Rendering Courtesy DNCA Architects | StudioGP REVENUE Great news! We’ve already made our revenue goal for general membership! Our goal is $750,000 this fiscal year and we have $762,000 to date. We attribute this revenue growth to a high retention rate of 78%, successful shop acquisition efforts, and strong participation in our upgrade campaign. EVENTS Members enjoyed two member events last month. The first was a Member Day Preview of Ghhúunayúkata / To Keep Them Warm which explores the art of the parka, a garment made for survival in the harsh environments where Alaska Native peoples live and thrive. Now on view at the Museum of International Folk Art. The other event was free admission on Sunday to the Native Treasures Art Market. For the event recap, please see my colleague, Lauren Paige’s section. CAMPAIGNS We’re in the final weeks of our Step Up upgrade appeal. Members who step up to a higher membership level receive added member benefits, including permanent recognition at the Vladem Contemporary at the Patron level and higher. Read all levels and details here. El Palacio and Member News have been mailed to members. You may view a digital version of Member News here. DIGITAL Do you follow us on Facebook and Instagram? We post daily about happenings at the museums, historic sites, and the Office of Archaeological Studies. Also, did you know we have a blog? Check out our twice-weekly posts here. 

Photo credit: By Tierra Wools Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Click here to purchase tickets to the Native Treasures Night Market starting at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, May 26. The event will include refreshments provided by Tres Colores, music by Jacob Shije (Santa Clara Pueblo) and his band, the 2023 Native Treasures artist award ceremony and early-access shopping. You will definitely want to shop early with artists in attendance including Thomas Tapia, Lonnie Vigil, Kathleen Wall, Maria Samora, Althea and Joe Cajero, Adrian Pinnecoose and so many more. All ticket proceeds benefit the museum’s educational programs and exhibitions, including the upcoming Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles show opening in July. The market continues from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 27 and Sunday, May 28. All Museum of New Mexico Members receive free admission to the market on Sunday. The market will be filled with performances by the Tesuque Dance Group, Zuni Olla Maidens, Black Eagle Singers, Ria Thundercloud and more. Marita Hinds, Director of Education at MIAC, will be providing educational activities throughout the market for all ages. It will be an experience to remember! Photo credit: Toh-Atin Gallery This past weekend, a group of Circles Explorers members and MIAC supporters traveled to Durango, C.O. and Chama, N.M. for a special weaving-themed adventure. We visited the Center for Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College and saw collection highlights including a pristine 1,300-year-old Puebloan cotton textile as well as a preview of a new Diné textile exhibition opening soon. Afterwards we visited Toh-Atin gallery where we learned about many different styles of Navajo weavings from owner, Jackson Clark. The following day, we traveled to Chama, N.M. where we had lunch at Local thanks to our supporters, Dan and Ashlyn Perry. Lunch was followed by a special tour of Tierra Wools where we learned about Rio Grande style weaving and natural dying processes. The trip was fun and memorable, and I hope to collaborate on future trips themed round the incredible work of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. Photo credit: Center for Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College. To support MIAC’s Exhibition Development Fund and/or Education Fund please contact Lauren Paige at lauren@museumfoundation.org, or by phone at 505.982.2282

Photo description (right to left): Image of Adrian Wall. Image of earrings created by Adrian Wall.  Acoma Pueblo potters are renowned for their thin walled hand coiled pots with fine line painting and vivid geometric patterns, often symbolizing elements from nature. Acoma Pueblo is the oldest continually inhabited community in the United States. The Pueblo of Acoma consists of several villages, but the best known is the one referred to as Sky City, which sits on a 357 foot mesa just 60 miles west of Albuquerque. Shop our great selection of traditional and contemporary Acoma pots at the Colleen Cloney Duncan Shop at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture and the Spiegelberg Shop at the New Mexico History Museum. Artists include C. Estevan, M.C. Antonio, B.D. Garcia, V. Seymour, and A. Chino. We are proud to present renowned Jemez Pueblo sculptor and glass artists, Adrian Wall’s glass earrings on sterling wires. Find his jewelry at the Rosalie D. and Steven J. Harris Shop at the New Mexico Museum of Art Shop and the Colleen Cloney Duncan Shop at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.  

