General Membership is trending $50,000 ahead of goal with $785,000 in to date. Our fiscal year-end goal is $900,000. We have completed our spring Step Up campaigns, generating an additional $41,000 from 170 households. In May we will focus on our Rejoin campaign where we will mail and email 2,000 dropped members and invite them to return to membership. In May and June, we also conduct our New Member campaign which includes a series of weekly ads in Pasatiempo, paid targeted social media ads and increased awareness onsite at our five Museum Shops. Speaking of shops, our spring Members Extra Discount Sale takes place, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 10, 11 and 12. Members will receive a 20% discount and Circles and Explorers members will receive a 25% discount at our five shops and at shopmuseum.org during the sale. We hosted a wonderful Member Day on Monday, April 15 at the Palace of the Governors to celebrate the completion of the multi-year renovation and opening of several new exhibitions. If you haven’t been to the Palace, yet we encourage you to visit the beautiful new spaces. Our next member event is Conversation with the Artist with the MIAC Living Treasure Award Recipient Patricia Michaels. The talk and reception will take place Friday, May 10 at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. This event is exclusively for members at the Benefactor level and higher. We are also pleased to announce that we have launched new membership forms on our website. The forms are integrated with our database and allow us to process memberships quickly, cutting back on staff time needed and gives the member same day access to the museums and their other benefits. This is the beginning of many other integrations to come and we look forward to presenting at a future board meeting to update you on our progress in new technology. Lastly, we are developing our FY25 work plans for General Membership, Circles, Explorers, Business Council, Corporate Partners and Annual Fund.

Have you had your eye on something special in the Museum Shops? Now is your chance to save! Our Spring Member Sale is happening May 10-12 at all five of our museum shops and online at shopmuseum.org. Members save 20% and Circles Members save 25% on any item (excluding previously marked down items). This spring, we’ve added some new makers to our selection. Head up to the Colleen Cloney Duncan Shop at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture to shop Ginew’s line of heirloom quality goods and clothing. Ginew is the first Native American-owned denim collection founded by Amanda Bruegl (Oneida, Stockbridge-Munsee) and Erik Brodt (Ojibwe). Ginew incorporates family symbols and teachings into the garments as well as focusing on made-in-USA construction with high quality materials. Their pieces are made in collaboration with other Native American artists and makers to create a collection to be worn by all. Ginew’s Western Corduroy Shirt is available at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture Shop At the Lynn Godfrey Brown Shop at the Museum of International Folk Art, find bright and colorful vases created by chef Yotam Ottolenghi in collaboration with artist Ivo Bisignano. These Sicily vases are based on an ancient legend but have been given a modern twist. The Sicily collection consists of 4 vases with a very particular design, all different from each other and decorated by hand. Sicily encompasses the colors of the Ottolenghi style and table decor of the artist Bisignano. Chef Yotam Ottolenghi’s Sicily vases are a beautiful story of heritage and food. At the George Duncan and Sheryl Kelsey Shop at the Vladem Contemporary, find statement worthy functional ceramics from Jessica Wertz. A native of Hillsboro, NM, Jessica began making pottery as a vehicle of connection. Each of her pieces can easily fit into your daily rituals to build connection to food, home, and our past. Her work is beautifully crafted by hand and is made to last. Jessica Wertz creates functional ceramics designed to amplify your daily rituals.

