archaeological Studies

Lauren@museumfoundation.org

Laura Sullivan Director of Leadership Giving Museum of International Folk Art Laura@museumfoundation.org

Alex Wilson Director of Leadership Giving New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary Alex@museumfoundation.org

Stephanie Wilson Development Associate Stephanie@museumfoundation.org

Susan Spinell Director of Grants and Institutional Funding Susan@museumfoundation.org

MEMBERSHIP AND COMMUNICATIONS

Saro Calewarts Communications and Creative Content Manager Saro@museumfoundation.org

Mariann Lovato Vice President of Membership and Communications Mariann@museumfoundation.org

Cara O’Brien Director of The Circles and Circles Explorers Cara@museumfoundation.org

Brittny Wood Director of Membership and Annual Fund Brittny@museumfoundation.org

FINANCE

Eduardo Corrales Gifts and Records Administrator Eduardo@museumfoundation.org

Tammie Crowley Director of Finance Tammie@museumfoundation.org

Georgine Chavez Vice President of Finance Georgine@museumfoundation.org

Sachiko Hunter-Rivers Director of Operations Sachiko@museumfoundation.org

Jeanne Peters Finance Assistant Jeanne@museumfoundation.org

Lydia Thomas Finance Administrator Lydia@museumfoundation.org

RETAIL OPERATIONS

Teresa Curl Vice President of Retail Teresa@museumfoundation.org

Krista Kernek Receiving Administrator Krista@museumfoundation.org

Susie Little Merchandising Administrator Susie@museumfoundation.org

George Mayer Driver and Warehouse Assistant George@museumfoundation.org

Kylie Strijek Buyer and Website Manager Kylie@museumfoundation.org

Jonah Smith Inventory Administrator Jonah@museumfoundation.org

LICENSING

Pamela Kelly Vice President of Licensing Pamela@museumfoundation.org

Ways to Give

MEMBERSHIP

Support the Museum of New Mexico Foundation in delivering essential services to our 13 partner cultural institutions while offering enjoyable member benefits.

THE CIRCLES

Participate in a series of exclusive events while providing leadership-level support.

CIRCLES EXPLORERS

Support and explore the art, culture and history of New Mexico through active, adventurous, and educational cultural excursions and experiences.

CORPORATE PARTNERS AND BUSINESS COUNCIL

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ANNUAL FUND

Provide critical operating support for the Museum of New Mexico Foundation to fulfill its mission on behalf of our 13 partner cultural institutions.

EXHIBITION DEVELOPMENT FUNDS

Support exhibitions, related programming and institutional advancement at the division of your choice.

EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT FUNDS

Fund museum education and public outreach programs at our four museums, eight historic sites and the Office of Archaeological Studies.

PLANNED GIVING

Provide a long-lasting impact at our 13 partner cultural institutions through a bequest, beneficiary designation, charitable gift annuity, charitable remainder trust or gift of art.

ENDOWMENT FUNDS

Establish a new fund, or add to the principal of an existing fund, to provide a reliable source of annual income that sustains a variety of cultural programs and purposes.

SPECIAL CAMPAIGNS

Give to special campaign initiatives designed to fund a range of capital expansions and programming advances throughout the Museum of New Mexico system.

For more information, visit museumfoundation.org/give.

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