Storyteller, 1984 by Mary Evangeline “Vangie” Suina (Cochiti). Bequest of Sarah Crane. Photo by Tira Howard.   Your legacy is important. That’s why you take time to plan and provide for the people and causes that mean the most to you. To honor those who have included the Foundation or one of our cultural institutions in your will or estate plan or are considering doing so, the Foundation will be hosting a Legacy Society event on May 11 from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC). Come join us for a special reception focused on the impact of legacy giving at our museums and cultural institutions. The event includes a tour highlighting legacy gifts on display in the MIAC Living Treasure and Here, Now and Always exhibitions, led by museum executive director Polly Nordstrand (Hopi) and curator of ethnology, Tony Chavarria (Santa Clara Pueblo). Continental breakfast and refreshments will be served before the tour. We are grateful to John Duncan, Chair, MNMF Legacy Society/Planned Giving, for his generous sponsorship and to John Rochester for helping plan and present this event for you and our Legacy Society members. Contact Laura Sullivan, Director of Leadership Giving/Legacy Society, at laura@museumfoundation.org or call 505-216-0829 to RSVP for the event on May 11 or to discuss ways to make a planned gift to the Foundation.

Photo description: Nora Henn Preservation of Lincoln through the Lens of Walter and Nora Henn Mark your calendars! Visit the upcoming exhibition Preservation of Lincoln through the Lens of Walter and Nora Henn, opening on June 22 at the incredible Lincoln Historic Site — a community frozen in the 1870s and 1880s. Learn about these champions for historic preservation: Throughout the years, Lincoln Historic Site has had many champions to help keep it preserved. Walter and Nora Henn were just two of these champions. Walter Henn spent his life as an artist, but upon moving to Lincoln loved the area and wanted to do what he could to preserve it. Walter’s love for Lincoln and the area led him to create several pen and ink drawings of the buildings and other paintings. Walter was the first director of the Lincoln County Heritage. Trust as well as a founder, Charter Member, and longtime Board Member of Lincoln County Historical Society. Walter and Nora also helped to draw up Lincoln’s first Historical Preservation Ordinance and gave guided tours of Lincoln together. Nora loved Lincoln and spent  extensive time researching the history and collecting books, oral histories, and other historical documents that are now part of New Mexico State University’s special collections. Her research culminated in the posthumous publication of her book “Lincoln County and Its Wars.” Their love for Lincoln helps it to continue to be the place that it is today. Meet Alex Wilson, Director, Leadership Giving for the History Museum and Historic Sites It is a pleasure to introduce myself to the Trustees as the new Director, Leadership Giving for the History Museum and Historic Sites. The museums and historic sites the Foundation supports have provided important historical and cultural context to my experience living in New Mexico. I look forward to learning about your individual experiences with these essential institutions and advocating for the NMHM and NMHS. Please feel free to reach out directly to alex@museumfoundation.org to schedule a time to grab a coffee or lunch for initial introductions. Can’t wait to meet you and hear about your connection to these wonderful places!

  Visitors Celebrate the Opening of Enchantorama! On Friday April 14, the New Mexico History Museum unveiled “Enchantorama! New Mexico Magazine Turns 100” with remarks by Cabinet Secretary Garcia y Griego and Department of Tourism Cabinet Secretary Schroer. EnchantOrama! is a new exhibit showcasing how New Mexico Magazine evolved over the decades along with coverage of key moments in history and New Mexico’s unique cultural celebrations. Visitors are invited to take a step back in time with an interactive vignette depicting a mid-century office complete with a vintage typewriter. Congratulations to the museum staff who contributed to the success of the exhibition! On Sunday April 16, visitors were welcomed to the museum for a public reception hosted by the Women’s Board of the Museum of New Mexico. This free admission day event brought 310 visitors into the museum. Photographer Mark Nohl was in attendance, who humbly shared that he worked for the magazine for almost 25 years and was excited to see his work on display. The exhibit is set to run through February 16, 2024. Archivists Convene, Focus on Inclusive Archives Albuquerque hosted the Society of Southwestern Archivists’ (SAA) conference on April 27 -28. Covering six states, SSA serves over 500 archivists, special collections librarians, preservationists, conservators, record managers, and others interested in the preservation of documentary heritage. Presenters addressed hot topics in the field, including community engagement, diversifying archives, and expanding access. History Museum and DCA staff attended, including three members of the Local Arrangements Committee: Brian Graney (MOIFA), Abby Smith (MOA), and Kathleen Dull (NMHM), as well as Amy Montoya from the Center for New Mexico Archaeology. Additional attendees include Hannah Abelbeck (Local Arrangements), Ada Negraru (presenter), and Heather McClure (poster). Thank you to New Mexico History Museum Volunteers The New Mexico History Museum honored volunteers with a luncheon and recognition awards on April 17. The museum recognized volunteers for high rates of service hours, consistent schedules for projects and tour guides. Also honored were those volunteers with 20, 15, and 10 years of service. The appreciation luncheon honored all volunteers who play a huge role in supporting the museum’s vision and approach by serving the institution’s Education Program through training and research, development and presentation of tours, and other educational initiatives that lead to a better understanding of the Museum’s mission, collections, and special exhibitions. While all docents are volunteers not all volunteers are docents. The docents’ role is to stimulate visitor curiosity, imagination, and active participation of members of a tour group. Docents participate in a rigorous education training program that provides background knowledge and various viewpoints about New Mexico’s history to be successful in encouraging visitors to actively engage with the exhibitions. Meet Alex Wilson, Director, Leadership Giving for the History Museum and Historic Sites It is a pleasure to introduce myself to the Trustees as the new Director, Leadership Giving for the History Museum and Historic Sites. The museums and historic sites the Foundation supports have provided important historical and cultural context to my experience living in New Mexico. I look forward to learning about your individual experiences with these essential institutions and advocating for the NMHM and NMHS. Please feel free to reach out directly to alex@museumfoundation.org to schedule a time to grab a coffee or lunch for initial introductions. Can’t wait to meet you and hear about your connection to these wonderful places!

