Legacy | January 2026

Refresh Your Estate Plan for the New Year

By including the Foundation or one of the cultural institutions we support in your will or estate plans, you make a lasting impact on exhibitions, art acquisitions and educational programs that enrich lives across New Mexico. Your legacy will spark curiosity, fuel learning and celebrate the diverse stories of our communities—now and far into the future. Click here to learn more about how to make a legacy gift to the Foundation and joining our Legacy Society.

When you notify us that you are including the Foundation, or one or more of the cultural institutions in our system, in your estate plan, we celebrate you with a membership in our Legacy Society. Membership includes invitations to exclusive gatherings and special recognition at all our museums. Join other museum donors, community leaders, docents and volunteers, artists and others from New Mexico and across the country who believe in supporting our mission for future generations.

New Trustee and legacy donor, Trish Foschi has made generous contributions to funds at the Museum of International Folk Art, the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, and the New Mexico Museum of Art as well as funding the Stuart Hall Light Gallery at the Vladem Contemporary in honor of her late husband. Her estate plan will further support the gallery when it showcases the museum’s brilliant collection of glass and plexiglass art.

She says, “When I moved to New Mexico from California 15 years ago, I was amazed at the extent to which the State supports the arts, to a greater extent than California does. After speaking with my financial advisor, I realized I was in a position to make an investment in the future of our wonderful world-class museums and cultural places. I'm so pleased I have. I feel such a strong connection to New Mexico and my community”

You have many choices for making a legacy gift:

  • Bequests
  • Beneficiary Designations
  • Gifts from your IRA
  • Charitable Gift Annuities
  • Gifts of Assets
  • Gifts of Cash
  • Gifts of Insurance

Please consider including the Foundation or one of our cultural institutions in your will or estate plans today.

For more information, please contact Laura Sullivan, Director of Planned Giving, laura@museumfoundation.org, 505.216.0829.

Photo of Stuart Hall Light Gallery by Chloe Accardi.