Mokha Laget in Residence: May 6, 2024 to May 31, 2024 Dee Ann McIntyre in Memory of Scotty McIntyre Artist Studio Mokha Laget, the third recipient of the artist-in-residence program at the New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary, is a New Mexico-based interdisciplinary artist known for her geometric abstractions on shaped canvas and visual scores. A passionate colorist, Mokha was born in North Africa, a region of radiant light and dramatic geographical contrasts. Inspired by science, architecture and music encountered in her studies and travel, her work explores the “gentle chaos” of perceptual psychology through spatial and sonic perspective. Laget’s paintings reject the traditional square format, constructed instead with shaped canvases to present her compositions. Resembling familiar yet unrecognizable architectural spaces, these ambiguous shapes create an illusory 3D environment facilitated by enigmatic perspective and light sources. With a keen interest in the psychology of human perception, Laget orchestrates a geometric choreography wherein space is simultaneously implied physicality and energetic force. In doing so, she also engages with a particularly salient question concerning our relationship with truth. “On the one hand, the painting’s formal geometry implies a kind of mathematical order, yet it is also inherently about illusions and uncertainty.” she states. During her residency, Mokha Laget will be exploring a visual interpretation of the new architecture of the Vladem Contemporary building, designed by DNCA + StudioGP with Devendra Contractor as Lead Architect. Her work also extends to the graphic representation of visual scores which like conventional scores can be interpreted musically. “This series relates to my interest in the historical and interdisciplinary overlap between music and architecture.” Working with several collaborators, her works have been exhibited, projected, and performed over the last 5 years. Laget plans to host several collaborative experimental music performances in Santa Fe during her May residency. Initially trained in old master’s techniques in the south of France, she then studied Fine Arts at the Corcoran College of Art and Design (BFA) in Washington DC. She also holds a degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in simultaneous interpreting and translation and has spent much of the past 25 years traveling parts of Africa, Latin America, and Asia. She has exhibited consistently for the past 35 years both nationally and internationally and is represented in numerous museum collections. In 2019, she received a Pollock Krasner Foundation award and in 2023, she was invited as a Visiting Artist to the American Academy in Rome. A 10-year survey exhibition of her work opened at the American University Museum in Washington D.C. in 2022. The artist-in-residence program is generously supported by a grant from the Frederick Hammersley Fund for the Arts at the Albuquerque Community Foundation. https://www.nmartmuseum.org/artist-in-residence/mokha-laget/ https://www.nmartmuseum.org/events/final-friday-artist-in-residence-mokha-laget/

Embrace the Impact of Your Giving with a Qualified Charitable Distribution through Your IRA If you are aged 70½ or older there is a powerful tool that you are uniquely positioned to leverage for your benefit called an IRA Charitable Rollover or Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD). A QCD allows you to donate up to $105,000 annually directly from your IRA to a qualified charity such as ours, without having to include the distribution in your taxable income. Keith Anderson has been a Foundation Trustee, museum donor and Circles member for over 30 years and has chosen to make an annual gift in this way and shares why, Donating to the Museum of New Mexico Foundation is always in style but there is an enhanced opportunity: giving from an IRA. And now, major firms such as Schwab and Fidelity provide a checking account for your IRA. I always carry an IRA check in my wallet. (You never know when it will come in handy.) Professionally, Keith is a registered investment advisor and has served families and businesses around Santa Fe for twenty years. Keith has a strong commitment to the Santa Fe community and serves many non-profit and educational organizations. Keith is married to Barbara G. Lenssen, PhD, a retired clinical psychologist who owned a private practice. In addition to participating with many charitable organizations, they also enjoy arts performances, skiing, tennis, international travel, and being at home with friends. We are grateful to Keith and Barbara for giving generously to the Foundation and the museums they love in this way as well as having the foresight to include the Foundation in their estate plan. You may also fulfill your philanthropic wishes and make a difference by giving annually through a Qualified Charitable Distribution through your IRA and including the Foundation and the museums we support in your will or estate plan. For more information or to get started to make the difference you desire, please reach out to Laura Sullivan, Director of Planned Giving, at 505.216.0829 or [email protected].