Photo credit: Judy Chicago, Poppy, 2005 White clay, underglaze paints, China paints, and oil paint 5 x 10.5 x 8 in. In support of these upcoming exhibitions and programs at the Museum of Art, I am pleased to share that in April we received a gift to name the Grande Arcade (lobby) at the Vladem Contemporary. This gift pushed us well over our $1.5mil programming goal to $2.5mil. We are delighted that this gift will give the museum the ability to successfully program for one museum, two locations and create unique programming like Judy Chicago’s Kitty City, an augmented reality tool the museum will launch at the Vladem Contemporary. As part of the educational programming of the Vladem Contemporary, the New Mexico Museum of Art has entered into an agreement with artist Judy Chicago to create an animated augmented reality experience around her body of work, collectively known as Kitty City. In 2005, Chicago began memorializing her former pet cats as ceramic sculptures, all of which have been promised to the museum through bequest. The New Mexico Museum of Art will use the sculptures as models for animated cats that will inhabit the Vladem Contemporary through an augmented reality application. Museum patrons, through the use of Microsoft HoloLens, will be able to see the animated cats wandering throughout the museum and will be able to follow them to specific educational prompts to learn more about exhibitions and collections. Judy Chicago’s Kitty City will re-envision a bequest from a major contemporary artist and create an educational gateway for younger viewers that allows them to approach contemporary art in a whimsical yet informative way. To support Judy Chicago’s Kitty City, please contact Kristin by emailing kristin@museumfoundation.org or call 505.216.1199. You can find a link to available naming opportunities here.

Photo credit: Detail of carved walrus tusk, Iñupiaq artist, late 19th century. Courtesy of Suzi Jones. Photo by Addison Doty. Ghhúunayúkata / To Keep Them Warm: The Alaska Native Parka The Museum will open the exhibition, Ghhúunayúkata / To Keep Them Warm: The Alaska Native Parka, on Sunday, May 21 with a private reception on Saturday, May 20. The exhibition explores the art of the parka, a garment made for survival in the harsh environments where Alaska Native peoples live and thrive. These unique garments embody the remarkable creativity, craftsmanship and innovation of their makers, both past and present. As complex cultural expressions, parkas are at once innovative and traditional, harmoniously marrying artistry, function, cultural meaning and Indigenous ingenuity. At the heart of the exhibition are 20 parkas representing 6 Alaska Native communities: Yup’ik, Iñupiaq, Unangan, Dena’ina, Koyukon and St. Lawrence Island Yupik. To illustrate the continuing vitality of this art form, the selection of works includes parkas from the mid-19th century to contemporary reinterpretations of this iconic garment. A rich selection of Indigenous drawings, photographic portraits and traditional dolls will provide context for how parkas are worn in ceremony, hunting, and daily use. These works underscore Native self-representation and the parka’s importance as a cultural signifier. Sewing tools—themselves beautiful works of craftsmanship in walrus ivory, wood, or animal hide—round out the exhibition content. Outreach programs for La Cartonería Mexicana: The Mexican Art of Paper and Paste In conjunction with the exhibition, La Cartonería Mexicana: The Mexican Art of Paper and Paste, the Museum is partnering with the Denver Mexican Cultural Center on an installation of Xólotl: Dios Perro, a 15-foot monumental alebrije (fantastical imaginary creature from Mexican folklore) created by papier mâché artist Óscar Becerra-Mora at the Southside Public Library in Santa Fe. Becerra-Mora is one of Mexico’s great contemporary artists that has been working in the medium of cartonería for more than 10 years. Xólotl: Dios Perro will be recognized as the first monumental alebrije to be displayed in the United States and can be viewed at the Library from April 17 through December 4. Photo credit: Artist Óscar Beccera introducing the alebrije to families at the Southside Library. Thanks to support from Sheila and Kirk Ellis, along with donors to the museum’s exhibition development fund, the presentation of La Cartonería Mexicana by Axle Contemporary mobile artspace will include an installation of Rick Phelps’ Post Fiesta Wares from April 7 through May 28. The mobile arts pace will visit area sites including Mandela International School, El Camino Real Academy, Moving Arts Española, Embudo Valley Library, and the La Farge and Southside branches of Santa Fe Public Libraries. Photo credit: Courtesy of Axle Contemporary mobile artspace exhibition. Find Folk Art Treasures at the Folk Art Flea The much-anticipated annual Folk Art Flea presented by the Friends of Folk Art (FOFA) will take place at the Santa Fe County Fairgrounds (next to the Genoveva Chavez Community Center) on Saturday, May 6 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with Early Bird shopping for FOFA members from 9 to 10 a.m. Sales and sponsorships from the Flea benefit the museum’s world-class exhibitions and educational programs. FOFA has raised more than $750,000 over the past 12 years, positively impacting the lives of more than over 6,000 schoolchildren and 100,000 museum visitors each year. Outreach programs extend beyond the museum walls to reach underserved audiences throughout the region of Santa Fe and northern New Mexico. Thousands of volunteer hours go into the planning and production of this popular event, allowing it to remain FREE to the general public. If you are not a FOFA member and would like Early Bird admission on May 6 from 9 to 10 a.m., please call Laura Sullivan at 505.216.0829 to join. To support MOIFA’s Exhibition Development Fund and/or Education Fund please contact Laura Sullivan at laura@museumfoundation.org, or by phone at 505.216.0829. Photo credit: Ann Murdy, Bolivian poncho with lettering.

