NOTABLE NEWS AND EVENTS

Great Grants

Los Luceros Historic Site

The National Park Service awarded Los Luceros Historic Site a $451,252 Save America’s Treasures grant to help preserve and stabilize two key structures—the Hacienda and Storehouse. Established in 1998, this grant program is a partnership of the National Park Service, Institute of Museum and Library Services, National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities.

Indigenous Digital Archives

The Council on Library and Information Resources awarded $178,130 to the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture’s Indigenous Digital Archives project to digitize and catalog records of eight Indian boarding schools dating from 1824 to 1949. This support is part of a larger grant awarded to a partnership of Indigenous Digital

Archives, National Native American Boarding

School Healing Coalition and Saginaw Chippewa

Indian Tribe of Michigan.

Edgar Lee Hewett House

The New Mexico Museum of Art received $5,500 from the National Trust for Historic Preservation to support a structural survey of the historic

Edgar Lee Hewett House.

Project Archaeology

Project Archaeology, one of the Office of Archaeological Studies’ outstanding educational outreach programs, received a $32,000 grant from the Bureau of Land Management.

Native Treasures Online Art Auction Returns

The Native Treasures online auction returns Memorial Day Weekend, Saturday and Sunday, May 29 and 30. The auction will again feature more than 150 works of art by 50 Native American artists, including jewelry, pottery, paintings, textiles, sculpture and more. Auction proceeds are shared by the participating artists and the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, with museum funds supporting exhibitions and education programs.

Double Discounts at the Shops

The Shops annual spring Members Double Discount Sale will take place Mother’s Day Weekend, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 7, 8 and 9, in stores and at shopmuseum.org. All purchases for general members will be double-discounted to 20% off, while members of The Circles receive 25% off. Call the Shops Information Hotline at 505.216.0738 for current hours at all locations.