The 20th annual Native Treasures Art Market was a great success. Over 2,000 people showed up to shop over Memorial Day weekend, taking home oodles of incredible art handmade by over 200 Native artists. Thanks to our generous sponsors and attendees, the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture is set to net over $50,000 to support their exhibitions and educational programming at the museum. The weekend was a big win-win for the artists and the museum alike. Kenneth Johnson Marshall and Lea Ann Hunt Shopping the Night Market The museum is launching a new Native Dance Series this summer on Milner Plaza. The free programs will take place each first Sunday and will feature groups including the Grammy Award-winning Black Eagle Singers form Jemez Pueblo and more. Visit indianartsandculture.org/calendar to stay up to date on the events. In other education news, three new recording of the Native Narratives Series have been added online. Click here to watch the recorded conversations with Tony Abeyta, the Gaussoin Family and Julie O’Keeffe, Lead Osage Clothing Consultant for Killers of the Flower Moon. The museum’s newest exhibition, Painted by Hand: The Textiles of Patricia Michaels (Taos Pueblo), opened to rave reviews. Patricia’s incredible textiles are displayed alongside a film showcasing her unique silk-dying process. The exhibition is located in the Llloyd Kiva New Gallery. In other exciting news, the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture is welcoming Elisa Phelps as the new Lead Curator this week. In her new role Phelps will oversee the museum’s curatorial department, leading efforts to expand and diversify MIAC’s programming, develop new exhibitions, and engage with Native American communities to ensure their voices are represented and honored in the museum’s programming. Click here to read more about Elisa.

We have one more month left in our fiscal year and membership is ahead of schedule for revenue. We have received $832,000 in membership dues and our fiscal-year-end goal is $900,000. We are tremendously grateful for our members who have joined, renewed, rejoined or increased their support this spring. We hosted a lovely Conversation with the Curator event at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture last month with 2024 MIAC Living Treasure Award recipient Patricia Michaels. Michaels has a new exhibition now on view at the Museum, entitled Painted Reflections. Our next member event is our Member Preview for Off Center at the New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary on Friday, June 7 at 6:00 p.m. If you still need to rsvp for this event, please do so here. Members will see the new exhibition before it opens to the public and enjoy remarks by Executive Director Mark White, food and drink by Cowgirl Catering and music on the second-floor terrace by a ReMix Audio Lab DJ spinning music from the ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s and 2000s. Our summer edition of Member News just mailed to members along with El Palacio. We hope you enjoy our feature story on our New Mexico Historic Sites and consider taking a road trip to visit this summer. We’ll see you in the museums! Enjoy your summer!

Our Spring \ Summer 2024 Gift Guide is now live! Our guide spotlights some of our favorite items available this season. Whether it’s a birthday, holiday, or you’re just in the mood to buy something special, we’ve created a fabulous catalog for you to peruse. Shop curated features from all five Museum Shops, including jewelry, craft, functional home décor, books, and more. Head over to shopmuseum.org to shop the catalog. At the New Mexico History Museum, find some great additions to inspire your summer recipes. We have a wonderful selection of cookbooks from local authors to inspire new summer recipes. Add a touch of New Mexico history to your tablescape with Fred Harvey Mimbreno plates and dishes from HF Coors. And as always, find great local seasonings, spices, teas, and more. Find southwestern cookbooks, kitchen accessories, and more at the New Mexico History Museum Shop. New Mexico History Museum Shop Cookbooks and More The shop is in full bloom at the Vladem Contemporary. We have a wonderful selection of blooming essentials, whether you have a green or a black thumb. Treat your hands after a long day of gardening with handmade botanical salves and oils from local apothecary Loam and Mañana Botanicals. Bring the garden inside with new gorgeous ceramic wall and table plant decorations from Chive. Or show your houseplants some love with our self-watering planters. Find beautiful jewelry for the nature lovers in your life at the New Mexico Museum of Art. Accentuate your wardrobe with hand embroidered nature inspired pins crafted in a women’s co-op in India. Celebrate the local flora with bronze earrings, necklaces, and brooches from Michael Michaud. The Museum of International Folk Art is full of color. We’ve added new flip flop animals crafted from recycled flip flops in Kenya. Bring the fiesta home with wild and bright paper mache alebrijes, piñatas, sonajas, and hanging ornaments. Brighten up your home with colorful new handwoven Mayan table runners, and placemats, Quechua heirloom pillows, and grass and raffia baskets from Uganda. Colorful elephants and other animals made from recycled flip flops from Kenya. Add pops of summer blues and greens with turquoise accents at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. Find stunning earrings, necklaces, bracelets, and rings in all shapes and sizes featuring our favorite stone. Spotlight turquoise in a new way with a new scarf from Living Treasure, Patricia Michaels. Add pops of blues and greens with scarves inspired by traditional quilting designs from Bethany Yellowtail. Silk scarves from Museum of Indian Arts and Culture’s Living Treasure, Patricia Michaels.