REVENUE Business Council is doing well with $20,500 in and our fiscal year goal is $25,000. Corporate Partners have $44,000 in and our goal is $50,000 this year. Thank you to White and Luff Financial and Winship Phillips for recently renewing. COMITTEE We would also like to welcome and thank MNMF Trustee Natalie Rivera for Chairing our Business Council and Corporate Partners committee and Justin Medrano for serving as Co-chair. We also are excited to welcome three MNMF trustees to our Committee: Julia Catron, Eric Garduno and Christine McDermott. They will be wonderful additions to our long-serving committee which includes members: Veronica Rigales, Kelly Koepke, Alan Overton, Justin Schroer and Lauren Tresp. We are looking forward to talking with everyone about our Business Council and Corporate Partners programs and sharing our ideas on how to grow our membership and help advance the work of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. EVENT Business Council and Corporate Partners Behind-the-Scenes Tour Museum of New Mexico Conservation Lab Thursday, May 4, 5:30 to 7 p.m. Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe We will gather first in the museum’s Joan Vernick Auditorium for refreshments and light appetizers, followed by a downstairs visit to the conservation lab. Here, you’ll hear from expert conservation staff and learn about this fascinating profession, and the important role conservation plays in the museum preservation and exhibition development process.

Revenue General membership household counts are holding steady at just above 8,000 and our revenue is ahead of plan with $700,000 to date. Our FY23 goal is $750,000, so we will exceed goal by June 30, especially with June being one of our busiest months of the year. Campaigns We recently mailed our first of two Step Up appeals to members, requesting increased membership support. When members move to a higher level, they receive added benefits, including the opportunity to receive permanent recognition at the Vladem Contemporary in the form of a free brick. You may read more about our Step Up campaign here. Event Recap More than 100 members attended our Member Day preview for Enchantorama! New Mexico Magazine Turns 100 at the New Mexico History Museum last Friday. Members-only Extra Discount Sale Mark your calendars for our next member event, the Members-only Extra Discount Sale, taking place May 12-14. Museum of New Mexico Foundation members will save an additional 10% off on in-store and online purchases during our spring Shops Member Sale! Members receive 20% off, The Circles members receive 25% off. Shop and Save at: • Colleen Cloney Duncan Shop at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture • Lynn Godfrey Brown Shop at the Museum of International Folk Art • Rosalie D. and Steven J. Harris Shop at the New Mexico Museum of Art Shop • Spiegelberg Shop at the New Mexico History Museum • www.shopmuseum.org  Member Day Our next Member Day will be May 20, for Ghhúunayúkata / To Keep Them Warm at the Museum of International Folk Art. The exhibition explores the art of the parka, a garment made for survival in the harsh environments where Alaska Native peoples live and thrive. These unique garments embody the remarkable. creativity, craftsmanship and innovation of their makers, past and present. Please RSVP here.