Volodymyr Balyberdin, b. 1954, “Memory of the Heart” Collection, 2022/2023, cast brass ammunition casings collected by volunteers near the town of Izyum after the liberation of the Kharkiv region. Photo courtesy of the artist. Save the date for Amidst Cries from the Rubble: Art of Loss and Resilience from Ukraine 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. Partnership with Cooking with Kids Instructors from Cooking with Kids making khamsas as part of a lesson in Middle Eastern culture and cuisine MOIFA education is partnering with Cooking with Kids (CWK) instructors again this year to lead a khamsa art project to enhance their Middle Eastern cooking unit. MOIFA provides the materials and lesson plan for all the CWK classes, reaching over 5,000 students across the region. According to Anna Farrier, Executive Director of CWK, they are always scheming each year about which unit they are going to do with the folk art project. She stated, “It adds so much to our program. It’s like the culture connection and food is folk art. So, it’s the perfect connection and we are grateful!” The museum has been partnering with CWK for almost 30 years and helps provide art-making activities that complement their lessons that educate and empower children and families to make healthy food choices through hands-on nutrition education with fresh, affordable foods and learn about the cultures from which the recipes originate. We are grateful to the Patricia Arscott La Farge Foundation for Folk Art and to other donors to the museum’s Education Fund for their generous support of this program. New Bilingual Gallery Host Program A new Bilingual Gallery Host Program kicked off this past February at MOIFA. This experimental program provides a bilingual, cross-cultural gallery experience at MOIFA. This program was conceived and spearheaded by MOIFA’s docent coordinator, Dawn Kaufmann, and made possible through an ongoing partnership with the advanced ESL non-credit program at the Santa Fe Community College. The goals in this new Gallery Host training model include: 1) provide multi-lingual gallery hosts on weekends during high visitation periods; 2) provide a full and integrated gallery experience for non-English speaking; 3) to create an open and welcoming museum space for Spanish speakers, especially for our local Santa Fe ESL community. Each ESL student has committed to two onsite interactive training sessions this spring, run by Dawn and our bilingual educator, Kemely Gomez, and will then complete eight independent Gallery Host shifts. The students are self-selected and are further supported by MOIFA with free admission to the Museums during their tenure, gas gift cards for transportation, and a graduation thank you gift card. TABLE Enjoys a Behind-the-Scenes Tour TABLE’s Editor-in-Chief Keith Recker and Contributing Editor Tira Howard joined Director of Collections Kate Macuen in the vaults for a day to reveal rarely seen objects recommended by MOIFA’s staff. Stored and meticulously cared for by our Collections’ team, this selection of objects is just a tiny fraction of the, over 160,000 objects that call MOIFA home. You can read complete article here. 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 please contact Laura Sullivan at [email protected] or by phone at 505.216.0829.

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. 2024 Explorers Exclusive Events: Curator-led Tour and Hands-on Activity Saturday, May 18 10:30 a.m. – Museum Tour 11:45 a.m. – Tumbleroot Pottery Pub (Per person fee for pottery, charcuterie and a beverage $27.00) Join curator Katie Doyle for a private tour of Rick Dillingham: To Make, Unmake and Make Again at the New Mexico Museum of Art, Plaza Location. She will share her intimate knowledge of this fascinating artist’s career from his early beginnings to his final works. Afterward, we’ll gather at Tumbleroot Pottery Pub for a guided hands-on pottery activity and get a taste of what it’s like to be a potter. A prize will be awarded for the best piece but there is a special twist before a winner can be selected. We will also enjoy charcuterie and refreshments. 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 on line 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

Future Travel For Circles We are currently working on an itinerary for India with the help of our VIP guest Devendra Contractor who has agreed to guide us through is home country. Dates are still TBD. The travel months we are looking at are September or October 2025 In 2026 we head to South Africa. This trip will be themed around our November exhibition opening of iNggikithi yokuPhica /Weaving Meanings: Telephone Wire Art from South Africa, Museum of International Folk Art, November 14. This trip will be planned for in the fall. Cape Town South Africa Durba South Africa 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: Help us grow our membership! Several trustees have offered to host events in their homes to introduce prospective Circles members. Our first event is in June. 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].