Lori Weyen at Tumbleroot Pottery and Pub Explorers event Rick Dillingham’s gas can collection. 2024 Explorers Exclusive Events: Weekend Adventure in the Pecos Wilderness Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 7, 8 and 9 Program Pricing Full Weekend Programming and Catered Meals: $349 Includes all meals by chef Peter O’Brien of High Mountain Cuisine Catering, non-alcoholic beverages, spirits, wine and beer, and all activities listed above. Lodging is an additional fee of $155-$225 a night. Only a few glamping accommodations left! Email Marc Rasic owner of Fieldtrip NM directly as he is holding rooms for us. You will not be able to book online directly. Friday, June 7 The weekend kicks off at Fieldtrip NM with a talk and demonstration with micaceous potter Lee Onstott, who will share the art of collecting clay, molding, and the various techniques for firing pottery. Following, enjoy a cocktail hour and welcome reception. In the evening, enjoy a talk with VIP guest Mary Weahkee (Santa Clara/Comanche), archaeologist and anthropologist, who will discuss Native American micaceous pottery along with her Cherokee Bison Project that has been supported by Yellowstone National Park and the Ted Turner Wilderness Preserve. Saturday, June 8 Our day of adventure begins with breakfast followed by a guided tour of Pecos National Park and Forked Lightning Pueblo with Jeremy M. Moss, chief of resource stewardship and scientist/archaeologist. After a picnic lunch, tour the main area of Pecos National Park which protects the ancestral homes of the Pecos (Ciquique) Pueblo as well as a 17th century Spanish mission church. In the evening enjoy cocktail hour and dinner at the Fieldtrip NM pavilion. Sunday, June 9 Mary Weahkee returns with a morning talk and demonstration on yucca fiber and turkey feather blanket weavings and our weekend concludes with a closing breakfast. Other weekend activities include: flyfishing, bocce and cornhole competitions, and hiking. A Weekend Adventure to Canyon de Chelly, Acoma Sky City and More! Friday, Saturday and Sunday October 25, 26 and 27, 2024 Invitation to rsvp to drop this summer! Additional Events: Please mark your calendar for these additional upcoming Circles events: • The Circles First Look, iNggikithi yokuPhica /Weaving Meanings: Telephone Wire Art from South Africa, Museum of International Folk Art, November 14 • The Circles Holiday Party, December 5 2025 For the year 2025 we are excited to announce our partnership with Ted Turer Reserve on two exclusive events. May we will be Glamping at the luxurious Vermejo Ranch, with open air guided jeep tours and more. Then in August we have two days of tours of two ranched the Ladders and Armendaris. Experience the evening flight of the Mexican free tail bats, buffalo, endangered species, hot springs and more! Accommodations at Sierra Grande.

Future Travel For Circles We are very close to finalizing our 2025 trip to India. Our dates we are closing in on are September 26 to October 12 which includes travel days. Cities of interest for our itinerary will include Delhi, Udaipur, Jodhpur, Jaipur, Aurangabad and Goa to name a few. Circles First Look: Off Center, Vladem Contemporary is Thursday, June 6. Click here if you have not yet R.S.V.P.’d. We look forward to seeing everyone soon. 2024 Upcoming Events: Please mark your calendar for these Circles events: • The Circles First Look, Off Center, Vladem Contemporary, June 6 • National and Chairman event July • Signature Summer Event, September 22 • The Circles First Look, iNggikithi yokuPhica /Weaving Meanings: Telephone Wire Art from South Africa, Museum of International Folk Art, November 14 • The Circles Holiday Party, December 5 New Membership Help: If you would like to invite someone you know that may be interested in attending this event or another event in the future, please email me at [email protected].

Amidst Cries from the Rubble: Art of Loss and Resilience from Ukraine Serhii Polubotko, b. 1962, Glory to the Sunflower (Slava Soniakhu), 2023, Brass ammunition casings, steel, wooden stand. Photo courtesy of artist. A little longer, a little longer — and cherry blossoms will bloom, alighting petals, the dreams of unearthed roots. War paints watercolors with blood. Its palette — the ashes of fires. Its landscape — the ruins of buildings. Empty streets as faded pastels. Perhaps somewhere amidst cries from the rubble, a tulip will suddenly sprout. – Lina Kostenko, b. 1930 Opening on June 23 in the Mark Naylor and Dale Gunn Gallery of Conscience, the Amidst Cries from the Rubble: Art of Loss and Resilience from Ukraine exhibition will feature large-scale color photographs and objects from war-torn Ukraine. Appropriating remnants of war—bullet and shell casings, helmets, ammunition boxes—the exhibition will explore how Ukrainians are coping with the daily trauma of death, loss, and destruction that comes from their lived experience. Items of war are reclaimed and reimagined as sites of human creativity by children, spouses, parents, injured soldiers, and artists in a way that reflects Ukrainian cultural perspectives and folk art practices. Programming throughout the run of the exhibition will include musical performances, film series, lectures and artist demonstrations. The exhibition runs through April 20, 2025. We are grateful to the International Folk Art Foundation, the Friends of Folk Art, and Mark Naylor and Dale Gunn for their generous support of this exhibition. To sign up to receive the museum’s new monthly e-newsletter, click here. To support MOIFA’s Exhibition Development Fund and/or Education Fund, click here or contact Laura Sullivan at [email protected] or by phone at 505.216.0829.

