Annual Fund
Your donation to the Annual Fund for Museum Excellence supports our museums, archaeology and monuments. Your support help to fund educational programs, exhibits, conservation, preservation efforts, and much more! These are just a few examples of the impact of your gift:
Museum of International Folk Art
The Annual Fund made it possible for the Museum of International Folk Art to fulfill its mission of connecting people through the folk arts, traditions and cultures of the world. The popular exhibit, Gee's Bend Quilts and Beyond, was made possible in part by a grant from the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. Funds to market MOIFA's exhibits and related programs were also supported by the MNMF. In conjunction with the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Girard Wing, a panel discussion was underwritten with annual fund donations to the foundation.
Museum of Indian Arts & Culture
Your donations helped the museum offer wonderful exhibitions such as: Native Couture: A History of Santa Fe Style and Comic Art Indigene. Your annual fund gift also supported several educational programs such as the Avanyu Trail Earth Day Celebration, Arts Alive!, Music Under the Stars, the annual lecture series, workshops, docent training, Native American demonstrations and performances, the museum's tribal education outreach program, and professional development opportunities for the staff.
New Mexico Museum of Art
The New Mexico Museum of Art presented six changing exhibitions, with partial funding from your annual fund dollars: - Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
- Flower Power: A Subversive Botanical
- Flux: Reflections on Contemporary Glass
- Art on the Edge
- Tuff Stuff
- Young Curators
Office of Archaeological Studies
Gifts and support from the Annual Fund to the Office of Archaeological Studies (OAS) have supported education outreach, exhibition development, and web site development. Outreach programs reached more than 8,000 adults and children through 66 presentations in 16 New Mexico counties. Research and development are proceeding for the November 2009 opening of a Palace of the Governors exhibit on 17 Century Santa Fe. The OAS web site, http://www.nmarchaeology.org, is up and running, with periodic updates and expansions.
New Mexico State Monuments
A majority of funds were expended on the following special events held at the State Monuments throughout New Mexico including: - Hispanic Heritage Celebration at El Camino
- Blacksmith Tools Event at El Camino
- Celebracion de Otono, 2nd Anniversary at El Camino
- Dia de Los Muertos at El Camino
- Frontier Day, Ft. Selden State Monument
- Luminaria Tour, Ft. Selden State Monument
- Chautauqua Program at Fort Selden State Monument
- Annual Teachers Open House, Coronado & El Camino
- Farolito Tour, Jemez State Monument
- Billy the Kid Pageant, Lincoln State Monument
- Lawmen's Exhibit Opening at Lincoln State Monument
- Christmas at Kuaua, Coronado State Monument
- Father's Day at Fort Selden
- Bosque Redondo Symposium
- Mescalero Day at the Bosque Redondo
