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.

We’re giving the Shops a bit of a spring refresh, with new product lines arriving throughout the spring and into summer. We are featuring three of our favorite new jewelry lines this month that really sparkle, both in their design as well as their company ethos. At the George Duncan and Sheryl Kelsey Shop at Vladem Contemporary, we’ve added Salt Grass Jewelry made by local artist, Kristi Frank Montano. Salt Grass is a love letter to New Mexico, characterized by symbolic shapes and textures observed in the high desert. Each piece embraces a slow-made ethos, prioritizing quality, craftsmanship, and attention to detail. Kristi is known for using recycled silver in her pieces and upcycling metal scraps into beautiful earrings, rings, necklaces, and bracelets. At the Colleen Cloney Duncan Shop at Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, we’ve added necklaces from House of Sutai made by Peshawn Bread. Our collection of House of Sutai dentalium and pearl necklaces are both innovative and romantic. Peshawn Bread is a Comanche, Kiowa and Cherokee multifaceted creative with their own brand House of Sutai where they focus on jewelry design and innovative fashion with Indigenous aesthetics for everyone to wear. Peshawn is following in their mother, Jhane Myers, jewelry crafting footsteps, putting her unique spin on traditional materials. Leather and glass bead cuff from Sidai Designs of Arusha, Tanzania.   At the Lynn Godfrey Brown Shop at Museum of International Folk Art, our newest addition is Sidai Designs. Hailing from Tanzania, this beadwork collective is working to preserve the age-old Masaai tradition through sustainable employment for Masaai women. By infusing a modern sensibility with traditional techniques, Sidai appeals to a wider market, transforming traditional Maasai beadwork from a one-off tourist buy into a stylish piece for a global shopper. Their earrings, necklaces, and bracelets emphasize the focus on timeless design and slow practices. Pink conch bead and dentalium necklace by Peshawn Bread of House of Sutai.

Ways to Save Taxes and Grow Your Income Your generosity has enabled the museums we support to curate exceptional exhibitions, preserve our diverse cultural heritage and provide educational programs that inspire and enlighten our community. When considering making a charitable gift through the Foundation, here are some ways for you to consider that may also help you save on taxes and grow your income: The Basics Appreciated Stock – Easily make charitable gifts to the institutions you love by transferring appreciated stock to the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. We receive the present value of the stock, while you pay no capital gains tax and receive an income tax deduction. Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) – If you are aged 70½ or older there is another powerful tool that you are uniquely positioned to leverage for your benefit. This is called a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) or IRA Charitable Rollover. A QCD allows you to donate up to $100,000 directly from your IRA to a qualified charity such as ours, without having to include the distribution in your taxable income. Income for Life Charitable Gift Annuity – This type of gift will provide you with fixed income payments for life and possibly provide capital gains benefits. For more information, click here. Charitable Remainder Unitrust – Another option that can pay you a life income with possible tax benefits is a Charitable Remainder Trust. Click here for more information. Click here or ask for our free resources on estate planning and ways to give. Benefits of making a gift to support the Foundation and the cultural institutions we support may include income tax, capital gains tax and estate tax deductions or reductions. In whatever ways you choose to support the Foundation, we are here to help you explore all options to find the gift that is right for you and your family. You may reach out to Laura Sullivan, Director of Planned Giving, at 505.216.0829 or [email protected] and we can help you get started to make the difference you want.

First Friday: Judy Chicago and Larry Bell in conversation April 5, 2024 5:30pm-6:30pm New Mexico Museum of Art, Plaza Building Join celebrated artists Judy Chicago and Larry Bell for a conversation about their careers in New Mexico. This will be the final event in the Vladem Contemporary inaugural lecture series and is not to be missed! Tickets $8: https://my.nmculture.org/23047/30043