Support Arts and Culture in New Mexico for Years to Come A legacy gift is often one of the most meaningful gifts you will make to an organization. Your legacy gift to the Museum of New Mexico Foundation or one of the cultural institutions we support will demonstrate your belief in the importance of preserving the many historical and cultural treasures that are represented within the Museum of New Mexico system. By making such a purposeful gift, you are investing in the Foundation’s mission of support for these treasures, as well as the story of New Mexico, both now and far into the future. Lorin Abbey, former Trustee, shares why she recently included the Foundation in her estate plan and joined our Legacy Society. I’m choosing to name the Museum of New Mexico Foundation in my estate plan in recognition and support of the foundation’s significant contributions to New Mexico’s cultural institutions within the Department of Cultural Affairs. The funds raised by the MNMF provide for educational and outreach programs throughout the state. I plan to support these continued efforts for future New Mexicans. Photo Courtesy of Lorin Abbey If you have included the Foundation in your will or estate plan or would like to consider doing so, please reach out to Laura Sullivan, Director of Planned Giving, at 505.216.0829 or [email protected].

The New Mexico Museum of Art presents a landmark exhibition, Off-Center: New Mexico Art, 1970-2000, a survey of the last three decades of the twentieth century, a pivotal time in which numerous artists relocated to New Mexico, drawn by its distinctive climate and landscape, its rich diversity of cultures, and its strong reputation as a center for the visual arts. Scheduled from June 8, 2024, to May 4, 2025, at the New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary, Off-Center explores the depth and complexity of this period through a series of relevant and topical themes. During this time, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Taos continued to be important destinations for contemporary artists, but other communities developed in cities and towns infrequently identified with the visual arts such as Galisteo, Gallup, Las Cruces, Roswell, and Silver City. The exhibition will undergo five partial rotations over the course of the year to capture as much of the thematic breadth and as many of the influential artists as possible. With over 125 artists on view, Off-Center presents a compelling range of artistic approaches and a diverse range of experiences that will be organized into three major thematic groupings: Place, Spectacle, and Identity.

On May 15 Dr. John Taylor-Montoya, Office of Archaeological Studies’ Executive Director, will be offering a free lunchtime talk entitled It’s a Hard-Rock Life: Women and Children at Historic Mines in Southern New Mexico at the Center for New Mexico Archaeology (CNMA), 12:00 noon. This talk will center on historic mining communities in southern New Mexico, the associated residential communities nearby, and includes a treatment of the daily life of the wives and children of miners living in very harsh conditions in remote regions of the state. This spring, we will be mailing an appeal for donations to support the research efforts at the OAS. Donations fund exciting breakthroughs in archaeomagnetic data, super critical fluids, lithics, ceramic analysis, osteology, field work and more. Keep an eye on the mail for more information and to learn how you can make a difference. Lastly, we are thrilled to announce that the OAS will be a recipient of a $250,000 gift from the Susan S. Martin Charitable Fund. This gift will be used to further support research and education at the archaeology office.

We are very excited for the opening of the 2024 Living Treasure exhibition featuring couture fashion designer Patricia Michaels of Taos Pueblo. Painted by Hand opened to the public this past Sunday, May 5th in the Lloyd Kiva New Gallery. Thank you to the sponsors and donors who help to make exciting, contemporary exhibitions like this possible! 2024 Native Treasures event tickets and sponsorship opportunities are available. Sponsors $1,000+ will be invited to a very special Living Treasure cocktail party at the home of Joel McHorse (Taos Pueblo) on Saturday, May 11. Former Living Treasures artists and other notable Native artists will be in attendance. Sponsorships also include Friday Night Market tickets and more. Our supporters at the Santa Fe Skin Institute are donating 10% of all services scheduled between May 15-29 to the Native Treasures Art Market! Visit santafeskin.com for a list of services, then call 505-772-0564 to book. Mention ‘Native Treasures’ and 10% of your service will be donated to support to the market event. Lasty, we are thrilled to announce that MIAC will be a recipient of a $500,000 gift from the Susan S. Martin Charitable Fund. This gift will support updates at the Laboratory of Anthropology as well as exhibitions and educational programming. MIAC is also going to be the recipient of a $500,000 allocation from Senator Heinrich. The federal funding will be used to digitize and create a catalog of a portion of their archives to increase access for scholars, educators, artists, and the wider public. We are thrilled for MIAC and excited to see how the museum transforms this generosity into important programs and updates. For more information, contact [email protected] anytime.