Don’t miss these exciting upcoming events! On April 10, OAS Research Associate C. Dean Wilson will give a presentation discussing the nature and significance of trends in the distinctive decorated pottery long-produced by Tewa potters in the Northern Rio Grande. This talk will be offered for free in-person at the Center for New Mexico Archaeology and published online on the Friends of Archaeology YouTube channel. [https://www.youtube.com/@FriendsOfArchaeologyNM/featured] Friends of Archaeology is organizing an exciting overnight trip to Fort Stanton Friday April 12 – Saturday April 13. The event will include a group dinner, lecture and tour of the archaeological ties to the historic site. Registration is $135.00/person. Click here to register. [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/foa-trip-to-fort-stanton-tickets-840503056267] Space is limited! On April 24 OAS graphic artist Scott Jaquith will be offering a free lunchtime talk entitled Journey to the Stone Lions. This talk will focus on the ancient hunting shrine located deep within the Bandelier National Monument backcountry. Due to the sensitive nature of the location of this shrine, this talk will only be offered in person. Finally, at the end of April all 2023-2024 OAS donors will be invited to the annual donor appreciation party. The event will include guided tours of the OAS laboratories and refreshments. Donors will receive a private invitation soon! This month, the Office of Archaeological Studies is excited to welcome two new full-time staff members to their growing team. A new Faunal Analyst and Laboratory Analyst are set to begin in April. On April 4, Educational Coordinator Chinara Lucero will launch a new educational program for preschoolers. The ‘Pequenos’ education program will aim to teach little ones about prehistoric lifeways in New Mexico. For more information, contact Lauren Paige [email protected] anytime.

I’m excited to share our new short video about the educational programming at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture featuring Director of Education Marita Hinds (Tesuque Pueblo). Click this link [https://vimeo.com/927249127] to watch and feel free to share with your network! In other updates, MIAC donors were recently invited to a VIP Collection Highlight hosted by Curator of Ethnology, Tony Chavarria. Our donors got an up-close look at some incredible pottery, baskets and drawings from the archive. It was a special opportunity extend by the museum as a thank-you to those who make financial contributions to support the museum. Save the date! The next event in the Native Narratives series on Saturday, April 13 will be about Pueblo government sovereignty featuring Brian Vallo (Acoma Pueblo), Alvin Warren (Santa Clara Pueblo), and Regis Pecos (Cochiti Pueblo). These events have recently been selling-out. Click this link to register today. [https://my.nmculture.org/26827?promo=MNMFMEMBER] This series is generously funded by Edward and Maria Gale, Gale Family Foundation. Lastly, 2024 Native Treasures event tickets [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/790221984227?aff=oddtdtcreator] and sponsorship opportunities [https://www.museumfoundation.org/native-treasures/] are now available. Sponsors $1,000+ will be invited to a very special Living Treasure cocktail party at the home of Joel McHorse (Taos Pueblo) and his late wife, Christine McHorse (Navajo). All former Living Treasure artists and Native Treasures Gold+ sponsors will be invited to this special welcome party for the 2024 Living Treasure, Patricia Michaels. We are also seeking donations to support the costs of Patricia’s upcoming exhibition opening May 5. Native Treasures Night Market 2023 For more information, contact [email protected] anytime.

Ernest Thompson of Albuquerque and the Museum of New Mexico Foundation licensing department proudly introduced the Museum of New Mexico Furniture Collection, a furniture collection inspired by pieces in the New Mexico Museum of Art. At the evening event held at the New Mexico Museum of Art, Pamela Kelly, VP of licensing, provided the historical background on the furniture and the evolution of the design partnership, and Mike Godwin, owner and lead designer at Ernest Thompson Furniture, described the process of interpreting the Museum pieces for modern homes and 20th century uses. Original bench made by Samuel F. Hudelson for the 1917 Museum and its modern interpretation made by Ernest Thompson Furniture The collection, comprised of 11 pieces — a bedroom, dining room and accessory group — is inspired by pieces that were made for the Museum when it opened in 1917 and that were meant to represent the “New Old Santa Fe Style:” an architectural and interior design concept formulated by a group of concerned citizens shortly after New Mexico became a state. The New Old Santa Fe Style was intended to preserve and promote Santa Fe’s unique and rich Native American and Spanish Colonial heritage. The 1917 Museum (aka the New Mexico Museum of Art) and its interiors was to serve as the style’s first true expression. To learn more, please refer to the story on page 13 of the Spring 2024 Member News. To see the entire collection, please visit ErnestThompson.com.